I set out to brainstorm with Claude (Sonnet 4.6 Extended) about an essay I wanted to write about the complementarity of humans and AI. When it got late and I was ready to quit, I asked Claude to produce a summary of our conversation that I could start from in the morning. And then, on impulse, I…

I’ve spent lots of time recently digging into the available information on the state of childhood today. I’m shaken by what I’ve learned—and you will be too. Over the years, we’ve all heard that our youngsters are “at risk.” But it’s easy to dismiss warnings of this sort as idle fearmongering. After…

I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of…

Matthew Honnibal, co-founder of Explosion and creator of spaCy, has published a collection of Claude Code skills for Python development. It’s one of the more thoughtful skill collections I’ve seen. Claude Code skills are markdown files you place in ~/.claude/commands/. When you type / in Claude…

Updated: September 22, 2022 This article documents Proton Drive’s security model by showing how it uses end-to-end encryption to protect your sensitive data. While somewhat technical, this document is meant to be accessible to a general audience and attempts to explain how Proton Drive works in…

A conversation with Addy Osmani February 19, 2026 • 11 minute read LinkedInXFacebookThreadsBluesky The following article includes clips from a recent Live with Tim O’Reilly interview. You can watch the full version on the O’Reilly Media learning platform. Addy Osmani is one of my favorite people to…

tl;dr: a message to myself, and to incoming CS undergrads. even if impostor syndrome hits hard, you’re all smart and competent people. and you’re now smart and competent enough that everyone wants a piece of your potential. there’s a whole ecosystem of people with financial stakes in shaping your…

This guide shows you how to configure Claude Code to automatically use uv for Python package management instead of pip. Claude Code uses CLAUDE.md files to store project memory and context, which helps ensure consistent tooling across your development workflow. Prerequisites Claude Code installeduv…

written on August 18, 2025 I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things…

Blacklisted Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots. Jon Brodkin – Feb 20, 2026 1:35 pm | 13 Credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Story text Size Width *…

Modular acquires BentoML to deliver production AI in the cloud! - Read more February 18, 2026 The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software Chris Lattner Engineering Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education.…

One icy morning in February, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state. There were Republicans and Democrats from rural farms and D.C. exurbs. They shared one goal: to fight back against AI development in a…

Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are interacting with an intelligence. But many experts in the field argue the impression is just that. In philosopher Daniel Dennett’s words, such systems display “competence without comprehension”.…

In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS News’ 60 Minutes that aired in November 2025, the CEO said AI should be more heavily regulated, with fewer decisions about the future of the technology left to just the heads of big tech companies. “I think I’m deeply uncomfortable with these decisions…

17 Apr, 2025 EARLY ACCESS If you want a deeper, up-to-date treatment of sandbox-exec—including modern macOS pitfalls, Mach/XPC failures, and working profiles—I’m documenting it as an extended handbook, sandbox-exec: The Missing Handbook (early access, $12). What is sandbox-exec? sandbox-exec is a…

Posted 17 February 2026 I have some personal Git repos that I want to sync between my devices – my dotfiles, text expansion macros, terminal colour schemes, and so on. For a long time, I used GitHub as my sync layer – it’s free, convenient, and I was already using it – but recently I’ve been looking…

The first sign that something in San Francisco had gone very badly wrong was the signs. In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway assumes that you, the person reading, are an ambiently depressed twenty-eight-year-old office worker whose main interests are listening to…

“Raise your hand if YouTube has ever shown you a video you didn’t search for.” Every hand in the room went up. “Now keep your hand up if you ended up watching it.” Not a single hand went down. Whispers and giggles scattered across the room. We were 45 minutes into what was supposed to be a talk…

February 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The world runs on copilots now AI has slipped from chatbot novelty to infrastructure in our schools, offices and hospitals. The harms may scale faster than the gains By Eric Sullivan edited by Seth Fletcher Tavis Coburn Join Our Community of…

Adam Hart has been a nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nev., for 14 years. A few years ago, while assigned to help out in the emergency department, he was listening to the ambulance report on a patient who’d just arrived—an elderly woman with dangerously low blood pressure—when a…

We’re open-sourcing Upright, the synthetic monitoring system we built to watch over Basecamp, HEY, Fizzy and our many other services. Upright runs health checks from multiple geographic locations and tells us when something breaks. It’s a Rails engine that you deploy to cheap VPS nodes around the…

I write this filled with sadness. Last week, I wrote about how AI is now replacing white-collar workers in earnest as Claude’s Co-work released plug-ins for legal, financial and marketing functions. Social media is filled with accounts from long-time software developers declaring themselves obsolete…

Thanks for subscribing to SatPost. Today, we find out why Docusign has 7,000 employees (and what can it tell us about how AI coding agents will chance B2B SaaS)? Also this week: 29 Thoughts on Super Bowl LX Jony Ive & Ferrari Collaboration …and them wild posts (including EV charging tech) In early…

Back in 2022, my article outlining the Konik Method for Making Useful Notes won Obsidian October and was widely shared in notetaking communities — although it was written before my migration to Substack so alas, all the comments are lost. Now that it’s been three years (!) I thought it might be…

I’ll start with some more tidbits from the Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat ❄ ❄ We were tired after the event, but our marketing folks forced Rachel Laycock and I to do a quick video. We’re often asked if this event was about creating some kind of new manifesto for AI-enabled…

Every open source maintainer I've talked to in the last six months has the same complaint: the absolute flood of mass-produced, AI-generated, mass-submitted slop requests have turned their repositories into a slush pile. The contributions look like contributions, they have commit messages, they…

Weird 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder “abnormalities” on an MRI, study finds Some adults over 40 have shoulder pain, but nearly all have “abnormal” joints. Beth Mole – Feb 17, 2026 9:17 am | 18 Man with shoulder pain Credit: Getty | manusapon kasosod Man with shoulder pain Credit: Getty |…

Last summer, on work trips to Portland, Oregon, and New York, and in the fall, while visiting London and Paris, I went out of my way to meet up with old friends, college classmates, and former colleagues, hoping someone would ask the question I’d waited so long to hear: Had I lost weight? I was…

I've spent the better part of a decade building out an ebook library. Be it the hundreds of books I've bought, the many I've hoarded as part of free giveaways, and, of course, various Humble Bundles. My library is a sprawling mess of ePubs, PDFs, Mobi files, and a few esoteric files for good…

ai agents thoughts Author Wes McKinney Published February 17, 2026 Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule. In the past I’d wake up briefly at 4 or 4:30 in the morning to have a sip of water or use the bathroom; now I have trouble going back to sleep. I could be…

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As cinephiles await the big screen event that is The Odyssey, Jonathan Nolan has given his early review of the movie. Writer/director Christopher Nolan‘s brother, who himself is a director and EP on Fallout, praised the upcoming Universal Pictures adaptation of Homer’s epic as a “spectacular film”…

Around the same time and independently were published three books on the history of views of inequality, two of which begin with Greek philosophers and early Christians, and the third (mine) with Physiocrats or the Age of Enlightenment. My Visions of Inequality was published in October 2023, Darrin…