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Cantrill: LLMs Lack the Laziness That Forces Good Abstractions
Bryan Cantrill argues that LLMs are missing a critical engineering virtue: laziness. Because generating code costs an LLM nothing and it has no stake in future
Claude Code Burns Through Pro Max 5x Quota in 90 Minutes
A detailed bug report reveals that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI can exhaust a Pro Max 5x (Opus) subscription quota in as little as 1.5 hours of moderate use. The
Developer Turns NYC Subway System Into a Live Musical Instrument
A creative coding project maps every train line in New York City's subway system to a musical instrument, turning real-time transit data into a generative audio
Font Awesome's 99% sender score means nothing to Gmail's spam filter
Font Awesome discovered its announcement emails were quietly vanishing into Gmail spam folders despite a 99% reputation score in SendGrid. The team only noticed
Gemma 4 runs local audio transcription on Mac via MLX
Google's 10.28 GB Gemma 4 E2B model can now transcribe audio files locally on macOS using MLX and mlx-vlm. Simon Willison shared a single uv run command that ha
Google Pulls Doki Doki Literature Club from Play Store
Google has removed the popular visual novel "Doki Doki Literature Club" from the Google Play Store. The game, developed by Team Salvato and published by Serenit
Helsinki's Oodi Library: A Public Space That Goes Way Beyond Books
Helsinki's Oodi library, located near the central station, redefines what a public library can be. The ground floor features chess and go boards, a restaurant,
Homebrewer Open-Sources Sugar-Free, Caffeine-Free Cola Recipe
A developer has been crafting DIY soft drinks since 2020, building cola from scratch using essential oils (orange, lime, lemon, nutmeg, cassia, coriander, laven
Interactive Explorer Maps Every Tunable JVM Flag Across Versions
Chris Sheridan's JVM Options Explorer is a web-based reference tool that catalogs the hundreds of undocumented and semi-documented flags available across Java v
Iran war fallout exposes cracks in Trump's energy dominance pitch
Trump insists the US is insulated from the energy shock triggered by his strikes on Iran, citing the country's status as the world's largest oil and gas produce
LLMs Are Killing the Programmer's Most Important Virtue: Laziness
Bryan Cantrill revisits Larry Wall's famous "three virtues of a programmer" - laziness, impatience, and hubris - to argue that LLMs are undermining the most cri
Marimo notebook pre-auth RCE exploited within 10 hours of disclosure
A critical flaw in the Marimo open-source Python notebook platform (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) is being actively exploited to steal credentials. The vulnerabilit