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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...
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 humans—and knowing they'll all forget how smart I just was in a median 125k tokens from now—it 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
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, you’ve 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 - “macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements.” In December, I upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and picked up the TS4 dock for my work machine. While my upgrade was painless, the biggest ...
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
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
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 ...
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’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
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 ...
