The Tired Engineer — for employed engineers

A community for employed engineers building side projects after hours — with a job, a family, and bills. You're not coding in Bali, and that's okay.

Let dav2d be — Jean-Baptiste Kempf

VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.

Tidio vs Intercom vs Wexio: Honest Comparison (2026)

Tidio, Intercom, and Wexio look identical on paper but suit completely different teams. Side-by-side with real prices and decision framework.

86Box v6.0

Release for May 2026.

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust

By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog for that