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Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI.

Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos.

Engineering

Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious - I still think it makes you dumb.

Mediations #35: Learning. Again. And Again. - learning how AI fits in and how we fit in.

Implementing a clean room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code - is it clean code if Claude probably had access to a Z80 emulator at some point?

AI makes you boring - yes, and they are good at boring work.

AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL - this is great, and scary.

Open Source and GenAI? - considerate view from Tim Bray.

Teaching Claude to Write Pony - niche languages will be a problem, that’s why Claude generates so much Python.

Do androids dream of accepted pull requests? - some open source experiences with LLMs.

Code has always been the easy part - most engineers don’t even write so much code, even if they would like to.

Urbanism

Kiezblock wirkt [German] - German superblocks reduce accidents. New report published: Bicycle Theft in Barcelona 2024 - still pretty bad, but not evenly distributed

Barcelona’s future on display: 84m² city model unveiled for World Capital of Architecture - nice.

How Senegal Built a Train That Took Cars Off the Road [YouTube] - if they can do it…

Why Mamdani revived four transit projects shelved by Adams [YouTube] - because they make sense

Every Metro System Should be this Beautiful [YouTube] - I have to confess that I didn’t use their metro.

Web app for looking up NYC street trees - old post, but I like it.

Environment

Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds - this is not surprising.

Random Trance

Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated) [YouTube] - if you never seen live coding, this is a good demo.

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog wtf.

Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display - you can never have enough terminal apps.

Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube - I don’t even remember if I liked it.

Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria - so much work dealing with borders.

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