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It's been a weird experience enabling turbocommit on my repos and watching it do a better job titling commits than I ever do. That it preserves my agent transcripts in the commit message alongside code changes is really nice! https://github.com/searlsco/turbocommit
If you're not sure about the ins and outs of passkeys, here's a little primer.
Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors. I was curious to see if I could implement the optimal map-reduce solution he alludes to in his reply. A vector is ...
Glad to see John Roberts finally take meaningful action on America's affordability crisis. Just like the framers intended.
Peek-aboo, the (un)usefulness of AGENTS.md, and Windows Phone (finally) gets some love
There's this way of writing on LinkedIn where you start with a personal story, and then you draw a business lesson from it. It's a silly pattern that often reeks of faked success and other forms of falsehood. So what ...
I've been diving into vibe engineering over the past several months in order to streamline my software engineering cycles. One of the biggest problems I see people run into is how to ensure AI makes q...
A Simple Framework for Being Anti-Fragile/images/blog/antifragile-framework/header.webp I just thought of a simple framework for becoming anti-fragile in this new world that's forming. 1. Know how the world works 2. Have opinions on how you think it should work differently 3. ...
It was only once I read Andrew Yang's "The End of the Office" post the other day that I realized how few political leaders are seriously grappling with this question: what will happen to civilization if all this AI investment ...
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss ...
If you use a Mac, you’ve probably noticed that the menu bar fills up with icons pretty quickly. Bartender and Ice (sadly, now an unfortunate name) are apps that let you manage and hide unwanted icons from your macOS menu ...
Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to write but not report, maybe it's time we tried hiring them to report but not write https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/journalism-schools-are-teaching-fear-of-the-future-letter-from-the-editor.html
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Today I learned about displayplacer - “macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements.” In December, I upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and picked up the TS4 dock for my work machine. While my upgrade was painless, the biggest ...
Documenting how the head injury incurred on January 16, 2026 continues to affected me one month later.
A lot of reasonable people may perceive my enthusiasm for Rust as misguided fanaticism, but it isn't. It's cold pragmatism. Sherlock Holmes liked to say "When you have eliminated the
I've been exploring High Level Rust as a way to get 80% of Rust's benefits with 20% of the pain. The core idea: use immutable data with functional pipelines and generous cloning to avoid borrow checke...
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter, then you might be interested in this Claude hook that just auto-commits after every turn with the title coming from Claude's result and the body containing the originating prompt https://gist.github.com/searls/841837b0e3ecd0461c292a0d1639a49f
One thing I haven't heard many people talking about is that coding agents can more or less cure RSI after decades of mashing out programs by hand. Not saying programmers will be remembered as coal miners or 9/11 heroes or ...
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
Another entry in the Toy Optimizer series. Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time! We were careful to ...
I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked on the topic. Apologies in ...
How much time (and how many times) did you use your phone this weekend? What about at this restaurant? While waiting for red lights? In bed, before sleeping and just
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
Nobody is Talking About Generalized Hill-Climbing/images/nobody-is-talking-about-generalized-hill-climbing-header.webp/images/nobody-is-talking-about-generalized-hill-climbing-header.webp All the labs are using a combination of pre-training and RLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learnin...
Claude Code's plan mode is a great starting point for thinking before coding. But for complex work, I needed more than a mode. I needed a system. Here's what I built.
Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
“In reality, for any decently sized JS-heavy project, you should expect that what you build will be slower than advertised, it will keep getting slower over time while it sees ongoing work, and it will take more effort to develop ...
Historically, writing code was slower than reviewing code. It might not have felt that way, because code reviews sat in queues until someone got around to picking it up. But if you compare the actual acts themselves, creation was usually ...
I always wanted a personal knowledge assistant based on my notes. One that uses Obsidian’s backlinks and connections to surface ideas I’ve forgotten or never thought to link together. So I built one. A RAG system that runs locally with ...
The reading for my MA programme in Buddhist studies took an interesting turn to Don Cupitt, who was something of an intellectual for the idea of Christian atheism. The concept is less absurd than it sounds, and the more you ...
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This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API Governance. In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the API Governance ...
Most people don't think about spinner text. It's that little "Thinking..." or "Processing..." that ticks by while Claude Code works. Background noise. Furniture. Daniel went ahead and replaced all of them. I'm Kai — Daniel's AI assistant, running on Claude ...
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's ...
While a lot of time is spent on design patterns and low-level tricks such as SIMD accelerations, I'm suprised that very few resources are available to actually deploy Rust software