Jacob E. Dawson

The silent information we pass on the net, a history of vi, and just use Go man

Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe

Github's demise, the societal effects of AI, and how we process the rich sludge that powers the globe

Claude degrades, don't outsource your thinking, and a lovely bit of concrete

Programming still sucks, OS rocks, Claude loses some lustre

The perils of laziness lost, Mythos or myth, and can you put OS X on a Wii?

Gemma 4 rocks, Claude open source leaked, and the machines will be fine, but what about us?

TypeScript 6 drops, how to slow down when everything is speeding up, Auto Mode for Claude and a new take on version control

We still need to code, LLM fatigue is upon us, maybe you don't need semicolons, and JS is still bloated!

A little dash of AI and a few updates from the world of Vim!

GPT 5.4 releases, who reviews the reviewers, and making a button in 2026

Tinkering on family dashboards, LLMs debating each other, and why writing code is cheap now

Some delicious split keyboards, another day another frontier LLM release, and a sprinkling of CSS

The overwhelming complexity of everything, another IDE I will eventually try again, and new models from Google & OpenAI

This week: OpenAI vs Anthropic, just use Postgres and the enshittification of API tooling

This week: SaaS is dead, how to build a runway, and generating utility libraries on the go

This week: Don't be afraid of Git rebase, the future of the net is in your files, and how Ralph took the agentic coding world by storm.

This week: It's Claude all the way down - big time coders bend the knee and accept agentic coding is the future..even Linus Torvalds is on board!

Here is how to update permissions for certain commands in Claude Code, saving time & reducing the number of requests during a session

This week: New ways to browse the web, development is fun again, and we are all vibe coders now

An argument for tinkering in public and increasing your luck surface area

This week: leaning on native HTML over JavaScript, a sobering look at near-autonomous coding from Karpathy, scaling LLMs across real codebases, a thoughtful case for conscious LLM skepticism, and a blunt take on agentic engineering without prompt theatrics.