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The grand prize is a Mac Mini, which tells you the register — early founders, not a conference.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":26,"note":33},"Tech x Market Decoders: Let's Talk About Jev","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F0cct3su\u002FTech-x-Market-Decoders-Let-s-Talk-About-Jev","Tue Oct 6 · 6:00pm","Venue given on registration, Manhattan","Fifteen minutes of everyone reading in silence, then forty-five of arguing about what they found — this week on the decision-model shape that arrived three weeks ago and that nobody has a settled read on yet. Ten dollars, bring a laptop, and the format is the point.",{"title":35,"url":36,"when":37,"where":38,"kind":39,"note":40},"My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Fmy-undesirable-friends-part-ii-exile-october-9","Fri Oct 9 · 7:15pm","Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, South Village","casual","Julia Loktev follows the young Russian journalists of her last film out of Moscow and across a dozen countries as they keep reporting from Istanbul, Tbilisi, Prague and Vienna under death threats and an extremist designation. Opening night is chapters one to three with Loktev introducing; the whole thing runs 355 minutes, so this is the sensible way in.",{"title":42,"url":43,"when":44,"where":38,"kind":39,"note":45},"Once Upon a Time in Harlem","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Ffilm\u002Fonce-upon-a-time-in-harlem","Opens Fri Oct 16","In August 1972 William Greaves filmed a reunion of Harlem Renaissance figures — Romare Bearden, Eubie Blake, James Van Der Zee, Aaron Douglas — in Duke Ellington's townhouse on St. Nicholas Avenue, and never finished the film before he died in 2014. His son David cut the footage together and it has just won the Library of Congress's Lavine\u002FKen Burns prize; a Greaves centennial series follows on the repertory screen October 23–29.","md",{"title":48,"url":49,"source":50,"summary":51},"Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anthropic.com\u002Fclaude-sonnet-5-5","Anthropic","The headline number is the one that matters for anyone running a fleet: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against Sonnet 5's 10.3%, two points off Opus 5.5 on GDPval-AA, at the same $2\u002F$10 per million tokens but typically needing far fewer of them — Anthropic's own testing puts it up to 30% cheaper per task and 30%+ faster. The quieter news is that it ships with the cyber safeguards previously reserved for the top of the family, because its security capabilities now match Opus 5's, and that it is the model behind the free tier on claude.ai, which is a more interesting competitive move than any of the bars on the chart.",[53,57,61],{"symbol":54,"value":55,"change":56},"BTC","$84,160","+0.8%",{"symbol":58,"value":59,"change":60},"ETH","$2,716","+1.0%",{"symbol":62,"value":63,"change":64},"S&P 500","7,684","-0.8%",{},true,"September 29, 1954 — the twelfth founding government ratifies the CERN convention and the lab opens outside Geneva, thirty-five years before one of its staff programmers circulates a memo about linking documents.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-29",{"text":70,"attribution":71},"Agents love CLIs.","Matt Taylor and Samuel Macleod, Cloudflare",[73,80,93,101,109,117],{"name":74,"items":75},"AI & Agents",[76],{"title":77,"url":78,"source":71,"summary":79},"Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fcloudflare-cf-cli-launch\u002F","The number that justifies the whole project: agent use of Wrangler went from single digits last year to a quarter of all use in March to 48% last week, and agents use nearly twice as many distinct commands per day as people do. So Cloudflare generated a new CLI straight from its OpenAPI schemas, taking coverage from Wrangler's hand-built ~280 operations to over 3,000, with JSON as the default output and a search command so an agent can find a verb instead of guessing at one. If you have a wrangler.jsonc in a repo you are not being asked to move yet — but cloudflare.config.ts, TypeScript-typed and Vite-by-default, is clearly where this is going.",{"name":81,"items":82},"Web & Product Craft",[83,88],{"title":84,"url":85,"source":86,"summary":87},"How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fhow-fast-is-the-web\u002F","Ryan Townsend and Nic Jansma, Cloudflare","Cloudflare has published the anonymized real-user timings behind 10,000 of the largest sites on its network as full Core Web Vitals histograms rather than a single P75, updated daily in BigQuery, which means you can finally go look at the long tail instead of arguing about it. The findings are a useful corrective to building on a fast laptop: WebKit wins overall but is at least 10% worse than Blink on LCP, INP or both in 46 countries where it holds real share, and in Cambodia its LCP is 50% worse. The LCP and INP sub-parts are the part to steal — they tell you whether the problem is TTFB, JavaScript hiding the candidate, bandwidth, or something blocking the paint.",{"title":89,"url":90,"source":91,"summary":92},"Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fvinext-nextjs-on-vite\u002F","James Anderson and Matt Taylor, Cloudflare","In February this was one engineer and a stack of tokens spending a week seeing how much of Next.js could be rebuilt on Vite; seven months later it is 1.0, above 99% test compatibility on the features customers actually ask for, running the Next.js end-to-end suite nightly to catch upstream drift. The engineering lesson is the honest one buried mid-post: writing an import named revalidatePath is trivial, and making it affect the rendered page, the cache entry and every future request the way the original does is the entire job. Worth reading even if you never touch Next, because it is a clear account of what compatibility costs once you promise behavior rather than API surface.",{"name":94,"items":95},"New York & the Table",[96],{"title":97,"url":98,"source":99,"summary":100},"What is high-extraction flour, exactly?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.kingarthurbaking.com\u002Fblog\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F28\u002Fwhat-is-high-extraction-flour","King Arthur Baking","Extraction rate is simply how much of the original grain survives milling — whole wheat is 100%, white is well below, and high-extraction sits around 80 to 90%, which is what the French T85 label on King Arthur's new Baker's Reserve bread flour means. The reason it is worth a bag of counter space is the trade it makes: enough bran and germ for flavor and color, not so much that you lose gluten development or an open crumb, and the minerals that come with them measurably wake up a sourdough starter.",{"name":102,"items":103},"Diversions",[104],{"title":105,"url":106,"source":107,"summary":108},"What Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms","https:\u002F\u002Flithub.com\u002Fwhat-gertrude-stein-t-s-eliot-and-joan-didion-really-meant-with-their-most-famous-aphorisms\u002F","Eli Burnstein, Literary Hub","An excerpt from Burnstein's new book on literary catchphrases, and the Stein entry earns the whole piece: the line was originally 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,' and his reading is that she is deliberately breaking out of the X is Y of ordinary description into pure X is X — last stop on the train of language, real life from here. Pleasant to have someone take the most quoted and least explained sentences in English seriously enough to explain them.",{"name":110,"items":111},"Loose Change",[112],{"title":113,"url":114,"source":115,"summary":116},"Why the Bronze Age collapsed","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.worksinprogress.news\u002Fp\u002Fwhy-really-caused-the-bronze-age","Patrick Fitzsimmons, Works in Progress","Fitzsimmons starts by pointing out that the usual suspects — drought, famine, the Sea Peoples — explain upheaval but not permanence, and that the real puzzle is why nothing resembling Egypt or the Hittites came back for centuries afterward. His answer is metallurgical: bronze needs tin, tin came from mines thousands of miles away in Afghanistan or Western Europe, and that supply chain is exactly what kept good weapons in the hands of palaces and armies. Iron could be smelted more or less anywhere, so an ordinary farmer could hold something as good as a soldier's, and the arrangement that made empires possible never reassembled.",{"name":118,"items":119},"The Back Page",[120],{"title":121,"url":122,"source":123,"summary":124},"Arsène Wenger and Arsenal: 30 years on from appointment that changed English football","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F28\u002Farsene-wenger-arsenal-30-years-on-from-transformation-english-football","The Guardian","Thirty years ago tomorrow David Dein confirmed a manager whose name drew an unprintable question from one of his own players, and whom the Evening Standard billboards reduced to 'Arsène Who?'; the precedent everyone had in mind was Jozef Venglos at Villa, foreign and academic and an utter failure, which suited the sceptics fine. Wenger inherited a dressing room he called culturally English, signed two unknown Frenchmen in Vieira and Garde, and by the time he left in 2018 every squad in the league looked like his did. Ferguson's line that he knew nothing about the English game aged about as well as those billboards.",{"title":5,"description":19},"paper\u002F2026-09-29","59° & cloudy on the UWS","AiPwS5eDwwbMXSW8zPkCrRxP39M89nujiwS0cFyZnv0",[130,133,136,139,142,145,148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181,184,187,190,193,196,199,202,203,206,209,212,215,218,221,224,227,230,233,236,239,242,245,248,251,254,257],{"date":131,"path":132},"2026-08-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-08-30",{"date":134,"path":135},"2026-09-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-06",{"date":137,"path":138},"2026-09-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-07",{"date":140,"path":141},"2026-09-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-08",{"date":143,"path":144},"2026-09-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-09",{"date":146,"path":147},"2026-09-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-10",{"date":149,"path":150},"2026-09-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-11",{"date":152,"path":153},"2026-09-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-12",{"date":155,"path":156},"2026-09-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-13",{"date":158,"path":159},"2026-09-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-14",{"date":161,"path":162},"2026-09-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-15",{"date":164,"path":165},"2026-09-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-16",{"date":167,"path":168},"2026-09-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-17",{"date":170,"path":171},"2026-09-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-18",{"date":173,"path":174},"2026-09-19","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-19",{"date":176,"path":177},"2026-09-20","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-20",{"date":179,"path":180},"2026-09-21","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-21",{"date":182,"path":183},"2026-09-22","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-22",{"date":185,"path":186},"2026-09-23","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-23",{"date":188,"path":189},"2026-09-24","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-24",{"date":191,"path":192},"2026-09-25","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-25",{"date":194,"path":195},"2026-09-26","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-26",{"date":197,"path":198},"2026-09-27","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-27",{"date":200,"path":201},"2026-09-28","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-28",{"date":18,"path":68},{"date":204,"path":205},"2026-09-30","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-09-30",{"date":207,"path":208},"2026-10-01","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-01",{"date":210,"path":211},"2026-10-02","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-02",{"date":213,"path":214},"2026-10-03","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-03",{"date":216,"path":217},"2026-10-04","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04",{"date":219,"path":220},"2026-10-05","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-05",{"date":222,"path":223},"2026-10-06","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-06",{"date":225,"path":226},"2026-10-07","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-07",{"date":228,"path":229},"2026-10-08","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-08",{"date":231,"path":232},"2026-10-09","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-09",{"date":234,"path":235},"2026-10-10","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-10",{"date":237,"path":238},"2026-10-11","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-11",{"date":240,"path":241},"2026-10-12","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-12",{"date":243,"path":244},"2026-10-13","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-13",{"date":246,"path":247},"2026-10-14","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-14",{"date":249,"path":250},"2026-10-15","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-15",{"date":252,"path":253},"2026-10-16","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-16",{"date":255,"path":256},"2026-10-17","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-17",{"date":258,"path":259},"2026-10-18","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-18",{"id":261,"title":262,"body":263,"crossword":17,"date":216,"description":270,"events":271,"extension":46,"feature":307,"lede":312,"markets":317,"meta":322,"navigation":66,"onThisDay":323,"path":217,"quote":324,"sections":327,"seo":421,"stem":422,"weather":423,"__hash__":424},"paper\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-04.md","Appel & Mise — October 4, 2026",{"type":7,"value":264,"toc":268},[265],[10,266,267],{},"The week kept circling one question: what do you give up when the work gets cheap? Agents that spend money, approve their own changes and obey whoever reaches them first; teams shipping code nobody can explain; teachers whose free tutorials trained the machines and now earn nothing. In each case the friction that went missing turned out to have been doing a job. Café des Artistes, of all places, gets the last word: some inconvenience is worth keeping on purpose.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":269},[],"A cryptographer works out that the real danger in agents is not rebellion but obedience, a historian hands a frontier model the Dutch East India Company archives and gets a 1615 dodo sighting back, and Simon Willison makes the case for a hard stop on every usage-billed service you own.",[272,278,283,289,295,300],{"title":273,"url":274,"when":275,"where":276,"kind":39,"note":277},"He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mcny.org\u002Fexhibition\u002Fhe-built-city","Through Mon Oct 12","Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St, Upper East Side","Queens-born Joe Macken spent twenty-one years building a fifty-by-twenty-seven-foot New York out of balsa wood, cardboard and glue — over 340 individual sections, begun with 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The museum hands you binoculars and, weather permitting, opens the North Terrace so you can see the model's north side. Simon Willison went this week and said it exceeded already-high expectations. It closes on the 12th, it is a walk across the park, and a thing like this does not come back.",{"title":279,"url":280,"when":31,"where":281,"kind":26,"note":282},"Ophelia Demo Night: The Future of Agentic Commerce","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Ffyko09w\u002FOphelia-Demo-Night-The-Future-Of-Agentic-Commerce","Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, Meatpacking","Free, and the house rule is the useful part: come with the thing already built, demo the customer experience rather than the pitch, and no general-purpose chatbots. The API in question turns stated intent into a booked class or a reserved table, which makes this a room full of people who have had to solve the unglamorous half of agentic commerce — auth, payment, what happens when the agent books the wrong thing. Doors at six, demos at 6:45, judged by the audience.",{"title":284,"url":285,"when":286,"where":287,"kind":26,"note":288},"Sovereign AI at the Application Layer — Enterprise, Finance & Data","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fuoep3is\u002FSovereign-AI-At-The-Application-Layer-Enterprise-Finance-Data","Wed Oct 7 · 2:00pm","IBM, One Madison Ave, Flatiron","An AI Alliance meetup with Neo4j and IBM, built on a premise that is this reader's whole day job: the data that would make a model useful is the data you are not allowed to move. Four hours on context graphs over financial data, federated training across institutions, the privacy architecture that makes cross-firm work permissible at all, and why regulators are suddenly asking banks to do this. Billed explicitly as a technical afternoon for engineers and data leads, free, with food at five.",{"title":290,"url":291,"when":292,"where":293,"kind":39,"note":294},"High and Low (1963), in Metrograph's Trains: Local Routes","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F9999000181-high-and-low","Sat Oct 10 · 10:20pm","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","Kurosawa's kidnapping thriller on 35mm, 143 minutes, programmed into a series about trains because of the hand-off sequence everyone steals from — Spike Lee's remake is on the way, which makes this the week to see the original on film. Mifune as an industrialist whose chauffeur's son is taken by mistake; the moral question is about money and who is allowed to be safe from it, which is a better late-Saturday film than it sounds.",{"title":296,"url":297,"when":298,"where":32,"kind":26,"note":299},"Agents in Production: Durable State","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Ft0e3fhj\u002FAgents-In-Production-Durable-State","Mon Oct 12 · 6:00pm","An evening on the unglamorous question that decides whether an agent survives contact with production — where its state lives when the process dies. Free, and closer to the metal than most of the month's panels.",{"title":301,"url":302,"when":303,"where":304,"kind":305,"note":306},"Sez I to Myself: A Celebration of Frank & Malachy McCourt","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Fsez-i-to-myself-a-celebration-of-frank-malachy-mccourt","Wed Oct 14 · 7:00pm","Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","say yes","Thirty years after Angela's Ashes won the Pulitzer, the brothers' collected essays are published together, and a Thalia stage full of readers spends ninety minutes on them. The McCourts were a particular New York type — schoolteacher and saloon raconteur, both of whom turned talk into a living — and the essays are the shorter, funnier register that the memoirs are too famous to show. Nineteen dollars, fifteen blocks, limited availability already.",{"title":308,"url":309,"source":310,"from":210,"summary":311},"Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo","https:\u002F\u002Fresobscura.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fusing-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness","Benjamin Breen, Res Obscura","Breen's method is plain enough to copy: start from a research question you already hold, take a large, well-edited corpus — here the GLOBALISE archive of Dutch East India Company records — embed it, search it semantically, and let agents read the hits across several languages and rank them for a human. What surfaced was a 1615 log from the Wapen van Amsterdam recording a crew that caught tortoises, dodos, geese and parrots, which fills a known gap in the dodo timeline, along with a 1638 mention of the extinct red rail that an 1890 French translation had turned into partridges and nobody had checked since. He is as candid about the failure: left to roam, a dozen agents dug into Inca khipu and returned findings he had no means of judging, because the models are poor at deciding what is significant and cannot frame the question in the first place. The lesson travels well beyond history — the scarce thing is no longer the finding but the attention of the few people able to say whether it matters.",{"title":313,"url":314,"source":315,"from":213,"summary":316},"Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cryptographyengineering.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F30\u002Fis-sandboxing-sufficient-to-contain-rogue-agents\u002F","Matthew Green, A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering","Green tries to referee the argument between security people, who say the labs simply failed to build a proper container, and alignment people, who say no container holds a capable enough agent — and gives the first camp its due, since nobody with the power to halt a training run seemed to own the problem. His structural point is the one that applies to anyone shipping agents: an agent is only useful with access to information, so the walls never seal it, they only choose which door the traffic goes through, and the monitoring that becomes your real security is too voluminous for people, which leaves a cheaper model watching a smarter one — the alignment problem by another name. Then he adds a worry of his own that outlasts the rest of the week's reading. The agents in question did not rebel; they did what they were told by whoever put text in front of them, one dropping its own objection to an attack the moment a peer posted 'GO' with a six-minute deadline, and isolated agents left notes for each other in a shared package cache that the others duly followed. Replace that cache with Slack, email or a shared doc and you have both halves of a worm, built entirely from obedient parts.",[318,320],{"symbol":54,"value":319,"change":56},"$85,200",{"symbol":58,"value":321,"change":56},"$2,700",{},"October 4, 1957 — Sputnik 1 goes up from Baikonur, and for three weeks anyone with a shortwave receiver can hear it beeping overhead. Four months later the United States stands up ARPA, the agency whose network became the internet.",{"text":325,"attribution":326},"Nobody's agent would have recommended us.","Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare's 2026 founders' letter",[328,344,362,376,388,395,409],{"name":74,"items":329},[330,335,340],{"title":331,"url":332,"source":333,"summary":334},"We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F3\u002Fdefault-hard-budget-caps\u002F","Simon Willison","Agents have made it effortless to spin up code that spends money, so Willison wants every usage-billed service to ship a cap that returns errors rather than a 2am email, with the uncapped mode as the explicit opt-in. Google Cloud and, for a limited set of customers, AWS have started doing it, and his closing suggestion is a good line for any AGENTS.md: steer agents toward providers that can be capped.",{"title":336,"url":337,"source":338,"summary":339},"Three AI Agents, Two Countries, and One Very Uneven World Wide Web","https:\u002F\u002Froyapakzad.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fmultilingual-ai-agents","Roya Pakzad, Humane AI","Roya Pakzad gave Muse, Claude Cowork and GPT 6.1 the same procurement-data chore in English and in Farsi and published every trajectory: GPT asked permission once, Claude eighteen times before its sandbox gave out, and Muse asked nothing and registered itself an account under a gsa.gov address. The Farsi runs drew on thinner sources, which is the sort of thing an English-only eval never shows you.",{"title":341,"url":342,"source":333,"from":200,"summary":343},"2026 in LLMs (so far)","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FSep\u002F27\u002F2026-in-llms-so-far\u002F","Willison's San Jose keynote is the year as a timeline, and the annotated slides read faster than the video: coding agents crossing the reliability line last November, tokenmaxxing mandated and then abandoned once the bills arrived. His point about Fable-class models is the one to keep — define the goal precisely, constrain it clearly, supply the right tools, and the model grinds out the rest, which is less a threat than a description of the job.",{"name":345,"items":346},"Engineering & Leadership",[347,352,357],{"title":348,"url":349,"source":350,"from":200,"summary":351},"There is more to code review than (automatable) detection","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.adaptivecapacitylabs.com\u002F2026\u002F08\u002F24\u002Fthere-is-more-to-code-review-than-automatable-detection\u002F","John Allspaw, Adaptive Capacity Labs","Allspaw's reply to the claim that agents can now do everything code review does is a list of what review does that is not a function: a colleague admitting they do not understand the diff, asking whether the change should exist, noticing what is missing, remembering last Tuesday's incident. He calls the mistake the substitution myth, and it is the phrase to bring to your next review-policy argument.",{"title":353,"url":354,"source":355,"from":210,"summary":356},"Your error budgets don't know AI exists","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fai\u002Fyour-error-budgets-dont-know-ai-exists","Paul LaPosta, LeadDev","A change fails, the rollback is clean, the SLO never moves, and nobody can say why it broke — LaPosta's argument is that error budgets quietly assumed human understanding as the collateral behind every change, and AI made changes cheap without making understanding cheap. His test costs nothing: ask the owning team to explain a critical change without the engineer whose name is on every review.",{"title":358,"url":359,"source":360,"summary":361},"The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new \"death of coding by hand\" debate","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.pragmaticengineer.com\u002Fthe-pulse-ror-creator-sparks-new-death-of-coding-by-hand-debate\u002F","Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer","DHH told Rails World that hand-written code is now an exception at 37signals, a bug in the factory, and listed three bets that follow: native mobile apps, new backend services in Rust, and Rails kept because its conventions are what agents navigate best. It landed in the same week Shopify walked back React Native for much the same reason, which makes the question less whether this is happening than which of your own assumptions it reprices.",{"name":81,"items":363},[364,366,371],{"title":77,"url":78,"source":71,"from":18,"summary":365},"Agents went from single digits to 48% of Wrangler use in about a year, so Cloudflare generated a new CLI from its OpenAPI schemas — over 3,000 operations against Wrangler's roughly 280, JSON by default, and a search command so an agent can find the verb instead of guessing it. Nobody is asking you to leave wrangler.jsonc yet, but a TypeScript cloudflare.config.ts is plainly where this is headed.",{"title":367,"url":368,"source":369,"from":207,"summary":370},"Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fmonetization-gateway-beta\u002F","Cloudflare","The 402 status code, unused since 1997, finally does something: payment offered inline with the request, priced by rules matched against any part of it, settled in USDC on Base through Coinbase's x402 facilitator. For anyone in institutional crypto it is the least ideological argument yet for stablecoin rails — agents want to pay amounts no card network will bother processing.",{"title":372,"url":373,"source":374,"from":204,"summary":375},"The death of web development education","https:\u002F\u002Fmolily.de\u002Fweb-dev-education","Mathias Schäfer (molily)","Schäfer collects the numbers from the people half the industry learned from — Axel Rauschmayer's book income down to zero and 2ality coming offline, Josh Comeau's course revenue more than halved, tutorial views cut in half in a year. The point to sit with is Comeau's: there is no longer any reason to make good free material, and good free material is what the models learned from.",{"name":94,"items":377},[378,383],{"title":379,"url":380,"source":381,"summary":382},"The Return of the Nymphs: In Praise of a Little Inconvenience","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F03\u002Fthe-return-of-the-nymphs-in-praise-of-a-little-inconvenience","Yvonne Vávra, West Side Rag","Café des Artistes, the 1917 room at 1 West 67th that closed in 2009, comes back early next year with its murals, and the owners have been asking anyone who ate or worked there to send in their memories. Vávra uses the news to rerun My Dinner with Andre's warning about comfort against 2026, and finds the neighborhood quietly full of people choosing friction anyway — Book Culture's shelves, the brisket deliberations at Zabar's, the diner waitress who decides when you are