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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 01/04/2026

Awesome! Smart design solution!

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 29/03/2026

I resisted for a while, but I finally upgraded my Mac to Tahoe (version 26.4). The rumors are true: The adaptation of Liquid Glass to macOS is really ugly, lacking polish, and sometimes even hard to read. First time I've seen Apple fail this badly at UI and UX.

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 17/03/2026

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 03/03/2026

I like the similarity between Richard Rumelt’s strategy kernel and John Boyd’s OODA loop: > Diagnosis/Challenge = Observe & Orient > Guiding policy/Crux = Decide > Coherent actions = Act

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Here's a list of all the places Trump is building concentration camps to brutalize non-white men, women, and kids—including many in the US legally and some who are citizens. Most will be sent to die in places they've never been to or to be tortured by Trump pals. # = Prisoners.

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Zed @zed.dev · 18/02/2026

Split diffs are now the default in Zed. Simple feature, complex implementation. Cole wrote about what it took to get alignment right on every keystroke: zed.dev/blog/split-d...

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Split Diffs are Here | Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: View your code changes in a split diff view in Zed.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 18/02/2026

Prompt injections for agents are the equivalent of social engineering for humans.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 07/02/2026

When I started in the late '90s, IT was a mix of "build" and "buy." Teams were still developing their own software. Today, most departments only buy (mostly SaaS). But with agentic coding drastically lowering the cost of custom development, "build" is making a comeback.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 05/02/2026

in a world shifting toward agentic coding, where humans essentially review code rather than write it, do we still need dynamically typed languages?

Alexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 05/02/2026

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No, DeepMind has not solved the protein folding problem. #Alphafold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 05/02/2026

Just saw this on HN: "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans". Interesting take, because I think precisely the opposite. Coding agents let us produce a lot of code, code that we need to review. We need languages optimized for code generation by AI, and code review by humans.

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What’s even crazier is the number of people who are still fine supporting and associating themselves with him despite this.

I think that most people think of browser tabs as things that only work online (because they see the URL), and installed apps as things that work offline. I know it’s not strictly true from a technical perspective, but the UX suggests this.

Thanks for the links! Electrobun seems similar to Tauri, in the sense it is using an OS provided webview.

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 03/02/2026

I mostly agree. It’s Chrome OS vision, where all apps are essentially PWA. It works well in Chrome OS because it feels you can install the apps. But I think that on the other platforms that feeling of “apps” is missing. Browsers support installing PWA, but the UX is not very obvious.

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What's the solution? Tauri? (but what about subtle differences between OSes?) React Native? (but it seems stronger on mobile than desktop?) Flutter? (same concern as RN)

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 03/02/2026

I'm fine with Electron apps over native apps. The benefit of "write once, run everywhere" is just too hard to ignore. But can we find a way to reduce the RAM usage? It should be possible running Slack, Discord, Notion, Figma, Obsidian & Bitwarden together without OOM errors…

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 22/12/2025

Thank you @mullvad.bsky.social for fighting #ChatControl everywhere, even in the subway, to make the general public aware of this threat to our democracies. 🇪🇺👀

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 30/11/2025

All the talks about AI replacing all jobs seem premature. AI will not cause mass unemployment without a breakthrough on AGI. What makes us believe that unlocking the secrets of intelligence is easier than unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s or cancer? www.grilly.com/posts/ai-hin...

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Why AI won't cause mass unemployment without a breakthrough on AGI

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 16/11/2025

The brown colors are amazing!

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 01/11/2025

My son, learning Lua in Roblox Studio, doesn’t call functions. He told me he summons them! 🪄

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 28/10/2025

Interesting paper showing that stackful coroutines (used for example in Go and Erlang) are not intrinsically slower than stackless coroutines (used for example in Rust, Python and JavaScript): photonlibos.github.io/blog/stackfu...

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Stackful Coroutine Made Fast | PhotonLibOS

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 26/10/2025

Is there still a reason to use TLS inspection nowadays? Most of the problems solved by TLS inspection — network filtering, web filtering, malware detection, C2 detection, DLP, etc. — can be solved in the browser and/or with EDR solutions on the endpoint.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 26/10/2025

TLS inspection — done by a firewall placed between the user devices and the Internet — is still a form of old-fashioned perimeter defense, breaks the end-to-end security model, and often causes performance issues.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 25/10/2025

Why the Zig programming language matters, when to use it, and why correctness is a system design problem, not a language problem. Interesting thoughts from @joran.tigerbeetle.com. tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10... #ziglang

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Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation

Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 22/10/2025

Best explanation I've ever read on why nil interface ≠ nil value in #golang news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567...

Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 16/10/2025

It's scary and sad seeing the USA, one of the beacons of modern democracies, slip toward an authoritarian regime. But it's not too late to stop this and get back on track. Authoritarianism has never solved anything. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn

A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 24/09/2025

Introducing Mac or Chrome OS into a Windows-only IT environment is an excellent test of its maturity. A well-maintained and documented environment using modern standards and security will make the transition straightforward. Otherwise, the cracks will show.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 23/09/2025

Go would be the dominant backend language if it had null safety, sum types, and pattern matching. This is a missed opportunity.

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Nicolas Grilly @nicolas.grilly.com · 08/09/2025

This is great! But what is the reason for saving the end-to-end encrypted backup files on Signal backup servers instead of iCloud or Google backup service, as most of us are already paying for this storage? If the backup is already E2E encrypted, we don't need to trust Apple/Google.