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Automatic programming

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In my YouTube channel, for some time now I started to refer to the process of writing software using AI assistance (soon to become just "the process of writing software", I believe) with the term "Automatic Programming". In case you didn't notice, automatic programming produ...

McSweeney’s
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I’m Still Your America

Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civilian in Minneapolis (bringing this year’s known death toll up to eight), I know a lot of you are struggling to recognize me lat...

Fresh Air
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Best Of: Novelists Liz Moore & Julian Barnes

Liz Moore’s bestselling book, ‘Long Bright River,’ was set in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where she’d worked on a photo essay. “My own family has a long history of addiction. I was kind of emotionally drawn back to the neighborhood over and over again because of tha...

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Scripting News: Saturday, January 31, 2026

Saturday, January 31, 2026 Next year I have to go to FOSDEM. This year's conference is going on right now in Brussels. If you're there and reading this -- say a hello for me. I realize the piece I wrote yesterday about the future of the social web is equally relevant now fo...

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Went to see Steve Martin and Martin Short tonight. Great show. Martin Short also had a few words to honor Catherine O’Hara at the end. Just perfect.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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The shift left hangover: Why modern platforms are shifting down to cure developer fatigue

A three-panel comic book-style image of a man at a computer. One panel shows his hand on a keyboard, the middle panel shows his tired-looking eyes, and the third panel shows his hand on a mouse.

Over the last decade, “shift left” became the mantra of high-performing engineering organizations. The premise was sound: Move testing, security,

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Buttondown's blog
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OpenAPI spec for archives

A machine-readable spec for the data powering your archive pages.

Buttondown's blog
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How Rodrigo brings a humanistic view to consumer technology

Journalist, Rodrigo Ghedin, uses his bilingual newsletter to share his insights on the social and psychological impacts of modern consumer technology.

WIRED
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Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti’s Killing

Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it.

Post Reports
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Is Minneapolis a turning point in Trump's presidency?

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Since the killing of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, President Donald Trump and his administration are feeling the pressure — not only from Democrats, but also from members of their own party. Some congressional Republicans have been critical of th...

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Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’

New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

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Singing the gospel of collective efficacy

If I got to determine the school curriculum, I would be optimising for collective efficacy. So I live in a gentrified but still mixed neighbourhood in London (we’re the newbies at just under a decade) and we have an active WhatsApp group. Recently there was a cold snap and a...

WIRED
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I Let Google's ‘Auto Browse’ AI Agent Take Over Chrome. It Didn't Quite Click

Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that's the idea.

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Lots of interesting stats in Bluesky’s trust and safety report for 2025. Just a small part:

Harassment reports (1.99M total) encompassed a wide spectrum of behavior, from serious violations to everyday incivility. The new taxonomy distinguishes hate speech (55.40K reports), targeted harassment (42.52K reports), trolling (29.48K reports), and doxxing (3.17K reports) from more general unkindness.

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It’s worse than an attack on journalism

Lemon wasn't targeted for being a reporter. He was targeted for being an Enemy.

Daring Fireball Valid
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Apple Reports Record-Breaking Revenue and Profit for Q1 FY26

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Apple Newsroom, yesterday: “Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago and well above our expectations,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unpr...

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Just got lost in the filmography for Catherine O’Hara, and watching old interviews, thinking of all the voice acting too like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. Rest in peace.

Bram’s Thoughts
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Drug Tidbits

Drug Tidbits

Pharma is ever maddening

WIRED
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3 Great Heated Blanket Deals on My Favorite Affordable Models

Some of our favorite heated blankets are on sale (and might even arrive in time for you to use this weekend).

Stephen Wolfram Writings
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P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A Ruliological Approach

Empirical Theoretical Computer Science “Could there be a faster program for that?” It’s a fundamental type of question in theoretical computer science. But except in special cases, such a question has proved fiendishly difficult to answer. And, for example, in half a century, almost no progress has been made even on the rather coarse (though […]