Our commitment to Windows quality
Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th
Today I posted a video titled The best laptop Apple ever made, and tl;dw1 it's the 11" MacBook Air. I acknowledge in the video my pick is slightly subjective, and I also asked a number of other YouTubers which Mac laptop they consider the best (or at least mos…
Exploring Claude Code Hooks with the Coding Agent Explorer (.NET)
Ever wondered what Claude Code is actually doing while it works? Every file it reads, every command it runs, every permission it requests. Claude Code exposes all of this through a hook system that lets you intercept and observe each step. In this post, you’ll…
Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the new AutoMapper High Severity vulnerability that can crash…
Why Is Everyone Supposed to Die If Machines Can Think?
If you only listen to spokespersons for AI companies, you'll have a skewed view of how AI is actually being integrated into the workplace. You probably don't need to convince a developer to include it
GitHub - cockpit-project/cockpit: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. - cockpit-project/cockpit
Push events into a running session with channels - Claude Code Docs
Use channels to push messages, alerts, and webhooks into your Claude Code session from an MCP server. Forward CI results, chat messages, and monitoring events so Claude can react while you're away.
Safety Impact
We're voluntarily sharing our safety data to demonstrate how the Waymo Driver is making roads safer in the places we currently operate. See the stats.
the quadratic problem nobody fixed | ian erik varatalu
I Mass-Deleted My MCP Servers. Here's What I Use Instead.
MCP servers burn your most valuable resource: context. I replaced mine with skills and CLI tools. Same capabilities, a fraction of the overhead.
God forbid you want to convert an image. If you do, you have two broad choices. You can be blessed with the knowledge that your computer knows how to …
Minecraft Source Code is Interesting! · KJ
A corner of the internet where I think in public.
Capacity Is the Roadmap
Most roadmap problems are capacity problems. Make investment buckets visible, budget interrupts, and force trade-offs into the open.
How Orca Works: A High-Performance Crossword Filler
A deep dive into Orca's constraint-propagation crossword filler.
How I run two Claude Code agents in parallel using git worktrees, plan mode, and custom hooks — and what changes downstream when agents do the bulk of the implementation.
Posted 2026-03-19
<p>How a sign-extension bug in C made me pull my hair out for days but became my first patch to the Linux kernel!</p>
Wayland has been a broad misdirection and misallocation of time and developer resources at the expense of users. With more migration from other operating systems, the pressure to fix fundamental problems has become more prominent. After 17 years of development…
PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP and prevent reuse in third-party SPICE simulators. The encryption scheme is proprietary and undocumented.
At work I’m often considered to be the go-to person for questions of software licenses. The latest one was customers wanting to upload HEIC images into the software.
We're Writing Grammar Before the Language Exists
Six agent protocols in eighteen months, all designed by humans. But agents can think. The best coordination pattern might be one no human approves.
A couple of weeks ago Dan Shapiro's blog post " The 5 Levels" (about Agentic Engineering) did the rounds. He coined Level 5 the "Dark Softw...
Young Adults Are Not Very Happy - Probably Overthinking It
Since 1972, the General Social Survey has asked respondents: “Taken all together, how would you say things are these days—would you say that you are very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” The following figure shows how the responses have changed over tim…
The latest episode of ATP included a discussion about MacOS 27 dropping support for Intel Macs and MacOS 28 (partially?) dropping support for running intel binaries. I have been curious about this, so did some Wikipedia diving and put this post together.
Why I Don’t Drive
A reflection on a car-free life-—the real tradeoffs, the barometer it provides for community equity, and why to travel slow.
Writing an operating system from scratch is something I always wanted to do, and last year, I started working on MONOLITH, an operating system meant to make my dream true.
Thoughts on “The Machine Stops”
I was recently reminded of “The Machine Stops”, the 1909 short story by E. M. Forster. (It’s out of copyright, so it’s available on Project Gutenberg for free. If you haven’t read it …
It’s no secret that by now, most home networks use WPA-Personal. Why? It’s a simple password. This included mine. Well, until today.
Apple now rejects Mac App Store updates that use Accessibility permission. Whisper Notes moved to DMG to keep system-wide Fn voice typing. Free license for App Store purchasers.
Talent is Not Rare - Tasshin
What if we assumed everyone is talented? That everyone has some gift to give?
Encoding engineering principles in AI workflows
Maybe version ranges are a good idea after all?
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in security, is that it’s always better to push security problems back to the source as much as possible. For example, a small number of experts (hope…
An open source simulator based on the classic game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.