June 2026
65 links saved this month.
desfontain.es
Noise infusion banned from Census Bureau statistical products: the differential privacy that protected census data is now forbidden, explained by an authority on the topic.
lantian.pub
Sent to scan a hobbyist network, an agent provisioned cloud infrastructure unsupervised and ran up an AWS bill of $6,531.30.
antirez.com
A new era for software testing: antirez uses an LLM agent as a QA engineer, instructions in a markdown file, regressions checked commit by commit.
roman.pt
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer: a recruiter’s take-home test turns out to ship malware. A clean walkthrough of how the trap works.
oreilly.com
Who owns the code Claude wrote?: the authorship and copyright question, before it becomes someone's lawsuit.
kevinak.se
Who actually owns your ATProto identity?: the cold-water counterpoint. That portable identity still routes through one central directory you do not really control.
marble.onl
Argues open-weight models have closed the gap far enough that choosing one is no longer a professional risk.
overreacted.io
There are no instances in ATProto: Dan Abramov on the data model behind Bluesky, where your identity and posts are portable instead of tied to one server. A clean look at designing a protocol for exit.
mnot.net
So you want to define a well-known URI: how to add a /.well-known/ entry without making a mess, by someone who would know.
vickiboykis.com
Coding with Gemma 4 and GPT-OSS locally, landing around 75% of frontier quality, and where that turns out to be enough.
rfc-editor.org
RFC 10008, the new HTTP QUERY method: a body-carrying, cacheable, idempotent way to ask questions. Finally standard.
role-confusion.github.io
Security got a sharper frame too. Prompt injection as role confusion recasts the problem as a model that stops telling instructions and data apart, which beats yet another blocklist.
github.com
MicroUI: a tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library in ANSI C, from the author of lite. Open source.
brooker.co.za
Meet Alice. Alice is impatient.: Marc Brooker on why your average user waits longer than your average response time. Queueing theory you can feel.
mareksuppa.com
HTTP requests without curl, using Bash /dev/TCP: the kind of TIL that makes you reread your own shell. A request with nothing but Bash.
support.claude.com
The support page for identity checks: a government photo ID and a selfie, verified through Persona, for safety and compliance.
kobzol.github.io
How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++: the memory-safety argument with numbers attached, for once.
nelson.cloud
.gitignore isn't the only way to ignore files in Git: exclude, info/exclude, skip-worktree. The ones you forget you have.
wheresyoured.at
And to keep the enthusiasm honest: OpenAI's losses grew nearly 8x in 2025, on more than 34 billion dollars of spending. Someone is paying for the party.
queue.acm.org
Eight myths on software engineering and GenAI: ACM Queue takes apart eight comfortable assumptions. Practitioner-grade, free to read.
