News

  1. Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)
  2. Where the goblins came from (openai.com)
  3. Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com)
  4. Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig (pure-systems.org)
  5. The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)
  6. Notes on setting up a mail server (orgnizedmess.net)
  7. Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter (emschwartz.me)
  8. Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)
  9. Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write (github.com)
  10. Some Ambient + Experimental Music (writing.natwelch.com)
  11. OpenTrafficMap (opentrafficmap.org)
  12. HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com)
  13. Copy Fail (copy.fail)
  14. Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (www.promptarmor.com)
  15. Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)
  16. FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (www.agwa.name)
  17. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
  18. An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com)
  19. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
  20. How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (www.youtube.com)
  21. We need a federation of forges (blog.tangled.org)
  22. Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell (jointhefreeworld.org)
  23. How much LLMs is too much LLMs? (www.sammystraus.com)
  24. A brief history of time units: Tenths (approximateknowledge.net)
  25. Did you ever love her? (alok.github.io)
  26. Earl Grey and Orange Shortbread (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. pgrust update: at 67% Postgres compatibility, and accelerating (malisper.me)
  28. what's the ideal analogy (alok.github.io)
  29. Infinite Lives, 1990: Super Mario World (approximateknowledge.net)
  30. Art14 Residency: Week Two (writing.natwelch.com)
  31. 20 tips for people who make art (thelabyrinth.substack.com)
  32. Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
  33. Quality vs quantity in the age of AI (www.bryanbraun.com)
  34. officer grade pemmican (alok.github.io)
  35. I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine (www.scd31.com)
  36. Mickey Mouse stole our cultural legacy (approximateknowledge.net)
  37. Towards a public homelab (orgnizedmess.net)
  38. Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench <br>improvement contains a fatal error (www.philosophicalhacker.com)
  39. Sammy Cottrell (alok.github.io)
  40. Experiments in self-medication (approximateknowledge.net)
  41. [RC] Week #4: Ziglings are done; Google AI Pro fiasco; bricked my new car (lvsl.github.io)
  42. weeknotes #60 (olu.online)
  43. Jump or die, dumbass (alok.github.io)
  44. Infinite Lives, 2024: Caves of Qud (approximateknowledge.net)
  45. Why I made Sourdough, a new vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap (www.jakelow.com)
  46. try not pissing your willpower away (todaythings.substack.com)
  47. Counting zeros (vishnubharathi.codes)
  48. 2048 (approximateknowledge.net)
  49. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (www.recurse.com)
  50. beats you (alok.github.io)
  51. You should try contra dancing (www.benkuhn.net)
  52. Inquiries-Week 8: Fence Maxing (www.fractalkitty.com)
  53. Programming in 2026: excitement, dread, and the coming wave (amontalenti.com)
  54. zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  55. kairos (alok.github.io)
  56. How I set and maintain good habits via journaling (blog.danielsosebee.com)