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).