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I have been a staunch supporter of Open Source for a long time, including experiments in funding it. I’m a true believer in the idea that Open Source always wins in the long run, but not automatically and not quickly. Right now it is being stressed by AI slop, shifting cont...

Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's most dire "critical" rating, and exploit code for at least three of the weaknesses is now publicly available.

TIL: Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView

I've been really enjoying AgentsView by Wes McKinney as a tool for exploring my token usage across different coding agents running on my laptop.

Claude Fable 5 came out today and wasn't yet included in the pricing database AgentsView uses. I used Fable to reverse-engineer AgentsView and figured out this recipe for setting custom prices.

Here's my Claude Fable 5 usage for today so far, plotted by AgentsView as a treemap across my different local projects:

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, llm-pricing

Improving memory though writing

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref).

— Andrej Karpathy, on Claude Fable 5

Tags: andrej-karpathy, jevons-paradox, anthropic, generative-ai, ai, llms

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OR: The Great Switcheroo

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45447 for the project OpenSSL, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap use-after-free in PKCS7_verify(). This is due to the affected c...

Today's links Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix": When forced birth cultists become forced obstetrics militants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DD-WRT; iTunes DRM is illegal; Fingertip magnet; Sony passwords v Gawker passwords; RIAA recants on 3 strikes;...

Open source has more forms of government than countries do.

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries. Every once in a while a book comes along that doesn’t just change your tactical thinking, but makes you see the world in a different way. Reading this book is like taking the red pill in the Matrix.  Some will […]

Given how badly burned anyone who took Apple's 2024 WWDC Apple Intelligence announcements at face value was, I'm holding to a strict "I'll believe it when I see it" policy for everything they announced today. The new Siri AI features do at least look feasible with today's t...

TL;DR: My new prior is that top-of-the-line LLMs working on easy tasks generate code that is maybe 10 % more complicated than necessary. I also think we accept this complexity too easily, because it comes from code that is right here, right now, solving an immedi...

Welcome to fantasy land

This article tells part of the story of Dungeons & Dragons on the tabletop and on computers. Usually if you choose the longest dialog option, that’s the best option. — Chris Avellone Quite some years ago now, I briefly interviewed Brian Fargo about Interplay’s 1988 adaptation of the William Gibson novel Neuromancer. He was plainly busy […]

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly DoW acquisition system – make it feel like a much different class than […]

Al een jaar of tien koken we thuis op gietijzeren pannen. Inmiddels voelt koken op een anti-aanbakpan voor mij als koken op plastic. De voordelen zijn verder evident. Ik heb in die tien jaar tijd nog geen pan hoeven vervangen, bijvoorbeeld. Teflon- en vergelijkbare pannen verliezen na verloop van tijd altijd een deel van hun anti-aanbak laag, en ik heb het idee dat je dan behoorlijk wat van die laag hebt opgegeten tegen die tijd.

A reference list of patents and applications relevant to package manager design, with notes on prior art.

A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD RestrictionsAnomaliesSo What? History Let's do some history! This is 1978's "HOST NAMES…

Code isn’t just a way to implement a design, it’s a way to find one.

With an interface, you have to use it, feel it, interact with it, and poke at it to see the relationships between things.

Change X, see Y react.

If it doesn’t feel right, tweak it.

Change X again, now Y reacts differently.

Better.

Keep tweaking — this here, that there, until the relationships of all the disparate elements fall into place as a single whole.

Balanced.

Design is “how it works” and code is the tool to specify how it works.

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