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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now The UK's AI Safety Institute recently published Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities, their own independent analysis of Claude Mythos which backs up Anthropic's claims that it is exceptionally effective at ...
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affect me three months later.
Good and Bad Harness Engineering/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp There are lots of ways to do Harness Engineering well and poorly, but the most important one comes down to whether...
One of the best-known examples of CSS state management is the checkbox hack. What if we want a component to be in one of three, four, or seven modes? That is where the Radio State Machine comes in. The Radio ...
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and ...
Today's links In praise of (some) compartmentalization: Go with the flow (mostly). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Multitasking teens; Copyrighted dirt; NZ internet disconnection x CHCH quake; Hubble cake; Churchill's booze Rx; Fraud-resistant election tech. Upcoming ...
Why, where, and how I created a new app to be my new home of fiction writing.
Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the ...
Research: Exploring the new `servo` crate In Servo is now available on crates.io the Servo team announced the initial release of the servo crate, which packages their browser engine as an embeddable library. I set Claude Code for web the ...
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s ...
Craving for a view transition? Sunkanmi has lots of common transitions you can drop into your website right now! 7 View Transitions Recipes to Try originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as ...
From an aside of a much longer essay from Tom Forth:
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Jim Nielsen has an astute observation on skill issues. This human-centred UX lesson applies beyond AI, but as to Jim holding it wrong, I’d add a third explantation. “My inability to find the results others claim with AI often has ...
Today's links Austerity creates fascism: We can't afford to not afford nice things. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The Server of Amontillado; Flapper's Dictionary; Mastercard v rec.humor.funny; Philippines electoral data breach; A front page from the ...
It's Time for Full Activation/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp I've been experiencing a feeling lately that's massive and hard to pin down. But here goes. If you remember my piece on Constraints on Creativity/blog/our-constr...
The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone's) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto ...
My alma mater, St. John’s College, has just one intercollegiate sport: croquet It started in 1983, with an annual match against the U.S. Naval Academy. Two years later, I attended the third such contest during my freshman year. Someone took ...
I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone. Why? Because I've been posting to an anonymous audience on the Internet almost every day ...
I used the GitHub Copilot CLI to generate some scripts for me to control Elgato Lights with the Logitech MX Creative Console!
We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.2, a patch release with bugfixes and performance improvements, and support for the DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format.
We released the DuckLake v1.0 standard!
