13 July 2026

26 links ยท Monday

Salience-Driven Development

Every big idea feels right in the moment. Six months later, no one asks what happened to it. Why teams that chase salience end up spinning their wheels.

The leakiest of abstractions — var0.xyz

Every abstraction leaks. GraphQL is the only one I know that leaks in both directions: out to the frontend and back into the backend.

I stopped destructuring everything - Matt Smith

I used destructuring every object in JavaScript. Here's why keeping objects intact often makes code easier to read, debug, and maintain.

CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk

A simple memory model for structuring docs in a Claude Code project, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.

Eliyahu Gluschove-Koppel

I was in the middle of writing yet another job application (#internship-grind) when one of friends messaged me telling I should just use an LLM to write it for me. My immediate response, as it is to most LLM related things, was “AAAAAAAA ughhhhhh I have feelin…

Friendship is an Exponential Function

The best friendships are the ones that happen, not because of scheduled time, but in spite of it.

The GPU Is the New Storage Controller | Murat Karslioglu

For 40 years, the CPU decided what gets read from storage, when, and where it lands in memory. AI inference is breaking that model. The GPU now knows what data it needs next, and routing that request through the CPU is pure overhead. GPU-initiated I/O is the a…

SMS Pumping Fraud

Introduction While working on PicPocket, we had a development server online that was connected to our Twilio account with $5 worth of balance, which was used for SMS authentication during user registration. While one of our developers was testing some things o…

Cyberattacks Are Becoming Compute Wars

As compute scales, so does the number of agents that can attack and defend. Agent wars are compute wars, and compute wars are chip and energy wars.

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue lin…