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For years, we’ve been working to make building server software simpler. We questioned how modules could be distributed, what security guarantees a JavaScript runtime could provide, what belonged in a complete toolchain, and how easily an application could be distributed … Read more
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. Last week, on October 1st, 2026, the historian Benjamin Breen published a post called Using Opus 5.5 … Read more
big-arrow-on-the-screen (bigarrow): one small macOS CLI and an agent skill. Click-through, never steals the focus, gone by itself. MIT. Your AI agent can refactor a monorepo, write a migration and explain monads, but when it needs you to click one … Read more
EnglishEnglish (pdf)NorwegianNorwegian (pdf) Announcement, Nobel Peace Prize 2026 9 October 2026 The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s … Read more
Run a command once, reuse its output for a while. once executes a command in your current directory, prints its stdout and keeps it in memory in a small per-user background daemon. Repeated calls with the same command, directory and … Read more
With contributions from Dan Gomez Blanco (New Relic). If you’re building self-hosted software or a SaaS product, your users will eventually ask to send logs, traces, and metrics to their own observability stack, whether to satisfy compliance, manage costs, or … Read more
MXC is a sandboxed code execution system for running untrusted code (model output, plugins, and tools) on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides multiple containment backends, from OS-native process sandboxes to full VMs, behind a unified containment model and typed … Read more
Move WASDmove / strafe (id’s own: the arrows and ,. — idcontrols on the console) mouselook (click to lock; or click-drag). Too slow or too fast: Options, Mouse Speed — on a Mac a gaming mouse starts slow (macOS passes … Read more
Over the years, I learned about many gotchas and strange differences between keyboard handling on Mac and Windows – pertinent especially to web apps, which use the same codebase to cater to both. I thought it might be helpful to … Read more
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