Vol. I · No. 98SUN, JUL 26, 2026
Topic

§ Infrastructure

Every story tagged with this topic, ordered by date.

Ruff v0.16.0

Ruff v0.16.0 enables 413 default linting rules (up from 59), breaking existing CI pipelines and catching syntax/runtime errors previously uncaught.

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Quoting Seth Larson

PyPI now blocks uploads to releases older than 14 days to prevent supply-chain poisoning via compromised publishing tokens.

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Loop the Loopies!

Loopie: MoE Transformer models (20B and 6B parameters) that outperform vanilla scaling by efficiently looping under fixed compute budgets.

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Spot birds not golf

Satirical proposal: hyperscalers mitigate data center water consumption by converting golf courses to parks, citing Google's 10.9B gallon 2025 usage vs. Coachella Valley golf water footprint.

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Firefox in WebAssembly

Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly, enabling browser-in-browser execution; project cost ~$25k in Claude Opus tokens.

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