The iOS Simulator is a wonderfully fast place to build an app — right up to the moment the app needs something that belongs to the physical world. Bluetooth discovery returns nothing. There is no…

Over the last months I have purchased and become interested in 3D printing. ...

I just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in Times of Cholera. Here are five drops of wisdom I couldn’t help but underline (my own translations): #1. “Wisdom comes when it’s no longer of…

Echofeed was a service to take rss feeds and ’echo’ them to other services such as Mastodon. Recently they have been winding down the service for numerous but very understandable reasons.…

I watched a team write a careful test suite for a feature, then kill the feature two weeks later because nobody wanted it. The tests were wasted effort, and worse: they made the feature harder to…

TLDR; small, local models are a good instrument for measuring what a harness costs an agent. an API is only as good as its outputs’ specificity, parsimony, and truthfulness. obvious code repair is…

Uber burned its entire annual AI coding budget in four months — the full allocation gone by spring, no controlled overrun flagged in planning. Three-quarters of enterprises watched AI costs blow past…

A fifty-megabyte CSV from a vendor is sitting in a bucket, or about to be. An agent will search it and parse it. That works until you need to join it to warehouse.public.stores, at which point you…

There has been a bunch of discourse in the AI space about how to get agents the correct context. Following along with those discussions, I’ve built a system that seems to work quite well for me…

When I scored all fifty Australian banks in my catalog for the State of Australian Banking APIs sector report, two numbers came back that seem to contradict each other, and the contradiction turns…

I have been going in circles on a question for months and I would rather work through it in public than keep pretending I have it figured out. What is commercial open source, actually? Not the…

I have three shell aliases (j, s, z) for just, stree ., and zed . I dug through 7 months of shell history to find out how many characters they've saved.

Can Generative AI be said to know anything?\nWe'll answer that through the (broken) definition of knowledge, the epistemological concept of sensitivity and a detour into philosophy of law.\nThis time…

Earlier this week Michael made a request on their blog to post about some kind of obscure game, and of course I wanted to participate. I considered talking about Mirrors , a fascinating PC-88…

The last thing I wrote about building software with a coding agent ended on a question I could not answer with more machinery: is this test still capable of telling me I am wrong? The setting was a…

Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual…

A USENIX WOOT 2026 paper shows that SIM cards can send AT commands directly to phones and IoT devices, forcing 2G downgrades, silent browser launches, and even code execution.

Alfred North Whitehead’s count is exactly two. The philosopher—an Englishman who had settled at Harvard and was writing in the years just after the Second World War, at the moment American…

# At some point during the site tweaks, I managed to create a regression with /reader. I don't know how or when, but things just stopped working properly and only a few feeds would update. I'm not…

Qwen 3.8 27B This week was interesting for local models with the open-weights release of Qwen 3.8 27B. It was highly anticipated, because Qwen 3.6 held the crown for a long time in open models of a…

Learn how to guard against losing data when deserializing JSON to limited properties and the serializing the object again.

My latest library haul Quiet places for soothing your soul. Unassuming spaces where you can wander for hours, lose yourself browsing the shelves, discovering hidden gems or just enjoying the peace. A…

These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-08-26 On Writing #3 www.lesswrong.com 2026-08-25 EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! simonwillison.net…

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything. It is building an orchestration of models and letting a local orchestrator choose the right one for…

You feel like you have joined a community in a festival line. Everyone is together, waiting for music — we all came here with a common purpose, a purpose that we can see, a purpose that we can feel.…

My fair(s) experience.

Lean Software audits the alarm business. A dashboard reports thirty-eight new vulnerabilities over a weekend in which nobody changed a line, because the attack surface lives in delivered assemblage…

Kubernetes is a container orchestrator, which requires a compute. To power a compute unit, you need electricity. Creating electricity can result in carbon emissions, which is bad for the climate.…

This is a bit late, isn't it! Inside the Manosphere was released this year, but in March, so I'm a good five months behind the curve. Story of my life. I enjoyed it. There was a very interesting bit…

Coffee Valley is a small specialty coffee store only a short walk from Ikebukuro station. They serve a range of coffee drinks plus toasts and cakes. Since it opens as early as 8am, it would make a…

How many Gorons do I have to name?

For most of my career, working with computers meant giving them precise instructions. I wrote the code, searched for answers, and operated…

Coverage and commentary of the US water utility cyber incidents continue to dominate OT security content, often with suggestions to address the problem (including mine). Most of the suggestions are…

• Happy first anniversary to my weeknotes! I started these exactly 52 weeks ago, and managed to write on 49 weeks since then. I’ll call that a success! After all...

My youngest wanted basketball pancakes, so we did our best.

Illegal to Help: The Veterinary Lobby’s Invisible Hand “A pharmacy technician can give your child a flu shot in all fifty states. In Texas, a trained animal shelter worker who gives your dog a rabies…

Portuguese Some blogs are ugly. Fact. But there's nothing wrong with that! Our blogs are forms of expression, from the text to the appearance. Sometimes, some aren't so… aesthetically pleasing? I say…

If more people asked themselves this the world would be a much better place. #DollyParton

My family love me as much as I love them. We tell each other all the time. But when I’m at my lowest is really when they show it. MumShe...

Index In celebration of 20 of these damn things, I'm doing a throwback to the halcyon days of 2021 and Slushpost 8.5 , where I shared a bunch of links from my Firefox bookmarks. Except this time it's…

A group of lawyers’ organizations issue a statement on Chow Hang-tung… Chow Hang-tung has been subjected to extensive harassment, multiple arrests, prolonged pre-trial detention and periods of…

Elon Musk promised Grokipedia would become a better Wikipedia. Months later, its review pipeline has stopped, thousands of submissions remain frozen, search is failing, and no accountable human…

Poppy farming A reminder of what the garden was like before the Great Drought. Quote of the Day ”Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”…

The Lincoln Corsair died last year and is already making a comeback. After announcing the larger Nautilus production would move back to the US, Lincoln decided to sell the Chinese made Corsair over…

BRIAHNA JOY GRAY: Let’s talk about something like Medicare for All, which Bernie has already done the work of making popular. It went from a 37% approval prior to 2016 to enjoying 90% approval…

Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training." Four essential freedoms define free software. The first of those freedoms, Freedom 0, is for any…

It's inconceivable that we have lost Dolly Parton. How beautiful that we lived in the time that she lived. There will never be another. There just couldn't be. I can't help but feel especially low…

Fascist nihilism.

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 . I know she had been facing health challenges, but it is still saddening to hear of her passing. She was loved by basically everyone, which you don't see that…