If you have ever used a paint-bucket tool in an image editor, you already understand the seduction of automation: one click, and the color races outward until it hits a boundary. Robin Sloan borrows that...
If you have ever tried to let an LLM “help” you write distributed application logic, you already know the uncomfortable truth: it can generate plausible concurrency code faster than you can review it. And concurrency...
Simon Willison made an important correction that we should all remember. The Core Insight In a post about his Showboat project, Simon Willison initially used “overseer” to describe the human managing an AI coding agent....
How AI helps journalists stay ahead of political media shifts. The Core Insight The New York Times built an internal AI tool called the “Manosphere Report” that uses LLMs to transcribe and summarize podcast episodes....
From the creator of Three.js comes a new experiment in browser-based 3D. The Core Insight Mr.doob (Ricardo Cabello) has released “Three Descent,” an exploration of 3D graphics in the browser. Given his track record with...
Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Igalia are working together to fix the web. Here’s what’s coming. The Core Insight Interop 2026 is the latest iteration of cross-browser compatibility efforts—and it’s delivering real results. Firefox’s score...
What if you could verify your distributed system at compile time? Colored Petri Nets might be the answer. The Core Insight Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) extend traditional Petri nets by allowing tokens to carry data....
The ACK compiles Pascal, Modula-2, Basic, and C to everything from CP/M to Raspberry Pi. It’s been running since 1987. The Core Insight The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a remarkably complete compiler toolchain supporting...
Discord processes billions of messages across hundreds of millions of users. Here’s how the Actor Model makes it possible. The Core Insight Discord is essentially a massive distributed system built on the Actor Model—a paradigm...
Most web performance work is visible: you can measure a speedup, see smoother scrolling, or watch a bundle shrink. Browser interoperability work is different. When it succeeds, you do not notice it at all. Your...