15 Jun 2026
13 words to turn a rumor into AI fact
Cornell researchers planted thirteen words on Reddit and changed what Deep Research and Gemini reported back.
Digesting
A collection of interesting articles, tools, and ideas I've stumbled upon shared here as bookmarks and notes.
6 May 2026
My daily routine assumes the internet survives the disaster
A new UNDRR report maps the disaster nobody is preparing for: the failure of digital infrastructure that has no analogue fallback.
23 Apr 2026
Why 'reviewed' should be a protected verb
A newsroom AI policy that closes the quote-attribution loophole and treats 'reviewed' as a protected verb.
8 Apr 2026
EmDash won't beat WordPress. Drupal just needs to wait
EmDash doesn't need to win to matter, and Drupal's quiet modernization work means it doesn't either.
4 Apr 2026
Go schema-first and skeleton loading stops being a problem
The skeleton loading problem is a contract problem in disguise; explicit content schemas dissolve it.
29 Mar 2026
The ladder was always context
Matteo Collina splits software engineering into three tiers (tech firms, enterprises, small businesses), and in each the bottleneck shifts from building code to holding context.
28 Mar 2026
Comprehension debt, when AI-generated code outpaces human understanding
AI-generated code is outpacing human understanding, and teams need to self-govern before someone else does.
5 Mar 2026
11ty is dead, long live Build Awesome
The static site generator I've backed for years just got its future sorted.
4 Mar 2026
AI coding tools turned my once-a-year hobby project into a daily habit
Benj Edwards burned through 50 projects in two months with AI coding agents and I know the feeling.
22 Feb 2026
Two-way communication beats another shipped feature
Sometimes stepping back to understand your audience matters more than shipping the next feature.
26 Dec 2025
URLs are the state management you should use
How well-designed URLs can replace state stores with shareable, bookmarkable state.
5 Dec 2025
Digest videos into sketchnotes through AI
Daniel Vaughan built an agent that generates sketchnotes from YouTube videos — a visual triage step before committing to long-form content.
4 Dec 2025
Large projects need large communicating
Ben Kuhn shares his playbook for managing complex projects at scale, from maintaining detailed plans to delegating management itself.
7 Nov 2025
Why AI can't be debugged like traditional software
Boyd Kane explains why treating AI like debuggable code misses the fundamental difference in how these systems work.
4 Nov 2025
Plenty to learn from Fedora's approach to AI code
The first community-driven policy I've seen that treats AI as a tool requiring human accountability, not a shortcut.
13 Oct 2025
It's true, short disruptions costs lots of time
Meeting creep, quick questions and context switching crush flow.
13 Oct 2025
Output: An HTML-native tag once again saves JS befuddling
Use the native HTML output element to announce dynamic results — semantic, accessible, and simple.
3 Oct 2025
Context engineering beats prompt tricks for AI agents
Anthropic argues that “context engineering” — not prompt tricks — is how agents stay accurate at long horizons.
29 Sep 2025
Developers are becoming context technical writers for AI
Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti highlights docs-driven development and the rise of technical writers as “context curators” so AI can truly RTFM.
27 Sep 2025
Embracing px and rem for CSS
Miriam Suzanne from OddBird explains how combining CSS units can lead to more robust and user-friendly typography.
19 Sep 2025
Thoughtful AI integration beats bolted-on Clippy
Lullabot's thoughts on 'How to build your AI integration strategy right'.