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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)

rj Today's links Disenshittification Nation: How Canada can defend itself from Trump, make billions of dollars, and build a new, global, good internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Project Blue Sky"; O'Reilly v Graham on inequality; Big Pharma'...

Jim Nielsen’s Blog Valid

The Don’t “Contact Us” Page

Nic Chan comes out as the whistleblower on how many “Contact Us” pages are made (spoiler: they’re designed to keep us from contacting anyone). A “fuck off contact page” is what a company throws together when they actually don’t want anyone to contact them at all. They […] a...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

My blog uses aggressive caching: it sits behind Cloudflare with a 15 minute cache header, which guarantees it can survive even the largest traffic spike to any given page. I've recently added a couple of dynamic features that work in spite of that full-page caching. Here's h...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory

The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory Dan Shapiro proposes a five level model of AI-assisted programming, inspired by the five (or rather six, it's zero-indexed) levels of driving automation. Spicy autocomplete, aka original GitHub Copilot or copying...

Works on My Machine
• Scott Werner

The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting

The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting

Or: The Beaver Who Learned To Measure Twice

IT Notes
• Stefano Marinelli

Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

Many of my clients do not use Microsoft systems on their desktops; they use Linux-based systems or, in some cases, FreeBSD. Many use Apple systems - macOS - and are generally satisfied with them. While I wash my hands of it when it comes to Microsoft systems (telling them t...

Mahad Kalam

The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site

Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

Anil Dash Valid

A Codeless Ecosystem, or hacking beyond vibe coding

There's been a remarkable leap forward in the ability to orchestrate coding bots, making it possible for ordinary creators to command dozens of AI bots to build software without ever having to directly touch code. The implications of this kind of evolution are potentially ex...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) (27 Jan 2026)

Today's links Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK): There is nothing harder to stop than an idea whose time has come to pass. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About; AnarchistU; "Monopolized"; All bets are off. ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch

One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project - thousands of parallel agents producing ~1.6 million lines of Rust - that they were inspired to take a go at building a web browser usi...

Experimental History
• Adam Mastroianni

I know your secret

11 notes on turning unknowns into knowns

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence Kimi K2 landed in July as a 1 trillion parameter open weight LLM. It was joined by Kimi K2 Thinking in November which added reasoning capabilities. Now they've made it multi-modal: the K2 models were text-only, but the new 2.5 can handl...

Xe Iaso's blog Valid

Backfilling Discord forum channels with the power of terrible code

tigrisdata.com/blog/discord-backfill/

Hey all! We've got a Discord so you can chat with us about the wild world of object storage and get any help you need. We've also set up Answer Overflow so that you can browse the Q&A from the web. Today I'm going to discuss how we got there and solved one of the...

Troy Hunt Supports Webmention
• Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 488

Weekly Update 488

It's the discussion about the reaction of some people in the UK regarding their impending social media ban for under 16s that bugged me most. Most noteably was the hand-waving around "the gov is just trying to siphon up all our IDs" and "this means

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests

Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests. Here's what I said: I work in Python which helps a lot because there are a TON of good examples of pytest tests floating around in the training data, including things lik...

Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling

Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors

A few weeks ago, I started hearing a slight crackle at the loudest parts of whenever sound was playing through my PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers. It was very faint, but quite annoying, especially when editing my YouTube videos.

PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers on workbench

For a few days I thought it could be a hearing problem (at this point in my life, every year brings a new health adventure...), but after testing my wired headphones and another small computer speaker on the same output, I determined the problem was, indeed, coming from the PreSonus speakers.

lcamtuf’s thing
• lcamtuf

You gotta think outside the hypercube

You gotta think outside the hypercube

A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.

Anil Dash Valid

Why We Speak

I've been working in and around the technology industry for a long time. Depending on how you count, it's 20 or 30 years. (I first started getting paid to put together PCs with a screwdriver when I was a teenager, but there isn't a good way to list that on LinkedIn.) And as ...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files

One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was half-heartedly rebranded to "Advanced Data Analysis" at some point and is generally really difficult...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)

Today's links Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: H2G2 v BBC; Anti-capitalist bank rave; Narrati...