Cool Things - September 13, 2026

Remember how good the first Elastica album was?

• Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it – hitting these guardrails reminds me when I was at HP and we got flagged by security for ‘possessing hacking tools’. You know, debuggers, network tools, etc. The kind of thing you use developing and testing security apps. Like the one we built.
• The Laracon Archive – I’ve been tempted to try and do this with Selenium before. But that’s a lot of work…
• via Matt Verlaque’s ‘Midweek Mashup’
  • ‘The tech that wins is the tech that disappears.’
  • ‘Decide next month’s headline now and spend the month making it true’ – I’ve long been a fan pof press-release driven development
  • ‘Don’t sell the plane ticket when you should be selling the vacation’
• The. Best. Game.
  
• 20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog – git nerdiness