My wife @jadewang.me wrote a collection of poetry that is designed to be read by AI. To be clear, it is NOT written by AI. Jade wrote everything herself. But it contains puzzles that very few humans have enough context to figure out, but most frontier models do.

Jade Wang@jadewang.me · 3mo ago

spacesleftblank.com: autobiographical poetry (immigration raid -> neuroscience -> NASA -> startups) human written (by me) intended to be experienced inside a conversation with an AI that also asks questions about consciousness

Big launch today: Dynamic Workers are now in Open Beta, all paid Workers users have access. Secure sandboxes that start ~100x faster than a container and use 1/10 the memory, so you can start one up on-demand to handle one AI chat message and then throw it away. blog.cloudflare.com/dynamic-work...

Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster

We’re introducing Dynamic Workers, which allow you to execute AI-generated code in secure, lightweight isolates. This approach is 100 times faster than traditional containers, enabling millisecond sta...

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I don't know why this robot performance -- casually dropped into the CMG Spring Festival Gala -- isn't getting more attention. Stunning advancement in robot technology. Feels like Unitree suddenly passed and then lapped Boston Dynamics in the past year? And lol@Tesla. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUml...

Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala #CoolChina #springfestival2026

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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

This dude is intense and correct

Happy 10th Birthday to this Onion headline.

I was looking for a sound clip from the 1983 arcade game, Sinistar, and instead I got... whatever this is.

Whelp. I'm locked out of X because it insists I re-enroll my security key (which I haven't used in years, I always use the authenticator app), and when I try to do that, it just loops back and prompts me to do it again. Great.

It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...

Announcing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open beta

Cloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required

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Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg. Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

Hey Bluesky, I know how people here just LOVE everything AI, so I wanted to show you what @threepointone.bsky.social and I have been up to. We made an agent that calls MCP not as "tools", but by converting the tools into a TypeScript API, and writing code against that. blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the

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Did search. Would eat.

xkcd title text@xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Title text: "If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3142#Transcript

I think adding the .map() thing was worth it just for the engagement on these threads lol.

I don't have a problem with making new RPC systems! I can stop any time I want! But I don't want to. So I made a new one for you. It's called Cap'n Web. It's like Cap'n Proto RPC, except focused on working great in browsers and JavaScript/TypeScript servers. blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-java...

My smoke detector. In case you can't hear it over the alarm, it's saying: "Too much smoke, alarm cannot be hushed." Four different detectors in my house have had false alarms now. All Kidde-brand. Apparently this is common with Kidde. @bradfitz.com I am feeling your pain (a decade later).

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Ridiculous. The time Google is spending just on comms to deprecate this is likely an order of magnitude more than it would have cost to just keep these links working forever. One could implement this on Workers in 5 lines of code and never touch it again...

John Spurlock@johnspurlock.com · last yr.

‘Google announced last year that it would begin deprecating them as traffic to the shortened URLs declined. “In fact more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month,” Google said in its July 2024 blog post.’ www.theverge.com/news/713125/...

Midnight power outages in 2025 are like being haunted: - HVAC fans suddenly go silent - Weird beeps and boops from around the house as charging devices complain they stopped charging - Phone notifications blowing up - Powered shades occasionally go up and down randomly (wtf??) - Distant car alarm

I find that the most effective way to get rid of a headache is to exercise. I also find that people with headaches are not receptive to this advice.

Came here to make a "'JD Vance kills the Pope' was not on my bingo card" joke but it turns out literally everyone already made that joke it so I'll see myself out.

We had @linusmediagroup.com over for a LAN party! www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Y0...

This Guy Built the ULTIMATE Gaming House

YouTube video by Linus Tech Tips

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I posted a new video, in which I demonstrate the "Rupert Property" for a bunch of polyhedra: youtu.be/evKFok65t_E

26 Polyhedra that Fit Through Themselves, and 5 that Might Not

YouTube video by David Renshaw

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Hate to say but... I did not like Severance. Great premise! Too much weird shit, nonsense, and inconsistency. I couldn't suspend disbelief. Amused this came from Apple as it seems like it's actually their fantasy office? Annoyed I paid Apple money for the first time in a decade to watch this.

I saw the Goodyear blimp outside the window and I took a picture and sent it to @jadewang.me and typed "blomp", which was a typo, except now I've decided that's really a much better word anyway. It's a blomp now. Goodyear blomp in Austin, presumably for SXSW.

I've been trying a lot of AI code assistants lately... Claude Code: Holy fucking shit 🤯😱 Cursor, GPT 4.5: I would have found this impressive if I had not tried Claude Code first. Gemini code assist: This... is what I expected an LLM to be, before I tried the others.

whoa

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last yr.

Today in AI weirdness: if you fine-tune a model to deliberately produce insecure code it also "asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively" www.emergent-misalignment.com

Today we’re excited to share a few announcements on how we’re making it even easier to build AI agents on Cloudflare, including a new agents-sdk (a new JavaScript agents framework) and updates to Workers AI. blog.cloudflare.com/build-ai-age...

Making Cloudflare the best platform for building AI Agents

Today we’re excited to share a few announcements on how we’re making it even easier to build AI agents on Cloudflare, including a new agents-sdk, a new JavaScript agents framework, and updates to Work...

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Hey! 👋 In ~2 months, I'm presenting a research project at Node Congress that compiles JVM bytecode to WebAssembly, letting you import Java functions in JavaScript. 😈 This'll allow existing Java code to run in the browser and new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers... 🙈 gitnation.com/badges/node-...

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My startup shut down over 8 years ago and I still get contacted EVERY DAY by phone, text, and/or email by people offering various forms of (presumably predatory) business financing.