Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits …
There is an old Norse board game, which in Sweden is played under the name Starve the Fox, or just the Fox Game. According to Wikipedia, Fox and Geese is a simplified version of it played in English speaking countries.
Google Search Is Less Than 50% of Alphabet's Revenue for the First Time Ever | Company Atlas
Search was 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019, as Google Cloud grew much faster. Every quarter since 2018, from Alphabet's earnings releases.
Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible …
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. …
A Health Update • furbo.org
I’m writing this post from a hospital bed. And I couldn’t be happier. You hear folks say chemotherapy sucks, but until you go through it yourself, you don’t really know how bad it can be. It remains a popular activity only because it’s better than the alternat…
You can just ask AI to do things
One of the most important skills in working with AI is agency: being willing to try new and ambitious things. This is true for what you build, but it’s also…
Claude Code burns ~15-20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line: a Bun preload that turns agent_summary off · by Flamerix AI, flamerix.ai · MIT
Claude Code burns ~15-20% of your tokens on a 3-word status line: a Bun preload that turns agent_summary off · by Flamerix AI, flamerix.ai · MIT - README.md
SELECT DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDa...
Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
I compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen 3.5 4B's weights, using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython inside the forward passes, and Qwen uses it for exact arithmetic.
Detection worked. Attribution worked. A correct diagnosis on 27 June was followed by a decision not to stop, and a fortnight later Hugging Face was breached.
Finding better VAD parameters
A few years ago, I created a library for running a voice activity detection model in the browser. The library was intended to make it easy to create web experiences where you need to prompt the use…
Agents write all my code now. I still keep asking them to simplify it, because unnecessary complexity creates more to reason about and more places for bugs.
I Started With 12 Names. An LLM Sieve Found the Rest.
I seeded a map of indie record-makers with 12 names I trusted, then let an LLM sieve (filter, never author) grow it to 469 verifiable nodes. Live at 2inch.fm.
Generative Overload Is Killing Your Productivity
The Cognitive Cost of Every Document You'll Never Read
Death & Domains: Does The Tech Need To Change?
How can we ensure that our websites, and the ideas we share on them, outlive us? Does the internet have to change to protect digital legacy, rather than us?
LukeW | Technology Limits are Temporary
Years ago I was invited to Netflix to give a talk on why we should design software for mobile and how. In the Q&A I was told that people wouldn't watch movies o...
Oh My Pi ❤️ — a note by Sebastian Probst Eide.
I let Claude run my social media accounts – where it won and where it failed
Background and setup: I had a faceless account on the 4 major platforms – Instagram / FB / YouTube / TikTok that I was running manually, and it was performing…
In two weeks, my AI agents made more commits to Backdrop than I had in five years. Here's the system behind it, and why I'm now the bottleneck.
Everyone is starting over — Gabriel Valdivia
It’s a Tuesday afternoon on a Zoom call, and someone asks me a question that hangs in the air: “If you were to start over again today, what skills, tools, or frameworks would you focus on learning?”
Programmers are mourning, and I get it
I’ve been writing code since I was 11, starting with a Visual Basic 5 book at my grandma’s house. From Macromedia Flash in the early 2000s to a computer engineering degree and six years engineering…
Hardware Crackmes: 100 GameBoy Advance Games
A Game Boy Advance cartridge is a frozen binary. There are no patches, no server-side validation and no telemetry. Whatever cheat codes the developer intentionally (or unintentionally) wrote in 2003 is still the exact code running today. That makes an in-game …
What happens when AI makes website migrations almost free? Ten predictions for CMS vendors, agencies, Open Source, and buyers choosing their next CMS.
Text-First: If It Can Be Text, It Should Be Text
AI doesn't need more magic. It needs better context: explicit, durable, and close to the code. Text-First complements Spec-Driven Development and Loop Engineering with nothing but built-in tools, turning Markdown, docs, and decisions into shared memory for hum…
Several PDF implementations advertise AES-256, but generate the 256-bit key from either a very small state space, or from insecure random sources.
Ten sorts in ten languages, one JavaScript sort across twenty years of engines, and what both say about the abstraction we're living through now.
A study of expert persona prompting on cost and speed
The assistant I want isn't a chat box
Why a chat box is a fine way to talk to an assistant but a poor place for the relationship to live, what I want instead, the pieces I've built, and the personal board of directors I'm building toward.