Louis Gray

Today I spotted the elusive RV corgi breed @darthbluesky.bsky.social. Ruby is 9 months old, and she naps in the front seat, hoping nobody wishes for her to take the wheel. Every stop is a rest stop.

Webnerd.ai now supports Standard.site, @skyreader.app and @standard-reader.app across feed discovery, PDS ingestion, endorsements, and subscription syncing. Thanks for the push @captaincalliope.at!

If you miss that classic RSS reader feel and experience, I've been working on a new project for you. It even features native sharing to Bluesky. Introducing Webnerd.ai: Classic RSS for Today's Web blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/meet...

I just built an agent in Antigravity that analyzes my concert history over the last 3+ years and recommends new shows to see in my geographic area, ranked by potential interest, and then filters by 18+ or all ages, so I can take my daughter. Guess who is going to see a ton of concerts in November?

It is the iPod's 25th anniversary! I bought a 5 GB iPod on the very first day after watching Steve Jobs unveil it at the keynote. Today, Apple is celebrating it with a dedicated page. music.apple.com/thisisanipod Notably, this particular demo has 1,029 songs and 9.2 GB with 4.5 GB free. Cheaters.

“I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” -- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince The internet’s Wuhan moment www.exponentialview.co/p/the-intern...

This PHP exploit is an example of how and why most people should not be administering their own server, and I specifically do not want to be. (I do run a server and have patched it.) Applying patches and watching security advisories is just not what I want to be doing with my days.

That might sting a little. Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy "The penalty, one of the largest levied against the tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy." #Meta #SocialMedia #Privacy

Yes, AI found the PHP bugs now but also... "The class of bugs had been hiding in PHP’s source code for years. A security researcher had flagged it as a problem area decades earlier, but the flaw had been considered too difficult to exploit and was largely forgotten, Duong said"

SUV on fire on North 280 by Santa Clara this evening. Lots of smoke too. (video from my passenger as I drove)

"Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI." Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses www.bigtechnology.com/p/sundar-pic... /by @kantrowitz.bsky.social

"Almost exactly a month ago, Foursquare was acquired... The Foursquare acquisition was a $0 outcome for equity holders – $0 for preferred, $0 for common." Some final words on Foursquare teendrama.substack.com/p/some-final... /by @dens.nyc

I saw Sergey Brin's blimp on the way to work while being passed in traffic by multiple driverless cars... is something you could say on any Tuesday in Silicon Valley.

"My complete lack of new content wasn't an issue of a lack of ideas or a lack of time to write. It was straight up broken and I'd just about given up on getting it fixed." New blog post: How Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the Dead blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/how-... /by @louisgray.com

"My complete lack of new content wasn't an issue of a lack of ideas or a lack of time to write. It was straight up broken and I'd just about given up on getting it fixed." New blog post: How Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the Dead blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/how-... /by @louisgray.com

Pretty impressive to have your job tenure be so short that your exit is still in the algorithm's collection related to your debut.

Expect an avalanche of new software because the dam has broken, one person who knows what they want, and understands UI design can make a big complex app in 2-3 months. Over a weekend you can snap together an app from common UI concepts. Think of making software the same way you play with LEGOs.

Price War in the Chip Aisle

If you are who you follow, it extends to say you are where you engage. Despite some high profile people coming back to X, I have no plans to do that and have never been tempted. New blog post: Engaging In Toxic Places Remains Popular blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/enga... /via @louisgray.com

It’s very funny to be like “X is once again important because it’s where executives post marketing material.”

Is @gruber.foo right? It feels like a number of those who initially left X have gone back. Very unfortunate.

Josh Woodward is a fantastic guy. What a get for Lenny to have him on for an interview. Queue this up.

No more hallucinated references in California courts. Seems like an obvious first step. Just a minor reminder that California leads the country and the world, always.

New album alert! ISOxo: Hardcore Diva Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2Fin9o... YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 11 songs, 29 minutes. These beats can't listen to themselves.

