Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI had a session to the Chicago MATTER-Health group yesterday to review its assessment report on Virtual OUD (Opioid Use Disorder) Solutions. (more)

cf Object Identifier, Wiki Name, Automatic Linking, Link As You Think, Shared Language, Pattern Language (more)

Claire Vo: Claude Skills explained: How to create reusable AI workflows. This week is going to be all about Claude Skills, the newly released feature from Anthropic that lets anybody create and load up Claude Code, the API, or Claude.ai with specific skills and tools it can call on at any time. (more)

Sam Schillace: I have seen the compounding teams. A while back I wrote something to the effect of “if AI is getting better and more productive, where are the ‘compounding teams’ who show exponentially increasing output?” I think I’ve now seen at least two or three teams that seem to be showing this behavior (more)

How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain. While Claude Code is popularly seen as a coding assistant (and he does know how to code), one of Noah Brier’s signature uses is turning it into a research and thinking partner inside Obsidian. (more)

Teresa Torres: Claude Code: What It Is, How It's Different, and Why Non-Technical People Should Use It. I love Claude Code. I started using it back in June to help me with some coding projects and it has since crept into everything that I do. I use it to manage tasks, to do research, to be my writing buddy, and so much more. (more)

David Singleton: Coding agents have crossed a chasm. If I imagine a ladder of our evolving relationship with coding agents, we’ve climbed to a new rung. We’ve moved from “smarter autocomplete” and “over the shoulder helper” to genuine “delegate-to” relationships - they’re like eager and determined interns. (more)

Simon Willison: Claude Code for web - a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic. (more)

Simon Willison: simonw/claude-skills. simonw/claude-skills. One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Claude Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. 2025-10-09-VincentSuperpowersHowImUsingCodingAgentsInOctober2025 (more)

Katie Parrott: How to Use Claude Code for Everyday Tasks—No Programming Required. (more)

Vibe Check: Claude Code Now Works on Mobile and the Web. I’ll admit that I've been using OpenAI's Codex for most of my coding lately, but Kieran still swears by Claude Code, running multiple instances in parallel as part of his compounding engineering workflow. So when Anthropic gave us early access to the cloud and mobile version of Claude Code that just launched, we all carved out time to test the same promise: Can you actually run Claude Code from your phone? Can you assign it a coding task while you're away from your desk and pick it up later? Does "anywhere" truly mean anywhere? (more)

Jesse Vincent's GitHub obra/superpowers: Claude Code superpowers: core skills library. A comprehensive skills library of proven techniques, patterns, and workflows for AI coding assistants. (more)

Simon Willison: Vibe engineering. I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI - entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. (more)

Simon Willison: Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025. A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. 2025-10-09-VincentSuperpowersHowImUsingCodingAgentsInOctober2025 (more)

Jesse Vincent: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025. It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up "How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025". (more)

Simon Willison: Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP. Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models. (more)

Simon Willison: My review of Claude Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name. Today on the Anthropic blog: Claude can now create and edit files: (more)

Android app I used on my Pixel 2 XL to access my work MsOutlook email and calendar: (2020-01-18) Google Calendar vs Microsoft Calendar.

Model of categorizing US states/counties/citizens. (more)

Get Your War On is a series of satirical comic strips by David Rees about political topics. Initially, the comic concerned the effects of the September 11 attacks on New York City, but it quickly switched its focus to more recent topics, in particular the War on Terror. The strip debuted on October 9, 2001. From a technical standpoint the strips are crude, being assembled from about a dozen simple clip art pictures of office workers (with a few exceptions, most notably super robot Voltron) that are repeated, often in the same strip. Almost all are in red on a white background. There is an emphasis on dialogue, with little action. Highly disillusioned and cynical, it is heavily laden with expletives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_War_On (more)