Remember the security firm that Ubuntu hired to audit the (ill-advised, highly buggy) Rust-rewrites of all of the GNU Coreutils? Turns out that security firm is run by @gf_256, who: - Appears to be a man who thinks he's a woman ("trans"). - Uses an anime cartoon of a girl as his avatar. - Appears to have an OnlyFans page. I repeat: Ubuntu hired a "Trans" man, with an anime girl avatar and an OnlyFans page... to audit Rust code. It's hard to get more on-the-nose than that.

In spirit of open source, I'll be doing an Open Source Agent Week this week! Every day -> a zig project that's useful for agents Who wants to join? (doesn't have to be zig)

This is the episode all early-stage devtool founders should listen to. We were very lucky to have @amirrustam as a guest in our podcast, Dev Propulsion Labs. He's a partner at @Firestreakvc with many devtools in his portfolio, including Daytona, ElectricSQL, and Lovable. Amir is also the person who coined the term "developer experience." In this episode, we discuss: - Amir's background and how he went from working at NASA and SpaceX to becoming an investor - The things he looks for in a founder - What makes a founder stand out from others - The importance of the product and revenue metrics at an early stage - How to write your pitch deck when asking for funding - The current market state and the growth of vibe coding and agentic engineering - What great developer experience looks like in 2026 Link to episode below.

vers.sh is now open beta! we got tired of everyone being proud of running 5 claude codes at once. we think you should be running 500.

@zack_overflow sorry to do this to you but do you think you could poke Jared to check our repo/PR? TLDR - rewrote git in zig for 100x speedups in some operations as well as compoundable improvements

all the nyc crypto offices being in soho tells you everything this industry is closer to fashion than finance

Calling it now, This form factor of multi agent orchestration will overtake every other agentic UX in the next six months. Doesn’t matter if it’s coding agent, product management agent or something else. Every multi agent flow of frontier models currently suffers from 2 main problems 1. Inference bound: Most of the time you are just waiting on inference while the agent rips on code in the background and that can take 8-10 minutes fairly regularly so the wait time very expensive productivity wise. 2. Take Isolation: you will work on the same mutating “source code ” with multiple agents in parallel each of which are inference bound and so eventually you will run into countless merge conflicts The kanban board solves for both of them by giving you the ability to act as an engineer manager for your IC individual agents, watching them cleanly with a clear headline level out look of every parallel agent. It works seamlessly with any coding agent whether it’s cline or codex or Claude code. To me this is a mental model shift that takes 10 minutes, you use the same coding agents like you always used before this but it will fundamentally morph your coding agent experience. Try out kanban and let us know what you think. npm i -g cline Is all you need.

New York is about to make a massive mistake. The NY State Senate is advancing a proposal to decouple from federal QSBS (Section 1202) — the tax provision that lets startup founders exclude gains on qualifying exits. If this passes, founders would owe 10-13% in combined state and city tax on exits that are tax-free at the federal level and in nearly every other major tech state. Even worse: it's retroactive to January 1, 2025. This comes right as the federal government just expanded QSBS benefits and New Jersey moved to full conformity. New York wants to go in the opposite direction. As a seed investor in NYC who has backed hundreds of companies, I can tell you: founders are mobile. If New York becomes one of the most punitive states for startup exits, the best founders will simply build somewhere else — and the jobs, tax revenue, and innovation will follow. NYC has built something special over the last two decades. This proposal puts it all at risk for a short-sighted revenue grab. If you're a founder, investor, or anyone who cares about the NYC tech ecosystem — please sign the TechNYC open letter before Monday below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Keep building, NYC 🗽