It’s quite hectic on the personal front lately, so I’m sailing for smoother waters.

I’ve been going on more walks again, even though it’s hotter than ever.

Basecamp released v5, and I was curious about what it was all about. I checked it out briefly, and it’s a truly refreshing and calm approach to running a company. The onboarding is top-notch as well.

Love seeing how other people are leveraging AI and skill automations.

Quiet, My Exoself. Kevin Kelly on the always-on AI agent that will soon sit on our skin, know us better than we know ourselves, and become neither self nor other but something in between. Four possible stances: twin, guardian, counselor, hero. Which relationship do we want? MORE

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests. A developer inspecting the Claude Code binary found hidden Unicode apostrophe and date-separator changes in the system prompt based on API base URL and timezone. Chinese domains and AI lab keywords trigger invisible markers through XOR-encoded, base64-obfuscated domain lists. MORE

The Bug Bounty Singularity: Our Hackbot. Joseph Thacker's team built an AI hacking agent that autonomously finds, exploits, and reports vulnerabilities. The cost per bug is dropping fast, and any skilled hacker can now scale up an agent. Bug bounties are entering their quartz-crisis moment. MORE

The End of Determinism: What's Left for Engineers When AI Writes the Code. Tom Enden shipped code in a language he's not fluent in, written by AI, and was proud of it. The new engineering shifts from monologue to dialogue, from authorship to ownership, and from syntax to taste. MORE

Fintech Engineering Handbook. A comprehensive reference on building software that handles money. Covers precision handling, double-entry bookkeeping, idempotency, funds reservation, reconciliation, and audit trails. The principles: no invented data, no lost data, no trust. MORE

Operation Floodlight. A proposal for a government-funded national bug bounty program that pays researchers for verified vulnerabilities in US critical infrastructure. Give good hackers a clean path to report serious findings before attackers find them first, even when the target has no existing bounty program. MORE

Cursor Is Now a Native iOS App. Developers can launch always-on cloud agents or remote-control agents running on their desktop directly from their phone. Kick off tasks when ideas strike, get notified when work is ready for review, and merge PRs on the go. MORE

Most AI Work Can Wait. Tomasz Tunguz argues that model choice should be your last decision, not your first. Get the router right and 70-80% of agent traffic can run on cheap local models. Queue what doesn't need real-time answers, and reserve frontier models for what actually demands them. MORE

Fable's Judgement. Simon Willison shares a tip from the Claude Code team: tell Fable to use its own judgement instead of dictating how it should work. Let it decide which model to delegate coding tasks to rather than hardcoding rules. It saves tokens and produces better results. MORE

Steam Machine Launches Today. Valve's new Steam Machine hardware is here, bringing SteamOS and PC gaming to the living room with a console form factor. MORE

Why Cong Stopped Arguing With People. A software engineer's meditation on why winning arguments almost never works. Most debates aren't about ideas. They're about ego. The only person you can change is yourself, and the one clean exception is when someone explicitly asks for help. MORE

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds. A sharp critique of how tech leadership traded trust for attention, from the Jobs-Woz era of product-obsessed builders to the Founders Fund Mafia reality-TV era. The remedy: project core nerd values. Curiosity, humility, and an obsessive interest in your domain. MORE

"What Is the Terminal?". Jon Udell on building Bram, a GUI layer over Claude Code and Codex that hides the terminal entirely. For non-coders launching agents to build software, the terminal is foreign and hostile. Now it's optional. MORE

Not Just Books: How Renting a Sewing Machine from the Library Can Improve Democracy. Finland's 700+ libraries lend podcast studios, 3D printers, tennis rackets, and swimming pool passes. Librarians help citizens navigate digital bureaucracy, write CVs, and access tax portals. 55% of Finns visit at least monthly. MORE

Agents Need Work Data. Anjali Shriva and Judah argue that RL training on work data is the underrated driver of agent improvement. Labs are building products not to sell software but to capture the interaction traces, corrections, and expert guidance that make agents better employees. MORE

@chevyphillip - Application Security Engineer and AI engineer pursuing a Master's in Data Science

@taylorotwell - Creator of Laravel. Ship or die.

