Python 3.14 introduced the compression.zstd module. It is a standard library implementation of Facebook’s Zstandard (Zstd) compression algorithm. It was developed a decade ago by Yann Collet, who holds a blog devoted to compression algorithms. I am not a compression expert, but Zstd caught my eye…

The latest trend in mainstream commentary is 'meeting them where they are, no matter what'. The most prominent in this practice is Ezra Klein: "Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism. And the leader of MAGA Republicanism is the President…

Our App Philosophy We believe that apps should never crash. They should be free of bugs. They should be fast — they should feel lighter-than-air. We believe that quality is more important than just piling on features; we believe that quality is the most important feature. And we believe that high…

Today, we’re releasing a research preview of GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, a smaller version of GPT‑5.3‑Codex, and our first model designed for real-time coding. Codex-Spark marks the first milestone in our partnership with Cerebras, which we announced in January⁠. Codex-Spark is optimized to feel…

Theophilus Schweighardt, The Temple of the Rose Cross, 1618, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Over a period of several years in the early seventeenth century, there appeared in Western Europe three manifestos laying out the history of the theretofore unheard-of Rosicrucian order, whose secret…

Figure 1. The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander Many programmers know the name of the architect Christopher Alexander for his work on design patterns that has been adapted into the world of programming. A lot of people know of the, sometimes ridiculed, patterns like strategy…

An allocator is a tool that reserves memory (typically on the heap) so a program can store its data structures there. Many C programs use the standard libc allocator, or at best, let you switch it out for another one like jemalloc or mimalloc. Unlike C, modern systems languages usually treat…

Alexander BelangerCo-Founder · Hatchet When I first booted up Claude Code in May 2025, I thought: huh, this is cute. A terminal-based coding agent...they must be pandering to developers. Within the first 30 minutes, I was convinced: this was going to be huge. So huge that we at Hatchet discussed…

Lukas Niessen 15 min read· Feb 12, 2026 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size The Twelve-Factor App methodology was created around 2011 at Heroku. It’s a set of twelve principles for building software-as-a-service applications that are portable, resilient, and easy to deploy to modern…

Email Link Copied! Growing up near Boston, elements of Italian-American culture were threaded through much of Liz Fitzgerald’s life. Every Christmas Eve, her uncle would visit her family’s home to celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes, bringing dishes like stuffed shrimp, calamari and clam…

Among the frenzy of videos promoting healthier diets, marathon running, and sobriety, one trend catching on with young people—ironically on social media—is the idea of a digital detox, taking time away from our phone’s most addictive apps to improve everything from sleep to focus. The idea has…

The town that launched a global self-care industry 12 February 2026 Lizzie Enfield Alamy Long before wellness became a global industry, a small town in eastern Belgium shaped how Europeans thought about health, leisure and water. In Spa, the original spa is reclaiming its place in the story. I'm…

Why writer Arundhati Roy's cult classic film is still relevant in India 8 days ago Zoya MateenDelhi The Film Heritage Foundation Starring Roy herself, the film tells the story of a group of students navigating life in Delhi On a sticky Delhi afternoon in the late 1980s, a group of architecture…

The title of The Uncool refers to rock critic Lester Bangs’s assessment of Cameron Crowe, whose adventures as a music journalist were loosely depicted in his 2000 movie, Almost Famous. Long before he became a film-maker, the teenage Crowe travelled around the US interviewing some of the biggest…

More Canadians this year are seeking out Disney magic across the Atlantic Ocean, as fewer foreign visitors come to the United States even though worldwide travel trends remain robust. Travel agencies and companies that specialize in Disney vacations – and other types of travel – are noting…

6 min read On a recent afternoon at a beach club in St. Bart’s, a group of revelers were engaged in a spirited discussion on the topic of second passports. To summarize, scoring one was something akin to landing a rare Picasso—another classic example of how the harder something is to get, the more…

Amodei compared humans and AI working together to the mythical Centaur, a human-horse mule BRO Vector/Getty Images and Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images 2026-02-13T06:05:37.357Z Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available…

From grown men eating ice cream – gasp! – to Noël Coward sweating in the desert and a baseball team without pants – a new exhibition celebrates images from the era-defining magazine Fast moving photography … Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1952. Photograph: Loomis Dean Wed 11 Feb 2026 02.00 ESTLast…

Some moths are drawn to the flame and some butterflies to the wheel. The exquisitely beautiful, mercurial and prodigiously talented 90s singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley was drawn to the music business. And this contractually demanded endless touring and a multi-album commitment when he’d already…

Cicero, the Roman Stoic, once wrote to his friend Varro, pending a visit to his home: “If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want.” This same desire for good books and natural beauty is at the heart of Byung-Chul Han’s In Praise of the Earth, in which he reflects on gardening as…

If you've ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes that this ancient practice is quite the opposite: Meditation is…

Prologue: The Dragon That Couldn't Be Slain A Denver company that developed legal software tried. They failed. A game studio that made software for Disney tried. They spent over a year and hundreds of thousands of dollars. They had a team of programmers in Armenia, overseen by an American PhD in…

This year marks 13 years of collecting Drive Stats data. Thirteen is an unlucky number (to some), but we count our lucky stars (or perhaps our lucky stats?) that we’ve had 13 years of this experiment. The traditional 13-year anniversary gift is lace—intricate, impressive, and vulnerable to a snag if…

This past Saturday, I did something radical: I put my phone away for 12 hours and spent an entire day in a new place with a small group of friends, walking around and chatting without texting, checking email, tweeting, updating Facebook, uploading photos to Instagram or otherwise engaging at all in…

TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over. LLM coding tools have changed it fundamentally for the better or worse. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds, August 2000 When Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, made this quip in response to a claim about a…

Keep waiting Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online. Jon Brodkin – Feb 13, 2026 5:13 pm | 109 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size…

In the beginning, I was a self-hosting purist. If an app existed, I wanted to own the instance, the database, and the Docker Compose file behind it. I convinced myself that this total control was the ultimate productivity hack, a bespoke digital cockpit where I owned every byte. But as my dashboard…

GitHub is adding support for the Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex coding agents, via its Agent HQ AI platform. The capability is in public preview. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, GitHub…

Gboard isn't part of the Google Play Store's 10 billion download club, but it's one of the best ways to type on Android. While Gboard has something to offer everyone, for those who want to type faster, you must learn to use features like Glide cursor control to type faster with great accuracy. The…

the cat’s pajamas, the elephant’s whiskers Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence” The material properties change gradually from base to tip for better navigation, more precise manipulation. Jennifer Ouellette – Feb 12, 2026 2:00 pm | 14 Credit: MPI-IS/A.…

This is a guide for isolating LLM agents in virtual machines, using libvirt and virsh on Linux servers. Running LLMs in VMs isolates them from the host system, mitigating numerous security risks such as destructive operations or unauthorized file access (i.e. private keys, secrets, credentials for…

Detail of the cover for The Making of Prince of Persia (2020) Welcome! Thanks for checking in. It’s another Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and this is the slate: 1. Animating in the early days of the personal computer. 2. Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1. Computer animation…

THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE exclusive In his first newspaper interview since 2019, the pop star as he’s never been seen before: off duty, in Italy — and photographed by Martin Parr MARTIN PARR / DMB The Sunday Times Magazine Saturday February 14 2026, 12.00pm, The Sunday Times In the summer of 2024…

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to…