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I recently saw complaints about Google’s search engine crawler taking down websites by sending them too much traffic: We had googlebot blast a random customer system and almost cause an outage, this is when I first learnt that google will use it for AI tr…

“We are not suggesting this is attainable on the first try, but we think we know how to get there.”

You’ve probably used code touched by Seth Larson - he’s the lead maintainer for one of the most widely-used Python libraries, urllib3, and he works on open-source security at the Python Software Foundation.

The internet feels smaller than it used to be, as fun stuff concentrates into a few mega-platforms.

Morry Kolman’s art makes you laugh.

For decades, Amit Patel’s interactive explainers have been reference points for programmers, game developers, and curious people on the internet.

Today, it has never been easier to create something, anything.

I keep hearing variants of this complaint lately: “This (tool / workflow / service / slot machine) is slower than me doing it manually.

This weekend, I gave a talk at BSides SF 2026 to a full theater at the Metreon AMC.

2026-03-01: clashes of tech and the US government.

As the title implies, I just created a font that displays numbers in a compact format used by Cistercian monks.

Recently my wife and I needed to call a car, so out came the apps to compare rideshare prices.

One common complaint about computers is that they’re too hard to understand.

…and what’s next.

Why do so many error messages try to be cute or apologetic instead of useful?

A couple weeks ago, I spotted a phishing campaign targeting developers on GitHub - actually, my coworker Max tapped me on the shoulder to show me.

Plus thoughts on the bitter lesson.

Not bad, could be better.

In 1975, five whole decades ago - before Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or even vi and emacs existed - a new document editor was born at Xerox PARC, and it was named Gypsy.

2025-08-10: art, history, and the agent experience.