Today we are revealing the Next Big Thing for DuckDB: Quack, a protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. True to DuckDB's philosophy, Quack is simple and fast. Setting it up takes seconds, and it works for both bulk operations and small write transactions. 🔗 duckdb.org/quack

We're into day 2 of the Proactive ISP Virtual Summit. You can still join! The recordings will be posted later. proactiveispsummit.com

The future is not pumping out slop until our software breaks under its own weight. Instead I think we use AI Agents to define a new SDLC. Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris compel us to. /cc @bcantrill.bsky.social www.adamhjk.com/blog/lazines...

Wow youtu.be/IxFcNOmND00?... #canada

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

"The failure mode isn't malice. It's convenience." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

[2603.20639] Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion share.google/Fbbak2LPf0I7...

Gemini CLI has plan mode now. I don't know how good it is but this was the main barrier to me using it other than as a reviewer for Claude Code work.

Read “Datadog, Block, and Cloudflare All Abandoned the Default MCP Pattern. Here’s What They Use Instead“ by Tanmay Deshpande on Medium: medium.com/data-science...

Read “LangChain Open-Sourced the Architecture Behind Coding Agents. Here's What It Actually Reveals.“ by Ari Vance on Medium: ai.gopubby.com/langchain-op...

100% - Shipping poor llm code is a choice

Very disturbing implications for a couple of places where I’ve lived, and encouraging ones for the place where I’m from. From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”

Closing session at another great ISPAmerica. Great war stories. share.google/oaY4TdJMHB4r...

Congrats University of Waterloo for leaving X! Make sure to follow them here @uwaterloo.ca

From @vercel.com: An agent performing support duties for a specific customer should receive a tool scoped to that customer's data, not a tool that accepts a customer ID parameter, since that parameter is subject to prompt injection. vercel.com/blog/securit...

technoyoda.github.io/agent-search... Worth reading #ai #agent

Read “Google’s A2UI Protocol Just Changed How AI Agents Build User Interfaces — Here’s My First Project…“ by Pawel on Medium: medium.com/@meshuggah22...

This is interesting, a 'safe' Python interpreter for use by AI agents. I guess because the LLMs know Python better than Rune or RHAI? github.com/pydantic/monty

In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter. He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

At what point does Poilievre look at how Carney handles things and think, crap, I'm really not the person the country needs now?

CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

If a restaurant served you a perfectly-cooked steal with a cockroach on it, would your feedback be "It was perfectly cooked, but there was a cockroach on it"? Or would you just see the cockroach and conclude the steak's inedible? In case you're wondering what impact bugs have on user feedback.

I've published a post on better prompting for LLMs: "Prompting 101: Show, don't tell" This is inspired by a similar post from an internal prompt engineering training series I wrote for Mercury: www.haskellforall.com/2026/01/prom...

I joined the Oxide and Friends annual predictions podcast episode this week - here are my 1, 3 and 6 year predictions for AI and LLMs (and Kākāpō parrots) simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...

New year's resolution, engage with open source developers on our new Bluesky account. ✨

youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtu... Good talk. Their Vibe Coding book is a bit long but worth reading too.

The only true way is the Canadian way (As much as I wish it was a joke, it is in fact not one and this is exactly how it works here)

TSX year-to-date: ⬆️ 27.5% S&P500 year-to-date: ⬆️ 16.5%

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Read “What Actually Happened When We Turned On HTTP/3“ by The Speed Engineer on Medium: medium.com/@chopra.kant... #networknook

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

I'm at Broadband Nation this week. Anyone around and want to chat? www.broadbandnationexpo.com

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9308.... #networknook

DNS over QUIC sounds good: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517745.3561445 "With DoQ being only ~2% slower than DoUDP, encrypted DNS becomes much more appealing for the Web."

More QUIC goodness.

I joined the Beyond the Cable podcast to talk about the importance of streamlined operations for regional operators. bbcmag.com/why-streamli...

seemann.io/posts/2024-1... #networknook

Read “Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words (And I Can’t Believe It Worked)“ by Adham Khaled on Medium: generativeai.pub/stanford-jus...

We need a new argumentative fallacy: appeal to AI-authority