Category: Blog
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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
The interface for Cowork is a new tab in the Claude desktop app, called Cowork. It sits next to the existing Chat and Code tabs. It looks very similar to the desktop interface for regular Claude Code. You start with a prompt, optionally attaching a folder of files. It then starts work. I tried it…
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Hacker News Book Recommendations
The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map. — Read on hnbooks.pieterma.es/list
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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection
Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection — Read on www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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Seven (Or, How to Play a Game Without Rules) by Joanna Kavenna
The hapless narrator’s job is to help facilitate her work in “box philosophy”: “the study of categories, the ways we organise reality into groups and sets […] the ways we end up thinking inside the box, even when we are trying to think outside the box”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/seven-by-joanna-kavenna-review-a-madcap-journey-to-the-limits-of-philosophy Sounds right up my alley!
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Coding With Claude Week 2: End of the Honeymoon?
This week, Claude helped me bring my son onboard to collaborate on our contract whist scoreboard and that worked very well. Then I began a new project – a link management system with rich categorizing, tagging and drag and drop support. I wanted to test Clause on more complex graphical interactions (and make something that…
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How Grok’s nudification tool went viral
As people slowly started to understand the full potential of the tool, the increasingly degrading images of the early days were quickly superseded. Since the end of last week, users have asked for the bikinis to be decorated with swastikas – or asked for white, semen-like liquid to be added to the women’s bodies. Pictures…
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Among the Agents – by Dean W. Ball – Hyperdimensional
Learning the basics of why computers work is extremely useful for making the most of coding agents; it will make you a better “prompter.” Learning the foundational aspects of programming languages similarly seems important. Understand how to think computationally now matters more. Understand the specific syntax of a particular programming language now matters less. This…
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Simon Willison LLM predictions for 2026
I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards […] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an…
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the philosophy of solvej balle – by Rebecca Lowe
can time freeze? can love be forever? — Read on endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/the-philosophy-of-solvej-balle I won’t read this until I’ve read volume three
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Molly Cantillon on X: “THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON. A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code.
This is the default now. The bottleneck is no longer ability. The bottleneck is activation energy: who has the nerve to try, and the stubbornness to finish. This favors new entrants. People who question unquestioned assumptions because they don’t know any better. The founders who sprint through walls and will their dogged pursuits into existence.…