Proton Meet Isn’t What They Told You It Was
Proton’s launch blog post for their new video conferencing product contains this paragraph: “laws like the US CLOUD Act can compel US-owned video conferencing platforms to hand over any data they store, even if the servers reside outside of the United States. This creates serious compliance challenges for organizations bound by GDPR, CCPA, or similar […]
The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s
The dreams of a forgotten movement from the 1930s live on Anton Cebalo is a writer — you can follow his work at novum. Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is a reader-supported publication. Each week, we highlight the work of a writer, artist, filmmaker, poster or creative. You can help to support this project: […]
Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents, and general worries about the security implications of ”vibe coding” for the development machine. In some of these discussions I find myself puzzled as to what problem is being solved – and it […]
Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
Date: March 31, 2026Author: Jason SaaymanStatus: Remediation in progress On March 31, 2026, two malicious versions of axios (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published to the npm registry through my compromised account. Both versions injected a dependency called [email protected] that installed a remote access trojan on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The malicious versions were live for […]
We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
RAG is great, until it isn’t. Our assistant could only retrieve chunks of text that matched a query. If the answer lived across multiple pages, or the user needed exact syntax that didn’t land in a top-K result, it was stuck. We wanted it to explore docs the way you’d explore a codebase. Agents are […]
Tailscale’s New macOS Home
Tailscale should feel nearly invisible when it’s connecting you and all your devices together. But on some MacBooks, for a while there, it could be a little too invisible. We have two fixes for it: one small and slightly quirky, and another really useful one, available now on macOS. The small, quirky fix might become […]
Hugo’s New CSS Powers
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was intrigued when the release of Hugo v.0.158.0 introduced its css.Build function. The new powers that resulted are worth a look when you consider all the aspects of styling a site you’ve built, or plan to build, on Hugo. Still, the enhancements have certain limitations of which […]
Cursor 3
Software development is changing, and so is Cursor. In the last year, we moved from manually editing files to working with agents that write most of our code. How we create software will continue to evolve as we enter the third era of software development, where fleets of agents work autonomously to ship improvements. We’re […]
Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update, September 2008. Hullo there Paul Krugman readers. Yes, I did say ”Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about […]
Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it
02 Apr 2026 3 min read Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco. “Bring on the radiation! I can take it,” this Wi-Fi receiver chip would say if it could talk. Yasuto Narukiyo, Sena Kato, et al. Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. […]