Today
- If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021, I set a goal to write 72 blog posts. I was puttering along, publishing whatever came to mind, mostly figuring that nobody...
- In my work at Clay I recently wrote an internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, and I’m sharing it here. It’s my hope that one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
Yesterday
- A lot of fast code starts as a boring loop.Modern hardware can perform the same operation on multiple values at once (e.g. SIMD and SIMT), and sometimes we write code directly for those execution models but other times, a compiler starts with regular-looking code and rewrites it...
- Control an Android emulator using Gemini 3.5 Flash Computer Use. Connect the Google GenAI SDK interactions loop with ADB to control a virtual device from your terminal....
- You can connect external sources like GitHub, Slack, Sentry, Datadog, and have your agent act on emitted events using Mastra's signal system. These events are d......
This week
- Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. I try to avoid indiscriminately...
- John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta commentary on blogging. Here’s John: If you...
- Since 2024 the role of the CMO or marketer in a startup has really changed. Mostly, everyone has the same tools so everyone is producing the same slop at the same time. I can no longer remember times that I’ve read content that looks and sounds exactly the same. They organize...
- A developer guide to the Gemini Interactions API, text generation, streaming, multi-turn chat, multimodal inputs, structured output, tool use, managed agents, and background execution from a single endpoint....
- You can’t be model agnostic if you’re hand-tuning prompts Thanks to natural language interfaces, AI applications can be prototyped quickly. You write what you want in English, hand it to a frontier model, and a working prototype appears in an afternoon. This is extraordinarily...
- Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from this past The Pulse issue. Full subscribers...
- Technology businesses are heavily influenced by waves of technology change, like the rise of the internet or AI. Knowing how to adjust strategy for these changes is one of the most important skills to develop. As technology has advanced, technology waves have become larger, more...
- This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance, describing a small but effective inpainting model—a model where you can mark regions of …
- A TaskSignalProvider gives your agent a plan to follow. It creates a list and provides tools for marking items as pending, in_progress, or completed — keeping t......
- My family is pledging another $400,0001 to the Zig Software Foundation (ZSF). This brings our total pledged support for ZSF to $700,000, after our initial donation in 2024.
- Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of macOS icons (image courtesy of BasicAppleGuy): The Creator Studio icons are undeniably consistent visually: rounded...
- Here's a reproduction of the infamous "Waterfall Diagram", from the landmark paper Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (Royce, 1970): SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS PROGRAM DESIGN CODING TESTING OPERATIONS Behold, the enemy of Agile! Although,...
- sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python’s default sqlite3 package, including …
- Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex can now test drive your Mastra projects with CLI Actions. Coding agents have been able to write Mastra code for a while now — thr......
- 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 19, 2026 I absolutely LOVE the premise of this upcoming conference at Georgetown Law: Life After Data, the conference on...
- Every single time a post about atproto hits Hacker News, somebody asks in the comments: “But where are all the Bluesky instances?”. The problem is, there are no instances in atproto! The question is a category error. Instances are a Mastodon-brained concept, and I wanted...
- Meet Alice. Alice is impatient. What do you mean? Meet Alice. Alice uses your web service. Alice, like most humans, measures her time in seconds and minutes. Alice says your service is slow. You tell Alice that the mean request to your service completes in 100ms, but Alice says...
- You’ve probably heard the term. It’s meant to convey how difficult it can be to start something. “Blank page paralysis”. But for my money, beginning is easy. Finishing is the hard part. In software, they call it “the last 90%”. In logistics, they call it “the last mile”. It’s...
- Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with <slot name="icon"> will do. Or a card component with a handful of...
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