First we used software. Then software started using software. And now software can use us.
Machine Society
• Mike Elgan
The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in education!) MacBook Neo, the brightly-colored low-end laptop that they launched to great fanfare. The conventional w...
Jake Savin
• Jake
RIP Pickles
Today we said goodbye to Pickles the Wonder Pug, aka Black Lightning. He gave our family nine years of unconditional love, snugs, snorts, and romps—guarding our safety, and protecting us from garbage collectors, mailmen, airplanes, and helicopters. He passed peacefully with his whole family around him. Rest in peace, Pick-pick. ❤️❤️❤️
I can’t believe I’m only just now learning that Luke Kornet has a blog. Guess I need to officially offer everyone in the Spurs organization free Micro.blog subscriptions. 🏀
Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through a ‘Clean Room’ Implementation of Code?
Simon Willison:
There are a lot of open questions about this, both ethically and
legally. These appear to be coming to a head in the venerable
chardet Python library. chardet was created by Mark
Pilgrim back in 2006 and released under the LGPL. Mark
retired from public i...
Donald Knuth on Claude Opus Solving a Computer Science Problem
Donald Knuth, who, adorably, effectively blogs by posting TeX-typeset PDFs:
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic’s hybrid reasoning model that had been released three weeks earlier! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving. I’ll try to tell the story briefly in this note.
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
It’s Just Another Day In ‘Paradise’ Cover Song Hell
Paradise is a good show. I have to get that out of the way early, because I do think that it's fun and well-plotted and knotted with enough twists to sustain a strong momentum throughout its eight-episode seasons. The premise is simple enough, though doled out slowly through...
Defector
• Barry Petchesky
Dan Simmons Is Dead So It’s Time To Read ‘Hyperion’
Call it the Orson Scott Card problem. You want to recommend a piece of sci-fi to a friend, but you know that if you do you'll have to include the disclaimer that the author's politics are diametrically opposed to your own, and you find them downright objectionable. You trul...
I designed this RSS app for the web first, and then added Mac afterwards (in beta soon). I think that worked out well. Helps push the web to be as feature-rich as possible, and lets me rethink what should be different for the Mac.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Jessica Wachtel
Vibe code full-stack apps fast with TanStack Start
It’s no secret that it’s gotten significantly easier to build applications in the last few years. And vibe coding is
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Let me tell you something about AIs. They are not in any way ready to develop the kinds of apps I make. I spent a full week trying to get it to do so. What happened here is that we all were blown away, correctly, with what ChatGPT could do, and loved that it kept getting bet...
Reporter at the Guardian: "We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie." It's true. I was covering tech realistically starting in 1994, was writing for Wired, people thought I was being too hard on them, but I was actually like you too easy. But people didn’t want to believe tech was evil, they believed that the young people that were running tech were idealists and maybe they were when they started, but by the time the billions started flowing and they stopped caring about people and started only caring about money. A piece I wrote in 1996 after going to a tech industry conference."
Carville is obviously right. No political party can afford to demonize a group of voters based on gender and race, esp when they make up approx 33% of the electorate.
He was a trust buster
If he were alive today he'd be busting silos.
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Yasmin Rajabi
Why is your Kubernetes cluster adding nodes when the dashboards look fine?
Kubernetes has always been sensitive to bad inputs. What’s changed is how often teams are running into it. As more bursty workloads—especially inference—land on Kubernetes, a familiar
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GNU and the AI reimplementations
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. A sentence that I never really liked, and what is happening with AI, about software projects reimplementations, shows all the limits of such an idea. Many people are protesting the fairness of rewriting existing p...
Steve Lemay Hits Apple’s Leadership Page
Defector
• Barry Petchesky
The World Baseball Classic Is Already Producing Some Classic World Baseball
For my money, the best part of any World Baseball Classic is not the back end of the tourney, when the field has been whittled to the world's best and the level of play is immaculate. Sure, there's some good baseball there, and high drama, and it's where bragging rights trul...
Defector
• Luis Paez-Pumar
New F1 Season, New Regulations, Same Old Ferrari Fuck-Up
Tuning in for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday night (Sunday afternoon in Melbourne), I was expecting many things. I was expecting Aston Martin to retire from the race early in order to avoid causing Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll physical harm. I was e...
Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse &...
Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse & violence at the hands of its chef/owner, René Redzepi. Punching, screaming, shoving, stabbing, slamming, intimidation, ridicule, blacklisting. What an asshole.