Today
- I published my list of defaults last time in 2023, but a few things have changed since then. Inspired by Bud Spencer’s comment, here it is, my list of defaults as of 2026. Not a drastic change, but to make it a little easier to parse, I annotated the new things. If you are...
- I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …
- There's been much talk recently about how AI agents affect the workflow loops of software development. Kief Morris believes the answer is to focus on the goal of turning ideas into outcomes. The right place for us humans is to build and manage the working loop rather than either...
- In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders: Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. If code is free, why aren’t all apps native? And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
Yesterday
- 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. March 3, 2026 New Gemini model out today: 3.1 Flash-Lite, superfast and very capable. The Gemini models remain my favorites: for their...
- The other day I was looking at the team billing section of an AI product. They had a widget labeled “Usage leaderboard”. For whatever reason, that phrase at that moment made me pause and reflect — and led me here to this post. It’s an interesting label. You could argue the...
- Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development. This pattern describes a structured conversation that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair: progressive levels of design alignment before any code, reducing cognitive load, and...
- AI skeptics often argue that current AI systems shouldn’t be so human-like. The idea - most recently expressed in this opinion piece by Nathan Beacom - is that language models should explicitly be tools, like calculators or search engines. Although they can pretend to be people,...
This week
- “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”– Tom & David Kelley But what if the meeting is the prototype? That’s the spirit of an idea I’m calling “Real-time UI” (the name […]...
- I have been a loyal customer of 1Password since 2013. It has served me well and I never really looked into the alternatives. I didn’t mind occasionally paying for an upgrade to the newer version, or even switching to a subscription model a few years ago. In recent years though,...
- For my future self, these are a few of my notes from this book. A take from one historian on the Luddite movement: If workmen disliked certain machines, it was because of the use that they were being put, not because they were machines or because they were new Can’t help but...
- TypeScript and Rust-Analyzer support a handful of quality of life, code navigation improvements. For example, if you try to go-to-definition on a variable in your IDE, but end up clicking the trailing comma, it still navigates to the variable. let a = 10 // ^ go-to-def...
- this is part 2 of a two-part series on how container images and filesystems work: what is a container image? how does my container get a root filesystem? intro in part 1, we built a two-layer OCI image by hand, imported it into containerd, and ran it. we saw that a container...
- this is part 1 of a two-part series on how container images and filesystems work: what is a container image? (this post) how does my container get a root filesystem? intro my first mental model of a container was: a container is like when your friend wants to send you some files...
- The biggest buyers will want to audit and influence post-training Beneath the Anthropic and Department of War fracas, there is a legitimate & essential conversation to be had about how much control any organization has when deeply adopting an AI model they didn’t train. These...
- Here LLM and coding agents can find: 1. Exhaustive documentation about Redis commands and data types. 2. Patterns commonly used. 3. Configuration hints. 4. Algorithms that can be mounted using Redis commands. https://redis.antirez.com/ Some humans claim this documentation is...
- 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 28, 2026 Here’s Matt Webb collecting his thoughts on voice interfaces—rich and circumspect, with tons of links, tons to think...
- This is a follow-up to Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar. Since then, I’ve been continuing my work on the Squawk language server and column naming became one of the many rabbit holes. Overview If you label your columns with an alias, select 1 as id, then the name is obvious....
- Walking into London’s Barbican Estate is like stepping into a parallel timeline, a concrete vision of what the 1960s thought the future would look like. When people first encounter the term “brutalist”, the association that usually springs to mind is “brutal” – harsh, cruel,...
- There is a trick that is spreading through social media. If you block the claude user on GitHub, then each time you visit a GitHub repository that has commits by this user you get a banner at the top alerting you of the user's participation. It's an easy way to spot projects...
- After an absolutely devastating January, my February was chilled and productive, and I really hope to keep that trend. Today is the State of the Browsers day, and I’m well pumped to be there with my best friends, surrounded by the best folks from the web community. I’m still...
- Here’s a short horror story of us losing tens of thousands of emails. Hopefully it won’t happen to you, but if you do, here’s a few tips.
- Dave Rupert articulated something in “Priority of idle hands” that’s been growing in my subconscious for years: I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me […] This is hard to accept because a lot of my work,...
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