Fresh Reads

Edición original: Satanic Panic #1 (Mad Cave Studios, 2026) Guion: Matt Miner Dibujo: Clay McCormack Entintado: Clay McCormack Color: Oliver Mertz Formato: Grapa · 32 páginas · 4,99 $ La paranoia colectiva hecha realidad Si no tenemos a Halloween marcado en la agenda, el…

Edición original: Candelaria Fatal. Mierda diaria ESP (El Abejar Ediciones, 2026) Guion: Ángela María Dibujo: Ángela María Correcciones, descosidos y arreglos: Edurne y Nafarroa Kaleko Jauregia Maqueta: Espasmódico Formato: Rústica · 108 páginas · 18 € Una semana como otra…

I drew this week’s cartoon thinking about the promise and pitfalls of “vibe coding.” Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI and Tesla AI alum, famously coined the term last year, defining it as “a new kind of coding … where you fully give in to the vibes … and forget that the code even…

I drew this week’s cartoon thinking about this strange period of figuring out how to market to the agents that (I almost wrote “who”) are increasingly shopping on customers’ behalf. Morgan Stanley estimates that AI shopping agents could account for 10% to 20% of US e-commerce by…

execonnect is a way to let your exe.dev VMs connect to HTTP services, even if those services aren’t on the public internet. You run execonnect on the machine hosting the service (or on any machine that can access the service), and this establishes a link between your service and…

With my kids I’m currently building a little dungeron crawler and we’re trying to learn a bit about game development along the way. However given that we live in the modern times of increasing capabilities we wanted to get a narrator and voice over. But we also wanted it to not…

exe.dev integrations let you store secrets with exe.dev’s control plane so your VMs (and the agents on those VMs) can access services without seeing the secrets themselves. The next step is to avoid having the secret to begin with. When exe.dev and the other service both support…

When it comes to LLMs, context rules everything around us. An agent loop is inherently quadratic: messages accumulate and every iteration you send the full stack of messages to the model. That stack of messages is the context, and it starts with a system prompt, descriptions of…

One of the most important skills in working with AI is agency: being willing to try new and ambitious things. This is true for what you build, but it’s also true for how you build. AI models are improving so quickly that most of us are bottlenecked1 on noticing that AI agents…

Many people think1 that getting “good at AI” is trivial. Sure, with some early models there were tricks you had to learn,2 but current models don’t need them. Even if there are different tricks3 that work on current models, the next generation will render them obsolete, so why…

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from last week’s issue of The Pulse. Full…

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from last week’s issue of The Pulse. Full…

How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier…

every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're special that way. — Ben Hylak Tags:…

TL;DRGood developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production. I’ve been surprised by how many excellent developers have been hesitant to go all in on coding agents. These are people who usually try new ways of…

Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of…

Cluster idempotency in Module of the Week. A big push on EventLog and a native McpClient land in Effect v4. Effect Miami 🌴 speakers announced.

Scott and Wes tackle your potluck questions, from passing context between Claude Code and Codex to whether AI-generated skills are any good. Plus high-fidelity Figma builds, WebSerial reconnects on an ESP32, AG-UI vs WebMCP, a listener who thinks Syntax is too pro-AI, and…

Wes, Scott, and CJ run through the week’s biggest web dev news: everyone’s hacking their TVs, VoidZero open-sourced its Void framework with Cloudflare deploys, OpenCode got hacked, and Anthropic built its own git replacement. Plus DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Cloudflare’s security audit…

JPEG XL has now landed in all major browsers, so I figured I'd take a closer look at what it's good/bad at compared to other formats. Conclusions I'll go into full detail, with examples and benchmarks, but for those of you who don't have the time, here are the headlines: For…

I am a habitual tab hoarder so I created a Firefox addon to help me manage every one of my very special browser tabs. Sort tabs by oldest, unload them, find duplicates, and consolidate tabs to a single window — buncha useful stuff in there! Download from Mozilla Addons Source…