Posts by Andrew Lilley Brinkerhttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/move-over-gas-town/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/move-over-gas-town/Anthropic has announced an experimental system for first-party multi-agent orchestration, called 'Agent Teams'.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/Explaining how Rust's culture of semantic precision pays dividends for system robustness while complicating adoption in projects like Linux.Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/gas-town-and-urbit/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/gas-town-and-urbit/Explaining how Gas Town and Urbit use insular language for extremely different goals, one experimental, the other fascist.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/gas-town-decoded/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/gas-town-decoded/Explaining Gas Town's insular language to help demystify Steve Yegge's experimental AI agent orchestration system.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/passkey-prf-risks/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/passkey-prf-risks/Exploring the way passkey PRFs increase the blast radius of passkey loss, and how that impacts systems like Confer.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/memory-safety-for-skeptics-in-the-acm-queue/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/memory-safety-for-skeptics-in-the-acm-queue/Making the case for pursuing memory safety amid time and budget constraints, with or without Rust.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/tracking-software-id-schemes/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/tracking-software-id-schemes/Introducing a small tracker for known software ID schemes such as Package URLs, CPEs, and more.Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-best-monad-tutorial/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-best-monad-tutorial/Rain Paharia has done it, they've explained monads with real, practical examples.Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/jujutsu-is-the-future/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/jujutsu-is-the-future/Staking my position that Jujutsu will displace Git in 5 years.Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/postscript-on-open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/postscript-on-open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/Some additional notes based on responses to 'Open Source Software and Corporate Influence'Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/safety-hygiene/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/safety-hygiene/Explaining how to properly contain and document unsafe code to make it maintainable over time.Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-problem-is-new-code/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-problem-is-new-code/Identifying that assuring memory safety in new code is the highest leverage point for assuring existing codebases.Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-must-become-safer/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/cpp-must-become-safer/Not everything will be rewritten in Rust, so C++ must become safer, and we should all care about C++ becoming safer.Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/softlocking-apis/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/softlocking-apis/Exploring how APIs can become 'softlocked', stuck and unable to evolve or fix issues.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-xz-backdoor/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/the-xz-backdoor/A case for avoiding reductive analyses in the immediate aftermath of the xz supply chain attack.Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/renegotiating-c/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/renegotiating-c/Expressing empathy for C programmers as they grapple with fear and uncertainty amid the rise of Rust.Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/implementation-selection/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/implementation-selection/Exploring options for selecting branching paths in Rust code at compile time and runtime.Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/technostructuralism/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/technostructuralism/The systems we build are manifestations of our politics, so what is the philosophy of Rust?Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/monomorphization-bloat/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/monomorphization-bloat/Rust generics can trade off binary size for expressiveness. Learning to identify when the trade off isn't worth it is a valuable skill.Sat, 03 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/string-types-in-rust/https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/string-types-in-rust/Rust has many pairs of string types, each with a distinct purpose. Understanding them helps you understand Rust itself.Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT