Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W29). 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. Professor takes action on bullshit generator Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#13_July_2026_(Professor_action_on_bullshit_generator) A Brown U professor suspected that many of the students that were taking his class had chosen it as an opportunity to use bullshit generators to cheat. 2. In defense of polyfills Source: Lea Verou Link: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/polyfills/ If youre a web developer, you may find the title baffling. 3. Fragments: July 13 Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-07-13.html Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . 4. 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. 5. Notes on switching to Helix from vim Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/ Hello! 6. The will to power will return Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-will-to-power-will-return-58ffb9dc In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites . 7. Announcing BQP Partners: my and my brothers new angel-investing venture Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9930 As Ive written before, these past couple years Ive often felt like the last remaining person in either quantum computing or AI who lacked a stake in some startup company whose valuation is right now shooting into interstellar space. 8. 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. 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. xkcd 1313: Regex Golf (Part 2: Infinite Problems) Source: Peter Norvig Link: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313-part2.ipynb?create=1 Newly updated and improved version of my code to implement a meta-regex-golf program based on xkcd comic #1313. The code is "a program that plays regex golf with arbitrary lists..." 35. Urgent: Resolution to protect voting rights Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#10_July_2026_(Urgent:_Resolution_to_protect_voting_rights_) Us citizens: call on your congresscritter to support the resolution to protect voting rights. 36. 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. 37. 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 38. Booklets Source: Bret Victor Link: https://worrydream.com/booklets/ Some booklets. 39. What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/01/11/getting-a-modern-terminal-setup/ Hello! 40. But Y Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/but-y-2c04e16a It's no mystery to me why the Tesla Model Y is the world's best-selling car. 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 840 available items for this weekly brief.