2026 Week 07 - Weekly Browsing
I’ve changed my weekly workflow. I’ve set it up personally for the past few weeks, and now is a great time to try this out. I haven’t made the “weekly note” for almost a year now, because it got overwhelming. Instead, AI tools help organize this much better than what I can do. So let’s try this out for a few weeks. Introducing: Weekly Browsing.
AI & Development
- My AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto — engineering approach to automating tasks with LLMs.
- Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes (Anthropic).
- How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills (Anthropic).
- The Anthropic Hive Mind — Steve Yegge on collective intelligence.
- Stop generating, start thinking (localghost).
- OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been — Jake Quist.
- Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (The Verge).
- AddyOsmani.com - Agentic Engineering.
- Overview - Agent Skills.
- Why Elixir is the best language for AI (Dashbit).
- Build Your Own Apps with AI.
- Vouch for an open source web of trust (Changelog News).
- mitchellh/vouch — community trust management.
- gavrielc/nanoclaw — lightweight Claw alternative in Apple containers.
- AI fears spark sell-off in shipping, freight stocks (Yahoo Finance).
- Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer.
Tools for Thought & Productivity
- This Week in Obsidian #07.
- Podcast: Our 2026 Tech Resolutions — review recent notes to develop ideas; Patreon post on Casey Newton’s system.
- Obsidian CLI (Obsidian Help).Tried Obsidian CLI; Cursor/Claude Code can send commands.
- What would a Readwise replacement need to get right (r/readwise).
- Exploring Computational Media as a Possible Future of Software (PDF).
- Branch Writing for Obsidian — write in small rearrangeable blocks.
- Gingko Writer.
- obsidian-lineage — Gingko-like interface in Obsidian.
- Introducing Papers on Opennote (YouTube).
Development & Design Tools
- Comfy Cloud | Run ComfyUI online (beta).
- March Mad CSS.
- antirez/tgterm — control macOS terminals via Telegram.
- Feature/ENG-19426 sequencing reads verification (Bitbucket PR).
- Someday Programming Builds IDE (Google AI Studio).
- health.md — Apple Health → Markdown.
- CSS Zen Garden: All Designs.
- Quality Smashing eBooks on Front-End, Design, UX, Accessibility (Smashing Magazine).
Engineering & Infrastructure
- GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team — Ian Duncan.
- How to Scale a System from 0 to 10 million+ Users.
- Data centers in space makes no sense (CivAI).
- Company as Code — Daniel Rothmann.
- Software Estimation - Building Takes Longer Than You Think.
Bay Area & Local News
- Students, Stanford, and grifters.
- Super Bowl 60: San Francisco’s image surprises visitors.
- Super Bowl Visitors Find San Francisco Better Than Its Apocalyptic Image (NYT).
- 70 Black-owned Bay Area restaurants, bakeries, and more.
- Tri-Valley Restaurant Week.
- Goldbean Cafe on Instagram — opened recently in San Leandro.
- Former San Leandro City Council Member Pleads Guilty in Federal Bribery Case (KQED).
Politics & Society
- Kennedy Center to Close for 2-Year Construction Project (NYT).
- Increasing Surveillance of Professors (NYT).
- Probe pileup (Morning Brew).
- Jeffrey Epstein client list news.
- Jeffrey Epstein files shake political careers in Europe (AP).
- The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. (Politico).
- One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto. (WSJ).
- Trump admin. live updates: EPA revokes key climate change finding.
- Poll: Trump’s ratings on immigration tumble (NBC).
- What Happened to Pam Bondi? (The Atlantic).
- Pam Bondi Epstein Testimony Roundup (BuzzFeed).
- Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe (NYT).
- Jmail: Website lets you browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails (The Standard).
- Video of RFK Jr. Telling Theo Von He ‘Sniffed Cocaine Off Toilet Seats’ Takes Off Online (Newsweek).
- 2 Israelis accused of security offenses for allegedly betting using secret military information (AP).
- House GOP join Democrats to slap back Trump’s tariffs on Canada (AP).
- A pilot fired over Kristi Noem’s missing blanket and the constant chaos inside DHS.
- Inside the FBI’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein (AP).
Privacy & Surveillance
- Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras (The Guardian).
- With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet (404 Media).
- Russia says it has blocked WhatsApp (CNN).
Economy & Labor
- Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard.
- The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor (WSJ).
- America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs (The Atlantic).
Health & Longevity
- Dr. Peter Attia apologizes for “indefensible” emails to Jeffrey Epstein (CBS).
- At 82, he’s as fit as a 20-year-old.
- The Longevity Bros Are Fighting (GQ).
- Protocol Cards — Evidence-backed Nervous System Regulation.
Meta & VR Fitness
- Supernatural VR Fitness on Meta Quest.
- Meta is shutting down Supernatural VR fitness app (Lifehacker).
Entertainment & Sports
- The complete list of 2026 Grammy winners (NPR).
- Lindsey Vonn’s father says her Olympic crash marks ‘the end of her career’ (AP).
- Bad Bunny’s halftime show featured a real wedding (AP).
- The Undeniable Fun of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (The Atlantic).
- USA’s Chock and Bates win Olympic ice dance silver (NPR).
- Breezy Johnson and boyfriend are engaged after her super-G run at Winter Olympics (NBC).
- Canadian ice master makes Olympic history with 1st indoor temporary speedskating rink (AP).
- Team Event - Pair Skating - Free Skating Results (Milano Cortina 2026).
- Winter Escape (Hallmark).
Obituaries
- Virginia Oliver, Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ and Folk Hero, Dies at 105 (NYT).
- James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, dies at 48 (AP).
- Cult film star Bud Cort of ‘Harold and Maude’ dies at 77 (LA Times).
Creative Practice & Writing
- Swipe File Examples From Top Copywriters & Marketers (SwipeFile).
- How to Humanize Your AI Writing in 10 Steps.
Shopping, Real Estate & Misc
- Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great — Eric Ries (Amazon).
- Anonymous Creative Futures 2026.
- The Tangled Plot Bookshop.
- 83. We’re Back! 2025 Recap & What Comes Next (podcast).
- Surfer Diary.
- OpenCiv3.
- Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance — Jim Nielsen.
- Neato Calendar.
- Massively parallel multiplex DNA sequencing for specimen identification (PubMed).
Written by Jeremy Wong and published on .