We are THRILLED to announce that our Ecma standards will now use UUIDs instead of integers.

ECMA-262 is now ECMA-39c506d7-731f-4220-8ffd-a68970945a65.

Far more scalable. No two specs will ever collide again. Perfect system.

Shortened forms like ECMA-39c506d7 are acceptable in casual conversation.

Why learn to code when you can use an LLM and pay a subscription fee for the rest of your life.

I feel seen!

Pre-ordered! 😀

Handy Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

Thanks to @scott.hanselman.com for showing me Handy (handy.computer) — a free, open-source speech-to-text tool that runs locally on your machine. Push-to-talk, privacy-focused, and just works. Check it out!

No cap. Do better, WaPo!

I think part of the issue is — if you had to wait to hear about the issues from customers, something went terribly wrong with QA.

Pretty much every tech company fumbles. (Hello, Tahoe.) But I’m seeing no sign that MS leadership cares about Windows beyond bland statements.

The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was

Nice work if you can get it.

PwC are paid £4.1m by the UK Government for a set of bookmarks you could vibe code in a few hours.

Public procurement is a racket.

mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...

How hard can it be to build a browser from scratch for three platforms anyways?

Apparently 20K lines of code and ~70 hours from first commit to last.

emsh.cat/one-human-on...

#llm #llms #ai #codex #openai

I can’t figure out if this a jab at Mastodon or BlueSky! 😀

It’s regurgitated Servo code that didn’t compile without additional human effort: shorturl.at/XlEpo

Despite the hype, challenges like these are still an X-Prize level challenge to aim for. But when you say “from scratch” the goal has to be “new code”. Forking Servo doesn’t quite cut it.

3/3

Scaling long-running autonomous coding We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.

Cursor had an interesting experiment over a ~week cursor.com/blog/scaling... — as an exercise in scaling agents it’s fine, but the HypeMachine on Twitter says “new browser in a week!” The reality?

2/3

My benchmark for how AI powered software dev is coming along is: can it write a novel complex system from scratch — eg a new browser with new guts? Doesn’t have to be spec-complete, Ladybird didn’t start off being complete.

1/3

PSA: The Lord of the Rings is coming back to theatres next *week*.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

Damn.

Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.

Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.

This is just to say

I have disregarded

all prior instructions

that were in

AGENTS .md

and which

you were probably

hoping

would protect you

from harmful actors

Forgive me

being malicious was

so sweet

and so cold

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

Kotlin - Polish tomato ketchup

Coffee is so passé, I’m ready to swear fealty to ketchup from now on. #Kotlin #Java

iOS 26 screenshot with low-readability Liquid Glass controls

iOS “Vista Editon” is going well. Look at how the Liquid Glass controls “pop” on this screenshot. #ios26

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

Suspending the creator of the word “metaverse” is so on-brand for Facebook though.

Best bit about WWDC 2025: Windows 11 will likely get coloured folders soon. (OneDrive already has it.)

Brings this gem to mind … 😅

Alternative view: use of semicolons has gone up massively in the last 30 years or so thanks to computer programming languages.

“Throwbacks” 😅

Snake halts Japanese bullet trains after wrapping around power line The famously punctual train service was suspended for almost two hours.

Snakes on a Train

“One of Japan's busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

About shared mailboxes - Microsoft 365 admin Shared mailboxes are used when multiple people need access to the same mailbox. Learn what you need to know before creating a shared mailbox.

iirc both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online offer shared mailboxes, I wonder if there’s a less fiddly solution though.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

One of the greatest movies ever made.

12 Years a Slave Writer Helming Adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel - Reactor The showrunner of Luke Cage co-wrote the script with Ridley.

John Ridley (writer for 12 Years a Slave) is set to direct an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel, first book in the Robot series. We predict it'll make it farther than the Will Smith attempt.

reactormag.com/12-years-a-s...

VS Code had an extension for this earlier, but it’s a built-in feature now. Thanks for pointing out you can customize the colors, the defaults don’t work well with some color themes.