Today
- 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...
Yesterday
- 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...
This week
- 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...
- Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash was the headline model at I/O - fast, but expensive and middling at coding. Why it makes more sense as a model built for Google itself, the TPU advantage, and Google's real weakness in coding agents....
- To conclude with my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice series, this article contains the solutions to all the exercises. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you!...
- At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point -...
Last week
- Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting …
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