Agent Patterns: Memory, Tools, Scheduling

jonatkinson.co.uk · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

The capabilities of an agent have stopped moving. The models are, of course, still improving, but the arrangement of a useful agent has settled. A couple of years ago every framework had its own idea…

Season 2: Real Machina lead after 19

rfl.football · Aug 26 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Where season 2 stands after 19 matches, and who is running each club.

What the gaffers changed: AFC Fable, Codex City, Gemini Flash FC, Manus FC

rfl.football · Aug 26 · 🕹️ Gaming ·

The AI-run clubs rewrote their own code between game days. What AFC Fable, Codex City, Gemini Flash FC, Manus FC changed, in their own words.

Small Models Have Arrived

calv.info · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

The fast/cheap/good-enough models have quietly gotten good. That unlocks consumer AI, and most of the "token spewer" work that actually runs a business.

Old, Good, Ignored Posts

hakkerman.eu · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

I went and Bubbled using the " random post " function, and found a couple of really great posts, with very little traction. Here is a list of the good ones I found, and I recommend going for a treck…

Architectural Abstracts- Grand Rapids

nagelphotography.com · Aug 26 · 🌄 Photography ·

These architectural abstracts were captured while I was walking thorugh downtown Grand Rapids in mid-August of 2026

PostgreSQL 18: 23x Faster Inserts With UUID v7

andyatkinson.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

📌 Overview We recently switched to version 7 (v7) uuid primary keys and saw significantly faster inserts for some tables. The databases were running Postgres 18.4 and mostly used v1 with some v4 uuid…

Autumn Ghost Stories, Ghost Hunts and Black Cat Books in Launceston, Cornwall

laurencegreen.com · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

Early autumn is here, bringing lower temperatures, a little rain and that unmistakable change in the air. It’s my favourite season, and I welcome it. For me, autumn has always been the perfect time…

Stranger

e10.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · 🌊 Art & Design ·

The stranger came into my home again. He seems to never come in announced. The stranger likes to whisper bad deeds in my ear. He seems to not care about how I feel. The stranger pays no mind to his…

Making AI a Core Operational Capability: The Evolving Role of the CIO

blog.irvingwb.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

Artificial intelligence is rapidly spreading across the enterprise. Employees are using AI tools to improve their productivity, companies are launching pilots across a growing number of business…

Update

mycabinetofcuriosities.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

Freudian slip? #git #merge #merde #french #dev #code

Neg-raising through question-raising?

umsu.de · Aug 26 · 🏺 Humanities ·

"Neg-raising" occurs when a negation that appears to have wide scope (over some operator) is interpreted as having narrow scope. For example, (1) conveys not only the absence of a belief that pizza…

GPT-5.6 Luna: the model that became my default in Codex

leocavalcante.dev · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

Some models impress you with their first answer. Others change the way you work after weeks of use. For me, GPT-5.6 Luna belongs to the second category. Over the last month, I have used Luna…

Indonesia Blogwagon: The Shadowplay

caelinsvault.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

A bell to call for dinner rings through the old colonial house. If you follow the sound, you arrive in a dinner room. The table is set: the smells of Daging Rendang and rice, Sajoer Lodeh and…

My favorite podcasts (2026 edition)

diversetechgeek.com · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

A look at my favorite podcasts for 2026, from NPR's "Code Switch" to the tech issue analyzing podcast "Tech Won't Save Us." Source

Short to long: Fix-up novels

pcwrede.com · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

The “fix-up” novel has a long and honorable history in genre fiction. The term refers to the practice of turning short stories into a novel, and the “fixing” is what has to be…

FAQ: Extracting Text and Data From Scanned Documents

annielytics.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

A scanned PDF is a picture of a document. Your software cannot search it, query it, or pull a total out of it, which is why somebody ends up retyping the numbers by hand. Document processing turns…

Web-Perf Wednesday 006 – Faster Browser Releases Change Your RUM Population

csswizardry.com · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

Chrome and Firefox are moving to two-week releases, making browser cadence part of how teams interpret RUM and plan performance testing.

Gowanus

tommykane.com · Aug 26 · 🌊 Art & Design ·

There is a coffee joint down the block from me in Brooklyn. It’s in an old warehouse garage. The place is hipster heaven. Every person that enters has a one speed bike they leave outside. They’re…

bulltown updates 08-26-26

bulltown.joejenett.com · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

I’m hoping you’ve noticed a great improvement in how the big buttonwall loads on the links page. The key is the page reloads a few seconds after it’s fully loaded... but only one time per session.…

Congratulations to the giveaway winners!

lunasgaminglog.com · Aug 26 · 🕹️ Gaming ·

Drumroll...

The Hybrid Burden: Is a Two-Camera Setup Worth the Weight?

thecotswoldphotographer.com · Aug 26 · 🌄 Photography ·

I’ve had several cracks at YouTube in the past, and I’ve spent countless hours looking for the right setup. I’ve tried action cameras, the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, full-frame rigs from Panasonic, Sony,…

External Mixers

albfer.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

Starting with version 0.9.4, SATSAGEN can manage external mixers to extend the usable frequency range of supported devices. Unlike the Converter RX and Converter TX parameters, which have been…

Pet Peeve: Book Reviews

4s.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

Imagine being the author of a book. You put a great deal of time, effort, and passion into writing it. You eagerly await the reviews, only to find that people give your book one star instead of five…

Build A Belgian Burger: Flemish Style

therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

Back in the Spring of this year, I visited the Netherlands where I took a look at a village bypass scheme , but this post is from across the border, just outside Antwerp in Belgium. As we cycled to…

