28 January 2026

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SMB1 Web Gameplay

Standard gameplay (Beginner / Advanced / Expert).

Everyone's okay with their AI, just not yours

There's a strange contradiction happening in tech right now. Companies are forcing employees to integrate AI into their workflows, celebrating productivity gains and AI-assisted everything. Yet when j

Amutable

Amutable: A New Secure Foundation

Swarm Coordinators are the Next Big Thing

We're moving up the abstraction stack again. The bottleneck is shifting from writing code to orchestrating agent swarms. The new elite skill is not typing faster-it's thinking clearer.

InitCoder

My everyday work does not involve editing or compiling videos. However, a not-for-profit community project [1] my wife and I work on just completed two years of its existence. We received several ‘happy birthday’ messages from the community members and what th…

Debug TUIs with tmux // JM BLOG

Use tmux to visualize and interact with Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) like nvim, lazygit, debuggers, and REPLs. This creates a feedback loop that allows Claude to "see" and "control" interactive applications.

Teammates, not coworkers

Company culture is important. One aspect that particularly affects people's day-to-day life is whether, as a friend said, they have "teammates, not coworkers". This post explores the distinction.

How Many Chess Games are Possible?

How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and ch…

Software Pump and Dump

A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026

The consequences of outsourcing thinking

When I set out to study mathematics more than 10 years ago, it was initially very difficult. Not having practiced much mathematical thinking since my university days, there was an enormous amount of upfront struggle where I simply had to sit with frustration a…

doin' it all with 555s

For April First, a guide to replace everything with 555 ICs.

Good Citizen Syndrome

When skilled engineers constantly fill gaps in process and standards, it can mask weak reliability strategy.

joke-generator

kimi k2 tuned to generate jokes with rubric RL

My Journey Towards Coding Agents: Building SERA — Tim Dettmers

If you look at how people cook coding agents today, they have an industrial kitchen: large-scale reinforcement learning systems with many components for efficiency spanning hundreds of GPUs, complex repository mixing, and large teams working on all angles to o…

~fpereiro

For the AI brutes like yours truly, a LLM is only two things: its weights (which is what comes out of its training) and the context you provide to it so that you get a good answer. The context is the question you ask to the model, and accompanying data you pre…

How I manage tasks in 2026

For five years, I had been loyal to Things for task management. It was clean, simple, and just worked.