19 March 2026

30 links · Thursday

Astral to join OpenAI

Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.

Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents

After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes. From 2010 to 2019, rents in Austin increased nearly 93%—mor…

Too Much Color

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

You Have to Earn Your Calculator

On the temptation of LLMs, and why sometimes you still need to do the work by hand.

We are building gods

How agentic AI moves from tool to trusted authority to what?

bertolami

Joe Bertolami's portfolio and blog covering artificial intelligence, game development, computer graphics, data compression, and more.

I Miss Coding

Coding agents have transformed my work at Google. But even if I keep my job, I don't enjoy this new role. I used to love figuring out the 'how.' Now the agent does it, and doing it myself is just inefficient.

30 Days. Then Gone.

An open source website that ceases to exist on April 17, 2026. Fork it. Add to it. Leave your mark.

The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo

Remembering the PC market Almost 10 years ago I said “Managing the Mac product line must be one of the most challenging problems at Apple. That may not be obvious given the product’s success.…

Product has always been the bottleneck, it’s just clearer now

If you’ve been doing engineering in a big enough company for a while now, you are probably aware of the process most companies with a substantial number of people use. Engineers wait for the go ahead to build some product that management has identified to solv…

Building a Personal Mnemonics Bot - We launch on Friday

Every now and then I encounter a new word that I’ve never heard before. Or need to memorize the shopping list, a phone number, a date, or a fact. In school I didn’t have any system to do that other than just read the information as many times as needed for it …

Just one more prompt | Tao Bojlén

I love coding with AI. I often have several parallel agents, across multiple projects, running off on various coding errands for me. Like Craig Mod, I’m software bonkers: I just can’t stop building software.

Claude Code's poor time awareness

From some of my interactions with Claude Code1 so far I’ve noticed that it seems to have a pretty glaring issue: it doesn’t really have a good sense of time-tracking built into it. Because of this, Claude2 misses good choices that would help it finish some tas…