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I liked how an Anthropic article modelled a job as a bundle of tasks rather than a single thing that either survives or does not. I did that exercise on my own week as a software engineer - before AI, now, and some guesses at what the future may hold.

A Staff Engineer’s Guide to Inventing Work

A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

Pirating the Pirates on Notebook | MUBI

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

3d retro graphics

Free CC0 library of 3d retro graphics you can paste into a site. Plasma, starfield, raytracer, globe, fluid, and more.

Spotted wildcat from Bolivian forest revealed as new species

A spotted wildcat long mistaken for relatives has been identified as a new species in Bolivia.

On Lucasart’s Afterlife

I can hardly believe I’m writing a blog post about a game that came out 27 years ago, but here we are. Lucasfilm, at one time had a gaming subsidiary called Lucasarts, and they produced somet…

How Uber Built an Agentic System to Automate Design Specs in Minutes

Uber is setting a new standard for design systems by using the Figma Console MCP to shatter the manual documentation bottleneck. By letting AI agents pull directly from design data, weeks of spec writing turns into minutes of automated precision.

arnegiacomo/fugleramme: E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.

E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.