Today
- Do you struggle with knowing what you want? For me, it shows up in career stuff. Do I want this job or that? What kind of role would I like? I had this revelation over the weekend. “What do I want” is the wrong question. I was reading The Obstacle is The Way. It didn’t site...
- In Kidz Fun Art, I recently increased the resolution of images by two, letting young artists draw at much higher quality (important for my 10 year old who was hitting the limits of the program, she’s amazing). However this introduced an annoying crash on Safari where, after...
- Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses, most of the...
- Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t have the need to still be in the “loop” as...
- Inspired by Andy Bell, a few years ago I added a music page to my website. It is a mirror copy of my Discogs collection that I have meticulously maintained for over a decade now. A few folks have asked me before “how I keep my Discogs collection in sync with my music page”, so...
- @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Comic+Neue:wght@300;400;700&display=swap"); dt, .agile { font-family: "Comic Neue", sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: larger; } dt { padding-top: 0.5rem; padding-bottom: 0rem; } Agile can be...
- As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. What I think of icons as a digital collector and physical archivist of icons. Let’s see if I can...
- I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use...
Yesterday
- July 12, 2026 On Saturday, beneath a sparkling blue sky, I joined the march to Stop the AI Race. We gathered in front of OpenAI’s office in Mission Bay, then marched through the city to Anthropic’s HQ beside the Transbay Transit Center. Stop the AI Race If this had been a...
- Jul 11, 2026 A dock that finally wakes up reliably For a long time, my top hardware frustration was to deal with a docked laptop that wouldn't wake up. It was sporadic but the scenario would be as follows. Arrive at my desk where the laptop is docked and asleep. Press keys on...
- There are, I think two reactions to the title of this post. One is to scoff at how short a time 24 hours really is; something barely worth mentioning. But another, perhaps less voiced reaction is to think "wow, I can't remember when I last did that..." When I last did this it...
This week
- Go's concurrency is one of the main reasons people like the language. You write go f(), send values through channels, and the runtime scheduler runs thousands of goroutines on just a few OS threads. It feels effortless.None of that machinery exists in C. Which made me wonder:...
- Over the past two years, I've published interactive tours for five Go releases, from 1.22 to 1.26.I know some of you have read them, and I've received a lot of kind words from you (even some core Go team members reached out) — thank you so much for that!Tour history: Go 1.22 •...
- “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I...
- As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness) would say “obviously you have to understand it completely, otherwise you can’t do good...
- It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately. We set up the infrastructure that makes agents successful. We act proactively through prompts (skills,...
- OpenAI’s latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest). The new models are priced per 1M input/output …
- Jul 10, 2026 Don't you mean extinct? In 1993, Jurassic Park came out and revolutionized the use of CGI in films[1]. To the public the experience was magic. But for some of the people in the movie industry, it was a rude awakening. Director Steven Spielberg had hired stop-motion...
- The market is in a weird place right now, a lot of companies are making record profits, but at the same time every other company seems to think bankruptcy is around the corner. Both of these camps seem to use the same general strategy: cut costs and maximize profits. What mainly...
- Your agents can now react to real-time events using a custom signal provider. Connect to any external source — GitHub, Slack, CI pipelines, or your own APIs and......
- You can now run your agents and workflows on schedules. Configure them using cron syntax and a default prompt for agents or inputData for workflows — letting yo......
- Power users generate 10x as many lines of code vs the median, most of the AI spend is coming from input tokens not output ones, and almost half of AI changes are accepted without manual review by devs (!!)...
- “We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very definition of a great Mac app than the people who...
- Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local models for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…...
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