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Every developer who has used an AI coding assistant has experienced the same frustration: You spend an afternoon teaching Claude

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When I think of "Slack" my brain immediately translates it to "AOL." I'm not kidding.

Yesterday I wrote about AI introducing doubt with something as fundamental as how software is created now with the advent of AI software that can be used effectively to write software. Behind that I wondered if the open source developers of WordPress had changed their methodo...

Continuing, isn't it a shame that CloudFlare didn't take a different approach? What if they had created a fantastic WordPress runtime, which seems to be where most of their effort went, and that's where their expertise lies, not in crafting new user experiences. A service yo...

David Pogue, on his new blog at Substack: When the iPhone was about to go on sale in 2007, a thousand people lined up around the block at New York City’s Apple Store. I’d written a parody of “My Way,” with the crazy idea of filming a music video with the participation o...

The New York Times (gift link): Critics warn it still has many issues — its portico is too big, its stairs lead nowhere, its columns will block views from inside the ballroom. And that’s just the portico. This is a really good piece, with animated-as-you-scroll illust...

AI coding tools haven’t removed bottlenecks. They’ve moved them to the review queue, putting more pressure on senior engineers. This

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The following is an excerpt from the just-published second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini.

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I’ve always felt that AI found its footing in software engineering first because, frankly, the environment is honest. When you’re

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TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

Meta has been found guilty in two separate but related cases involving the alleged harms of its social platforms in the past couple of weeks.

Coffee and breakfast earlier this morning at Sip Coffee. ☕️

Hashtag discovery in the Fediverse is limited by which servers yours knows about. tags.pub, a global hashtag server by the Social Web Foundation, fills that gap. It collects public posts and redistributes them by hashtag, so your content reaches people across the network. It works out of the box on WordPress.com. Self-hosted sites can connect by adding a relay in the ActivityPub settings. The project is open source, privacy-conscious, and respects opt-outs.

Well, my first question is: Why do you care so much about Steve Kim? He was your college roommate? Who cares? When was the last time Steve Kim acted in an era-defining hockey romance that centers queer desire within a relentlessly heteronormative sports milieu, thereby deman...

Anyone today can build an agent locally with minimal effort. With some LLM calls, a prompt, and a few tool

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Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand.

Dealerships say they’re getting busier as the Iran war and the shipping crisis at the Strait of Hormuz drag on.

From forcing down chewy, bacon-flavored Man Cereal to vomiting at the office, buying into the MAHA protein craze was a challenging endeavor.

Momentum’s latest electric commuter bike feels luxurious and natural to ride. It’s also heavy.

The M4 iPad Air is a very modest refresh, but let’s not forget just how good of an iPad it really is.