18 September 2026

46 links · Friday

When Thinking Goes Sedentary | Sid's Blog

After watching my mum hit chatbots (Meta AI inside WhatsApp) for the most mundane calculations and tasks, my hot take is that we're rapidly entering the default sedentary era of intellectual fitness. And seeing it written out, I realize it's a convenient excus…

i am a better person without my phone

Screenshot 2026-09-17 2 I am a better person without my phone. In fact, I would go so far as saying there is a negative correlation between the amount...

The input layer - Magenta Creations

Agents took the codebase out of my head, so deep focus stopped paying. What is left of me in the loop is typing and switching windows, and that is what I am working on now.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. https:…

Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice

Like everyone else, I talk a lot to various LLMs. And sometimes I wonder how consistent their answers are. I know that LLMs are non-deterministic, but there's a difference between giving wildly different answers and saying the same thing with different words. …

Keeping vLLM's Prefix Cache Warm Between Agent Turns

What vLLM's cache tiers hold, why coding agent traffic keeps invalidating them, and the Bifrost tool schema bug that cost 90 to 180 seconds on the turns it hit.

Adventures in BSD

Adventures in BSD - What I learned from using FreeBSD as a main OS for a summer

I Hate Workday

Workday makes it a huge pain in the ass to apply to companies.

Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage

There’s a shortage coming that nobody’s put on a slide yet: senior engineers. Every company on earth is about to want one who can drive a fleet of agents with judgment — and almost nobody …

A stop sign for $1,000

3 crashes at one intersection, photographed on my way to work. The all-way stop went in 178 days after I sent the city a notice of dangerous condition.

The LLM Comments Are Not For You

I’ve heard a lot of talk about LLMs recently, and among the most common topics of discussion have been the comments. LLM comments generally seem to suck: they are verbose, regardless of surrounding context, they seem to encode conversation decisions (like “do …

Some of All Fears

AI anxiety is rational, but the past 10 days of conversation has been absurd and irresponsible.

EA Safety

EA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.

Quick Tunnels · Cloudflare

Localhost, meet the Internet. Turn the server on your laptop into a public, encrypted URL on Cloudflare's edge with one command.

GitHub CLI Installation on Ubuntu | no dogma blog

Even if you follow the instructions on GitHub, the GitHub CLI is installed from the Ubuntu repository, which is not the latest version. This post shows how to install it from the GitHub repository.

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.