Siri AI at WWDC 2026
His notes on Apple's WWDC reveal that Siri now runs on Google Gemini, plus the on-device Core AI framework and what's actually usable for developers.
datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0
Announces an early Datasette plugin that lets an AI agent make structured edits to your data, with a look at how the editing loop works.
Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
Explores using MicroPython compiled to WebAssembly to safely run untrusted Python in the browser, a lightweight alternative to heavier sandboxes.
micropython-wasm 0.1a2
Release notes for his MicroPython-in-WASM project, packaging the sandbox approach into a small reusable library.
OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode
A short note on OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode and what the added safety controls mean for users.
Voices · last 30 days
From engineers worth following
Latest posts from a curated roster — infra, devops, AI, backend.
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
A conversation with Kelsey Hightower on Kubernetes' trajectory, his career, and stepping away at the peak of his influence.
Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
Argues that rushing AI agents often backfires, and that deliberate setup and review actually make agent-assisted work faster overall.
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments
Reports a growing pattern of engineering teams reining in AI tooling costs, and what's driving the pullback.
Building OpenCode with Dax Raad
A behind-the-scenes look at how the open-source coding agent OpenCode was built, with its creator Dax Raad.
State of the software engineering job market in 2026
A data-driven survey of hiring, compensation, and demand for engineers in 2026.
Fragments: June 2
A roundup of short notes and links on software design and the industry from early June.
The test suite as a regression sensor
Reframes the test suite primarily as a sensor for detecting regressions, and what that lens implies for how you design and value tests.
The VibeSec Reckoning
Examines the security debt piling up from fast, AI-assisted 'vibe coding' and the disciplines needed to keep it reviewable and safe.
Bliki: Vibe Coding
A bliki entry defining 'vibe coding' as a development style and weighing its benefits against its risks.
Fragments: May 27
An earlier collection of short notes and curated links on software practice.
Relentlessly focus on the outcomes
Argues that engineers grow most by fixating on the outcomes they deliver rather than the activity or output they produce.
Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore
Makes the case that seniority increasingly reflects scope and impact rather than raw technical skill, especially in an AI-assisted world.
Just fix their PR
Suggests that sometimes the fastest, kindest review is to fix a colleague's pull request yourself rather than volley comments back and forth.
Agentic software development hypothesis
Lays out a hypothesis for how agentic development changes the economics and shape of building software, from a distributed-systems veteran's view.
What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now?
Examines which parts of software engineering AI has made genuinely easy and which remain stubbornly hard, and why the distinction matters.
Farewell Ai2
Reflects on his time at the Allen Institute for AI as he moves on, and what he learned about open model research there.
Open and closed models are on different exponentials
Argues open and closed models improve along separate trajectories with different incentives, reframing the 'who's ahead' debate around trend rather than snapshot.
Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026
Speculates on the next directions for AI research and the open ecosystem based on recent developments.
Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2
Rounds up a wave of major open-weight releases including Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, and Kimi K2, with notes on each.
How open model ecosystems compound
Explains the compounding dynamics that let open-model ecosystems build on each other faster than closed labs can replicate.
Defend against frontier cyber models: Cloudflare's architecture as customer zero
Describes how Cloudflare hardened its own systems against AI-powered attacks first, then turned that architecture into protection for customers.
Turning Cloudflare's threat indicators into real-time WAF rules
Explains a pipeline that converts Cloudflare's threat intelligence into web application firewall rules that update in real time.
Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
Pitches edge-level caching, routing, and governance to cap and cut runaway AI inference spending.
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
Announces the acquisition of VoidZero, the team behind unified JavaScript tooling like Vite, and what it means for edge development.
Enforcing the First AS in BGP AS_PATHs
A networking deep dive on validating the first autonomous system in BGP paths to improve routing security.
The future of agentic commerce is here
Lays out Stripe's vision and payment primitives for AI agents that can transact on a user's behalf, and the trust controls it requires.
Rethinking risk in the age of AI
Discusses how AI changes fraud and risk modeling for payments, both as a threat and as a defensive tool.
New ways to turn global demand into revenue
Covers new Stripe capabilities for capturing international demand and converting it into revenue.
Helping businesses optimize network costs with Visa Digital Commerce Authentication
Explains how new Visa authentication options can lower payment network costs for businesses.
Solo founding is at an all-time high
Shares data on the rise of solo founders and the traits that distinguish the most successful ones.
Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
Details the rollout of end-to-end encryption across all Discord voice and video calls and the engineering behind it.
Introducing: You Bar
Introduces a new personal navigation surface in the Discord client and the design thinking behind it.
Discord Patch Notes: June 4, 2026
A roundup of recent product changes and fixes shipped to the Discord app.