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I don't see it. The post Maybe somebody can explain to me how weak references solve the ODR problem appeared first on The Old New Thing.... Take me to this post.
November 21, 2025A look at how ToyFight® crafted a bold new site for INK Games, a global leader in mobile gaming, through layered 3D, scroll-driven animation, and a single shared WebGL canvas.... Take me to this post.
November 21, 2025A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem.... Take me to this post.
November 21, 2025Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has made listening to customers a top priority, saying at Intel Vision earlier this year: "Please be brutally honest with us. This is what I expect of you this week, and I believe harsh feedback is most valuable." I'd been in regular meetings with Intel for several years before I joined, and I had been giving them technical direction on various projects, including at times some brutal feedback. When I finally interviewed for a role at Intel I was told something unex... Take me to this post.
November 21, 2025Sometimes, it's hard to know just when you are. This morning, I woke up to a Macbook that thinks it's in Paris, four hours ago. Pining for pain chocolate. A bevy of anonyms have had similar difficulties. First up, an unarabian anonym observes "They say that visiting Oman feels like traveling back in time to before the rapid modernization of the Arab states. I just think their eVisa application system is taking this "time travel" thing a bit too far... " Snecod, an unretired (anteretired?) ... Take me to this post.
November 21, 2025I felt like it might be a good time to write about some new things I’ve learned. Most of this is going to be about building agents, with a little bit about using agentic coding tools. TL;DR: Building agents is still messy. SDK abstractions break once you hit real tool use. Caching works better when you manage it yourself, but differs between models. Reinforcement ends up doing more heavy lifting than expected, and failures need strict isolation to avoid derailing the loop. Shared state via ... Take me to this post.
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