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“The data doesn’t lie.” I imagine that’s what the cigarette companies said. “The data doesn’t lie. People want this stuff. They’re buying it in droves. We’re merely giving them what they want.” Which sounds more like an attempt at exoneration than a reason to exist. Demand...

Announcing SOC 2 Type II compliance for Keygen Cloud.

An Evening Out Colette Berends Why do I, a fairly liberal Canadian, continue to live in California instead of moving home, given America’s…

the browser is the sandbox Paul Kinlan is a web platform developer advocate at Google and recently turned his attention to coding agents. He quickly identified the importance of a robust sandbox for agents to operate in and put together these detailed notes on how the web br...

Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have been possible without you! Here's why I need to do inventory more often. This is an Apple prototype ROM I am ashamed to admit I found...

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura live stream Critical update for this year's Kākāpō breeding season: the New Zealand Department of Conservation have a livestream running of Rakiura's nest! You’re looking at the underground nest of 23-year-old Rakiura. She has chosen this same site to ne...

I used to be a TDD sceptic - too much time writing tests for features that might get deleted. Then coding agents completely changed the economics of software testing.

Don't "Trust the Process" Jenny Wen, Design Lead at Anthropic (and previously Director of Design at Figma) gave a provocative keynote at Hatch Conference in Berlin last September. Jenny argues that the Design Process - user research leading to personas leading to user journ...

If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they’ll probably say “Cool! Now I need to think of an idea.” Then they will forget about it, and never build a thing. The problem is not that your friend is horribly uncreative. It’s that most people’s problems are not software-shaped, and most won’t notice even when they are. [...]

Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we were never taught to see, asking for faster horses and never dreaming of cars.

— Jasmine Sun

Tags: vibe-coding, coding-agents, claude-code, generative-ai, ai, llms

There’s a mass of data that holds a shape you can’t quite name.

Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article was FastRender, a web browser they built from scratch usi...

In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors, however, the 8086 is a 16-bit chip. Its arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) operates on 16-bit values, performing arithmetic operations such a...

[...] i was too busy with work to read anything, so i asked chatgpt to summarize some books on state formation, and it suggested circumscription theory. there was already the natural boundary of my computer hemming the towns in, and town mayors played the role of big men to drive conflict. so i just needed a way for them to fight. i slightly tweaked the allocation of claude max accounts to the towns from a demand-based to a fixed allocation system. towns would each get a fixed amount of tokens to start, but i added a soldier role that could attack and defend in raids to steal tokens from other towns. [...]

— Theia Vogel, Gas Town fan fiction

Tags: parallel-agents, llms, ai, generative-ai

SSH has no Host header exe.dev is a new hosting service that, for $20/month, gives you up to 25 VMs "that share 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM". Everything happens over SSH, including creating new VMs. Once configured you can sign into your exe.dev VMs like this: ssh simon.exe.dev Here...

Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine".

For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then:

-> layout elements
-> rasterize them to a 2d screen
-> diff that against the previous screen
-> finally use the diff to generate ANSI sequences to draw

We have a ~16ms frame budget so we have roughly ~5ms to go from the React scene graph to ANSI written.

— Chris Lloyd, Claude Code team at Anthropic

Tags: react, claude-code

I’m so proud of this.

Hint Line ‘93, a game we made at Yarn Spinner, is now on display at ACMI’s Game Worlds exhibition. We put up a big behind-the-scenes post on the Yarn Spinner blog, so go read that…

For those who don’t know, early last year ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, a museum of screen culture in Melbourne) put out a call for commissioned microgames. They wanted playable experiences for a museum context: 5-10 minutes, compelling world-building, accessible to a wide variety of visitors.

Today's links The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating ungovernability as a habit: Get good at being on hold. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Ventus"; Woody Guthrie v Trump's dad; Tory MP v poppers. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me...

Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new release from Qwen is. ...

best life in category of achievable lives

The other day I was browsing YouTube — as one does — and I clicked a link in the video description to a book. I was then subjected to a man-in-the-middle attack, where YouTube put themselves in the middle of me and the link I had clicked: Hyperlinks are subversive. Big Te...