34 links from the last 24 hours · 28 October 2026
I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in …
EMACS turns 50
How the MIT AI Lab’s text editor gave birth to the free software movement.
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display has the world’s best laptop display. Featuring the M5 Pro or M5 Max chip, it’s a powerful platform for AI.
Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model
Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
CNC Stone Carving - Carmelite Gothic
CNC Stone Carving In a form of architecture so ancient, CNC machines may seem a little out of place. However, when one considers that the medieval builders were always on the forefront of the technology of their day, it no longer seems so strange. To build G…
I’ve written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents—the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents …
Eleven days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise, the git, curl and python3 that Apple ships with macOS still trust the compromised certificates.
Cyber Defense teams are suffering a DDoS; vulnerability management is no longer able to keep up with the onslaught of findings, reports, nor hype. The current situation is simply not sustainable.
The Climb: Wealth Inequality in America, to scale
Picture U.S. wealth as stacks of $100 bills: the median household’s is about 9 inches tall. The average top-1% household’s is 145 feet, and it keeps getting taller and taller…
Lawyers should be able to read a statute as it stood on any date and see which law wrote each phrase. A history of nine titles of the US Code, built by replaying every amendment, as the example.
Four Months of Zig
It has been about four months since I returned to Zig after being absent for a few years. In this time, I have written some software in Zig and reengaged with the community, online and in person. I decided to share some of that experience, including what I ha…
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your …
Getting good at AI takes time and practice
Many people think that getting “good at AI” is trivial. Sure, with some early models there were tricks you had to learn, but current models don’t need them…
A free AI assistant and survival library (1.5 million offline articles) that runs on your own computer, with no internet. Shows the source of every answer. Mac and Windows.
Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
An update on the Tailscale SSH security investigation, remediation progress, and what customers can do now.
tar-codec: a fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem
We're releasing tar-codec, a new tar encoding/decoding library for Rust. tar-codec is already the default in uv, and improves uv's tar handling performance by over 2x while also improving our posture against archive differentials.
Working with AI: Lessons from software’s head start • Jack Damon
SGLang security update: improving request isolation
On September 9, 2026, Cloudflare notified us of cross-request KV cache exposure in its GLM-5.3 deployment on Workers AI. We worked with Cloudflare to address the request-rejection path involved and strengthen related cache-lifetime handling in disaggregated se…
My agency has built more than 1,500 commercial websites, most of them on WordPress. These days I tell clients not to use it.
Making Content from Discoverable Servers Easier to Discover
Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
This Video Is a JavaScript Function. Unit-Tested. In 10 Languages. | David Pertiller
A video implemented by Claude Code. No video editor, no subscription, but unit tests. My AI agent built a 15-second ad as code and shipped it in 12 versions.
I recently came across Kent Sullivan’s 1996 case study on the design of the Windows 95 user interface, and reading it felt like finding a letter from a more civilized era. Sullivan joined the Windows 95 UI team in 1992 and spent years documenting how the team …
Goodbye, Coding
I miss coding.
Customizable select isn’t just a prettier dropdown. Five before/after demos show how options can carry what people need to decide.
On overfitting, thinking-mode transfer, and misaligned gradients
Three ways to turn an open-weight model into a hypnotised Jack Dalton: a few hundred poisoned documents in pretraining, a 30-minute edit to one decoder layer, or a chat template and a quantization trick that need no training at all. What the research says abou…
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I have a spicily optimistic take: I think there's a huge opportunity for junior engineers.
The rise of Überengineers
Engineers who can do much more than just code will become common
The shoemaker had a shop. An old shoemaker in front of his shop, Bucharest, Romania, 2000. As I watch “an agent” open a Chrome browser, start a debugging session, and try to fix a bug it just introduced, all in response to a prom…
The system I no longer know by heart – Anton Sten
When an agent does much of the production work, I stop knowing the design system by heart. The knowledge has to move out of my head and into the system.
Alice GG • The slopocalypse survival guide
Slop is without a doubt everywhere.Be it in restaurant’s menus, music playlists, or online game storefronts, it is now impossible to escape it.Yet, I’ve neve...
The Counting House
Why don't we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? - The Old New Thing
Hurry up and wait.
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 …