In 1974, two chemists at the University of California published a paper predicting that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) would destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere that shields Earth from…

I’m trying to bring back light and breezy posting - ones that are short, sweet, and drive a little habit creation. Today, like every Friday, we went to our local park/cricket club and our eldest did…

Now seems as good a time as any to reflect on my career, such as it is, and such as it has been, so far. In truth, I've been trying to get myself to write this post for months, if not years. I…

How my blog is setup (•̀ᴗ•́)و

Paying homage to a tradition, this time, with a more radical change.

Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace Bullshit. Alas. I remember our teachers from…

I did not enjoy this short story collection quite as much as I’ve enjoyed some of Langan’s other work. Horror is not really my genre of choice – although I am coming to appreciate…

This book’s approach is interesting. Rather than try to make a bullet-proof case as to why AI is dangerous, it lays out possible negative results of increased AI adoption (such as the…

These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-05-07 llm-gemini 0.31 simonwillison.net Big Words simonwillison.net Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with…

Together with Javier Fernández Píriz, a PhD student at the University of Luxembourg, we are working on HomogeneousTools, a collection of packages meant to efficiently deal with homogeneous varieties…

My first in a decade, sort of.

The simplest improvement you can make to your agentic programming workflow is to run two agents instead of one. One writes code in its own worktree; the other, in a parallel worktree, reviews it.…

solve TwoSum or bufo, made with Chris

I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I…

Codex CLI Deletes Function-Style apply_patch

Codex CLI now ships a built-in codex update command that detects the installation method and applies updates automatically. No more remembering whether you installed via npm, Homebrew, or standalone…

How my server started as a book library with Calibre and Kavita, then grew into a full media homelab with Jellyfin, Arr automation, a reverse proxy, and operations tooling — one folder per service,…

The moment you wake up from an immersive dream and have to abruptly recalibrate to the real world.

“un jour je serai de retour près de toi”This week, Aljoscha is updating on his own. Thankfully he did not draw anything, because Sammy left a whole collection of drawings to share.

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Fooocus Fooocus is the third-most popular open-source AI image generation WebUI on GitHub with 48k stars. By exposing it to the internet, you allow attackers to…

What changes when a contract-first agent workflow becomes an installable Codex App plugin, not just a Claude Code command.

Recently I had an idea while exploring a new project that had some Tailwind components - why be forced to use UI I don’t want to use? In this age of LLMs, is it possible to take a component created…

Hotwire Native vs NativePHP: How Web Frameworks are Conquering Mobile and Desktop

Drew fan art for the awesome horror comic, Masonry of the Body (it’s scarier than my drawing, I assure you).

Drew the player characters in the Monsterhearts campaign I’m running! I’m having a blast in the game. Full drawings under the cut.

Software engineering has always been more craft than science. AI doesn't change that.

Note: This post turned out a little different from the previous ones. It's more of an essay than a dialogue. I tried restructuring it multiple times, but it kept wanting to be linear. And you know,…

YOLO is a terrible strategy for validating production changes. How many times have you seen it? Your platform is running smoothly. No alerts, no issues. Then suddenly, something breaks. After digging…

It’s no longer defensible for CEOs and boards to outsource understanding AI to their technology execs. I partnered with CxAI on a post about the three key principles that will enable execs to build…

LinkedIn 2002, 1.1 billion users in 2026. The reach algorithm penalises external links (~18.8 per cent reduction in van der Blom 2026, n = 1.3M), penalises thematic breadth via a topic fingerprint,…

What the rise of agents means for software UIs

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's rate limits. Users say it's worse. The 5-hour window got bigger. The weekly cap didn't.

#monstergarden { corner-shape: scoop; border-radius: 32px; text-align: center; text-wrap: balance; padding: 8px; background-color: rgb(49, 27, 10); color: gold; border: double 4px gold; font-family:…

Stretching, cycling, and pizza

sparkly, ethereal, jam session

This is a nice tight little science fiction story. It's pretty much about a normal guy who gets tangled up with forces way beyond his understanding. It's a cute little comedy and fun recreational…

Federal agents and LAPD crashed multiple May Day protests in DTLA on May 1, 2026.

A used Canon EOS 6D with a solid 75-300 mm lens!

Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died yesterday, May 6, at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia…

Yeah, sure, we all put our files/lectures/exams on this central server that we have no control over, and then they do this to us: For those who don’t know, Canvas is the courseware many schools…

Out of office? Cambridge in the Summer? Quote of the Day ”Holy Mother we do believe, That without sin Thou didst conceive; May we now in Thee believing, Also sin without conceiving.” A.P. Herbert My…

I drew this a few weeks ago and finally put the video together that I planned to make while I was drawing it. I feel like I have a large backlog of things I've been wanting to do, but I've also been…

Flyology continues at the Union Theatre, London until 8 May 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Flyology reminds us to keep pushing, so that artificial intelligence does not make the same…

Having a chronic condition is like drinking a glass of poison every day. The poison doesn't guarantee that you get sick, but you are still forced to drink.

tried 7-eleven's chocolate strawberry smoothie...love! more chocolate than strawberry, would get it againchinese peony season!glad that the other 2 bloomedthat krazy lady from across the street…

(One of my summaries of the 2026 one-day PyGrunn conference in Groningen, NL). His parents owned a record store in some Dutch town. First records, then CDs. A social shop where you would gather to…