@samwcyo - Security researcher and bug bounty hunter

@samengmg - Hacker and trader

@leerob - Teaching developers at Cursor, previously at Vercel

Jerry's Map. Since 1963, Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing an imaginary city across over 4,000 individual 8x10 inch panels. The work is driven by a custom deck of roughly 100 cards with randomly generated instructions that dictate what to paint, collage, or revise. A mesmerizing exercise in procedural art decades before computers made it cool. MORE

Hackercouch. Couchsurfing for hackers, by hackers. Find couches, spare rooms, and fast WiFi offered by developers around the world, from Istanbul to Kyiv to Toronto. A modern throwback to the old hacker-traveler ethos. MORE

Worker-Owned Marketplace. A directory of 60+ worker-owned businesses spanning apparel, coffee, publishing, home goods, and tech. 32,000+ products from companies where employees have real ownership. MORE

Find The Sniper. A subreddit dedicated to objects camouflaged in plain sight. Test your perception against photos where something is hiding in the frame, perfectly blended into the background. MORE

The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again. A toolkit of habits, routines, and products for living more intentionally offline. From handwritten to-do lists and film cameras to leaving your phone at home during coffee runs. MORE

Hunk: Review-First Terminal Diff Viewer. Built for agentic coders who spend more time reviewing diffs than writing them. A modern terminal diff viewer with syntax highlighting and a clean split-view interface, designed to replace git diff in your workflow. MORE | LAZYGIT

A Guide to Destructuring in JavaScript. Everything you need to know about destructuring assignment, rest properties, and the spread syntax. From unpacking arrays to merging objects, with clear examples of how those ellipses actually work. MORE

The Compounding Knowledge Lifecycle. How a lesson learned once keeps paying. Kieran Klaassen's system captures learnings as structured markdown files, then five different skills grep the memory at decision time. Knowledge that compounds like principal. MORE

My Clanker Setup. Casey Ellis details his full AI agent rig: LifeOS as the harness spine with Claude Fable 5 for the main loop, multi-vendor models for specialist lanes, and an RTX 5090 for local inference on sensitive data. The principles: deterministic beats clever, compartments before plumbing, verification as reflex. MORE

Automating Customer Support with AI Agents at Gumroad. How Gumroad auto-resolves roughly 99.8% of roughly 360 daily customer-support tickets with AI agents, and why the remaining 0.2% that need human attention are the ones that actually improve the product. MORE

Draw in Your Terminal: Terminal Maxxing with Ben Vinegar. Scott and Wes sit down with the founder of Modem.dev to geek out over tmux, terminal aesthetics, and turning the place where agents live into something you actually enjoy looking at. MORE

How Every's Head of Consulting Uses Codex Every Day. Natalia Quintero joined Every to bring AI into consulting workflows. A hands-on look at how she weaves Codex into daily operations, from client work to internal process. MORE

How to Ship Real Code With AI (Not Junk). David Cramer, co-founder of Sentry, shares hard-won lessons on using AI to write production code that doesn't fall apart. A talk about craftsmanship in the age of generated code. MORE

The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age. David Brooks maps three types: Productive Passengers who let AI think for them, Reluctant Optimizers who resolve not to but get sucked in, and Mental Marathoners who actively wrestle with AI to expand their capabilities. When intelligence is plentiful, volition is what differentiates. MORE

How to Think in Writing. Henrik Karlsson on the mental moves that turn writing into a tool for thought. Make definite claims, stretch them thin, look for cracks. Good thinking requires breaking old ideas, and writing makes them rigid enough to break. MORE

Principles. Nabeel Qureshi's curated list of hard-won life lessons: do things fast, lean into the good kind of fear, figure out what gives you new ideas and make sure you incorporate that into your routine. MORE

How Not to Forget What Matters. Henrik and Johanna Karlsson on the ancient practice of hypomnemata: collecting inspiring passages and meditating on them each morning to turn truth into character. The antidote to stultitia, the tendency to lose track of what matters in the noise. MORE