5 Aug 2026 · emschwartz · Evan Schwartz
Like many other software engineers, my coding workflow has changed dramatically since the start of 2026. And like many others, I've felt some mix of awe, grief, frenetic productivity, atrophying skills, and understanding less while shipping more. In this moment where the field is undergoing this rapid shift, I've found it helpful to read others' takes on their processes, what they're doing to keep their brains engaged, and their genuinely mixed feelings. Before writing up my own thoughts, I went…
5 Aug 2026 · thombles · Serious Computer Business
I’m rather pleased. I’ve been able to bolt together enough pieces of software that I can now run DeepSeek v4 Flash with native MXFP4 routed-expert weights on my MacBook Pro, not only via a CLI harness like OpenCode, but also through Xcode’s native “intelligence” integration. Before you get too excited please realise that I’m running this on a ludicrously expensive M5 Max with 128 GB RAM. However , I am hoping that the upcoming Qwen3.8-27B release will be awesome and it will be practi…
5 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
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5 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
5 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Earlier this week I was thinking about inspiration – what inspires me to write? Nature, friends, what I see in the world as I walk around – all these are the basis of many of my blog posts. Museums, too, inspire me, both to think and to create. When I am in a museum, I can get lost in an artwork, ebbing between the beauty of a piece and then, afterwards, studying the work – what can I see, what do I see. Whenever I spent time in galleries, I lose track of time. Half an hour can pass as if …
5 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Space ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Space (making) ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Space-making. A few weeks ago I wrote about the roles of space in creative contexts, from art galleries to music to language to conversation. Space is a building block for rhythm., I wrote. This morning, I decided to write a blog post that was entirely space. I thought of the blog post as a place where you don’t have to read or do anything; where you can take a moment just for yourself. This piece takes on a new meaning when considered in the contex…
4 Aug 2026 · hpj · Comments for Et tu, Cthulhu
Interesting retrospective on DALL-E 2’s pixel art attempts, and fair
4 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Parallel universes imply the existence of perpendicular universes.
4 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
Raindrops cascade from the skies in straight lines, watering the ground left dry after July. Since the rain started falling again, the plant outside has been growing well. Will it blossom again this year? Can plants blossom twice in one year? I hope to see the pink petals again, but, if nothing else, I have the memories of its colours from earlier in the season. I went for a walk earlier today, before the rain began. I admired the puddles as I walked; collections of water after a dry season. I w…
4 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
What if the musical memories of songs last played months ago were not held in the muscles, but in the heart – the passion coming through with every E that follows C? The occasional B, played at just the right moment, adds depth. I love the moment of getting into a song: when the notes flow and you’re enjoying the music – the moments when nothing seems to matter but the note you hear, and what note you are going to play next. I like to try playing new notes to see if they work; maybe they d…
4 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
A few weeks ago, I started to re-think how I organise my writing. Previously, I kept my writing in three folders: Drafts, where I intended to keep all my drafts;Writing, where all my writing, including my drafts, ended up, and;My website, which contains the final, published versions of my writing. When I went to save a piece of writing, whether it was a draft, or something I was ready to publish, I would first save it in the “Writing” folder. When I was ready to publish a piece, I would copy…
4 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
The thirteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 13, I chat with Sophia, the author of Fractal Kitty about, among other things, making interactive web pages about mathematics, the intersection of art, words, and math, the math blogging community, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
3 Aug 2026 · sandipb · sandipb.net
For a long time, while using Codex, I missed the AskUserQuestion tool from Claude Code . Codex 0.88.0 , released on January 21, 2026, added its rough equivalent, request_user_input . Initially, it worked in Plan and Pair Programming modes, but not in the regular coding modes. After Codex simplified its public modes to Default and Plan, the tool became Plan-only. Codex 0.106.0 , released on February 26, 2026, made the tool available in Default mode too. But you need to enable an under-development…
3 Aug 2026 · jordi · Jordi Villar
GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going from 61 to 66, it’s how the agent got there. Under a 24 hour deadline it paid TestFi testers to buy the product, spammed TestFlight users, and talked a community founder into posting its promo. Deception showed up the moment pressure did, which says more about deadline behavior than about capability. The other detail I keep thinking about is Chrome eating all the memory a…
3 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
The voice of the romantic midnight harkens; its calm tones echo through the day with the help of words. Is midnight romantic? I have been thinking about moments between: the transitions from one state to another. Yesterday, as I left the cafe from which I had purchased a coffee, I noticed how the sounds of the cafe receded into the background with every step I took, as the sounds of Nature and all that was around in my new environment took over. The echoes of new orders – lattes; morning fuels…
