Searching for Birds, an engaging visualization of eBird and Google Trends data that reveals human curiosity about birds.
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
New opinion piece from Paul Ford in the New York Times. Unsurprisingly for a piece by Paul it's packed with quoteworthy snippets, but a few stood out for me in particular.
Paul describes the November moment that so many ...
Quoting Martin Fowler
LLMs are eating specialty skills. There will be less use of specialist front-end and back-end developers as the LLM-driving skills become more important than the details of platform usage. Will this lead to a greater recognition of the role of Expert Generalists? Or will the ability of LLMs to write lots of code mean they code around the silos rather than eliminating them?
— Martin Fowler, tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat, via HN)
Tags: martin-fowler, careers, generative-ai, ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming
How to raise children . “It’s wild to me...
How to raise children. “It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is.”
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like...
Team Pursuit speed skaters used to trade off leads like cyclists but the sport has been revolutionized by the US team’s invention of the “bump drafting” technique.
Russia-Ukraine peace talks end after two hours
Kyiv's chief negotiator describes US-mediated negotiations with Russia as difficult and complex, but says there has been progress. Also: European football authorities investigate claims of racism in the Champions League match between Real Madrid and Benfica. Investigators lo...
Vintage Art House Movie Posters by Peter Strausfeld
The excellent Poster House museum in NYC currently has an exhibition up of posters by Peter Strausfeld.
Between 1947 and 1980, Peter Strausfeld, a German refugee interned on the Isle of Man during World War II, created unique, compelling posters for London’s Academy ...
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
This week, I wanted to go back and revisit the episode that I made with Iron & Wine in the fall of 2022 about the song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth." And there are a couple of reasons. One, there’s a new Iron & Wine album that’s coming out this month, called Hen’...
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era ....
Paul Ford on AI and the Infinite Software Era. “All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.”
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that...
Current is an interesting new RSS reader that doesn’t function like an email inbox. “There is no count because counting was the problem.”
Iran claims progress in US nuclear talks
Iran's foreign minister said the two sides agreed on a set of principles that could pave the way for a possible deal. But the US vice president, JD Vance, gave a cautious assessment telling Fox News that Iran had not agreed to "red lines" set by President Trump. Also, Peru ...
Apple Invites Media to Special ‘Experience’ in New York, London, and Shanghai on March 4
macrumors.com/2026/02/16/apple-announces-special-event-in-new-york/
Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
Apple invited select members of the media to the event in three
major cities around the world. It is simply described as a
“special Apple Experience,” and there is no further information
about what it may entail. The invitation features a 3D ...
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6
Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens (the Opus models are $5/$25). Here's the system card PDF.
I ...
Rodney v0.4.0
Rodney v0.4.0
My Rodney CLI tool for browser automation attracted quite the flurry of PRs since I announced it last week. Here are the release notes for the just-released v0.4.0:
Errors now use exit code 2, which means exit code 1 is just for for check failures. #15
New r...
Reimagining the Origins of Winter Sports
A New Winter is a project from Colombian-American photographer Sofia Jaramillo that seeks to
This project revisits the early depictions of skiing, which often portrayed Eurocentric ideals and a narrow vision of who belongs on the slopes. By reimagining the first images...
🎬 Good Boy
Such a good boy! Really! Best dog ever! :) Very much enjoyed this unique horror drama from a dog's perspective.
👍 Recommended!
The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to...
The goal of the Trump Action Tracker is to “document how the trajectory of Trump’s presidency is aligned with the authoritarian playbook”.
16.02.2026
The K-Shaped Economy
I think I’d heard the term “k-shaped economy” somewhere before but didn’t really know what it meant until I watched this video:
American Airlines is changing the layout of some of their aircraft to add 31 first class and premium seats while cutting out 73 economy seats. ...
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous:...
Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. “The AI identifies high-entropy clusters — the precise points where unique insights…reside — and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.”