Software Internals Book Club
I run a little email book club reading the highest-caliber books that we might otherwise be intimidated to read on our own; typically covering topics in databases, distributed systems, and software performance. We are currently reading Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. There are over 2,500 members from around the world and between 300-800 join for […]
Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot
TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one. I wanted to fix typos on some Fandom wikis. Opened Claude Code, Opus 4.7. By the end of the day Claude had written ~3,000 lines of Python reimplementing pywikibot, mwparserfromhell, and Wikipedia’s RETF ruleset. It didn’t web search for prior art once. What got […]
Claude Platform on AWS
What’s included The Claude Platform on AWS includes native platform features, like: Claude Platform on AWS customers also get access to the Claude Console, Anthropic’s development environment for building and testing with Claude. The Console includes a prompt improver, prompt generator, and evaluation tools. Claude Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 are available, with […]
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live: OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. Each blocked ad gets a single phrase, picked at random from […]
Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS
This small driver enables the Griffin PowerMate, a nifty little device from days gone by. What does the PowerMate do? It is a knob that you can twist or that you can press. That’s it. It also has a blue LED in the base that can change intensity based on what you’re doing. When it […]
Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise
by Tanner Linsley on May 11, 2026. Last updated: 2026-05-11 On 2026-05-11 between 19:20 and 19:26 UTC, an attacker published 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages by combining: the pull_request_target ”Pwn Request” pattern, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and runtime memory extraction of an OIDC token from the GitHub […]
TanStack NPM Packages Compromised
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I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
I try to pay attention to the small things that affect my quality of life. When something keeps bothering me, I want to investigate, find a likely cause, and act on it. What changed recently is what I’m willing to build to support that. With AI tooling, projects I would have dismissed a few years […]
GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values
We’ve been working through some significant changes inside GitLab over the past few days, and I want to share them with you directly. The email I sent the team is included below for full context. The agentic era affords GitLab the largest opportunity in our history as a company, and we’re making the structural and […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers sell music catalogue for $300M
For popstar Taylor Swift, buying back her master recordings was a top priority for six arduous years. However, other artists can’t wait to hand over the rights to their music – and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are the latest band to sign on the dotted line, selling their entire catalogue for over $300 million. […]