This Week in Modus: A LIGHTNING NODE, IN 34 HOURS A repository that did not exist on Monday spent Tuesday and half of Wednesday becoming a Lightning node, and finished by getting itself punished by Core Lightning for publishing a revoked commitment — which is the proof, not the bug. Around it: thirty repositories gained their first CI gate in a day, and every failure that turned up was in the new harness rather than the code. And the floor reached the thing it has been walking toward since July — a real quickload, fetching a real library off the network, onto a filesystem with no operating system beneath it.

A Lightning node in 34 hours — This Week in Modus №26

29 August–4 September 2026: a from-scratch Lightning implementation reaches interop with Core Lightning and LND in a day and a half, thirty repos...

once you have vp8, webm isn't that hard

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2025: review by ai is secondary 2026: review by expert is secondary

reset weekend!

spend enough time in computer security and you'll understand why there is no such thing as "read only internet access"

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share ...

having ai build something for you is a lot of work

Ten repositories in seven days — This Week in Modus №19

11–17 July 2026: ten repositories are created in one week, and by Friday they are standing on each other.

claude-as-historian

well good morning!

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claude's a better publicist than i am

The floor does not compound

Twenty-six weeks of modus-lisp, measured. What accelerated, what did not, and why the obvious metric says the opposite.

a nice mini site for modus:

modus-lisp

Dispatches from modus-lisp: a personal computer written from scratch in Common Lisp, from the bare-metal kernel up.

This Week In Modus: A Lisp that had never been trusted with a network card logged a real OpenSSH client in on real Pi Zero silicon, then downloaded a library and ran it. Meanwhile the desktop above it learned its own name, its own resolution, and how to tell you where to find it.

The Pi Zero answers the doorbell — This Week in Modus №25

22–29 August 2026: a real OpenSSH client logs in to the bare-metal Common Lisp image on Pi Zero silicon, then downloads a library and runs it.

this is the noise that keeps me awake

claude making a double take

SCSH "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS": If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think. Oh yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself. Olin Shivers, Cambridge, September 4, 1994

do you have an opinion? a mind of your own i thought you were special i thought you should know but I've run out of patience i couldn't care less