Don’t Let ‘Em Go To Waste Sometimes the best solution isn’t the shiniest one — it’s the one you already have, made faster and meaner. B-1B History: Born, Killed, Reborn The B-1 story starts in the early 1970s, when the Air Force wanted a replacement for the aging
A Modern AI Interface Surface Manifesto In 2026, modern software has a strange sense of déjà vu. We’ve quietly circled back to the 1980s. We are writing more custom software than off-the-shelf tools. We live in terminals again. And the most powerful new users of our systems aren’t
world-events
A fact-based look at the forces, events, and decades of tension behind the February 28, 2026 military strikes on Iran. The world woke up this morning to breaking news: the United States and Israel have launched coordinated military strikes on Iran — dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by the Pentagon. Explosions rocked
openclaw
TL;DR: I’m an OpenClaw maintainer. I’ve been (sort of) hiding it since I started. The recruiting spam, the harassment, the “are you hiring?” DMs — they’re real and they’re relentless. But with Artemis II slipping to April, I finally have bandwidth. I’ve been shipping PRs,
ai
TL;DR: 100 fortnights is about 3.8 years. That’s roughly how far out anyone can credibly plan in AI right now. But here’s what I’ve learned building through this chaos: your implementations should burn like phoenixes — daily, hourly, who cares — but your interfaces need to live
hardware
TL;DR: China’s manufacturing ecosystem lets you iterate on hardware prototypes at a speed and cost the US can’t touch — yet. We learned this firsthand building the Sighthound Gen 5 camera enclosure and boards. The play: make your mistakes in China, get to your 1.0, then manufacture
ai
TL;DR: Constructive is what happens when someone spends nine years building the open-source plumbing that powers 100 million npm downloads — then turns around and builds a company on top of it. I met founder Dan Lynch in San Francisco last week. He’s a genius. And the product is
people
TL;DR: A business can only compete on three things: People, Product, or Price. AI is killing product differentiation. Price competition is a death spiral. That leaves people—which really means customer service and trust. I’ve been obsessed with this my entire career. Three experiences tonight—two extraordinary, one
tech
TL;DR: San Francisco is back. Not “recovering” back — thunderously, undeniably back. AI has reignited the city with an unmistakable energy. But the real story isn’t AI itself — it’s why SF keeps reinventing itself when other tech hubs flame out. I believe the answer is a 152-year-old California
TL;DR The Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises to solve AI’s tool integration problem but actually makes things worse. It pollutes your context window (your AI’s “working memory”), adds security vulnerabilities, and solves problems that Unix solved in 1969 with pipes and small, composable CLI tools. Instead of
TL;DR: SaaS worked because building custom software was expensive ($500K+, 18 months). AI broke that math—companies can now build 100% customized solutions in weeks for a fraction of the cost, with ROI in months, sometimes weeks. The market has noticed: Figma -83%, HubSpot -71%, Salesforce -47%. This isn’
Let me be frank: some of the security criticism of Clawdbot/OpenClaw is absolutely valid. Some of it is jealous FUD. And some of it is just the internet being the internet. Here’s what actually happened, where we are, and where the community is going. What They Got Right