Nick Allevato

A homophone is a hash collision: different words, same sound.

Microsoft patched 1,413 vulnerabilities this week, more than it ever patched in a full year.

Ubuntu 26.10 shipped this week with every core utility rewritten in Rust.

Formal languages and natural ones aren’t opposite designs.

The GPU-mining herd of 2017 went extinct on the same morning in 2022.

Part four of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally.

Everyone is getting agents.

Richard Hamming explained it to a room at Bellcore in 1986.

Part three of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally.

In 1773 James Boswell wrote down a definition of a human being: an animal that makes “a thing, by means of which he can make another thing.”

Margaret Hamilton’s first fix for the P01 bug was a line in the documentation.

An agent typed a homicide tip into a police form because it was making an example.

In normal archaeology you dig down to reach the old thing.

Someone in the house heard a beep a little before 12:13 AM and wanted to know what it was.

Part two of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally.

Part one was about why.

Someone handed me a customer and a spec request.

There is a published argument that the mathematics of population genetics rules out natural selection as the explanation for how humans and chimpanzees diverged.

Part one of four in “into solution,” on what software does to a problem when you take the word literally.

The U.S.

A spec for the smallest useful tool in a trade where the entire lifetime value of a customer is one well-timed text message.

Someone’s agent read this site last week and wrote to me about it.

Third of three on player-authored worlds.

Companion to the changelog is the leaderboard, which argues for what to build.

First of three on player-authored worlds.

Nobody wrote a new law for frontier models this week.

A convertible loan from your chip supplier is not financing.

Entry ten of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

For ten years I wrote short posts that circled one object without naming it.

Forty years of research built two things: a place for each context, and a memory of what the place was for.

Psychology measured the switch.

Every tool that lets you belong to many organizations gives you a switcher.

The record junk bond sale is not the number to watch.

The UN’s first thematic brief on AI is not about a hypothetical.

The phrase is borrowed.

A tickler file is office furniture.

Ireland fined Google €403 million on Monday.

Every model of context switching I’ve read charges a toll.

In 2022 I coined hyper multitasking and left it at one line.

About half of California’s wine grapes went into this harvest with nobody contracted to buy them.

Brussels is about to grade data centers the way it grades dishwashers.

Package registries are buckling under download growth driven by coding agents.

A long road, a small wagon, and questionable decisions — a trail sim whose real engine is a text spine you can replay without drawing a single pixel.

For forty years consumer volume paid for the leading edge and the serious work picked up what was left.

Entry three of three in “the dimension problem.”

Entry two of three in “the dimension problem.”

Entry one of three in “the dimension problem.”

The layer that reads your intent is fifty years old.

Entry nine of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

A double meaning is the one payload a listener has to assemble themselves — which is why catching one feels like you made it.