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Mythos is Just the New Normal/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp/images/mythos-is-new-normal.webp This whole Mythos thing continues to surprise me. Not the model, but the reaction to it. Guys, it's not even a cyber model. It's just the next thing. It's just a model designed to ...
The world is moving fast, very fast, and nothing makes my blood boil faster than someone explaining to me that it has always been done this so that's fine, or
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUForkn00mk We're All Building a Single Digital Assistant/images/blog/we-are-all-building-single-digital-assistant/header.webp/images/blog/we-are-all-building-single-digital-assistant/header.webp I want to talk about where I think all this personal AI stuff is going...
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’s well-intended; coworkers working through a problem with a chatbot before bothering ...
CSS cascade layers are the ultimate tool to win the specificity wars. Used alongside the :where selector, specificity problems are a thing of the past. Or so I thought. Turns out cascade layers are leakier than a xenonite sieve. Cross-layer ...
Supply Chain attacks are all the rage these days, with many high-profile attacks that were carried against the Python ecosystem (with litellm), JavaScript (with axios) and WordPress in the last
For the past several months I've been searching for the Missing Programming Language - a language with a good balance of types, performance, ecosystem, and agentic AI performance. I've landed on a spe...
Real time network diagnostics in your terminal.
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affect me three months later.
Good and Bad Harness Engineering/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp/images/blog/bitter-lesson-engineering/bitter-lesson-engineering-header.webp There are lots of ways to do Harness Engineering well and poorly, but the most important one comes down to whether...
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and ...
Why, where, and how I created a new app to be my new home of fiction writing.
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s ...
From an aside of a much longer essay from Tom Forth:
It's Time for Full Activation/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp/images/blog/its-time-for-full-activation/header.webp I've been experiencing a feeling lately that's massive and hard to pin down. But here goes. If you remember my piece on Constraints on Creativity/blog/our-constr...
I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone. Why? Because I've been posting to an anonymous audience on the Internet almost every day ...
I used the GitHub Copilot CLI to generate some scripts for me to control Elgato Lights with the Logitech MX Creative Console!
We are releasing DuckDB version v1.5.2, a patch release with bugfixes and performance improvements, and support for the DuckLake v1.0 lakehouse format.
We released the DuckLake v1.0 standard!
We recently went on a 9 day trip to Japan. It was awesome. Japan has been at the top of my bucket list since ~2020 but with Covid, getting married, and having a kid we just never found the right ...
Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace
Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design. Product design ...
AI Only Has to Beat 3/10/images/ai-only-has-to-beat-3-out-of-10.webp/images/ai-only-has-to-beat-3-out-of-10.webp I think there's a misconception about how AI will break and change things. The Mythos hype has convinced people that AI is about to be so advanced that it can overcome our great cyber...
I spoke at Deep Dish Swift in Chicago!
In this article I share my personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026. Shout out to the organisers and volunteers This was my second time at PyCon Lithuania and, for the second time in a row, I leave with the impression ...
Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no ...
Aperture Collapse/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp I've been playing with this idea of Aperture Collapse. It's a problem I have that I suspect a lot of people have as well. It's where AI has magnified our capabilities so much as builders that we...
When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own ...
The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend
A quick but important reminder that font-family declarations don’t inherit fallback stacks the way many developers assume.
I spoke in Seoul, South Korea to an incredibly bright group of participants!
A talk, a workshop, and a podcast at AIE Europe. Here's what I did.
Play this short quiz to test your Python knowledge! At PyCon Lithuania 2026 I did a lightning talk where I presented a “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Python quiz, themed around iterables. There's a whole performance during the lightning ...
This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows. I have fully adopted uv into my workflows and most of the time I want my coding agents to use uv workflows as ...
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
Today I’m very happy to share that Mario Zechner is joining Earendil. First things first: I think you should read Mario’s post. This is his news more than it is ours, and he tells his side of it better than ...
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos. It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity.https://x.com/slow_developer/status/2041913962623611032?s=20 It's just that mu...
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and how to work with AI agents is changing every day. Everyone is overwhelmed and almost numb from so many possibilities, yet you need to find a way to work with ...
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...