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The Consensus retweeted
Time to stop using AI illustrations. Your company can certainly afford to pay an illustrator.
The Consensus retweeted
Another look at SQLite Write Ahead Log reset bug.
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The Consensus retweeted
One of the interesting things that @theconsensusdev data gives us (w.r.t. the Xata acquisition by ClickHouse) is this momentum tracker for companies and open source projects.
It's a ratio of external mentions of the company or its projects to total mentions (among companies and projects and developers we index) over time, in blog posts and job postings.
A momentum graph like ClickHouse's is pretty ideal for a startup.
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The Consensus retweeted
If there's any place you could look to find mind more blogs like the one's we write at PlanetScale it'd be on The Consensus.
Really glad we're a sponsor!
New short survey of memory management techniques in major C projects.
And thank you to @PlanetScale for being our latest sponsor! Showing they're invested in the tools and writing that help experienced developers keep growing.
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The Consensus retweeted
New short survey of memory management techniques in major C projects.
And thank you to @PlanetScale for being our latest sponsor! Showing they're invested in the tools and writing that help experienced developers keep growing.
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Thanks for the shoutout🫣 If you’re not following The Consensus, it’s the trending independent publication for software internals, check it out!
Worth a read: @keleesssss writes about bug finding considered harmful?
Also: @Dropbox acquired @TigrisData. And @openrouter is hiring a Software Engineer on the Platform team remotely in the US.
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A glance at the underlying engine powering data (jobs, funding, code search, etc.) on @theconsensusdev
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Oh sweet, @theconsensusdev language popularity ranking cited by @ZDNET. Of course, The Consensus popularity ranking is limited to software infrastructure companies (that we index) but that still makes it its own interesting thing.
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The Consensus retweeted
I'm starting a virtual talk series next year, hosted by @theconsensusdev.
Not product pitches, not founders speaking. Please encourage an experienced developer at your org to give a talk about a technical challenge you've been dealing with.
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Site sponsors for The Consensus are booked out until February (and possibly March). Good stuff!
Plenty of job sponsor slots open though. Let us help you hire!
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How many free newsletters out there are telling you about news and jobs across major areas of software infrastructure?
Why aren't you subscribed to The Consensus Weekly?
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RT @eatonphil: Wrote an article about open and closed loop benchmarking, looking properties of the two approaches and pitfalls while benchm…
The Consensus retweeted
Everything's sandbox. (Blacksmith has a sandbox offering in beta.)
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@sequoia is leading our Series C at a $1B valuation.
We started Blacksmith in 2024 to make CI faster and less painful. In January we ran 5 million CI jobs a week. Today it's over 90 million and growing, and we’re still early.
ALT Line chart of weekly CI jobs run on Blacksmith, growing from 5.4M in January to 90.5M in October 2026.
The Consensus retweeted
If you'd like to understand what's going on with sandbox companies, I wrote an introduction last week.
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We just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation to build @daytonaio into the Agent Cloud.
@FirstMarkCap led the round, with all key existing investors and angels doubling down.
We're also thrilled to welcome the founders of some generational companies aboard, including @patrickc (Stripe), @tobi (Shopify), @AravSrinivas (Perplexity), @BrendanFoody (Mercor), @oliveur (Datadog), @adamdangelo (Quora) and @ericsyuan (Zoom)
We're a 35-person team. But that's about to change; we're hiring across the board, and we'd love for you to join us.
The Consensus retweeted
I took my first look into the market and technologies spurring agent sandboxes.
Exclusive for Standard subscribers.
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The Consensus retweeted
Compression and concatenation on the web
Everybody knows you can concatenate gzip files to form valid gzip files, but do the browsers know? We explore concatenation with gzip, brotli, and zstd. theconsensus.dev/p/2026/10/0…
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Feed search is now open to everyone, no account needed. And one of my favorite little features in feed search is backlink lookups. 🕵️
Keep in mind: the feed is only among companies, developers, and projects we index. Items in the feed must mention a project we track. And the feed is pre-filtered to exclude docs, marketing pages, etc. It's a feed of (ideally) only good quality writing in software infrastructure.
Anyone can search. And paid (Standard) subscribers can turn these filters into RSS feeds or email alerts.
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