Ultimate Minesweeper
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Text Is My Gimmick
Reflections on the stillness of writing
Alex Caza | Feeling lost
I'm bullish on AI, but I also feel this pull to leave tech behind entirely, and I've been struggling to figure out why. This is my attempt to crystallize my feelings.
Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.
GitHub - yc-software/qm: Multiplayer agent harness for work
Multiplayer agent harness for work. Contribute to yc-software/qm development by creating an account on GitHub.
How I Accidentally Became the DevOps Guy
My experience while moving our products from Render, Vercel, and Supabase to AWS.Somewhere between Terraform, IAM, deployments, and database failures, I accidentally became the DevOps guy.
Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted
Leaders are often conflicted people. Marcus Aurelius wrote about the common humanity of all rational beings in "Meditations" while commanding invasions. Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as morally wrong, yet his "pa...
Just brute force your embeddings
Sure its not fancy, but you might save operational headaches by just brute-forcing vector search for a small enough corpus
Progressive Web Components
Introducing Elena, a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.
Authorize, don’t authenticate
Hold on to your data by keeping it in your own database
My model scored perfect and that was the problem
A perfect held-out score measured one thing: whether the model could repeat what it had seen. Of 30 cross-family tests, 20 fell below a crude baseline.
Data's hierarchy of needs revisited
Updating data’s hierarchy of needs with org foundations and automated decisions. Neglect the base, and the top still fails.
Who has the funniest name?
During my weekly trivia night (shoutout to our host Ryan), I was enlightened with the knowledge that there once lived a man by the name Preserved Fish. I of course also recalled the famed mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. I endeavoured to find the person w…
No more asking 'who are you'; we have all been reduced to a passphras - Josh Brody
Lose your account, lose your life.
Remote – Text Clad
Let's make the worst htmx ever!
Learning how htmx works by building one from scratch.
Polynomial Trajectory Optimization for Quadrotors
Why quadrotors minimize snap from first principles, and why obstacle-free waypoints don't guarantee an obstacle-free trajectory.
Three Claude Skills I Think Every Org Should Have
A company runs smoothly when people can get stuff done without hunting for information. What actually wears people out day to day is not the hard engineering problem. It is not knowing which ticket to file, which team to bug on Slack, or what invisible step st…
The Young Are Richer Than You Think · Avy Faingezicht
Millennials and Gen Z have more wealth than the generational story would have you believe, especially near the top of the distribution. Yes, inflation adjusted.
JW Labs Research
JW Labs research post.
AFS II: PLEASE stop invocating KISS and DRY
This is part of the AFS (Acronym Fatigue Series) I’m working on. If you haven’t, please read the introduction first to understand why I’m wary of acronyms here. DRY = Don’t Repeat Yourself KISS = Keep it simple[,] stupid (some add the comma some don’t) Note:…
The End of an Era - Hugh Howey
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial…
Main Span
Elevators
How elevators push your buttons
Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era
Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.
Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple…
Mike English - The Cloudflare Blog
July 31, 2026
The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
Inference APIs are filling sessions with encrypted reasoning, hidden search results, opaque compaction, and encrypted subagent messages. A growing form of lock-in.
Change Log | DeepSeek API Docs
Date: 2026-07-31
AI models need moral support to make discoveries
One recent development in AI is its ability to solve some long-standing problems in mathematics. In 2024 and 2025, this was a trickle: once or twice a year somebody would say that an LLM came up with a proof, and then everyone would argue over whether that cou…
The AI Aesthetic
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
GitHub - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish: Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop
Agent skill: make LLMs write docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — no AI slop - AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
BI Slop
You must use the tool. We must justify it. These aren't the words companies use, but that's what it comes down to. When you buy an expensive solution before you've clearly identified the problem, you