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Hoard things you know how to do(opens in new tab)
Agentic Engineering Patterns > Many of my tips for working productively with coding agents are extensions of advice I've found useful in my career without them. Here's a great example of that: hoard things you know how to do. A ...
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Quoting Andrej Karpathy(opens in new tab)
It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks ...
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📄 Agents are ushering in the Antisocial Coding era(opens in new tab)
The first time I visited GitHub's HQ2 in 2012, they had a TV showing off their first animations of Mona and were using it to push their new tagline: Social Coding. The phrase certainly captured the moment we were living ...
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Start where you are: A practical guide to building with AI(opens in new tab)
The best practices for building with AI haven't been written yet, and that's actually exciting. This post breaks down a layered approach to AI-assisted development, from chat to coding agents to agent fleets, with practical tips for getting started no ...
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Resident Evil Requiem's zombie nightmare runs like a dream on PC(opens in new tab)
Been a while since I’ve done one of these. Been even longer since I didn’t have a complaint about wonky performance or some manner of debilitating stutter issue to open it with. Nope, Resident Evil Requiem is, on the technical ...
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🔥 If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and…(opens in new tab)
If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed. Issues are now graveyards from Day 1. No wonder my inbox has been ...
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My thirst for campervanning has been quenched by Outbound’s Steam Next Fest demo and a Cyberpunk 2077 mod(opens in new tab)
Most of the time, life sucks. On rare occasions, however, the moons line up. Having spent a few hours this past weekend playing the Steam Next Fest demo of cosy campervan survivabuilder Outbound, I returned to my desk on Monday ...
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Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (26 Feb 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it): Trump wants Big Tech to win, not to play fair. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Harpercollins v libraries; Rothfuss x Firefly; ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2026(opens in new tab)
Having too many choices is bad for me, but I refuse to give up any of them. You know, just in case.
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curl up 2026(opens in new tab)
The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia. We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much! curl ...
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Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules.(opens in new tab)
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. Yikes! It turns out Gemini and Google Maps (and other services) share the same API keys... but Google Maps API keys are designed to be public, since they are ...
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Quoting Benedict Evans(opens in new tab)
If people are only using this a couple of times a week at most, and can’t think of anything to do with it on the average day, it hasn’t changed their life. OpenAI itself admits the problem, talking about a ...
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An Exploit … in CSS?!(opens in new tab)
Read an explanation of the recent CVE-2026-2441 vulnerability that was labeled a "CSS exploit" that "allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page." An Exploit … in CSS?! originally published on CSS-Tricks, ...
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tldraw issue: Move tests to closed source repo(opens in new tab)
tldraw issue: Move tests to closed source repo It's become very apparent over the past few months that a comprehensive test suite is enough to build a completely fresh implementation of any open source library from scratch, potentially in a ...
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Tucci Pan Review(opens in new tab)
Stanley Tucci has a set of cookware named after him that GreenPan sells. I’ve got these two pans: I forget where they came from exactly, some silent auction or something, but I unboxed and started using them about 8 months ...
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Claude Code Remote Control(opens in new tab)
Claude Code Remote Control New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a "remote control" session on your computer and then use the Claude Code for web interfaces (on web, iOS and native desktop app) to send prompts ...
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★ My 2025 Apple Report Card(opens in new tab)
A mixed year.
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I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app(opens in new tab)
I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to propose it in advance. I grabbed a slot for a ...
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A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets(opens in new tab)
Browsers don't just let you bookmark web pages. You can also bookmark JavaScript, allowing you to do so much more than merely save pages. A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. ...
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Andy Bell is unsubscribing from the AI discourse. “I’m bored of hearing about it, bored of seeing people I respect(ed) fawn over it and it’s really not doing my mental health any good.”I’m feeling this too. I feel obliged to ...
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🔥 My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable…(opens in new tab)
My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable parallel serial work—multiple agents running in multiple tabs, all committing to main instead of worktrees. turbocommit does this by linking each session's commits: https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit?tab=readme-ov-file#continuity-across-workstreams
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“Sapkowski is a kleptomaniac with mythology” - How Reigns: The Witcher coaxes out the improv chaos of Geralt's universe(opens in new tab)
Reigns: The Witcher narrative designer Oscar Harrington-Shaw thinks Geralt of Rivia has a promising future as a private eye. “Another source of inspiration which I quite like leaning on, which the games do and the books do, is hard-boiled crime ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026(opens in new tab)
What’s brewing at Flickr? Maybe I should just move to Pika. Unkept promises to myself.
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Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The whole economy pays the Amazon tax: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Math denial; Disney v young Tim Burton; Make v Sony; American oligarchs' wealth ...
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Developing Measurements with Cat Hicks(opens in new tab)
SoCal Linux Expo - discount "FAFOF" -https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/Kubecon EU Amsterdam - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/Linuxfest North West - https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/Newsletter - https://sub.fafo.fm/Dr. Cat Hicks takes a different approach to traditional engineer productivity measurements. Instead of turning engineers into velocity numbers she takes a holistic approach ...
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curl security moves again(opens in new tab)
tldr: curl goes back to Hackerone. When we announced the end of the curl bug-bounty at the end of January 2026, we simultaneously moved over and started accepting curl security reports on GitHub instead of its previous platform. This move ...
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My AI wishlist(opens in new tab)
May the hardware shortages empower European and Chinese companies to drastically boost investments into RISC-V hardware so it could become a viable architecture for production workloads earlier than expected.
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Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea(opens in new tab)
It’s also reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss. That feeling of loss though ...
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Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)(opens in new tab)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die.In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the ...
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Linear walkthroughs(opens in new tab)
Agentic Engineering Patterns > Sometimes it's useful to have a coding agent give you a structured walkthrough of a codebase. Maybe it's existing code you need to get up to speed on, maybe it's your own code that you've forgotten ...
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A fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer(opens in new tab)
It’s hard to get optimizers right. Even if you build up a painstaking test suite by hand, you will likely miss corner cases, especially corner cases at the interactions of multiple components or multiple optimization passes. I wanted to see ...
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How to Delete a Google Cloud Project(opens in new tab)
In this post we walk through how to delete a Google Cloud Project. I personally moved all my projects off Google Cloud last year to self-hosted and finally got around to cleaning up all my dangling re...
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lazykiq(opens in new tab)
A rich terminal UI for Sidekiq.
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🔥 Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius? It's when…(opens in new tab)
Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius? It's when every single item you ordered from Instacart has been replaced with something else. It's a thought experiment: are the bags on your porch still your order? Their customer support contends that ...
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You Get Good At What You Do (Or Do You?)(opens in new tab)
I used to feel really strongly about this. You get good at what you do. Like, if you build websites all the time, you get good at building websites. If you make burritos all the time, you get good at ...
