UUIDs, ULIDs and Sqids: A Practical Deep Dive
A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs. Read more
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changelog since rc2 kept getting bigger. The biggest new feature is support for introspecting and creating compound foreign keys - a feature that involves a subtle breaking change to table.foreign_keys and hence needed to land for the 4.0 stable release. sqlite-utils also now follows SQLite's convention…
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Node.js Considers Public Workflow for Security Reports Amid AI-Driven Surge
A controversial proposal inside the Node.js Technical Steering Committee would move lower-severity security reports into a public workflow, reserving private embargo handling for higher-severity vulnerabilities. The proposal, opened in February by Node.js security maintainer Rafael Gonzaga, is now on the agenda for the July 9, 2026 Security Working Group meeting, alongside a follow-up discussion on AI-assisted HackerOne triage. It builds on a year of changes to Node.js security intake,…
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A Week of Symfony #1018 (June 29 – July 5, 2026)
This week, Symfony released Twig 3.28.0, with improvements to macros and the sandbox. In addition, we published a case study on using Symfony in the industrial sector. Lastly, we proposed a redesign of the exception page for Symfony applications. Symfony…
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try to keep to SemVer and like my incompatible major versions to be as rare as possible. I started with this prompt, in Claude Code for web on my iPhone: Final review before shipping a stable 4.0 release - very important to spot any last…
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2
sqlite-utils 4.0rc2
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25).
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Building a World Map with only 500 bytes
Building a World Map with only 500 bytes Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data: The key trick is to use deflate compression, which is then wired together using this neat snippet of JavaScript. I didn't know you could use fetch() with data: URIs like this: fetch('data:;base64,1ZpLsgIxCEXnrM...==').then( r => r.body.pipeThrough(new DecompressionStream('deflate-raw')) ).then( s => new Response(s).text() ).then( t…
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Better Models: Worse Tools
Better Models: Worse Tools
Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is usually correct but the arguments do not match the schema as the model invents made-up keys and Pi thus rejects the tool call and asks to try again. That alone is not too surprising as models emit malformed…
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Open Source AI Gap Map
Open Source AI Gap Map
Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple of days ago - an attempt at indexing the current state of open source AI: The Gap Map v0.1 details 421 products in depth: 266 software tools and libraries, 85 models, 50 datasets, and 20 hardware projects, produced by 228 organizations.…
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Quoting Josh W. Comeau
Quoting Josh W. Comeau
I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest is AI. There’s sort of a double whammy with AI: Many people are wondering whether developer jobs will even exist in a few months, so they’re reluctant to spend time/money learning new dev…
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Twig 3.28.0 released
Twig 3.28.0 is out. This release sharpens error reporting with column numbers, brings back dynamic macro calls through the dot operator, and continues to polish the sandbox with less runtime overhead and finer-grained allow-listing. As usual, it also ships…
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Fable's judgement
Fable's judgement
One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should work. The example they gave was testing. You can tell Fable "only use automated testing for larger features, don't update and run tests for small copy or design changes" - but it's better to just tell Fable to use its own judgement when…
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June 2026 newsletter
June 2026 newsletter
The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model Tokenmaxxing is so over Datasette Apps sqlite-utils and shot-scraper and Datasette Miscellaneous WASM projects Other model releases What I'm using Here's a copy of the May newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month…
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The PHP Podcast 2026.07.02
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 2, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Eric’s new laptop won’t share its screen. John lost a fight with a leaf blower. PHP 8.6 alpha dropped. 100+ people showed up to make PHP seem cool again. Normal show. 🖥️ Eric’s Fresh Install and the Screen That Wouldn’t Share […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.02 appeared first on PHP Architect.
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PHP Checkup – Keeping Your Applications Healthy in 2026
June has a way of focusing the mind. The conference season has wound down, the hallway conversations and late-night discussions at WurstCon have settled into plans, and now it’s time to build — carefully, thoughtfully, and with an eye toward what happens when real users and real data show up. This month’s issue is built […] The post PHP Checkup – Keeping Your Applications Healthy in 2026 appeared first on PHP Architect.
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