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The next chapter of our AI momentum
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
Antiques Roadshow
The Job Board Is Lying to You | NaN's Blog
I spent two years working for myself. When I went back to the job market, I found that most postings are AI data funnels in disguise. Finding a real job felt like digging through a landfill.
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.
Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration
Discovery Loop is building AI systems that automate the experimental loops of science and engineering. Continuous Exploration.
Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houd…
Hartwork Blog · libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
For readers new to Expat:
Pi, Minimal and Performant | EARENDIL
How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.
Maybe Software Stops Being the Default | sgnt.ai
I used to write little translators for my bank exports. Then ChatGPT wrote them. Now nobody writes them: I hand an agent the file. As agents get better at following instructions, more tasks stop needing durable, task-specific software at all.
A computer can never be held accountable | jola.dev
For better or for worse the things you create with LLMs are your responsibility, just like with any other tool.
Anthropic Hates Developers | Josh Symonds
Personal site of Josh Symonds - software engineer, consultant, and creator
Do not use OVHcloud for production services
Summary Two failures of OVHcloud’s control plane took a single VPS offline within four days. Neither originated inside the guest. Neither could be fully …
The Hard Parts Of Context Compaction - Benito Lopez
A practical explanation of context compaction in a coding agent, when to prune tool outputs, how summaries are created, and what can go wrong.
How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.
Establishing A Career Framework
A short guide on how to establish a career framework in your engineering organisation.
I Am a Worshipper of Great Machines
I am a worshipper of great Machines. I am a tentacle who stopped caring long ago.
The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell the truth …
Using Codex as a diet and exercise coach — Usefully Wrong
Notes on getting somewhere, usually by being wrong first.
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
I came across a GH thread related to chess engine development that made me think of why hobby programming communities are increasingly hostile toward LLM development. While the thread doesn’t give a lot of insight into answering the question, it prompted me to…
The most useful data arrives after training
Why in-context learning has powered every major LLM application paradigm, from system prompts to context engineering and skills.
How I Prompt Fable
The demos are simpler than they look. I'm just using the model differently than most people are. Here's how I actually do it.
Driving an 80s robot with a 90s OS at VCF West 2026
A few months ago I acquired three Heathkit HERO 20001 robots (and two HERO 1 robots) when, to my astonishment, someone actually answered my “Heathkit robots wanted” Craiglist ad. They were all in various stages of disarray but after some fiddling and some new …
Build Your Own Browser Tools Without a Backend - J Lopes
Many free online tools want your email first. Most of what they do can happen in the browser instead, and this is how.
Choose by Probability, not by Expectation
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of claimed returns or in terms of expected values. For example: An ultra greedy gambler may pick the high…
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and Apple iCloud Private Relay
WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can be configured to route all web traffic through proxy servers, which is how Tor browsers on iOS and our own Psylo work. We found three WebKit features — DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTranspo…
Your personal computer is not that personal
What I found when I pointed a coding agent at my own laptop with full disk access, and why every guardrail in the stack is aimed at what an agent might break rather than what it might learn.
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy
Why native apps have become privacy liabilities, and why the browser is almost always the better choice.
August 4, 2026 - From the road - Waymo
Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.
Goodbye File Browser, for Real This Time - Henrique Dias
Yesterday, I published the last planned release of File Browser. It includes a few security fixes and a notice about the wind-down of the project. Alongside it, I announced that this was the last planned release and updated the repository so that it’s ready to…
Tests for a PDF · Ata Kuyumcu's Blog
My CV has a test suite, because the first thing that reads a CV is a parser. Four checks, one ATS workaround I measured and couldn't justify, and one assertion that has never run once.
Lights Out, part 2: old school stays king
Lights Out, part 2: old school stays kingOn 26 August 2025, someone pushed eight malicious versions of Nx to npm. Nx is a build tool with millions of weekly downloads. The packages were live for five
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story
In my day to day development work, I find that my agents have to build up an incredible amount of knowledge about the problem I set them on. They scan files. They search API docs. They do a lot of work to get their context sufficiently full to be able to squir…
Jailbreaking an LLM
Notes from building a red-team lab for local models.