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š„ I joked last year that by leveraging codingā¦(opens in new tab)
I joked last year that by leveraging coding agents I now "played the orchestra", by directing multiple programmers at once. I have changed jobs again. Now I tell Fable to conduct an orchestra of Opus 5 agents for me. It's ...
Quoting Steve Yegge(opens in new tab)
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the ...
Hereās yet another metaphor about tech debt(opens in new tab)
Don't be a meat proxy(opens in new tab)
Don't be a meat proxy Niklas Gruhn coins an excellent new term - meat proxy - for people who blindly copy and paste the output of AI systems to their peers. By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay ...
[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API(opens in new tab)
John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros(opens in new tab)
The Information on Appleās Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work(opens in new tab)
Late Night Linux ā Episode 397(opens in new tab)
Om Malikās Final Essay: āThe Myth, the Mythos and the Manā(opens in new tab)
Simple SIMD(opens in new tab)
PDCA and ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 4: Defining the Problem Before You Solve It(opens in new tab)
The last two posts covered why certification is worth pursuing and why independence is what makes it real. Now we get into the standards themselves, and we're going to start with the shape of the thing before we start reading ...
ā Why Apple Requires a Cellular Account Through a Big Three Carrier to Lease an iPhone(opens in new tab)
For many years now, part of the co-marketing agreements between Apple and the Big Three is Apple agreeing to require a postpaid account with a Big Three carrier for all āspecialā iPhone financing deals, including the old iPhone Upgrade Program ...
Ulysses S. Grant on the Future Dividing Line(opens in new tab)
Anders Hejlsberg: Choosing Go for Typescript Toolset(opens in new tab)
Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt(opens in new tab)
Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version. ā David Crawshaw's prompt, ...
Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In ...
Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Hereās Whatās New(opens in new tab)
Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control. Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Hereās Whatās New originally handwritten and published ...
Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)(opens in new tab)
My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) ā Hacker News.One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. The reality for most people - ...
DougDoug Balatro Card(opens in new tab)
People Are Mad They're Told to Learn(opens in new tab)
The Soulslike genre has grown stale after Elden Ring, and only FromSoftware can take it to strange new places(opens in new tab)
Sometimes I have to remind myself that Iām a clichĆ©, a person first compelled to write about games because I slew Dark Soulsā Gwynn, Lord Of Cinder and sat quietly for a moment before thinking to myself, āHit me, come ...
An escape room, but with code?!(opens in new tab)
The AI-Native Company(opens in new tab)
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isnāt the attacker vs. defender question as models get s...
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net Mexico-US illegal migration is zero; Build a wall (around ...
What the bliss taught us(opens in new tab)
At this exact moment curlās summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel ...
Linus Entered the AI Debate(opens in new tab)
condense-json 1.1(opens in new tab)
Release: condense-json 1.1 After shipping condense-json 1.0 I started integrating it into LLM, and found there were some desirable new features already: Replacements object can now include values other than strings. These will be identified and used as structural replacements ...
Add Mark A Release With An Annotated Tag as a Git TIL (opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove July 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2026.
Misconfigured flag cost users $o0M Bitcoin How did it happen?(opens in new tab)
Entropy Ain't Easy(opens in new tab)
condense-json 1.0(opens in new tab)
Release: condense-json 1.0 I'm trying to get braver at releasing 1.0 versions. This little library is a year and a half old now - I've applied some sensible and non-disruptive fixes and shipped the big 1.0 for it. Here's an ...
Learn to handwire a mechanical keyboard! #mechanicalkeyboards #3dprinting #raspberrypi(opens in new tab)
Security of everything at PyCon 2026(opens in new tab)
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long ...
Vibing is banned(opens in new tab)
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I really donāt understand the purpose of Homebrew anymore. Today I tried to rebuild my Tauri app and I get a weird error. I run tauri info to find: Weird, I thought I had installed Rust via Homebrew. I run ...
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Cold opens are the worst new trend in podcasting. Random talking with no context. Iām supposed to guess who is speaking and what theyāre rambling on about? I look forward to the vague deja vu I get when itās repeated ...
Working Holiday in Japan: My Experience and Practical Tips(opens in new tab)
My experience living in Osaka and Tokyo on a Working Holiday visa, with practical advice on preparation, housing, work, useful apps, and places to eat.
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for looking back at the week and honestly just thinking, yeesh, what are you doing, working in an industry thatās succumbed so deeply and so wilfully to moral decay. The publishers sold to executioners. The naked attempts at ...
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I am listening to The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington. The Wheel of Time influence is obvious. The audiobooks are read by Michael Kramer who is the voice of the high fantasy genre. Iām not convinced half way into the ...
Open letters about AI development(opens in new tab)
Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and American AI Leadership was ...
Add Experiment With SQLite Queries In Memory as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Giving and taking credit in big tech companies(opens in new tab)
The Codeberg Situation | TheStandup(opens in new tab)
What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game(opens in new tab)
Sci-fantasy shooter Warframe is the sexy cyborg fruit of 13 years of updates and expansions, encompassing scores upon scores of quests, areas, plotlines, systems and characters, together with a huge quantity of player-made art. Much of Warframe's original design still ...
You dont have to follow silicon valley(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; ...
OpenAI and Anthropic think it's time to stop(opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
I wonder whatās going to happen when we eventually run out of crusty old public-domain drawings to put in these. Hopefully by that point the standards of whatās considered āoldā will have shifted and we can start using photos and ...
