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This new-ish hybrid between trail runners and road runners is designed for less technical terrain and the occasional road run.

The first week of December at The New York Times is known as “Cookie Week.” Every day, for seven days, our cooking team highlights a new holiday cookie recipe. This year’s batch features flavors that aren’t necessarily traditional holiday ones — or even, for that matter, fla...

With “hardware guy” John Ternus as frontrunner for the next CEO, can Apple overtake its ex-employees at OpenAI and Meta?

I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto.

A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever.

The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

Sometimes when I rewrite a blog post or email multiple times, it becomes hard to tell if it’s actually better, or if it lost whatever spark was in that first quick draft.

Micro.blog iPhone and iPad folks, the latest TestFlight beta has several bug fixes to text editing layout, keyboard, and the share sheet nav bar. Think I’ve finally got some of those glitches under control. If you’re not on the beta, you can join here.

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

There has been some lovely writing about self-driving this week, first in the New York Times where Jonathan Slotkin makes the medical case for autonomous vehicles. But I was really taken by The Economist’s look at how self-driving cars will transform urban economies. It’s behind a paywall. I enjoyed how they thought about the second-order … Continue reading Self-driving →

How we're evolving email delivery in 2026

Delegation doesn't scale your business. What does: Creating a team that is better than the current team. Including you.

As organizations scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and agent-driven AI systems into production, a critical performance issue is emerging: Poor

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What’s really going on inside the brain of an altruist? Why do altruists care so much more for a stranger who needs help? Why are they so willing to give away a kidney? In this episode from the Washington Post’s “Try This” podcast, host Cristina Quinn explores what it means ...

People using feedland.org -- may notice that some old items will appear in your timelines. I just installed a version of FeedLand on that server that does a better job of figuring out if a feed item has changed. There will be fewer false positives, which makes the software considerably more efficient, and means that you don't have to see things that didn't change. It should settle down fairly quickly, but it may be a little chatty for a while. Still diggin! (Also these changes will come to feedland.com as well.)

People seem to like Telex which makes developing WordPress user interfaces easier, via AI. Software is gradually adjusting this way, putting the AI where the problem is. For example I wanted to do a Google Form a few months ago and the best Gemini could do was tell me what commands to choose. But now if you go to make a form, using the Forms app, it offers to do it via AI.

If we really want tech to get back to basics we need pubs that function as product reviewers, like we have entertainment reviewers. There's so much software and so many isolated bubbles of developers, when there's a development that shakes the world less than ChatGPT, I might...

A security vulnerability in React related to React Server Components was identified over the holiday weekend. On Nov. 29, Lachlan

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Two of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

Are 'Porch Pirates' Stealing Your Packages? (First) | Mayor Adams' Legacy (Starts 12 minutes in)

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Scientists found sugars that are essential for life on asteroid Bennu, which has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting Earth in 2182.

This premium gaming handheld loads up with features, but Windows still holds it back from being the easy option.