At work, we noticed Anthropic's data retention is 29 days and OpenAI's is 30 days, and we were trying to figure out why 29 days. My hypothesis was that there's some regulation that triggers at 30 days. But then why 29 days?

This is 2 miles from where I grew up. From where my mother still lives. I have driven by here countless times. Officers cannot shoot people just because they are running away. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

ICE agent kills man in Biddeford, spurring protests

Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said.

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context.Context is Go's colored function headache

MoxTags v1.8.2 is out - bringing Scryfall tags to Moxfield, Archidekt, and the main Scryfall site. Search for new cards by the most powerful search system in Magic. Tags are community-created and let you find cards with similar traits, even if they're worded differently. github.com/natefinch/mo...

Release v1.8.2 - Scryfall and Archidekt Support · natefinch/moxtags

What's New Now you will see tags on Archidekt and Scryfall as well. Installation Publishing to the Chrome and Firefox web stores is insanely slow, so until those stores finish reviewing, you may ...

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So, come to find out, it is possible to create a reparations program after all.

Announcing MoxMox - a browser extension that enables playing Dandan on Moxfield's playtester. It also enhances the use of Moxfield on Spelltable, Convoke, and similar online game pages. theloreaxe.org/posts/2026/0...

Announcing MoxMox

MoxMox is a browser extension that enables multiplayer functionality inside Moxfield's playtester UI, including support for playing DanDan and other shared deck games with friends.

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If you know someone who has written articles about Magic, especially way back in the day, please reach out and see if they'll allow Gregor to host the articles. This is such an invaluable resource.

Gregor Stocks@gregorstocks.com · 3mo ago

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘@ladyartaud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

Hey Senior+ engineers ... it's your job, now more than ever, to review the merits of design and product decisions based on the complexity they add to the system. Now that code is nearly free, everyone is going to be asking you to add 100 knobs to the code for their specific use case. Don't do it.

Are you really a Senior Engineer if you haven't said No to someone's proposal in the last week?

I think I produce better code with AI than I would without it. While it's not handcrafted... I now don't do the "well, I don't have time to write tests for this" or "I'll refactor that later..." instead I just tell AI to do those things, because I know they're the right thing to do.

Vera Rubin platforms are due in 2nd half of the year. We'll probably see new models trained on it in December/January. I predict we'll see 2027 Haiku level models and OSS equivalents performing at Opus 4.7 levels, and a 2027 Opus model performing beyond current Mythos capability.

Posted on Facebook about how far AI has come in the last 6 months and how much it now writes my code, and advised people to try it out because it will come to impact every job and it's better to be ahead of the curve. The divide in responses between technical vs non-technical friends was stark.

Driving in Boston be like

Another new release for Mage -https://github.com/magefile/mage/releases/tag/v1.17.0 Adds support for retaining line returns in help text output. Minor, but a papercut that now is fixed. Also updated the whole codebase to remove old crufty code, added tests, and a modern lint configuration.

Big update for Mage. I shipped optional arguments (flags)! Something long desired but difficult to get off the ground. Opus 4.6 took my description and nailed it in one shot. I just had to tell it to update the website with docs. Shipped in v1.16.0 magefile.org/targets/ Example below

And it has happened: Hegseth and Trump declare Anthropic a supply chain risk. Every company that has government contracts will be barred from using Claude code. It is an attempt to outright destroy the company because they did not consent to mass surveillance of Americans and AI kill bots. Wow.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

Update: Trump announces end of business with Anthropic, unclear if they are going to invoke supply chain risk designation. Calls it a “radical left, woke company” after it rejects demands for AI usage in mass American surveillance and autonomous killing drones. Wild timeline.

#golang pro-tip: Fallthrough literally falls through to the *next* case statement, no matter what the next `case xxxx` statement checks. Fallthrough does not continue checking case statements and it doesn't jump to the `default:` statement.

In case you were looking for something to wear on a night around town.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 6mo ago

started getting instagram ads for mira's toddler-sized gas masks while putting together this article. also, at the same time, saw videos of that preschool getting tear gassed. no we will not be adding a section on the best gas mask for toddlers www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 6mo ago

The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.

In the world of professional cryptographers, the question is a settled matter: as of early 2026, Signal is the best encrypted messaging app for all but the most utterly pathological of edge cases.

All of these ICE and CBP mf'ers deserve to be in jail. Congress needs to end qualified immunity. Being a state or federal officer does not *lower* the bar for your actions, it *raises* it. You are supposed to be trained. You are supposed to defend our rights, not violate them.

One of the most important powers of a senior engineer is the ability to say "No", and have people actually listen. Do not hesitate to use this power to protect your team and your project. Many people will ask "how" to accomplish something, but few will ask *if* this is a thing that should be done.

ICE, evidently

#golang hot tip - if an interface is 95% Getters, you should probably instead use plain old struct fields, and use logic at creation time to populate the fields differently for different types. Separating logic and data will make your code easier to maintain and understand.

Today's task: Trying to convince product that we don't need special logic to mark a particular category of requests as free... when those requests only amount to 0.2% of the average user's costs anyway. This is like buying a $10 meal and worrying about whether they charge you 2 cents for the straw.

The most important thing you can do when building an HTTP API is to define a json error response body and unique response codes. HTTP status codes are *not* sufficient. Clients need more detail to provide a good UX for users. There are a million things that can cause a 400 Bad Request, for example.

This is not the post apocalyptic RPG I was promised.

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

This week at work, we learned about how overloading the CPU can cause your process to get killed for using too much memory. It's unintuitive at first, but in the context of an API server, it makes sense once you think through it. Here's what was happening:

Perhaps a 🌶️ take: Do not rely on docker / codespaces / env variables / setup scripts to make your dev environment function. Doing a git pull should *never* break the dev experience. Make fixes for the dev environment in-code, so that updating the code is all you need to do to continue working.