bytes, sharks, and social loafing

Sunday, October 11, 2026

I froze with my bow half-raised and could not loose an arrow.

1. Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software pioneer, dies at 90
2. 33 shark species in Greek waters — how many did Odysseus see?
3. AI killed the software engineering discourse, not just the jobs
4. 1913: bigger teams make each person work less — except army ants
5. Why do programmers accept AI when writers and musicians won’t?
6. Nature: retrofitting LLMs to run on raw bytes, no tokenizer needed