Friday Links 26-11

A Space Invaders postcard on a wooden surface

Two great podcasts this week, with the creator of Claude Code, and another one with Werner Herzog.

And check out the links from other people, they are much better than mine.

Sorry about destroying your productivity with the 100 jumps game.

New addition to these posts:

Quote of the Week

A profusion of ideas spewed forth from his mind. There was no such thing as a bad idea, apparently. But, perhaps more important, there was no such thing as a good idea either, until it had been tried and coolly evaluated.

Reamde

Neal Stephenson

Leadership

TBM 412: Institutionalized Overload (Now With AI) - “Work expands to fill the available space, and now context does too.”

Mapping the gap between emotional and logical decision analysis - interesting view, that assumes that you can figure out both sentiments.

Engineering

Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny [Podcast] - very good interview, he is obviously fully on the AI train now, but he brings a lot of experience with the artisan way.

Mysteries of Claude [Podcast] - more about the ethics.

Owning a $5M data center - this still doesn’t seem to be a good idea for most people.

Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too - queues are not a performance trick.

doom-over-dns: Play Doom entirely from DNS records - of course.

Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by ‘Bliss’ - that’s quite an elaborate way to glitch the hardware.