
The bottleneck in software development has moved. Writing code is no longer the constraint. Getting it safely to production is.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

The bottleneck in software development has moved. Writing code is no longer the constraint. Getting it safely to production is.
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Adrian Bridgwater

AI is already inside most enterprises’ IT stacks, but it’s had a somewhat shambolic and unsystematic early adolescence. Employees use
The post “Agents need boring infrastructure around them”: Why we need to take an interest in ‘invisible’ AI appeared first on The New Stack.
Silver Bulletin
• Nate Silver
This tournament has been great so far. But 48 teams create an awkward bracket. A 64-team World Cup is the inevitable outcome — and maybe the better one.
The Texas Observer
• Gus Bova
As thousands of visitors from around the country pour into Dallas for the opening matches of the 2026 World Cup, a group of faith leaders and immigrant rights organizers are addressing the elephant on the field–the city’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The coalition, made up of members from El Movimiento DFW, Clergy […]
The post As World Cup Unfolds, Immigrant Rights Organizers Seek a Reckoning over Dallas’ Relationship with ICE appeared first on The Texas Observer.
The problem with stats is you start obsessing over them and get distracted. This is why I don’t even look at website analytics or referrers anymore. But now that we have a little more data on RAM for Mac customers, it is interesting… 56% at 24 GB or more.
This is just people who have already updated to Micro.blog 4.0.
Since its inception in 2018, over 120 kittens and adult cats have found adoptive homes through cat program in a South Carolina prison.
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/06/16/a-cat-program-in-a-medium-security-prison/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=PJP-Bluesky
Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line, filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in handy not only in making the film but in actually solving the crime at the heart of the story and freeing an innocent man from a prison life sentence.
The Thin Blue Line (1988) not only exposed a miscarriage of justice and freed an innocent man from prison, but created a new genre of movies and forever changed the way Americans view their own justice system.
Tags: crime · Errol Morris · movies · murder · video
Defector
• Chris Thompson
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
The FCC's proposed changes to getting a phone plan; cops keep stalking with Flock; and a software update changes the AC in Amazon vans.
WP Tavern
• Nathan Wrigley
In this episode of the WP Tavern Jukebox podcast, the conversation focused on agency growth, lessons from rtCamp’s journey, and the changing agency landscape due to AI. We discussed the importance of hiring complementary skill sets when starting an agency, and the necessity to niche down for success in 2026, rather than being a generalist WordPress agency. The discussion explored rtCamp’s bold commitment to integrating AI throughout their business operations to improve efficiency and reduce costs, and how this positions them for future growth while transforming traditional agency roles and services.
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps and its roots in chattel slavery in the US and in Nazi & Soviet work camps.
Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
In this episode we describe pictures to the listener for maximum hilarity.…
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
• L. Jeffrey Zeldman
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]
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The Linux Foundation has long transcended its roots as a steward of the Linux kernel, emerging as a “foundation of
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

Enterprises are pouring billions into AI and getting garbage back. A new startup says it knows why and has built
The post Your AI isn’t broken. Your data is. appeared first on The New Stack.
Proposed UI rule of thumb: “If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense.”
McSweeney’s
• Tyler Gooch
WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu
Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.