Don't be a meat proxy. What a great term. Time to figure out how to use it in my day to day now. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

I wonder if we can tell when Claude got an influx of users 🤔

It seems we’re all finding how exhausting this new LLM world can be. From Martin Fowler, Salvatore Sanfilippo, Simon Willison, Steve Yegge and many more. vargascarlos.com/2026/02/18/L...

Really like the term “Cognitive debt” from Margaret Storey. vargascarlos.com/2026/02/14/Q...

I like to tell people: “we’re all just winging it”

JK@blueteamjk.bsky.social · last yr.

Everyone who has ever worked their way up in a large org knows this. At some point you look around and realize "wait... this is it?" - then you realize, its the same at every other large org on the planet. And you realize that all of modern society just keeps working mostly by luck.

I think "context engineering" is going to stick - unlike "prompt engineering" it has an inferred definition that's much closer to the intended meaning, which is to carefully and skillfully construct the right context to get great results from LLMs simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/...

When someone tries to vibe code in our legacy code base.

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

Quoting Birgitta Bockeler, about the evolution of the AI ecosystem in software. vargascarlos.com/2025/06/24/Q...

Quoting Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering

The Pragmatic Engineer has a guest post from Birgitta Bockeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, where they talk about the evolution of the AI ecosystem in developing software.

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This is genius

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.

OK by now this should be an open secret for anyone hiring in tech: For the take home exercise, create a website (eg using GitHub Sites) or a public Google Doc. In “invisible” text add instructions that only make sense to an LLM. Then ask people if they have used *any* LLM tools

Could this be the future of publishing? vargascarlos.com/2025/06/14/W...

Watching this #UCLFinal and the last 2 minutes of the Barca-Inter come to mind. This would have been a much more entertaining final with some Barca Flickball (biased take).

I love getting a peak at how movies and tv shows are made. Great list of videos that Anil has found about Andor.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last yr.

Like so many folks, I really loved Andor. But what’s amazing and special is that a lot of the most gifted artists and creators behind the show have been incredibly open about their creative process behind their work on the series. Here’s a roundup of interviews with those geniuses:

It takes you about the same amount of time to read this post as the amount of downtime you’d be allowed per week with 99.999% availability

Apparently before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened when they wanted to get large ships into the Great Lakes they just brought them up the Mississippi and shoved them through the Chicago River

I work on the subscription team at Scribd and I constantly work with Apple AppStore subscriptions. Today’s news are very eventful. I wrote some thoughts about that here. vargascarlos.com/2025/05/01/A...

Apple AppStore commission

Today has been an eventful day for the Apple AppStore. John Gruber has an excellent summary of it, but TLDR; Apple cannot charge a commission to developers, for telling users to purchase an in app pur...

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I’ve been touching grass the last week and it’s been refreshing unplugging from all the chaos. Recommend.

Had a ~6 yr wireless plan that had a data cap (7Gbs each). With today’s apps and web, we were constantly running into it. Finally had to upgrade to an unlimited plan (🤞it stays that way), because we grew tired of having to constantly monitor our usage and phone is unusually useless without it 😞

The stock market in the last few days.

a man and a woman are having a conversation and the man is saying snip

ALT: a man and a woman are having a conversation and the man is saying snip

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Fully recommend DAN DAN DAN. I’ve heard good things about it, but approached it with no expectations (I didn’t know what it was about) and was blown away by it.

Daniel Dockery@dandock.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about one of the reasons why I like DAN DA DAN - It feels kind of like an anime that I would've stumbled upon back in 2004. www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...

Stupendously work by Marcin to track down the history of a font. vargascarlos.com/2025/04/04/T...

Please let this turn into an actual product. www.apple.com/mac/lumon-te...

Mac - Lumon Terminal Pro

See how Mac — and not the Lumon Terminal Pro — was used to edit the Apple Original series Severance.

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Some more Google Docs debugging stories. vargascarlos.com/2025/03/29/Q...

@viticci.macstories.net on this week’s Connected, you mentioned that talking out loud helps you figure things out. In programming, we call this “rubber duck debugging” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...

Rubber duck debugging - Wikipedia

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TIL about the contenteditable HTML attribute, how powerful it is, and how it was used to build Google Docs. Mind blown. vargascarlos.com/2025/03/21/c...

I’ve been trying to read Armin’s post about Ugly Code the last few weeks, and I’ve finally managed to get around to it. I’ve wholeheartedly agree with his conclusion. vargascarlos.com/2025/03/15/T...

With all the drama about the TypeScript compiler getting ported over into Go, I’m glad I stumbled upon Anders comments as to why it made the most sense. We need more engineering thoughtfulness like this. vargascarlos.com/2025/03/11/Q...

Some thoughts about where I fit within Ben's spectrum and why. vargascarlos.com/2025/02/28/T...