33 links from the last 24 hours · 27 October 2026
Seam Cutter
I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year, the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer. I've been hacking around with it again, and then I …
1.4.0 - Release Notes
Release notes for Ghostty 1.4.0, released on October 27, 2026.
Genie 4 introduces real-time interactive world simulation with native audio, advanced physics, natural human motion, and steering powered by Gemini models.
Python's experimental JIT to be removed
Python's experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which was added to CPython in 2024 for the 3 [...]
Since this will be the only source of this process on the Internet1, I figured I'd document a quick fan swap I did on a piece of test/reference equipment I'm running in my Atomic Clock Tower. I took my Torx T10 screwdriver and popped off the top cover. The scr…
Agents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI - Jan van den Berg
An update to Brooks's Law in the age of AI.
Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking
On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded f…
Did you know OBS or FFmpeg can go directly into a video conference? You configure everything, so you control exactly the quality you are going to get. WHIP support means these tools now speak the protocol of video conferencing.
Apple is blocking the compromised certificates automatically. Mac administrators can take optional steps for some command-line tools.
An evaluation of webframe found it to be a fast, lightweight browser-JavaScript runner suitable for scraping, with performance comparable to shot-scraper, but with important rough edges including CSP failures, a …
Working With a Founder: 5 Rules Every Exec Should Know
Five unspoken expectations founders have of their execs, from staying aligned with the vision to telling the truth. Written for leadership teams to read.
Should engineering leaders still write code? Reflections on technical relevance, coding agents, and staying out of the critical path.
Smuggling WebMCP into ChatGPT
ChatGPT can't run a web page's tools, yet. An iframe, a fake browser and some creative use of chat messages, and now it can.
A year of living with the iPad Mini as a companion device — the quirks, limits, and niche use cases
Sending an email is essentially the same as making an HTTPS request, so how can companies charge $15 to send 1000 emails?
Programming Is Not a Skill
The machine was going to eliminate programming in 1954, again in 1982, again with low-code, and now with LLMs. Each time the skill moved instead of dying. The history says writing code by hand stopped being the skill a long time ago.
Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11
Let models interpret evidence, and explicit rules combine the results into decisions we can inspect and correct.
math/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf at main · openai/math
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This is shorter than some of my other posts, but I keep seeing people doing this wrong. It's even worse now in the LLM era.
Two years ago I left Coinbase to build on my own. Since then I've built and shipped almost a dozen products. Some completely abandoned, others dead upon arrival and a couple that are steadily growing and generating revenue.
I interviewed candidates for a CTV Product Manager role. Here are the questions I asked as an engineer, what each one reveals, and the red flags I watched for.
It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer …
I am a programmer who has worked a lot on hardware, and from that point of view, software testing looks horrible, since software is full of bugs. And you can explain this with, well, they push programmers to ship buggy code since you can always fix the bugs la…
If my mum could build her own software, why would she pay for software ever again?
The Half-Life of an Instruction
Two French examples. That is all it took. I told DeepSeek’s larger model, V4 Pro, to translate every question into Russian. One earlier turn in which the assistant had answered in French was enough to make it slip 17 times in 100. Two, and it answered in Frenc…
Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding
OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.
Gram release 3.4.0
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) created a blog post (October 2026), encouraging men to embrace their 'tech bro' identity.
Code review was never about the code
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.