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This month:

• Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions
• GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model
• Tokenmaxxing is so over
• Datasette Apps
• sqlite-utils and shot-scraper and Datasette
• Miscellaneous WASM projects
• Other model releases
• What I'm using

Here's a copy of the May newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!

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This article tells part of the story of Maxis Software. I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring. — Will Wright Gamers are both extremely dedicated to and really good at preserving the history of their hobby. Seldom has a […]

Contextual clues.

The post How did we conclude that <TT>CcNamespace.dll</TT> was the ringleader of a group of DLLs that unloaded prematurely? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.

In July 1983, one of my personal favorite Commodore computer magazines of all time, Compute!’s Gazette, was born. An offshoot of the general computer magazine Compute!, Gazette’s first issue was dated July 1983 and quickly proved successful, closely following the

The post Compute!’s Gazette magazine, 1983-1995 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

I can't recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it's often attributed back to me, I'll relay it here regardless:

Trying to delete yourself

Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Real elections v reality TV; Copyright troll loses ...

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it. I started a new Python library using my python-lib-template-reposi...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.

Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy, which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help me improve the system prompt used by Datasette Agent - so I fired off an asy...

I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive): In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually with the remark “this page intentio...

I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding agents as they construct increasingly large and sophisticated changes, and the ...

Oops, I didn't realize that I was still doing that.

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Afgelopen 25 juni deed ik het openingspraatje van de Surf Privacy en Security Conferentie. Nou heb ik vaker over digitale autonomie gesproken, maar deze keer heb ik het nadrukkelijk meer over wat er nu moet gebeuren. Of zoals de titel zegt “en nu echt”. Ondanks dat ik nu letterlijk meer dan 50 praatjes over dit onderwerp heb gegeven had ik nog niet eerder de moeite genomen een goed transcript te maken.

Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: <!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB> There's a reason for that. It is more than the…

On July 2, 1984, Atari got a new owner. After a disastrous 1983, its owner, Warner Communications, wanted out, just a year and a half after Atari had $2 billion in sales. It went from being called the greatest acquisition

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Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work": Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Series of tubes; Paralyzed teen beaten bloody by TSA; "Ultra unreal" Chinese li...

The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now1. One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”. In other words, if LLM providers want to do business in ...

Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?