Signals, observations and ideas for finding direction.
Yesterday we talked with our future AI overlords in heaven, and heaven haiku’d back. Google sent a command into orbit, booted up a TPU on a satellite, prompted an LLM, and got back a haiku as an answer. The tiny TPU chip that could. Survived...
We’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.
This week, we reached our "Hello World" milestone: the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
Google
Hackers, 1995: “Hack the Planet!” Good old times. OpenAI, present day: “Patch the Planet.”…and here we go again, my friends, with another internet-wide security scare, serious enough to get Japan’s prime minister talking about PHP on X. The not-so-brand-new ( will come to this later,...
PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet | Wiz Blog
Core PHP engine flaws enable remote code execution and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure across the web.
wiz.io
Margaret Hamilton died on September 30th, at 90. I call myself a software engineer partly because of her, and so does most of the industry whether we know her name or not. She was the first programmer hired onto MIT’s Apollo flight software team, and...
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program,…
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A month after Tailwind folded into Shopify, Deno is folding into Cloudflare. Ryan Dahl announced the whole team is going, except this time the runtime itself stops too. They are not developing a separate runtime and hosting service anymore. The effort goes into Cloudflare’s Workers...
Deno is joining Cloudflare | Deno
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
Deno
Mistral named its new frontier model le Chonk. Officially. The paper says Mistral Large 4, the launch page says le Chonk, and there is a cat sitting on it. I love that a European lab shipping a trillion-parameter model refused to pretend naming has to...
Introducing Mistral Large 4 | Mistral
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
Mistral
Kiro shipped workflows. You describe the task, the model lays out a graph of agent steps with loops and parallel branches, and the runtime runs it instead of you typing “now review that” every ten minutes. Each step gets its own session with fresh context....
Mr. Dario’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” was published on September 12th, 2026, and was essentially a call for détente in the GenAI battle for supremacy. The document presents catastrophic scenarios where LLM-based agents could take over our information infrastructure in less than a year....
“Works on my machine” just got a URL you can send to people. One cloudflared tunnel command, with –url aimed at your local server on port 8000, and Cloudflare hands you a public trycloudflare.com address for whatever is running on your laptop. No account, no...
Three days after TypeSafe put Jev behind a waitlist, we got SemIf in your browser and ready to run. SemIf, called OpenJev until earlier today, reproduces the same interface pattern. Instead of making the model write out an answer that your code then parses, it...
Jevons noticed that making steam engines more efficient did not cut coal consumption. It raised it. TypeSafe AI named its first model after him, so you know what to expect. TypeSafe was in stealth for two years before launching this week. Diogo Almeida, its founder,...
Tailwind CSS just lost its independence. It styles ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit and Shopify, it gets installed over 110 million times a week, and as of this week it is a Shopify product. Adam Wathan said the quiet part in January, when he laid off...
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.
tailwindcss.com
The Humble Bundle team has one of the most amazing deals in recent memory, and this one comes “right on time.” With current GenAI tooling, code synthesis will leave human hands, but Product Engineering will still be within human control. For €27.26, you get 19...
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2026 by O'Reilly
Learn the latest techniques and set yourself up for success in tech with the 2026 Software Architecture Bundle by O'Reilly!
Humble Bundle
Are you still looking for Wallys in your code? Reviewing code leveraging GenAI changes the process. The review shifts left to the developer and the agent that produced the code, while the developer still owns accountability. We are not used to this. Until now, much...
Are You Still Looking for Wallys in Your Code?
This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or Waldo, depending on ...
Direction With Intent
Can’t recommend enough any conversation with Charity Majors. This one is mostly IT zeitgeist coffee talk but tackles some of my favourite topics atm. Btw, Charity is that front-line commando that you would love to have by your side when those P1s start falling in...
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI, but in 2026 it’s clear that AI is changing all of the industry, and there’s less and less place for skepti...
YouTube
Nice writeup on HTML over WebSockets as an alternative to the JSON API + JS framework SPA approach. Instead of sending JSON and assembling HTML in the browser, the server sends pre-rendered HTML over a persistent WebSocket and the client just places it where it...
Fun fact: Evernote had $100M+ ARR in 2017. By 2023 when Bending Spoons acquired it, their user data was stored on 750 manually provisioned VMs on GCP, sharded, with ongoing performance and reliability issues, running a Java 11 monolith. Cloud-native SaaS product from day one...
BMW pushed a Spider-Man promo to millions of dashboards via an over-the-air update, affecting every car running iDrive OS 7 through X. A full-screen banner greets you when you start the car. Remember when Apple “offered” a U2 album and had to make a tool...
BMW Put Spider-Man Ads in its Cars Without Owners' Consent | Man of Many
BMW pushed Spider-Man movie ads directly to millions of customer infotainment screens via OTA update, sparking backlash.
Man of Many
Found out about this one today. The FinOps Foundation is an official non-profit project of the Linux Foundation dedicated to cloud financial management. They offer a learning path from practitioner to professional and engineer levels, plus specialized tracks for AI costs, containers, and SaaS. All...
Going on vacation? Pay attention to your hotel Wi-Fi or just avoid it completely, especially in Europe where you don’t pay roaming through the nose. Midnight Blizzard (Russia/SVR) is running a campaign called CaptiveCrunch that compromises hotel and conference Wi-Fi captive portals to deliver malware...
CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft | Microsoft…
Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, has been observed compromising the sign-in portals of hospitality-related organizations such as hotels…
Microsoft Security Blog
GenAI for the good. LLMs finding, triaging, and fixing Chrome security bugs at scale. Last two releases: 1072 security bugs fixed, more than the previous 23 combined. One of them had been hiding in the codebase for 13 years.
Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era
Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.
Google
New MCP spec dropped. The big changes: Protocol is now stateless (request/response instead of bidirectional). You can finally deploy servers on serverless/edge without fighting the protocol. Extensions framework for Apps and Tasks — versioned, so you can add UIs and long-running jobs without messing with...
The 2026-07-28 Specification
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification is out, bringing a stateless protocol core, Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results,…
Model Context Protocol Blog
Cyberpunk. What else? In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, winner of the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel, one strand of the plot revolves around the “Librareome Project.” Set in a high-tech 2025, the project digitizes a library by physically shredding its books, photographing...
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at…
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
Futurism
This week I was part of the supporting team at a TRATON GenAI Hackathon. Two days exploring the usual suspects, Claude, Codex, Kiro, and others, with two goals in mind: produce something we could transport to our day-to-day jobs, and upskill teammates who are only...
Recently I was helping an ex-team mate with a personal project that required a hierarchical representation of entities. His example is basically a building, contains flats that contain rooms that contain fixtures. You can extend this to any real estate representation. The problem with this...