I've been using the new Raycast Beta. My first impression is that it's an even more streamlined and polished product. Especially the Settings menu got a huge revamp. Additionally, they made GPT-5.4 mini the default AI model, and wow, it's fast.

Behind the scenes, I've been honing and refining my personal website and landed on a better way to describe what I do: I build the product behind the product — the post-sales systems around customer intent.

Agentic Coding is a Trap. The "AI codes, human orchestrates" hype misses the point: real engineering is about system design, reasoning through failures, and making decisions under ambiguity—skills AI can't replace and the agentic era needs more than ever. MORE

The Feed Is Fake. That viral song, movie, or meme clogging your timeline was probably manufactured by companies running up to 65,000 dummy social media accounts. Everything from Justin Bieber's Coachella sets to indie bands to political campaigns now relies on "clipping" to simulate popularity and trick algorithms into making things trend. MORE

AI Is Exposing Two Decades of Checkbox Security. When AI makes security verification radically cheaper, the economic arbitrage between appearing secure and actually being secure collapses. Paper pentests, compliance theater, and audit checkboxes that never got fixed are about to face a reckoning. MORE

I Was Laid Off by Atlassian. A candid walkthrough of the Atlassian interview process, the work of building an Open Service Broker, and what happens after the layoff email arrives. MORE

Bug Bounty Platforms Are Drowning in AI Slop. Top researchers say their critical PII-leak reports now face 12-day delays before a human even looks at them, buried under waves of AI-generated noise. The platforms that were supposed to be hacker-first have become triage queues where signal can't compete with volume. MORE

GitLab Announces Act 2 Restructuring. GitLab's new CEO lays out a transparent restructure: flattening management layers, reducing country footprint by 30%, splitting R&D into 60 smaller autonomous teams, and rebuilding git infrastructure to handle agent-rate commits as the default. MORE

The New Raycast Reinvents the macOS Launcher. Raycast's biggest update yet brings a redesigned interface, new AI features, and deeper system integration for macOS power users. MORE

bugSWAT in Seoul Brings Bug Hunters and Engineers Together. Google recaps how in-person collaboration between researchers and product engineers accelerates finding and fixing high-impact vulnerabilities that remote-only workflows miss. MORE

DwarfStar 4 Takes Off in the AI Community. antirez reflects on the unexpected viral popularity of his minimal local inference engine for DeepSeek V4 Flash, and the clear demand for lightweight, native AI runtimes. MORE

Pancreatic Cancer Just Met Its Match. A new drug called daraxonrasib uses "molecular glue" to target the RAS protein—mutated in over 90% of pancreatic cancers and long considered undruggable—doubling survival in a disease where patients previously measured life in months. MORE

Former H1 Triager Does Candid AMA on Reddit. A recently departed HackerOne triager shares unfiltered details on how reports get handled, platform politics, and why they left—offering a rare inside look at the bug bounty machinery. MORE

The Recurse Center Is a Programmer's Retreat. A self-directed educational retreat where developers spend 6 or 12 weeks working on whatever fascinates them—no grades, no curriculum, just deep work alongside curious peers. MORE

Obsidian Community Now Hosts 3,404 Plugins and 506 Themes. Browse the full ecosystem of community-built extensions that turn Obsidian from a notes app into a fully customizable thinking environment. MORE

ExploitBench Measures AI Exploit Capability Per Dollar. A new benchmark plots frontier AI models by their exploit-finding ability against cost, showing which providers give the most vulnerability-finding bang for the buck. MORE

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Drive & Listen Lets You Cruise Cities Worldwide. Experience the sights and sounds of driving through cities from Tokyo to Paris, complete with local radio stations playing in the background. MORE

Create a Map of Your Life, One Week at a Time. A beautifully simple web app that visualizes your entire life as a grid of tiny boxes—each one a week—showing what you've lived and what might still be ahead. MORE

Taken Shows Everything Your Browser Gives Away Instantly. In the first milliseconds of loading, this site catalogs every observation your browser silently broadcasts—a visceral privacy demo that makes tracking feel uncomfortably real. MORE

How Diamonds Are Made, Beautifully Visualized. An interactive explainer walking through the extreme pressure, heat, and geological forces that transform carbon into diamonds deep beneath the Earth's crust. MORE

Timeless Colors of the Great Masters. A palette generator drawing from 120,000 real paintings that helps you discover the color combinations used by history's greatest artists. MORE

Semble: Fast Code Search for AI Agents. Uses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read by intelligently indexing code, with MCP server and CLI support built for agent workflows. MORE

mattpocock/skills: Agent Skills for Real Engineering. Matt Pocock's personal AI skills for building real applications—not vibe coding—straight from his .claude directory. MORE

Interceptor: Let AI Agents Control Your Real Browser. An agent-driven Chrome extension that gives AI full browser control via CLI, using your actual browser and macOS apps like a human would—no CDP required. MORE

jn: A File-Based CLI Notetaker. All your notes as plain files with a simple command-line interface—no databases, no signups, just markdown in the terminal. MORE

Lumen: Beautiful Git Diff Viewer in Your Terminal. A fast Rust-based TUI for reviewing git diffs, generating commits with AI, and getting change summaries—all from the CLI. MORE

DwarfStar 4 Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash Locally. antirez built a minimal native inference engine specific to DeepSeek V4 Flash for Metal and CUDA, intentionally lightweight and fast. MORE

Claude-OSINT Turns Claude Into a Recon Operator. Two paired Claude skills with 90+ recon modules, 48 secret-regex patterns, 80+ dorks, and 5,500+ lines of structured tradecraft for authorized red-team and bug bounty engagements. MORE

Removing the Modem and GPS from a 2024 RAV4 Hybrid. A step-by-step guide to physically disconnecting the cellular modem and GPS antenna from a modern connected car to reclaim your privacy. MORE

How I Documented an Entire Product in 4 Days with an AI Agent. 55 pages of documentation, 59 screenshots, and a product still in flux—completed by pairing an AI agent with a clear workflow and iterative review. MORE

Moving Away from Tailwind and Learning to Structure CSS. Julia Evans reflects on 8 years with Tailwind and why she's moving back to writing structured CSS, with practical lessons learned along the way. MORE

Agent Hooks: Deterministic Control for Agent Workflows. A framework for adding hooks to AI agent pipelines, giving developers predictable control points in otherwise probabilistic agent behavior so you can enforce rules at known checkpoints. MORE

Trying Not to Try. Finding Freedom from Striving in the Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei. "The best way to get approval is not to need it." MORE

Google's Official Guide to Optimizing for AI Search Features. Part of Google Search Central's docs, this guide explains how to structure content so generative AI search features can discover and surface it—essential reading for anyone whose traffic depends on search. MORE

You Need AI That Reduces Your Maintenance Costs. James Shore argues that AI coding agents should be evaluated on whether they lower long-term maintenance burden, not just how fast they generate initial code. MORE

The Secret to Success Is Monotasking. David explains why sustained focus is so unnatural for human brains, and how the most productive people use radical constraints—locked-up clothes, rented hotel rooms, cork-lined walls—to force themselves into deep work. MORE