The Northern line was (eerily) quiet during the Tube strikes a couple of weeks back. A good excuse to grab this clip and try out color grading with LUTs in Final Cut Pro for the first time. I muted the video by default because, well...

This is a lovely UI component registry. It uses framer-motion under the hood which bloats your bundle size (making the website slower to load). But if it can create a UX like this, it might be worth it.

I recently posted a note about value capture, and how AI could make you 10X, no... 100X, no... 1,000X more productive.

This essay from Quarter Mile brings us softly back down to earth.

I threw away my IDE some time ago (goodbye IntelliJ...) and Warp is the reason for that. If you're looking for a high-performance GPU-backed Terminal (written in Rust), Warp's got you. And now, they're open source!

Excited to see where the community takes it.

Suppose AI makes you 100X more productive. Then who captures the value?

If you work eight hours a day and produce 10-100X the output, the company captures all of it. But if you work one hour a day and manage to ship the same output, then you capture all of it.

Steve Yegge gets at this dilemma on a recent episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, arguing we need to figure out what work-life balance will look like in the age of AI. For programmers, now that time-consuming copy-paste, debugging, and boilerplate tasks can be outsourced to AI. What's left is System 2 thinking: architecture, judgement calls, weighing trade-offs, deciding what to build in the first place.

The catch is not even engineers can sustain five-plus hours of System 2 thinking a day. So if the job now is mostly System 2, the eight-hour workday is doing two things: it's either padding empty hours, or burning people out.

Delta Components is now officially part of the shadcn open-source community registry. Install any component directly into your React or Next.js project via the shadcn CLI and own the code.

Visit deltacomponents.dev to find out what the registry has to offer.

The 404 page on this site (patrickprunty.com) is a little easter egg. Find out what I mean.

This is a great research paper that evaluates Agent Skills. The SkillsBench study tested 7 model harnesses (i.e Claude Code w/Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Gemini CLI w/Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Flash, and Codex CLI w/GPT-5.2) across 84 tasks (for example, a task which asks an agent to count coins, enemies, and turtles across frames of Super Mario gameplay video). Hand-rolled human written skills boosted pass rates by 16.2%, whilst agent self-generated skills, i.e via Claude Code's skill-creator, resulted in -1.3% pass rates. The agent actually performed better without a playbook, then with the one it wrote for itself. For engineers, the real skill is no longer writing the code: it's knowing how to write a good playbook.

切腹 / Seppuku (/ sɛˈpuːkuː /) is a term used for ritual suicide practiced by Japanese Samurai by first cutting the abdomen with a small dagger, and then having a "second", or kaishakunin, complete the suicide by decapitation. The Samurai commit seppuku to restore honour, avoid capture by their enemies, atone for an error that disrupted their sworn lord, or to loyally follow their lord in death. Watching the Shōgun TV series, I must admit it's hard watching seppuku-after-seppuku, and yet, at the same time fascinating to observe (even a fictionalised version of) a culture whose attitude towards death is so contrary to how modern society view it today.

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