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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits t...
Google Is Closing Android. 37 Orgs Are Fighting Back. Almost 40 organizations, including Techlore, published an open letter to Google opposing Android Developer Verification, a program that would require all developers to register with Google before distributing apps on Android starting September 2026. Befor...
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13th Year of Blogging I've been blogging for 13 years. So much has changed, yet everything is the same. The only thing AI cannot replicate is longevity. Plant your seeds right now.
Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor Thoughts on an experiment that I've been running for about a month.
Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering I gave a guest lecture on AI in Michael Hilton’s Foundations of Software Engineering course (CMU 17-313) today. One of my favorite things about lecturing is the conversations that happen afterward, the ones that go in directions nobody planned.
Optimizing for understanding When code review is the biggest bottleneck, you need to optimize for understanding.
Signals, the push-pull based algorithm — Willy Brauner We have been using Signals in production for years via several modern front-end frameworks like Solid, Vue, and others, but few of us are able to explain how they work internally. I wanted to dig into it, especially diving deep into the push-pull based al...
Kasava - The Agentic Platform for Product Engineers Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and ship with AI-powered chat, call analysis, and plan generation.
Why You (Probably) Don't Need Static Typing in Rails Static typing in Ruby sounds appealing — but good naming conventions get you 80% of the benefits with none of the overhead. No gems, no annotations, no build step.
Paste clipboard images into Claude Code over SSH Claude Code can read images, but not when you're connected over SSH. claude-ssh-image-skill bridges that gap with a local daemon, a Go client, and an SSH reverse tunnel.
Reading leaked Claude Code source code Interesting findings from reading 132,000 lines of TypeScript that power Claude Code. The post uses the repo at https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code to reference code, note that it might go down by the time you are reading this.
The Struggle is What We Crave On the death of web dev communities, the callouses that made us better, and why eliminating struggle might be the worst thing we've ever built.
Speed Is Only Useful If You're Going in the Right Direction — Matthew Boston Velocity is a vector — it has magnitude and direction. AI tools make it trivially easy to build the wrong thing fast. The bottleneck was never typing speed; it was always understanding.
Why Are There So Many Dead Posts on Hacker News | Kruno Golubić Some platforms are silently banned on Hacker News. Your posts go dead and you never know. If this matters to you, here's what you can do about it.
Birthday Slideshow | Joe IQ Throwing a birthday party for yourself is the perfect way to get your favorite people in one room. And while guests have a great time during the party, the joy doesn’t stop when it’s over: they’re still raving about your slideshow days later. What slidesh...
Agent Frameworks Are Getting Squeezed AI labs are building down into orchestration. Automation platforms are building up into reasoning. Agent frameworks are caught in a compression event from both sides.
I Am a Cross-Cutting Concern — Scott Lawson Everything I've built in the last decade lives in one repo. Not because the projects are related, but because I am.
Very small engines One of the interesting things to contemplate is the scale of the internal combustion engine. It’s a very human scale device; pistons the size of fists, Valves about as wide as knuckles. It…
DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going ov...
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon (Official Broadcast) Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.
