6 August 2026

17 links · Thursday

Reading List — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

I frequently get messages from people who really want to teach themselves botany and learn exactly where the fuck to start identifying plants and learning about them. The field is full of intimidating words (as well as some powdery stiffs, like much of Academi…

Is Your Business Ready for the EU's Lawyers?

The EU AI Act does not just want disclosure, it wants an end-to-end record of why your agents did what they did, retained and retrievable years later. Most observability stacks were built to find outages, not to survive a regulator. iii has that record as an i…

A Vision for Cargo

According to Stack Overflow, cargo is the most desired development tool. Many people attribute their choice of Rust to Cargo. I've heard from many people that Cargo is already great and that they can't think of any way it could be improved. I want to set our s…

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nixpkgs has a due-process problem

Three cases where Nixpkgs exercised power without clear rules: a commit-bit removal, a pull request closed by headcount, and a review blocked indefinitely.

Make Claude speak TO you, not LIKE you | Danilo Velasquez

Claude tends to mirror how you write, but the way you talk isn't always the way you best take in information. Here's how I tuned mine to how I actually process things, using retention tests instead of guessing, plus a prompt so you can build your own.