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My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March - Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website. - Wrote Agent experience abo...
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A tiny Game Boy arcade platformer built with GBDK-2020. You're always bouncing on a pogo stick: steer, stomp cracked blocks, grab the battery, reach the exit.
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A tiny Game Boy arcade platformer built with GBDK-2020. You're always bouncing on a pogo stick: steer, stomp cracked blocks, grab the battery, reach the exit.
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April Updates: Professional Grids for Maps and a Huge Satellite Imagery Refresh
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www.maptiler.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Create professional maps with gridlines, and a major update to our Satellite layer, adding up-to-date high-resolution imagery for Scandinavia and the US.
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Arkansas Attempts Ban on All Publications by MIM(Prisons) April 2026 permalink A comrade in Arkansas sent us a 30 December 2025 memorandum from Director Dexter Payne announcing a new policy, effective 1 February 2026, that would prevent prisoners from obtaining any physical publications from the outside. This would be the strictest state-level prison mail restriction in the country. The memo claims this is to prevent “harmful....
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My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in March Published Software in the AI era and updated my personal website.
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Brave Search API approaches 700,000 OpenClaw users, highlighting the surge in machine-first search
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brave.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Nearly 700,000 OpenClaw users have signed up for the Brave Search API, cementing Brave as the preferred independent search provider powering the leading open-source AI agent platform.
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How to decorate a simple but effective child’s birthday cake
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blog.rtwilson.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Welcome to anyone coming here from April Cools! I usually blog about things like cool geospatial tools, books I’ve read, Python packages I’ve created and more. But today, time for something different… I quite like making decorated birthday cakes (I’ll show some of my favourites at the end of this post), but they generally take […]
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION > SHIP ID: AUDIO FREIGHTER 1 > CORRDINATES: 7-10 > LOG DATE: 5 ================================================================== > BEGIN TRANSMISSION Hi. I sent in about the symbol a little while back and now I see it in my dreams, I see it out of the corner of my eye while I'm awake, I it in the stars. I'm heading to sector 16 to see a doctor if that's even who I need to see. I've also been contacted frequently by so..
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one out of three - Four months in a row. The writing streak continues even when the results don’t. March Reflection Running - 100km+. Goal met. This one is becoming automatic. No trips, no excuses, and the kilometers came through. Reading - Didn’t finish a book. The goal was to finish Meditations. Didn’t happen. Fail....
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From Custom to Open: Scalable Network Probing and HTTP/3 Readiness with Prometheus
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slack.engineering
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3 months ago
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eng
The Problem: Legacy Tooling and Its Limitations Currently, Slack utilizes a hybrid approach to network measurement, incorporating both internal (such as traffic between AWS Availability Zones) and external (monitoring traffic from the public internet into Slack’s infrastructure) solutions. These tools comprise a combination of commercial SaaS offerings and custom-built network testing solutions developed by our…
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An AI agent implements a feature. The code compiles. The tests pass. It still misses the point. The wrong kind of correct. Most of our software tooling is opt
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An AI agent implements a feature. The code compiles. The tests pass. It still misses the point. The wrong kind of correct. Most of our software tooling is opt
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Folks kindly responded with some criticism of my list of magic link pitfalls . So let’s talk about some more pitfalls! Magic links are annoying This was by far the most common sentiment: “just give me a username and password”. I’m 99% sure this criticism comes from tech-savvy developers, so I’ll rephrase this as: “just give me a way to login with my password manager”. That’s fair! The most common proposed solution was to implement pa..
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Thank you for helping me figure out which sections to remove from the newsletter. As distasteful as it must have been to consider my navel, y’all have a clearer view of it than I do. Free Fonts and Literary Journals will be lists. I might update those lists every year or two. That’s a better fit for these topics and what I have to say about them. Nerdy Software will go where it belongs: the Uses page on my website. If you are un....
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I was recently interviewed by Jason Elder on the Law Enforcement Analysts Podcast about my new book, Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts. Jason does an excellent job with interviewing (and does a quality editing job with audio), so suggest to follow that if you are a crime analyst or researcher […]
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Some time ago I came upon someone asking what would be a good introduction to the Arthurian cycle and the matter of Britain, and the replies mentioned that this book would be a good one that covered “most of it“. Dear Reader, if you have been here me for a while you’ll know I am … Continue reading " Review: The Once and Future King, by T.H. White " The post Review: The Once and Future King, by T.H. White ..
