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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion

Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.

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The 2026 issue of the HTML Review , “an annual...

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”.

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The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now

The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now

I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went straight into the folder this morning.

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Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’

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Grace Kay, Ashley Stewart, and Pranav Dixit, writing for Business Insider (News+): “Part of bringing me on, and giving me the responsibilities of a CEO, was to make sure that I could really run that part of the company with autonomy,” Simo, whose title is CEO of applicat...

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Affidavit: Tiger Woods Had Hydrocodone Pills In His Pocket, Was “Sweating Profusely” After Crash

Affidavit: Tiger Woods Had Hydrocodone Pills In His Pocket, Was “Sweating Profusely” After Crash

Tiger Woods was “sweating profusely” and appeared “lethargic and slow” after his crash last weekend, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday. The golfer told investigators with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office that he had taken “a few” prescription drugs earlier in the day, and a deputy later found two hydrocodone pills in Woods’s left pocket. Wood was…

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RAM Is the New Bearer Bond

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Hana Kiros, writing for The Atlantic: Recently, a Costco in Florida instituted a new store policy. An employee told me that he was asked to open up every desktop computer displayed in the electronics section and remove the memory chips. Otherwise, the RAM harvesters woul...

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Artemis II Countdown: How and When to Watch the Launch

Here’s everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.

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Some Things Just Take Time via Armin Ronacher

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Trees take quite a while to grow. If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait. Tree-lined roads, old gardens, houses sheltered by decades of canopy: if you want to start fresh on an empty plot, you will not be able to get that.

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Moonlight on the water.

A moonlit night sky casts a serene glow over a tranquil ocean.

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Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type...

Mark Simonson reminisces about when he discovered type design. “The idea of coming up with an original alphabet design fired my imagination. And learning that it was possible to design type professionally was a revelation.”

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Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Defending Privacy, Daily

Yesterday, I had the chance to witness someone who's one of the most dedicated, competent advocates for privacy and digital rights bring that message to a whole new platform. It turns out, it's pretty delightful, especially in a moment when our civil liberties and rights onl...

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JetBrains: AI agents are about to repeat the cloud ROI crisis

Deploying AI coding agents is no longer hard, but knowing whether they’re working and keeping them from becoming another unmanaged

The post JetBrains: AI agents are about to repeat the cloud ROI crisis appeared first on The New Stack.

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Why Cursor is bringing self-hosted AI agents to the Fortune 500

Bringing agents closer to the code

For AI coding agents to work effectively, they need access to a broad range of systems — from private repositories

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Portkey open-sources its AI gateway after processing 2 trillion tokens a day

Portkey defines itself as a company that provides a control plane for production AI deployments. This month, the company launched

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I’m Your Therapist’s Therapist, and That Girl is a Fucking Mess

Hey, it’s Mark—your therapist’s therapist. I’m sure you’re really looking forward to your appointment with Joan this week, and I wouldn’t normally do this… but I think you should probably start considering other providers. I’m not telling you to abandon ship. Just, you know,...

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Claude Code users say they’re hitting usage limits faster than normal

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Claude Code users say they’re reaching usage limits faster than before — an ongoing issue Anthropic confirms on Reddit and

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“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry...

“By focusing its narrative on the tech industry itself, Halt and Catch Fire’s staying power has only increased. The story it tells still has something to say about our present-day reality.”

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Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit

Reddit blamed a technical glitch for the removal of the living legend’s concert footage.

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Jaden Ivey Lost His Mind And Then His Job

Jaden Ivey Lost His Mind And Then His Job
In the first of the recent rambling Instagram live sermons that got him fired by the Chicago Bulls, Jaden Ivey hunts through a bible for passages to share with his followers. He evidently did not do the prep-work to place sticky tabs or bookmarks in there, so there are awkwa...