Robert Tinney passed away on February 1st, 2026. If you were into computers in the '80s, you may not know his name, but you definitely know his work: He was the artist behind the beautiful hand-painted covers of the influential computer hobbiest magazine Byte from the December 1975 issue until the…

One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here’s Adam Jacob in response: And…

Render employees, including CEO Anurag Goel, center, gather at the startup's headquarters in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2026. Courtesy of Render Venture capitalists are doubling down on Render, a startup offering easy-to-use cloud infrastructure. On Tuesday it said it has raised $100 million in…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. The Japan Patent Office (2026-033938) has recently published a Canon patent application that shows off some very interesting optical designs. I had previously discussed these as quarter-wave…

Over drinks a few weeks ago, a friend told me he'd been offered a promotion, to an Engineering Manager role. He planned to decline it, but wanted to hear my take first. Until recently, my answer in such conversations was always “100% go for it”. My logic was that it’s a super valuable experience,…

Why Clan Exists Clan’s core mission is to make digital sovereignty accessible to everyone. Clan is not a platform or a product; it is a free, open source framework that empowers people and groups to customize and manage machines within safe, secure, private networks that they alone control. Clan is…

When people think about early movie websites, they might first think of Space Jam, since its website from 1996 famously stayed untouched for decades. But Space Jam wasn’t the first movie to get a website. That credit actually goes to either Stargate or Star Trek: Generations, which both launched…

News Mobility The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities. | Merja Wesander/Finna.fi via WikiCommons August 2, 2025 12:17 am CET By Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year, municipal officials revealed this week. Although road deaths are on the…

When we seek happiness, what exactly are we searching for? And when we wish happiness on someone else, what is it that we truly desire for them? Can happiness even be defined or is it an illusion, an impossible desire to fulfil? So then why are there so many happiness self-help books? What do they…

Dedicated to all those who are sceptical about the significance of agentic coding, and to those who are not, and are wondering what it means for the future of their profession. The title is an homage to Zen of Python by Tim Peters. Unlike Tim, I am not a zen master. My only aim is to take stock of…

(Credits: Far Out / MUBI) Thu 21 August 2025 21:45, UK Follow us on Google Discover You can learn a lot about someone through their favourite movies. And I mean a lot. If someone has a particular penchant for crude American comedies, they probably haven’t developed their sense of humour since they…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. There has been a longing from the Canon community to make more zoom lenses that are f/2 like the RF 28-70mm F/2L USM, but nothing has come to fruition. There's also a lot of us that would like a…

For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting rituals, healing ceremonies and communal celebrations. That balance began to shift with the industrial…

The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their…

Last summer, Bryan Vance found himself in an argument with a stranger on Reddit. Vance, a Portland-based journalist who runs Stumptown Savings, a newsletter covering local grocery deals, had been accused of using ChatGPT to write his content. The evidence? His use of em dashes. “A Reddit user…

I set out to brainstorm with Claude (Sonnet 4.6 Extended) about an essay I wanted to write about the complementarity of humans and AI. When it got late and I was ready to quit, I asked Claude to produce a summary of our conversation that I could start from in the morning. And then, on impulse, I…

I’ve spent lots of time recently digging into the available information on the state of childhood today. I’m shaken by what I’ve learned—and you will be too. Over the years, we’ve all heard that our youngsters are “at risk.” But it’s easy to dismiss warnings of this sort as idle fearmongering. After…

I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design before. Seamlessness is often touted as the ultimate goal of…

Matthew Honnibal, co-founder of Explosion and creator of spaCy, has published a collection of Claude Code skills for Python development. It’s one of the more thoughtful skill collections I’ve seen. Claude Code skills are markdown files you place in ~/.claude/commands/. When you type / in Claude…

Updated: September 22, 2022 This article documents Proton Drive’s security model by showing how it uses end-to-end encryption to protect your sensitive data. While somewhat technical, this document is meant to be accessible to a general audience and attempts to explain how Proton Drive works in…

A conversation with Addy Osmani February 19, 2026 • 11 minute read LinkedInXFacebookThreadsBluesky The following article includes clips from a recent Live with Tim O’Reilly interview. You can watch the full version on the O’Reilly Media learning platform. Addy Osmani is one of my favorite people to…

tl;dr: a message to myself, and to incoming CS undergrads. even if impostor syndrome hits hard, you’re all smart and competent people. and you’re now smart and competent enough that everyone wants a piece of your potential. there’s a whole ecosystem of people with financial stakes in shaping your…

This guide shows you how to configure Claude Code to automatically use uv for Python package management instead of pip. Claude Code uses CLAUDE.md files to store project memory and context, which helps ensure consistent tooling across your development workflow. Prerequisites Claude Code installeduv…

written on August 18, 2025 I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things…

Blacklisted Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots. Jon Brodkin – Feb 20, 2026 1:35 pm | 13 Credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Story text Size Width *…

Modular acquires BentoML to deliver production AI in the cloud! - Read more February 18, 2026 The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software Chris Lattner Engineering Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education.…

One icy morning in February, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state. There were Republicans and Democrats from rural farms and D.C. exurbs. They shared one goal: to fight back against AI development in a…

Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are interacting with an intelligence. But many experts in the field argue the impression is just that. In philosopher Daniel Dennett’s words, such systems display “competence without comprehension”.…

In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS News’ 60 Minutes that aired in November 2025, the CEO said AI should be more heavily regulated, with fewer decisions about the future of the technology left to just the heads of big tech companies. “I think I’m deeply uncomfortable with these decisions…

17 Apr, 2025 EARLY ACCESS If you want a deeper, up-to-date treatment of sandbox-exec—including modern macOS pitfalls, Mach/XPC failures, and working profiles—I’m documenting it as an extended handbook, sandbox-exec: The Missing Handbook (early access, $12). What is sandbox-exec? sandbox-exec is a…

Posted 17 February 2026 I have some personal Git repos that I want to sync between my devices – my dotfiles, text expansion macros, terminal colour schemes, and so on. For a long time, I used GitHub as my sync layer – it’s free, convenient, and I was already using it – but recently I’ve been looking…

“Raise your hand if YouTube has ever shown you a video you didn’t search for.” Every hand in the room went up. “Now keep your hand up if you ended up watching it.” Not a single hand went down. Whispers and giggles scattered across the room. We were 45 minutes into what was supposed to be a talk…

February 17, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm The world runs on copilots now AI has slipped from chatbot novelty to infrastructure in our schools, offices and hospitals. The harms may scale faster than the gains By Eric Sullivan edited by Seth Fletcher Tavis Coburn Join Our Community of…

Adam Hart has been a nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nev., for 14 years. A few years ago, while assigned to help out in the emergency department, he was listening to the ambulance report on a patient who’d just arrived—an elderly woman with dangerously low blood pressure—when a…

We’re open-sourcing Upright, the synthetic monitoring system we built to watch over Basecamp, HEY, Fizzy and our many other services. Upright runs health checks from multiple geographic locations and tells us when something breaks. It’s a Rails engine that you deploy to cheap VPS nodes around the…

I write this filled with sadness. Last week, I wrote about how AI is now replacing white-collar workers in earnest as Claude’s Co-work released plug-ins for legal, financial and marketing functions. Social media is filled with accounts from long-time software developers declaring themselves obsolete…