Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W36). 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. What is Code Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/what-is-code.html Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. 3. Booklets Source: Bret Victor Link: https://worrydream.com/booklets/ Some booklets. 4. How to add a directory to your PATH Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/ I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. 5. Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/piloting-the-worlds-first-double-blind-ai-evaluations/ Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations 6. Better than gold Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10020 Whats about the only thing more badass than a 17-year-old winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)? 7. The benchmarkpocalypse Source: Dan Luu Link: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse. 8. Endless execution Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/endless-execution-4157e065 The age of agents has brought us endless execution. 9. How do we talk about atproto to non-developers? Source: Rachel Andrew Link: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/07/31/how-do-we-talk-about-atproto-to-non-developers/ The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. 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. Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected Source: Stephen Wolfram Link: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towards-a-theory-of-bugs-the-ruliology-of-the-unexpected/ My Program Did the Wrong Thing! 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. 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. 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. 27. Battery Day Source: Jessie Frazelle Link: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/battery-day/ Tesla had its first Battery Day on September 22nd, 2020 1 . 28. 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. 29. 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? 30. 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. 31. 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. 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 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..." 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. Bliki: Interrogatory LLM Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/InterrogatoryLLM.html When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. 36. 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. 37. 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. 38. Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/intelligent-transcription-with-gemini-3-5-transcribe/ Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. 39. Michael Rabin memorial conference Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10014 Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that shes helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing Award winner Michael O. 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; Rob Pike; Salvatore Sanfilippo; Scott Aaronson; Slava Akhmechet; Stephen Wolfram; Steve Yegge; Tanner Greer; Vicki Boykis; Yoshua Bengio. Selected 39 of 778 available items for this weekly brief.