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JPEG XL and AVIF are fighting over who compresses better. The more interesting question is what compression is actually doing to images we think we're preserving.

On Goodhart's Law, and what happens when the measure becomes the thing being optimized.

Anthropic built its own version control system from scratch. The reason why is more interesting than the tool itself.

On prompt injection, AGENTS.md, and the strange fact that we're now writing rules meant to be read by machines instead of people.

Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control for decades. What that decision was actually holding up.

I spent months reacting to magazine feeds and wearing the same few ideas thin, so now I run one experiment every morning and write down what happened.