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Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built
A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests - we need artifacts that show their progress and help us see exactly what the agent-produced software...
Steve Blank
• steve blank
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And then you consider how it affects the rest of our country and our lives. This is one of those stories. […]
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)
Today's links The Nuremberg Caucus: What do Democrats have to lose? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bradbury x LA monorails; Red Cross vs first aid kits; Wyden on CIA Senate spying; Coates x Sanders; Nerdy Valentines; Duke U, trademark troll; "The ...
Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems
Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems
New paper by Damon McMillan exploring challenging LLM context tasks involving large SQL schemas (up to 10,000 tables) across different models and file formats:
Using SQL generation as a proxy for programmatic ag...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a "U.S.-based technology company".
This captures an effec...
A Brief History of App Icons From Apple’s Creator Studio
I recently updated my collection of macOS icons to include Apple’s new “Creator Studio” family of icons.
Doing this — in tandem with seeing funny things like this post on Mastodon — got me thinking about the history of these icons.
I built a feature on my icon gallery sit...
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The Epstein class and collapse porn (09 Feb 2026)
Today's links The Epstein class and collapse porn: Buy the dip! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Web 1.0 logos; Legality of printing Catan tiles; Hamster strandbeest; Pactuator; Michican bans oral; Blooks; Yours is a very bad hotel; Yippie Disneylan...
Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
Weekly Update 490
A big "thank you" to everyone who helped me troubleshoot the problem with my "Print Screen" button on the new PC. Try as we all might, none of us could figure out why it refused to bind to SnagIt and instead insisted on dumping the entire
System tests
On the irreplaceability of system tests.
Every Man a Microservice
Contra Conway
Kākāpō mug by Karen James
Friend and neighbour Karen James made me a Kākāpō mug. It has a charismatic Kākāpō, four Kākāpō chicks (in celebration of the 2026 breeding season) and even has some rimu fruit!
I love it so much.
Tags: kakapo, art
Quoting Thomas Ptacek
People on the orange site are laughing at this, assuming it's just an ad and that there's nothing to it. Vulnerability researchers I talk to do not think this is a joke. As an erstwhile vuln researcher myself: do not bet against LLMs on this.
Axios: Anthropic's Claude Opus ...
The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer
Canadians, rejoice! Not only do you have curling, the Big Turk and Tim Hortons (and, when I was in BC last, Dr Pepper made with real cane sugar), you also have a number of interesting indigenous computers like the underappreciated Micro Computer Machines MCM/70 portable, t...
Vouch
Vouch
Mitchell Hashimoto's new system to help address the deluge of worthless AI-generated PRs faced by open source projects now that the friction involved in contributing has dropped so low.
He says:
The idea is simple: Unvouched users can't contribute to your projects. Ve...
Tas Game Makers 2026
We just had the AGM for Tasmanian Game Makers, Inc. (TasGM) in Launceston on Friday, and I was thrilled to (once again, somehow) be elected as President! For the fourth year in a row, I’m really grateful for the trust of our members, and I’m excited to work with the new board to keep pushing the video game industry in Tasmania forward.
The new board is:
- President: Paris B-A
- Vice-Presidents: Michael Hinz, Leo Febey
- Secretary: Tim Nugent
- Treasurer: Jon Manning
- General Committee: Jason Imms, Dean Baron, Lindsay Wells, Lindsay Mansfield, Rhiannon Ross, Alonso Zevallos Fournier, Brie Ratten, and Jerome Phelps
With Oliver Potter continuing as our Screen Tasmania Observer.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
How to generate good looking reports with Claude Code, Cowork or Codex
A step-by-step guide to extracting your brand design system and generating on-brand PDF reports and slide decks using coding agents.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
Self-improving CLAUDE.md files
A simple trick to keep your CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files updated using the agent's own chat logs - turning a tedious chore into a 30 second job.
Zendesk, get your shit together please
BORN TO GET SPAMMED, WORLD IS A FUCK, SPAMHAUS THEM ALL 2026, I am inbox full man, 410,757,864,530 Zendesk emails
Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode
Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode
New "research preview" from Anthropic today: you can now access a faster version of their frontier model Claude Opus 4.6 by typing /fast in Claude Code... but at a cost that's 6x the normal price.
Opus is usually $5/million input and...