If Democrats want to understand why president-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House, a good place to start might be the “Know Your Enemy” podcast, hosted by two self-described leftist bros who, without mockery or tongue-in-cheek elitism, explore the complicated past and feverish present…

Last week, Databricks raised a massive $10 billion Series J, during which they also disclosed some high level financials of their business. This, coupled with Snowflake being public, gives us the opportunity to compare the financials of these two, as I’m sure every growth fund that looked at the…

It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. Last year we announced HDR or "High Dynamic Range" photography was coming to our popular photography app, Halide. While most customers celebrated, some were confused, and others showed downright concern. That's because HDR can mean two different, but…

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all fired. But if AI is so obviously superior … show us the code. Where’s the receipts? Let’s say, where’s…

Last week, the CPython developers rolled out CPython 3.14.0b1. This week, PyCon 2025 kicks off in Pittsburgh, PA. Both events mark a significant milestone for the effort to ship and stabilize free-threaded Python. This is the story of the first year of that effort and how our team at Quansight…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Last summer, as political debate swirled over the future of Georgia’s experiment with Medicaid work requirements,…

The Spring of 1988 In the spring of 1988, Alan Cooper sat in front of a computer in a large boardroom at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, patiently waiting for Bill Gates to arrive. At the time, Cooper's main business was writing desktop application software to sell to publishers.…

If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched. Scuttlebutt that Google was about to offer a free email service had leaked out the day before: Here’s John Markoff of the…

Meagan Day Here at Jacobin, we make a major point to uncover the class basis of politics. Yet I can’t bring myself to say outright that the 2024 general election was solely “about economics,” if the implication is that people were just voting to get rid of inflation. To me, it seems obvious that…

When I played around with the technology that would eventually become OnlineOrNot back in 2021, a quick search showed me that there were 200 listed alternatives to the tool I wanted to replace. I thought most of them sucked. There are even more today. Over the years, many more started and shut down…

Trail of Bits has collaborated with PyPI for several years to add features and improve security defaults across the Python packaging ecosystem. Our previous posts have focused on features like digital attestations and Trusted Publishing, but today we’ll look at a equally critical aspect of holistic…

Git is designed in part to enable experimentation. Once you know that your work is safely being tracked and safe states exist for you to fall back upon if something goes horribly wrong, you're not afraid to try new ideas. Part of the price of innovation, though, is that you're likely to make a mess…

Estimating the completion time of tasks is important work. It’s also something that brings great anguish to a lot of engineers and software developers, and causes significant friction between dev teams, management, other departments, and customers. This is because almost everybody is still talking…

13 May, 2025 While recently traveling to the U.S., I was completely locked out of my TD Personal Banking account. TD relies heavily on SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for customer logins. I had, quite reasonably, disabled my Canadian SIM to avoid the usual price gouging and roaming…

By Juraci Paixão Kröhling (OllyGarden) | Thursday, April 03, 2025 OpenTelemetry (OTel) is often touted as the future of observability, promising vendor neutrality and comprehensive data collection. But what’s the reality for those who use it daily? We sat down with several engineers and SREs to get…

The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck working with…

As the population of older Americans balloons, the financial costs associated with aging are, too. Many millennials and Gen Xers are facing a stark reality: their parents and grandparents don’t have the means to pay for long-term care — and they’ll need to help foot the bill, especially since…

If a hall of fame were established for contemporary book reviewers—well, why not? There’s one for ad executives, poker players, and probably porn stars—Christopher Hitchens would very likely be its second inductee. (James Wood, of course, would be the first.) About an amazing range of literary and…

Year: 2019 There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist. A good example is the obsession with…

Our AI Codecon conference kicked off today with Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It. Here are my opening remarks introducing the series’ themes. You can reserve your seat for upcoming AI Codecon events here. Thanks so much for joining us today. We have over 20,000 people…

“Who Broke the Internet?” is a new podcast from CBC Understood that I host and co-wrote — it’s a four-part series that explains how the enshitternet came about, and, more importantly, what we can do about it. Episode one is out this week:…

At the bottom of the abyss between us is the hard fact that to be a person, a particular person, is so profoundly different from what any other person can suppose. This is why one of the hardest learnings in life is that you cannot love — or scold, or coax, or palter — anyone out of their personal…

One of the strangest features of American work culture is the constant pressure to treat one’s job as something more than a job: a calling, a means of expressing oneself, a vehicle for personal growth. This pressure comes from bosses, of course, who would rather foster intrinsic motivation than pay…

Year: 2019 There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist. A good example is the obsession with…

When I first heard the phrase vibe coding, I rolled my eyes a little. It sounded like another fleeting buzzword, one of those things that shows up in a thread, gets memed into the ground, and disappears before it ever really lands. As someone who respects the craft of building software, the idea of…

Typical attire of a GPU utilization maximizer. Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, are the hottest mathematical co-processor since the FM synthesis chips that shaped the sounds of the late 1900s. Like all co-processors, they are chosen when the performance of more flexible commodity hardware, like…

Canon has long been known for pushing the boundaries of lens design, but their latest patent is extreme, even by their standards. A new patent filing hints at an ambitious leap in lens design: a 24mm lens with an f/0.7 aperture. This combination of ultra-wide and ultra-fast is rare, typically…

As we published last month, the long-rumored Canon RF 200-500mm f/4L IS USM appears to have been shelved. In its place, sources tell us, Canon is working on a new super-telephoto: the RF 300-600mm f/5.6L IS USM — a professional-grade zoom designed for wildlife and sports photographers who want the…

Despite not being officially announced by Sandisk, the WD Black SN8100 is available for pre-order at Amazon (Germany), at the equivalent of $225 for the 1TB variant, via momomo_us . With listed reads of 14.9 GB/s, this should be the fastest consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD, at least if we're talking about…

There is plenty of commentary online about how AI will replace coding as we know it in the future. There’s huge amounts of prediction about what the future holds.1 But I haven’t come across many case studies of rolling out the tools that exist today. So here’s some observations. For context: SaaS…

Memory safety is a cornerstone of Zig’s design philosophy. While maintaining the performance benefits of manual memory management, Zig incorporates sophisticated safety mechanisms to prevent common memory-related errors. This article provides an in-depth exploration of Zig’s memory safety features…

Credit: Sveta/Adobe Stock Chicago Booth Review Podcast Why Is Some News More Newsworthy? April 30, 2025 CBR Podcast What makes news stories newsworthy? Can you measure newsworthiness? Are people right in thinking that the media tend to focus on bad news? Chicago Booth’s Emir Kamenica argues that…

Are customers on the European side of the pond considering a move from US hyperscalers in the wake of recent events? Some of the region's vendors are reporting an uptick in inquiries as organizations mull their options. After a year of navel-gazing over AI, the topic dominating conversations at…

tl;dr - At a certain scale, all applications need a task queue - think Celery for Python, BullMQ for Node.js, and Sidekiq for Rails. Hatchet is an open-source, managed task queue focused on scale, reliability, and improved developer experience. https://youtu.be/3myPYVyaqwM The problem Building a…

Let it Be(OS) The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set. Andrew Hudson – Jul 5, 2018 11:22 am | 150 HD, so like... a high-definition floppy? HD, so like... a high-definition floppy? Story text Size Width * Links…

What if I told you there was a public SaaS company growing at >60% per year, more than twice the growth rate of its peers, that spends more on product development than sales & marketing? This same company has more than 7x’d its enterprise value since IPO. Lined up against the other best SaaS…