Today
- Is security spending more tokens than your attacker? Last week we learned about Anthropic’s Mythos, a new LLM so “strikingly capable at computer security tasks” that Anthropic didn’t release it publicly. Instead, only critical software makers have been granted access, providing...
- I had to make a modal recently, it happened to be in React, so some of what follows is React specific, but the principles are all good ol' CSS/HTML and JavaScript, so don't necassarily go running just because I'm using React here…. wait, where are you going? Come back… Oh well,...
- © NASA 2026, from the Artemis II mission RSS is still one of the best opt-in relationships ever invented. Here are some selections from my subscriptions. Reciprocal RSS links provided where available. 🌔 NASA’s Flickr Photostream I’ve been swept up in the Artemis II mission to...
- First, a quick intro. I’m Maggie and I’m a staff research engineer at GitHub Next. At least that’s my title, but I’m actually a designer. Or I was, back when that was still a separate thing to engineering.Next is the labs team within GitHub. We work on more experimental, risky...
- I attended the first Pragmatic Summit early this year, and while there host Gergely Orosz interviewed Kent Beck and myself on stage. The video runs for about half-an-hour. I always enjoy nattering with Kent like this, and Gergely pushed into some worthwhile topics. Given the...
- The UK’s AI Security Institute has published the first independent evaluation of Claude Mythos’s cyber capabilities. The headline finding – first AI model to complete a full 32-step simulated network attack – is notable. But there’s a finding buried in the accompanying...
- 14 Apr 2026 RIP Agile, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that literally - because no one was ever clear on what it was. Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice (perhaps emanating from a gap in the clouds?) would invariably tell us "ah,...
- When you start a new project, it feels nice that everything lives in a single main.go file. When things start to grow, you split things into multiple files. We will add tests later, right? Requirements change, someone joins the team, and in the meantime, you swapped SQLite for...
- 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. April 13, 2026 The information that would most clarify the nature of the AI boom right now is: who’s paying for tokens, and why?...
Yesterday
- Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Gary Hustwit). Brendan created the technology...
- Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact....
- After retrieving BM25 or any ranked search results you might not realize it but you have new information about the......
- 8 Tips for Writing Agent Skills. Know What a Skill Is, Nail the Description, Write Instructions, Keep It Lean, Set the Right Level of Freedom, Don't Skip Negative Cases, Test It Before You Ship It, Know When to Retire a Skill....
- When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s no time to schedule calls, get input...
- I quipped on BlueSky: It’s interesting how AI proponents are often like "skill issue" when the LLM doesn't work like someone expects. Whereas when human-centered UX people see someone using it wrong, they're like "skill issue on us, the people who made this" This is top of mind...
This week
- April 2026 I’ve been having moderate success using an AI agent to help me fix non-trival bugs in GoAWK. But it’s sometimes very indecisive (Mitchell Hashimoto noted this in a tweet just the other day). I asked it the following question (I’m using Claude’s Opus 4.6 with the...
- 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. April 12, 2026 Just yesterday discovered the company Tinfoil, which is doing some really cool work with AI models running inside...
- AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a growing share of your audience invisible to your tooling....
- Last night I saw Central Square Theater’s excellent production of Breaking the Code. It’s about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if you’re in the Boston area this month....
- April 10, 2026 The path through the irises, 1914-1917, Claude Monet The new language models are children of the reasoning revolution, and they stream out these long, circuitous thinking traces. They are said to be applying more compute to our questions and challenges....
- Today we're launching the Mastra platform with tools to develop, run, manage and monitor your agents effectively at scale — featuring Mastra Studio, Mastra Serv......
- The World Wide Web is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. This medium gave me the opportunity to do what I do, made me passionate about it, taught me so many things and gave me so many laughs. In many contexts this saying sounds cliché, but without the internet this...
- Little disclaimer. What’s “more intuitive” for me may not be “more intuitive” for you. Also, the title says “Vim” but everything here is applicable in Neovim. With that out of the way, let’s learn something cool! Vim allows us to increment a number via CTRL-A and decrement it...
- IntroI’ve been running GoatCounter on my site using the script. The problem is that adblockers like uBlock Origin block it (understandably).To get around this, I set up proxying so that the GoatCounter requests go to an endpoint under my domain nelson.cloud/gc/count, and then...
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