I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13 Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, ...
How to keep thinking Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible:
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission - NASA Science Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
There's a bug in the Economy, and Fable found it. - Wilsons Blog So, these AI models have been pretty good at finding bugs and exploits in all sorts of code. Not only that, they’ve managed to prove quite a bit of maths, from insignificant to quite significant. Maybe one might doubt the significance of those findings, b...
Cookie Law for Robots Cookie law turned consent into a ceremony instead of a choice. AI policy risks repeating the mistake if disclosure becomes its main measure of human agency.
What happens to our blogs when we die? Does anyone want to read my dumb blog after I'm dead? Hell if I know, but I want to give my family the opportunity.
What is a product? - One more thing It is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?
Claude Code self-improved on business workflows through conversation, not memories · Andrew Jesson Claude Code self-improved on business workflows through conversation, not memories
The Complexity We Choose | Frazik AI can help us write more software, but our real opportunity is to make software simpler to understand, verify, and own.
A Subtle Web of Meaning - Robert Simoes Sitting inside the Sheraton Hotel Lobby in Toronto, waiting to attend my flight , a man entered the lobby in a frantic state.
Degrees of wealth - Jaap Grolleman In eight years of living in China, taxi drivers or older colleagues loved to ask, “Which is better, the Netherlands or China?”, hoping for a single insightful answer that would explain everything. And now, back as a resident in the Netherlands, people ask...
How to throw a LAN party in 2026 A practical guide to hosting a home LAN party in 2026. Covers networking, power, seating, game selection, file sharing, and food for groups of 5 to 32 players.
Fact Extraction Head to Head — Rakuen Software Thirty-two local model runs over the same 1,001 notes, with every ordering claim tested. Six consecutive steps down the leaderboard are noise, the top two cannot be told apart, and the column that decides the choice is not the score.
The End of No Code - exe.dev blog Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.
When deny doesn't win A practical guide to precise Claude Code permissions, containment-based carve-outs, and the limits of a shell-aware hook.
We lost reading We lost reading. In the advent of GenAI we are all worried about losing the writing. Software developers write less code than ever.
An Agentic IDE That Builds Itself bb is an open-source agentic IDE with an extension system that lets every install adapt to its user.
We got model fusion at home In this chunk I’m going to document a little OpenCode1 setup that uses multiple (well, two in this case but your plan is your limit) LLMs to review a GitHub pull request. It’s a simple exercise in fusing multiple different models to perform a task and can...
When Intelligence Is Not the Bottleneck: 100 Public Substack Articles | Jack Maguire A coded corpus of 100 public Substack articles arguing that AI capability is no longer the binding constraint, and what the authors say is instead.
Your API Is Not Your MCP Tool How to design MCP tools that agents actually use well. Tool count, parameter naming, enums over booleans, context hygiene, and what the 2026-07-28 spec changes for tool definitions.
I'm Building a Software Factory That Turns My Issues Into Merged Code I'm building a software factory that turns planned GitHub issues into merged code, so my side project time goes to planning instead of writing the code myself.
Everyone Who Will Ever Be Born | Gary Robinson and Virtual Development August 10, 2026 The breakthrough at the Pell Institute for the Physics of Experience came from inverting the oldest assumption in science. For four centuries ph
Encrypted advertising recommendations What if a recommendation engine could know exactly what to show you, without knowing anything about you?
AI Model & API Providers Analysis | Artificial Analysis Comparison and analysis of AI models and API hosting providers. Independent benchmarks across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed & latency.
