sqlite AGENTS.md
sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase....
May 27, 2026
46 articles
Iris, a Photo History Explorer
Tyler Hall (finally) released Iris, and it is excellent: And somewhere along the way the whole emotional center of the thing shifted. I set out to build an anti-Photos utility — a search engine fo...
by Nick Heer
Last.fm Announces It Has Gone Independent
After nearly twenty years under CBS ownership, Last.fm is once again independent: Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is th...
by Nick Heer
27th May 2026 at 23:18
Last.fm going independent is bringing me joy
by Robb Knight
Why I’m Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling
Being the guy who wrote a book called Ultralearning, I get asked a lot of questions about what I think schools should be doing better. Having never taught in a classroom or worked for even a single...
by Scott Young
Cult Pens Anniversary Mystery Box Review
At the start of the month Cult Pens, for their anniversary, put up a birthday mystery box for £100. No other information, just choose a nib size and they'll send out a mystery box: We can't tell you...
by Robb Knight
Notes on Fourier series
The trigonometric Fourier series is a beautiful mathematical theory that shows how to decompose a periodic function into an infinite sum of sinusoids. These are my notes on the subject, with some exam...
by Eli Bendersky
Iris 1.0
Tyler Hall (Mastodon): The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups, an...
by Michael Tsai
Halide Mark III
Ben Sandofsky: Mark III is now available in the App Store. This post highlights the major new features, starting with Looks, which produce gorgeous photos straight-out-of-camera. […] Inspired b...
by Michael Tsai
!Camera
John Gruber: !Camera’s use of LUTs for filter-like effects opens the app to a wide world of non-proprietary looks. The best source I’ve found for new LUTs to import is the Panasonic LUMIX...
by Michael Tsai
Project Indigo
Allison Johnson (2025): Adobe’s Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It’s the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as o...
by Michael Tsai
Unpro Camera
Jeremy Gray (2025): Unpro Camera promises “that unprocessed look” that has become popular lately and is in the same vein as Halide’s Process Zero option. […] Unpro not only ai...
by Michael Tsai
Happy Anniversary
It’s our 26th anniversary today. We had a nice lunch at Jesse's favorite restaurant. Very nice meal. I've never had a banana split and have been trying to get Jesse to share one with me for a coupl...
Saison des foins
Nicolas Furno [email protected] Le champ derrière chez nous a déjà été fauché et les meules sont prêtes à partir. Je ne me souviens plus exactement quand ça avait lieu les années précéd...
by [email protected] (Jeremy Herve)
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their...
Now that Jony Ive is done with the Ferrari, I hope he and OpenAI get to shipping the AI assistant hardware. I don’t think it’s a distracting side quest like Sora was. A new device could be...
Fragments: May 27
At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We...
by Martin Fowler
Continuing to work through the upgrade to our books database in Micro.blog. We now have metadata for over 30 million books. Next up is a rewrite of the search, and more code to self-heal book records...
Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0?
Mine did. Like this: so meta. I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that f...
by Chris Coyier
OG was playing so well one night he was invited on Inside the NBA, which is a big moment in an upcoming NBA legend's career. He sounded kind of irritated, in the OG way. At the end Charles Barkley ask...
Return Of The Kindle
For months, I was enjoying my iPad as my eReader and half-planned to get rid of my Kindle Paperwhite (decluttering). I also preferred the Apple Books app over the Kindle app on iPhone and iPad. But...
If you love the Knicks, or even if you're just fascinated with this year's team, listen to today's Bill Simmons podcast, it's all about the phenomenon of the 2026 Knicks, and Simmons is a Celtics fan,...
I came across this photo of the Knicks celebrating, with OG Anunoby in the center. The thing about OG is that he's a deep thinker and he never smiles, under any circumstances. Except right here. This...
On the 23rd anniversary of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg writes an emotional and personal blog post about the ongoing WP Engine saga: Silver Lake, you have already extracted all your pounds of flesh. I m...
When the AI boom subsides, the data centers will remain. What we do now matters
Link: Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity—and the Backlash Has Begun, by Edd Gent at SingularityHubWhen the dotcom boom came to a crashing end, the companies behind it imploded in som...
by Ben Werdmuller
Lansing, Michigan
Shot on the Canon 5D mark II and EF 50mm f/1.4.
Magnifica Humanitas
I’ve read several big sections of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas — magnificent humanity. The whole thing is essentially a book at 40k words. It’s fascinating and at times even great. S...
Gadget Review: Chuwi Minibook X N150 + Linux ★★★★☆
I needed a small and light laptop to take travelling. Something with a larger screen than my phone so I can use the Big Internet™. Nothing too expensive and something that uses the same USB-C charger...
by @edent
Now I have to write about the Knicks. It just hasn't fully sunk in yet that they won the East. You get to put a banner up for that. And next week we'll be watching them in the NBA finals. But it's the...
The test suite as a regression sensor
Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more...
by Martin Fowler
The AI efficiency plateau
Welcome to the latest issue of Engineering Enablement, a weekly newsletter sharing research and perspectives on developer productivity.Subscribe nowIn “The SPACE Of AI”, we found that AI e...
by Brian Houck
Now that we have Inkwell 1.0 through app review, Apple doesn’t seem quite as picky. Hopefully. 🤞 They’ve approved 1.0.1 with some fixes and restoring the ability to save highlights in tex...
The VibeSec Reckoning
Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-...
by Martin Fowler
The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space
Listen to this post: Log in to listen It’s hardly the biggest problem in the world — or perhaps the height of privilege to consider it a problem at all...
by Ben Thompson
📝 2026-05-27 09:46
Went for my first run in goodness knows how long last night. Managed 3km in in 21 min with an avg heart rate of 172bpm(!) Considering I used to do 5km in 18 mins, this is disappoi...
Finding and using a 5:4 display in 2026
People in my area keep getting rid of some amazing kit. Last week I was walking back from our local coffee roaster—like a gentleman—when I chanced upon these two panels covered with autumn leaves by s...
by Ruben Schade
Overheard at the coffee shop, week 22 2026
It was busy this morning. “New research shows green isn’t a real colour” (I… may have misheard that, but I thought it was funny). “I coach a team … the aquatic centr...
by Ruben Schade
Resurfacing posts
One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1,...
by herman
Quoting Kyle Ferrana
PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON...
Scripting News: Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Now I have to write about the Knicks. It just hasn't fully sunk in yet that they won the East. You get to put a banner up for that. And next week we'll be watching them in the...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
RIP Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many othe...
by Matt
The Copy and the Guru
“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.” Aaron Levie, CEO, Box...
by Om Malik
The Mythical App Store Reviewer Month
Jeff Johnson: I’d like to make an analogy between software development and Apple App Store review. A common, cursory reaction to the obvious failures of app review, the continual appearance of cou...
by Nick Heer
Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.
This morning went the way most of our mornings go, which is to say I barely noticed it. The lights came on when I asked them to. The water was hot. The coffee maker did the one thing it exists to...
by Christopher Butler
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Tame your pesky little scripts
This blog post started its life as a lightning talk that I'm doing today at Aurajoki Overflow's afterwork. As I worked on the talk, I realised I had a more coherent story to tell than I...