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How NOT to spy on OpenAI(opens in new tab)
Saturday, October 17, 2026(opens in new tab)
web-edit 0.1a2(opens in new tab)
Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit (previously) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale. I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text ...
Curtain Fever(opens in new tab)
What happened to the desktop metaphor?(opens in new tab)
State of the art in Python 2026(opens in new tab)
Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reopened almost every one of those choices. Some tools got faster. Others ...
Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware": And they used Google, Facebook and every other major ad platform to do it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Big Mouth Billy Bass x ...
Clanker Therapy 3 — What Have You Been Building?(opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
Saturday's are for having your mind read. Or, at least, this Saturday is because I'm seeing Derren Brown's new show. I'm a little self-conscious about it, not because I'm worried the mentalist will hypnotise me and make me profess a ...
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“Rather, I became a physicist to stare at large databases of histograms produced by a Lovecraftian-autocomplete of dubious correctness and say “yeah that’s probably ok I guess” to add to humanity’s knowledge frontier. Why are we even doing all this? ...
AS9100 Lead Auditor Training with Apex Quality Assurance(opens in new tab)
We are excited to announce that in addition to Apex's Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Fundamentals course and their AS9100 Internal Auditor training, we are now also instructing their AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor course. This course is authenticated by ...
The Late Charlie Munger on Elon Musk and Tesla(opens in new tab)
How to Learn ML in 2026 interview(opens in new tab)
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine. He posed a lot of very thoughtful questions and I had a great time. Please check it out! The lightly edited transcript follows, auto-transcribed with faster-whisper ...
Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang(opens in new tab)
We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?" Asking that question also changed when review happens. Before, ...
OpenAI Dot's Memory is next level(opens in new tab)
We Gave Our AI Agents Too Much Freedom(opens in new tab)
★ Real Artists Ship, Tesla Edition(opens in new tab)
If you think Musk is either completely legitimate and trustworthy or an utter fraud, you are wrong. He has led his companies to extraordinary accomplishments, *and* he has made promises based on complete bullshit. He is a shameless bullshitter who ...
A searchable archive of everything(opens in new tab)
🔥 Many of the same people who were incredulous…(opens in new tab)
Many of the same people who were incredulous about the iPhone Air's camera and durability all seem to be hyped out of their minds for iPhone Duo, which has a comparably bad camera and is certifiably less durable. The thing's ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 67(opens in new tab)
Cloudflare killed Deno and look I’m on TV!(opens in new tab)
““Didn’t you already say goodbye to Deno? Get new material!””I know, I know, but not even a week after declaring my friendship over with Deno they actually killed Deno! The runtime is going away, and sorry call me pessimistic, but ...
The pleasures of Double Fine's Thank You Bus Driver are not in the destination, nor the journey, but in slapping my disobedient passengers(opens in new tab)
Showing some gratitude is the least these scribbly wretches can do. The passengers in Thank You Bus Driver – Double Fine’s new comedy public transport sim – are almost invariably rowdy, entitled hypocrites, happy to sully my single-decker by picking ...
Self-Host Weekly (16 October 2026) (opens in new tab)
You either die open source, or live long enough to see yourself become open core
You need to check out Pi Durable(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Load-bearing: Digital sovereignty vs AI. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Anthrax penmanship; Stolen WEBGEEK license plate; Arizona Republic endorses Clinton, gets death threats; Against the great forces of history. Upcoming appearances: Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, ...
Men’s Group - Week 39(opens in new tab)
!!! scripture "1 John 2:15-16"
Anthropic Rebuilt Git (yes really)(opens in new tab)
sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust(opens in new tab)
Research: sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subagents at scale with dynamic workflows in the Claude Code documentation. ...
★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2(opens in new tab)
At the old pre-June prices, you could buy a 128 GB Apple TV and a pair of HomePod Minis for $350 ($150 + $100 + $100). Four short months later, with today’s new models, that combination would cost $600 ($300 ...
From JSON Strings to Typed Columns(opens in new tab)
JSON often arrives as a text column inside a table, not as a file. In this post, we infer a schema from such a column, adjust it, and turn the column into typed columns, without first writing the data to ...
Benchmarking DuckDB v2.0-dev on NVIDIA Vera(opens in new tab)
We put NVIDIA's new Vera CPU through its paces using the full TPC-H workload on scale factor 1,000.
AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects(opens in new tab)
XigmaNAS using the wrong UFSID(opens in new tab)
Well, this was an interesting one. A client’s production XigmaNAS VM, running on UFS2 (because it’s a VM, and ZFS is on the host beneath it) needed expansion today. Unfortunately, expanding the size of /dev/vtbd1p1 removed its UFSID label–and just ...
Chirp Pong(opens in new tab)
Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It ...
We Need All the Disciplines(opens in new tab)
From where I sit, figuring out what to build, building it, and shipping it are all part of the art of making software. Many disciplines have emerged through the years to facilitate this work: product, design, engineering, devops, etc. We ...
Add Rerun Failed Jobs For Current Branch as a GitHub TIL (opens in new tab)
🔥 TIRED Software Craftsman WIRED Software Foreman (opens in new tab)
TIRED Software Craftsman WIRED Software Foreman
OSI approved the curl license(opens in new tab)
curl started out GPL licensed, as direct inheritance from its httpget days, but in October 1998 we switched to the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In 2001, we added the MIT license as an additional license to optionally use in addition ...
2.5 Admins 321: Backup Strategy(opens in new tab)
🔥 Recursive code review: 1. Orchestrator assigns…(opens in new tab)
Recursive code review: Orchestrator assigns implementer subagent Reviewer subagent hunts for bugs Orchestrator vets findings; implementer fixes real ones Repeat 2–3 until no valid findings remain Typically takes 2–8 rounds.
🔥 Just filled my car with gas for the first time…(opens in new tab)
Just filled my car with gas for the first time since February or March, and it cost $4.22 a gallon Then sent a single document to Japan via FedEx, and they charged me over $100 for the cheapest/slowest rate—almost half ...
Unpacking inside comprehensions(opens in new tab)
Learn how to use the unpacking operator inside list comprehensions. Starting with Python 3.15, you can use the asterisk * to unpack inside list comprehensions: nested = [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4], [], [5, 6, 7]] flattened = [*sublist for ...
Dev Day(opens in new tab)
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO(opens in new tab)
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from ...
"I lost the concept of home, until my grandmother took me into these forests" - Trollheim: Gnomes is a survival game from ex-DICE and Paradox devs that channels childhood fairytales(opens in new tab)
Swedish studio Off-leash Interactive and Denshattack publishers Fireshine Games have announced Trollheim: Gnomes, a survival-crafting fairytale in which you, a three-inch-high gnome, explore a procedurally generated forest derived from Nordic folklore. You'll be clambering up enormous trees, lighting campfires beneath ...
Someone rebuilt the entire Adobe Suite for free(opens in new tab)
Anthropic says No More(opens in new tab)
🔥 A lot is riding on local models becoming "good…(opens in new tab)
A lot is riding on local models becoming "good enough" for agentic coding workflows. The fact I've gone from "I only trust Fable and Astra" to "Opus 5.5 is just as good as either" to "Sonnet 5.5 is basically good ...
"Some people like it, some people are annoyed by it": Substructure may look like Factorio, but it changes the automation game in some fundamental ways(opens in new tab)
In many respects, as someone who has played a lot of automation games, Substructure is very familiar. It begins with you landing on the surface of an alien world and using nothing but pluck, the tools on your UI, and ...