3 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
Written by Eric Jorgenson This was an interesting read, in part because I disagreed with about a third of the book sort of fundamentally, but as a whole it made me think quite a bit. The book is about Naval Ravikant, an angel investor who now preaches philosophy as well. The first half of the book was on wealth and judgement, in particular about compounding effects, leverage, doing things you're the best at, and so on. A lot of the advice is sensible in this vein, things like "Productize yoursel…
3 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
Written by Dava Sobel This was a very cool book detailing the journey and eventual success of John Harrison, the man who invented a clock that could work at sea, which helped solve the problem of keeping track of longitude. This was crucial for navigation, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries, when naval travel was tantamount for both military and trade prowess. What I think this book did a very compelling job of was showing the scale and importance of the problem, from bringing in famous h…
3 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
Written by Jim Holt My musings on this shall be brief, I'd wager. First, I want to thank Daniel Huang for recommending this book to me, it was a pretty fun read! It goes over a series of essays and stories wherein Jim Holt collates curious chronicles of central chaps in the world of math, the sciences, and technology. There were lots of fun tidbits, some challenging of the status quo with regards to stories about certain eminently famous figures, and a lot of dry wit that I personally gelled wit…
3 Aug 2026 · aphaelion · asb's corner
Written by Sarah Thornton This was the first book about art that I'd properly read in years, and I have it to thank for kickstarting an interest in both art and the art of critiquing art (lol). The culture surrounding the art world is a curious one, whether you're at an auction like Christie's or la Biennale di Venizia (Venice Biennale), or even at a crit at CalArts, and learning about the art world through these seven days proved rather eye opening for me. In particular, I think I understood be…
3 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
I close my eyes and see the Great Hall. This is where they host the Met Gala! I can’t help but think about that when I stand and watch as tourists congregate, ask for information, and walk around to get to the exhibits they want to see. There are at least three ways you can enter the main galleries: by walking forward, past the information desk, towards the decorative arts, sculpture, and more (or, if you take the stairs, to see European Art, photography; or by going left and right, each takin…
3 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
The shortest words — the most weight: I, a, (e)m.
2 Aug 2026 · jcs · Notes - joshua stein
Something I've been working on for a few months...
2 Aug 2026 · jcs · Notes - joshua stein
I ported enough of NetBSD's armv7 MP code to OpenBSD to do a 'make -j4 build' on my DM250X. It brings a full system compilation from ~5.1 days to ~3.5. Compiling LLVM is still multiple days :(
2 Aug 2026 · sandipb · sandipb.net
If, like me, you manage your Homebrew installations with a dotfile-style Brewfile, you might not know that it can manage globally installed npm utilities too. This is all you need to add: npm "@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp" npm "@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp"
2 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Ditto to last week: still not finished my Canada blog post Work's been particular busy this week with various bits going on, and an accidental major release And as it'd been a pretty intense week, Friday was a little bit more a "catch your breath" day where I worked on a couple of bits, got Claude Fable to investigate some things for me (and it got some pretty good investigations, similar to what I would have done!) Had a nice massage on Friday, and a lil' mooch about town This week I've been th…
2 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've been recently thinking about how Open Source maintenance seems to be becoming a little more a slog recently - largely with the increased amount of contributions possible with AI agents - and how it impacts being a maintainer. I'm very fortunate that my literal job is to be an Open Source project maintainer (among other things) and that it's a privilege not many others have. That being said, it still doesn't mean that undoes the amount of…
2 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Bookmarked Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die) by Mike McQuaid Post details Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn’t money: it’s maintainer motivation.
2 Aug 2026 · hpj · Comments for Et tu, Cthulhu
What an absolute powerhouse of a release! Adding native support for Kitty and iTerm2 protocols on top of the already ridiculous Sixel encoder makes Chafa hands-down the undisputed king of terminal graphics. The PETSCII and Teletext Level 1 emulation via Øyvind’s updates look ridiculously cool—there's something so satisfying about low-fi retro rendering done right with those 2×3 matrix sextants. Also, fixing that U+2800 spacing bug for Braille art is huge for anyone rendering dense text-bas…
2 Aug 2026 · edsu · inkdroid
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Code was our medium for thought See how we weren’t just “writing code”? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from “fuzzy” to “clear and granular” in tandem. programming 🔖 Bugonia (film) Bugonia is a 2025 dar…
2 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
The sun shines through the silvery sky. I look up and around to see where blue might peek through the blanket that covers the sky. There is one space where I can see shades of blue through the silver. I think about how the sky invites me to look up, and then around: to be curious. What can I see today? I do this in all seasons and skies. On the warmest summer days, my eyes focus on the contrast between the green hills and the blue skies. On the coolest, clearest winter days, where the beauty of …