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 …
2 Aug 2026 · itamarst · Python⇒Speed
Floating point math is often slower than integer math because the compiler is being conservative about how it optimizes your code. While some programming languages already had solutions of a sort, until now Rust did not have a good stable way to deal with this limitation. But now, starting in version 1.98, Rust will allow telling the compiler it can optimize your code further—but with extra control so that you can still write numeric algorithms with minimal rounding errors. In this article you…
2 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
My words flow from the blank, full, blue sky that rests above – a sky in which the more I look, the more texture I see; there are ripples and layers and colours; the periphery of individual clouds emerge. The more I look, the more I see. When I am in art galleries, I see something new the more I look at a painting. I might notice a particular detail that stands out, or a colour that I didn’t see on my first impression. With so much detail in an individual painting, it feels like there is alw…
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
@ garius NM, found it: https:// instituteprojectmanagement.com /blog/rag-status-in-project-management/ "Red, amber, green".
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
@ garius If you don't mind, what's a "RAG board"? (From: https:// readwise.io/reader/shared/01gg z99w9kvpp6yq52abes00eq/ .)
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
HN discussion: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9138965
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
AT&T CEO Says He Can't Deploy Robocall Blockers Without FCC Approval. He's Wrong (2016) On his personal phone line, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson blocks unwanted, pre-recorded and auto-dialed robocalls. So why is Darth Randy not making this technology available for all of his customers? He claims it’s because he needs the FCC’s permission to do so, but the FCC says that just isn’t so.... https:// web.archive.org/web/2016060203 0339/http://consumerist.com/2016/06/01/att-ceo-says-he-cant-deplo…
1 Aug 2026 · lalitm · Lalit Maganti
Codeberg, a Git code hosting platform, recently took a decision to prohibit projects that mostly consist of generative-AI-written code which has prompted concern and extensive discussion elsewhere. The decision does not surprise me, and I don’t mean that as a criticism. Codeberg has always presented itself as a mission-driven alternative to GitHub, not neutral infrastructure.1 What interests me is the disappointment in the response. Many people reacted as though one of the few plausible GitHub…
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
RE: https:// toot.cat/@CptSuperlative/11701 8790060866914 AI investment strains showing The video ... somewhat inadequately contextualised below ... makes the valid point that in a down market, bad assets drag down good ones as leverage, margin requirements, and loan collateral prompt heavily-borrowing ("leveraged") investors to sell anything to meet those obligations. As I recall John Kenneth Galbraith made this observation in The Great Crash: 1929 , his history of the Wall Street crash of that…
1 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Reposted Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez@mastodon.social) Post details This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026 https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/01/this-week-in-package-management.html
1 Aug 2026 · Foxboron · Morten Linderud
This is just a short note on my blog that I have resigned from Arch Linux a package maintainer, developer and security team. I’ve spent around 10 years as an AUR maintainer, security team, Package Maintainer and then Developer. I implemented support for debug packages, did the initial POC work that would become the git migration and even somehow managed to pull of an online conference during The Plague with the help of others.
1 Aug 2026 · sandipb · sandipb.net
I ran a side-by-side comparison of Codex using its built-in web search and using Exa through MCP. The difference wasn’t huge, but it was there: Codex’s built-in search returned a result that was about four days stale, while Exa found the latest release details. I invoked Exa with @Exa for this search. It found the July 29 release. Codex’s built-in search returned the July 25 release
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Global Call Threat Report: Insights into today’s worldwide spam problem (2Q2025) Hard data on phone spam trends worldwide is hard to find. Hiya's report here is one of the few publicly-available reports I could find breaking out patterns by country. The US is not the worst in the world, Brazil wins that award. Patterns vary considerably by country and region. https:// work.hiya.com/hubfs/2025/Globa l%20Call%20Threat%20Report_2025Q2.pdf (PDF) # PhoneSpam # Robocalls # Hiya
1 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
For those interested in my telco carrier anti-spam bonding concept, I've detailed some scenarios further on HN: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9129679 The predictable "mailing list" objection appears, in the form of "what if I sign up for a newsletter" then report spam, making the sender pay me. First, this isn't email, so a newsletter's unlikely. There are a few further elements that I think would help address the scenario. In this thread: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 912946…
1 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
With the window open and the breeze flowing through, I hear the calls and songs of birds. A calling pigeon in particular stands out. I love the calls of pigeons in the evening. The sound reminds me of childhood, looking out the window, onto Nature. A flock of birds fly by as the occasional person strolls down the street. While the sun set a little while ago, day is still here. A gust of wind moves the leaves across a big tree, and then the breeze settles down, and picks up again. I think about t…
1 Aug 2026 · mk12 · Mitchell Kember
View on Ravelry Pattern : Broken Seed Stitch by Hanna Leväniemi Yarn : Blue Bird Yarn & Malabrigo Ultimate Sock Colorway : Guards! Guards! & Natural Started : 14 March 2026 Finished : 1 August 2026 This was my first time knitting socks with two colors, using a popular free pattern that contrasts variegated yarn with a solid color. For the variegated yarn I used a skein given to me by my aunt, who runs Blue Bird Yarn . The colorway is Guards! Guards! , referencing the book in my favorite fantasy…
31 Jul 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@BroadbandBrea kfast/117004934659563860 Discussion ongoing at HN: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9122882 # PhoneSpam # HN # HackerNews
31 Jul 2026 · christiano · Christiano Anderson
After years of loyal user of Standard Notes , I have decided to migrate to Obsidian . Just to be fair, this decision is not born out of dissatisfaction with Standard Notes as product. It remains solid, reliable and privacy respecting tool that has served me exceptionally well. A brief overview Standard Notes is a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted note-taking application that has been my trusted companion for many years. It offers a clean, distraction-free environment for capturing thoughts, …
31 Jul 2026 · jalcine · Jacky Alciné's weeknotes
It's weeknotes : link dump style! I'm coming back to this style of posting what I've read, done and worked on instead of daily spamming on my microblogging accounts. Enjoy! What I've Been Up to I've been really heads down focusing on Livtet — I've made a decision to open source it so I have to rewrite a lot of the code and its setup to support it being open source while keeping some parts of the ecosystem I have for it closed. I'll write more about it next week. Links I've been reading a lot o…
31 Jul 2026 · jalcine · Jacky Alciné's linklog
Erin Kissane is launching "Cloud Atlas" — an interview-based guide to the apps and projects emerging on the AT Protocol/Atmosphere, intended to make decentralized social media infrastructure more legible to people interested in alternatives to centralized platforms. This is something I haven't seen done from the outside — developers of these apps and services tend to be their own marketing departments and PR teams but this isn't (solely) that . The human texture and qualitative specificity o…
31 Jul 2026 · jalcine · Jacky Alciné's linklog
According to this piece, reading rates in America have collapsed - fewer than half of adults read a book in 2022 (which - eh - I feel like this is hard to assess), daily pleasure reading fell from 28% to 16% (which is both real and wild; if reading is dead then folks are going to be just told what to think) across (and this hurts me to repeat) every age, gender, and education level , even as total words consumed explode via texts, posts, and feeds. Reading built and freed the modern mind (logic,…