29 links from the last 24 hours · 28 October 2026
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 …
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.