Daring Fireball · John Gruber
2026
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Today in Tabs · Rusty Foster
Over Leveraged
The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.
Interconnected
Headless everything for personal AI
It’s pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans use today. By services I mean things like: getting a new passport; finding and booking a hotel or a flight; managing…
Bernard Leong | AI Strategy & Executive Education · Bernard Leong
When Code Gets Cheap, Judgment Gets Expensive - The Story of Building Arrakis Engine
Building Arrakis Engine in 18 days proved one thing: AI pair programming lowers the cost of implementation while raising the value of judgment. Domain expertise remains irreplaceable.
FOREVER WARS · Spencer Ackerman
So You Lost A War To Iran
And you're going to try to convince us you… won. Wow. Wow, OK
FOREVER WARS · Spencer Ackerman
Trump, Lost in The Failure of His War, Blinks
Whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the Iran War, now we have to talk about humiliation—and what emerges from it
Justin's Linklog · Links
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD
Former Uber self-driving chief crashes his Tesla on FSD This is actually a really good article about Tesla, "full self-driving" (FSD), supervision, automation, risk and liability: Tesla is asking humans to supervise a system that is specifically designed to make supervision feel pointless. As he puts it, an…
Justin's Linklog · Links
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) – Last Week in AWS Blog
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) - Last Week in AWS Blog This from Corey Quinn, on Amazon's recent AI-related production outages, is very good: A healthy engineering culture, when confronted with "your AI tool contributed to a production incident," responds with: "Yeah, that tracks. Here's what…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Donald Knuth on Claude Opus Solving a Computer Science Problem
Justin's Linklog · Links
peon-ping
peon-ping "AI coding agents don't notify you when they finish or need permission. You tab away, lose focus, and waste 15 minutes getting back into flow. peon-ping fixes this with voice lines from Warcraft, StarCraft, Portal, Zelda, and more — works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Kiro, and Google…
Justin's Linklog · Links
The Computer Disease
The Computer Disease I love this Feynman quote, regarding what he called "the computer disease": "Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
★ Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
Eric Blue's Digital Home · ericblue
Memspan.ai: Portable Memory for LLMs
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last couple of weekends, I ran into a problem that had been quietly bothering me for a while. I’ve used ChatGPT heavily for years. Over time, it accumulated a lot of useful context: how I work, what I’m building, preferences, projects, and long-running threads that make future…
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