Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W28).

Clay tracks publications from the Blogs feed list. Below are recent items from this category, each with its source and a short description of what the publication covers when one is available in the source feed.

Recent publications:
1. External import maps, today!
   Source: Lea Verou
   Link: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/external-import-maps-today/
   A few weeks ago, I posted Web dependencies are broken.
2. Ideological Resistance to Patents, Followed by Reluctant Pragmatism
   Source: Martin Fowler
   Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/patents-reluctant-pragmatism.html
   Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints faced by startups, led him to resort to defensive patenting as as a shield in this asymmetric legal environment. more
3. Computational Public Space
   Source: Bret Victor
   Link: https://dynamicland.org/2024/Computational_Public_Space/
   A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities.
4. ASCII control characters in my terminal
   Source: Julia Evans
   Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/31/ascii-control-characters/
   Hello!
5. Senator Warren calls for reversing mergers
   Source: Richard Stallman
   Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#9_July_2026_(Senator_Warren_calls_for_reversing_mergers)
   Senator Warren calls for reversing some of the many large mergers that have subjected the US to drastic industrial concentration.
6. An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
   Source: Scott Aaronson
   Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
   Scotts foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness.
7. In defense of AI mandates
   Source: Charity Majors
   Link: https://charity.wtf/p/in-defense-of-ai-mandates
   When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
8. European Delusions & Danish Drones
   Source: DHH
   Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/european-delusions-danish-drones-a3da0d27
   Europe is finally waking up from many decades of naive pacifism.
9. Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
   Source: Demis Hassabis
   Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/unlocking-uk-house-building-with-ai-accelerated-planning/
   UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.
10. Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition
   Source: Stephen Wolfram
   Link: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/games-between-programs-the-ruliology-of-competition/
   The Basic Setup Whether ones dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields, its common to encounter situations that can be modeled as involving two agents that repeatedly compete with each other.
11. Joining the atmosphere
   Source: Rachel Andrew
   Link: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/05/31/joining-the-atmosphere/
   I dont post to or visit the social network formerly known as Twitter, but as a very early Twitter user, I cant quite bring myself to delete all my old posts.
12. We should be more tired than the model
   Source: Vicki Boykis
   Link: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/
   Lately, Ive been feeling like Im losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation.
13. Distributing LLM inference in DwarfStar
   Source: Salvatore Sanfilippo
   Link: 
http://antirez.com/news/167

