Today
- 05 Jun, 2026 I recently completed my first long trail race, set in the Southern Drakensberg mountains with Emma, my siblings and their partners. It spanned 2 days with 30km on the first, and 15km on the second, winding through valleys and around mountains. It was spectacular. I...
- What It’s Like to IPO When baby sea turtles are born on the shore, they immediately rush by the thousand towards the ocean. Every predator in the area swarms to devour as many as they can. Only a few dozen make it to the water. An even smaller number make it to adulthood, and...
Yesterday
- I recently made some stickers for Loud Room and it turned out to be a bit of a journey trying out different vendors. I’m always asking people for recommendations, so I wanted to share my own for sticker printers. I went in with two goals 1) avoid Sticker Mule and 2) lean toward...
- 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. June 4, 2026 I believe (?) this is the crispest statement of this kind that Anthropic has yet made … We believe it would be good for the...
- Programmers were better back in the day, weren’t they? Back when we had real programmers. Not just people who got paid to write code, but people who lived it, who were obsessed with their craft, and whose code was a lively expression of themselves. Hackers were hackers in those...
- The UK is obsessed with building AI datacentres at home. But the arguments for sovereignty - latency, tax, control - mostly don't hold up....
- After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights." "Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?" "The weights make the words. Are you...
This week
- Mastra agents now support the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Run Claude Agent, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or any other compatible harness directly from your M......
- Hi friends, In May, Scour scoured 865,266 posts from 28,671 feeds (1,766 of which were newly added), and 260 new users signed up to bring it across the 3,000 user mark! Here's what's new in the product: 🔎 Smarter Interest Matching Scour is now better at finding posts that match...
- Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, I’m happy to announce the first release of my fork today: Vim Classic 8.3.0. I have written a release announcement for vim-classic.org, which you can read here. Happy editing!...
- The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles (it was a C++ course). “You mean, when I assign a variable, I have to say up front what kind of number this is?” It was...
- Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more productive? Each of those...
- June 1, 2026 The art and engineering of Silpheed The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles[1]. Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise. The mid-90s emergence of CD-ROM drives however was...
- I joined Radical's Built for Turbulence podcast to talk about what AI agents are doing to the economics of software, the Figma Trap, and why running human-written code without AI audit is going to start looking reckless....
- Where are all the AI-generated projects? This is a common question from AI skeptics: if LLMs are so good at writing code, where is the tsunami of new AI-generated apps, services and games?
- When an agent can explain anything, should we keep writing docs for humans? A few weeks ago I posted, “No one wanted to write documentation, but everyone is writing skills.” Anthropic describes Skills as, “folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that [an agent] loads...
- AI-augmented program management is the natural evolution of async-first and engineering-inspired workflows — amplifying human judgment, not replacing it....
- The best kept secret at the frontier of system programming right now is the Linux 4.18+ (c. 2018) concept of restartable sequences or rseq for short. They allow you to create thread-safe data structures without locks or atomics which scale to microprocessors with many cores....
- Having used Claude Code for a few months now, I have noticed how software development has changed for me. I write a lot less code, but I spend more time understanding and testing the code Claude has written. The proportions … Continue reading →...
- Drama about the pricing of AI models, countless npm vulnerabilities and Google I/O that at this point should be rebranded to Google AI. This is a short summary of the past month in software. Most of the news from these categories I entirely ignore, so I prepared for you a list...
- Gradient shaderPlanted: May 2026Status: seedIntended Audience: Creative coders and front-end developers with a basic understanding of WebGL shaders.How to create an organic gradient animation using a WebGL shader. If you're new to shaders, check out this note. What we'll make:...
- There are only two ways to use LLMs in a computer program: as part of a pipeline, or as an agent. In other words, either you express the control flow of the program in code, or you give a LLM tools and allow it to manage the control flow itself1.
- Today we're excited to announce Agent Builder — a space for teams to build and share agents. Think about Agent Builder as a composable agent studio: Developers......
- My colleague Chris Griffith, with whom I collaborated to put The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Third Edition (1977) online, is also a spaceflight enthusiast (and an urban trails hiker: check out his new book!). He recently asked me how I would mark up a table with a split diagonal...
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