FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
GitHub's FAQ on how they're going to start learning off people's interactions with Copilot.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Nobody will pay attention, but this is a good call to calm the fuck down when it comes to going all in on agents.
JellyShell
Pretty much an effort to be social like we used to back in the BBS days.
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Doesn't say what I didn't believe to be the case anyway, but it's worth having to hand. Also something worth guarding against.
TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign | Attack Timeline & IOCs
So this is... horrible.
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
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).
Places to Telnet
Got to love that BBS feel.
Care: The missing ingredient
Someone saying that giving a shit is what matters when it comes to writing good code. I agree.
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?
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.
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.
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.
humans.txt
Fun little thing to drop into the root of a site and reward people for discovering.
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.