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A weekend with Jev made my coding agents up to 31% faster
I spent a weekend playing with Jev, a model that scores things instead of writing text. It became a code search tool that makes Codex, OpenCode and Claude Code faster, measured over 162 sessions.tyrpien.com
Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post
Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer…scottaaronson.blogsoftware-engineering-notes
Notes on essays and personal experience related to software engineering.codeberg.org
What the Heck Is Jev?! | James O'Reilly
Jev is a fast decision model that chooses from supplied answers and opens up new uses for AI.jrzs.dev
Craft(opens the original site)
A collection of design engineering concepts.craft.gustavofior.comHow to get a DOI for your blog posts
Each new post on this blog now has a Digital Object Identifier. This post looks at the how and the why of getting one, whether it is useful, and any issues you might experience if you go down…shkspr.mobiThe hailo effect
LLM friendliness does not entail competency.blog.ploeh.dkMaybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problemsmartinfowler.com
Bencho - UI interactive blocks(opens the original site)
A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.bencho.dev
Limit the number of details
Every detail asks for attention. Limiting how many we add is what gives us room to make the ones that remain better.design.lightspark.com
AI is not a normal technology
This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.12gramsofcarbon.com
Align AI and Mathematics—to Something Else
Twenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go…liorpachter.wordpress.com
High Agency in 30 Minutes - George Mack
A mindset that changes how you think and act.highagency.com
We're All Living In The Cool Zone Now
The Cool Zone is a period of human history where everything feels possible, for better or for worse.vice.com
Still: From Akira to Ink Wash, Building a Generative Garden in WebGPU | Codrops
A technical deep dive into Still, exploring how WebGPU, procedural systems, and Japanese art influences come together to create a living generative garden.tympanus.net
Browse Free React & Next.js UI Components(opens the original site)
Browse 207+ free, MIT-licensed React and Next.js UI components on Opensource UI. Copy and paste production-ready TypeScript source code with live previews across buttons, clocks, mockups, widgets, and more.opensourceui.in
Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders - Robb Owen(opens the original site)
Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScriptrobbowen.digital
Agent memory as a file format
Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memorycalpaterson.com
Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon: An Indonesian Magic System
Magic system based on Indonesian occult practiceafraidofencounters.bearblog.dev
Music theory for programmers(opens the original site)
I can't play an instrument, so I worked out music theory in JavaScript instead. Twelve notes, scales and chords, derived from scratch with code you can hear.runjs.app
In solarpunk cities of the future, tech follows nature’s lead
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly bloomsaeon.co
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.larsfaye.com
Blender to Three.js and Back: 10 Tips for a Better Workflow
A practical collection of tips for combining AI, Blender, and Blender MCP to streamline your Three.js workflow.tympanus.net
Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future
The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law.modelrepublic.org
The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer
I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...nappertime.com
Parallel development without the headaches using Git worktree
Git worktree, run multiple branches in parallel directories to juggle features, hotfixes and testing without stashing or constant checkouts.barrd.dev
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.schlarp.comDOC • Syntax(opens the original site)
This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance.doc.cc
Web Awesome(opens the original site)
Build better with Web Awesome, the biggest open source library of meticulously designed, highly customizable, and framework-agnostic UI components.webawesome.commagnific.com(opens the original site)
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Try These 10 Skills—And Show Off Your Own(opens the original site)
Now you can author skills for our agent, directly in Figma, to put your point of view to work. Here are 10 of our favorites to get you started.figma.com
Figma is the New Dreamweaver: How Modern Prototyping Tools are Trapping Us in 2018
Just like Dreamweaver convinced a generation they could ignore HTML and CSS, Figma's perfect canvas may be hiding the messy realities of how the web actually works. The future belongs to designers who understand systems, behavior, performance, and code—not just pixels.webdesignerdepot.comTechnopagans
May the astral plane be reborn in cyberspacewired.com
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideashenrikkarlsson.xyz
Everything is about to “go dark”
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…blog.cryptographyengineering.com
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...blog.senko.netThe Grug Brained Developer
A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brainedgrugbrain.dev
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.noemamag.comshademap.app(opens the original site)
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Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts(opens the original site)
An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.franktisellano.github.ioAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Published on July 18, 2026 Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link…ludic.mataroa.blog
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026normaltech.ai
“God has helped us, and so will AI”: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI(opens the original site)
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.casp.ac
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.theatlantic.com
Pie thieves
AI CEOs want to take your stuff, a horse "rides" an astronaut, age verification part deuxendnotes.net
Who killed Google Reader?
