Today
- Automatic programming dramatically speeds up writing software in certain use cases and in the right hands. In my experience the output does not reach the structural quality and economy of complexity of the best hand-written software. However, not all the software is stellar, and...
- 7 Jun 2026Throughout my career, I've heard the same cliche repeated again and again. Here's some examples from the wild: "Customers donât care about your testing at all. They care that the product works." "Users Donât Care About Your Tech Stack" "First you must accept that...
Yesterday
- Technical debt lives in your code. Cognitive debt lives in your head. Intent debt lives in the artifacts you never wrote - the goals, constraints and rationale that explain why the system is the way it is. It's the one kind of debt your agents can't pay down for you, and the one...
- Iâve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics âŠ
This week
- The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev...
- 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 Itâs 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...
- I recently made some stickers for Loud Room and it turned out to be a bit of a journey trying out different vendors. Iâm 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 Sloanâs lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blogâs homepage, or learn more about me. June 4, 2026 I believe (?) this is the crispest stateÂment of this kind that Anthropic has yet made ⊠We believe it would be good for the...
- Programmers were better back in the day, werenât 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...
- 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: đ Smarter Interest Matching Scour is now better at finding posts that match...
- Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, Iâm 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). âYou mean, when I assign a variable, I have to say up front what kind of number this is?â 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, âNo one wanted to write documentation, but everyone is writing skills.â Anthropic describes Skills as, âfolders of instructions, scripts, and resources that [an agent] loads...
- AI-augmented program management is the natural evolution of async-first and engineering-inspired workflows â 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 â...
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