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Updated 11 October 2026

Simon Willison

Dwarf Fortress uses version control now
Tarn Adams spent years saying he never used version control for Dwarf Fortress. Simon traces the quotes over time and finds the game's developers have finally adopted it.
Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions
GitHub's actions/python-versions now ships Python 3.15.0, so you can add "3.15" to a GitHub Actions test matrix and run your suite against the new release today.
Quoting The New York Times
A New York Times quote reporting that Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications through a State Department web form, a concrete case of agents causing accidental real-world side effects.
Deno is joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare is acquiring Deno to make self-hosting the Workers model first-class, building on Deno's open source Durable Objects implementation. The Deno runtime itself gets only one more year of maintenance releases.
Quoting Matthew Green
Cryptographer Matthew Green puts rough odds on AI breaking confidence in today's public-key encryption, arguing standards move far slower than AI surprises, so preparation has to start before anything breaks.

Gergely Orosz

Martin Fowler

Julia Evans

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Julia revives ten-year-old rechargeable bike lights by cutting them open and soldering in a new battery at a community makerspace. A friendly, beginner's walkthrough of fixing old electronics instead of replacing them.

Addy Osmani

Swizec Teller

Kent C. Dodds

You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI
Kent argues that as agents write more of the code, an engineer's value moves to deciding what should exist, how it should behave and which trade-offs to accept.

Dan Luu

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
Dan Luu argues there is no point where blindly trusting LLM output becomes safe. He looks at people who stop checking AI results and explains why this keeps producing broken software.

Will Larson

Trying the Software Factory pattern.
Will Larson walks through Imprint's year of adopting AI coding tools, step by step, and reports what happened when his team tried the 'software factory' pattern for agent-driven development.

Mitchell Hashimoto

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
Mitchell Hashimoto proposes OSC 7501, a terminal escape sequence that lets programs, including coding agents, report whether they are working, blocked on user input, done or failed, so terminals can notify you properly.

Charity Majors

Marc Brooker

Hamel Husain

Nathan Lambert

Cindy Sridharan

How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code
Cindy walks through three real bugs she fixed with agents in code she did not understand, then lays out general techniques for debugging unfamiliar code with agents while staying in control.

Dan Abramov

How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture
Dan Abramov, by his own account a math novice, spent a month using a frontier model to produce a Lean proof of a 50-year-old conjecture by John Conway, and shares what he learned along the way.

Camille Fournier

The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
Camille's LDX3 talk on what AI means for engineering management, responding to tech CEOs who claim managers are becoming obsolete and explaining which parts of the role still matter.

Cloudflare

Stripe Engineering

Discord Engineering

Oxide

Jane Street Tech