Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash | Microsoft AI
Coding models are most useful when they perform well in the same environment developers use every day. That is why we built MAI-Code-1-Flash with production workflows at the center, rather than optimizing only for benchmarks. The model was trained directly wit…
Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century
Gmail Thinks I'm Stupid, So I Left
Gmail's rapid descent into belittling their users, powered by AI.
A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
coveillance.org
Adafruit Industries - Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
electronics, open source hardware, hacking and more...
GitHub - cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more....
So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet.
Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory…
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move fa…
Tokens are the new transistors
The teams that win the next decade are the ones building as if tokens are already free and infinite
Why I dropped PRDs for ShapeUp — Luke Swithenbank
Why I dropped spec-driven development for ShapeUp, and how splitting decision clarity in two changed how we ship.
Justin Higgins — jchigg ~ dev
Software engineer, 20 years in regulated enterprise. Building at the seam between AI-assisted engineering and how that work gets recognized.
The older I get the more I've taken note of what's stayed consistent in my life and I gotta say it ain't much. Accompanying this thought was "How have I stayed consistent for others as time moves forward?" and I gotta say I haven't.
Hardening VS Code extensions
My approach to managing VS Code extensions.
One of the more common reactions I hear when engineers first encounter a message broker in a service-to-service communication context is that it feels like overengineering. Why introduce Kafka or RabbitMQ when a plain HTTP call does the same job with less infr…
Beyond Tokenmaxxing
Measuring leverage, not consumption
The True Expense of Nature
An exploration of Nature's endeavor (and yours) to expend as little effort as possible.
May 30, 2026
Sloppy & Paste
Or "How I Learned To Keep Worrying And Just Do It Myself"
The "Stop Killing Games" movement is making progress with the advancement of California AB 1921, a bill designed to stop developers from permanently bricking games when they shut down their servers. If you're a gamer who has watched a …
Friction Was the Point — Hisham Thabet
AI may not replace us through competition, but through attrition — the slow erosion of the friction that makes us capable.
The Axis That Made the Chips
The Netherlands built its first computer in Amsterdam in 1952, moved the thinking to Eindhoven, and produced ASML. That line is history. It is also a blueprint.
Most current AI coding tools are steering users into tokenmaxxing and re-generating software from scratch, in complete ignorance of the vast amounts of publicly available, human-validated software that can be combined and modded in powerful ways to address 99%…
Growth Isn't About Doing Everything
I follow a simple flow of questions that helps me stay focused, improve consistently, and make incremental impact at workplace. I'm never running around like a headless chicken. Here are the questions I ask myself, and answer honestly, like really true to its …
Code review assumes an author
Code review assumes the person who opened the PR understands the code. Agentic development breaks that assumption. A look at why, not a fix.
Unblocked — Martín Granados García
How Claude Code unstuck a stale Swift side project, porting Next Train to the web in about an hour, and what two weeks of vibecoding taught me about AI as a creativity unblocker.
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network.1 Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
Every byte matters
I have spent a large portion of my career working in Java. In that time, you get used to huge classes. New functionality? Just add a new method and field to the class. The cost of each new field is rarely considered. Performance is often considered from a clas…
Big decisions are a myth. They are a long chain of small choices, and the skill is making your mistakes cheap rather than rare.
What actually runs well on a 16 GB MacBook — Prasad Khake
Honest local-LLM benchmarks on a base M3, 16 GB — tokens/sec, peak RAM, and exactly where it hits the wall. The numbers nobody publishes because they run on H100s.
I’m finding myself thinking longer about the code I write and the features that get developed, than I did before the agentic coding era.
I've recently been looking for work, and I've been getting hung up a lot on application forms. About 3/4 of the time, there's a litany of questions sitting between
It's not easy to prioritize human connection in a world where there's a constant war for our attention, but the ROI for authentic human connection will always win.
a/s/l/threat model?
Vector Storage Costs: S3, OpenSearch, pgvector, Pinecone
Discover the true cost of vector storage: S3 Vectors, OpenSearch, pgvector, and Pinecone. Dive into real workloads and find the best fit for your needs.
Story Points: Explicit, Honest, Predictable. Already in Use. – Daniil Bastrich
Every time a software estimate is inflated to absorb uncertainty and daily overhead, it stops measuring actual time and turns into a messy abstraction. Once your "hours" and "days" become a proxy for effort rather than the clock, you are already using Story Po…
After a year of using Niri, I’m probably going back to Sway - here is why. Out of sight, out of mind When you open four new terminal windows on Niri, you quite literally don’t see the consequences. If you leave those windows at their default sizes (half screen…