MCP is dead. Long live the CLI | Discussion
01.03.2026 18:00
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Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
I’m sorry, a password manager didn’t have a dedicated security team previously? If you use these clowns you’re negligent.
Beating this game is my single goal for today:
rose.systems/animalist/
Sadly (or maybe not?), I pretty much share all of Mike's suggestions. I always enjoy reading @hillelwayne.com newsletter.
Our latest episode is mostly Mike waxing nostalgic about the heyday of recreational programming, especially the late A.K. Dewdney's _Computer Recreations_ column. We also explain taco shops. www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
...and we're back. For our first episode of 2026, we're talking about S3 and cloud object storage. Plus, we finally figure out what an exabyte is. www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
A black and white photo of a skateboarder doing a lip slide into a pool.
Playing with the new (to me) 37mm Sekor C on the RB Pro SD, futzing with a wireless strobe trigger and some shutter drag as my kid does a lipslide into the Channel Street bowl
Ilford Delta 3200 in PyrocatHD.
#filmphotography #skateboarding
this is like some kind of european version of a zen koan, isn't it
how big is your tv
So anyway, I'm getting a new TV this week and it's bigger than my last one, so I can try once again to like Ran.
About 20 years ago I was in a pretty film-nerd video store telling a clerk that I liked Akira Kurosawa films when he asked, "did you like Ran?"
When I said, no, I was bored, he said, "how big's your TV?" I said, "like normal sized?" So then he said "that's your problem: your TV's too small."
Here's a daily affirmation for you all from the time capsule of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1, episode 8 (first aired 1997):
"The printed page is obsolete. Information isn’t bound up anymore. It’s a living entity. The only reality is virtual. If you’re not jacked in, you’re not alive."
We did another tech news roundup for the holiday week, but it's mostly about data centers. We recommend you save it for after the Thanksgiving feast-- it should pair nicely with a food coma and a nice Pinot Noir www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
I made up a word this week, numismarrhea.
It means "dirrhea of the money."
It's the first medical term I've invented, so I am feeling sort of proud of it.
Got an email from a recruiter with a purported screenshot of my github profile including the line "top 1% of python engineers globally".
How is that possible? Did he photochop it? Highly weird behavior.
And if it's true: that's far too many commits. This behavior must be corrected.
Hey #film #filmsky #shortfilm #fyc folks!
My little film is going to be a part of @deadline.com 's Contenders event in December! You should check it out....
contendersdocumentary.deadline.com
I think I am pretty seriously in the audience for this thing my friend @mikemull.bsky.social told me about: daylightcomputer.com. I have a remarkable 2 and I read things on it every other day.
But I *hate* so much the egregious oxymoron of a supposedly "distraction-free device" with slack on it.
I kind of felt like it was the 90s again and I was seeing these weird "andre the giant has a posse" stickers in random places.
that's probably why I made this bad art and got all nostalgiay about how weird thigns used to be as a procrastination tactic
I made this sticker design today when I was trying to debug some gnarly bug adn I have no idea why: picturemecoding.threadless.com/designs/dead...
I'm also terrible at designing stuff so it probably looks awful printed. nevertheless, I feel like printing some and graffitiing them around my town...
Huh, that's a new one. Fake Cloudflare captcha asking you to please run the osascript from http://185.93 . 89.62/d/xxx33312 to collect and uplaod all your passwords and cookies.
In the latest episode we discuss the late Mark Weiser's ideas about "ubiquitous computing". Did we achieve it, did we forget about it, or did it morph into something less friendly? www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...
Following that line, if we didn't need to *preserve* the code, we'd inevitably leave behind all of the tooling we have for the task, such as git, code editors, linting, formatting, etc. Viewing code in the future could be less common, like viewing hexdumps today.
I made a prediction to my friend @mikemull.bsky.social years ago that if LLMs get really good at writing code rapidly, we may see a time where we no longer work so hard to *preserve* code, because we can spontaneously generate it at the drop of it.
Hello friends, we made a Discord server since the demise of the other site and the horrors of FB have made it tough to just chat about books. Comment or DM if you'd like an invite link!
