As someone who sits in a lot of meetings and has tried a lot of AI note takers I think most people are totally kidding themselves with how useful they are in most circumstances. It's not productivity it's your own laziness and desire to emotionally distance yourself from interactions
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · last mo.we're so cooked www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
node, values, memory safety, rust, LLMs, drama … I can’t be the only one who thinks Oxide and Friends is uniquely positioned to break down the fable bun rewrite post. Do it for the kids @bcantrill.bsky.social
handwritten.danieljanus.pl: A Clojure REPL running on a reMarkable 2 tablet so you can handwrite your LISP. ’Nuff said.
It's really interesting how many posts about AI-assisted and agentic coding don't mention users or user feedback. Like, at all. It's rarely cited as either a goal or a constraint.
Common Mistakes in Modularisation: We don’t create a module just because we found a noun in the specification. We don’t split our software into two modules because two teams will be working on it. We don’t create 100 modules b... https://www.boris.au/2026/05/11/common-mistakes-in-modularisation-we/
Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley - YouTube: "you can have a library in Zig that uses async-await and doesn’t rely on the event loop" Re-visiting Zig’s approach to simplicity; not even the memory allocator is assumed.
Programming Clojure, Fourth Edition: "a thing is simple if it is not compound […]. Simple components allow systems to do what their designers intend, without also doing other things irrelevant to the task at hand."
How to use the internet, 1995 - YouTube: "Computer consultant Cory Doctorow predicts video on demand while showing a CBC reporter some of the new medium’s features. Aired on CBC’s The National on June 19, 1995." I’ll never get tired of 90... https://www.boris.au/2026/05/03/how-to-use-the-internet/
Israeli soldiers beat elderly Palestinian woman to death - YouTube: "The thing I loved most about here was her courage. But they have no mercy. - Sabriyeh’s husband of 47 years"
The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software Delivery: "Software delivery was designed around constraints of humans at keyboards." Was it though? First sentence already got me wondering.
Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps? | Hacker News: "I think the bigger story here is that Israel are removing (in physical terms) towns and villages from Lebanon." As usual nerds missing the big picture.
Report: This Is How Netanyahu Convinced Trump to Launch a War Against Iran: "During a visit to the White House […] Netanyahu’s accompanying staff screened a montage of potential leaders who might seize power in a post-ayatollah Iran, including […] the last shah’s exiled son."
The Mythical Agent-Month – Codemanship’s Blog: "The combinatorial explosion in lines of communication required to keep team members in sync applies whether those team members are human or AI." While true, as in humans, m... https://www.boris.au/2026/04/08/the-mythical-agentmonth-codemanships-blog/
That's right! We destroyed the oldschool demo compo with my most advanced 6502 code to date. This is really running in a stock Atari 2600 with no expansions! (except 32k ROM bank switching) Full video at my channel youtu.be/aEJ0A8Wvdxs
IDF Confirms: AI Infrastructure Built in Gaza Now Active in Iran, Lebanon: "[...] sources told Haaretz that Israel does not rely on external providers, working with open source models that were repurposed and fine tuned by the army."
Palestinians in the West Bank Are Now Experiencing Multiple Settler Attacks Per Day: "They usually happen late at night, when people are asleep in their homes with their families" Remember these marauders are armed by the Israeli go... https://www.boris.au/2026/03/29/palestinians-in-the-west-bank/
The Annoying Usefulness of Emacs - YouTube: "my recommendation for people […] looking to learn a cool customisable text editor, never try Emacs because you won’t be able to get rid of this goddamn text editor from your life. No ma... https://www.boris.au/2026/03/20/the-annoying-usefulness-of-emacs/
Israel Killed Over a Dozen Lebanese Paramedics in Three Days, Now Claiming That Ambulances Are “Hezbollah” Targets: "The exact place they went to do their rescue work was targeted again once they arrived"
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers | Al Jazeera "Since the ceasefire took effect at noon on October 10, Israel has killed at least 615 Palestinians and injured 1,651"
‘The West Bank’s Area C Is Almost Completely Ethnically Cleansed’ - Haaretz While everyone was supposedly looking.
Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger - YouTube: "if programmers are too productive […] and if their primary interaction is with a machine […], they are not practicing interacting with each other."
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week | The Guardian: "This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking, one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of ‘social cohesion’ is propaganda." We’re drowning in managerial jargon.
AI and architecture - Barry O’Reilly - Post | LinkedIn: Claims of AI driven improvement, even if true, seem to ignore the wealth of low hanging fruit that can improve individual and especially collaborative software development. ... https://www.boris.au/2026/01/08/ai-and-architecture-barry-oreilly/
