💬 John Philpin

In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s came to mind. It starts …

Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by St. Peter.

“Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this call; I’m not sure where to send you. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows ‘95. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. In your case; I’m going to let you decide whether you want to go to Heaven or Hell.”

🔗 The Whole Story

🔗 The Hacker News tarpit

Well, I spent a Saturday last month vibe coding a Hacker News clone. Took about 3 hours, most of which was me arguing with the AI about CSS.

😂😂😂 .. not just me then❓

🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri | Macworld

But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!

🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026

I prefer to curate my own “algorithm.”

🔗 Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

Anthropic said, the model has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, and in many cases developed related exploits. Among them: a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open source operating system, that had escaped detection for 27 years; another flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests; and “several” vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine.

🔗 The Apocalypse Is Here - Michael Moore

America, a country 250 years old, and the only nation sick and violent enough to have ever used a nuclear weapon, in partnership with Israel, a nation younger than Mick Jagger and Bugs Bunny, and the only nuclear armed nation in its region, are on the verge of wiping one of the oldest civilizations off the map.

🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents

That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.

💬 Simon Willison

I had been meaning to write up a longer piece about Simon Willison’s appearance with Lenny 🖇️other than this one - and now no need - Simon did it himself.

🔗 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast

🔗 What are the odds of Apple surviving? – Asymco

Fascinating review of the absolute uniqueness of Apple in the world of business.

🔗 All the letters | Seth’s Blog

But if you start out with the same letters as everyone else, don’t spend a lot of time admiring your letters. It’s the words that matter.

Every writer has all of them. 26 in most Western languages. But no writer knows all the words.