11 April 2026

38 links · Saturday

The Center Has a Bias

Why a measured position on AI tends to lean towards actually trying it.

Why GEO Is Not Enough

Most companies think GEO solves agentic commerce. It doesn't. Here's what the full stack actually looks like.

If not LLMs, what should I work on?

A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

AGI is here - Part 2

See the original article here. The argument was simple: measured against eight prominent definitions, AGI is already here. Which is precisely the problem - if everything qualifies in some way, the definitions aren't measuring anything, and the real question sh…

Your friends are hiding their best ideas from you

Back in college, the final project in our JavaScript class was to build a website. We were a group of four, and we built the best website in class. It was for a restaurant called the Coral Reef. We fo

I Already Lost This Once

AI is stripping meaning from developers' careers. My body stripped it from mine years ago. I've been where they are, and the craft survived.

The anatomy of DESIGN.md | TypeUI

Learn more about the design.md file and how to integrate these design skills into your project and leverage AI when building user interfaces

~fpereiro

A number of programmers, me included, feel that sometime between 2025 and 2026, we lost our craft. We used to write our own code by hand. The arrival of powerful LLM models and coding agents built upon them has shifted us from writers of code to managers and r…

Deconstructing a Black Hole

An interactive deep dive into the WebGL fragment shader behind a procedural black hole animation. Simplex noise, domain warping, and GLSL, explained from first principles.

A Type System for Management

In my book Rusty Engineering Management I meander to a point I make explicitly here: There is a type system for engineering management and all you need to understand it is Rust’s borrow-checker.

Mind Mind Game Game

There is another element which is missing, or drawn into the other two: games of mind. "Bluff" would be another term, or "second-guessing". Poker is chance, but the real game is convincing other players what chance has befallen you -- and this may have nothing…

Rolling your own crypto can make sense (sometimes)

A couple of months ago, I took on the endeavour to add support for the Noise handshake into Quincy, for easier user identity handling and some anti-detection benefits. This took me down the rabbit hol…

Are digital twin frameworks following good coding practices?

Digital twin is a virtual copy of a physical system or object that helps to understand and analyze the behavior of the system. It uses real-time data from sensors, IoT devices, and digital input devices in order to monitor, analyse, visualise, and simulate the…

Train Your Judgement

Settling for good enough is not good enough.