“No way to prevent this” says only language where this regularly happens

the rate limiting stuff in the Go stdlib is my nemesis. it's just providing a normal token bucket rate limiter, but with the most confusing naming imaginable (a Limit type that actually defines a frequency, and single letter variable names everywhere) pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...

Yeah basically, software is boring once its in a container not called “my terminal”

Polyglot Conference was quite good today. Nice to meet people from a wide variety of backgrounds doing cool stuff in Vancouver www.polyglotsoftware.com

LinkedIn, man. I do not think it is "poor form" to try to recruit software developers from your company www.linkedin.com/posts/dennis...

every single time I do Python stuff

Figma hired Krazam to promote their MCP server, lol (it's pretty good) www.instagram.com/reel/DO86iR4...

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time

shipping software on macOS vs shipping software on Linux, sigh

I do the West Coast “wake up, catch up on what coworkers in Europe and the East Coast have been doing, work work work in the morning and then things are relatively quiet in the afternoon” thing and mostly always have. Curious whether it’s better or worse than the reverse situation

new blog post from the agent trenches: www.reillywood.com/blog/tool-ca...

@taylor.town catching up on my RSS feed and I thought this was great! taylor.town/type-of-person

Gemini CLI weekly update for v0.5.0: 🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements. Deets: github.com/google-gemin... #GeminiCLI #Gemini #AI #OSS #FastMCP

my only goal as a programmer is to someday be as cool as Nir, who is still writing new Win32 GUI utilities in 2025 blog.nirsoft.net/2025/09/15/n...

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

been thinking a lot about MCP lately (which is kinda my job) and IMO: - there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents - MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally

on type safety

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

fun fact: they rent out their lovely Canadian HQ in Vancouver for events like weddings

going to eat dinner, who belongs on this list. i haven't seen a good ai starter pack in forever go.bsky.app/2N4PAzz

i would install the costco linux

Well worth a read by @seangoedecke.bsky.social whose blog I’ve been enjoying lately: seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...

Switched to an old iPhone mini in the hopes that I’d use a smaller phone less, and the jury’s still out on that but I *love* the smaller form factor. Shame nobody bought it.

switching to a new (old, I wanted a mini) iPhone and boy even Apple can't make peer-to-peer data transfer reliable

quoting this again because i saw another few comments recently about something similar that were like “eew gross this is so bad”. the reality though is that this is actually - unironically - what peak development looks like. this has effected zero people, been noticed by almost zero, and works great

What if a browser could navigate #ATProto DIDs and 🦋 Bluesky handles? Made a little prototype of Aura, a browser that can navigate between standard websites (🌐), Bluesky handles (@), and permanent DIDs, resolving them all in the same address bar.

join a local tech discord ask if the vibes are normal or really weird admin laughs and says “it’s a good discord sir” it’s really weird

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

good shortcut to take, honestly

The Kant Car

learned about an exciting mythical creature today en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnacon

battery swelling on my laptop, but "this is why I got a @frame.work! I'll just order a new battery... oh." apparently they've been having battery stock issues for 2 months, cool cool cool cool community.frame.work/t/battery-av...

fixing all AI forever by adding the system prompt “but no galaxy brain stuff ok”

last night @chadkoh.com taught me some basic things about ATproto! he was very nice about the fact that I’ve been on this platform for a while and had no idea what a PDS is

No Country for Corporate Memphis

oh man this is bringing up unpleasant memories (partially because I am quoted unfavourably in the blog post). people care way, way too much about where config files live news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4502...

love that people track the SOTA of scaring other people with spiders

Subscribe to the author of Lazygit’s blog because Lazygit is amazing, but stay for the slightly unhinged creative writing jesseduffield.com/ChatGPT-6-is...

Whenever this comparison comes up my main question is: why is streaming video so energy-intensive?

Now that your web browser is the only thing your computer runs, it should just claim all RAM at startup.

SV should look like Tokyo, change my mind

Armin’s doing some really interesting work exploring how far agents can go writing+running code, which I think is probably the endgame for a lot of functionality being put into MCP servers today