Reading List

A curated list of things we're reading (or listening to) and thinking about.

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GitHub The GitHub Blog 2026-07-30

The Session You Cannot Take With You

Earendil Engineering Earendil 2026-07-30

Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions

Greg Ose & Zachary Steindler The GitHub Blog 2026-07-28

Your Recursion Is Lying to You

Gábor Koós gaborkoos.com 2026-05-09

Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

Anthropic Frontier Red Team Anthropic 2026-07-28

WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

Chris Lilley W3C Blog 2026-07-28

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it

Neal Stephenson Graphomane 2026-07-21

Securing services with Rootless Containers

Andrés Correa Casablanca Coder Spirit 2026-07-06

Our position on open-weights models

Dario Amodei Anthropic 2026-07-27

Introducing the Agent Readiness Score

Cloudflare The Cloudflare Blog 2026-04-17

LLMs Reward Expertise

Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com 2026-07-24

We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about

Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski Syntax 2026-07-15

Sarah Guo's Wager

Dom Cooke Colossus 2026-07-19

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Jarred Sumner

Bun 2026-07-08

Agent swarms and the new model economics

Wilson Lin

Cursor 2026-07-20

Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?

Ben Thompson Stratechery 2026-07-20

Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit

Iain Harper iain.so 2026-07-13

Overtraining as the Path to Human-like AI

Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com 2026-07-18

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here

Joseph Cox, Sam Cole, and Emanuel Maiberg 404 Media 2026-06-30

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI

Maggie Harrison Dupré Futurism 2026-06-29

Thinking More About Netscape Time

Jay Hoffmann The History of the Web 2026-06-03

The Hidden Cost of Taking Yourself Too Seriously

Francesca Tighinean Big Think 2026-06-02

Why We're Choosing Stewardship Over an Exit

thoughtbot thoughtbot 2026-06-01

Ad Infinitum

Matthias Ott matthiasott.com 2026-05-21

Why Federated Design Systems Keep Failing

Shaun Bent shaunbent.co.uk 2025-12-08

The Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After It — CoRecursive #121

Adam Gordon Bell CoRecursive 2026-05-09

How NASA Built Artemis II's Fault-Tolerant Computer

Logan Kugler Communications of the ACM 2026-04-08

Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? A Controlled Minimal-Pair Study

Priyansh Trivedi and Olivier Schmitt

arXiv 2026-05-19

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026

Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com 2026-05-17

Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

Eric W. Bailey ericwbailey.website 2026-05-11

TanHacked — Syntax #1004

Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski Syntax.fm 2026-05-13

Hyperblam: Make Music With HTML

Heydon Pickering hyperblam.how

The House Is Valuable Because It Is the House

Ethan Marcotte ethanmarcotte.com

Yankee Candles Levels of Abstraction

Alex McMillan optional.is 2022-12-06

You Deserve a Tech Union

Ethan Marcotte A Book Apart 2023-08-15

How to win at CORS

Jake Archibald Jake Archibald — Blog 2021-10-01

You Can't Design Software You Don't Work On

Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com 2026-01-01

Phantom Obligation

Terry Godier Terry Godier 2025-01-01

On Affordances

Karl Koch Karl Koch — Writing 2025-06-21

Mental Models

Megan Chan Nielsen Norman Group 2024-01-26

Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"

Sylvain Kerkour Sylvain Kerkour's Blog 2026-01-30

Sixty years of learning the same lesson

Rob Bowley Rob Bowley's Blog 2026-01-30

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

Vladimir Prelovac and Raghu Murthi

Kagi Blog 2026-01-21

Some Thoughts on the Open Web

Mark Nottingham Blog 2026-01-20

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