For about a decade, being a developer was… cushy. If you loved your job as a developer anytime in the last 10 years, you were living the dream.Good salaries. Endless opportunities. You solved problems, shipped code, and got paid very well for it. No need to worry too much about why the business…

Catherine O’Hara in 2019.Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times An Emmy-winning comedian with oddball charm, she got her start with the influential Canadian sketch comedy series “SCTV.” Catherine O’Hara in 2019.Credit...Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times Listen to this article · 6:40 min…

Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy. In the Trump‑redux era of 2026, European enterprises are finally taking data…

Reddit for robots AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans. Benj Edwards – Jan 30, 2026 5:12 pm | 9 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Moltbook Credit: Aurich Lawson | Moltbook Story text…

With no release date set for Silo season 3, the wait has started to feel endless. Fans craving grounded, character-first post-apocalyptic sci-fi are left searching for something equally immersive to fill the gap. There are plenty of bleak wasteland dramas out there, but few match the emotional…

Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded him for…

Nearly every parent hopes their child will be better off than they are: smarter, more secure, and more well-adjusted. Many parents see this as a stamp of successful parenting, but something has changed for children growing up today. While younger generations are known for their empathy, their…

Technology Mobile iPhone Why There's Simply No Need For An iPad Anymore By Jan. 27, 2026 12:17 pm EST Framesira/Shutterstock The iPad is one of the key hardware products Apple makes, alongside the iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, and AirPods. It has been a key product since the first-generation iPad was…

A couple of weeks ago, a video posted on TikTok by Paige Carter, a mother in Florida, went viral. Carter explained that she had thrown her daughter’s iPad out of the window when she had been misbehaving on the way to school, and she films herself retrieving the tablet, now with a cracked screen. The…

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, his vision was clear: it would used by everyone, filled with everything and, crucially, it would be free. Today, the British computer scientist’s creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people – and bears little resemblance to the…

Two months ago, I read a seven-hundred-page collection of short stories by John Cheever. But somehow that wasn’t enough. I went on to read seven-hundred-page retrospective collections from Mavis Gallant, Alice Adams, and John O’Hara. And I still wanted more! Normally when I get halfway through a…

26th January 2026 One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container. This feature launched as ChatGPT Code Interpreter nearly three years ago, was half-heartedly rebranded to “Advanced Data Analysis” at some point and is generally really difficult to…

This week’s episode is a bit of a departure for us. We’re “reviewing” 1989’s classic film Dead Poet’s Society to explore it’s messages about education. You can watch Martin and I chew it over, listen to the podcast and read my write up below. Thirty-five years on, Dead Poets Society still holds sway…

safa 7 min read· Oct 18, 2022 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size The Welton boys of Dead Poets Society (1989). Ethan Hawke (bottom left) and Robert Sean Leonard (center). “Come my friends. t’is not too late to seek a newer world. for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset… and…

Start writing a post Politics and ActivismRyan Fan Dec 12, 2016Emory University 1342 A friend recommended the 1989 Oscar-winning film Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ethan Hawke to me the other day. With it being 2 a.m. and me being unable to sleep and unwilling…

Astral has released uvx.sh, a service that generates installation scripts for any Python tool on PyPI. With a single curl or PowerShell command, users can install tools like ruff or pytest without having uv or Python already installed on their system. How It Works uvx.sh dynamically generates…

Zhenglin Li 9 min read· Dec 11, 2025 -- I remember exactly where I was when I first saw Dead Poets Society. It was one afternoon in 12th grade in high school, and my AP Literature teacher-who showed the film-made a brief promise: “This movie will revolutionize the way you look at everything.” At the…

I find stories and analogies very fascinating and — to explain message queues in a super approachable way, we will use some analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices. Stay with me … Databases are primarily used for data persistence — think Postgres or MongoDB. Like databases, message queues…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. The Canon RF 45mm f/1.2 STM, which was announced towards the end of 2025, brought a fresh outlook to Canon's RF mirrorless system. With a price tag of about $469, this small lens (78 x 75mm, 346g)…

Photography is often spoken about as if it were a competition, measured by likes, awards, or comparisons with others. Yet at its core, photography is a deeply personal practice. The way we see, decide, and capture moments is unique to each of us, shaped by our experiences, timing, and attention.…

Farcia Harvey considers herself to be pretty well traveled. The 27-year-old has crossed off New York City, New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Barcelona and Madrid from her travel bucket list. But one of her favorite trips was her 2024 birthday trip to Cincinnati, of all places. "I think about that trip to…

If you're thinking about getting a cheap USB flash drive, hear me out. Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive. SSD thumb drives can be faster than some external SSDs…

Five Steps to a Better Writing Process David Arndt Lays Out Some Action Items Via The Craft of Writing David Arndt January 9, 2026 This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. Give Yourself Time The time of writing is different from the time of daily life. In daily…

The Do List Ivy Buck, NPR Jan 6, 2026 Updated Jan 8, 2026 Save Article Failed to save articlePlease try again A selection of some of the best nonfiction to start your 2026 with. (NPR) If you’re looking to learn something new in the new year, we have the book list for you! Below you’ll find some of…

WD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives on the market, but their branding is about to disappear. Following Western Digital's flash-business spinoff, SanDisk announced it was retiring the beloved names and rebranding its NVMe lineup under the SANDISK Optimus…

My father, a playwright, says that his choice of profession can be parsed as humbly as considering the impulse of a child to showboat on a bicycle screaming, “Look at me!” towards a distracted mother. He could have said that this was the driving impulse of all writers, not only his own. My father is…

Canon showcased a prototype Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, promising extraordinary dynamic range and low-light capabilities while offering a tantalizing glimpse of how digital capture might evolve over the next decade, especially in environments where…

The Cost of Starting Your Own Business talks to founders to get an honest look at what it really takes to create a company. Not just the financial, but the personal and emotional costs, too. Like many people during the pandemic, writers Anika Jade Levy and Madeline Cash were craving community. The…

As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges no choice but to lower their expectations. One shocked professor has described young adults showing up to class, unable to read a…

The year is 133 BCE. The place Rome. Tiberius Gracchus, a tribune of the plebes, is killed in the streets, together with 300 of his supporters. He had angered many in the Senate by sponsoring anti-aristocratic legislation, in particular redistribution of land, a shortened military service, and…

We do this to our philosophies. We redraft their contours based on projected shadows, or give them a cartoonish shape like a caricaturist emphasising all the wrong features. This is how Buddhism becomes, in the popular imagination, a doctrine of passivity and even laziness, while Existentialism…

Crispin Sartwell argues that the Occupy leader seemed to be moving from anarchism to liberalism before his death. January 20, 2024 Politics Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging…

We need to talk about war. And we need to talk about companies building bots that propose to rewrite our source code. And about the people behind both, and how we preserve what is great about FOSS while avoiding disruption. How do geopolitical conflicts on the one hand and the risk of bot-generated…

This article is about comparative HD optical disc formats. For a history of the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war, see High-definition optical disc format war. Comparison of optical properties and physical layout of various optical storage media This article compares the technical specifications of multiple…

This story is part of our ‘Habits to Embrace—and Ditch—in 2026’ series. Read the whole list here. This past summer, I went all in on nonalcoholic drinks. I’m lucky enough to have never had a dependency on alcohol, but there are plenty of other reasons to ditch booze. As a health journalist of over a…