An LLM Read 72,000 Lines of 68000 Assembly and Ported a 1993 Amiga Game to Godot in an Evening
In 1993, a developer in Baghdad built a platform game on an Amiga 500 in pure MC68000 assembly. The machine had 512KB of RAM and no hard drive. Thirty-three years later, he fed the entire 72,758-line assembly codebase to Claude and had a working port of the game inside Godot in a single evening. The […]
Movie Scene Map: 15,565 filming locations, straight from Wikidata
Movie Scene Map plots 15,565 real filming locations across 166 countries on one interactive map: the studios, castles, streets, and landscapes where films and TV series were actually shot. Click a point and you get a photograph plus the productions shot there. It covers 9,287 films and series, 2,153 video games, 407 anime, and 365 […]
Reviving a 1 GHz Tektronix TDS7104 from the flea market
Tom Verbeure found a Tektronix TDS7104 at the Silicon Valley flea market. The seller wanted $700, then dropped to $300. For a 1 GHz, four-channel oscilloscope with 10 GS/s sampling, that is a good price if you can get it running, and the scope booted fine at first, then died at the BIOS screen with […]
Bridging Reverse Engineering and AI Agents: Deep Dive into the x64dbg MCP Server
Reverse engineering native binaries on Windows has traditionally been an intensely manual discipline, requiring reverse engineers to step through disassembly, inspect register states, analyze memory dumps, and reconstruct control flow graphs line by line. The release of the x64dbg-mcp-server project brings the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly into the x64dbg debugger ecosystem. By exposing native […]
[In preview] Public Preview: Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
What Is GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS? GitHub Copilot Agent Mode brings autonomous, multi-step database operations directly into SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Announced in public preview in June 2026, this feature lets you describe a high-level goal in natural language — such as investigating a performance spike, analyzing a stored procedure, or finding […]
Protobuf Finally Has a Production-Grade LSP Server, and It Ships in the Buf CLI
Protocol Buffers just got the editor experience it always deserved. Buf has shipped a production-grade Language Server Protocol (LSP) server for Protobuf, built directly into the Buf CLI. That means go to definition, code completion, semantic syntax highlighting, and real-time diagnostics for .proto files, the kind of tooling that most languages have taken for granted […]
Tailscale Traced Database Corruption to a 16-Year-Old SQLite Bug
SQLite is about as close to “boring, reliable” as a database gets. It sits inside phones, browsers, and countless desktop apps, and most developers never think about it twice. So when Tailscale, a company that runs a mesh VPN used by thousands, started seeing their SQLite databases get corrupted, the last thing anyone expected was […]
Shopify swapped Redis for MySQL and its inventory reservations scaled
Shopify moved the inventory reservation system that backs its checkout flow off Redis and onto MySQL, and the migration held up through a Black Friday peak. The engineering team wrote up the details on the Shopify Engineering blog, and the writeup is worth reading if you run anything with hot rows and high contention. The […]
pgrust shows Postgres can catch up on analytics with batching and SIMD
A Rust-based Postgres rewrite called pgrust has been making the rounds, and its claim is hard to ignore: it runs analytical queries hundreds of times faster than stock Postgres. The author’s write-up walks through how, and the techniques are refreshingly concrete. This is not a vaporware benchmark grab, it is a working implementation that passes […]
GitHub Copilot Modernization Now Generally Available
AI-powered legacy upgrades go GA GitHub Copilot modernization has reached general availability. The feature, initially previewed earlier this year, uses AI to help developers upgrade legacy codebases across .NET, Java, and C++ projects in Visual Studio and VS Code. Instead of manually working through migration guides, developers can describe the target framework or API to […]
Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for VS Code Hits GA
The Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for Visual Studio Code has reached general availability. If you are moving MongoDB workloads to Azure and spend most of your day in VS Code, this extension lets you stay there instead of jumping between terminal windows running mongodump and mongorestore commands. The extension lets you create, run, and manage […]
Code generation connectors land in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework, the open source orchestration library for building multi-agent AI systems, now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The project has grown to 12,300 stars on GitHub with 2,100 forks and […]