100% user-supported February 10, 2024 · 1 minute read Why Obsidian is 100% user-supported and not backed by venture capital investors: We want to stay small, we don’t need to hire lots of people We fo
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot into billing — a space it discovered was even more broken among potential custome
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Pity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once told me that when a fledgling writer compares their novel to David Mitchell’s, he invariably knows it will be
Dusting ‘Em Off is a rotating, free-form feature that revisits a classic album, film, or moment in pop-culture history. This week, Clint Worthington returns to the often-cited 2006 cult film Idiocracy
Recently, I landed the tech-journalism equivalent of a Thomas Pynchon interview: I got someone from Twitter to answer my call. Notorious for keeping its communications department locked up tight, Twit
Former president Donald Trump’s social media company generated just $4 million in revenue last year — about as much as the average McDonald’s franchise in the United States, according to a report last
For a profession locked in a perpetual psychodrama with Facebook, I think journalism underestimates Facebook. It’s not that journalists don’t pay enough attention to the site (god no, lol), just that,
For most of my programming life, I have worked with the abstractions made by others. I have used tools that use well-researched and clearly defined data structures to solve problems, rather than learn
The first thing you notice when walking into the middle-school classrooms at Brilla, a charter-school network in the South Bronx, is the sense of calm. No phones are out. The students are quiet—not in
It is the age of signing open letters, then issuing apologies for signing them a few days later; of fretting about the effect of AI on human creativity, then boring anyone who will listen with “hilari
1 of 4 | FILE - The X logo is shown on a computer screen in Belgrade, Serbia, July 24, 2023. Social media accounts who shield their real identities behind clever slogans and cartoon avatars have come
April 6, 2024 Hello World A deep dive into the world of abstraction behind a modern Hello World program. Before we start This article is written about a Hello World program written in C. This is about
Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus 8th April 2024 files-to-prompt is a new tool I built to help me pipe several files at once into prompts to LLMs such as Claude and GPT-4. When com
Here's a post we never thought we'd need to write: less than five months after one of our major data centers lost power, it happened again to the exact same data center. That sucks and, if you're thin
This blog post is the second in the series of how Beeper works. The first, How Beeper Mini Works, was published back in December with the release of our incredibly popular, but short-lived iMessage-on
It’s been two years since HBO canceled its cerebral sci-fi drama Westworld, but its fourth and final season did lay the groundwork for a fifth installment. Co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy alwa
One of New York City’s little-known and mostly unseen wonders is that, in the dark of night during spring and fall, millions of birds fly directly over Manhattan on a migration path that their ancesto
One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an up
(Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.) You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage of Monday’s solar eclipse. But mayb
Joe Maring / Digital Trends The Google Pixel 8 was one of 2023’s best smartphone releases. The compact size, excellent camera, and top-notch software made it an extremely tempting purchase — especiall
This week at Cloud Next, we’re sharing a number of Google Workspace updates to help teams get more out of the tools they rely on every day. Here are five to check out, from existing feature improvemen
Pretty much every company I know is looking for a way to benefit from Large Language Models. Even if their executives don’t see much applicability, their investors likely do, so they’re staring at the
The project has been haunted by a mysterious bug since sometime February. It relates to the code that constructs the index, particularly the code that merges partial indices. In short the search engin
This post originally appeared in the December 19, 2019 issue with the email subject line "Strengthen SEO, UX and content with a Healthy Website Regimen" and an essay about calculating better content p
I don't remember exactly when it happened for me, but the thought arose with surprising clarity: something is deeply wrong with the United States, and I don't want to live here anymore. When I tell pe
It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday’s Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI. This was CEO Sundar Pichai in his video greeting: I want to highlight
By Benoit Rostykus, Gabriel Hartmann Published inNetflix TechBlog · 8 min read· Jun 4, 2019 -- Noisy Neighbors We’ve all had noisy neighbors at one point in our life. Whether it’s at a cafe or through
If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference. Being able to use this personal documentation eff
Turing Award Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award April 10, 2024 The prolific researcher found deep connections between randomness and computation and spent a career influencing
One neat use case for the HTTP ETag header is client-side HTTP caching for GET requests. Along with the ETag header, the caching workflow requires you to fiddle with other conditional HTTP headers lik
Where are we at with WebAssembly adoption? Eighteen months ago, The New Stack published an article asking what was holding Wasm back; just last month, 51% of respondents to a poll by The New Stack sai
Being the guy who’s always shouting about impending disaster is frustrating, thankless work. If nobody listens to you, and the disaster happens, you’re a useless Cassandra. If nobody listens to you an
I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite cor
On the morning of Saturday 3 June 1843, the Edinburgh police made their way past Calton Hill to the tenements of Haddington Place. Their target was the residence of Thomas Finlay, a former cabinetmake
May 2008 Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surpris
I have been a fangirl of the container ecosystem since 2014, when I started working at this new startup named Docker, but it's time to talk about where we are today, how we got here, and what matters
Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Kurian joined Google to lead the company’s cloud division in 2018; prior to that he was President of Product Dev
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this pa
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