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How I write software with LLMs

I don’t care for the joy of programming Lately I’ve gotten heavily back into making stuff, and it’s mostly because of LLMs. I thought that I liked programming, but it turned out that what I like was making things, and programming was just one way to do that. Since LLMs have become good at programming, […]

What Is Agentic Engineering?

I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They’re agents that can both write and execute code. Popular examples include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI. What’s an agent? Clearly defining that term is a challenge that has frustrated […]

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

”The Linux Programming Interface” as a university course text Although I didn’t specifically target TLPI at the university market as I wrote it, by now I’ve had emails from a number of university teachers who are using TLPI as a required text or as recommended reading for courses on Linux or UNIX system programming. I’m […]

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

Recently, Eon Systems PBC co-founder and founding advisor Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross shared some of the work that we’ve been doing on X, and we were pleasantly surprised at how much attention it’s received. This embodied fly is still very much a work-in-progress, and a first step towards showing how an embodied brain would control a […]

Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

Published 1 day ago March 15, 2026 1 min read · View Markdown · Other Articles Article written by a human: Mike Cardwell About 14 years ago I set up DNSSEC. I’ve been running it on all of my domains ever since, without issue. First using bind9 and then later using PowerDNS. From today, all Certificate Authorities (CAs) […]

Canada’s bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians

The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that was the new government’s first piece of substantive legislation. The lawful access elements of […]

LLMs can be exhausting

LLMs can be absolutely exhausting | Tom Johnell Home Blog Work LinkedIn 15 Mar, 2026 Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It’s easy to blame the model – there’s so many options to choose from: They’re dumbing down the […]

The 49MB Web Page

If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then […]

Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP

Sebastian Benz Alex Rudenko Published: December 11, 2025 We shipped an enhancement to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that many of our users have been asking for: the ability for coding agents to directly connect to active browser sessions. With this enhancement, coding agents are able to: Re-use an existing browser session: Imagine you want […]

Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, writer Charlie Warzel explored why so many older adults are spending more time on their digital devices — and why their children and grandchildren are increasingly uneasy about it. But is this shift actually worth worrying about? Or are younger people just projecting their own anxieties about screen […]