Sam Breed's modest personal website.

The unhobbling of AI agents has brought a rush of changes to software over the last several years. 2026 has only increased the pace.

for as long as I can remember the chunk of the year that I most closely associate with winter is actually autumn, and correspondingly the time I most closely associate with spring is actually winter.

I'm writing this from inside Augment Intent.

Winter break 2025 will be remembered as the time of vibe coding.

Posting this very very late but this is a good batch from Sept-Dec 2025.

I've been flipping between different browsers this year and have been accumulating links for a few months.

import SearchForm from "~/components/search/SearchForm.astro"; I recently upgraded the search on my website to use AgentDB instead of a JSON file with the embeddings and vibe-coded dot products.

I haven't posted an AI-generated video since November 2023 and it is remarkable how far things have come since SD Video.

I've been accumulating browser tabs again, and Bench makes it easy to turn my browser upside down and shake out all the good stuff I've looked at recently.

Today is my birthday, and Mario Fraioli's newsletter The Morning Shakeout had his list of 43 lessons for his 43rd birthday, a tradition he cribbed from none other than Kevin Kelly who posted 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice for his birthday a few years ago.

I've been heads-down working on Bench since the end of last year, and let me tell you, it has come a long way.

Recently an engineer I'm working with hit me up with a broad question about web performance: I'm trying to see if I can make site loading times faster, do you have any good profiling tools besides the browser?

Anchor Links and How to Make Them Awesome / Coder's Block scroll-margin-top will pad elements that are automatically scrolled to Cuisine Selector with :has() LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 - <antirez> Toward inquiry | A Working Library inc…

I had a good run with my linkdump blog posts.

GitHub - Fanghua-Yu/SUPIR: SUPIR aims at developing Practical Algorithms for Photo-Realistic Image Restoration In the Wild The Ultimate Guide to PostgreSQL Data Change Tracking | Medium Robin Rendle — Designer and writer.

Ok, I have been bad at this so far.

Final link dump of the year.

I have a new page that collects All the Links from my links blog posts.

import SearchForm from "~/components/search/SearchForm.astro"; You might have noticed that there are now some search boxes on the site.

For as long as I can remember, I had assumed Web Components (Custom Elements) were in the "still baking" phase of the standards lifecyle.

The Year of the Large Language Model It has been one year since ChatGPT was released.

October is the longest month in Q4.

I write these posts on the last day of the month, so it's very easy for recency bias to creep in.

Tech How Google made the world go viral - The Verge Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 Why Open Source Matters Providing payment transparency with Indie Protocol's subgraph Adactio: Journal—Opportunity nato1968.indd Hardware Secu…

AI SDXL – A settings guide by Replicate - most important AI link this month, how to generate cats real good Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon AI Research Blog - The Transformer Blueprint: A Holistic Guide to the Transformer

June 2023.

import { Image } from 'astro:assets'; import finishLineImage from './1B9CED58-0ECD-47B3-B640-A1514447C7F5_1_105_c.jpeg'; The Dipsea Race is a 7.4 mile trail race from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach.

All the wet weather this winter has indeed brought May flowers in Northern California.

We stayed about 2 miles from the start line in Big Sur, which meant that I didn't have to wake up at 3am to catch a bus from Monterey down to the start.

Free range tabs edition.

Yes, I had all of these tabs open.

Winter.

I'm making good on tab purging this year.

Yikes!

I've committed to blogging more while also paying down my open tab debt.

Update: I left the site in early November 2022 and locked my account.

another link dump, some of these have been open for months and need to be closed or forgotten.

Right now, I have 16 open tabs in my browser.

Books, continued Keeping reading lists year-over-year has been fun.

2017 Reading List [x] Digital Gold – Nathaniel Popper [x] Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Taleb [x] Machine Learning – Ethem Alpaydin [ ] Mathematics and the Imagination – Edward Kasner and James Newman [x] Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson [x] Capitalist Realism –…

2007 In January of 2007 I was 20 years old.

How to Make a Static Website with Next.js 👋 Hey, so I recently figured out how to upgrade this very website to use Next.js 3 as a static blog engine.

Tragic Design is...

Protect your DNS history with DNSCrypt In light of the recent rollback(s) of regulations meant to restrict how ISP's share and sell the data they gather about you, I started wondering what I could do to make my internet traffic a bit harder for them to mo…

Why I Read What I Read in 2016 January 1, 2017 I tried to read more this year, I really did.

2016 Reading List [x] How to Make Sense of Any Mess — Abby Covert [x] Daemon — Daniel Suarez† [x] Burr – Gore Vidal † [x] Fire in the Valley – Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger [x] Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb [x] The Ascent of Money – Niall Fegus…

Lessons from The Jerk (1978) If you're not familiar with The Jerk (1978) starring Steve Martin, do yourself (well really, do me a favor) and watch it.

Picking up the pieces; or How I learned to stop worrying and embrace weird metaphors Metaphors are fractals of language: once you start to examine them closely, you end up seeing the same pattern over and over and over again.

Making things for fun This isn’t a blog.