How others build agent memory, and what I took from each | Falconer Notes
ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Letta have each built production memory systems for AI agents. Looking at the differences shaped how I built agent signals for Falconer.
Now that my photos and emails have been relocated to Europe, it's time to move my credentials too. Bitwarden has been my password manager for many years. ...
GenZ Neoengineers
I’ve started to notice a trend in some of the students I have met through university, a handful that have decided to get really good at software engineering. It is almost hard to describe, but these students have a degree of confidence in their work that remin…
Mulling out loud (and defending) why I think coding agents are here to stay, just as IDEs came to be as well.
Combining LLMs with traditional AI to solve new problems in minutes for pennies
Patrick - What's missing in CSS layout
An interpretation of the pain points and missing features which developers face with CSS layout, based on the 2025 State of CSS survey and a mini survey I ran on social media.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifier · Adam Wiggins
I built a machine learning pipeline for email triage. Includes a hand-labeled golden set, training the model in the browser, and evals. Plus options for local vs cloud embeddings.
Pete Doherty is a NYC based software developer
A practical guide to filing your taxes on Elster as an app developer in Germany, covering the three forms you need to submit every year.
Let Equals Equal Equals
Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root. The spec broke `=` to preserve encapsulation purity. This violates the Priority of Constituencies, harms AT users, and should be fixed immediately. Refere…
The Art Of Keeping Business Logic Honest — JustSteveKing
Use state machines and workflow engines in Laravel to keep business rules explicit, auditable, and resilient across async processes.
Reflection in programming is the ability for a program to introspect its own datastructures and procedures, either at compile time or at run time. This is a key building block of metaprogramming. This is frequently used for automatically generating serializati…
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The Spec Is the New Source Code
How coding agents changed the way I think about source code, specs, PRDs, and the developer's role in building software.
The end of free tokens
In 2018 I took an UberPool across Manhattan for $1.78, cheaper than the subway. Today the same ride is about $20 and nobody is surprised. Last month ccusage estimated I burned $5,098.85 of Claude tokens on a $200 plan. Three reasons it is finally coming for AI…
We can embrace the magic of technology without fear by looking for inspiration from a previous generation of technology.
What happens to a gift economy when the gift gets cheap?
A hypothesis from The Cathedral and the Bazaar: the thing to watch isn't whether code is abundant, but whether the makers are.
Until macOS 26.4, Archive Utility had nearly unrestricted filesystem access. Combined with a drag-and-drop sandbox quirk, this let an attacker bypass App Sandbox data containers, Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections, and hijack third-party apps…
Bryan Mansell built the largest personal LEGO Star Wars collection in history. Over $200,000 worth of sets. Bricks & Minifigs is trying to steal his collection.
Empirical saved my ass.
First-person incident report on recovering lost frontend work by querying Empirical memory, locating an unreachable WIP commit, and restoring the missing public-site redesign. Empirical saved my ass.
Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket
In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest:
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.
AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
Dave explains the benefits and responsibilities of autism in the workforce, with a focus on industrial scenarios.
Beyond Benchmarks: Frontier LLM Disagreement on Fact-Checks
67% of real-world claims expose disagreement among the five top frontier LLMs. Methodology, breakdowns, and data CSV.
Pooch from Repkord dropped by my studio while he was in St. Louis, and asked a simple question: Can a 3D printer's heatbed act as an antenna? A fair question, as many an antenna is embedded in a PCB these days... and the traces on a PCB heatbed like the one us…
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I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly…
So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with …
SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry, here's a complete guide to a perfect game of SimCity 3000 on modern Windows:...