With 47 years of coding under my belt, and still a fascination for the new shiny, obviously I’m interested what role (if any) GenAI is going to play in the future of software. But not interested

Welcome to the first of this so-far-pretty-lousy 2026. I can’t imagine that anyone will have time to take in all of these, but there’s a good chance one or two might brighten your day.Long Links

There’ve been a few bugfixes and optimizations since 1.5, but the headline is: now knows regular expressions. This is roughly the fourth anniversary of the first check-in and the third o

Developer avoided generating 1.5M lines of Go code by finding a better way to implement Unicode character properties in regexp for Quamina library.

Author lands a PR enabling regexp features in Quamina, continuing a 12-year journey with finite automata that began at AWS with event-ruler.

A dripping faucet led to finding a plumber through a neighborhood chat group instead of struggling with unhelpful local stores or corporate solutions.

GenAI bubble will pop; key concerns are GPU depreciation accounting tricks and how widespread the economic damage will be.

African bell patterns with 12 notes connect to cancer research through combinatorics, exploring circular rhythmic structures called Tracy Numbers.