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Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here's the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, and their collection of 11 more articles. It's a big release! I had a ...

I believe the Pebble community, Core Devices, Rebble and I all want the same thing. We love our Pebbles and want them to keep working long…

Today's links Disney has lost Roger Rabbit: Termination of Transfer is the most pro-artist form of copyright. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why didn't AV apps block Sony's rootkit? Surveillance doesn't stop terror attacks; The last Pratchett; The...

"Burger Becky" did a lot of great games, first at Interplay (Bard's Tale, Wasteland), then later at Logicware, where she and others did some great Mac ports including Jazz Jackrabbit and their Half-Life MacOS port which never actually saw the light of day, the infamous 3DO port of Doom, and of course the initial work on the IIgs version of Wolfenstein 3D. Naturally these are just the highlights that come to mind of a very long tenure in the computer gaming world. She was very complimentary of TenFourFox back in the day when I was still developing that, and I'd long hoped she would release Mac Half-Life like she did 3DO Doom for the archivists to pick over. Sadly, word has come out that she has finally succumbed to some sort of aggressive form of pulmonary adenocarcinoma. It's not a good way to go, and I hope her last moments were at peace.

The fate of “small” open source Nolan Lawson asks if LLM assistance means that the category of tiny open source libraries like his own blob-util is destined to fade away. Why take on additional supply chain risks adding another dependency when an LLM can likely kick out the ...

Today's links The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sony DRM nonpology; Misprinted prefab houses; Canada's repair law can't be fixed; BNL's USB-stick release...

Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being exploited. Microsoft also fixed a glitch that prevented some Windows 10 users from taking advantage of an extra year of security updates, which is nice because the zero-day flaw and other critical weaknesses patched today affect all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.

I recently added a bunch of app icons from macOS Tahoe to my collection. Afterwards, I realized some of them were missing relational metadata. For example, I have a collection of iMove icons through the years which are related in my collection by their App Store ID. Howev...

There are two smartphone features that I consider sacred and believe they must never fail: phone calling and the alarm. There is an unspoken contract between users and vendors. Sure, innovate away, change the UX at will, whatever. But you can't fail at making phone calls and sounding the alarm.

I missed the alarm for the first time in many years last weekend. I have an iPhone 13 Pro, with the latest iOS. There was no sound. When I woke up, the phone was still in "alarm mode", with the screen active, silently alarming nobody for 45 minutes. The snooze and stop buttons weren't responsive. I had to force quit the clock app.

I'm getting a quartz clock alarm I guess.

With AI now, we are able to write new programs that we could never hope to write by hand before. We do it by specifying objectives (e.g. classification accuracy, reward functions), and we search the program space via gradient descent to find neural networks that work well a...

From boom to bust in a few short years

This week, it was an absolute privilege to be at Europol in The Hague, speaking about cyber offenders and at the InterCOP conference and spending time with some of the folks involved in the Operation Endgame actions. The latter in particular gave me a new sense of just how much

Creating ad-hoc Emacs packages in a few lines of code.

A practical approach to managing production infrastructure using git-tracked markdown files and Claude Code for small teams

I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is here for that. We can all enjoy our geriatric little silicon artifacts together regardless of your electoral persuasion. But I was hopp...

llm-anthropic 0.22

New release of my llm-anthropic plugin:

• Support for Claude's new structured outputs feature for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1. #54
• Support for the web search tool using -o web_search 1 - thanks Nick Powell and Ian Langworth. #30

The plugin previously powered LLM schemas using this tool-call based workaround. That code is still used for Anthropic's older models.

I also figured out uv recipes for running the plugin's test suite in an isolated environment, which are now baked into the new Justfile.

Tags: projects, python, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm, anthropic, claude, uv

Michelangelo supposedly said the statue already existed in the marble, he simply removed everything that wasn't David.

Today's links Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker: Lina Khan has plans for New York City. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pirate code in Sony rootkit; Tim Wu on "New Monopolists"; Supersonic chirps in ads; Fordite; Sony's rootkit uninst...

A short review and troubleshooting guide.