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Turns out the future does have flying cars

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…

INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT'S UAP FILES: "Bret, both the defense contractor community and the government have craft of non-human origin. There is an ongoing program to capture and reverse engineer this technology, and really we're in a secret Cold War race to do that." @jaystratton Jay Stratton pulls back the curtain on over three decades of classified military and intelligence work. Stratton discusses that the U.S. government and defense contractors maintain programs to capture and reverse-engineer non-human technology. Going further than ever before, Stratton confirms he has personally witnessed non-human craft and beings with his own eyes, criticizing an 80-year monopoly that has kept these monumental truths hidden from the American public.

I'm so sick and tired of my Sonos speakers never working correctly (the last straw today was trying to get Muse to act as a DJ for me using my Spotify likes as a guide) that I decided to just say screw it and started FrankenSonos. The goal is to just reverse engineer everything and do it correctly using Rust and all my libraries like asupersync and so forth. I'd also like to get it to all work seamlessly with Tailscale if I can. Maybe I'll be able to make my own FrankenFirmware for them and then I can finally be rid of their garbage software completely. I have a mixture of older S1 hardware and the newer S2 hardware in my house, so I'm being careful to support all of it seamlessly in a unified, coherent way. The irony is that they are incredibly awesome-sounding speakers when they actually DO work. And you can buy them on eBay pretty inexpensively. The software is just so bad and broken that it ruins everything. You can follow along here: github.com/Dicklesworthstone…

We're hiring at the National Design Studio! Yesterday we launched America.gov, the first step toward replacing thousands of outdated government websites with one product. You can ask it anything and get an answer from a verified government source. But this is just the start. Next, we're building features that let you renew your passport, enroll in Medicare, and book a campsite at a national park, and so much more, all in one place. We're looking for great engineers and designers to help build it. If that sounds like you, my DMs are open

big unveiling today - it’s been incredibly inspiring to watch @jgebbia and the @ndstudio team reimagine the citizenship experience and tackle some pretty gnarly product problems in the process. we will all benefit from this work. congrats to team

A Green Beret wearing a Tudor Pelagos FXD on a nylon strap alongside a wrist compass during the 1st Special Forces Command's Best Drone Team Competition last month.  In a digital world, sometimes it's best to go analog. Ally.