Robin Sloan's newsletter is always such a treasure. October's Edition is no exception. And so many g
Robin Sloan’s newsletter is always such a treasure. October’s Edition is no exception. And so many great links!
It's great that remote MCP has kick-started a new wave of open and easy APIs for lots of services, b
It’s great that remote MCP has kick-started a new wave of open and easy APIs for lots of services, but JSON RPC, really? Did we learn nothing from the SOAP era? Bog standard HTTP was right there. SMH
Why must we repeat our mistakes like this?
Interesting side effect of our engineers building rules files for Claude Code is that we have an exc
Interesting side effect of our engineers building rules files for Claude Code is that we have an excellent, concise set of our own coding styles, patterns, and preferences now — the best one we’ve ever had, in fact.
The best development practices are more valuable than they’ve ever been.
Got frustrated by OpenAI Codex not working (was probably user error on my part), and thought, "How h
Got frustrated by OpenAI Codex not working (was probably user error on my part), and thought, “How hard could it be to make one of these things?”
Turns out, not that hard(ish).
This weekend I built ‘genie’, a cli coding agent written in Ruby: github.com/jeffmcfad…
GenAI can be so incredibly useful and powerful in contexts where information/best practices are wide
GenAI can be so incredibly useful and powerful in contexts where information/best practices are widely known and disseminated but potentially tricky to apply to a specific use-case.
I had an incredible ChatGPT session yesterday applying some Deep Work / Focus / Strategy concepts to specific situations at work. Left with some concrete next-steps for myself plus a bunch of new concepts to research more.
Oh this is so good.
Oh this is so good.
If you are replacing great engineers with AI, please let me know.
If you are replacing great engineers with AI, please let me know.
We’d love to hire those great engineers!
Today I discovered Pandoc. My life will never be the same.
Today I discovered Pandoc. My life will never be the same.
Absolutely rooting for Yuki this weekend.
Absolutely rooting for Yuki this weekend.
> What’s particularly ironic is that today’s Google has become exactly what its founders warned agai
What’s particularly ironic is that today’s Google has become exactly what its founders warned against in their 1998 paper: an advertising company whose business model fundamentally conflicts with serving users’ needs.
| “The Mediocrity of Modern Google” | om.co/2025/03/2… |
The Gemma 3 models are just crazy good for their size.
The Gemma 3 models are just crazy good for their size.
Apple should be partnering with Google to provide these models for their on-device usage.
Not sure how it is that I hadn’t come across this (ReAct / Thought, Action, PAUSE, Observation) befo
Not sure how it is that I hadn’t come across this (ReAct / Thought, Action, PAUSE, Observation) before today, but it suddenly made some Gemma 3 experiments I was playing with tremendously more reliable.
LocalLLMs are fun!