Cool Things - June 3, 2026

There is a mystery tab on Safari causing it to just burn through battery. So lets close some tabs. (Ended up being the 1Password helper that needed a restart.)

From Safari

• Dune as an operational model – I vots that ‘DuneOps’ officially becomes A Thing[tm]
• Two People Exchanging Saliva – Odd, but gorgeous short film. And the dress she wears is fantastic.
• Why LLMs Write Incorrect SQL (and What That Means for Your Database) – This is why I worry more about changes that involve sql directly rather than an ORM.
• RBAC in Laravel: A Practical Deep Dive – Feels like AI wrote it, but still a good overview. Personally I would just use Laravel Permission and be done with it.
• On pricing – Pricing is a story. I don’t link to Seth Godin enough.
• How I write feature specs – How to use multiple levels of AI to produce a document for AI. I still bump into this trend of fully fleshed out specs as being ‘waterfall for robots’. But interesting none the less.
• Searching multiple columns with one URL parameter in laravel-query-builder – Looks good. I’ve used similar packages but not that were as elegant.
• 💵All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous. – This is going to be a bigger and bigger thing.
• Useful memories become faulty when continuously updated by LLMs – Now I feel like I need to audit the robot’s memory. I never wanted to be a programmer, I just knew how to program. But I see why people miss just writing code.
• In a quest to becoming AI-independent – Now, I would spend disposible income on art, not hardware, because I’ve never been a hardware nerd. But I’m glad people are doing this work. I would absolutely buy a $5k local inference rig to sit on my desk at the office.
• How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer – The is zero-tolerance, and then there is ‘humans in a can on the other side of the moon’ tolerant.
• 10 trillion downloads are crushing open-source repositories - here’s what they’re doing about it – My hunch is that someone will create something that lives in the AWS Marketplace that acts as the local cache between the repositories and will be able to make a lot of money. Yes, there are things like this already, but aimed at Big E Enterprise. What about the rest? No, I don’t have time to build this myself.
• Debugging Audio Artifacts Caused by… a Serial Port? – The really amazing part of this post is that they figured it out at all. Magic!
• How AWS Trainium actually works (2026) – Chip design decisions are neat. See above for running local inference things. Ideas proven at hyperscaler scale will eventually come to prosumer gear
• Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks – Yup, beware of defaults, and understand what you run. Also, Pintrest is still a thing?
• Your Container Is Not a Sandbox – Indeed. This is k8s heavy, but again, someone could wrap this all nicely with a bow that sits in your toolbar and be laughing.