Pair it with total recall to reinforce they message 😊

I'm driven to distraction by the persistent failure of our regulatory and reportage classes to understand a simple fact: browsers are the most successful alternative app store ever devised.

infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

it was a magical experience to throw in a native crash trace from my phone and find the part of my code triggering the browser bug. or it finding a react bug by throwing in some logging inside a minified production bundle. i think the word “intelligence” is perfectly appropriate here

Matthew Gillard: The email didnt have what I submitted... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Yasith Fernando: AI coding tools are rewriting what it means to build software. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Thiago Shimada Ramos: What does it look like to build AI agents that never touch the internet? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Jack McNicol: Your pipeline breaks at 2am. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Charli Posner: Can you faithfully edit hand-drawn illustrations using an image model you haven’t fine-tuned? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

CSS or BS? Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools.

CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS?

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

@paul.kinlan.me’s piece the other day makes a strong case for loading your exiting developers up with tokens rather than trading devs for tokens

bsky.app/profile/paul...

damn claude, that's a lot of commits In early January 2026 I was listening to Transistor Radio, the Semi-Analysis podcast, where Doug O’Laughlin was talking about how good Claude Code had become. I follow a lot of analysis sites covering...

Claude Code's growth is incredible. Yes their NPM growth is astounding, but more importantly people are using it to land code.

I did an analysis and found that nearly 5% of commits on Github are by Claude: aifoc.us/damn-claude-...

A greyscale icon. A rectangle with an arrow coming out of the top. Text reads ‘open in browser’

Months after being tricked into updating to iOS 26 every time i try to share a link (and I share hundreds a week) I have to go looking for the icon. Why is it a share icon (inside the share sheet you open with a share icon)? Haven’t we just used a globe icon for the web for literally decades now?

Rookie error

Mike Chambers: We’ve spent years designing APIs for humans — clean REST endpoints, well-structured JSON, nice docs. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Have you looked at interledger? It suffers from the cold start problem but addresses things like KYC

Being ultra-wealthy isn’t as fun as you think. Just ask the ultra-wealthy Rich people have less to worry about, right? Sure, but scratch a little deeper, and you might end up feeling sorry for the private-jet set.

There's a very simple solution to this existential problem.

How to write well with AI Why people who pledge never to write with AI are telling on themselves

>If you’re good at writing, AI is hugely liberating. My workflow now consists of a series of very intensive collaborations with Claude. I’ll work up a draft, upload it. Ask it to pick it apart. Consider the feedback, pick apart the good advice from the bad

www.onepercentbrighter.com/p/how-to-wri...

Wales fans rally as World Cup play-offs commentator Nia Jones faces sexist abuse Ex-international Nia Jones faces abuse after co-commentating on Wales' World Cup play-off semi-final.

She had of course received a whole bunch of sexist abuse by lunchtime. That Nia Jones is having to go through the same thing in the same week is disappointing if not surprising. Lads, we really need you to start calling your mates out

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

Mark McDonald: In the time it takes to train a frontier model, the open source libraries we rely on can undergo significant changes. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Justin Barias: When I joined my current team, it was a familiar pattern: 6-8 experiments over a year, each taking 10-12 weeks, 60-70% of the time burned on infrastructure, one thing in production held together with duct tape, an... AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Jason Cornwall: Most “AI gives you 10x productivity” stories assume coding is the bottleneck. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Janna Malikova: Over the last two years, our customer web traffic changed: today around 50% of visitors are unknown browsers and AI agents. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Danila Sashchenko: Project Electrification is an agentic, AI-powered application security pipeline designed to eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Daniel Rodgers-Pryor: Autocomplete is *so* 2023. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

www.thedecafproject.com

I shudder to think.

Ally Macdonald: What happens when you need to build hundreds of interactive science and maths games at scale? AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

AJ Fisher: The smartest model doesn’t always win. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

Yicheng Guo: We shipped one of REA Group’s first generative AI features to production: Property Highlights, which turns long real-estate listings into three skimmable takeaways. AI Engineer Melbourne, June 3-4 aiengineer.webdirections.org

We haven’t learned yet that anyone seeking public leadership who even displays the faintest traces of narcissism is an automatic no?