Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
Windows launched way back in 1985, when I was still using a Commodore 64 and PCs were all of four years old–barely out of diapers. The GUI or Graphical User Interface, has changed a lot over the years and I thought it might be fun/horrifying to rank every major version of the Windows GUI, from […]
Willis Whitfield: A simple man with a simple solution that changed the world
Creating clean room technology SURVIVING THE TEST OF TIME — In a 2008 photo, Willis Whitfield stands outside a clean room at Sandia’s Microsystems Engineering, Sciences and Applications complex. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Willis Whitfield was, by all accounts, a simple and humble man. Raised on a cotton farm in West Texas, he knew how to work hard […]
Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine
We’re excited to announce a major architectural improvement to Atuin Desktop: a completely redesigned runbook execution engine. This is a huge change, the first big step toward making runbooks a core automation primitive. If you’ve ever hit flaky context, disappearing state, or inconsistent execution, this release fixes it. Runbooks now keep their state, behave predictably, […]
Interactive λ-Reduction
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Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems
Bluetooth® audio has come a long way since 2001, when the Headset Profile (HSP) and Hands-Free Profile (HFP) first enabled bidirectional voice calls over Synchronous Connection-Oriented transport. The Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) followed in 2003, bringing high-quality audio streaming to our headphones and speakers. While these Bluetooth® “classic” profiles have served us well for […]
Claude Advanced Tool Use
The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. An IDE assistant that integrates git operations, file manipulation, package managers, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines. An operations coordinator that connects Slack, GitHub, Google Drive, Jira, company databases, and dozens of MCP servers simultaneously. To build effective agents, […]
Claude Opus 4.5
Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use. It’s also meaningfully better at everyday tasks like deep research and working with slides and spreadsheets. Opus 4.5 is a step forward in what AI systems can do, and a […]
Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source
[embedded content] Another big Pebble update today! TLDR: Yesterday, Pebble watch software was ~95% open source. Today, it’s 100% open source. You can download, compile and run all the software you need to use your Pebble. We just published the source code for the new Pebble mobile app! Pebble Appstore now has a publicly available […]
The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
Three years ago, “using an LLM” meant pasting a wall of text into a chat box and hoping for something useful back. Today, we point agents at our codebases, our browsers, and let them go off and act on our behalf. A key question that has been brewing under the surface during this time has […]
TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped
Good Evening from Taipei, A power outage at an industrial gas facility servicing TSMC interrupted manufacturing at the company’s Fab 21 in Arizona late last quarter, sources told me. The incident stopped the flow of crucial inputs needed for chipmaking, forcing the facility to shut down for at least a few hours, I was told. […]