14 March 2026

20 links · Saturday

You Digg?

Digg was just opened to the public in January 2026. After facing a swarm of AI bots, they decided to shutdown once more. I will mourn them in peace again.

Your Phone is an Entire Computer

The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.

Big tech engineers need big egos

It’s a common position among software engineers that big egos have no place in tech1. This is understandable - we’ve all worked with some insufferably overconfident engineers who needed their egos checked - but I don’t think it’s correct. In fact, I don’t know…

Agentic Abuse at Tech Jobs

The classic anti-patterns at tech jobs are back, newly evolved for the early agentic AI era. As the machines get smarter, the humans are doubling down on bad strategies that never worked before and wo

README, Don't AGENTS.md Me

This is the place where I rant that the AGENTS.md pattern is a distraction and slows down your software development. The software engineering industry has had a standard of adding a README.md file to the root of projects and also the root of an...

Undefined Roles | AndiSmith.com

With the acceleration of AI, the traditional boundaries between product, engineering and UX are collapsing.

Our Experience with i-Ready

When you chose a school, you probably didn’t realize you were also choosing educational software.

Scale is absolutely Broken

Explore the terrifying symmetry of scale—from the "not-space" beyond the universe to the infinite canyons inside an atom. Learn how axioms and fortune don't just add; they compound at an exponential rate, building a momentum that eventually moves on its own. I…