Vegard Stikbakke

Yeah this one!

Sweet!

The most important thing when working with LLMs

steveklabnik.com/writing/the-...

Great colors!

Claude trick: check in markdown containing the design philosophies of great engineers. Then, when I'm chatting with Claude I can @docs/ref/sussman-sicp.md to bring in Gerald Sussman or Joe Armstrong or Rich Hickey's POV.

Lmao

Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel I’ve been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I’m enjoying how there’s generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring …

I've been experimenting with distributing Go binaries as wheels on PyPI so you can execute them without installing them first using commands like "uvx sqlite-scanner ~/Downloads" - I wrote sqlite-scanner in Go

I built go-to-wheel to help implement this pattern simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/d...

Recently (hat tip to @macwright.com) www.vegardstikbakke.com/recently-202...

Congrats!

This was a good list of engineering truisms macwright.com/2026/01/09/m... cc @macwright.com

Finally switched to a light theme in Ghostty. So good!

Have never succeeded in using an RSS aggregator, so I added a reading list to my website aggregating the RSS feeds of some favorite blogs: www.vegardstikbakke.com/reading/

I like this framing a lot!

A few times in my career I’ve gotten feedback that really knocked me on my ass. The first few times it happened, I wasn’t mature enough to learn much from it. But eventually I discovered a little trick — something that helps me set my ego aside and actually listen. The details aren’t all that important, but to set the scene: a Principal Engineer I worked with had called me out for being overly negative in a meeting. He pointed out that, as a senior IC, I should be mindful of how my actions could affect those around me. In hindsight, he was spot on; but in the moment, it felt mostly wrong and totally unfair. I spent the rest of the day in a miserable mood. In the evening, I was still stewing, and considering how to respond. I think I even started drafting a rebuttal email (I know, I know).

New blog post —

Look for what's true
→ dubroy.com/blog/look-fo...

Colin and Earendil Introducing Earendil and my cofounder to the curious minds.

Some small personal update: The who and why behind Earendil, the company I started with Colin Hanna. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/27/ea...

Just finished season 1 of Veep, really funny show!

Such an excellent writer!

Hello, world!