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Many of you sent feedback about your experiences with agents at work—but it was all too positive! I want to hear about some goddamn disasters of team & organizational dysfunction, too! Send in your (anonymous) horror stories, please! https://justin.searls.co/feedback
Unattributed Navigation Overhead exposes the part of Time to First Byte that Navigation Timing cannot explain, including hidden cross-origin redirects.
Stories of pirates are full of swashbuckling, daring-do, and grog. But Limbic Entertainment's city builder Corsair Cove reveals those hijinx are only a sideshow: logistics is the star. As the proud owner of a tropical island surrounded by high seas ...
Demoed a component of my unreleased memorization app today. Reactions included: • "Scary!" • "I kinda want the opposite actually" • "Do you want me to NOT use your app?" Things are going great.
How I used GPT-5.6 Daybreak Blue to find an on-demand NetHack 5.0 crash, duplicate items, farm krakens, and get the high score on NAO.
DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a PEG-based parser that is easier to evolve and can be extended at runtime.
Do you work on a team or at a company where most people are actually using agents in earnest? I'd love to hear your experience for a piece. Quick e-mail, call, whatever. Hit me up with my fancy new feedback ...
Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outage ...
I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter. I’ll talk about why I made it in a bit but first I wanted to… ahem… highlight… some of the features. Zero-dependencies ~2kb minifed+gzipped ...
Apply a style when someone navigates from one specific page to another. The idea being it'd make the sources for cross-document view transitions declarative in CSS rather than managing that stuff in JavaScript. CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days originally handwritten ...
I don’t begrudge anyone who’s waited to try STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl until it got its technical defects fixed. They’re still wrong, obviously - an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival FPS is still an absorbing and eerily atmospheric survival ...
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet? is a great read. We have precisely zero evidence of advanced life in the universe beyond Earth. At the same time, there is growing evidence that simple life forms are ...
The Opposite of Brooks's Law: Removing manpower from a late software project makes it less late.
LUX Sidecar adds context to RUM, while browser-tool fixes show why measurement conditions and small debugging details matter.
As someone who teaches beginning web development, I find that building a WordPress site makes for a great final project. Hosting those projects has always been a roadblock though. WordPress.com Student Plan originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. ...
Today's links The ordinariness of evil: Stop selling AI (bad). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dot-crash bumwad; AP v fair use; Nym Wars; What's ctrl-F? Pentagon lost $6.5T in a year; Voter ID is voter suppression; ...
A honeycomb of small cells, one person at a screen in each, a purple filament threading cell to cell and turning each one cold while bundles are drawn out the bottom/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp I think one form the first big AI hack ...
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full ...
Beautiful maps, weather, radar, tides, moon and sun position in your terminal.
Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.12.14, 3.11.16, 3.10.21 - security releases Codeberg’s AI-code ban tests its role as a GitHub alternative Brett Cannon: what's missing for reproducible builds on PyPI nothing records the source code a distribution came from. ...
I’ve been trying real hard to like Penpot but it doesn’t like me back. Penpot has a bug when moving objects with the keyboard. Maybe I’m just unlucky but it’s impossible to miss for me. They never fixed it but ...
Recently, RPS has seen a mighty renaissance of train game reporting. Look to east, and you will find James doing locomotive kickflips in Denshattack, a J-pop stunt racer turbocharged by the hope of a better world. Look to west, and ...
Today's links IP can't save you from AI: Property rights cannot substitute for labor rights and privacy rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flying Brits v brown people; Probability neglect; Law v "enhanced patdowns"; Onion says ...
A huge purple printing press churns out stacks of identical sheets while a bearded man in an orange work shirt sits beside it carving a strange lopsided form from a raw wood block/images/unconventional-thought-differentiator.webp/images/unconventional-thought-differentiator.webp I think one of the...
LUX Sidecar is a small SpeedCurve RUM plugin that adds browser and navigation context to your real-user performance data.
Plain-English definitions for every term you hit in local LLM posts: prefill and decode, tokens per second, FP8 and NVFP4, Q4_K_M, KV cache, YaRN, Gated DeltaNet, speculative decoding, and every vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama flag worth knowing.
Regional and Cultural Tells In Digital Textual Communication — Declan Chidlow notes a few cultural quirks. I hate to drag the topic back to “AI” but these fun regional differences will be erased by LLM homogenization. Just say no!
I needed to implement my ChaCha20-BLAKE3 encryption algorithm in Go, but unfortunately ChaCha20 from Go's stdlib is lacking SIMD acceleration on amd64, probably because ChaCha20-Poly1305 (used in TLS) already has
Now that software is ru(i)nning the world, there are very few things that are more frustrating and productivity-killing than being limited by a piece of software, either because the maker
Slop watermarks are unpopular with “writers” as Pivot to AI notes. Baldur Bjarnason sums it up nicely: “These once serious people didn’t have to turn themselves into clowns but they just had to go through the effort to pratfall in ...
DuckDB v2.0 will ship JSON functions that allow you to easily apply JSON patches.
This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as ...