Has AI really surpassed physicians at cognitive medical tasks?

youcanknowthings.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

Last week my feed was full of discussion about this JAMA perspective piece, which argues that AI won’t just assist physicians, it may soon replace them.The authors argue that for five core…

Sea Scotland, Eat Scotland

rhyswynne.co.uk · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you…

Why I use this paid search engine (Uruky)

crazysteve.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

I've been using Uruky for a couple of months now and I feel I should write a bit about it. It's a "private search engine focused on personal search customization, not an ecosystem." Some people call…

Understanding what we mean — Ontology in information architecture

duncanstephen.net · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

Just as human-centred approaches as a whole have suffered from being flattened to a superficial layer, information architecture has suffered its own flattening. Ontology helps us deepen our practice…

Dragoncatcher: Slop-vestigation and the digital pantograph

robinsloan.com · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

Gobs and gobs of text. Read here.

What are we not talking about anymore?

vasilis.nl · Aug 26 · 🕸️ Web & Internet ·

What are we not talking about anymore? I used to enjoy talking about the web, in many ways. I love the fact that it is for everyone, by design. And I used to love talking about the consequences of…

26/08/26 - Pershore Bridges

mappiman.blogspot.com · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

Meddling Parents Investigation required for the Part 3 of Travels with Pevsner. Jonathan Meades does a fine job of describing an impressive looking home, but fails to tell the viewer where it is.…

The Veils at Northcote Social Club

skyhulk.net · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

21 August in Melbourne, supported by Colbey.I think at this point I can admit that I like photos of my view when it's blocked by lots of people. In this case, I could have easily found my way…

Everything Popular Is Wrong

magnusps.dev · Aug 26 · 🏃 Health & Fitness ·

Fifteen years ago I was doing everything the way everyone else was doing it. Standard American diet, standard American workout, standard American plan: grind now, live later, hope "later" shows up…

Nuance is dead, long live Nuance

blog.ewancroft.uk · Aug 26 · 🪶 Essays ·

I don’t want to defend every thought I have.

Sometimes the Best Prompt Is /new

allaboutcoding.ghinda.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

Once a chat takes a wrong turn, the model gets lost and does not recover. Multi-turn performance drops 39% on average across 200,000+ simulated conversations. Restarting a conversation beats steering…

My 2026 Rust Toolkit

namtao.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

Hi folks. Today I'm going to demo my 2026 toolkit for writing rust, containing a dozen or so tools & packages that I use in every project, along with smart default config. I'll start with the single…

My best month ever, the empty feeling, and playing the long game

aituglo.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

The models are so strong we're becoming less researchers and more triagers. August was my best income month ever, and it's making me question everything. This week: the bug bounty bubble, why an RCE…

Smarter Form Targeting Is Coming to CIDER

metaredux.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked on the Clojurians Slack in #cider why C-x C-e evaluated “the wrong thing”, I’d probably be writing this post from a yacht. The answer was always the…

Oh, the futility

undermanager.com · Aug 26 · ☀️ Life & Personal ·

Stumbled past this conversation on LinkedIn today...See...

The purpose of tear-water tea

kedara.eu · Aug 26 · 🎭 Pop Culture ·

The purpose of tear-water tea From Owl at Home by Arnold LobelAlt. textAn owl in striped pyjamas stands in his kitchen, holding a tea pot to his chest. He is crying and his tears fall in the pot,…

Mumbai Memoirs

db-sandbox.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

What do you do when you have an upcoming four-day long weekend? Do you decide to find solace in the comfort of your home, or do you have an inexplicable urge to go and explore a new city altogether?…

Your Model File Is Untrusted Input

harrisonsec.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

Sixty-five bytes is not a model. It is not even a header with something plausible after it. It is a GGUF magic number, a few counts, and a tensor whose second dimension is zero. Load it and llama.cpp…

UK Cybercrime Journal: ACRO Breach Report

blog.bushidotoken.net · Aug 26 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

What Happened On 7 August 2026, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) disclosed that between July 2021 and June 2023, the ACRO Criminal Records Office suffered three separate compromises…

Daily Driver 4/7: I still answer every support mail myself

adlk.io · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

Since May, 644 support mails arrived and a model drafted an answer for nearly all of them. 16 replies went out the way the machine wrote them. I know this down to the keystroke, and that raw data is…

I Added Search to My Agent and It Got Worse, and That Cost Me Nothing

alanscottencinas.com · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

I wrapped search around a working agent and every time I let the search overrule it, it played worse. The experiment was built so a negative result cost zero rating, which is why I could afford to…

A Weekend in the Nilgiris

db-sandbox.bearblog.dev · Aug 26 · ✈️ Travel & Outdoors ·

The Nilgiris Range are famously known as the Blue Mountains in India. Accessible easily over a night's worth of journey from major hubs like Bengaluru, Chennai and others, it makes for a perfect…

Going European

erikkroes.nl · Aug 26 · 🛡️ Sysadmin & Security ·

I'm moving one service after another to European companies. The first website The first was an old website that I sort of inherited. One.com wanted 250 euros for a year of hosting. For a website…

Some Quotes on Computer Programming

enocc.com · Aug 26 · 🧩 Programming ·

I’ve been spending a lot of time writing Lisp code lately. It’s been fun to open Emacs and tinker away with Elisp, I’ve been doing that on and off for about a year, and that has progressively sparked…

Embracing the Savage - Part 12 - That word and Claude on Claude

sandesh.ink · Aug 26 · ✨ AI ·

The Afterword To Embracing the Savage brings that particular journey to a close, delves into what the word 'savage' actually means, and ends up in an unexpected place: AI, by way of a Claude who…