Hey there! Recently, we took a trip to Canadian University Dubai to scout for some fresh talent. One of the key questions we always ask potential interns is: "Which operating system are you using?" Oh, and by the way, we judge people based on their answer—very harshly: Windows: You are probably not…

Ethan Zuckerman wrote in The Atlantic in 2014: I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online content and services. Through successive…

Python 3.14 introduces a powerful new feature: template strings, formalized in PEP 750. While f-strings (f"") offer convenient inline interpolation, they immediately evaluate to plain strings, making it impossible to extract metadata, control rendering behavior later, or inspect what expressions…

Issue one of Vittles magazine, spring 2025. Picture: Killian Faith-Kelly The first time Vittles founder Jonathan Nunn read a food magazine was in 2015, in a New York cafe whose coffee table was supporting a stack that included the now-defunct Lucky Peach. “I opened it, and there was an article about…

Image by Annie Ruygt Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about the biggest change we’ve made to it since I launched it. Nearly a decade ago, I…

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kind of idiot. The article…

Today we introduce Devstral, our agentic LLM for software engineering tasks. Devstral is built under a collaboration between Mistral AI and All Hands AI 🙌, and outperforms all open-source models on SWE-Bench Verified by a large margin. We release Devstral under the Apache 2.0 license. Agentic LLMs…

Google AI Studio An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio MAY 21, 2025 Group Product Manager Kat Kampf Product Manager Ammaar Reshi UX Design Lead Seth Odoom Product Manager Native code generation, agentic tools, and more Google AI Studio is the fastest place to start building with the Gemini…

By Fred Vogelstein There’s going to be ever building momentum in the coming months to take one of the most innovative companies in American history – Google – and blow it up. The company has been judged an illegal monopolist in two Federal courts. And the rulings, when read together, paint a picture…

About This Title Pages: 305 Published: May 2025 ISBN: 9798307689769 In Print The essential BEAM handbook for the busy developer by Alexander Koutmos Elixir Patterns aims to surface the powerful and unique characteristics of the Erlang virtual machine and show you how to solve everyday problems in a…

JS Tan , May 21, 2025 What does the startup reveal about innovation in China? The Baffler Word Factory W o r d F a c t o r y Last December, the world knew little of DeepSeek. But earlier this year, the Chinese startup drew international attention after it released DeepSeek V3, an artificial…

Tourists look out from a hillside in Vernazza in the Cinque Terre National Park, near La Spezia, Italy. Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images Rome CNN — The Italian government has this week enacted a law that makes it impossible for anyone to get Italian citizenship through their great-grandparents,…

In 1982, film-maker Les Blank released this sombre, thoughtful, quietly awestruck documentary account of Werner Herzog’s crazy sisyphean struggle in a remote and dangerous Peruvian jungle location, making his extraordinary drama Fitzcarraldo, which came out the same year. Fitzcarraldo was Herzog’s…

Canon’s flagship EOS R1 camera is tearing it up on the camera award circuit this year. After winning the Red Dot Design Award 2025 and other contests, the Canon R1 is now taking home one of the biggest prizes in the industry. Japan’s Camera Press Club has announced the winners of its Camera Grand…

Hannes Mühleisen 2025-05-19 · 9 min TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics? Much has been said, not in the very least by ourselves, about how data is actually not that “Big” and how the speed of hardware…

Even the premise that the revolution was contemporary Romania’s proudest hour, once an article of faith, is now fiercely disputed. Trials against the perpetrators of the violence that followed Ceauşescu’s fall on 22 December – which accounted for the lion’s share of victims – have been shut down…

Fujifilm has a new pint-size addition to its X-series cameras coming in late June: the X Half. It’s an 18-megapixel “half-frame” camera with a portrait-oriented sensor and viewfinder and a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens. Despite being digital, the X Half is all about the vintage film aesthetic.…

Canon has made a splash already in 2025 with the announcement of the EOS R50 V, RF-S 14-30mm f/4-6.3 IS STM PZ and RF 20mm f/1.4L VCM, which is Canon’s widest f/1.4 lens ever. There will be more announcements from Canon before July, as well as late August or early Septmember. The order of what’s…

