Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W34). 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. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough Source: Lea Verou Link: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/ A good two-state toggle can actually express all three data model states. 2. Alan Turing play in Cambridge MA Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/202604-turing.html Last night I saw Central Square Theaters excellent production of Breaking the Code . Its about Alan Turing, who made a monumental contribution to both my profession and the fate of free democracies. Well worth seeing if youre in the Boston area this month. 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. A data model for Git (and other docs updates) Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/ Hello! 5. Urgent: Save funding for Medicaid Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#14_August_2026_(Urgent:_Save_funding_for_Medicaid) US citizens: call on your senators to save funding for Medicaid . US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121 . Please spread the word. 6. Putting sign language AI into users hands Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/putting-sign-language-ai-into-users-hands/ Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users. 7. Endless execution Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/endless-execution-4157e065 The age of agents has brought us endless execution. 8. Enough with all the world-historic milestones Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9979 Whatever youve been writing to me to ask if Im aware of: yeah, Im aware of it. 9. Understanding AT Protocol Source: Rachel Andrew Link: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/07/30/understanding-at-protocol/ Ive been playing around with AT Protocol. 10. Being Linux Torvalds Source: Salvatore Sanfilippo Link: http://antirez.com/news/171 (This blog post was adapted from the transcription obtained from my YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lxgYeVZqs) When Linus Torvalds developed the first Linux kernel, he had studied the Minix sources, he had studied computer architecture, he had the base knowledge needed, and he was obviously a very brilliant programmer. 11. Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires Source: Dan Luu Link: https://danluu.com/exercise-7/ This is part of a series of exercises on benchmarking, evals, and experimental design ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) 1 . 12. 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. 13. Running local models is good now Source: Vicki Boykis Link: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/ Ive been working with local models since they came out, and finally, theyre surprisingly good now. 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. Chicago vs New York Pizza is the Wrong Argument Source: Hillel Wayne Link: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/pizza/ Its April Cools ! 16. On Bombing Iran Source: Tanner Greer Link: https://scholars-stage.org/on-bombing-iran/ THUS WE BOMB Iran. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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..." 34. 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. 35. Structured-Prompt-Driven Development (SPDD) Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/structured-prompt-driven/ LLM programming assistants have demonstrated considerable value, but mostly with individual developers. 36. Booklets Source: Bret Victor Link: https://worrydream.com/booklets/ Some booklets. 37. Testing Vue components in the browser Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/02/testing-vue-components-in-the-browser/ Hello! 38. E-scooters dangerous to ride Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-may-aug.html#14_August_2026_(E-scooters_dangerous_to_ride) E-scooters turn out to be especially dangerous to ride much more dangerous than bicycles. 39. Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-2-powering-robotics-with-video-understanding-task-orchestration-and-multi-robot-collaboration/ Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications. 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; Steve Yegge; Tanner Greer; Vicki Boykis; Yoshua Bengio. Selected 39 of 783 available items for this weekly brief.