This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete ideas. At least, that’s what I did with a few features I’d meant to build for months, but didn’t get around to…

“Love letters to cinema” are often so poisonously sweet they might as well be written in antifreeze. So when a deadly bitter streak administers Narcan to the film-addicted work of Chinese writer-director Bi Gan, it’s invigorating—a blast of human frailty revitalizing his intoxicated ode to the…

Canon’s new EOS R6 Mark III is an excellent camera. It’s not a groundbreaking upgrade to the 3-year-old R6 Mark II, but it takes the same body with great ergonomics and adds more resolution, video that now goes up to 7K with open-gate filming, and improved autofocus performance. If you’re in need of…

31st December 2025 This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 and Things we learned about LLMs in 2024. It’s been a year filled with a lot of different trends. The…

A few years ago, I was going a little mad. Materially, my life was comfortable. My partner and I had just bought a house. I was doing okay in a freelance writing career. And we were living the sort of middle class-ish lifestyle where we could afford multiple foreign holidays a year. But there was…

(Photo of the painting Indian Summer by Józef Chełmoński) “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” asks the famous philosopher Nietzsche. This rhetorical question underlines the most prevalent assumption in society towards boredom as a detrimental state of being. However,…

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We’ve entered the Age of Slop, and are adrift in an ocean of thoughtless content that’s diluted all truth and meaning. And yet, hidden in that ocean are more pearls of wisdom than ever. I’ve spent months sifting through the slop for ideas of value. Here I present 26 for 2026, each one chosen for its…

new features organizations security PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review As 2025 comes to a close, it's time to look back at another busy year for the Python Package Index. This year, we've focused on delivering critical security enhancements, rolling out powerful new features for organizations, improving…

No, founders are not adopting Bryan Johnson’s regimen to reverse aging. Quite the opposite : the average founder raising capital ages six months every year.1 I suspect founder age has been increasing steadily for three reasons. First, venture capital has shifted toward AI, which grew from roughly…

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Making Google Sans Flex How seven design problems shaped Google’s iconic typeface — from inception to going open-source Sometimes, design elements are birthed in flashes of inspiration — What if our interfaces were like paper? What if YouTube was a little more pink? — but not Google’s brand…

Alexander BelangerCo-Founder · Hatchet Back when I was CTO at Porter, we were responsible for managing deployments of hundreds of Kubernetes clusters into customer AWS accounts. In the early days, this was all built using a single-replica deployment called porter-provisioner , which was essentially…

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out a new GPU driver for the Pixel 10 series with Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1. The update aligns with Imagination’s August driver release and brings Android 16 and Vulkan 1.4 support. While real-world performance gains remain unconfirmed,…

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I was initially torn about whether to publish this story, as I don’t have a clear or constructive recommendation on how to resolve the issue. I also didn’t want to come across as a paranoid conspiracy theorist – birds aren’t real, by the way. However, after repeatedly witnessing firsthand how Y…

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timely exhortation for presence over productivity. It may be an elemental feature of our condition that the more scarce something is, the more precious it becomes. Just as the shortness of life calls, in that…

This essay originally appeared in The New York Times I once dreamed a kiss that hadn’t yet happened. I dreamed the angle at which our heads tilted, the fit of my fingers behind her ear, the exact pressure exerted on the lips by this transfer of trust and tenderness. Freud, who catalyzed the study of…

AI coding assistants became game-changers this year, but harnessing them effectively takes skill and structure. These tools dramatically increased what LLMs can do for real-world coding, and many developers (myself included) embraced them. At Anthropic, for example, engineers adopted Claude Code so…

Your logs are lying to you. Not maliciously. They're just not equipped to tell the truth. You've probably spent hours grep-ing through logs trying to understand why a user couldn't check out, why that webhook failed, or why your p99 latency spiked at 3am. You found nothing useful. Just timestamps…

“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Your life is going pretty darn well by any objective metric. Nice place to live. More than enough stuff. Family and friends who love you. But you’re…

What’s new in Python 3.15 Editor: Hugo van Kemenade This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. For full details, see the changelog. Note Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.15 moves…

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off. The news was posted to Mastodon by…

photo cred: my dad People are less weird than they used to be. That might sound odd, but data from every sector of society is pointing strongly in the same direction: we’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline. I’m not…

I plan to write a series of posts outlining some unconventional or dissident conceptual frameworks I’ve found useful in understanding contemporary society. These aren’t the usual tired ideas or dead metaphors already familiar to us. I won’t even mention those stale truisms, because you already know…

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Andrej Karpathy 9 min read· Nov 11, 2017 -- I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win Kaggle competitions. Unfortunately, this interpretation…

Steve Jobs is founder of Apple. This essay is an excerpt from a speech he gave at the Palo Alto High School graduation in June 1996. Be aware of the world’s magical, mystical, and artistic sides. The most important things in life are not the goal-oriented, materialistic things that everyone and…

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