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An Official* Logo for HTML(opens in new tab)
🔥 Honestly after 15 years of hiring reporters to…(opens in new tab)
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
I am making videos again!(opens in new tab)
Catch me on YouTube and Twitch, y'all.
My displays keep rearranging and displayplacer fixed it(opens in new tab)
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 ...
I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted(opens in new tab)
Omacon comes to New York(opens in new tab)
How Rust and Its Compiler Have Revolutionized Software Engineering and Reliability(opens in new tab)
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
Notes on clarifying man pages(opens in new tab)
dealve-tui(opens in new tab)
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
🔥 If you're with me on team #CommitsDontMatter,…(opens in new tab)
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…(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Take a hard game, and make it shorter(opens in new tab)
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
All the Claw things (Changelog News #181)(opens in new tab)
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.
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Here’s how to instruct a LLM to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide(opens in new tab)
Software Practices from the Scrap Heap?(opens in new tab)
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 did you use your phone this weekend?(opens in new tab)
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
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future(opens in new tab)
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
Ideation: Because Planning Needs More Than a Mode(opens in new tab)
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.
Han shot first (Changelog & Friends #128)(opens in new tab)
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.
Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026) (opens in new tab)
Discord creates discord, MinIO's repository goes dark, and I'm still not deploying OpenClaw
JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals(opens in new tab)
“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 ...
Beyond the ken of mortals(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Every blog post I have shared until 2026(opens in new tab)
In my monthly email newsletter I share cool things I came across on the internet, which so far has included the following blog posts!
Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Building the machine that builds the machine (Changelog Interviews #676)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Deploying Rust to production checklist(opens in new tab)
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
Contentment is a spectrum, too(opens in new tab)
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
whosthere(opens in new tab)
A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
AI_POLICY.md(opens in new tab)
If you maintain Open Source software, you will likely have encountered AI slop PRs.
Fly inside FastAPI Cloud(opens in new tab)
You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certificates, cloud consoles with 200 options. What if deploying was just one ...
The skill every manager should look for when hiring engineers(opens in new tab)
Vouch for an open source web of trust (Changelog News #180)(opens in new tab)
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her ...
Code has _always_ been the easy part(opens in new tab)
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may ...
Living in the inflection point(opens in new tab)
I'm scared, I'm excited, and I'm exhausted by the pace of change. All of those things can be true at the same time. This blog post is a (hopefully) grounded take on living through AI's inflection point, why the backlash ...
Magic Words(opens in new tab)
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the ...
Do this before you ever start coding(opens in new tab)
#469: Commands, out of the terminal(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke See the full ...
Webspace Invaders(opens in new tab)
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...
Stop generating, start thinking(opens in new tab)
Async database access in Rust with Diesel 101(opens in new tab)
Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...
It's a renaissance woman's world (Changelog & Friends #127)(opens in new tab)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. ...
Coding has changed completely Here's how to master it(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026) (opens in new tab)
Jellyfin <3 Samsung, beating a dead lobster, and the birth of a self-hosted meme
This one goes out to the ones we love(opens in new tab)
“And he will never never never never never never never get to meet you And I got to meet you Yeah, I got to meet you. —Mikey Mike” I write...
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions(opens in new tab)
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions The post Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
AI will change how engineers work forever(opens in new tab)
Clankers with claws(opens in new tab)
The new engineering skill no one was trained for(opens in new tab)
