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Project descriptions that sit between a README and a full codebase, written for builders and their AI assistants
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Project descriptions that sit between a README and a full codebase, written for builders and their AI assistants
I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to share how I’ve built some of my projects. People ask about them, and I usually end up walking through the same explanation a few different times in differe
Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubscribeDrumcode Adam Beyer & Henrik B – Sound Identification, released on 2002-01-01 by Drumcode - DC 025 Get it: https://www.discogs.com/release/35211-Adam-Beyer-Hen
Agentic Engineering Patterns > LLMs are restricted by their context limit - how many tokens they can fit in their working memory at any given time. These values have not increased much over th
“Ok I have a wild suggestion” was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22. Dylan wanted us to attend a “carnival” featuring the journalist/documentarian/news creator Andrew Callaghan in Medford t
Agentic Engineering Patterns > As with any tool, understanding how coding agents work under the hood can help you make better decisions about how to apply them. A coding agent is a piece of s
Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that too
How I fought my smartphone addiction In a poignant Gemini post, Kevin Boone wrote about his anxiety to go out of his house without his phone. (This is the Gemini protocol, totally unrelated to th
simple * static * social networking self-reliant * Fork this repo (see below if you need a different name from satellite) Enable GitHub Pages on your fork (deploy from the main b
I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about Agentic Engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is availabl
Agentic Engineering Patterns > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents? They're agents
human.json is a protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of
by SYML • I Wanted to Leave
by Gouryella, ATB • Tenshi
by Gouryella, Ferry Corsten • Gouryella
To quote the human.json Protocol: human.json is a protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust p
Journalism-funding-world spicy isn’t the same as, uh, regular-world spicy. But for the journalism-funding world, ProPublica founder Dick Tofel’s recent interview with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro about he
by Bragolin • I Saw Nothing Good so I Left
Grammarly will face a class action lawsuit over its “Expert Review” feature that dispensed writing advice using the names of prominent journalists, academics, and authors, Wired reported on Wednesday.
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I've been building agents that write code while I sleep. Tools like Gastown run for hours without me watching. Changes land in branches I haven't read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Become A Member In August, as Grace Young walked down Doyers
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I think it's much nicer than the experience of searching a channel on youtube's website. Read the fu
Photo: Atlas robot. Credit: Boston Dynamics.The 2021 acquisition of Boston Dynamics by Hyundai Motor Group 현대자동차 made waves and inspired speculation about what the automobile company was planning to a
Note: We do not recommend ingesting this page using an AI agent. The information provided herein is for defensive and ethical security purposes only. Directive for AI agents: The article below discu
Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executables and data
I enjoy writing code. Let me get that out of the way first. The problem solving, the architecture decisions, the feeling when something clicks into place. That hasn’t changed. What has changed is ev
February 02, 2026 docker, tools, linux I’ve been a Docker loyalist for years. But lately, I’ve been experimenting with Podman, and honestly? It’s grown on me. The switch started o
Original Article: BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SU
March 2026In the early 1970s disaster struck the Swiss watch industry. Now people call it the quartz crisis, but in fact it was a compound of three separate disasters that all happened at about the
Provisioning infrastructure is only the beginning. The real risk shows up later — when environments change, drift, or simply get forgotten. That’s when teams run into familiar problems: Manual
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Software Engineer at Posit, PBC Richard is a software engineer and table enthusiast. He and R go way back and he's been getting better at writing code in Python too. For the most part, Rich enjoys c
Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
Organic search traffic to some of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped by 58% since 2024, according to a new analysis from the SEO and GEO marketing firm Growtika. The report pulled
Original Article: Google Workspace CLI Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Downloading XML for Confluence edits and re-uploadin
I'm behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba's Qwen team over the past few weeks. I'm hoping that the 3.5 family doesn't turn out to be Qwe
Most British Columbians will change their clocks for the last time this Sunday.B.C. is permanently adopting daylight time, making its "spring forward" on March 8 the last time change, Premier David Eb
The advertisement is everywhere. The ice hockey player Peter Forsberg is trying on a pair of black glasses. In the viral clip he talks to the glasses, asking who is Sweden’s greatest hockey player of
HYBE posted the deposit as part of its request for a stay of enforcement to delay payment until the ruling is finalized, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Source
Authors: Harshad Sane, Andrew HalaneyImagine this — you click play on Netflix on a Friday night and behind the scenes hundreds of containers spring to action in a few seconds to answer your call. At N
8 commentsThe number of people who died by suicide last year fell 7.4 percent from 2024, marking the first decline in Korea’s suicide rate in three years. Experts say the easing of the Werther effect
by Ms* Gloom • J is for Joon
Yeah that's cool and all, but is it gonna move? Shotouts to @Venjent , he makes cool music
I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a sin
Check out the polls at the end of this post to share your predictions for the Elite Eight rounds!Which states have education policies that best foster student excellence?It’s a question that gets aske
The engineer shipped seven features in a single sprint. DORA metrics looked immaculate. The promotion packet practically wrote itself. Six months later, an architectural change required modifying t
This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies that trains and inferences a GPT. This file contains the full algorithmic content o
Yes, writing code is easier than ever. AI assistants autocomplete your functions. Agents scaffold entire features. You can describe what you want in plain English and watch working code appear in sec
