Today
- We care about responsive design while building a web product, and this means working with media queries or container queries to have a robust end result. However, few of us think about the big picture: how a website is used by real users in real contexts. There are so many...
Yesterday
- You know this rubber-banding effect on iOS Safari when you reach the end of the scrollable element, and it does this cool bounce. You can prevent it using CSS overscroll-behaviour: none if you don’t like it, but doing it also disables the “pull-to-refresh” gesture that was added...
- Hi! I’m really excited to be here. I’ve loved Granola and this meetup for a long time. The only social cred I have to my name is that I knew both founders before they started Granola. I didn’t introduce them, but I could claim that I did. I’m very glad to be here doing this...
- There’s that famous video of Steve Jobs explaining why they don’t didn’t make touchscreen MacBooks: We thought about [a touch screen MacBook] years ago. We’ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn’t work! Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives...
- Hi friends, In October, Scour scoured 1.5 million articles from 34,703 feeds. 164 new users signed up since the last product update email, so welcome to you all! Here's what's changed in the product: 🧠 Smarter Topic Matching I rebuilt the way Scour determines which content is...
This week
- I decided not to do #NaNoWriMo this year. Part of that is because I’ve never done it. Never even attempted it. Don’t even want to. Writing a novel is a life goal of mine, but cramming it all into one month isn’t for me. November is impossibly busy. But I do think it would be...
- Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights”. The piece describes a set of experiments which convincingly show OpenAI’s latest Astra model is able to understand and...
- Yesterday’s hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper found …
- An irritating thing about database vendors is that they all claim their offering is "highly available". If pressed they'll say they're talking about their SLA, and while this is not technically lying, it is very misleading, because people who know some distributed systems lore...
- Two hacked Furby Connects by my front door bickered at trick-or-treaters all night: an evil pink one with demon eyes and a sweet blue one, cued by a Bluetooth board hidden under the candy bowl....
- Audience capture is the part that scares me the most about writing on the internet. I have the soul of an engineer: when I see a metric like engagement, I want…
- A recent paper argues that frontier LLMs can work with neural network weights directly. This seems superhuman, but it isn’t. The paper shows that GPT-6 Astra…
- I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …
- Instead of triggering tools one at a time across turns, agents are collapsing their tool catalog into a single exec(code) tool—chaining, filtering, and awaiting actions inside an isolated sandbox....
- Powerful AI is unpredictable. Your robotic butler may suddenly decide to kill you for no comprehensible reason, in the same way that Bing’s helpful chat AI…
- Blog About Moonbound This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. November 1, 2026 It’s been a long time since I purchased anything from a Crowd Supply campaign, but I open their email newsletters eagerly and...
- Epilogue You’re still here? Wow. Cool. After all this, I’m hoping that users notice nothing other than quicker app start times. I’m looking forward to keeping an eye on traffic and retention in the coming weeks. Wish me luck!...
- To get a good reputation in tech companies, you need to work on important projects. However, you need a good reputation first in order to get assigned important…
- I spent every spare moment of the past month working on my side project. I can’t wait to share more about it with you. Every time I think I’m close to a release, I find more work to do. It feels exhausting at this point, but I’m still not losing passion for the thing I’m...
- In the previous post we looked at a simple multithreaded task executor that behaves roughly like its Python standard library counterpart. The biggest missing feature was being able to return values from run tasks via future objects. In a fully dynamic language like Python this...
- A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?...
- Elegance and intelligence can have a surprisingly negative correlation. Intelligent people sometimes produce inelegant solutions because they’re capable of…
- Surprises break trust faster than setbacks. If something would surprise someone when they find out later, tell them now. Don't wait until it's convenient or until you have a fix....
- It’s time to celebrate a little win. The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on. After getting a hold of the device and doing some family IT support, I concluded the battery was dead. So I bought her a new (old) one on Walmart (SE 3rd gen.,...
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