2026-05-30
This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. This page contains entries for the year 2026. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page.
Napoleon was the archetype for this model, a man who seemingly came from nothing to leave an indelible mark on world history. This model places extreme focus on individuals and thus on elite politics. The theory does not account for mass politics or leave room for the histories of those far from the levers of power.
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DBOS recently argued that Postgres is all you need for durable execution: if you already trust your database, you do not need a separate orchestration tier. I agree with the direction, and I think the idea can be pushed further. For a large class of durable systems, SQLite is all you need.
Denmark's largest pension fund, ATP, has removed SpaceX from its investment universe, citing concerns over the company's private valuation and governance structure. The decision reflects growing scrutiny of how institutional investors allocate capital to highly valued private firms, where opacity around ownership, management oversight, and exit timelines can create significant risk for pension beneficiaries.
I’m very pleased to announce that _Snowboard Kids 2_ is 100% decompiled! All of the game’s functions have now been implemented in C and compile to assembly that matches the original game. There’s still some occasional `__asm__` hackery,1 and plenty of code needs better names and documentation, but every function now has a matching C implementation.
Have you heard about _algebraic effects_? My first attempts to figure out what they are or why I should care about them were unsuccessful. I found a fewpdfs but they only confused me more.
Recently, I dove deep into floating-point numbers and their behavior. Somehow, this topic haunts me in my programming practice since I created Floating-Point Formats Cheatsheet back in 2013 and also released a comprehensive article The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers in 2024. This...
May 29, 2026 * ai * article I was in Paris the last few days to visit the AI Now Summit by Mistral AI, hoping to learn more about their models, plans for the future of European AI and more. My personal insights: **Mistral is no longer just a model company.** They're building the full AI stack: compute, models, platforms & consultancy. They own the compute (a 40MW data...
A Cambridge University project is working to rescue data from aging floppy disks before the magnetic media deteriorates beyond recovery. The initiative uses specialized hardware to read degraded floppies at the physical sector level, combining forensic data recovery techniques with archival best practices to preserve decades of academic research, software, and personal data stored on these obsolete formats.