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05/01/26

Email is crazy

Email is like those creaking old Terminators from the ’70s which continue to function without complaining. Designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore, it has optional encryption, no built-in auth, three⁺ retrofitted security layers bolted on top, an unstandardized filtering layer and many more quirks. Yet billions of emails arrive correctly every single day.

Email is not elegant but nonetheless it is Lindy7. In the new age of agentic AI8, we can only expect it to metamorphose into another dimension.

Text is the New Binary | Andrea Baccega

In April 2026, Andrej Karpathy published a GitHub gist. Not code. Not a library. A markdown document describing a pattern: an LLM-maintained folder of wiki pages that compounds across sessions and beats RAG.

Lua Language in 2026: Performance, Jobs, and Why It Matters | Ismat Samadov

LuaJIT finishes a computational benchmark in 23.29 seconds. C finishes in 22.29. That's a 4.5% gap between a dynamically typed scripting language and the fastest compiled language on earth. Python, doing the same test? 416.55 seconds. Eighteen times slower.