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.theverge.com
A Guide to the Web Design Process for People Whose Last Designer Was an AI Agent
The web design process exists for a reason. Six steps, what each one actually produces, how long it takes, and why skipping them is why your site looks fine and converts nobodydnsk.workHalvar’s Guide to Entrepreneurship
Thomas Dullien’s guide to software and SaaS B2B entrepreneurship.thomasdullien.github.io
Yakitoriya, by Art Lebedev
The Yakitoriya logo was designed by Egor Zghun of Art. Lebedev Studio in 2014, creatively combining a crane with chopsticks and the sun.slogodesignlove.com
The AI Resist List(opens the original site)
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.airesistlist.org
Navbar Gallery – Navigation Design Inspiration(opens the original site)
Navbar Gallery is a collection of the best website navbar inspiration designs on the web. Find the ideal navigation example for your design from our collection.navbar.galleryWhy I email complete strangers
The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes.I had plenty of justifiable reasons to remain hesitant. Not wanting to take up their time,…goodinternetmagazine.com
Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants
What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.arstechnica.com
Transmetropolitan Art Book Spins Spider Jerusalem's Angry World
Artists reimagine the wild, dystopian world of Transmetropolitan in a new book that honors the legacy of Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s classic comic book series. The art book, exclusively previewed in Wired.com’s gallery above, expertly distills the comic’s seething cyberpunk world view — for charity. Anchored in the arch rage and madcap antics of […]wired.com
Paper Shaders – Ultra-fast zero-dependency shaders(opens the original site)
Shaders for you to use in your projects, as React components or GLSL.shaders.paper.design
Words of Type(opens the original site)
Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.wiki.wordsoftype.com
It doesn’t matter if it works
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Onlinehenry.codes
SHRTCTS — Know your shortcuts(opens the original site)
Know your shortcuts. An interactive 3D keyboard for learning the keyboard shortcuts of the apps you use every day. Pick a tool, hover a shortcut, watch the keys light up.shrtcts.click
Building Glass for the Web(opens the original site)
How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.aave.com
Conjuring a Magical Medium; or, How to Rip a Hole in the Fabric of Reality
Shira Chess is an associate professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. She is author of several books, including The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse (MIT Press, 2026).quod.lib.umich.edu
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers
Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.jackmaguire.org
Palantir founder, Peter Thiel, created JD Vance and "pushed Trump to put him on the ticket."
He's fleeing the United States over the Epstein Files, and "is now so worried about accountability and the collapse of the MAGA movement that he's worried about what's going to happen to him."aclum.org
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequencestheguardian.com
The Utopia of the Family Computer
There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice. That idea didn't vanish overnight. It came apart gradually, and left something behind.mudmapmagazine.comYou're Media Illiterate, And It's Hurting The Codebase
Software leadership keeps falling hook, line, and sinker for media hype around AI. Will basic media literacy help?harrisoncramer.me
More of the same: how creative rituals can help you break free from the idea echo chamber
Why inspiration feels harder to come by and how three types of creative ritual could be our strongest defence against the slow erosion of taste, attention, and intention.itsnicethat.com
Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring
Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporterft.com
Nudges, Biases & Heuristics for the Age of AI(opens the original site)
43 interactive field cards covering nudges, biases, heuristics, and AI phenomena. A practical reference for designers, researchers, and product teams building with AI.nudges.fyi
New Evidence for Oceans of Water Deep in the Earth
Based in part on studies at Brookhaven Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source, researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for the ingredients of water bound up in rock deep in Earth's mantle.bnl.gov
AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]tante.ccA Rape in Cyberspace
December 23, 1993 They say he raped them that night. They say he did it with a cunning little doll, fashioned in their image and imbued with the power to make them do whatever he desired. They say that by manipulating the doll he forced them to have sex with him, and with each other, […]villagevoice.com
Coding the Digital Occult - Vodun Algorithms
Coding the Digital Occult: The Binary Techno Pagan and Vodun Ontologies of Cyberspaceeticlab.co.uk
From JavaScript to WebAssembly in three steps
My journey of improving the performance of our ultra resolution storytelling tool Micrio by upgrading the JavaScript-only client to WebAssembly.engineering.q42.nl
COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.wired.comAppearing Productive in The Workplace
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.nooneshappy.comUntapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
The biggest shock of my early career was just how much code I needed to read that others wrote. I had never dealt with this. I had a hard enough time understanding my own code. The idea of…jimmyhmiller.comNo records match.