Husband, dad, enjoys working distributed, likes distributed databases & search engines, the JVM, Basketball/Streetball fan, gulps coffee, lives in Emsdetten/Germany, occasionally blogs at https://spinscale.de
Alexander Reelsen
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Blogged: Implementing search feedback loops
This will hopefully be a multi part blog series on making your search incorporate signals. This post uses ESQL to calculate a recency boosting click score based on daily clicks using the rank_feature query.
spinscale.de/posts/2026-0...
Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust
Creative, a font to fool AI, works with embedding fonts. We gonna see so much of these things in the next months.
tritium.legal/blog/noroboto
Backend developer, productivity fan, likes the JVM, full text search, distributed databases & systems
herdr - an agent runtime that runs inside your terminal
I'm still not sure I need such a beast, but at some point persistence/resumption/summary features will probably convince me, instead of searching through half a dozen sessions/open terminals.
herdr.dev
slicez - Z-layout bit-sliced index for evaluating point and range queries over unsorted numerical data
Just a few classes and not a lot of lines of code, landed in my to-read list.
github.com/richardstart...
replacements.fyi - performant, safer replacements for older npm packages
aside from the easy ones like is-odd, left-pad, this is a good reminder, that every dependency is cost and should be treated like that in your project. If you can get rid of it, it's usually good.
replacements.fyi
Finding a needle in a 4 GB haystack: from 0.75 GB/s to 49 GB/s in Go
Always interesting to see what moved the needle, but even more interesting how some assumptions just fall apart.
segflow.github.io/post/fast-fi...
rura - Interactive TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines
Such a simple idea to improve iterations of piping output by directly showing the output.
github.com/tlipinski/rura
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
nice summary about a few features I did not know about earlier and a few links to followup.
arps18.github.io/posts/claude...
Website spec - what a good website does
Nice list, what a website should do good. So many things I've never even heard about like all the different well known URIs, the No-Vary-Search header, bfcache, and more...
specification.website
roq - a static side generator based on Quarkus
Are you really a web framework, when you don't have a static site generator extension?
iamroq.dev
Alexander Reelsen
Terminal-native agent runtime and multiplexer. Detach, reattach, SSH in, and keep every agent visible.
Find more performant and safer replacements for outdated or unnecessary npm packages.
replacements.fyi
I had a 4 GiB file that’s almost entirely zeros, exactly one non-zero int64 is hiding at offset Size - 8 (the last aligned slot). The task: find that offset, as fast as possible, in Go on Linux.
A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused…