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The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn lead to the polarisation and disagreement. Taking a … Continue reading →
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
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www.dsebastien.net
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3 months ago
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eng
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
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www.dsebastien.net
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3 months ago
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eng
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
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www.dsebastien.net
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3 months ago
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eng
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
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www.dsebastien.net
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3 months ago
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eng
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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Analog Reading, Digital Knowledge: The Full Pipeline From Paper Notes to AI Skills
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www.dsebastien.net
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3 months ago
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eng
I read books on paper, take handwritten notes, and turn them into connected atomic notes and AI skills. Here's the full pipeline, and the thinking behind each step.
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From LLM-powered extraction to agentic pipelines, here's how AI is reshaping every stage of the web scraping workflow in 2026 and what it means for your stack.
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This is your reminder to make sure you’re using npm min-release-age, pnpm minimumReleaseAge, or yarn npmMinimalAgeGate to protect your projects. You should also check to ensure your projects are not already compromised. Joe Desimone: Any system that ran npm install (or equivalent) resolving axios@1.14.1 or axios@0.30.4 after 2026-03-31T00:21:58Z may have executed the stage-2 payload. See also the Stage 2 macOS trojan analysis for […]
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Finally figured out how Zigbee groups work in home assistant. If you have multiple devices (e.g. smart bulbs) and you want to control them all at once, you could add them directly to your automations, but you may notice, that they do not turn on simultaneously and sometimes some
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atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server.
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atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server.
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Log 037 - One Soul Aboard We intercepted a report. Not a signal in the way we usually mean. No frequency, no phase relationship. A bureaucratic document, transmitted in plaintext, hash signatures where the dates should be. A military investigation into a ship called Archer-51 that launched with one person aboard by accident. The details matter. An AI process failed to acknowledge a full stop. A programming defect compounded the error. A man....
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035 - Syntax Day 286. Odelya found something in the signal analysis that none of us expected. The listener's communication patterns have diverged into two syntactic modes. One is center-embedded - recursive structures nested inside each other, formally complex but hard to parse in real time. The other is right-branching - linear, processable, the way any biological intelligence would naturally produce language under time pressure. The....
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Bash Nameref: Mutate Function Arguments (Pointer-Like Behavior)
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nickjanetakis.com
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3 months ago
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eng
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During the last Steam Next Fest, I played a demo of a puzzle game called DEG that was getting a lot of buzz. The game is made for people who like grid puzzles like Sudoku , or Nurikabe , with many additional unique concepts and puzzle ideas that are tutorialized silently to the player. Needless to say, I was hooked . I reached out to Doseo, its creator, and inquired about investing in the game. We discussed how he would use additio..
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Over the years, I've wondered why experienced software teams struggle to improve. Why do smart teams keep revisiting the same issues in retros without real progress? Not the "writing better code" variety of issues. The answer, more often than not, is that they're missing three things at once: real data, an explanation of what's driving the data, and a way actually to change it. Usually, you get one, maybe two. Never all three. I have been....
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March always seems to be my life’s busiest month. Things I wrote and made “The two kinds of error” : in my mind, software errors are divided into two categories: expected and unexpected errors. I finally wrote up this idea I’ve had for a long time. “All tests pass” is a short story about a strange, and sorta sad, experience I had with a coding agent. Inspired by others, I published a disclaimer about how I use generative AI ....
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Granola for Content Creators: AI-Powered Meeting Notes for Collaboration
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zackproser.com
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3 months ago
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eng
How content creators use Granola AI to capture client meetings, collaboration sessions, and creative brainstorming with automated transcription.
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Granola for Fitness Coaches: AI Meeting Notes for Client Consultations and Training Plans
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zackproser.com
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3 months ago
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eng
How fitness coaches use Granola AI to document client assessments, training plan discussions, and progress review meetings.
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Granola for Mobile Developers: AI Meeting Notes for App Development Teams
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zackproser.com
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3 months ago
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eng
How mobile developers use Granola AI to document sprint planning, technical reviews, and stakeholder meetings in app development workflows.
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