Ok fun fact! Some time last month, we passed 100,000 all-time downloads! Thanks to everyone who's listened and supported us over the years 🥰 When we started the show in 2019, we never imagined our book goofing would find such a great community!
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tidepooler, software developer, and remaining in close proximity to the ocean. Writing at erikaker.com I cohost a podcast called Picture Me Coding: https://www.picturemecoding.com/
We were driving in Monterey and I looked up and saw two deer walking up a hilly street. No grass or trees or decorative flowers on either side, just houses.
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
logicforprogrammers.com
I've never seen a software dev use the phrase "belt and suspenders", but Claude seems to include it every session.
I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...
OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …
simonwillison.net
My friend Aaron was interviewed by Andy Greenberg about the car-hacking research his lab has been doing: youtu.be/FwA3CuJxbk4?... Greenberg had him drive around UCSD looking for exploitable cars and then he stole a car using these tools. Check if you car is vulnerable and patch it!
I Stole a Car By Hacking This Hidden Device
YouTube video by WIRED Investigations
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Who first had the crazy idea of connecting computers together? That's the question we explore in our latest episode: www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
The Prehistory of the Internet - Picture Me Coding
This episode started with the question: who first had the idea to connect computers together to make a network? We explore JCR Licklider's ideas about an "Intergalactic Network", some of t...
picturemecoding.com
the "claude ported bun to #rustlang" post is finally up bun.com/blog/bun-in-...
Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
bun.com
first fable experiment: asked it to look at dist-sys-related refactor request. It wrote a test that uses all memory on the system until it locks up and falls over. On the second crash I was running btop so I see but this outcome seems vastly more interesting than "write some code." EFF SHIT UP fable
After exploring a couple of surprising agentic orchestration papers we discuss where we think software development will be in 2046. We boldly predict that people will still not be comfortable with robotic dentists: www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
Software Development in 2046 - Picture Me Coding
In this episode we discuss a couple of recent papers on just-in-time development and agentic systems and how we think they suggest trends that will affect software development for years to come. ...
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The StackOverflow "developer survey" this year looks a lot different from previous years. It reads like, "we want to launch some ai products so please tell us how much you'd love to use them." Nothing about programming langauges or frameworks or *anything* they asked about in previous years.
Weekend project: creating contemporary kennings (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenning...)
Kenning - Wikipedia
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In our latest episode we talk to technology entrepreneur Doug Burke about his experience building a personal AI assistant named Sam, using Claude Code and other agent tools. www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
Do You Even Schedule, Bro? Making a Digital Workout Partner with Doug Burke - Picture Me Coding
This week we were joined by our friend Doug Burke, who runs a company and has been working on his "digital life workout partner", a voice-activated LLM tool. Doug's story is interesting because he doe...
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I've added an AI policy to ripgrep that was shamelessly copied from uv's policy. I plan to add this to the rest of my projects, but if anyone wants to offer feedback on wording, now would be a good time! github.com/BurntSushi/r...
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Jeez. arxiv.org/html/2605.24... Future software deployments look like: 1. Deploy the agent to build the thing for that custom environment. 2. For any changes, deploy tickets to the agent. Are we going to be shipping and preserving code in the future?
The Time is Here for Just-in-Time Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
arxiv.org
Agree with this 100%: "But today what I crave is original expression. I don’t care if the grammar is wrong, as long as it’s different..." This one drives me nuts too: “you’re not imagining it, the problem is real.” I instantly hate whatever I'm reading that includes this crap.
johanna 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇲🇽🏳️🌈@jola.dev · 2mo agoWrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...
In the latest episode we bring back Bob Farzin to help us discuss building software with a team of agents: www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin - Picture Me Coding
In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the inter...
picturemecoding.com
I bought a desk and the desk company sent me a hat with desk on it and I never really thought about wearing a desk hat before but I guess it's okay.
Not only does @samaaron.bsky.social do great educational work getting kids interested in programming by live-coding music – he also does deep engineering work on the underlying audio synth engine, which now runs in web browsers!
Sam Aaron@samaaron.bsky.social · 4mo agoI've made dramatic progress on Sonic Tau over the past couple of weeks. I've already managed to leap ahead of Sonic Pi in a number of areas. All the many years of deep thinking and design is really paying off. Read more in my latest Patreon post. www.patreon.com/posts/re-re-...
My new plan (surprised no one's thought of this yet) is to sub guacamole for butter in every recipe that calls for it.
I love this thing and I want one for my house: https:// boat.horse/clock/
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
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Wow. "When AI routinely completes tasks in seconds, the reference point for how long a task should take can shift – and as a consequence, unaided work starts to feel counterfactually more effortful, a process structurally analogous to hedonic adaptation..." arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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"Honestly, I don't want the product to tell my users to kill themselves," he said. "But the fact that it can is kind of what makes the product work in the first place."