5 February 2026

26 links · Thursday

Claude Opus 4.6

We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

Getting the main thing right

When you’re running a project in a tech company, understanding that your main job is to ship the project goes a surprisingly long way. So many engineers spend their time on peripheral questions (like the choice of technology X or Y) when core questions about s…

OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been

Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI ag…

Why do we use async-await in our Code

In the project I am currently working on, we inherited a codebase written in an older version of .NET Framework. The ASP.NET part of it was still using synchronous controller methods. This wasn’t changed for a long time because, why bother if it works? Then, s…

Claude Didn’t Kill Craftsmanship — Mergify

AI doesn't remove craftsmanship: it moves it. The goal was never to protect the purity of the saw. It's to build good furniture. Engineers can now focus on intent, judgment, and product quality instead of translating tickets into code.

Karim Shehadeh - Craftsmanship vs. Abstraction

We remake ourselves over our lifetime, usually as a result driven by personal change. Sometimes it comes from shifts in our own lives, and sometimes from inspiration we feel compelled to pursue. Either way, it tends to be localized to an individual journey. Wh…

How Virtual Textures Really Work · shlom.dev

Virtual texturing is not about supporting larger textures, but about aligning memory residency with what can actually be visible on screen. This article explains the system end-to-end, from addressing to feedback and residency decisions.

Striking a Balance: Working Fully Remote for Nearly a Decade

Recently, I was chatting with an engineer who was transitioning into a fully remote role for the first time in their career. They were excited, but also had a touch of anxiety about it. For someone who had spent their entire career in the familiar commute → of…

Client-Side Encrypted Posts in Jekyll

I’ve been wanting to write more personal things on this site. Not everything needs to be public, but I still want the convenience of having it all in one place - searchable, linkable, backed up in git. So I built client-side encryption into thi...

Going Back to the Physical World

Our world is quickly becoming a digital one. We now spend more time looking at pixels than at real things.