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The Dutch Government Is Replacing Microsoft With NixOS. Every Previous Government Linux Migration Failed. Here Is Why This One Might Not. On…
Michael Sun · Sep 25, 2026 · 20 min read
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The Problem Nobody Was Tracking Until It Was Embarrassing When Linear’s CTO Tuomas Makinen assigned a ticket titled “CI costs are high”…
Michael Sun · Sep 22, 2026 · 19 min read
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NVIDIA Announced Native Rust GPU Kernels. The Two-Track Design Is the Most Honest Thing They Could Have Done. NVIDIA published the CUDA…
Michael Sun · Sep 17, 2026 · 19 min read
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The Premise That Justified React Native Just Expired Shopify’s announcement that it is migrating all its mobile apps from React Native back…
Michael Sun · Sep 11, 2026 · 18 min read
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Shopify Bought Tailwind for $0 Known Reasons and 110 Million Weekly Installs. The Framework Itself Is Not the Asset. Adam Wathan announced…
Michael Sun · Sep 10, 2026 · 21 min read
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Claude Code Injected Session URLs into Every Commit by Default. The Privacy Angle Is a Distraction. On August 29, 2026, a GitHub…
Michael Sun · Aug 30, 2026 · 22 min read
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OpenAI’s Cursor Ban Is Not About Terms of Service. It Is About Killing a Business Model. OpenAI announced on August 28, 2026…
Michael Sun · Aug 29, 2026 · 19 min read
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The diagnosis in Lars Faye’s viral post this week is accurate. The prescription is too timid, and the prognosis misses what actually…
Michael Sun · Aug 24, 2026 · 19 min read
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Shopify Replaced Redis with MySQL for Inventory Reservations. The Interesting Part Is Not What They Replaced. Shopify published a post-mortem this week…
Michael Sun · Aug 9, 2026 · 18 min read
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GitHub Finally Built Stacked PRs. The Engineering Argument Is Not What You Think. On July 30, 2026, GitHub shipped stacked pull requests…
Michael Sun · Jul 31, 2026 · 21 min read
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Sending Text as Images to Claude Cuts Your Bill by 60%. Here Is Why That Should Not Work, and Why It Does…
Michael Sun · Jul 3, 2026 · 21 min read
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We tested UTM vs OrbStack vs Lima on M3 MacBook Pro 36GB over 30 days. Real cold start, disk I/O, memory, Docker…
Michael Sun · May 3, 2026 · 17 min read