- Better, Faster, and (Even) More – Rands in Repose
The opening two sentence of this really resonated with me. "I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working Something” has never been lower thanks to Claude Code."
Bookmarked to take a proper look at his tools later – but having made this note, I have to note that the gap between "quick tools I'm building for myself" and "working public software" is massive, and I still don't believe that non-professional engineers should be using these tools to make public software.
Bookmarks for March 19, 2026
- The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham
God, yes, this all of this. I hate that even my personaly website, which I've kept as lightweight as my blogging tools will allow me to, still loads about 0.5MB of data in order to render 7KB of actual text. That's mad to me. But it's not close to as mad as news websites.
Bookmarks for March 18, 2026
- When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
This is fascinating. I am pretty candid about making steady use of AI during my work day, but I don't generally try and multi-task with it. I could, in theory, juggle multiple work streams, pinging between agents on different projects as they report in. But that intuitively seems like madness to me – if I'm constantly context switching, I'm not going to be doing the required thinking (and there's still more than enough of it) well enough. I can use AI to make the task I'm doing faster, but I don't want to try and use it to do two tasks at once.
- Flexibility boosts productivity, not office mandates
I am completely unsurprised by this news. Working from home full time (I go into the office maybe once or twice a quarter) is a *huge* benefit to me, and I am disposed to a) stay with my employer and b) work hard to ensure my employer succeeds so I don't have to find a job that will make me go into the office even part-time. I know there are some people for whom it's not true, and some jobs where it helps to be in person, but I honestly don't get why employers can't just trust people to figure out their own best practice and let them get on.
Bookmarks for March 17, 2026
- Photographer Dr. Elliott McGucken Seizes a Rare Superbloom in Death Valley — Colossal
Some gorgeous shots of a place that people think of a dry and lifeless, teeming with colour.
- Silverwolf – by Aaron A. Reed – 50 Years of Text Games
An absolutely wild nugget of gaming (and queer?) history.
Bookmarks for March 13, 2026
- Dani Guindo
Some absolutely gorgeous drone photography here – to the point that I find myself wondering about getting a drone. Not that I think it's easy or that I'd be a match for this chap, just that it might be fun to play about with, a bit.
- Software proprioception – Unsung
One of the frustrating things about working primarily in web development is that one's ability to know *exactly* where an element is on the page is quite limited. But it's still something to consider – we should generally be able to tell in rough terms, and it's worth using it as much as we can.
- Digitalia – Alasdair Watson
Another bit of back-patting self-referentiality – having got all my data into my own bookmark manager, I was able to hammer together a script to go back through all the old linkposts to this site, to standardise the format, add the semantic markup I now use, and add proper tagging and tag links, and generally make them cleaner and nicer.
Bookmarks for March 11, 2026
- OpenIntel | Iran Conflict Dashboard
No idea how good/unbiased this is, but it looks like a game stab at bringing a lot of relevant info together.
- Bookmarks
I spent ten minutes the other days upgrading my bookmark manager. Still entirely pinboard.in powered as a process, this is just my personal archive that gets auto-extracted from it, but it means I can do fun stuff like derive stats from it, and do some nice business finding related links.
Bookmarks for March 9, 2026
- Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
If this gets anywhere near courts (and if it doesn't, I'm sure something very like it will in due course), it's going to have fascinating implications for software development and licensing.
Bookmarks for March 3, 2026
- x86CSS
An x86 emulator written entirely in CSS. It may be time to admit that CSS is officially too complicated, and we should just go back to all using tables for layout.
Bookmarks for March 2, 2026
- Noongar Seasons | The Six Seasons of Australia's South West
It'd never really occured to me that that the "4 seasons" are probably as much a colonialist construct as, well, everything else, but it's not hard to see with a moment's thought. Further this this, though: I wonder if there's a more practical set of seasons that the ones the west came up with thousands of years ago. (See UK based jokes about "False Spring" and "Second Winter".)
Bookmarks for February 3, 2026
- Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
Some good stuff entering the public domain this year, including Betty Boop, Georgia on my Mind, The Maltese Falcon and more.