Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W31). 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. I'm sorry, Dave Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-dave-380ec27d Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. 2. Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#26_July_2026_(Juan_Jairo_Coronilla_Durán) Deportation thugs approached Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, a Mexican tourist, and terrified him so much that he ran away into traffic and was killed by a truck. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. New microblog with TILs Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/09/new-microblog/ I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (today I learned). 7. Not just development, distribution of software may change as well Source: Salvatore Sanfilippo Link: http://antirez.com/news/170 Even if you are as averse to semver as I used to be in the course of my programming activity, you can still think of open source software distribution as something that used to follow a fixed number of steps. 8. Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-36-flash-35-flash-lite-and-35-flash-cyber/ Were introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Wheres the holistic AI productivity data? Source: Rachel Andrew Link: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/06/11/wheres-the-holistic-ai-productivity-data/ For most of my career I ran a very small company. 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. 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 14. On Bombing Iran Source: Tanner Greer Link: https://scholars-stage.org/on-bombing-iran/ THUS WE BOMB Iran. 15. 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 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. A concept for future body design. Source: Ray Kurzweil Link: https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/essay-a-concept-for-future-body-design IMAGE An introduction. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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... 24. 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!" 25. 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. 26. Battery Day Source: Jessie Frazelle Link: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/battery-day/ Tesla had its first Battery Day on September 22nd, 2020 1 . 27. 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. 28. 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? 29. 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 ! 30. 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. 31. 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 ) 32. xkcd 1313: Regex Golf Source: Peter Norvig Link: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313.ipynb?create=1 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..." 33. Sitting down with Senra Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/sitting-down-with-senra-69f5e368 Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints . 34. Israeli Settler-Soldiers Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#26_July_2026_(Israeli_Settler-Soldiers) *Israeli Settler-Soldiers Took Me on a West Bank Tour Celebrating Evictions of Palestinians.* 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. Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/18/how-to-import-a-javascript-library/ I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because the librarys setup instructions assume that youre using a build system. 39. Control the ideas, not the code Source: Salvatore Sanfilippo Link: http://antirez.com/news/169 Look at the past history of this blog. 40. Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-gemini-3-5-flash-cyber/ Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities. Sources in this brief: Andrej Karpathy; Brendan Eich; Bret Victor; Charity Majors; DHH; Dan Luu; Demis Hassabis; 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; Steve Yegge; Tanner Greer; Vicki Boykis; Yoshua Bengio. Selected 40 of 797 available items for this weekly brief.