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David Bushell Notes May 17, 2026

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“The domains in which a programming language is popular influences the ecosystem. I’m deeply grateful to Jarred and Anthropic for giving Zig communities a chance to reroll for something other than LLMs. Hoping for better than a nat 1 next ...

John Gruber May 17, 2026

Drata(opens in new tab)

David Bushell Notes May 17, 2026

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“Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS” — a great read from Julia Evans who discovered Tailwind 8 years ago and decided to learn CSS from it. When it comes to Tailwind, there is a lot of ...

Simon Willison May 17, 2026

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source(opens in new tab)

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as ...

Baty.net May 17, 2026

Unsocial Sundays(opens in new tab)

David Bushell Notes May 17, 2026

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Social media battle royale! Bluesky vs Mastodon vs Threads vs Twitter? Well if you’re still using Twitter you have a moral deficit so large there is no salvation. I have literally never visited Threads. Never clicked or even seen a ...

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I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert(opens in new tab)

Swyx May 17, 2026

AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation(opens in new tab)

i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.

Sean Goedecke May 17, 2026

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026(opens in new tab)

John Gruber May 16, 2026

Reddit Is Blocking Some Users From Accessing Its Website From Mobile Devices(opens in new tab)

John Gruber May 16, 2026

Santa Clara County Sues Meta Over Alleged Scam Ads(opens in new tab)

Daniel Stenberg May 16, 2026

named globs with curl(opens in new tab)

One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in different ways and have curl iterate over them to simplify repeated transfers. ...

John Gruber May 16, 2026

★ AI Is Technology, Not a Product(opens in new tab)

It’s not even a feature. It’s just technology.

Simon Willison May 16, 2026

Warelay -> OpenClaw(opens in new tab)

In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the ...

John Gruber May 16, 2026

ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop(opens in new tab)

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kv4p HT - Turn your Android smartphone into a modern ham radio transceiver(opens in new tab)

Simon Willison May 16, 2026

Quoting Julia Evans(opens in new tab)

[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously ...

Baty.net May 16, 2026

Stick with it(opens in new tab)

Baty.net May 16, 2026

Dave Gauer on Ascetic Computing(opens in new tab)

David Bushell Notes May 16, 2026

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(This is a long rambling barely edited note.) I’ve been thinking about vibecusations again, i.e. making accusations of LLM usage without proof. An ignorant trend I’ve seen is pointing at smart quotes and other typographic flair as a slop signal. ...

John Gruber May 16, 2026

The Talk Show: ‘A Sociopathic Father’(opens in new tab)

John Gruber May 16, 2026

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of Products at OpenAI, a Very Stable Well-Run Company(opens in new tab)

Sean Goedecke May 16, 2026

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again(opens in new tab)

Simon Willison May 15, 2026

inaturalist-clumper 0.1(opens in new tab)

Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship ...

Changelog May 15, 2026

MCP on Code Mode (Changelog Interviews #681)(opens in new tab)

This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...

John Gruber May 15, 2026

Dropover, a Mac Shelf Utility That Makes Clever Use of Mouse Shaking(opens in new tab)

John Gruber May 15, 2026

Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks(opens in new tab)

Production-Grade Container Orchestration May 15, 2026

Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)

This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...

Production-Grade Container Orchestration May 15, 2026

Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)

Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...