Khronos Announces glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension
Today, The Khronos Group, announces a release candidate for the…
AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging it's …
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Why “Skip the Code, Ship the Binary” Is a Category Error
Elon Musk says AI will make programming languages obsolete by 2026. The compiler pipeline already does what he’s describing, deterministically, in milliseconds.
Programming is free
A college student on his spring break contacted me for a meeting. At the time, I had my own startup and was navigating the world of startup school with Y Combinator and the publicity from TechCrunch.
Magnus Carlsen wins 2026 FIDE Freestyle World Championship – International Chess Federation
Kévin (@knowmadd@mastodon.world)
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.
Coding at the speed of thought
Thinking is becoming the new bottleneck in coding
One server. Small business.
More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secur…
Attempt to hike Afghanistan
Deutsch unten – täglicher Bericht auf PolarSteps! 中文下边 – PolarSteps 每日报告 ! I’m often asked why I don’t walk directly to Singapore via India, but instead take a huge…
Why I built Mu | Mu
Mu is an app platform without ads, algorithms or tracking. It attempts to remove the addictive behaviours or intrusive usury of advertising found in m
When interfaces become disposable | Chris Loy
I recently became a parent for the first time, as my wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy into our lives in January of this year.
Can agentic coding raise the quality bar? | Luca Palmieri
Five examples of using agentic coding to improve software quality, instead of delivery throughput.
Learnings from attending Pragmatic Summit
I attended Pragmatic Summit this past Wednesday hosted by Gergely Orosz. As with all things tech right now, the main (and really only) topic is AI. Thankfully the attendees are all active professionals working in tech, the discussions are grounded in hands-on …
The Prompt of Babel — Joe McLean
I am a librarian, of the 192nd arm of the 168th branch of the 14th floor and the third hallway of the Great Library. I record this message as a trace, as I slip into obsession, with hope that perhaps the record will hold value, either to me or the Machine befo…
Death of the Certified Expert
AI agents are displacing companies whose business model is selling expertise in complex software.
Using Claude for spellchecking and grammar
On the pytest discord channel Sviatoslav mentioned a pull request with a bunch of spelling and grammar fixes. We had a discussion about the morality of not disclosing that it was an AI driven pull request up front, but what was pretty clear was that the qualit…
Experiments with voice control on Linux
My experiments with writing small dictation tools for Linux
Bertolami.com
Saturday, February 7th, 2026
Why I
Shipping new features for users and watching them gobble it up is the greatest Joy of being a coder. I quit my day job to bootstrap a SaaS to maximize this Joy in my life. I didn't expect Joy to wane and wither away by year 7. While it's been supplanted by oth…
We Need Apocalypse-Proof Software - alavi.me
We need software that works in dire situation. Also, here are some tools for those situations.
The second half of the chessboard
When I was young, my neighbour made me an offer: start at 1 and double it for every square on a chessboard. If I made it to the end of the board he’d give me...
The New Ballmer Peak
What happens to the Ballmer Peak when you prompt instead of code
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.