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Baseball makes you feel bad. I don't mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti's lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean that baseball at its best, when the beats are on rhythm and when the high no...

Building an AI team should start with hiring people who exhibit natural curiosity, grit and technical versatility across AI, machine

The post What Nobody Tells You About Building and Retaining GenAI Teams appeared first on The New Stack.

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Thanksgiving can be daunting. Meal kit boxes from Sunbasket or Marley Spoon offer the satisfaction of making a home-cooked feast, with a lot less stress.

You can take your World Series and push it up your tush. The NFL delivers excitement similar to that of the high stakes, edge-of-your-seat extra inning baseball the Blue Jays and Dodgers gave us last week. But to see the heroics of Shohei Ohtani or Yoshinobu Yamamoto or even...

Apple gives you a lot of control over your privacy and security. Make good use of it.

Wes Felter explains what stablecoins are for. "Stablecoins work offshore in places where dollars don't, they're faster to transfer, they mostly can't be seized, etc. It's for the margins not the mainstream."

From the beginning, I wanted FeedLand to make excellent use of WebSockets. It's an amazing technology for its power and simplicity. Basically it allows a server running in the cloud to send information to an app running in the browser, or for that matter an iOS app running on an phone. Then the question is what do you want to use the socket for? And the answer is that to make syndication even simpler and faster than RSS. If you want to know more, there's a client toolkit and demo app on GitHub, open source of course. How real is it? The blogroll on scripting.com is a sockets app, a much-improved blogroll from the ones we had 20 years ago. Also runs on WordPress sites. It's been running smoothly since March 2024. Pretty solid. And WordPress, that doesn't break formats, has supported the rssCloud protocol since 2009, and of course so does FeedLand.

New podcast about WebSockets.

If I could grab you by the shoulders I would urge you to pay attention.

Here's a way to push news around the net that's as fast as you can imagine it being, and even simpler than RSS.

It's all about WebSockets, rssCloud and WordPress.

Would you spend a few minutes thinking about that?

Then here's a podast for you.

Here's the blog post I wrote this morning with all the links you need to explore the sockets tech in FeedLand.

We speak to the creator of ICEBlock about Apple banning their app, and what this means for people trying to access information about ICE.

This episode, we look at the song “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a forty-four-minute bonus episode available, on “Mendocino” by the Sir Douglas Quintet.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by editing, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/.

ERRATUM: Three times early on I talk about a 1940s label called Concord Records. That’s meant to be Coronet Records — Concord Records is the label that *bought* Fantasy Records in the early twenty-first century, Coronet Records is the label that *became* Fantasy Records.

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“Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.” — CNBC - - - It is unconscionable for the government to let SNAP benefits la...

Texas has grown a bumper crop of book authors and, with that, an ever-expanding list of literary festivals. San Antonio’s sprawls around its towering tomato-red public library every spring. Lubbock daringly throws its in sweaty August, while Boerne awaits the arrival of typically more bearable October weather. Then there’s the biggest of them all: the […]

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This is an excerpt from the upcoming TNS eBook “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations”

The post Migrating VMs to Kubernetes: A Roadmap for Cloud Native Enterprises appeared first on The New Stack.

I'm part of the Berkman community email list. There's a tradition that people are introduce themselves at this time, so I thought I should also, since this is my first year on the list. This is a copy of the email I sent. My name is Dave Winer. I was at Berkman in 2003-04. ...

Bonus round: My favourites from the ones you have sent me in the replies.

Veni, vidi, fedi
I use alt text
Eat, sleep, toot, repeat
The future is federated

I couldn’t figure out how to connect with such a distributed group of people, and it was right out there at the WordCamps. Geez how could i have missed that. I’ve been out of practice, i guess. Now the big question is which wordcamp should I go to next? 😉 Also I’ve been learning about […]

Where to lock in, power down, and actually enjoy your business trip.

While puzzling captchas—from dogs in hats to sliding jockstraps—still exist, most bot-deterring challenges have vanished into the background.