   High end NVIDIA cards, and the server and power needed to run them, cost a lot of money, especially if you plan to reach enough VRAM to run massive models.
14. Thank You For Being a Friend
   Source: Jeff Atwood
   Link: https://blog.codinghorror.com/thank-you-for-being-a-friend/
   It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed
15. On Bombing Iran
   Source: Tanner Greer
   Link: https://scholars-stage.org/on-bombing-iran/
   THUS WE BOMB Iran.
16. Comment Section: Some Silly Z3 Scripts I wrote
   Source: Hillel Wayne
   Link: https://www.hillelwayne.com/comments/z3-examples/
   These are some of the responses to Some Silly Z3 Scripts I wrote . Blogs on a similar topic Emails and Comments TODO
17. Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy
   Source: Rob Pike
   Link: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/implementing-transcendental-functions.html
   Towards the end of 2014, in need of pleasant distraction, I began writing, in Go, my second pseudo-APL, called Ivy.
18. My Year in Review 2025
   Source: Ines Montani
   Link: https://ines.io/blog/year-in-review-2025
   On my birthday, I want to take the time again to look back at the past year, including travel, talks, writing and various things I did and enjoyed.
19. A concept for future body design.
   Source: Ray Kurzweil
   Link: https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/essay-a-concept-for-future-body-design
   IMAGE An introduction.
20. Implications of Artificial General Intelligence on National and International Security
   Source: Yoshua Bengio
   Link: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/implications-artificial-general-intelligence-national-and-international-security
   As highlighted in the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, the capabilities of general-purpose AI systems have been steadily increasing over the last decade, with a pronounced acceleration in the last few years.
21. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
   Source: Dan Luu
   Link: https://danluu.com/ballmer/
   There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella.
22. Tether's Troubles in November 2022
   Source: Patio11
   Link: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2022/11/11/tether-required-recapitalization-again/
   Tether's November 2022 attestation, even if believed, strongly suggests it blew up (again) during the recent crypto route.
23. Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore
   Source: Guido van Rossum
   Link: https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2022/10/reasoning-about-asynciosemaphore.html
   In Silicon Valley is a very exclusive fast-food restaurant, which is always open.
24. Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
   Source: Andrej Karpathy
   Link: http://karpathy.github.io/2022/03/14/lecun1989/
   .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post...
25. Making the web better. With blocks!
   Source: Joel Spolsky
   Link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-better-with-blocks/
   Youve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. Im typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
26. April 2021 newsletter
   Source: Gwern Branwen
   Link: https://gwern.substack.com/p/april-2021-newsletter
   with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
27. This is a test
   Source: Eric S Raymond
   Link: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8772
   This is a test to see if the database server issue that froze this blog is resolved.
28. Battery Day
   Source: Jessie Frazelle
   Link: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/battery-day/
   Tesla had its first Battery Day on September 22nd, 2020 1 .
29. Cognitect dev-tools
   Source: Rich Hickey
   Link: https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2020/08/20/Cognitect-dev-tools
   We're excited to release Cognitect dev-tools , a set of free tools that we've created for Clojure developers.
30. nobody knows the future
   Source: Slava Akhmechet
   Link: /2020/06/02/future.html
   Can you recall the experience of waking up for the first time in a new city?
31. Why I left Google to join Grab
   Source: Steve Yegge
   Link: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab.html
   I've officially switched from Blogger to Medium. See you over there !
32. The Render Token
   Source: Brendan Eich
   Link: https://brendaneich.com/2017/09/the-render-token/
   I wrote about OTOY over four years ago, in Today I Saw The Future.
33. It's long past the time.....
   Source: James Gosling
   Link: http://www.nighthacks.net/roller/jag/entry/it_s_time
   (as seen on Richard Branson's blog )
34. Beal's Conjecture Revisited
   Source: Peter Norvig
   Link: http://norvig.com/beal.html
   Updating the work I did in 2000 to search for counterexamples to Beal's Conjecture. Lists some of the things that people do wrong in trying to settle the conjecture.
35. Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?
   Source: Lea Verou
   Link: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/web-deps/
   No, this is not another rant about npms security issues.
36. Context Anchoring
   Source: Martin Fowler
   Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/reduce-friction-ai/context-anchoring.html
   Conversations with AI are ephemeral, decisions made early lose attention as the conversation continues, and disappear entirely with a new session. Rahul Garg explains how Context Anchoring externalizes the decision context into a living document. more
37. Booklets
   Source: Bret Victor
   Link: https://worrydream.com/booklets/
   Some booklets.
38. Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
   Source: Julia Evans
   Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/27/asn-ip-address-memory/
   Ive been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed.
39. "Centrists" accuse progressives of "taking over"
   Source: Richard Stallman
   Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#9_July_2026_(Centrists_accuse_progressives_of_taking_over)
   Progressive Democrats have had great success in recent Democratic primaries, defeating "centrist" corporate Democrats including some incumbents.
40. Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an Omega(1) Fraction of Humanity: My Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech at STOC
   Source: Scott Aaronson
   Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9881
   Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an (1) Fraction of Humanity (Or, How We Can Do Like the Physicists)Scott Aaronsons Trevisan Award Acceptance SpeechSalt Lake City, Utah, June 23, 2026 Thank you so much!

Sources in this brief: Andrej Karpathy; Brendan Eich; Bret Victor; Charity Majors; DHH; Dan Luu; Demis Hassabis; Eric S Raymond; Guido van Rossum; Gwern Branwen; Hillel Wayne; Ines Montani; James Gosling; Jeff Atwood; Jessie Frazelle; Joel Spolsky; Julia Evans; Lea Verou; Martin Fowler; Patio11; Peter Norvig; Rachel Andrew; Ray Kurzweil; Rich Hickey; Richard Stallman; Rob Pike; Salvatore Sanfilippo; Scott Aaronson; Slava Akhmechet; Stephen Wolfram; Steve Yegge; Tanner Greer; Vicki Boykis; Yoshua Bengio.
Selected 40 of 819 available items for this weekly brief.