Weeknotes #84 (June 13, 2026)

Posted on: Jun 13, 2026

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I worked on

• I went ahead and finally set the Min Release Age setting for NPM which blocks installing new packages / versions that are under a day old (or whatever set of hours / days you wish). This will reduce the attack vector of a lot of supply chain attacks given most are found within a few hours and subsequently yanked from npm.

Things I consumed

• WWDC 2026 was this past week and the main highlight was the new LLM powered Siri. Personally I was whelmed given it does finally work, but this is what was previewed 2 years ago and finally is landing this fall. I have tried it on my macbook air, but I feel we won't feel the full power of it until app developers integrate with it come this fall.
• Claude Fable 5 was a model that was released this week that was at the knowledge level of Anthropic's Mythos model, but with security guardrails to prevent dangerous use of it. That said as of Friday night, the US Government requested it be blocked by any foriegn nationals and due to such, it is no longer available for anyone to use.