Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W30). 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. 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. 2. Bliki: Architecture Decision Record Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ArchitectureDecisionRecord.html An Architecture Decision Record (ADR) is a short document that captures and explains a single decision relevant to a product or ecosystem. 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. Flotilla activist raped Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#19_July_2026_(Flotilla_activist_raped) *Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention. Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners.* 6. Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. 7. Empowering Indias next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/empowering-indias-next-generation-of-innovators-with-atl-saathi/ Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs. 8. Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs) Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9940 Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first job is to serve on the selection committee for the prestigious Michael and Sheila Held Prize in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas. 9. 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. 10. A new era for software testing Source: Salvatore Sanfilippo Link: http://antirez.com/news/168 Automatic programming dramatically speeds up writing software in certain use cases and in the right hands. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 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. Business Requirements are Bullshit Source: Steve Yegge Link: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html Some CEO emailed me the other day. 27. I haven't disappeared... Source: James Gosling Link: http://www.nighthacks.net/roller/jag/entry/i_haven_t_disappeared I've been in the clutches of a product release. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. Battery Day Source: Jessie Frazelle Link: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/battery-day/ Tesla had its first Battery Day on September 22nd, 2020 1 . 31. 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. 32. 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? 33. 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. 34. Sol Golomb's Rectangle Puzzle Source: Peter Norvig Link: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Golomb-Puzzle.ipynb?create=1 How many ways can you pack rectangles into a square? And other combinatorial problems ... 35. 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. 36. Encoding Team Standards Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/reduce-friction-ai/encoding-team-standards.html AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. 37. Links to archives Source: Bret Victor Link: https://worrydream.com/Links2025/ Added some links to archives. 38. Links to CSS colour palettes Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/04/css-colour-palettes/ A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. 39. US sanctions against UN official Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#19_July_2026_(US_sanctions_against_UN_official) US sanctions against UN official [Francesca Albanese] and [Palestinian human] rights groups violate first amendment , lawsuit claims. 40. Dell is on a roll with the XPS Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/dell-is-on-a-roll-with-the-xps-5a09a84e We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at 37signals , but I was never too impressed with their personal computers. 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 796 available items for this weekly brief.