Category: Blog
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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years – The Atlantic
To Dorsey, people are horses. Innovation is driving them out of existence. But people are coal—or, to be more precise, coders seem to be coal at the moment. Businesses employ 6 percent more software engineers now than they did a year ago, in part because corporate executives are desperate for workers to figure out how…
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Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow — Bill de hÓra
After a stint of deep work, I usually feel the tiredness of having held a line of thought together for a long time via concentration. After a stint with agents, the tiredness feels more like the aftermath, again, of sustained play or competition. The accumulation of lots of small judgments, many state updates, repeated course…
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The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles
The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles — Read on randsinrepose.com/guides/apple-charging-guide.html
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Quirky table tennis equipment promotes “more creative” play
Exercice has installed a set of unconventional table tennis tables at a school in France to encourage children to make up their own rules. — Read on www.dezeen.com/2026/03/27/quirky-table-tennis-equipment-french-school/
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What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?!
Unless an author makes a major stylistic turn later in their career, I can’t imagine any new work being favorably compared against the earlier work that established the style and sounded so fresh. On the other hand, it’s not always the first work that is considered the best. It can still take time to perfect…
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The Claim Upon the Training Data — Jônadas Techio
What is at stake, if this changes, is not the catastrophe Dennett feared — not “counterfeit people” flooding the zone, though that too. It is something quieter and deeper: the shared fictions losing their grip, not because they are falsified but because the infrastructure maintaining them no longer has a stake in their coherence. A…
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Auto mode for Claude Code
Before each action runs, a separate classifier model reviews the conversation and decides whether the action matches what you asked for: it blocks actions that escalate beyond the task scope, target infrastructure the classifier doesn’t recognize as trusted, or appear to be driven by hostile content encountered in a file or web page. […] Is…
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Plain Text Accounting (PTA)
bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. — Read on plaintextaccounting.org/