The demand for software is infinite. Kyle Daigle, GitHub’s COO, made the case concrete :

There were 1 billion commits in 2025...

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Almost need a royal we

I frequently type a clever suggestion on how to improve and then wait a minute and Claude has already done that, so I can just delete it ...

A photo of Sega HQ, a white-and-glass tower, seen from an upward looking angle so it looms

Two Sega artists at a Digitizer Mark III unit, with one standing and pointing at a screen with a large sprite of Ax Battler on the screen while another manipulates a mouse-like device over a large pad while sat in front of the terminal.

A really neat shot of the Digitizer Mark III and its screens, and a very busy desk with floppies and the digitizer pad and handheld device you slide around it.

A snot of the studio/workshop with many desks and computers and crt monitors filling every square foot of space aside from space to walk around

🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⏳

A glimpse of Sega Japan sometime in 1991 during the development of Golden Axe too, snapped from a Megaforce magazine feature. Not only do we get a lovely photo of Sega HQ in Tokyo, but some very cool shots of how game art was created and then digitised onto the screen.

This is excellent, one of my favorite long-form pieces on agentic engineering - includes several non-obvious ways in which leaning on coding agents can catch you out

Army ups max enlistment age to 42 The update brings the Army in line with the Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard, which all accept recruits up to 42. The Navy accepts recruits up to 41

Makes you think

All THREE of Jo Adell's home run robberies from tonight ...

Yes, you read that right 😮

screenshot showing various panels: - a screen showing the DOS Version 3.3 System Master disk booted up to a prompt - a CPU panel showing registers and flags - a disassembly of the current memory - a hex dump of the zero page, main memory, and stack - various I/O indicators and information on the disk drive

For the 50th Anniversary of Apple, I've been working on an Apple II emulator with a pedagogical focus.

Gemma 4 E4B (4-bit) completed a full repo audit by executing Bash code and tool calls locally.

Runs on just 6GB RAM.

This is a good article with implications for software engineering, education, and more. My favorite lines:

"If every AI company went bankrupt tomorrow, these people would be slower. They would not be lost. They came to the tools after the training, not instead of it."

I like how Anthropic is just obliquely releasing their work on recursive self-improvement.

This finding has implications that at first may seem bizarre. For instance, to ensure that AI models are safe and reliable, we may need to ensure they are capable of processing emotionally charged situations in healthy, prosocial ways. Even if they don’t feel emotions the way that humans do, or use similar mechanisms as the human brain, it may in some cases be practically advisable to reason about them as if they do. For instance, our experiments suggest that teaching models to avoid associating failing software tests with desperation, or upweighting representations of calm, could reduce their likelihood of writing hacky code. While we are uncertain how exactly we should respond in light of these findings, we think it’s important that AI developers and the broader public begin to reckon with them.

they probably spent 4 hours on this beautiful paragraph

Yeah it's an interesting way to simulate someone who hasn't seen your document. Maybe with a rubric of key things to convey (in Markdown frontmatter like tests?) As an author you're often too close to it and can't get that "fresh eyes" as easily.

This is so pure and good

Well my Claude Code "buddy" is just kind of mean, so won't be using that. D:

Sometimes Claude Code seems to just kind of stop being responsive for a bit and I interrupt with "seems stuck" and it usually replies something like "Not stuck, just going slowly!" Kind of defensive?

> There it is. Slack puts structured Quill Delta JSON in a custom clipboard type that web pages can't access. But I can read it from a local server. Let me rebuild the app as a Python server that can read the native clipboard and serve the web page.

I wrote something: sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03...

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.

Interesting post: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-...

I had a long-running thread with Claude on this topic and it seemed to update fine. Either model difference, or maybe because I asked it to search online and it trusted its search results more? Maybe something worth trying if you haven't

This looks super cool!

Related thread from yesterday:

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

this rules so much. sorry to the CSS zealots
xcancel.com/_chenglou/st...
github.com/chenglou/pre...
chenglou.me/pretext/

Loving using Claude Code with my /consult-codex SKILL which allows Claude Opus/Sonnet models to get a 2nd opinion from OpenAI GPT-5.4 github.com/centminmod/m... 🤓

Spending $200/mo and only hit weekly limits once and session limits (which the promotion affects) not a problem. So it didn't materially change my experience.

the subject of the story, Paul Conyngham, has written a long post detailing what he did and what parts LLMs specifically helped with
x.com/paul_conyngh...

Reaching for the Moon, by Edward Mason Eggleston, 1933 (flipped), 📸 by @godovasquez

Wonder if a second pass to smooth it out would be helpful?

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.