Today
- 04 Feb, 2026 Hi friends, In January, Scour scoured 805,241 posts from 16,555 feeds (939 were newly added). I also rolled out a lot of new features that I'm excited to tell you about. Maybe because of some of these, I found more posts than usual that I thought were especially...
- I’ve been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I’m enjoying how there’s generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring …
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 4, 2026 Stewart Brand's pace layers, early sketch Deepfates on X: As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get...
- February 4, 2026 Sheesh look at this gorgeous graph from the great Daniel J. Bernstein: Daniel J. Bernstein's graph comparing sorting algorithms Somewhere, Julie Mehretu is raising a single eyebrow; perhaps jotting a note. P.S. Bernstein is one of those amazing figures in...
- I’ve spent a couple of days at a Thoughtworks-organized event in Deer Valley Utah. It was my favorite kind of event, a really great set of attendees in an Open Space format. These kinds of events are full of ideas, which I do want to share, but I can’t truthfully form them into...
- There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a...
- Date and time management libraries in many programming languages are famously bad. Python's datetime module comes to mind as one of the best (worst?) examples, and so does JavaScript's Date class. It feels like these libraries could not have been made worse on purpose, or so I...
- 2/4/2026 I like Rust. It's versatile enough that it can be used for application and systems programming. It has the best tooling of any language I've seen. It has a fairly pleasant type system. And I think most importantly it does a great job in bringing higher level language...
- You’ve probably heard this famous quote from Steve Jobs about saying ‘no’: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully....
Yesterday
- 8 years building billing systems and I’m still wrong about just how hard it actually is. Not “getting better at it hard”, but like really genuinely discovering new layers of complexity I never saw coming. — Back when we started Paid at the end of 2024, I remember people telling...
This week
- NDC London was the first really big conference I ever went to - as a paying attendee, way back in 2014 (or was it 2013?), when I was trying to figure out ASP.NET MVC and jQuery and how to get all my team’s code out of Subversion and into this new Git thing everybody was talking...
- Learn how to use the new Gemini Deep Research agent via the Interactions API to perform complex research tasks, generate images based on the findings, and translate the results....
- The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) is an open standard abstracts the events and outputs of AI agents and provides a common interface for editors to interact with them. Similar to MCP but for agent to client (UI) communication....
- So I’m making a thing and I want it to be styled different if the link’s been visited. Rather than build something myself in JavaScript, I figure I’ll just hook into the browser’s mechanism for tracking if a link’s been visited (a sensible approach, if I do say so myself). Why...
- Imagine ending your workday and waking up to new features coded, tested, and ready for review. This is the promise of autonomous AI coding agents harnessing tools like Claude Code in continuous loops to improve and ship code while you sleep. In this write-up, I will ll cover how...
- For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have used it many times … Continue reading →...
- In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just "the process of writing software", I believe) with the term "Automatic Programming". In case you didn't notice, automatic programming produces...
- Go has several ways of sending requests, including some convenient methods such as:http.Get()http.Head()http.Post()http.PostForm()However, these don’t let you add headers to requests! If you need customization of the HTTP method or headers, you need to use...
- A month ago I published “Look Back at 2025” where I mentioned that the past year has been super stable and how grateful I was for it. This state didn’t last much longer. I lost my job, one of my best friends was diagnosed with a cancer and another good buddy of mine had a heart...
- Two days ago, the Anthropic Fellows program released a paper called How AI Impacts Skill Formation. Like other papers on AI before it, this one is being treated as proof that AI makes you slower and dumber. Does it prove that?
- The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
- GenAI feels like another turning point for software development. It’s really just the latest moment in a long, repeating pattern of partial revelation and broad avoidance of how creating software needs to be approached. Early limits of software development The “software crisis”...
- Basic Usage of time.Sleep()You can use time.Sleep() to pause your program for a predetermined amount of time, similar to most programming languages.First, you should know that the time package has useful constants that allow you to conveniently specify time in units.1 2 3 4 5 6...
- Stripe is famous for having some of the best product docs, largely because they are "designed to feel like an application rather than a traditional user manual". I spent much of the last week building and writing the docs for Scour, and I am quite proud of the results....
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