As the saying goes, "Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." We were in the middle of writing a couple of other posts when Brave dropped a new beta feature yesterday and pulled us off course. Mix that with a feature that already shipped and barely got talked about, and you get a pretty nice upgrade to how Brave works day to day. Brave added native Containers in version 1.92, which landed on July 2, 2026. We have been testing them since April 2026. They keep storage separated…

I've been adding to my agent skills course, including a reworked section on product skills that now takes a docs-first stance after I started seeing log data. I've also been leaning on AI more heavily to write the course content, which seems fine for instructional material that's constantly in flux. Writing with AI pushes me toward ideas I hadn't considered, so it's become a way to learn while writing, even if I have to course correct along the way.

a sneak peek at a poem from the next manuscript I am working on....

The NazisBrash enactors of violent action, brutes who wield the strength of one powerful, perverse idea— that what’s evil is actually good. They’re so dedicated to destroying the world that they’re already planning their own ruins and digging their own graves. Until then, they’re building an empire at lightning-speed, based on overwhelming force and folk paychology, riding into marches and toppling authorities, putting everyone in prison, making everyone march, resorting everything into cells.…

A couple of weeks ago, I watched my friend Nik present at Medium Day. He also writes every day, and he made an observation that resonated with me: If you write in the morning, you can feel proud of it all day. If you write in the evening, you can feel pressure and anxiety knowing you still have to write at some point. This felt true to me. I previously haven’t minded writing in the evening, though I did write, “Writing at this blog started as, and remains, one of my favorite parts of each day.…

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We humans like to think we are so smart — but we show all too many signs of latching on to any handy idea which suits our preconceptions and sticking with it to the exclusion of evidence to the contrary. It’s sort of like the writing issue I was holding forth on a couple of days ago. You say something, anything, and if it sounds like a “reasonable” argument, that’s what it becomes. Just because it fits with the premiss it must be true — no time to check it though, we’re on to the next point.…

In postwar Ulm, Otl Aicher found the kind of design problems that interested him: real ones. For the new adult education centre, he created hundreds of posters and a visual system that extended into the streets – a testing ground for ideas that would reach far into the future. In 1946, Ulm was marked by […]

The Bible: A Global History (Basic Books; 2024) I've never really understood the concept of Christian fundamentalism, the idea that the Bible is literally true, and its contents accurately present the inerrant word of God. Even as a child, I realized that there was a plethora of different versions of the Bible available, and that the earliest scriptures weren't written in English, and that therefore before we had ever gotten our first English Bible, someone had to translate the Hebrew and Greek…

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To be fair, that woman doesn’t seem to be having the best time in Hamburg at the moment and wishes she were back in Sweden, where her family has a house and apparently spends most of the year. So her tears might not have been entirely caused by the quality of the product. I’m considering suing her anyway, just in case.

I’ve been meaning to write down my thoughts about AI, specifically as it relates to programming, for a while now, but it has never seemed like the right time. Things have been changing rapidly since I first installed an “AI agent” on my PC 14 months ago. Every time I felt I’d gathered my thoughts, something changed: a new model, a new breakthrough, new techniques. It still doesn’t feel like the right time, but if I don’t write my thoughts now, I might forget them later. So here are my thoughts,…

I grabbed a Wearingeul Modular Glass Dip Pen ($10) while at the Dallas Pen Show because… $10! The pen is a wood barrel glass dip nib pen with a brass-y cap for TEN DOLLARS! But wait, there’s more! The glass nib is a screw-in design and Wearinguel sells packs of three spare nibs ($10). So, if you drop it and break the nib or it gets scratchy, it can easily be replaced. As for the writing experience, the nib is about a medium, at some angles it can be a little scratchy but for swatching,…

– The release of the debut quartet from Fitz-James Stuart highlights the acute creative problem at the heart of a perfume industry that currently sees the release of well over 10,000 new scents per year. The collection has been curated and directed by Sofia Palazuelo and Fernando Fitz-James Stuart, two members of Spain’s nobility who […] The post Fitz-James Stuart showcase review (Alberto Morillas; 2026) appeared first on .

