Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

Weekend Reading — Prime minister of France for 15 minutes

Lizzy "You guys i did a thing" Tech Stuff Folder Quick Look fixes an all-time Mac grievance for free This is pretty slick, very useful, and free to use. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust AI Coding Agents Mirrors my experience as well. Differnet problems, different

Weekend Reading — Ancient Ruins

link (t)wink Tech Stuff How I Use AI An ever growing list of ways in which David Bauer uses AI for work, life and play. Includes some interesting prompts. I took one to help Claude write for brevity. Nine HTTP Edge Cases Every API Developer Should Understand If you&

Weekend Reading — KVICK SÖRT

KVICK SÖRT Tech Stuff Tangled Interesting 🤔 If GitHub bumped into Bluesky, a social-enabled git collaboration platform using atproto. LLM Rankings: The New Battleground Welcome to the mention economy! If you want to appear in AI search results, your brand name has to show up often, in credible places, alongside experts

Weekend Reading — The Yeet Sheet

Laura Manach Tech Stuff How to keep package.json under control With the latest npm hacks adding a cooldown period to installs should be regarded as standard security practice. Now available in pnpm, npm-check-updates and hopefully other package management tools. Your First 10 Users > Your First 10 Features: Hard

Weekend Reading — The battle at Git's Hub

elle "All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes" Tech Stuff sonner When you want a nicely designed React toast component. I just started using it in my project and it's pretty slick looking with an elegantly simple API. Apple’s

September 6th, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Geiger counter

brettezeleliquide Spoonbill bird in flight. Tech Stuff Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran The road from 8-bit Assembly to English-as-Code: This gives an entirely new meaning to Knuth’s “literate programming”: Rather than interspersing natural language specification and its corresponding artificial language implementation in a story over space (the page

August 30th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — First rule of Eight Club: no typos

Natasha Jay “Biker gang - believe this group are leaders in the illegal cat nip trade ...” Tech Stuff looks-same Nice library for visual regression testing, when you need to compare images from different platforms (dev, CI, etc) that are not pixel for pixel identical, using a fairly simple API. Mark

August 23rd, 2025 13 min read

Weekend Reading — Is it me you're calling for?

MostlyHarmless "The bloody hipsters have gone too far." Tech Stuff Embeddable When you need a little widget on your website that converts traffic (newsletter signup, posted review, discount checkout, etc), why not let AI do the walking? This doesn't look horribly expensive, $19/month for 100

August 16th, 2025 14 min read

Weekend Reading — I'm back and I miss you all! 💋💋💋

Syulang "Soooooo.... capitalism is at it again." First the good news: 10 days ago was the 20th year anniversary of this very blog! 🎂 Many happy returns! Unfortunately, I spent last weekend in the hospital — it took them 4 days to queeze me into a one hour trivial procedure