_for-sale DNS records · Website Spec
If a domain is genuinely for sale, say so in DNS. A TXT record at _for-sale.example.com advertises it to brokers and availability services without taking the site down or parking it.
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
Any relation between this tale and modern software engineering is entirely up to your own interpretation. This is the story of a building company CEO named Matthew. Matthew is a simple person: he likes to build buildings, and he likes it when people appreciate…
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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
Epistemic Status: Obviously speculative and maybe obvious. The success of RL in LLMs has been puzzling me for a while. People have developed various information-theoretic style arguments by which they argue that RL is extremely informationally inefficient comp…
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SQRL Wasn't Wrong. It Was Early
How Steve Gibson's SQRL anticipated passkeys, and why timing and coordination mattered more than the cryptography.
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
A tour inside my software restaurant
AI product leader, self-taught programmer, data scientist, and small-check investor.
suraj
The Caretakers
WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model.
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge: Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs
Hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Arcee Al is the first industry partner supporting the new Genesis Mission open-weights program. A DOE-hosted contribution portal opens today, with first-round applications due August 14, 2026.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded - Announcements / Nixpkgs Core Team - NixOS Discourse
The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer d…
Writing parsers is tricky and cumbersome, and that's even with provided grammars. This post is about approaching parsing from a different angle.
Remedies against polite but infuriating disobedience.
Blog/ 2026-08-04 / Alexander Shvets
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
Arhan's Blog
The Circle That Swallowed Everyone: AI and the End of the Coding Moat
Seven flat years, then a vertical line. What a 2026 surge in new Trello Power-Ups says about AI coding tools and the end of the coding moat for bootstrappers.
KV Cache vs. Prompt Cache: What’s the Difference, and How Are They Related? - Jake blog - Articles From JakeBlog
These two types of redundant computations correspond to two concepts that are often confused: KV Cache and Prompt Cache. A model's processing of a single
A finance person understood RAG from the casual explanation, not the formal one. Why the reader should choose the depth and the voice, not the writer.
Super Mario Derivations
One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes much of Nixpkgs possible, and its complexity.
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html
Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer
Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.
Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment
There is a post going around called Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible. I first saw it through Matt Birchler’s response, Native App …
How to design good agent tools
Ask you agent what helps it to do the work
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto.