Latest entries
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Remembering the 30-year-old computer game that introduced me to Star Wars
Looking back at Dash Rendar, 3DFX cards, and a pivotal moment for Star Wars.
Ars Technica — Published
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How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream
This satellite streaming technology transforms off-road racing for fans and teams.
Ars Technica — Published
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Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android
Google is more focused on desktop gaming than ever before.
Ars Technica — Published
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Sorting algorithms
Sorting algorithms Today in animated explanations built using Claude: I've always been a fan of animated demonstrations of sorting algorithms so I decided to spin some up on my phone using Claude Artifacts, then added Python's timsort algorithm, then a feature to run them all at once. Here's the full…
Simon Willison — Published
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Report: RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda curbed as GOP realizes it's unpopular
Meanwhile, Kennedy's allies want all vaccine recommendations eliminated.
Ars Technica — Published
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FCC chair blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation
Will it really take "centuries" for SpaceX to deploy its megaconstellation?
Ars Technica — Published
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14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns
Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
Ars Technica — Published
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Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?
Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people!
Ars Technica — Published
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Windows 11's Steam Deck-ish, streamlined Xbox gaming UI comes to all PCs in April
Running Windows on gaming handhelds is currently a blessing and a curse.
Ars Technica — Published
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"Use a gun" or "beat the crap out of him": AI chatbot urged violence, study finds
Character.AI deemed "uniquely unsafe" among 10 chatbots tested by CCDH.
Ars Technica — Published
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Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers
Binance’s lawsuit accusing WSJ of defamation unlikely to stall government probes.
Ars Technica — Published
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A glimpse into tuner culture: Fast and Furious exhibit at the Petersen
The museum is celebrating 25 years of the original F&F film with a 23-car exhibit.
Ars Technica — Published
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Intel shores up its desktop CPU lineup with boosted Core Ultra 200S Plus chips
New CPUs are a bit faster and a bit cheaper than the ones they replace.
Ars Technica — Published
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Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit
"We are focused on protecting space, assuring access to space, ensuring custody of space."
Ars Technica — Published
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Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor
GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.
Ars Technica — Published
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Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker
A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than…
Brian Krebs — Published
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NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist
First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.
Ars Technica — Published
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Quoting John Carmack
It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive. — John Carmack, a tweet in June 2021 Tags: john-carmack, software-engineering, yagni
Simon Willison — Published
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Verdict: Yes, you should go see Project Hail Mary as soon as possible
A brief spoiler-free review of the film, which opens in the US on March 20.
Ars Technica — Published
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Enzyme Detergents are Magic
This is one of those things I probably should have learned a long time ago, but enzyme detergents are magic. I had a pair of white sneakers that acquired some persistent yellow stains in the poly mesh upper—I think someone spilled a drink on them at the bar. I couldn’t get the stain out with Dawn, bleach…
Kyle Kingsbury — Published
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What crackdown? Trump's EPA enforcement claims don't pass sniff test.
75% of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before Trump took office.
Ars Technica — Published
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Don't lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don't panic
Highest risk of part of tongue being torn off is with temps between -5° and -15° C (23° to 5 °F).
Ars Technica — Published
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Quantum computing meets the Möbius molecule
A complex structure with multiple electrons is within reach of today's hardware.
Ars Technica — Published
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Trying Linux Desktop Yet Again with More Success
Almost a year ago, I returned to the Linux Desktop after almost 20 years. I abandoned it a month or so later out of frustration with a surprising lack of configurability and general exhaustion of addressing the myriad papercuts that come with trying to change computing platforms. In the last few weeks…
David Bryant Copeland — Published
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25 Years Of ADSL Speed
Twenty-five years ago, I captured a screenshot of my FTP client showcasing the download of a SuSE Linux gcc compilation package at the dazzling rate of 439,36 KB/sec: Downloading the gcc cross-compiler for s390x through the ftp.belnet.be mirror. Note the then very new Windows XP Olive theme. For some…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition
Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing "zero-day" flaws this month (compared to February's five zero-day treat), but as usual some patches may deserve more rapid attention from organizations…
Brian Krebs — Published
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Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxes
How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time.
Kent C. Dodds — Published
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Reentry of NASA satellite will exceed the agency's own risk guidelines
"Due to late-stage design changes, the potential risk of uncontrolled reentry increased."
Ars Technica — Published
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AI should help us produce better code
Agentic Engineering Patterns > Many developers worry that outsourcing their code to AI tools will result in a drop in quality, producing bad code that's churned out fast enough that decision makers are willing to overlook its flaws. If adopting coding agents demonstrably reduces the quality of the code…
Simon Willison — Published
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XSS Ranked #1 Top Threat of 2025 by MITRE and CISA
Look who's back! After we completed 2024, XSS managed to get itself ranked as the #1 top threat of the year. I wrote about that, and at the end of the blog post I said "Let's make sure that XSS isn't #1 in
Scott Helme — Published
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Weekly Update 494
Since starting HIBP a dozen and a bit years ago, I've loaded an average of one breach every 4.7 days. That's 959 of them to date, but last week it was five in only two days. That's a few weeks' worth of
Troy Hunt — Published
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Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages
Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so I worked on adding (or improving) examples to two of my favourite tools’ man pages. Here they are: the dig man page (now with examples) the tcpdump man page examples (this one is an update…
Julia Evans — Published
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Migrating to Workspaces and Nx
The interesting part of moving kentcdodds.com to npm workspaces was not the file moves. It was everything the file moves broke.
Kent C. Dodds — Published
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A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI
I was walking my dog in the woods and decided to share my thoughts about the state of AI and the tension between the trajectory of AI companies and the designers/creators/makers of the world who are under a tremendous deal […]
Brad Frost — Published
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Production query plans without production data
Production query plans without production data Radim Marek describes the new pg_restore_relation_stats() and pg_restore_attribute_stats() functions that were introduced in PostgreSQL 18 in September 2025. The PostgreSQL query planner makes use of internal statistics to help it decide how to best execute…
Simon Willison — Published
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Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
A recurring concern I've seen regarding LLMs for programming is that they will push our technology choices towards the tools that are best represented in their training data, making it harder for new, better tools to break through the noise. This was certainly the case a couple of years ago, when asking…
Simon Willison — Published
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pwa.support and the Mediocre State of PWAs
I created pwa.support as a way to both examine any website to see if it can be isntalled as a progressive web app, but also to capture in some detail the depressing state of support for this concept across major browsers and operating systems. I’ve been revisiting desktop Linux since my last attempt…
David Bryant Copeland — Published
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How to win a best paper award
An opinionated perspective on how to do important research that makes a difference (and sometimes win awards).
Nicholas Carlini — Published
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This Thursday I will talk about Emacs @ OxFLOSS (FLOSS @ Oxford)
In this upcoming event I will introduce GNU Emacs to people at the University of Oxford.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare
How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity.
Kent C. Dodds — Published
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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task -- are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful…
Brian Krebs — Published
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Two of My Favorite Things Together at Last: Pies and Subdomains
I like pie. And I’ve learned that if I want a pie done right, I gotta do it myself. Somewhere along my pilgrimage to pie perfection, I began taking a photo of each bake — pic or it didn’t happen. Despite all my rhetoric for “owning your own content”, I’ve hypocritically used Instagram to do the deed…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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Quoting Joseph Weizenbaum
What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people. — Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA, in 1976 (via) Tags: ai-ethics, ai, computer-history, internet-archive
Simon Willison — Published
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A Note On Shelling In Emacs
As you no doubt know by now, we Emacs users have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Power. Expert usage of a Heroes in a Hard Shell is no exception. Pizza Time! All silliness aside, the plethora of options available to the Emacs user when it comes to executing shell commands in “terminals”—real or fake—can be…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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New coaching prices to reflect the current market
I have lowered the price of my coaching services to 10 EUR per hour.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Codex for Open Source
Codex for Open Source Anthropic announced six months of free Claude Max for maintainers of popular open source projects (5,000+ stars or 1M+ NPM downloads) on 27th February. Now OpenAI have launched their comparable offer: six months of ChatGPT Pro (same $200/month price as Claude Max) with Codex and…
Simon Willison — Published
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Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’
I am developing four new themes for my minimalist 'doric-themes' package.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Quoting Ally Piechowski
Questions for developers: “What’s the one area you’re afraid to touch?” “When’s the last time you deployed on a Friday?” “What broke in production in the last 90 days that wasn’t caught by tests?” Questions for the CTO/EM: “What feature has been blocked for over a year?” “Do you have real-time error…
Simon Willison — Published
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Colorado SB26-051 Age Attestation
Colorado is presently considering a bill, SB26-051, patterned off of California’s AB1043, which establishes civil penalties for software developers who do not request age information for their users. The bills use a broad sense of “Application Store” which would seem to encompass essentially any package…
Kyle Kingsbury — Published
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Anthropic and the Pentagon
Anthropic and the Pentagon This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders is the most thoughtful and grounded coverage I've seen of the recent and ongoing Pentagon/OpenAI/Anthropic contract situation. AI models are increasingly commodified. The top-tier offerings have about the same performance,…
Simon Willison — Published
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Reading List 355
This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released a Vivaldi desktop snapshot, with a new onboarding step for people who have visual impairments, require keyboard-only access or use assistive…
Bruce Lawson — Published
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Agentic manual testing
Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes. This is what makes coding agents so much more useful than LLMs that simply spit out code without any way to verify it. Never assume that code generated by an LLM works until that…
Simon Willison — Published
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Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager
Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain against the Cline GitHub repository, which started with a prompt injection attack in the title of an issue opened against the repo. Cline were running AI-powered issue…
Simon Willison — Published
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Taking it easy
An entry from my journal where I comment on how I do not worry about what will happen to this world.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Introducing GPT‑5.4
Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro, also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI. August 31st 2025 knowledge cutoff, 1 million token context window. Priced slightly higher than the GPT-5.2 family with a bump in price for both models if you go above 272,000 tokens. 5.4 beats coding…
Simon Willison — Published
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Untitled
This is a low.
Paul Robert Lloyd — Published
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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Over the past few months it's become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a "clean room" implementation of code. The most famous version of this pattern is when Compaq created a clean-room clone of the IBM BIOS back in 1982. They had one team of engineers reverse…
Simon Willison — Published
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Your Browser Can Already Speak a Page
Users can customize the features built into the browser, something not often available from third-party approaches. Is an “AI” company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is an overlay company promising to make your content more accessible by its overlay speaking it? Is some…
Adrian Roselli — Published
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My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist
Remembrance of beats passed. The post My brother, the rhythmic conceptualist appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Jeffrey Zeldman — Published
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JJ LSP Follow Up
In Majjit LSP, I described an idea of implementing Magit style UX for jj once and for all, leveraging LSP protocol. I've learned today that the upcoming 3.18 version of LSP has a feature to make this massively less hacky: Text Document Content Request
Alex Kladov — Published
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I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues
I had a ~2-hour chat with Joshua Blais, a fellow Emacs user, about Emacs and philosophy.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Anti-patterns: things to avoid
Agentic Engineering Patterns > There are some behaviors that are anti-patterns in our weird new world of agentic engineering. Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators This anti-pattern is common and deeply frustrating. Don't file pull requests with code you haven't reviewed yourself. If you open a…
Simon Willison — Published
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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
I'm behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba's Qwen team over the past few weeks. I'm hoping that the 3.5 family doesn't turn out to be Qwen's swan song, seeing as that team has had some very high profile departures in the past 24 hours. It…
Simon Willison — Published
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Favourites of February 2026
A sudden burst of Japanese cherry flowers sparkling in the sun brings much-needed lightheartedness into our late February lives. Before we know it, the garden will be littered with these little pink petals, and the very short blossom season will be behind us. Our cherry tree always had the tendency of…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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Propellant.
We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.
Ethan Marcotte — Published
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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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Statistics made simple
Announcing a simple statistics library for Clojure web servers
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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How to get hired in 2025
A collection of red flags in software engineers' test assignments
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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Needy programs
We used to use software; now software started to use us
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
Nikita Prokopov — Published — Updated
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Poem: Not for an eternity
Just read the poem. No further comment.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Quoting Donald Knuth
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I'd been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 - Anthropic's hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I'll have to revise my opinions about "generative AI" one of these days.…
Simon Willison — Published
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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family. At $0.25/million tokens of input and $1.5/million output this is 1/8th the price of Gemini 3.1 Pro. It supports four different thinking levels, so I had it output four different pelicans: minimal low medium…
Simon Willison — Published
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w0rdz aRe 1mpoRtAnt
The other day I was looking at the team billing section of an AI product. They had a widget labeled “Usage leaderboard”. For whatever reason, that phrase at that moment made me pause and reflect — and led me here to this post. It’s an interesting label. You could argue the widget doesn’t even need a…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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What a year that was.
Know your web design history. The post What a year that was. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Jeffrey Zeldman — Published
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Basic Letters with LaTeX
Every so often I find myself cracking open LibreOffice to write a mildly-formal letter—perhaps a thank-you note to an author, or a letter to members of Congress—and going “Gosh, I wish I had LaTeX here”. I used to have a good template for this but lost it years ago; I’ve recently spent some time recreating…
Kyle Kingsbury — Published
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Finding enthusiasm in the face of boredom
A journal entry where I describe how boredom works and why it helps to be honest with our feelings.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Real-Time UI
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”– Tom & David Kelley But what if the meeting is the prototype? That’s the spirit of an idea I’m calling “Real-time UI” (the name […]
Brad Frost — Published
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GIF optimization tool using WebAssembly and Gifsicle
Agentic Engineering Patterns > I like to include animated GIF demos in my online writing, often recorded using LICEcap. There's an example in the Interactive explanations chapter. These GIFs can be pretty big. I've tried a few tools for optimizing GIF file size and my favorite is Gifsicle by Eddie Kohler…
Simon Willison — Published
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Advice for job seekers
Pitching isn’t bragging. The post Advice for job seekers appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.
