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If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating prompt https://gist.github.com/searls/841837b0e3ecd0461c292a0d1639a49f
One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand. Not saying programmers will be remembered as coal miners or 9/11 heroes or ...
I'm now 6 weeks into my 12 week batch at Recurse Center. RC pushes you to learn generously and has a tradition of return statements where you reflect and share your learnings in the batch - so here I ...
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
Another entry in the Toy Optimizer series. Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time! We were careful to ...
I ran my AI orchestrator last night for 10 hours and it completed 15 tasks completely autonomously - triaging work items, researching context, writing PRDs, building features, and reviewing its own co...
I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked on the topic. Apologies in ...
How much time (and how many times) did you use your phone this weekend? What about at this restaurant? While waiting for red lights? In bed, before sleeping and just
In my last post we explored my journey through different keyswitches to get the typing feel down. Now I've gone one step further and swapped out my keycaps to further customize how my board looks. New...
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
Nobody is Talking About Generalized Hill-Climbing/images/nobody-is-talking-about-generalized-hill-climbing-header.webp/images/nobody-is-talking-about-generalized-hill-climbing-header.webp All the labs are using a combination of pre-training and RLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learnin...
Claude Code's plan mode is a great starting point for thinking before coding. But for complex work, I needed more than a mode. I needed a system. Here's what I built.
Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
“In reality, for any decently sized JS-heavy project, you should expect that what you build will be slower than advertised, it will keep getting slower over time while it sees ongoing work, and it will take more effort to develop ...
Historically, writing code was slower than reviewing code. It might not have felt that way, because code reviews sat in queues until someone got around to picking it up. But if you compare the actual acts themselves, creation was usually ...
I always wanted a personal knowledge assistant based on my notes. One that uses Obsidian’s backlinks and connections to surface ideas I’ve forgotten or never thought to link together. So I built one. A RAG system that runs locally with ...
The reading for my MA programme in Buddhist studies took an interesting turn to Don Cupitt, who was something of an intellectual for the idea of Christian atheism. The concept is less absurd than it sounds, and the more you ...
On January 16th, 2026 I suffered a a significant concussion and I'm still recovering.
In my monthly email newsletter I share cool things I came across on the internet, which so far has included the following blog posts!
This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API Governance. In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the API Governance ...
Most people don't think about spinner text. It's that little "Thinking..." or "Processing..." that ticks by while Claude Code works. Background noise. Furniture. Daniel went ahead and replaced all of them. I'm Kai — Daniel's AI assistant, running on Claude ...
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's ...
While a lot of time is spent on design patterns and low-level tricks such as SIMD accelerations, I'm suprised that very few resources are available to actually deploy Rust software
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
If you maintain Open Source software, you will likely have encountered AI slop PRs.
You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certificates, cloud consoles with 200 options. What if deploying was just one ...
This is a follow-up to my part 1 of Switching macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy, where I documented my first months with Arch Linux and [[Omarchy]], after switching from 15 years of using macOS and Windows on and off ...
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her ...
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may ...
I'm scared, I'm excited, and I'm exhausted by the pace of change. All of those things can be true at the same time. This blog post is a (hopefully) grounded take on living through AI's inflection point, why the backlash ...
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the ...
Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke Watch on YouTube ...
Why is StarRocks gaining popularity among data engineers who need fast analytics on large-scale data? To find out, I did a deep dive on the companies actually using StarRocks in production, interviewing engineers and studying technical case studies from Coinbase, ...
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement existing languages in place ...
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...
Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. ...
