September 8, 2025 Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff…

One of the neat things about AWS is that it’s almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is… that it’s almost twenty years old. If you’ve been using the platform for a while, it can be hard to notice the pace of change in the underlying “foundational” services. More worryingly,…

A new study shows people in countries with different obesity rates burn about the same number of calories. PCH-Vector/iStockphoto via Getty Images Back in the 1800s, obesity was almost nonexistent in the United States. Over the last century, it's become common here and in other industrialized…

AI Markets Have Crystalized AI markets have evolved significantly over the last 4 years. When GPT-3 came out and scaling laws were openly discussed in the AI literature, it seemed clear that you could extrapolate the rate of progress from GPT-2 to GPT-3 onwards through GPT-4, 5 etc and realize a…

Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his note that accepting money from Middle East leaders would likely…

6 Shares In today’s competitive hiring environment, the ability for companies to move quickly on talent is more paramount than ever. That includes identifying high-quality candidates and moving them through the pipeline faster than competitors are able to. Enter Ashby. The 7-year-old San…

Posted by Matthew Suozzo, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives…

oidc publishing security Introducing 'Trusted Publishers' Starting today, PyPI package maintainers can adopt a new, more secure publishing method that does not require long-lived passwords or API tokens to be shared with external systems. About trusted publishing "Trusted publishing" is our term for…

From Python 3.14, python -m pdb -p pid lets you connect a pdb session to a running Python process. This post goes into a part of what makes this possible. The barrier to entry for writing general debugging tools for Python programs has always been quite low. Unlike many languages, you're rarely…

Reference The package mostly replicates the API of the threading module. and exceptions class multiprocessing.Process(group=None, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}, *, daemon=None) Process objects represent activity that is run in a separate process. The class has equivalents of all the…

20 Jul, 2025 We are under constant cognitive assault. Buying plane tickets is navigating a minefield - one misclick blows a hole in your wallet. Resolving a mistake on your utility bill is a tactical operation: dodge hold music traps, outwit the chatbot, then convince the agent you shouldn’t need to…

For a decade (2014-2024), I was a Ruby-only developer. I worked across the Ruby ecosystem—from Rails development to Ruby’s core tooling like IRB, RDoc, and the debug gem. But while I moved around the stack, I stayed within Ruby’s boundaries. Ruby wasn’t just my primary language; it was essentially…

(On Wednesday July 16, we held a fireside chat with the primary authors of the paper. We had a great turnout & a fun discussion, with lots of terrific questions from the audience. We’ll be posting a recording – look for a link in a forthcoming post.) The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting. To…

5 things I learned from 5 years at Vercel july 2025 – lee robinson After five years at Vercel, I just finished my last week. What a ride! When I joined in 2020, we were 30 people and had crossed $1M ARR. Today, Vercel is 650 people and over $200M ARR. During that time, I went from IC to VP and…

Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C Compiler | No Starch Press I decided to work my way through it. I plan to do blog posts as I progress…

Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite. Computer scientists with Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR), a non-profit research group, have published a study…

In the 12 years since Radio Rozana’s first broadcast, founder Lina Chawaf has worked tirelessly to expand the outlet’s coverage of her native Syria. She was forced to flee the country in 2011 after former President Bashar Assad began cracking down on independent media in the wake of the Arab Spring,…

In the Zig Roadmap 2026 stream Andrew announced a new way of doing I/O, let’s see what are the goals of this upcoming design and how that relates to the revival of async / await in Zig. The new I/O Interface The most notable change to Zig is the introduction of a new interface in charge of all I/O…

Editor’s note: The author wrote this post on behalf of DX. Every organization is asking how to go faster with AI. “The problem with this question is that we’re really focused on the faster part and a lot of us haven’t stopped to think where we’re even going,” said Laura Tacho, CTO of DX developer…

