2026
I can’t recommend the Mark Russinovich episode of the Fork Around and Find Out podcast with Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash enough. A great listen. Training The future with Mark Russinovich
I came across The Missing GitHub Status Page recently on kottke.org. I haven’t been using GitHub as much lately but there are more outages than I expected.
Both John Gruber and Jason Kottke both wrote about Sam Henri Gold’s fantastic review of the MacBook Neo.
It evokes the feeling of hopeful exploration where people fell in love with the potential of computing in the past and a new generation finding their own way in the future.
It’s good to see that iFixit has said that Apple has improved the repairability of the MacBook Neo. It’s not perfect but it is a step in the right direction.
Simon Willison has shared a guide on agentic engineering patterns. It’s worth having a look at. simonwillison.net/guides/ag…
Shubham Bose wrote this post exploring the current state of webpages and why they developed the way they did. It’s a great read.
Justin Garrison created this handy guide for people looking to increase the security of their iOS devices.
This was a good discussion between David Bombal and Marcus Hutchins covering AI, cybersecurity, the threat landscape, the current job market and advice for people entering the tech industry. More hopeful than a lot of other interviews I’ve seen recently.
Paul Thurrott spoke about Microsoft Edit on Hands On Windows, a terminal text editor written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Only 892kB when downloaded using winget.
It’s fast, simple and has performed well for me so far. It’s worth trying out.
Cal Newport has been doing good media criticism about viral AI stories.
I’ve been lucky to work with some great people who have taught me a lot. The tech industry could use something like an apprenticeship to help junior developers. Good to see Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich working to improve the situation.
I wish I could say that I’m surprised but Justin Garrison said stuff like this was going to happen.
Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages
Entertaining episode of This Week in Tech with Cory Doctorow and Joey de Villa
I enjoyed this article about RSS. https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/#personal-disenshittification
Mina Kimes makes a great point. Displaying even a little curiosity can bring great rewards. It’s usually not the most efficient path but it’s almost always more fun. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-zQtLT9w_ks
Wow. Mina Kimes managed to get Derek Thompson to admit that AI could be a normal technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFcJdVQOjs
Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich discussed the whole "Are Apps Dead?" thing last month as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3I1mLYkxU
This looks like fun. https://madcss.com/
Cassidy Williams is right. Maintenance is an unloved part of software engineering. People underestimate just how much is taken care of behind the scenes when using SaaS products.
Coding is fun. Being a sys admin less so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5VzL256te4
I enjoyed this interview with Anil Dash on the Revolution.Social podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhBykJqOqAc