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At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the security vendor CrowdStrike, steals and publishes even more credentials every time an infected package is installed.

Today's links No such thing as selective censorship resistance: Age verification, or getting rid of Big Tech (pick one). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ashley Madison passwords; Vivienne Westwood's tank; Victorious dancing baby; WIPO vs Creative C...

How can we design better platforms?

I thought I had an verbal agreement with them, that “Varnish Cache” was the FOSS project and “Varnish Software” was the commercial entitity, but the current position of Varnish Software’s IP-lawyers is that nobody can use “Varnish Cache” in any context, without their explic...

GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it's not yet available via their API, but they "plan to make GPT...

Have you ever searched for “AI chat” in the Mac App Store? I have. It’s like strolling through one of those counterfeit, replica markets where all the goods look legit at first glance. But then when you look closer, you realize something is off. For the query “AI chat”, ther...

Here's an interesting example of models incrementally improving over time: I am finding that today's leading models are competent at writing prompts for themselves and each other. A year ago I was quite skeptical of the pattern where models are used to help build prompts. Pr...

There's this restaurant in Tokyo that doesn't have a kitchen.

It's one of my periodic downsizing cycles, which means checking the hardware inventory (and, intermittently, discovering things that were not on the hardware inventory) and deciding if I want to use it, store it or junk it. And so we come to this machine, which has been sitt...

Today's links Wallet voting: On the uses and abuses of consumerism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Microsoft copyright crackdown against Russian dissidents; Corbyn wins Labour leadership; Bill Gates' monopolism; TiVo won't record DRM shows; HDCP l...

Preface This article is NOT served from a web server running on a disposable vape. If you want to see the real deal, click here. The content is otherwise identical. Background For a couple of years now, I have been collecting disposable vapes from friends and family. Initially, I only salvaged the batteries for “future” projects (It’s not hoarding, I promise), but recently, disposable vapes have gotten more advanced. I wouldn’t want to be the lawyer who one day will have to argue how a device with USB C and a rechargeable battery can be classified as “disposable”.

So I had this idea around training a text-to-speech engine with my voice, then using that to speak over the Sonos at home to announce AI-driven events, such as people ringing the doorbell. A few hours' worth of video from these weekly updates fed into ElevenLabs and wammo! Here

gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates OpenAI have increased the rate limits for their two main GPT-5 models. These look significant: gpt-5 Tier 1: 30K → 500K TPM (1.5M batch) Tier 2: 450K → 1M (3M batch) Tier 3: 800K → 2M Tier 4: 2M → 4M gpt-5-mini Tier 1: 200K → 500K (5...

The trick with Claude Code is to give it large, but not too large, extremely well defined problems.

(If the problems are too large then you are now vibe coding… which (a) frequently goes wrong, and (b) is a one-way street: once vibes enter your app, you end up with tangled, write-only code which functions perfectly but can no longer be edited by humans. Great for prototyping, bad for foundations.)

— Matt Webb, What I think about when I think about Claude Code

Tags: matt-webb, claude, ai, claude-code, llms, vibe-coding, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai

From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others' eyes—creating perhaps the most elaborate illusion ever sustained: that validation exists outside the self that seeks it.

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space Jeff Geerling September 12, 2025

London Transport Museum Depot Open Days I just found out about this (thanks, ChatGPT) and I'm heart-broken to learn that I'm in London a week too early! If you are in London next week (Thursday 18th through Sunday 21st 2025) you should definitely know about it: The Museum D...

Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy Shlok Khemani has been doing excellent work reverse-engineering LLM systems and documenting his discoveries. Last week he wrote about ChatGPT memory. This week it's Claude. Claude's memory system has two fundamental characteristics. Fir...

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Qwen announced two new models via their Twitter account (nothing on their blog yet): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. They make some big claims on performance: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct approaches our 235B flagship. Qwen3-Ne...

Adam Gordon Bell is a developer, blogger, and the host of the software engineering podcast, CoRecursive. I interviewed Adam about writing and his success at attracting customers through his blog posts when he worked at Earthly.

We talk about:

• How Adam consistently wrote blog posts that reached the front page of Hacker News
• Discovering blog topics that attract potential customers
• Techniques Adam used to strengthen his writing
• The value of writing respectfully about your competitors

Transcript

• Getting started with blogging
• Investing outsized effort for outsized returns
• Getting early feedback on blog posts
• Tools for improving your writing
• Finding focus for writing
• Crafting blog post titles
• Panel-of-experts style of blogging
• Blogging respectfully about your competitor
• Improving your writing through imitation

Note: I’ve lightly edited the transcript for brevity.