We're only just starting to see SSDs that push the limits of the PCIe 5.0 interface, but work on next-gen drives is already underway, with promises of speeds of up to a massive 28GB/s. That's nearly twice as fast as the WD Black SN8100, and it's thanks to a new PCIe 6.0 SSD controller that's just…

The savings on SSDs continue to stay hot for now, but larger forces, like tariffs and geopolitical issues, threaten to lead to higher prices in the coming months. For now, there are big discounts to be had on 4TB and 8TB SSD models that continue to supply 5 cents per GB prices on the best-value…

Opinion Sep 02, 2024 - Georg Zoeller Large tech companies have significantly scaled back their direct investment in product and engineering talent. Instead they are leveraging their capital and monopoly power to indirectly corner the market in emerging opportunities, funding startups and extracting…

The debate about intelligence versus wisdom is as old as history, but artificial intelligence has transformed it into an intensely practical question. The cheaper professional knowledge becomes, the more precious it is to know how to use it. It’s becoming ever clearer that the most valuable thing is…

Incus has joined LinuxContainers Read the project announcement here. Container and virtualization tools linuxcontainers.org is the umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more. The goal is to offer a distro and vendor neutral environment for the development of Linux container…

We really did it! We bootstrapped ProjectionLab to $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. And I’m still processing that this is real. 🥹 Back in 2021, I was inspired by the financial independence movement and wanted a better way to plan my own life. I couldn’t find the right tool, so I started…

Wildlife photography: where patience meets 600mm glass and the occasional mosquito bite. Whether you’re stalking lions in Africa or squirrels in your backyard (no judgment), the right lens makes all the difference. Long reach. Fast focus. Creamy backgrounds. Let’s round up the best beasts of glass…

By Published 48 minutes ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Here is a simplified version of the story contents: Explore a different perspective: With dozens of bank accounts and credit card statements, loan documents, investment reports,…

Ask most PC enthusiasts about the most powerful or fastest CPU and graphics card you can buy, and they'll probably think of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D or Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090. But if you ask them again about SSDs, you'll get far more varied replies, and I'd bet money on few of them being a PCIe 5.0…

Once again, the software development landscape is experiencing another big shift. After years of drag-and-drop, no-code platforms democratizing app creation, generative AI (GenAI) is eliminating the need for no-code platforms in many cases. Mind you, I said “no code” not “low code” — there are key…

Magic Lantern is an open-source firmware extension for Canon DSLR cameras to add features that extend functionality for both photographers and videographers. We wanted to talk about Magic Lantern and discuss it with the new development team as there seemed to be newfound energy around the project.…

Issue 4: Responsibility Jun 2, 2025 10 min The shamed retreat into themselves, but the guilty can take responsibility for their actions. A Review of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame. Varney, the Vampyre—or, The Feast of blood, James Malcolm Rymer, 1854. Wikimedia. In what is perhaps the first…

Those who write about shame like to begin by deploring the shameful neglect of the subject by their predecessors. If they happen to be psychiatrists, they insist that shame has been not just neglected, but actively suppressed. The time has come, they say, to lift the curtain of censorship and “bring…

Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox. Upon opening the file, you create an account. From there you’re introduced to a feature stack that went well beyond any typical PDF: shared…

bitecode.dev just posted a massive video interview with Python core dev Brett Cannon. Among many other things, Brett explains why Python packaging hasn’t been part of Python core development: Basically, they’re separate because Guido doesn’t care about packaging. That’s really what it comes down to.…

Image Credits:Inimma-IS / Getty Images AI AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal Russell Brandom 9:30 AM PDT · July 15, 2025 For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic…

Because sometimes, stock firmware just isn’t enough. Contents Magic Lantern is the unofficial superpower pack for Canon DSLRs. Think: extended video features, focus peaking, zebras, RAW video recording — basically turning a mild-mannered camera into a mini Hollywood-grade machine. But not every…

Open Questions For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. June 17, 2025 Photograph by Balarama Heller You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t…

Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food. Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach…