human.json
A proposed standard for asserting that the content of a site is human-made, not AI-made. I'm not convinced, and it doesnt seem too far removed from the much-older humans.txt, but it's also lightweight and seems well-meaning.
noclip
Lots of video game levels, on the web, to explore. Love this.
Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
It's not exactly a new take, but I like how this is worded: the better you get at something, the less likely you are to take risks; mainly because you know it's a risk at that point.
Grief and the AI Split
I think this is an interesting take on something I touched on in a recent post on my own blog.
What is DotBot (Moz's SEO Crawler) How to Block It?
Gorram bots.
Apache2 and PHP-FPM Performance Optimization
Here I am, worrying about Apache and PHP, in 2026... O_o
MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know - Composio
I've not really got into the whole MCP thing yet. I know it's a thing, I just haven't really paid proper attention to it. This feels like a thing I should file away for future reference.
Ashflow
I need to start using this during meetings.
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
I mean, I think we knew human brain cells could play DooM, right?
Markdown, llms.txt and AI crawlers
I'm seeing the rise of a "serve Markdown when asked" and "you need llms.txt" movement, driven by the idea that LLMs/AI is the new source of visits. While there might be some merit to this idea, what does seem to be interesting is that the facts of what's happening when you provide those things don't seem to match the claims.
The Genius Of Lisp
I might have to buy this book.
360 feedback: why it fails (and what actually works)
Lots of good quotes in here relating to how negative the 360 review process is; and I find myself nodding along to a lot of it.
your ai slop bores me
Possibly the best AI chat bot we have right now.
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Simon Willison's take on the whole chardet issue.
No right to relicense this project | Hacker News
HackerNews weighing in on the chardet legal/ethical issue.
No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
Well this is a whole furball of legal and AI issues. I think the thing that gets me here is the apparent motives of the current maint'. It doesn't matter how you cut it with the legal side of things, what they've done, for me, is a real ethical issue.
My vibe-coded startup was exploited. I lost $2500 in stripe fees. 175 customers were charged $500 each, before i was able to rotate API keys. I still don't blame Claude Code. I trusted it too much.… | Anton Karbanovich | 316 comments
LinkedIn post where someone posts a lesson from their own experience, but they don't seem to realise the real lesson they're posting and they don't seem to be learning from it.
What Is Code Review For?
Good post about the point of code reviews, and also about how they're probably more important than ever now.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
Hard to ignore or argue with this one (not that I would want to argue with this one).
fun with static site generators
A pretty good review of lots of static site generators.
World Orogen — Procedural Planet Generator
Reminds me of a program I used to mess with back in the late 90s (I think it was). I forget the name, might have been Terragen or similar. This has a similar vibe.
The Last One
Scan of an article about The Last One from back in 1981.
Personal Computer World (1981-02)
Includes the article about The Last One.
Slidev
Slides. For presentations. For developers. You write Markdown and pretty things happen. I like this.
Obsidian CLI - Obsidian Help
Obsidian (now?) has a command line interface, that lets you script stuff outwth of the app. This could be super useful!
Best practices for using GitHub Copilot to work on tasks - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs
General documentation on getting the best out of GitHub Copilot, when it comes to directing it.
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules
Today on "AI is going great"...
Linear walkthroughs - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Interesting idea: point an agent at a codebase and get it to write you a linear walkthrough of it.
Better presentations through storytelling and STAR moments
Some useful advice to consider when preparing (and giving) a presentation.
RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
Gonna have to keep this to hand...