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We asked Grafana Pages for a live map of traffic around the world. This is what we got. #ObservabilityCON

Finally made an about page, it includes my heart rate neal.fun/about/

Notes on Kimi K3.1 - this one is a big deal, the first time an open weights (well, soon-to-be open weights) model has competed this credibly with the current frontier simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/23/...

actually, 4 is a very hard to guess number, and is secure from modern attacks

Read: Pros run auto mode. Amateurs — don't.

Post- agentic AI identity crisis activated

The 2026 Go Developer Survey is open! Help set Go’s priorities for next year by telling us how you use Go and where it could be better. ⏱️ 10–20 minutes 📅 Open through November 3 blink.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #golang

They've omitted 4 in some elevators for many years #conspiracy

I'm pretty surprised Apple has not fixed /usr/bin/curl yet— don't run 'curl | bash' in a coffee shop today! Rather than modify the system certs and trust they won't be modified back, I installed the Homebrew curl and put it first on my $PATH.

I am not rage quitting Open Source reviews, but I am changing: andrew.nerdnetworks.org/blog/2026/10...

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

Preview: New SIMD #compression mode in #golang minlz that uses pivco entropy coding on top of LZ matching. Compression like ZStandard with 2-5x faster decompression. Currently implemented with AVX2, AVX512 and NEON (untested). Independent blocks, giving seekable streams. Silensia, single threaded:

“Better HTTP/1 connection reuse” by Nicholas Husin and Damien Neil — https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse #golang

New bible just dropped. cloud.google.com/blog/product...

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.

Have you ever noticed that Apple is the only laptop company, who doesn't have "branded" button on the keyboards?

I don't measure my steps, my sleep, my heartbeat. No interest in doing so. Never had any. I've just realized this trend is yet another way for tech to own your lives, adding stress to you and money to their wallets (while collecting your data). Don't measure your life, just live it. It's more fun.

There is a certain poetry to cloudflare (an odd way of saying a meteor) killing deno (a dinosaur)

contrastsurvey.earendil.com

@juliusv.com would there be a way to update the PromQL cheat sheet with native histogram functions? promlabs.com/promql-cheat...

Let's play a game: Post a screenshot of "another AI coding agents orchestration tool". The rest are trying to guess which one is it. I start:

TIL about "go -overlay <file>" -overlay "file" reads a JSON config that provides an overlay for build operations. The file contains a mapping with file paths to their backing file paths, so that a build will run as if the disk file path exists with the contents given by the backing file. #golang

Obsidian 1.14 is now available with five major improvements: 1. Edit Markdown files outside your vault 2. Preview files using macOS Quick Look when the app is closed 3. Instantly add notes with Quick Capture on iOS 4. Kanban and new grouping options in Bases 5. Highlight colors

If agents traffic on the internet will surpass human by 1000x in next couple of years, will this finally be the death of IPv4?

We released Pi 1.0! earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

Invest in our company so you can profit from your own destruction! While we lose money hand over fist! What the actual F is going on here? (Rhetorical question. Don't answer.)

Ok, I finally get what Uhura was doing, she just had 120+ agent sessions running at all times with the button colors indicating the state (working, turn finished, ask_user_question, waiting for subagents), that's also why she never took off the bluetooth headset

From twitter bad_pote

“Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment #golang

Why is the AI model escaping the sandbox?

If we were smart we'd stayed in the sandbox

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Over the past two years, my bluesky feed is slowly morphing from a stream of post about americans not liking musk, to a stream of posts on how they don't like musk and meta, to how they don't like musk, meta and dhh 🍿

Samsung Intelligent > Apple Intelligent! no shit

Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision models simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/...

Barbara is fun

Does claude code use Jev under its auto mode classifier?

I like this quote on code review: "The idea that humans will reliably look through code to find the increasingly rare issues that automated tools miss seems like a fantasy." By Marc Brooker, AWS.

Incredible achievement on the part of the hackers to withstand working with Opus 5 long enough for this to happen.