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Some time ago, we saw that SHA-2 (SHA-256 & SHA-512) should probably be your function of choice for 2030 and beyond, because SHA-3 is too slow and BLAKE3 is (unfortunately)
The startup acronym of the day is "DTC", which stands for Down To Consume.
I have a lot of thoughts on how AI will affect things, including bug bounty. And most of it is speculation, of course, but I have to put this out into the world because I want to know if this ...
Why I Hate Anthropic and You Should Too/images/why-you-should-hate-anthropic.webp/images/why-you-should-hate-anthropic.webp All the best influencers hate Anthropic right now, and for good reason. They ruined everything, and they're worthy of every bit of hate they get. Quick recap: - They came ...
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is ...
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model. Source: Vincent Driessenās original Git branching model diagram A few days ...
Common feedback when I write about AI: "if job loss is a real risk, then tell people WTF to do beyond, 'generate more revenue than you cost your employer!'" Answer: if there were a process or playbook to make yourself ...
Saying "please" and "thank you to Siri: iOS 5-26: idiotic waste of time iOS 27+: productivity life hack
Topics covered in this episode: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Markdown code formatting with ruff act - run your GitHub actions locally Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support ...
While common people suffer from insecure systems (data theft, identity and financial fraud, blackmail...), governments love to be able to stick their nose wherever they want, whenever they want, something
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to touch grass. From an ADHD and generalized anxiety perspective, computers and the internet ...
Bitter Lesson Engineering/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp I have a new concept I'm using everywhere in my AI engineering called Bitter Lesson Engineering BLE. The idea comes from...
I've been exploring AI engineering workflows for the past few months to see how I can improve the velocity and quality of my iterations. I currently use a workflow that looks a lot like a software eng...
Over and over again, agents like Claude Code exhibit relentless productivity, exhaustive research, and mind-bending speed. But there's one thing they constitutionally lack: innovative solutions in the face of apparent obstacles. Humans who lack that gear are absolutely fucked.
A VP of Engineering wrote in to say my latest essay, "is fantastic and terrifying and absolutely necessary for us to be having conversations about." And that most people still, "have no idea what we're actually on the precipice of." ...
Another part of the process of switching from marked.js and python-markdown to just using mistletoe.
In case you didn't hear, PEP 810 got accepted which means Python 3.15 is going to support lazy imports! One of the selling points of lazy imports is with code that has a CLI so that you only import code ...
You love building web apps with Python, and HTMX got you excited about the hypermedia approach -- let the server drive the HTML, skip the JavaScript build step, keep things simple. But then you hit that last 10%: You need ...
Just had a really clever idea, but because I now work with 5 instances of Claude instead of actual humansāand knowing they'll all forget how smart I just was in a median 125k tokens from nowāit feels kind of hollow. ...
It's been a weird experience enabling turbocommit on my repos and watching it do a better job titling commits than I ever do. That it preserves my agent transcripts in the commit message alongside code changes is really nice! https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit
If you're not sure about the ins and outs of passkeys, here's a little primer.
Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors. I was curious to see if I could implement the optimal map-reduce solution he alludes to in his reply. A vector is ...
Glad to see John Roberts finally take meaningful action on America's affordability crisis. Just like the framers intended.
Peek-aboo, the (un)usefulness of AGENTS.md, and Windows Phone (finally) gets some love
There's this way of writing on LinkedIn where you start with a personal story, and then you draw a business lesson from it. It's a silly pattern that often reeks of faked success and other forms of falsehood. So what ...
I've been diving into vibe engineering over the past several months in order to streamline my software engineering cycles. One of the biggest problems I see people run into is how to ensure AI makes q...
A Simple Framework for Being Anti-Fragile/images/blog/antifragile-framework/header.webp I just thought of a simple framework for becoming anti-fragile in this new world that's forming. 1. Know how the world works 2. Have opinions on how you think it should work differently 3. ...
It was only once I read Andrew Yang's "The End of the Office" post the other day that I realized how few political leaders are seriously grappling with this question: what will happen to civilization if all this AI investment ...
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss ...
If you use a Mac, youāve probably noticed that the menu bar fills up with icons pretty quickly. Bartender and Ice (sadly, now an unfortunate name) are apps that let you manage and hide unwanted icons from your macOS menu ...
Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to write but not report, maybe it's time we tried hiring them to report but not write https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html
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Today I learned about displayplacer - āmacOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements.ā In December, I upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and picked up the TS4 dock for my work machine. While my upgrade was painless, the biggest ...
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affected me one month later.
A lot of reasonable people may perceive my enthusiasm for Rust as misguided fanaticism, but it isn't. It's cold pragmatism. Sherlock Holmes liked to say "When you have eliminated the
I've been exploring High Level Rust as a way to get 80% of Rust's benefits with 20% of the pain. The core idea: use immutable data with functional pipelines and generous cloning to avoid borrow checke...
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
