2026-08-30 | 7.5 min reading These are some of my thoughts on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas – On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence and the encyclical video presentation. The future of artificial intelligence is … Read more
July 7, 2026 Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the … Read more
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAWK, while the second is an improved attack against reduced-round AES. Anthropic also … Read more
Context: Rewriting Bun in Rust History When Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong “beginner energy”. That is, he moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head … Read more
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with … Read more
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out. As product teams scaled and design needed to justify itself inside engineering orgs, it was pushed toward systematization — and Figma invented its … Read more
2026-03-25 The turtle’s face is me looking at our industry It’s been about a year since coding agents appeared on the scene that could actually build you full projects. There were precursors like Aider and early Cursor, but they were … Read more
Aug 09, 2025 I realized recently that rather than using “the right tool for the job” I’ve been using the tool at the job and that’s mostly determined the programming languages I know. So over the last couple months I’ve … Read more
Tritium lives in the Word spec because to deliver great legal tech, we think we need to own the word processor. The Word spec is giant. It provides that a valid docx file may contain something like the below XML: … Read more
I don’t normally review things here, as I find that it’s outside the realm of the blog, but I want to talk about the ZSA Moonlander keyboard, a “mechanical” keyboard that I bought a couple of years ago. But, yeah, … Read more