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Yeah, I was one of those kids that learned to program the hard way by typing in programs from magazines and then debugging them. Not quite as hard as punch cards but still. Makes me wonder: what about today’s wondrous “tell the machine what you want” programming will seem like a Stone Age in 40yrs?

this is a good post by Katelyn Lesse, head of platform at Anthropic about the problems the industry needs to solve for multi-agent systems. most pressingly imo - authentication and authorisation. "Security and proper isolation are critical for untrusted code and content." - sandboxes 🚀

All this 👇 Hiding the use of AI just breeds distrust in a team

Reminded myself that AI can’t take away my ability to swim 5km every Sunday. Although the motivation today required a fair amount caffeine and carbs

In the 1980s, PCs were everywhere but productivity gains were nowhere to be found until the 1990s. The internet similarly took years to deliver an economic payoff. This is the Productivity J-Curve. Companies can adopt AI but until they change how they operate, they won’t financially benefit from it

PSA: you might not know this—because I certainly didn't—but you _need_ to verify that all traffic reaching your server has come through your firewall. jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/10/24/h...

EU Member States agree on "simplifying" GDPR and other EU data laws - must still be negotiated with the European Parliament www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

A system without AI agents monitoring and defending it will inevitably be a compromised system.

the railway breach seems to be another case of grabbing anthropic / openai keys the issue here is tokens are basically cash, you can immediately sell them on the black market where there's a ton of demand particularly from distillers with deep pockets 1/2

If you're a railway customer, you need to jump on this immediately. "We strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway" blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

Really wish my specialist subjects this week didn't have to include "cybersecurity" and "data stack". Please, I really had enough to be doing

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

This is the thought process that lead to me deciding to write about AI. I hate the conclusions I've drawn here.

Been working on a suite of Alfred plugins on the side lately. Check 'em out if you're a user.

@mileswoodroffe.com can't believe you didn't create this: github.com/oripekelman/..., especially the logo

The average developer needs to accept that the latest tier of foundation models writes better code than them. Most developers who think they are above average are not. It’s time to learn how to be effective writing code with AI or be left behind.

The Commodore 64 hardware simulator is now online: github.com/antirez/c64-...

Finally, about 4 decades after I first typed "PRINT 'HELLO WORLD!'" into a BBC Micro, I can ship the software that I dream of. Also: I've completely lost my perspective on why anyone would buy software and am in a state of existential angst. The cognitive dissonance is too much for my little brain

Can buy our castles; can't stomach our beer

Not “unprecedented”. Very precedented since it happened in the US last month

Started building my own agent orchestrator in the cloud so I guess I'm an AI influencer now? (nah, hopefully not) It's pretty cool that my test agent reviews PRs so I'm already in a self-referential loop where the platform is reviewing it's own PRs

Going on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1).

Wish this had existed 25yrs ago when I was actively reading research papers every day.

The video for my ldx NYC talk was posted, I'm proud of this one leaddev.com/management/t...

Current AI-detection tools are a scourge and worse than the problem they are trying to solve. I’m very much in favour of proper watermarking for AI text so the detection becomes statistically reliable. Right now it’s a predictable as being cursed by a demented witch

Reflection AI's Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active. - Frontier reasoning efficiency - Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic tasks - Trained end-to-end from scratch Full weights release this month. reflection.ai/blog/introdu...

You can follow this Birds feed bsky.app/profile/did:... or the #BirdOfTheDay hashtag or just follow @atlanticbirding.bsky.social and your mornings can start off with a deluge of bird photos. Not everything has to be doom and gloom!

Barrage balloons and unmanned missiles. Everything old is new again

Found the perfect present for a Rails developer in your life: peekies.us/products/pee...

Impressive work to be more wrong than Eton’s haunted pencil. This is America’s next President?