In thevelocitywhitepapers.com they unveil the "Ship of Government IT" But the ship is not complete without my addition: "The Pole of Flogging Analogies"

The old adage holds especially true for large language models: familiarity breeds contempt.

Further experimentation with input methods and focus stacks in @bomb.sh Notice how focus cycling is constrained to just the dialog box when it opens, but then returns to the main form when it is closed.

👀 @bomb.sh/tty will deliver some genuinely novel features like input cursor rendering via native terminal, css-like pointer support for mouse mode, and huge size/performance gains over existing alternatives watch this space (and consider chipping in at bomb.sh/donate)

I love it when a model comes together. This time, spiking out focus cycling and text editing with native cursors for @bomb.sh Special bonus: pluggable editing keymaps! (this demo uses readline bindings)

If you use Emacs, I highly recommend `agent-shell` github.com/xenodium/age... It's like the `magit` for agents that other IDEs will be cribbing off of for the next 10 years. If you already use it, you should consider sponsoring @xenodium.bsky.social to keep its capabilities growing

The category error is in the wishful thinking that the physics of software development and delivery have changed. They haven't. The only difference is in the scale of the masses involved.

The real winner for AI enhanced software practice is for engineering teams to achieve levels of precision and excellence never before thought possible. Sorry to say, but if your strategy is centered around cost savings and not "hire the best humans", you're fucked.

Fun times! A draft implementation of placing a native cursor anywhere inside a @bomb.sh/tty layout

Real excited for more of this. Just need to figure out how to buy more time to play with it!

When my daughter was four years old and I'd instruct her not to do something she would often reply "but you don't understand, I *want* to" I think about this often whenever the most explicit constraint directives do not in actuality constrain an agent's behavior.

There is a lot for a boy to love about Python, but its lack of a proper function expressions at this late an hour is unforgivable.

New working book title: “The Mythical Agent Month”

Very pleasantly suprised at how much Hungarian cuisine agrees with me.

Multiple anecdotes from folks outside the software-o-verse complaining about a general decrease in software quality as of late. Anybody know of data that tracks this kind of trend?

I worry about the state of the world when everyone else and not just me is incapable of responding to email.

Actually, it's pronounced helmargonetes

1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com

Sometimes in life when you encounter an impossibly dense wall of text, you just have to take a deep breath and click through.

And the Oscar for best gif in a README goes agent-recall for emacs github.com/Marx-A00/age...

This is happening to AISD right now. It's sick to be targeting children like this, and at such scale. mashable.com/article/inst...

"stack exceptions" vs "result values" is a false choice. Use a result value when you are making flow control decisions based on the success or failure of an operation; usually in framework code. Use unwinding stack exceptions when not.

Using agents to code a public API without a spec www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f5M...

Oh wait, I did flesh it out a bit more (although not completely), I totally forgot! github.com/cowboyd/impa... This solves the problem of virtual paging in javascript generally in a way that can be plugged into any framework. Perhaps worth revisiting.

This idea, which I never really fleshed out is simple and still relevant. I should have done a better job of explaining it. github.com/cowboyd/data...

The number of fascinating projects I've seen in the last week with < 100 GitHub stars is truly amazing. The AI is helping us make so much good stuff, we're struggling to pay attention to it.

Silence fools! AI will empower NPM to go offline more times per day than any of the haters ever *dreamed* was possible!

Any laptop worth making is worth making with a power input on *both* sides.

I've been surprised at how wonderful the experience of coding with agents in Emacs is. It's been great at routing text between proceses for decades and is so is oddly positioned really, really well in the age of AI. Also, Agent Shell has been a joy github.com/xenodium/age...

If you work hard all your life, and always eat your peas, you too might grow up be awarded a medal by a fake robot.

I asked Claude to pick its favorite instruction I gave it out of all our interactions last week. It's response, in reference to my request that we rebase rather than rolling forward by piling more commits: 🥇 #1 — "We're not writing a novel about a hero's journey, we're drawing a straight line"

Me: Have you ever heard of Alexander the Great? 11yo: Isn't he like, a rapper?

If they keep this up, the Sox are on pace to fire Alex Cora a record SIX times this season.

Too many nested and inter-twingled "user friendly" aliases like "This PC" and "Your Documents" have caused me to spend the last 45 minutes trying to copy a damn file, and I still can't figure it out.

Getting real excited to use this to build utility CLIs in TS that just weren't really possible before.

Just put together an initial implementation of transitions for clayterm. Yes, these are just terminal apps.

This is really cool in of itself electric-sql.com/blog/2026/04... But beyond this, what is under appreciated is that DOOM was a freakin' masterpiece of software engineering in ways that we are still continuing to discover.

Level of phishing scams are becoming unreal. Our finance depart just got a very official looking email, _from me_, instructing them to pay the attached invoice. Looked super legit. Lucky for me, I am cc'd on all invoicing emails, so I was able to point it out. Scary. Watch yourselves out there.

These demos showing virtual scrolling with clayterm are kind of amazing.

Not fully arrived at this take yet, but beginning to strongly suspect that JSX only grew out of the JS world lacking structured concurrency.

The tragedy of the 2010s: Just as we grew to love Bublé, Bieber became nearly unbearable.

It irks me to no end that you apparently cannot buy sugar that is both organic _and_ does not come in a plastic casing.

"Wait, were you just manually pushing the dispatch button every day?" PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE GITHUB WORKFLOW

Same. Twitter turned into coin operated cesspool, and any and all upsides disappeared. That said, the screws were being turned on 3rd party apps and workflows for years before professor douchebag showed up, and my usage had already dropped significantly.

Coding is dead is dead.

What's the wisdom on OSS licensing in the age of AI? Like I'm ok with folks using our open source as a reference implementation, but how do you ensure that you get credit?

Added "line" mode to clayterm to support nice interactions in normal scrolling CLIs. The trick: 1. render frame continuously into the region at the bottom. 2. "commit" the final frame to scroll history. Non-terminal pipes like CI logs see the last frame only, so look nice github.com/thefrontside...

My 1.8 billion dollar AI startup will let you watch Knight Rider re-runs in your command terminal.

Mythos has already discovered "thousands" of vulnerabilities across every major OS and browser. Translation: we're gonna need multiple data centers to patch the security holes created by each data center's worth of software. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

You may not care about code quality anymore, but nevertheless, code quality cares about you.