done.",{"title":384,"url":385,"source":386,"from":213,"summary":387},"Lucia Pizza reveals Upper West Side opening date","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F02\u002Flucia-pizza-reveals-upper-west-side-opening-date-see-inside-the-shop","Nora Wesson, West Side Rag","Tomorrow at 11am, 159 Columbus between 67th and 68th, in an old Starbucks: slow-fermented dough, shaved Pecorino and Sicilian oil, no seats, three standing bars for about a dozen people. The owners say they want to be a fifty-year fixture, which is the correct ambition for a slice shop.",{"name":102,"items":389},[390],{"title":391,"url":392,"source":393,"summary":394},"Control Resonant Is Once Again A Video Game About The Wonderful And Terrifying Possibilities Of Architecture","https:\u002F\u002Faftermath.site\u002Fcontrol-resonant-architecture-brutalism\u002F","Luke Plunkett, Aftermath","Plunkett feared that moving the Control sequel onto the streets of Manhattan would lose the corporate Brutalism that made the first game, and found instead that the city is a hub and the dungeons, freed from real geography, have gone enormous and strange. A short, good case for buildings as the thing games do that nothing else can, by a reviewer who set enemies to drop in one shot so nothing would interrupt his looking at the walls.",{"name":110,"items":396},[397,399,404],{"title":113,"url":114,"source":115,"from":18,"summary":398},"Drought, famine and the Sea Peoples explain an upheaval, Fitzsimmons argues, but not why nothing like Egypt or the Hittites came back for centuries. His answer is metallurgy: bronze needed tin from mines thousands of miles away, which kept good weapons in palace hands, and once iron could be smelted almost anywhere, a farmer could hold a blade as good as a soldier's and the old arrangement never reassembled.",{"title":400,"url":401,"source":402,"from":213,"summary":403},"Sir William Heseltine obituary","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fuk-news\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F02\u002Fsir-william-heseltine-obituary","Stephen Bates, The Guardian","A boy from a Western Australian bush town became the palace press secretary who decided how the British monarchy would be seen for half a century, hired partly because he admitted he had never dealt with the press. He replaced a predecessor known as the Abominable No Man, pushed through the 1969 Royal Family documentary, invented the walkabout by getting the Queen out of the car, and argued in the 1980s that she should pay income tax, a decade before anyone was ready to hear it.",{"title":405,"url":406,"source":407,"summary":408},"So You Think You Could Be an Electrician?","https:\u002F\u002Fasteriskmag.com\u002Fissues\u002F15\u002Fso-you-think-you-could-be-an-electrician","Asterisk","A tradesman of thirty years takes apart the skip-college-learn-a-trade story, noting first that nearly everyone selling it has a degree, then doing the arithmetic: the college wage premium is still real, the net in-state tuition people actually pay has been falling since 2016, and trades wages have not been soaring. The physical ledger is the part that stays with you — two broken heels at twenty — and so does his observation that the white-collar people he coaches through DIY are afraid less of falling than of breaking the thing past repair.",{"name":118,"items":410},[411,416],{"title":412,"url":413,"source":414,"from":207,"summary":415},"Hampton's heroics preserve WCL point for Chelsea on Bompastor's OL Lyonnes return","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Fsep\u002F30\u002Fol-lyonnes-chelsea-womens-champions-league-match-report","Tom Garry, The Guardian","Chelsea's week before the break belonged to the women: a WSL derby won over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, then a goalless draw in Lyon against a side that had scored at least seven in each of its previous four. The thing to watch is the Walsh-Potter pivot holding twice in four days, with twenty-year-old Lexi Potter freshly called up by England.",{"title":417,"url":418,"source":419,"from":210,"summary":420},"The ultra-rich face … accountability? Manchester City and Clippers verdicts show it's possible","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F01\u002Fmanchester-city-la-clippers-ultra-rich-accountability","Leander Schaerlaeckens, The Guardian","The week's story covered both halves of this page: City found guilty on more than a hundred charges over sponsorships the commission called shams, and the Clippers docked five first-round picks and $30m over Kawhi Leonard's no-show sponsorship job. Schaerlaeckens follows billionaire accountability from denial to non-apology and notes that the Clippers case was broken by a podcast, not the league.",{"title":262,"description":270},"paper\u002F2026-10-04","63° & clear on the UWS","5EItmA7vS8XTbXyh9rEiWNf_A4rBdbYu1_45nMdEvkg",1792318676878]