Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by GitHub Today, I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code — everyone from solo open-source hobbyists to the b

What would a book of philosophy contain if it were written by a dog? Dogs are natural philosophers, and I am convinced they can answer some important questions for us – about life, what is important i

Enlarge / The 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with the official fan and heatsink installed. Andrew Cunningham We're many months past the worst of the Raspberry Pi shortages, and the board is finally widely availab

2024-08-19 #software #web There’s a lot to be frustrated about contemporary software and the modern web. (If you are a software user and you are not frustrated, you can safely skip this article). Ther

Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. Andrew Cunningham As we wait for this fall's Windows 11 24H2 update to be released to th

Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly

It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search

Meta is shutting down its CrowdTangle tool, despite researchers petitioning the company to keep it going through January 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America Meta has been bombarded by aca

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images At the end of April, a TikToker named Megan Boni sang, “I’m looking for a man in finance, trust fund, six-five, blue eyes.” In under a month, the p

Aaron Zimmerman, Copy Chief I can’t remember the last disc I burned, but it was almost certainly a mix CD of some description. I’d like to think it was a compilation entitled “Silly Love Songs,” which

Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack I. At sunset on a September evening, Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, strode to a lectern set up in the parking lot of a Harley-Davidson dealership in Hic

I came across this viral post on X/Twitter where Pritam found that his Leetcode solution was slower when he was using Python’s min built-in function and the performance improved when he implemented mi

Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com The majority opinion in Trump v. United States, the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history, secure

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Today we are introducing post stats in the Substack app for iOS and Android. This highly requested feature allows you to view the most important statistics for your posts, a more detailed breakdown of

11 min read· Jul 15, 2024 -- /alt title: what happened when I stopped trying to sprint-plan my life I left my job as a software engineer 6 months ago. The pain of my departure caused colleagues to act

Rashid Khan is not a name known to many Americans. But any cricket fan — which includes the heads of Microsoft and Google — knows exactly who he is: a famous Afghan cricket bowler with a devastating v

1981 non-fiction book by Tracy Kidder For the album by Fear Factory, see Soul of a New Machine. The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chroni

Tech tips for people who are going to die (someday) Published inThe Message · 10 min read· Jan 26, 2015 -- My dad died in 2011. He was an old school techie from back in the mainframe days: a maker typ

Ramblings from Jessie Table of Contents From the Intel x86 Manual: In the mid-1960s, Intel cofounder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore had this observation: “… the number of transistors that would be

Giacometti’s studio If I look at things that have turned out well in my life (my marriage, some of my essays, my current career) the “design process” has been the same in each case. It has been what C

August 6, 2024 We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas. Last year at DevDay, we introduced JSON mode—a useful building blo

We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to

When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gatherer education. We played in mixe

JAMES BALDWIN IN HYDE PARK, LONDON. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALLAN WARREN. Via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. In his review of James Baldwin’s third novel, Another Country, Lionel Trilling asked

I’ll always remember experiencing Canon’s ingenious Eye-control AF for the first time. It blew me away during a hands-on session with the Canon EOS R1 and Canon EOS R5 Mark II – Canon's latest mirrorl

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . When I was 9 and first ventured online in 2005, the internet was my pla

Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this

It was supposed to be Trump’s administration in waiting. But Project 2025 was a mirage all along. Paul Dans, director of the Heritage Foundation's 2025 Presidential Transition Project is pictured at t

Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application. In January, Twilio announced that the Authy desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and

New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” – AI sur

A technology community driven by values, not just profits. I’ve been part of the New York City tech scene for more than 15 years, from back when it was “Silicon Alley” trying to be an imitation of the

Meta’s Canadian news ban: one year in, there’s a dramatic decline in news reach and social media presence with minimal public awareness On August 1, 2023, in response to Bill C-18, Meta blocked Canadi

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When a startup is first founded, it is nothing but risk. Successfully building a company is the act of slowly eliminating that risk until you have created a reliable cash flow machine. There are five