Jeffrey Zeldman — Published
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February sponsors-only newsletter
I just sent the February edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. In this month's newsletter: More OpenClaw, and Claws in general I started a not-quite-a-book about Agentic Engineering StrongDM, Showboat and Rodney…
Simon Willison — Published
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An Album For Every Year Of My Life
Inspired by Tom’s One Album for Every Year of Life compilation, Robert created his own list. It’s been a while since I last published a list related to music so here’s my own that should contain 40 items. This was a much more challenging exercise than I initially thought. It took me almost an entire…
Wouter Groeneveld — Published
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January 2026 Baseline monthly digest
Read about various happenings with Baseline during January 2026
web.dev — Published
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Weekly Update 493
The Odido breach leaks were towards the beginning during this week's update. I recorded it the day after the second dump of data had hit, with a third dump coming a few hours later, and a final dump of everything the day after that. From what I hear,
Troy Hunt — Published
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Selfie: reviewing some manual labour I did earlier
Selfie picture of me with part of the land I was working on earlier
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Keeping calm in the face of war and uncertainty
An entry from my journal in which I describe my immediate experience in light of the war that might affect Cyprus.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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External import maps, today!
A few weeks ago, I posted Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?. Today’s post is a little less gloomy: Turns out that the major limitation that would allow centralized set-it-and-forget-it import map management can be lifted today, with excellent browser support! The core idea is that you can…
Lea Verou — Published
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Book Notes: “Blood In The Machine” by Brian Merchant
For my future self, these are a few of my notes from this book. A take from one historian on the Luddite movement: If workmen disliked certain machines, it was because of the use that they were being put, not because they were machines or because they were new Can’t help but think of AI. I don’t worry…
Jim Nielsen — Published
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My current policy on AI writing for my blog
Because I write about LLMs (and maybe because of my em dash text replacement code) a lot of people assume that the writing on my blog is partially or fully created by those LLMs. My current policy on this is that if text expresses opinions or has "I" pronouns attached to it then it's written by me. I…
Simon Willison — Published
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Quoting claude.com/import-memory
I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it. Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content…
Simon Willison — Published
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A Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak so Bad that it's Good
I'm currently working on a game for the Nintendo 64. Naturally, I wanted to support the N64 Rumble Pak. You know, this controller accesorry that gave you “force feedback” in a time where game controllers didn't have a vibration motor built in. What looked like a straight forward endeavor lead me stumbling…
Dominic Szablewski — Published
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Untitled
Starting March much as I did February by trying something new. This morning I completed my first Aquathon (Tuff Fitty’s Frost Bite event in Littlehampton, a 400m swim followed by a 5km run), finishing with a time of 50:35. I’ll take that!
Paul Robert Lloyd — Published
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Vlog: preparatory work for an infrastructure project at the hut
In this video I show some of the work I do to collect soil for an infrastructure project at the hut.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Interactive explanations
Agentic Engineering Patterns > When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data from a database and outputs it as JSON the implementation details are likely simple enough that we don't need to…
Simon Willison — Published
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Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”?
In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest and most disruptive botnet. Since then, the person in control of Kimwolf -- who goes by the handle "Dort" -- has coordinated a barrage of distributed…
Brian Krebs — Published
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Anti-Book Book club
The Anti-book book club started as an excuse to meet with friends every month or two. I wanted to document what the idea was and how it worked. Regular book clubs all chose a single book to talk about. There are a few disadvantages to this though: It doesn't cater to personal preferences on the book…
Josh Ghent — Published
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International relations and impunity
Global justice is not attainable. What we can hope for is a viable balance of forces.
Protesilaos Stavrou — Published
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Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data Because users lose their passkeys all the time, and may not understand that their data has been irreversibly encrypted using them and can no longer be recovered. Tim Cappalli: To the wider identity industry: please stop promoting and…
Simon Willison — Published
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An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail Another in the genre of "OK, coding agents got good in November" posts, this one is by Max Woolf and is very much worth your time. He describes a sequence of coding agent projects, each more ambitious than the last - starting with…
Simon Willison — Published