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Richard Kind Is Glad He’s Not Super Famous

Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show ‘Everybody's Live with John Mulaney.’ "I don't know what the hell I'm doing. You must understand — it's anarchy," he says of the show. He spoke with Terry Gross about having ego but no confidence, working with Sondheim, and working in his father's jewelry store as a teen.

Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead has as remembrance of musicians we lost this year.

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How AI Will Help Tomorrow’s IT Operations

The year 2025 started out with a bang, with the AI community collectively deciding to use the MCP format to

The post How AI Will Help Tomorrow’s IT Operations appeared first on The New Stack.

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Text • John Gruber

Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG

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After posting a link to the Computer History Museum’s release of the Photoshop 1.0 source code last week, I spent some time paging through the original Photoshop manuals. I found a screenshot of the dialog box where you entered your serial number, and posted it to Mastodon, ...

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Meet the man who invites 1,000 people to his house every month

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Once a month for 15 years, David Weiner has hosted a jazz party, inviting everyone he knows and many people he’s never met over to his D.C. rowhouse. Today, we revisit one of our favorite episodes of the year and go inside the wildly welcoming ritual to understand how he’s b...

Nelio Software
Text • David Aguilera

2025 Year in Review

The year is almost over and it's time to look back and review everything that we've accomplished, as well as all the things that didn't go as planned.

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Audio • Dan Shipper

Four Predictions for How AI Will Change Software in 2026

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Tomorrow is the first day of 2026, and to give our listeners a view of the trends that’ll shape the year ahead, Dan Shipper had Every COO Brandon Gell on AI & I to discuss their predictions for what’s next. They discussed how software will be built, who will build it, and...

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I'm pretty sure both Lilac by #Katatonia and Restless Boy by #PainOfSalvation are using a sample of a floppy disk drive and I find that interesting. It is a pleasant sound. Let me know if I'm mistaken...

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Text • Mike Drucker

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City

Our 2nd most-read article of 2025. - - - It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against the mayor who promised to blow up the city and those who voted for the mayor who prom...

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Here’s An Open Thread To Help Ring In The New Year

Here’s An Open Thread To Help Ring In The New Year

We are once again faced with a fake-ass work week, so things will be a little slow around here until Friday. Take this opportunity to amuse yourselves in an open thread!

The Brian Lehrer Show
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Holiday Best-Of: Colleges; Public Health; Pre-Cellphone Nostalgia; Being Stuck

During this holiday season, hear some recent favorites: Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University and the author of Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right (Hachette, 2025), talks about issues of free speech and campus politics at Princeton, and...

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Getting DNS Right: Principles for Effective Monitoring

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This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1: How to Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure

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Text • Israel Daramola

You Can Finally Start Paying Attention To The College Football Playoff

You Can Finally Start Paying Attention To The College Football Playoff

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.

The first round of the expanded playoff was, predictably, a bit of a dud. But hey, the second round is here and the games should get better, or at least we hope they will. The potential for blowouts still lurks, and who knows what effect a three-week break from football will have on some of these teams.

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Building Successful Collaboration Through Communication in WordPress Release Teams

In the world of open source, communication stands out as a key factor for successful collaboration. WordPress release teams unite contributors from all around the globe, bringing together a remarkable diversity of experiences, cultures, and time zones. While technical prowess is important, it is the way team members connect and exchange information that truly shapes […]

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What It Takes to Fix a Broken Healthcare System with Erin Nance

Erin Nance is an orthopedic surgeon who has seen firsthand how often patients—especially women—are misdiagnosed, dismissed, or overlooked. In this conversation with Guy Kawasaki, she unpacks why curiosity and humility matter more than hierarchy, how AI is reshaping diagnosis...

WIRED
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Factor Meal Delivery Promo: Free $200 Withings Body-Scan Scale

Factor meal kits offer a free $200 Withings body-scanning scale after a three-week subscription. I was afraid, then maybe a little motivated?

WIRED
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Poor Sleep Quality Accelerates Brain Aging

Research shows that people who sleep poorly tend to have brain age that is older than their actual age. Chronic inflammation in the body caused by poor sleep likely plays a part.

WIRED
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Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse

Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.

WIRED
Text • Jason Parham

AI-Powered Dating Is All Hype. IRL Cruising Is the Future

Dating apps and AI companies have been touting bot wingmen for months. But the future might just be good old-fashioned meet-cutes.

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She Fell in Love With ChatGPT: An Update

This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since. Warning: This episode discusses sexual themes. Artificial intelligence has changed how millions of people write emails, conduct research and s...