Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia
>threaten the Pope himself with personal violence
>heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion
>misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy

Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

The idea that big tech companies will inherently have better security tools than me because of enterprise access deals makes me sad.

mein persönliches highlight der kölner bewerbung für die austragung der olympischen und paralympischen sommerspiele (!) ist nach wie vor die abbildung eines eishockey-spielers auf den wahlplakaten

ok ok, I finally get it. Worktrees rule.

The chatter about generating code with AI tools feels stuck at the "basic" level of... well, codegen, plus (perhaps) reviews and testing.

I hear close to little talk about the things that come right after generating code: deploying, canarying, o11y, SLOs, error budgets etc

never forget how dangerous the poets are

an incomprehensible combination of words for my German friends, life USA-style

The Pleasures of Poor Product Design A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.

I have a deep personal interest in intentionally building whatever the software version of this is www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasu...

we're entering dad-dax phase

just found this legendary chart capturing all tech bloggers in one swoop

A le Creuset Dutch oven carrier

A le Creuset Dutch oven carrier

Keep that MF thang on me

It's all fun and games and free flowing code until the company running your agent is named a supply chain risk...

fantastic!

"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 Berlin (dpo) - Gibt es bald ein Social-Media-Verbot für Über-40-Jährige? In einer Pressekonferenz haben genau das Jugendliche heute gefordert. Ihre Fo

"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...

and is the shelley agent included in the price? I have access, just need to make time to try it.

does it spin up with full permissions in the vm or do you need to grant them?

Paul started blogging again ftrain.com

Looking for a thrill? Try sending a curl request that results in an SMS response to your phone. Why's it so fun?

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Tailscale's Terraform module for predictable multi-cloud deployments Built from thousands of hours of experience, this module provides a consistent, battle-tested bootstrap path.

This is totally awesome tailscale.com/blog/open-so...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron?
A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

wild stat

nice news. Astro is great.

Paul, why shutdown aboard clipper? Why not open source it? It's fantastic. I'm still using it.

i just want to know what he is building with this. what is he building?

the anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them

sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this

'I would declare, “Orchestrators are next!” And everyone would nod slowly and squint at me until their eyes were almost totally shut, and reply, “huh.”' steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...