Today's links

Siege Engine

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs - Apple Support

Apple is blocking the compromised certificates automatically. Mac administrators can take optional steps for some command-line tools.

Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox

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 Code? | rizwan

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.

Caveats of iPad Mini

A year of living with the iPad Mini as a companion device — the quirks, limits, and niche use cases

Why is it so expensive to send an email?

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

The good old days

Jev and the Art of Truth Maintenance

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

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

Iterating Backwards in C

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.

The software factory forgot about design

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.

Interviewing for a CTV Product Manager role: what I asked as an engineer

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.

GPT-6.1 Terra

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 …

Unit tests mark territory more than squash bugs

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…

What If My Mum Can Build It Too? | Justin Campbell-Platt

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 3.4.0 released

Gram release 3.4.0

Don't be a tech bro

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.

A quote from Jason Koebler

Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to …

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Delivering fast and capable computer use at scale

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

Meta staff are holding the Big Tech company’s leadership accountable for decisions they say could compromise the credibility of the democratic process.

CSS-Tricks has a new owner! | CSS-Tricks

Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that.

Websites Should Be Printable

I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whit…

Simple NetBSD webserver

Thoughts and notes on tech stuff

What Would Happen?

What happens if you plug a male-to-male electrical cord into two outlets? Dave shows you the four most common scenarios, plus the "right" way to accomplish it! Pecron Power Station: https://link.amazon/B0hcD9oMF Example Interlock Kit: https://link.amazon/B0d…

Puzzling out why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer - The Old New Thing

Mimicking the operation more accurately.

Build Your Own Reasoning Model: A Full Video Course

Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.

Blocks — Die Schweiz 1:1 in Minecraft

41'285 km², ein Block pro Meter, aus swisstopo-Daten.

Anthropic, PBC - S-1 (Q2)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, 2026.

TitleArt — Make text like it’s 1997

Every classic WordArt style, shape and 3-D effect, in your browser.

Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language

This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig.

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat