Sebastian Achatz

Six months ago, agents were noticeably better at using popular tech. Now they just need pointing at some good docs and they'll do fine.

One engineer rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week.
• 4x faster builds
• 57% smaller bundles
• ~ $1,100 in tokens
With Steve Faulkner, we discuss what this means for AI-assisted rebuilds — and for software development in 2026.

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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

We built a new Next.js, on @vite.dev. Drop-in replacement. Builds 4x faster with @rolldown.rs.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Schadenfreude and Other German Words Without Translation Accept no substitutes

Schadenfreude, Weltschmerz und Kindergarten kannte ich, aber dass im Englischen auch Foosball, Schwarmerei und Flak als Lehnwörter aus dem Deutschen gebräuchlich sind, das war mir neu.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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Holy shit.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026 Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

Oben im Foto Feuerwerkskörper- eine sogenannte Batterie vom Discounter, Brenndauer 90 Sekunden. Unten der Preis, 111 €.

Endlich wieder da - die Piermontkirsche fragiler Männlichkeit! 😍
Von den Machern von „Die Butter is aber auch teuer geworden“.

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Wait? Is this oh-my-posh running natively inside
Claude Code? Happy holidays everyone!

Guter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt.

hateaid.org

Germany is doing just fine, thank you

Ist der US-Botschafter einbestellt? Hat sich der Kanzler geäußert? Oder ist es der deutschen Regierung ganz Recht, wie und dass die Grundfesten der Demokratie, die Freiheit derjenigen, die sich gegen Hass und Repression einsetzen, zerstört und angegriffen werden?

Unterstützte Volksverpetzer 2026! Finanziere unseren Kampf gegen Fake News 2026!

Die rechtsextremen Trolle lügen, wir würden vom Staat finanziert sein. Aber wir sind zu 100 % durch Crowdfunding unterstützt!

Eigentlich ist es genau andersherum: Wir müssen sogar (jede Menge) Steuern zahlen. Volksverpetzer finanziert den Staat!

crowdfund.volksverpetzer.de

Big improvement to frameworks on Cloudflare! You can now deploy most frameworks from the CLI with zero config. No adding adapters. No editing configs. No wrangler.toml! It's all done automatically. Experimental now, with 10 frameworks supported today.

developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/20...

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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Jahr für Jahr das Gleiche beim ADAC. Beitragsrechnung digital nur noch auf Anfrage. Das Portal kann inzwischen Alles aber das nicht. Dieses Jahr erzählt einem das zumindest schon mal der KI Chat. So geht digital (nicht) lieber ADAC.

Happy Halloween 🧛🧛🧛

Musste grade nochmal auf den Kalender schauen ob nicht doch schon April ist.

Ich lache sehr.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

History repeats.

.NET STS releases supported for 24 months - .NET Blog .NET STS releases will be supported for 24 months

Big #dotnet news, the STS (Standard Term Support) releases are now supported for 24 months! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

Übrigens 🫠😂🙈🫠