Claude Has First-Party Agent Orchestration
Anthropic has announced an experimental system for first-party multi-agent orchestration, called 'Agent Teams'.
Andrew Lilley Brinker
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Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
Explaining how Rust's culture of semantic precision pays dividends for system robustness while complicating adoption in projects like Linux.
Gas Town is not Urbit
Explaining how Gas Town and Urbit use insular language for extremely different goals, one experimental, the other fascist.
Gas Town Decoded
Explaining Gas Town's insular language to help demystify Steve Yegge's experimental AI agent orchestration system.
Passkey PRFs and the Passkey Loss Blast Radius
Exploring the way passkey PRFs increase the blast radius of passkey loss, and how that impacts systems like Confer.
‘Memory Safety for Skeptics’ in the ACM Queue
Making the case for pursuing memory safety amid time and budget constraints, with or without Rust.
Tracking Software ID Schemes
Introducing a small tracker for known software ID schemes such as Package URLs, CPEs, and more.
The Best Monad Tutorial Ever Written
Rain Paharia has done it, they've explained monads with real, practical examples.
Jujutsu is the Future
Staking my position that Jujutsu will displace Git in 5 years.
Postscript on “Open Source Software and Corporate Influence”
Some additional notes based on responses to 'Open Source Software and Corporate Influence'
Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
Exploring how corporations gain power in open source projects, and how to build resilience to corporate capture.
Safety Hygiene
Explaining how to properly contain and document unsafe code to make it maintainable over time.
The Problem is New Code
Identifying that assuring memory safety in new code is the highest leverage point for assuring existing codebases.
C++ Must Become Safer
Not everything will be rewritten in Rust, so C++ must become safer, and we should all care about C++ becoming safer.
Softlocking APIs
Exploring how APIs can become 'softlocked', stuck and unable to evolve or fix issues.
The “xz” Backdoor
A case for avoiding reductive analyses in the immediate aftermath of the xz supply chain attack.
Renegotiating C
Expressing empathy for C programmers as they grapple with fear and uncertainty amid the rise of Rust.
“Implementation Selection” in Rust
Exploring options for selecting branching paths in Rust code at compile time and runtime.
Technostructuralism
The systems we build are manifestations of our politics, so what is the philosophy of Rust?
Monomorphization Bloat
Rust generics can trade off binary size for expressiveness. Learning to identify when the trade off isn't worth it is a valuable skill.
String Types in Rust
Rust has many pairs of string types, each with a distinct purpose. Understanding them helps you understand Rust itself.