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Ruby for Good

Ruby for Good is an annual event taking place August 27-30, 2026, in the Washington DC area where programmers and…

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No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031

Junior software engineering job postings have collapsed by approximately 40% since pre-2022 levels, with big tech and…

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'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

UK public relations executives report that companies across low-tech industries are aggressively rebranding ordinary…

I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

Omarchy Is Not A Distro

Omarchy, promoted by DHH as a "modern Linux distribution," is actually just Arch Linux combined with DHH's personal…

DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

DeepSeek Reasonix is an open-source, MIT-licensed coding agent that runs locally as a single Go binary, offering four…

The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed

What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.

Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

LLM agents demonstrate strong performance in autonomous code generation but struggle when required to meet strict…

Childhood Computing

In 1992, when the author was eight years old, his school gained access to a computer lab with old IBM PC machines,…

Mastering Dyalog APL

"Mastering Dyalog APL" is being updated as an interactive online resource based on Jupyter Notebooks to replace the…

Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's co-founder and president, discusses the company's critical 72-hour crisis when CEO Sam Altman…

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

An AWS employee who joined in 2022 announced they are leaving the company after four years, citing organizational…

The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years

# Summary The C++ Standard Library has systematically deprecated and removed features for fifteen years after initially…

'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

Bambu Lab, a leading 3D printer manufacturer, sparked outrage in the open-source community after sending a private…

Why Is Vivado 2026.1 Dropping Linux Support for Free Tier?

The C64 Dead Test Font

The article documents the previously undocumented font used in the C64 "Dead Test" diagnostic cartridge, which…

The day my ping took countermeasures

# Summary A developer investigating an unexpected error message from the ping utility discovered that ping detects when…

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

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API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates

Chrome is proposing new Declarative Partial Updates APIs to allow HTML to be delivered out-of-order rather than in the…

When does learning from data work (math starting from basic probability)

# Summary The article explains when machine learning models trained on sample data generalize to unseen data, answering…

ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies

ICE has awarded Bi2 Technologies a $25.1 million no-bid contract for iris-scanning technology to help agents identify…

My I3-Emacs Integration

The author patched the i3 window manager to integrate better with Emacs by allowing keybindings to be passed through to…

Bun.Image

Bun.Image is a new chainable image processing API built into the Bun runtime that enables decoding, resizing, rotating,…

Don't Roll Your Own

The author argues that modern web developers should avoid implementing custom versions of features that browsers and…