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How I used Claude Code to fix Linux desktop issues, get 'garbage'-rated Windows apps working in Wine, and what it means for software ecosystems

Use subagents and custom agents in Codex Subagents were announced in general availability today for OpenAI Codex, after several weeks of preview behind a feature flag. They're very similar to the Claude Code implementation, with default subagents for "explorer", "worker" and...

When interacting with databases in Haskell, we use a library called Persistent to create mappings between database content and Haskell data types. This library can also query for records and update them, as long as the operations involved are very basic. Once ope...

The point of the blackmail exercise was to have something to describe to policymakers—results that are visceral enough to land with people, and make misalignment risk actually salient in practice for people who had never thought about it before.

— A member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team, as told to Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Tags: ai-ethics, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms

Tidbit: the software-based camera indicator light in the MacBook Neo runs in the secure exclave¹ part of the chip, so it is almost as secure as the hardware indicator light. What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen. It runs in a privileged environment separate from the kernel and blits the light directly onto the screen hardware.

— Guilherme Rambo, in a text message to John Gruber

Tags: hardware, apple, privacy, john-gruber

Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can be used to explore, analyze and cle...

Hallo allemaal, Vorige maand mailde ik over wat verbeteringen, waaronder dat als kamerstukken verwijzen naar andere kamerstukken, OpenTK daar nu klikbare links van maakt. Hier is een boel fanmail over binnengekomen. Het goede nieuws is dat deze feature nu nog wat uitgebreid is, waardoor ook document- en zaaknummers (2026D09757 of 2026Z04244) klikbaar gemaakt zijn. Dit is de web-versie van een bericht naar de OpenTK nieuwsbrief, schrijf je ook in als je op de hoogte gehouden wilt worden van de nieuwste ontwikkelingen!

Agentic Engineering Patterns > As with any tool, understanding how coding agents work under the hood can help you make better decisions about how to apply them. A coding agent is a piece of software that acts as a harness for an LLM, extending that LLM with additional...

Today's links Tools vs uses: Don't fall for it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Amazon coders x Amazon warehouse workers; Bruces's ETECH speech; Steven King x unions; Tax-free S&P 500 companies; Make Pop Rocks; "Ain't Misbehavin'"; "Car Hacker'...

When I first laid eyes on the FreeBSD Handbook, back in 2002, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Six years of Linux, a relationship I've written about elsewhere, across various distributions, had trained me to hunt for documentation in fragments: often incomplete, often ...

Greg Knauss has my attention with a food analogy in his article “Lose Myself”: A Ding Dong from a factory is not the same thing as a gâteau au chocolat et crème chantilly from a baker which is not the same thing as cramming chunks of chocolate and scoops of whipped cream di...

Museum: John M. Mossman Lock Collection

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York is home to the John M. Mossman Lock Collection, likely the world's largest collection of antique bank locks.

Tags: museums

Agentic Engineering Patterns > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They're agents that can both write and execute code. Popular examples include Claude Code, O...

Woensdag 18 maart gaan de meeste gemeenten stemmen (behalve Hilversum en Wijdemeren). Ooit was er de NerdVote campagne, waar we met een klankbordgroep heel zorgvuldig kandidaten kozen. Voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen kon ik niet geloofwaardig weer NerdVote doen omdat ik zelf als lijstduwer op de lijst sta voor Progressief Pijnacker-Nootdorp (de lokale GroenLinks-PvdA combinatie). Desondanks zijn er wel kandidaten in het land waar ik erg enthousiast van word! Ik ken al deze mensen persoonlijk, en beveel ze van harte aan.

Anthropic's 1M token context window on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 is a genuine breakthrough - and they're not even charging more for it.

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

— Jannis Leidel, Sunsetting Jazzband

Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, python, ai, github

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI a...

Today's links Corrupt anticorruption: Notes from a target-rich environment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tentacle sphere; EU Venn; Obama v cryptography; Trump v protesters; Amazon coders x Amazon warehouse workers; Bruces's ETECH speech; Steven ...

You had a technique.

It’s a common position among software engineers that big egos have no place in tech1. This is understandable — we’ve all worked with some insufferably overconfident engineers who needed their egos checked — but I don’t think it’s correct. In fact, I don’t know if it’s possib...