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Programmer Weekly (Issue 317 September 10 2026)
Rahul Chaudhary
September 10, 2026
Welcome to issue 317 of Programmer Weekly. Let's get straight to the links this week.
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Quote of the Week
"If you haven't tested your recovery protocol by pulling the power plug out of the server mid-write, you don't have a crash-safe database."
Reading List
An interactive tour of what's new in PostgreSQL 19: property graph queries, REPACK, plan advice, temporal updates, and more, with short runnable SQL examples you can edit and run in the browser.
The author details the hardware and firmware reverse-engineering process for the Egret GT E-Scooter, including inter-component communication and firmware extraction. He then writes and flashes custom firmware to control the scooter’s display unit.
Explores a subtle ARM64 hypervisor bug where speculative instruction fetches cause unexpected hardware behavior. The post shows why the NX bit affects more than security and how executable memory attributes can influence system behavior.
A technical deep dive into how Cohere’s approach to megakernels delivers 1.58x faster LLM serving on H100 devices.
Jane Street’s ASIC reverse-engineering challenge turns a raw chip-layout file into a month-long puzzle about reconstructing how the circuit works. The author uses Python, graph algorithms, Verilog, simulation, and Z3 to recover the design, solve the challenge, and even uncover a real hardware bug.
A tour of how language models generate text, how GPT-2 and newer Phi and Qwen architectures differ, and how Three-LLM implements their inference graphs with Three.js TSL compute shaders.
Diskless Kafka moves the active log to object storage. See how KIP-1150, WarpStream, AutoMQ and Redpanda reshape Kafka’s write path, metadata and cost.
A practitioner's guide to Iceberg table cleanup, covering snapshot expiration, orphan file removal, manifest rewriting, delete file resolution, streaming challenges, compliance, and cost. Explains why sequencing matters, where teams break tables, and how to automate the full lifecycle.
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them.
Watch, Listen
This comprehensive course on the semiconductor supply chain, where you will learn how a chip moves from design to the data center. You will learn all about semiconductor physics, design, fabrication, memory, packaging, and rack-scale integration. Your instructor, Kian, will guide you through this journey to help you understand the hardware infrastructure powering modern artificial intelligence.
OpenChoreo is a CNCF Sandbox internal developer platform that improves the Kubernetes developer experience by letting developers define intent in concise YAML while platform teams create reusable golden paths. The video shows it running end to end on a Mac, from shipping a service and testing resiliency to using Claude Code over MCP for deployments and troubleshooting.
Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
NVIDIA Personal AI Router (PAIR) that virtually distributes inference across connected devices in the home.
The headless browser built from scratch for AI agents and automation.
Execute chDB queries in Postgres.
A free, open-source desktop app for recording your screen and turning the result into polished product demos and walkthroughs.
38 editorial diagram types for Claude Code, Codex, and Pi. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.
Infrastructure for managed self-hosting.
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