Today
- 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,...
Yesterday
- “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 week
- 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,...
- There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that everything is exploding as an exponential and you always get hypey essays about how YOU, YOU DUMB DUMB, DONT...
- There are a lot of prime classes, such as left truncating primes, twin primes, mersenne primes, palindromic primes, emirp primes and so on. The Wikipedia page on primes lists many more. Recently I got to thinking (as one is wont to do) how difficult would it be to come up with a...
- SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness Roll the dice. Paul E. McKenney’s 1990 paper Stochastic Fairness Queuing contains one of my favorite little algorithms for distributed systems. Stochastic Fairness Queuing is a way to stochastically isolate workloads from different...
- There’s a lot of noise about how AI is changing programming these days. It can be a bit overwhelming. If you hang out on social media, you’ll hear wild claims about people running 12 agents at once, for days. Or people hacking bots together, giving them $10k, and letting them...
- Software engineering is not about writing code anymore. It is about building the factory that builds your software....
- I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to …
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