This morning was beautiful. The cold tranquillity of an autumn day. The sun gleaming, clear blue skies. I took the dog out for a walk and, as always, popped my AirPods in and hit play on my podcast queue. About halfway round, the audio started breaking up. It does this occasionally. I tried resetting them in the case, but they kept glitching. So, in a huff, I put them away and finished the walk: just me and the dog. And, man, the second half of the walk was so much more enjoyable. This is a…

Notes on reputation; A thing I learnt from dad

Ever followed an OAuth tutorial, copied the code, and then found out the library it uses was deprecated years ago? Yeah, me too. It's frustrating - especially when all you wanted was an access token. A little while ago I wrote A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with C# and Visual Studio Code, and it got a lot more attention than I expected. A few people asked if I could do the same thing for Node.js, so here it is. This guide walks you through implementing OAuth 2.0 in Node.js using modern…

My notes from this talk by Alexander Petros at Big Sky DevCon 2026. Alex starts by noting how “modernize” used to mean something along the lines of “update this thing that was made before I was born”. But now “modernize” means something more like “update this thing from 5-10 years ago” (hence the framing of the talk, the “modernization treadmill”). Using a real-world example of an incredibly slow website that was required to access state-sponsored programs for welfare, Alex points out the…

🏃‍♂️ First run in more than a week’s time. Have to be out again.

I was born in 1966. As of this post, that was 60 years ago. Conversely, cell phones, while they have been around quite a while, really didn’t come into the mainstream with cameras until the mid to late 1990’s and early 2000’s. That being said, going to concerts in my youth was a totally different experience. Sure, we could bring in an Instamatic camera (you young-ins might have to look that up) but the lighting (or lack of) at concerts made their use inefficient. And honestly, most of us didn’t…

Our second visit - in as many days - to Telkwa Pass behind us, we raced down the valley that was shrouded in fog the last time we'd been through. Today, it was anything but, and soon we'd covered half the distance to the trailhead. It was time for a detour. We'd planned on running this trail on our way up the pass, but as we'd climbed out of the fog - and immediately into low clouds - we'd realized there was no point. Though we'd done no research on the availability of views from the top of…

Another tidbit from the (excellent) Peter Hessler New Yorker piece (archived) I quoted yesterday in connection with “Ouray”: It had started snowing the previous day, and it was still coming down softly. Nordquist stopped at a series of platforms that tracked the snow’s height. He carried a device that measured the amount of water in the snow, and he also relied on reading the landscape. “You can look at a slope and see if it’s been wind-sculpted,” he told me. “I’m looking to see if it’s loading…

[This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I would like to give Terry my heartfelt thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute a post to his blog. After giving much thought to what topic I should write about to maximize impact, I decided to take this opportunity to reach out to the students: particularly to those undergraduate and graduate…

Artificial intelligence has become a part of our lives. Whether you want it to or not. Regardless of what name it is called by, it’s not going to disappear just because some people are crying about it. The world has changed completely. From here onwards, the world will be seen as before AI and after AI. You can either sit and cry about it, or you can decide how to use it as leverage. No matter what profession you are in. No matter what stage of life you are at. You need a subscription to at…

ERIC S. RAYMOND: The end of software secrecy is almost upon us. Tweet loading...

Email I got to send just now (details redacted): Hello, excellent Department of Elections people! I live at [address] [apartment number]. A few days back, I received my ballot (yay) and also the ballot for [someone else] [different address] (whoops) [same apartment number]. I put [her] ballot in a mailbox. When I checked my mail this morning, [her] ballot was there again, d'oh. If it was once, I'd figure "accidents happen." Twice makes me wonder: uh, is some garbled scan code confusing some…

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We’re hosting Cory Haala tomorrow evening on UND’s campus for the annual Wilkins Lecture. Haala will be presenting on his very recent book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (2026). The book is a dense political history of the rise of populist Democrats during the 1980s Farm Crisis in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The book argues that economic populism, in particular, formed the basis for a coalition of labor, farmers,…

Moe Tucker / Half Japanese - Cabaret Metro, Chicago Illinois, May 5, 1989We’re going to hang out in Chicago with taper extraordinaire Aadam Jacobs for a little while longer this week. Just about 10 years before that Jim O'Rourke gig, Aadam and his rig were at the Cabaret Metro recording the radical double bill Half Japanese and Moe Tucker. David Fair, who co-founded Half Japanese with brother Jad, recently passed away, so listen in as a belated tribute. The Moe Japanese pairing was a full…

“Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After Effects, and InDesign, and made them free to use. The new versions are technically called Photocraft, Vectorcraft, Filmcraft, Lightcraft, Printcraft, Effectcraft, and Designcraft. The overarching umbrella project is titled Artcraft.” The Photocraft app (alternative to Adobe Photoshop) is a few days…