- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me | The Shamblog (February 2026) - An AI agent attempted to shame a matplotlib maintainer after the maintainer rejected their pull request. Scott highlights how AI agents could potentially be used to cause harm and undermine our social systems, all without intervention or a means to be held to account
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It | Harvard Business Review (February 2026) - “Over time, overwork can impair judgment, increase the likelihood of errors, and make it harder for organizations to distinguish genuine productivity gains from unsustainable intensity.” An in-progress review has found that AI use has lead to increased burnout as workers have increased their cognitive load by taking on tasks outside their usual remit and running more things in parallel
- You don’t need that CORS request | Nick Olinger (August 2021) - By default browsers send a pre-flight request for cross-origin requests. You can remove these by putting a proxy in front of your API so that requests to both the client-side and API are on the same origin
- How To Fix Your Attention Span (Before It’s Too Late) | Daniel Pink via YouTube (4m 34s) - Five steps to rebuild your attention span through habits and changes to your environment