Charles Wiltgen

I am at Target, casually browsing kitchen gadgets. There are 632 models of Ninja-branded air fryers. New models are being added as I stand here. If civilization were to end today, future archaeologists would surely conclude that air frying was at the center of our culture.

Interesting thoughts on the state of Trump’s brain by someone with many years’ experience working with geriatric patients with dementia.

Sometimes, Claude Code will ask you to legislate on a coding issue that really only has one correct answer. In those scenarios, you’ll need to sniff that out and push back. Here’s a typical example of how I do that and Claude’s (Opus 5.5 high) response:

“Spicy autofill”

Nice update to my favorite budget, non-SOTA coding model. I’m having a very nice experience with it in omp (omp.sh): api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261...

Scavengers Reign (2023): Transcendent. ★★★★½

So you’re saying my choice is (1) a caravan of families, or (2) a caravan of pedophiles, crooks, and genital-obsessed kooks 🤔

Is Safari as shit for PWAs as tech bros would have you think? I wanted a definitive, unbiased answer, so I built this last year. I’ve just updated it for the latest browser versions, including Safari 27.

The most effective, budget-friendly solution for AI-assisted coding as of 9/2026: omp + DeepSeek V4 Flash. My daily driver remains Claude Code for now. But Anthropic continues to gradually nerf the speed and token allowances of their Max plans to the point that I’m actively testing alternatives.

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

LLMs are really something else.

Perfect analogy.

Google is bringing the parable of “The Scorpion and the Frog” to life, as they kill the very thing that’s been carrying it for all of its existence. As the billions of nodes that make up the open web die, Google will die.

Useful micro-prompt when coding with AI: “Any loose ends or concerns for this session so far?” (alt: “…for this session before we wrap?”) This is a good final prompt before wiping a session and its associated hot context, even if you’ve already explicitly updated supporting context (ADRs, etc.).

(via @simonwillison.net)

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

Important statement from the New York Times

data visualization is my passion.

Inconceivable bargains to be found, one assumes. @mandykathryn.bsky.social

The fight America wants to see. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

AI will replace software engineers before it can manage a McDonald’s.

Your miracle of the day: We’re all always 5 minutes from death, but every time we breathe it resets the clock.

Didn’t Tom’s Guide used to be a tech site of some renown? Am I misremembering?

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

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Happy Mario day!

I ate the new McDonalds “Big Arch” product and it was…fine?…but absolutely not worth $9.36 (sandwich only, SoCal price). I now sympathize with their CEO a bit more.

“Hey, they’re copying our plagiarism machine!” 🙃

Surely Orson Welles would be fine with this. #ai #art #film #cinema

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Follow for a new music experience for iPhone, coming soon. #Poppy #plex #jellyfin #navidrome #emby #lyrion #opensubsonic

If you’re an iOS developer using Claude Code, I humbly offer that Axiom will radically improve your productivity, alignment with Apple platform best practices, and the quality of the code you ship. charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ #ai #coding #ios #xos

“Everybody thought software programming is the ultimate ‘smart profession’. Look what is the first thing that AI’s solving.” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang #ai #coding #greatreplacement

Oooof.

It’s all fun and games until China takes Alaska and Hawaii.