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Say what you will about macOS Tahoe, but it accomplished the longest uptime I've ever experienced on a Mac (131 days, 40 mins) after 4+ months overseas. I tapped the dusty keyboard, and it immediately woke up my janky 6K ...
The cover of the UL summary of Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report, with the eight section titles down the left side and 117 findings in the corner/images/ul-anthropic-misuse-report-2026.webphttps://share.danielmiessler.com/G2BrZSoRq3/raw?dl=1 click the cover to download the pdf Anthropic pu...
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The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own ...
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? ā Lobste.rs.An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky Abstractions. I read that near the start of my career and it's encouraged me to always ...
As an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimagining of this or that piece of ...
See how AI is being used across engineering, improve the quality of what it produces, and use the right level of intelligence for every task and budget.
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta. If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage ...
Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It ...
Appleās latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.
VR and non-VR gaming
Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.
Automatic Key Exchange probes TLS 1.3-capable customer origins to learn which key agreement algorithms they support. We then lead with the most secure algorithm when connecting to the origin, preferring post-quantum connections wherever the origin supports it.
New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which donāt have enough space to enable memorization.
Iāve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they canāt compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny ...
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I was tickled to discover that iOS 27 ships with a keyboard completion that will fill wi-fi details into captive portals you've previously filled out before.
Redmond
A collection of neobrutalism-styled components based on shadcn/ui.
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, ...
A positive vision for the future of mathematics: how our institutions can deepen human understanding as AI transforms mathematical research.
A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadth Developers" essay is aging frustratingly well, in his estimation. Is it? I'm not nearly employed enough to have a good read on things. https://justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/
A microscope for Tokio and Rust applications
The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making ...
Some people can't picture anything in their heads, and studying their brains is overturning a popular theory of how imagination works.
Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because itās wild. ...
Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark money ...
In Part 1, we discovered the grammar for data: a way to define a data project with its complex requirements and how we define it declaratively as a grammar in one sentence with nouns (sources), transformations (verbs), templates, and modifiers, ...
Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases. The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private ...
Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI. And Pangram said itās entirely AI generated. To which David replied that these AI detectors ...
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80 The --quality option sets the quality - without ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Phil Rosen, co-founder of the Opening Bell Daily newsletter and host of the show, Full Signal, at Felix Roasting Co. just off Park Avenue and 49th. Felix Roasting is probably the ...
Iāve got Netlify Analytics turned on for a few of my websites. I use it send myself a little daily digest that alerts me when folks link to my writing, be it an individual sending me a few referrals, a ...