Press release: Fujifilm Introduces X half™ Premium Compact Digital Camera Designed with emerging imagemakers in mind, X half is a modern take on a classic photo style VALHALLA, N.Y., MAY 22, 2025 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Electronic Imaging Division, today announced the launch of its…

Picture this: Canon just dropped two absolute monsters — the EOS R1 and the R5 Mark II. The R1’s flexing with its speed and durability like it’s the Terminator of cameras, while the R5 Mark II is the sleek all-rounder who’s equally at home snapping portraits or shooting blockbuster-level video. Now,…

New high-speed rail link to be up and running by 2026, in agreement with Deutsche Bahn and ÖBB. Italy is to launch a new high-speed rail link between Germany and Austria by next year, the state-owned Italian railway company Trenitalia announced on Wednesday. The move, part of a 'European Metro'…

Rick Viscomi Published: May 20, 2025 Modern code editors unlock so much productivity by bringing together the tools and reference docs you need to build things efficiently—it's the I in IDE. One productivity enhancement in many IDEs like Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is showing additional information…

Social music platform Hangout, a “virtual listening community,” has opened its digital doors with access to over 100 million tracks, including from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and licensing partner Merlin, the company said on Wednesday. The service from Turntable Labs is…

In the 1980s, there were a series of writers who challenged the way people thought of the then-growing popularity of colour television and news media. I have written before about Neil Postman, and his fear of our world becoming a ‘trivial society’ and Marshall McLuhan, who warned us that ‘the medium…

Walking your dog is good—both for you and your dog. Walking your dog positively impacts physical and mental health by helping keep off extra weight, lower blood pressure, and provide a healthy dose of fresh air. But are you walking your dog enough? Determining how often to walk a dog depends on…

May 19th, 2025 by the VS Code team We believe that the future of code editors should be open and powered by AI. For the last decade, VS Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects on GitHub. We are grateful for our vibrant community of contributors and users who choose VS Code because it…

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My iMac G3, running Warp. The world’s first screen saver was not like a dream at all. It was a blank screen. It was called SCRNSAVE, and when it was released in 1983 it was very exciting to a niche audience. It was like John Cage’s 4’33″ but for computers—a score for meted-out doses of silence.…

TLDR; Though it feels like a fool’s errand, founders should hypothesize and model their first two rounds of milestones when raising initial capital. Despite what we may want to believe, if one were to re-simulate a company's path and lifecycle from year 0 to year 4, that path 6-8 out of 10 times…

La Segunda is a family business rich in heart. Four generations, the bakery and cafe has been lovingly passed down. From humble beginnings in Ybor City, La Segunda has grown into four locations and one of the leading producers of Cuban bread in the United States. Over the past century, La Segunda…

The interface I want and the performance I'll have to wait for... Table of contents Codex: How it works Codex is currently a chat-first experience. You gain access by being invited or by paying for the Pro ($200/per month) subscription. Once you've got access, you start by enabling multi-factor…

Before we dive into the topic, let me introduce you my new friend catsay, a simple Go program which eats stdin and speaks like a cat: Cute! ... but it's not what I want to talk about. What makes this screenshot very exciting is, it's a Linux lightweight virtual machine running on Starina operating…

On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books. Place Gambetta, Bordeaux’s iconic square framed with majestic 18th-century limestone façades, was under construction. ‘It’s always like this,’ the owner told me with a…

“Man* is by Nature a migratory animal,” the elderly Frederick Douglass reflected in an 1887 speech about his global travels. “It does not appear that he was intended to dwell forever in any one locality. He is a born traveler.” A generation after him, Maya Angelou observed that “you only are free…

It is a slow, myocardial rhythm. Like a heartbeat or the glowing pulse of a traffic light at midnight, it’s a hypnotic beat that’s all too familiar. From Microsoft Word to Google Docs, the blinking cursor is a companion that compels us throughout text documents and text messages and naughty Google…

Copilot Code Review now supports all programming languages in public preview. This has been one of the most common requests from users. Previously limited to select languages, Copilot now provides AI-powered feedback on any programming language used in a pull request. This helps teams streamline…

Canon has won what is being dubbed the “highest honor” at the 2025 Red Dot Design Award with the Canon EOS R1. Beyond the technology and performance of the camera, the new cross pattern grip on the camera received a special mention. As with all Canon 1-series cameras, the ergonomics are second to…