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The Legacy of Macintosh Common Lisp: Bridging Lisp and the Mac OS
An exploration of Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL), its unique integration with the Macintosh toolbox, and its evolution from a proprietary tool to an open-source legacy.
Lisp in Space: The Highs and Lows of Autonomous Spacecraft Control
A look at the attempt to bring Lisp and high-level autonomy to NASA's Mars rover prototypes and the Deep Space 1 mission, exploring the tension between academic research and operational reality.
Phel v0.36.0: Bringing a Numeric Tower and First-Class Vars to PHP
Phel v0.36.0 introduces significant language enhancements, including a comprehensive numeric tower with Rationals and BigIntegers, and first-class Var support for dynamic rebinding.
Introducing Asami: A Flexible, Multiplatform Graph Store for Clojure
Asami is a schemaless graph database for Clojure and ClojureScript that supports pluggable storage, graph analytics, and an Open World Assumption model.
Understanding the IT Productivity Paradox
An exploration of why massive investments in information technology often fail to show up in productivity statistics and the theories explaining this economic disconnect.
Scaling AI Agent Workflows with Agent-Harness-Kit
Explore how agent-harness-kit provides a standardized scaffolding for multi-agent orchestration, utilizing SQLite state and MCP tools to move beyond solo AI agents.
The Upper Middle Class Trap: The High Cost of Positional Goods
An exploration of the 'financial arms race' where high earners pay more for diminishing returns in housing, education, and travel, and how AI is intensifying this cycle.
The Agentic Web and the New Battle for Trust: Analyzing Google Cloud Fraud Defense
Google evolves reCAPTCHA into Cloud Fraud Defense to secure the 'agentic web,' introducing AI-resistant QR code challenges that have sparked significant debate over privacy and accessibility.
Tilde.run: Bringing Transactional Filesystems to AI Agent Sandboxing
Tilde.run introduces a versioned, composable filesystem that allows AI agents to operate on production data with the ability to atomically commit or roll back changes.
Death by Slop: When AI Hallucinations Write Your Obituary
Cliff Stoll discovers that an AI-generated review of his book has falsely announced his death, sparking a broader conversation about the dangers of AI-generated misinformation on social media.
Beyond the Basics: Making LLM Token Streams Resumable and Multi-Device
Exploring the hidden complexities of using Server-Sent Events (SSE) for AI agents and why a pub/sub architecture may be a more robust alternative.
The Long Path to Detecting Neutrinos: From Ghost Particles to Cosmic Messengers
An exploration of the journey to detect and understand neutrinos, highlighting the importance of experimental physics and the ongoing quest to determine their Majorana status.