Why I remain a skeptic
I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional dismantlin…
N8N in Production: Lead Qualification That Works — Darko Trpevski
N8N lead automation works for a week then breaks. Here's how to build it right: validation, fallbacks, locking, monitoring. 100% reliability.
August 14, 2026 ∞https://marco.org/2026/08/14/unforgetful
The End of Mathematics — Daniel Litt
I'm currently returning to Toronto from a summit on the future of mathematics, at OpenAI. Sebastian Bubeck asked me to talk a bit about the future we'd all like to avoid, where humans are mathematically disempowered. Jacob Tsimerman advised us to try to priori…
Every Check Was Green. Five Guarantees Were Not.
254 tests, zero clippy warnings, no unsafe, five CI jobs — all passing, and five real holes underneath. The worst one: our taint floor silently stopped working whenever a directory wasn't writable. Each hole, and the five ways a check can be present and prove …
Codex hit 15 million users four months early
The June 2 trendline pointed to 10 million by mid-October. Combined Codex + ChatGPT Work crossed 15 million in August. See the missed projection →
Since I'm adding many YouTube videos to the new Web Gems section, I decided to lazy load all YouTube embeds on the website. The concept is straightforward: instead of loading the full YouTube player for every video on a page, only the video's thumbnail and a s…
Which Data Repository Should You Use?
The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...
Assume every AI model works exactly as promised. The spending still doesn't pencil out, and the receipts so far point at so-so automation: jobs traded for tokens with the productivity dividend still missing.
A crowded station, a useless 5G signal, and a love for rabbit holes. LLMs offer a unparalleled opportunity to learn new things immediately and in ways that match your preferred learning style.
Three times this week an AI agent wrote code that worked but was structurally wrong. Here's why code review still matters in agentic development.
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Custom FreeBSD UCARP Setup
This entry is sponsored by fme AG company – and this article aspires to share about interesting HA setup on node01a and node01b VMs. Below drawing was created by Tim Serong and greatly visual…
The world’s largest App Clip deployment
The world's largest deployment of App Clips is in China.
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AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
Lessons Learned from Fixing Flaky Tests with Claude
We recently sped up our integration tests by a factor of ten by running many of them in parallel. There were several flaky tests in the new test suite. Claude was really useful in getting rid of al…
A personal code notes blog
Calorie tracker for my Garmin watch
How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.
Table of Contents Intro Contest in short Problem intro Why this problem is auto-research-able Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions (Optional) Math f...
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
Unattended Remote Access on Wayland with RustDesk
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Everything is about to “go dark”
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
What do we do if many people aren't working? - Wilsons Blog
To my previous post, “Why do we assume everyone should be working?“, one of the more common and good responses was “well, if people don’t work, lots of bad things will happen”. This is a very fair point, here are some of the good arguments I received: All thes…
It's time to rip off the band-aid and stop performing code reviews
For everyone who just got a little tense reading the headline: I get it. I was there too, not so long ago. At the beginning of this year I spent a month building what was at the time–and might still be–the best AI-aided code review tool in
Technological breakthroughs are easy to miss
How did I miss two of the biggest breakthroughs of the 21st century?
Your status enum lives in five files
And the as const trick everyone reaches for only fixes one of them
Shut. The. Hell. Up.https://t.co/QVEzkIvXGv pic.twitter.com/mr5vIeJmf2— Mikkel Malmberg (@mikker) August 12, 2026 This tweet got popular. It even brought o...
My VP Eng Told Me to Stop Working on Observability. Here's Why He Was Wrong.
I was a Staff Engineer at a small, quickly growing start-up. Our new VP eng pulled me aside: it seems like you care a lot about developer experience and observability, but I need you to invest more in the feature work. I understood where he was coming from, we…
My friend Koushik Dasika wrote a post last week called “Coding Was Never the Hard Part.” He’s right. The interesting question is why we’re only able to say it out loud now. For two decades, the conventional story about software has been that engineers are slow…
Code is the hard part
You've probably heard the opposite from those annoying corporate types with a shiny and popular LinkedIn profile. Guess what? They don't hav...
The Bots Always Find Something · Avy Faingezicht
AI code reviewers are built to find problems, so they find problems.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Micropayment-powered stories
According to VGInsights, about 13% of games released on Steam in 2024 used a custom engine, down from 71% in 20121. So looking at this trend, why should anybody try to make their own game engine? Video Game Insights, The Big Game Engines Report of 2025. https:…
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…
Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t.
AI makes devtools cheap to customize, but personalized forks still demand ongoing attention and ownership.
In a previous post I talked about how OCRing the PDF would solve the problem I was facing. However, I chose to process the PDF with a different method. Someone in the hacker news comments had this to say. This person is not wrong, but I’d like to point out som…
I think of OpenRouter as a great business.
Commercial out-of-order RISC-V cores turn out to be vulnerable to the major Spectre variants, and most of the mitigations that exist on x86 are missing.