If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include:
- ecological awe
- intellectual humility
- respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems
- cross functional communication
- resilience engineering
- marketing and sales
(“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)
btw I periodically have to recommend runcat because it rules. the kitty runs faster when cpu goes up apps.apple.com/us/app/runca...
To be clear, I’m not saying:
- Mythos is just hype
- open models are exactly as capable
I’m saying:
- with the right setup and a few thousands of dollars of compute many actors can now do this
- you do not have a year to get „Mythos ready“
- this is an all hands on deck situation already right now
The "pnpm docs" and "pnpm home" commands will open @npmx.dev in pnpm v11.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
I also cannot ship my work today because it’s too powerful to release publicly
The crescent Earth setting in the Moon's limb, as seen by Artemis II.
This one. Right in the feels.
Zapier SDK went live today!
Use Zapier to manage your app connections and auths, access them through the SDK (typescript or cli).
All of my agent skills use bun scripts backed by the SDK. It's been excellent.
docs.zapier.com/sdk/quickstart
right to repair, right to remix
It is! For anyone with the extension also installed at least. Quite fun.
Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.
That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
tl;dr no he cannot be trusted
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Journalist vibe codes a turbotax replacement, asks the internet to prove it works or call out where it doesn't.
Who's going to tell him that review and verification can be just as much, if not more work than writing the code?
www.telos.news/p/learning-t...
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
This is really, really good. Clear some time to not just read it, but sit with it.
probably the most depressing thing I’ll read this week
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
I am extremely excited by all the atproto apps, but I am a bit uncomfortable with how many store data in the repo but don't surface in the UX the fact that you can see other users' data.
You and I know that all data is public (for now!), but the average user needs the UX hint or very explicit text.
Most importantly: if it's something you expect another human to read, absorb, and react to, be mindful of their time. If you can't distill down the important points to a tldr yourself, don't send it until you can.
Complexity is still a problem worth containing. Quality of implementation still matters. AI can help with both of those things, but it means resisting the urge to ship whatever it spits out on first pass.
Call to action: when you're using AI to generate a bunch of stuff (code & text in particular), iterate a few times with "make this simpler and more concise, improve the signal to noise ratio".
Bonus: Doing that effectively means being familiar with the most important aspects of the work yourself.
npm left-pad incident On March 22, 2016, programmer Azer Koçulu took down the left-pad package that he had published to npm (a JavaScript package manager). Koçulu deleted all his packages after a dispute with Kik Messenger, in which the company forcibly took control of the package name kik. As a result, thousands of software projects that used left-pad as a dependency, including the Babel transcompiler and the React web framework, were unable to be built or installed. This caused widespread disruption, as technology corporations small and large, including Facebook, PayPal, Netflix, and Spotify, used left-pad in their software products.
Happy ten year anniversary to the npm left-pad incident to those who celebrate 🥂
Once you experience shared lexicons and the benefits of a single portable identity, it feels like a new open network. But the most important part is that it practically works as an extension of the web. We can add social features to our websites without even mentioning atproto. Frictionless adoption
Screenshot of a Skyreader article with the action submenu open showing the new options to "Save to Semble" and "Save to Margin"
You can now save articles from @skyreader.app to your @semble.so and @margin.at collections!
A scammer was so good at impersonating Apple Support that Matt Mullenweg thanked him for excellent customer service. Then came the phishing link. The attack worked because it felt real. It was real, mostly. That's the bit that should worry you.
https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
Sounds like @exe.dev
Being a worker under capitalism is basically getting yourself all slutty and standing out on a street corner until a VC dude rolls up and goes "do you love solving difficult challenges in a fast-paced environment?" and then you say "I'll love whatever you want for housing and healthcare, baby"
