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As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.

We’re celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back. Gosh, it’s been quite a journey, and it still feels like we’re just getting started in so many areas. In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time; it was a scarlet letter that … Continue reading Automattic Twenty →

Delivery robots gathering. It’s day 20 of the photo challenge.

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A week before I was hired at Defector, I decided to quit vaping. This was kind of a while ago now, but I still have good days and bad. Today is a good day; I haven't even needed a patch today. Yesterday was a rough one. On rough days, I will go buy one single shitty poverty ...

New single-page site from Brent Simmons: No Learnings.

This isn’t mere speculation: Emerging AI tools can rapidly generate sophisticated applications, such as interactive dashboards or complete landing pages,

The post Vibe, Then Verify: Turning AI Risk Into Enterprise Reward appeared first on The New Stack.

I’ve now been using Dia for about a week. Parker Ortolani just blogged that he was skeptical of the Arc to Dia transition, but he’s now convinced: The success of Dia over the past few weeks has brought me back my roots, reminding me of the iconic Steve Jobs quote “people do...

A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup's new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.

It’s the 20th anniversary of the launch of microformats.org! So many blogs and social platforms still use Microformats today, including Micro.blog and Mastodon. A simple, useful data format for the IndieWeb.

Fifty years ago, the hot comedy skit was Saturday Night Live’s “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”, a play on the coverage of the Spanish dictator’s demise. That gag came to mind when I read yet another update on the terminally ill Washington Post, a newspaper that I delivered each morning back when the Franco punchline and the newspaper were among the biggest deals in town.

Washington City Paper reported earlier this week that, after this weekend, the Post will no longer have a standalone Metro section in its print edition. The paper told subscribers about the move in an email from executive editor Matt Murray. From City Paper’s story: 

Despite the promises of HTTP/2, the web still struggles with latency, jitter and real-world network volatility. Enter HTTP/3 — not

The post HTTP/3 in the Wild: Why It Beats HTTP/2 Where It Matters Most appeared first on The New Stack.

Cool early preview of Micro Social for iOS 26, with Liquid Glass and “catch me up” summaries of the timeline.

I still remember the first time I was told: Just use the internal platform — it’s all self-service now. So

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For the first time in American sports history, a team has been sold on an 11-figure valuation. News broke Wednesday that the Buss family has agreed to sell a controlling share of Los Angeles Lakers to Mark Walter of TWG Global and Guggenheim Partners in a deal valuing the fr...

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is superintelligence anyway?

The best pitchers in baseball were going to pitch on the same day! In the same place! Walking distance from my home! On a day I didn’t have to work! This dream confluence would give me a chance to watch reigning Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, always a delight, and my first in...

Hiring a plumber without vetting them across multiple Facebook community forums Starting a movie after 9 p.m. Texting without your glasses Eating a Costco hot dog Celebrating the one-year anniversary of ignoring your car’s “check engine” light Sitting under the ceiling fan y...