Vibe coding not only changes how software engineers work, but makes it possible for everyone to speak their ideas into existence. If you can think it, you can build it. New blog post: Vibe coding: Automatic transmission for apps blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/vibe... /via @louisgray.com

In the Web 2.0 era, when all of us were blogging, commenting and absorbing everyone's thoughts in RSS feeds, one of the most fun features was seeing shared items from our friends. I've set up @lgstream.bsky.social to bring back that Web 2.0 goodness. It's a fun way to discover new voices and ideas.

My favorite part of being a baseball fan is how exceptional the league is at making sure we are discussing potential work stoppages at a time when the very best teams are fighting for the World Series. No other league does this.

"We don't have a common thread of media consumption, a shared reality and foundation for discussion with a common experience. It became inevitable." New blog post: Filtertainment Eviscerated our Informed Monoculture blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/filt... /via @louisgray.com

Don't make me tap the sign. Just because a company is private does not make it a startup. OpenAI has raised $180 billion or so and has about 4,500 employees. This is not a startup. Ref: 2014: blog.louisgray.com/2014/06/the-...

"The rituals of feeding the algorithm are so built into people’s everyday habits that they’re invisible to people who weren’t alive before today’s platforms took over. " /by @anildash.com

Here's a new flavor of prompt injection: using agents to target other agents that have more relaxed guardrails. The trust model from the 90s was not designed for AI. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Me: I'm going to be super productive today at work. My kid: I have an issue and have to go to urgent care. Also: the power is out at home.

@keithlaw.bsky.social every time I run into True Faith by New Order, I am reminded of your post from ages ago on Twitter that it was the one perfect song. My counter, albeit in agreement with yours, is Come Undone by Duran Duran. They are sister songs of sorts. Perfection of the era.

"I don’t WANT to be skeptical. I WANT to hope, to dream, to be optimistic, and look forward with faith to a better world where everything; every single thing is better." The Virtue of an Artificial Intelligence investing101.substack.com/p/the-virtue...

Finally, some good news. Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds www.404media.co/our-solar-sy...

"Are we all going to become subservient to the machines and live unsatisfying lives of uncomfortable mediocrity?" New @louisgray.com blog post: An AI Tech Revolution? The Solution: Human Evolution. blog.louisgray.com/2026/10/revo...

My daughter sent an innocent photo of her and her friend enjoying Lake Tahoe. I used AI to make it appear that she was driving a Cybertruck instead. Dad trolling for the win.

Ever go into a meeting and see an amazing office dog under the table, who wants to be your best buddy? @darthbluesky.bsky.social look at this perfect creature.

Was having a conversation with an early career teammate today, and Google Reader came up. I explained its history, needed as it was sunset when she was in fifth grade. Later, we were discussing upcoming concerts, and I said I'd gotten tickets to Moby at the Rose Bowl. Her: Who's Moby? 🪦

The new BMW 3 series is available in both gas and EV variants. The EV variant: 💸 - $4k cheaper than the gas M variant w/ same performance 🏃‍♂️- gets over 400 miles of range and ⚡️ - can add 200 miles in 10 minutes of charging It’s time to stop making gas cars. apple.news/Az8vujjaVS72...

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon as its new frontier model 9to5google.com/2026/09/30/g... "Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s “next era of frontier intelligence” and built for “deep reasoning across complex, long-horizon workflows.” /by @technacity.bsky.social for @9to5google.com

Keep Off the Grass www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36U... A YouTube explainer on how to respond when the AI labs suggest we should slow down.

"Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform." Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r...

Marissa Mayer is back with a new initiative called Dazzle, which learns from your photos to become a personalized AI assistant. "Dazzle turns your camera button into a “get it done” button..." "Pictures, Not Prompts". dazzle.ai/blog/

Surveillance Finds a Way www.404media.co/surveillance... "One company’s red line is another company’s business opportunity..." /by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for @404media.co

I just checked all my pockets to look for my earbuds, while actively using them.