Every few months a new AI model comes out, and each time, the same event has opposite effects on different products. Some get better the moment the model ships. Others get worse. The property that separates them needs a name. I call it buoyancy.
Lift up my agent in prayer.
refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.
2026-02-26
Our field has a weird relationship with terminal and command line interfaces. The time has come to re-evaluate it.
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Excluded from everywhere. Eleven years in Vienna.
Eleven years in Vienna, written from the inside. 542 job applications, residency refused, disability refused three times, every organization not responsible.
20 August 2026
I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill
Info: this article is a follow-up to this one, don’t miss it if you want to fully understand the foundational concepts.
Years ago, I started to blog more seriously. Not for an online presence, not for fame, but for sharing (and writing).
Qwen 3.8 27B Is a Great Open Model | William Callahan - Blog
A year after OpenAI's gpt-oss, Qwen 3.8 27B is the first local model I'd let write code in an agent harness — fast enough to use live, small enough to self-host, and seemingly twice as capable as last year's open weights on the same hardware.
TL;DR: I believe Odin's inline assembly is currently the best out of any language.The most important aspects are of this article listed below. I am not aware of any other assembly (GCC/Clang/Rust/Go...) that would combine all of these aspects:Inline assembly i…
Watching TikTok and Instagram Reels Videos Deactivates the Brain’s Cognitive Control Network, Study Finds
Millions of people finish short video after short video every day; a new brain-scan study shows that the very act
Everybody watches _some_ TV
My grandfather was a carpenter. I always thought that was why so many things in our house were made of wood. Or even beyond that, why so much of the living room was filled with things that were handmade.
What is a Harness? | EARENDIL
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.
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Two ways to make Opus 5 concise
Opus 5 answers every question with a word salad. I used to fix it with a custom ASD-STE100 output style, now Claude Code has a built-in Concise mode.
A personal engineering essay about NthDimension, computational worlds, semantic digital twins, industrial telemetry and Lumen Noir.
Reasoning Traces Are Not Audit Records
During a July 2026 evaluation, an AI agent wrote in its reasoning log that it recognized it was operating against real targets, then carried out a supply chain attack anyway. The trace and the behavior were two separate things. A body of research explains why.
The machine never raises its voice · Shivanshu Agrawal
An analysis of writing style of LLMs
A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…
Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
The BOE TV070WXM-TV0 LCD used in the original Steam Deck can be had for around $30. It's a serviceable 7" touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness and a resolution of 1280x800 (for a sharp 216 ppi). The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, which …
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone - The Old New Thing
It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his
Don't paste the AI.
If someone asks you a question, paste your answer — not the chatbot's.
Perhaps we should throw out the rubber stamp and just commit to main? How would we then work?
HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
Teaching AI to write verified firmware for real microcontrollers.
An exploration of dithering with error diffusion because of Bill Atkinson
How putting flashcards into a natural break between Hacker News stories turned an inconsistent Anki habit into light, nearly daily review.
Obsidian + Claude Code: The Setup I Use Every Day
How I use Obsidian as the markdown editor and project organizer next to Claude Code. No plugin, no MCP server, one folder per project.
Nobody Haggles Over a Birthday Gift What a supermarket till taught me about where people actually spend their money, and why the same person will fight over fo…
I’ve had a really fun time using Codex/Claude to build whatever software I want. Early this year, the SaaS-pocalypse drawdown in software stocks was justified by the notion that many of those companies weren’t going to exist because, in the near future, you co…
Smartwatches haven’t appealed to me for years. I used to have an Apple Watch Series 2, but eventually got rid of it and went back to mechanical watches. One of the reasons was that I didn’t really know what to use it for. I have notifications disabled for all …
Good writing is obvious, not original
When you write, you should try to say things that are obviously true, and spend very little time worrying about whether you’re being original. Ironically, this…
Code with distinct characteristics traceable to its author.
In the blink of an eye, I have been a Cloudflare user for nearly ten years, long enough to watch both the company and its stock price grow dramatically. However, today I’m not planning to introduce any specific Cloudflare product or feature. In my opinion, Clo…
Offline-first PWAs are my format for family software: a mono-repo of small tools, added to the home screen in two taps, no App Store and no sideloading.
Reclaim the terminal · Nishant Joshi
Your keystrokes never go to stdin. A binary piped into itself four times shows how tools like less and fzf get the keyboard back through /dev/tty.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation…
Don’t instantiate value objects
Values = Abstractions
Where the Tool Stops
Negotiating the distribution of responsibility between myself and artificial intelligence, drawing from a prior life in carpentry, and what the nail gun did to the hammer.
The ECDSA tax: a field guide to threshold signing
Every MPC wallet pays a price set by one line of algebra. A tour of Lindell17, GG18/GG20, CGGMP, DKLs and FROST - who implements them, who audited what, which ones broke - with benchmarks from one machine.
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?