Liam Beeton

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

Oooh @joshwcomeau.com does it again with this amazing SVG article!

I love all of the interactive bits!

www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction a short post

NEW POST

Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.

martinfowler.com/articles/202...

Described by Mistral Small 3.2 itself: The image depicts a cartoonish illustration of a duck that is being lifted off the ground by a hook. The duck appears to be in mid-air, with its wings spread slightly as if it's surprised or reacting to being picked up. The hook is attached to an arm or a mechanism and seems to be connected to a vehicle below—perhaps a truck or a platform with wheels. The background of the image is light blue, indicating an outdoor setting. Overall, the scene is whimsical and playful, possibly suggesting a humorous or unusual situation where the duck is being transported in this manner.

Mistral Small 3.2 was released today - I used a 15GB quantized model from Hugging Face (via Ollama) running on my Mac and got it to draw me a pretty decent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle model (considering the model size) simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

Ashley Willis When I first heard the phrase vibe coding, I rolled my eyes a little. It sounded like another fleeting buzzword, one of those things that shows up in a thread, ...

I asked a question about vibe coding on here a few days ago and the replies have been living rent-free in my brain ever since. ended up writing a whole post about it. blame y’all. or thank you. not sure which yet. new post:

Agreed.

Looks like unnecessary comments

Team consensus always wins this one.

Scott Hanselman - Human Hearts, Silicon Minds YouTube video by Global AI Community

Great thoughts and reflections from @scott.hanselman.com.

We need to continue reading and writing original content, and teach our kids the importance of critical thinking. AI should be a tool for exploring ideas and creativity, not for replacing our thoughts and effort.

youtu.be/7Ord9TQbAac?...

blogged - AutoMapper and MediatR are going commercial: www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a... - I don't have details yet because I haven't worked it out yet. But wanted to give folks the heads up

I have seen lots of popular cli tools such as kubectl that are built using Go.

github.com/kubernetes/k...

New TypeScript compiler is now Go.

I have personally built lots of HTTP and gRPC servers/services with it.

It is very fast and conserves resources like nothing else.

Securing the Model Context Protocol Building secure and capable AI integrations with Model Context Protocol (MCP) at Block.

We have some thoughts

block.github.io/goose/blog/2...

cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...

@thepudds.bsky.social is my hero

So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.

End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.

github.com/golang/go/is...

Typescript Just Got 10x Faster YouTube video by Syntax

🚨 TypeScript just got 10× faster!

The TypeScript compiler has been ported to Go and we had Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser on to announce it and break it all down!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...

Building a Lightweight RAG System liambeeton.com/programming/...