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June 19, 2026

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
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Looks like we're getting a new HTTP method. This should help remove ambiguous POST calls when really what you want is to query. This is long overdue, let's hope this new QUERY method sees quick adoption in servers, frameworks and services.

The Future of the Con Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed

What happens when targeted scams become cheap to run? This covers it fairly well, and we need to change our heuristics and trust model.

Emacs 31 Is Around the Corner: The Changes I'm Already Daily Driving

Not CE features coming out of the box in the next Emacs release.

When Overwhelmed, Slow Down

This is sound advice. Especially in this era of chasing productivity at all costs, we tend to not listen to ourselves enough.

Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI Systems for FOSS Contributions

A very balanced set of recommendations from the SFC around LLM uses. It's just the beginning and still lacks a bit in details. It's very welcome though and I look forward to their updates.

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you

A long but very interesting piece starting all the way from early typing on machines to more modern input systems. It's very focused on Apple machines towards the end, but there are good design lessons to draw from the long perspective.

.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git

Neat little summary on the mechanisms to ignore files in Git.

Open Source vs the Invisible Hand

Or why modern economics mostly loose the plot when you try to factor Open Source in there simplistic theories.