Clay weekly context brief for the Blogs category (ISO week 2026-W43). 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. 82% of developers get this 3 line CSS quiz wrong Source: Lea Verou Link: https://lea.verou.me/2021/05/82-of-developers-get-this-3-line-css-quiz-wrong/ ( I always wanted to do a clickbait title like this and when this chance came along I could not pass it up. 2. The Orchestrator's Tax Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/orchestrator-tax.html Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but Rahul Garg explains that's not what matters most. 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. "Rules" that terminal programs follow Source: Julia Evans Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/terminal-rules/ Recently Ive been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system s job Your shell s job Your terminal emulator s job The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat ) The first three (your operating system, shell, and terminal emulator) are all kind of known quantities if youre using bash in GNOME Terminal on Linux, you can more or less reason about how how all of those things interact, and some of their behaviour is standardized by POSIX. 5. Urgent: Don't silence overseas voters Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#17_October_2026_(Urgent:_Don't_silence_overseas_voters) US citizens: call on the Pentagon not to silence overseas voters . 6. Google DeepMind and Singapore Government collaborate to build fine-tuned AI model for scam detection Source: Demis Hassabis Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/on-device-ai-scam-detection-mddi/ Learn how Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore uses lightweight on-device Gemma models to intercept conversational scams in private chats with zero cloud data egress. 7. The Mathocalypse Source: Scott Aaronson Link: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169 More Updates (Oct. 8. Redundancy is the engine of progress Source: DHH Link: https://world.hey.com/dhh/redundancy-is-the-engine-of-progress-76499402 In the 18th century, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture to feed themselves and the nation. 9. The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks Source: Yoshua Bengio Link: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/dangerous-myth-behind-ai-agent-hacks A dangerous myth has gained traction after the recent hacks perpetrated by the AI agents developed by leading companies: That these incidents are just cyber security problems, that it's only a matter of fixing the sandboxes in which theyre trained. 10. Where do AI norms come from? Source: Charity Majors Link: https://charity.wtf/p/where-do-ai-norms-come-from A dialogue with Dr Cat Hicks on ethics, learning, and what we owe each other. Part one: start by listening. 11. Remove start and end margins with the margin-trim property Source: Rachel Andrew Link: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/09/15/remove-start-and-end-margins-with-the-margin-trim-property/ A frequently asked multiple-column layout question is why a new paragraph at the start of the column has additional space above it. 12. Home Hardware, Part 1: My Control4 Revenge Arc Source: Jessie Frazelle Link: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/home-hardware-part-one/ Fuck 1 it, were doing consumer hardware for ourselves now and getting fucked by economies of scale, I guess. 13. How well do agents use test and verification techniques? Source: Dan Luu Link: https://danluu.com/agentic-testing/ We previously noted that, while it's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques, software quality seems to be getting worse , indicating that whatever defaults developers are using may not work very well. 14. You Can't "Vibe Code" Love Source: Jeff Atwood Link: https://blog.codinghorror.com/you-cant-vibe-code-love/ About a year ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. 15. Write for people Source: Vicki Boykis Link: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/08/12/write-for-people/ Something Ive noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet. 16. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (19612026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years Source: Stephen Wolfram Link: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Something terrible just happened. 17. Logic for Programmers is Now Available Source: Hillel Wayne Link: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers , is now available! 18. 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. 19. China and the Future of Science Source: Tanner Greer Link: https://scholars-stage.org/china-and-the-future-of-science/ THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. Not Your Fathers Internet Source: Ray Kurzweil Link: https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/not-your-father-s-internet Bill Gates envisions the next-generation Internet as a single, unified interface to information instantly available to you anywhere, any time. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. 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... 26. 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!" 27. 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. 28. 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. 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. When Cheryl Met Eve: A Birthday Story Source: Peter Norvig Link: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Cheryl-and-Eve.ipynb An extended exploration beyond the popular "Cheryl's Birthday" logic puzzle. 35. Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables Source: Lea Verou Link: https://lea.verou.me/2021/03/inverted-lightness-variables/ By now, you probably know that you can use custom properties for individual color components, to avoid repeating the same color coordinates multiple times throughout your theme. 36. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring Source: Martin Fowler Link: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more 37. Website updated Source: Bret Victor Link: https://worrydream.com Work from the last decade is now on the website. 38. 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! 39. Urgent: Youth Voting Rights Act Source: Richard Stallman Link: https://stallman.org/archives/2026-jul-oct.html#17_October_2026_(Urgent:_Youth_Voting_Rights_Act) US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Youth Voting Rights Act , which would eliminate obstacles to registering and voting by young voters who are of voting age but lack experience. 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 39 of 756 available items for this weekly brief.