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As the parent of an 18-month-old, I’ve been reading a lot lately. That is, if your definition of reading includes thumbing through sheets of increasingly careworn and spittle-soaked cardboard, reciting the 30 or 40 words that compose each tale from memory, and pausing innume...

The season is changing for frontend observability, as we’re seeing great community involvement in improving OpenTelemetry support for web apps

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Molly Fischer, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about her reporting on Costco’s storied company culture and whether it can endure as the company continues to grow.  

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Rohan Gupta of R Systems sees the value of building UI with an eye out for dark patterns at the

The post Tactics to End Dark Patterns in App and Web Development appeared first on The New Stack.

This week, we discuss archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more.

I like a good hot sauce. It’s not, like, my personality, but I enjoy them. There are enough different hot sauces that having a bit of a collection of them is reasonable. Cholula is a mainstay, working equally well on Mexican and egg-based dishes. Although admit Tabasco is my general go-to. The green Tabasco works […]

X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

While the man inarguably does his research, we must assume that Al Michaels did not read this story when it ran two and a half weeks ago. If he had, he would have called in sick for Thursday night's Raiders-Broncos game, and so might have spared himself having to c...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.

Israel: We got our first edition of the college football playoff standings and hoo boy, it’s time to get MAD ONLINE. The main takeaways from the first bracket are that the SEC and the Big Ten are swallowing up all the real estate, the Big 12 makes a decent show of it, and literally no one has any respect for the ACC, which is a huge blow to Miami’s chances. 

Sleep is the one thing every giftee needs, and you can help them get it. These are our tried-and-tested picks for giftable sleep aids, from masks to melatonin.

An even better, more iconic, metaphor for this administration than the images of the East Wing being razed. When you watch the video, take note of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. performing his family’s signature dance move, “The Chappaquiddick”.

Before all the excitement, Trump fell asleep, right in front of the press.

Earlier this summer, ESPN made the confounding and ultimately disastrous choice to build its NBA Finals broadcasts around the stentorian yowling of Stephen A. Smith, a man who neither knows ball nor cares for it. You could have deduced that from watching him work the desk or, even more starkly, plug away at a solitaire app on his phone during the best game of the series. One might consider Smith's omnipresence on ESPN's broadcast alongside his naked disinterest in the thing being broadcast, and wonder whether this was as cynical as he could get.

No. It could get worse, as shown by this grotesque new AI ad Smith cut for Solitaire Cash, a solitaire-branded app that belongs as a notable new entry in mobile game hell:

The search landscape is shifting. In recent months, Microsoft announced the retirement of the Bing Search API, while Google limited

The post The Search API Reset: Incumbents Retreat, Innovators Step Up appeared first on The New Stack.

The kind of email I like to get. From Manton: "Just wanted to let you know that I added source:markdown to all Micro.blog-hosted RSS feeds by default this week. You can see it in my feed." That's one nice lookin RSS feed. He added: "NetNewsWire support was the last nudge I needed to add this." The Power of Brent. It's good to stay on Brent's good side. ;-)

Scott McNulty blogging about the new Star Trek LEGO set:

$400 is a lot of money for some pieces of plastic, but how can you put a price on happiness?

The minifigures look great. Wish I could just buy a few of them without the full set. We have no space for more LEGOs.

In a final message, Jane Goodall urged us not to lose hope, even “as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change and worse loss of biodiversity.” She believed our actions still mattered on this beautiful Earth. Above all, she said, in a statement released soon after her October 1 death:  […]

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Trying something new! A short video to start my morning. Coffee at Cosmic. ☕️

Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.

Enjoyed this video with Matt Mullenweg and John Borthwick. I thought I was familiar with Betaworks, but I had never actually heard John speak. Some interesting thoughts here about the future.

I'm writing specifically about the Edmonton Oilers at the St. Louis Blues on Sportsnet on Monday night, but in broad strokes that will apply to any game you're watching.

First Period