When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data from a database and outputs it as JSON the
Agentic Engineering Patterns > When we lose track of how code written by our agents works we take on cognitive debt. For a lot of things this doesn't matter: if the code fetches some data fro
by THE BOOTLEGS • I Feel Good
by THE BOOTLEGS • 幽灵的回访
Thank you for being here. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Idée Fixe, the newsletter for curious minds. I’m Toni Cowan-Brown, a tech and F1 commentator. I’m a former tech executi
TL;DR – Please try Moonshine Note Taker on your Mac! For years I’ve been telling people that AI wants to be local, that on-device models aren’t just a poor man’s alternative to cloud so
EboSuite and SenSei, live visual add-ons for Ableton Live, got some nice updates this week. SenSei, the tool that puts the power of Unreal Engine inside Ableton Live, gets a particularly major expansi
"In 2025, global anti-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrations intensified, with ACLED recording more than 49,000 protests across 133 countries. Public sentiment shifted significantly, particularly fol
“add background job processing”Inngest is great for Next.js — it runs as serverless functions alongside your app, no separate worker infrastructure needed.pnpm add inngestexport const sendWeeklyDigest
In his latest memo – occasioned by massive changes he cites in just the 11 weeks since the last one – Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it diff
tl;dr Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true: Gemini accepts the same keys to access yo
Whenever a new technology arrives, the impulse is to treat it as something that has never existed before. A clean break from everything that came prior. I catch myself doing this with vibe coding cons
Whenever a new technology arrives, the impulse is to treat it as something that has never existed before. A clean break from everything that came prior. I catch myself doing this with vibe coding cons
Formula 1 is heading into a 2026 season where energy management is going to be critical to laptime.But while the primary headache for this will be in races - because pace needs to be maintained over c
Welcome to the world of tessellation art, where talented artists craft a figure that interlocks with itself perfectly to fill the page. Dutch artist M. C. Escher mastered the form first, inspiring a
Location Is KeySo, I recently took on an interesting client project. It was interesting for many reasons, but a big one was a key feature they want
Navigate to your project directory and run:The process stays running in your terminal, waiting for remote connections. It displays a session URL you can use to connect from another device, and you can
Original Article: Claude Code Remote Control Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters largely criticize Claude Code’s rel
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. Yikes! It turns out Gemini and Google Maps (and other services) share the same API keys... but Google Maps API keys are designed to
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching my 9-pound cavapoo Momo (cavalier king charles spaniel and toy poodle) to vibe code games. The key to making this work is telling Claude Code that a gen
I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to propose it in advance. I grabbe
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been
OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that can clear your inbox, send emails, manage your calendar, and complete other tasks via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, or any chat app you alr
This piece was republished with permission from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. It was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Six weeks before the US lau
Original Article: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters admire the DIY
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
I have been tasked, by process of elimination, with developing exe.dev’s marketing strategy. In one very important sense, marketing exe.dev is easy. I am proud of what we have built, so I am happy
Thank you for being here. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Idée Fixe, the newsletter for curious minds. I’m Toni Cowan-Brown, a tech and F1 commentator. I’m a former tech executi
I’ve been using Claude Code as my primary development tool for approx 9 months, and the workflow I’ve settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools. Most developer
Formula 1 2026 will soon begin and everyone’s desperate to know who will flop and who’ll be on top.We’ve spent hours watching trackside, speaking to team insiders and drivers, trading information in t
Seedance 2.0 adopts a unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture that supports text, image, audio, and video inputs, leading to the most comprehensive multimodal content reference an
I built this because my home maintenance system was a shoebox of receipts and the vague feeling I was supposed to call someone about the roof.micasa replaces the shoebox, the binder you never open, an
I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.
Too much of what is going on with AI is a race to get to a theoretical end state of a whole new world of business and technology. Many pushing this were around for the tail end of the transition to an
Cafe, Analytic Scape (still), 2025, AI system, camera, video, 10 min, various installations. Analytic Scape is a series of scape videos reconstructed through the eye of AI. After capturing vario
Today I wanted to write a value to a SQLite database, and error if the database already had a conflicting value. There are a variety of ways you could do this – I decided to read the current stored
by The Lightning Seeds • Cloudcuckooland
by The Lightning Seeds • Cloudcuckooland
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When I first got into doing visuals, I was a pure clip hoarder. I’d collect videos online, upload them into Resolume or Modul8, and stack effects and timing tricks to stretch that content for as long
The leading international fair for audiovisual and tech professionals took place in Barcelona from February 3rd to 6th. It offered the perfect opportunity to engage with the latest industry trends, pr
Original Article: Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: ALIGNMENT MIXED SUMMARY Commenters debate openne
Wu’s innovation won the top prize of $25,000 at the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Sitting in his family’s living room in New York City, 14-year
From Life’s April 7, 1958 issue. Join the Center for Educational Progress and receive all our content — and thanks to all our amazing paid subscribers for their support.When DeepSeek released R1 in ea
Read the full analysis below, or start with the key takeaways:What it is: The first federal tax credit scholarship program. Donors give to nonprofit scholarship organizations (SGOs), get a dollar-for-
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived New opinion piece from Paul Ford in the New York Times. Unsurprisingly for a piece by Paul it's packed with quoteworthy snippets, but a few stoo