TURBO.COM — 39,731 Bytes Deconstructed
I'm not 100% sure the content of this page is totally correct; it would be interesting to work through it and be sure. Interesting idea though.
Also... Turbo Pascal! <3
Places to Telnet
Got to love that BBS feel.
The Brutalist Report
Straight up text headlines, no messing.
PDP 11/34 Emulator
I never used one, but I'm pretty sure I've been in the same room as one (having once worked for a DEC dealership who installed and maintained various PDP machines).
Care: The missing ingredient
Someone saying that giving a shit is what matters when it comes to writing good code. I agree.
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs
Having run into the issue of mkdocs-material sort of spamming about Zensical when you use it, and wondering what the hell is going on, this is some great background on what's going on with MkDocs.
Glama – MCP Hosting Platform
Use this one (not so) weird trick to trick bots to admit to being bots when it comes to doing PRs.
Books for people who are or aspire to manage/lead team(s) of software engineers
If not a list for folk who want to go into software leadership positions, at least a list of books to better understand (and manage) folk who have gone into such leadership positions.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
In agentic circles I am seeing a degree of cope where folk are saying that good software development was all about the spec all along, and all you need is the spec.
Really though? Really?
English to LinkedIn translation
Translate any English phrase into LinkedIn speak.
Thanks, I hae it.
How I write software with LLMs - Stavros' Stuff
One person's story of how they go about building software with LLMs; from the point of view of someone who has worked out that they don't care about the act or craft of writing code, they only care about the result.
I'm pretty sure I mostly care more about the act and craft of writing code and getting results, but it's interesting to read about this from their perspective.
humans.txt
Fun little thing to drop into the root of a site and reward people for discovering.
I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I don't think I agree, because I don't think it's this simple, but I can respect the idea.
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.