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You might think it counterintuitive that a movement obsessed with software would be spearheading a severe decline in the design quality of software, but in Patel’s definition, there’s no concept of software as art, as a practice, as a craft. ...
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks the future ability to publish validation ...
I don’t play a lot of visual novels, and I certainly don’t make a lot of rotary dial phone calls, so a clickin’ and speakin’ game like Schrödinger's Call is one I’d normally leave unheeded. That, however, would have been ...
Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, instead of telling you how I’m ...
William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Morning Journal in 1895 - and immediately started running stories designed to make his readers furious before they’d finished their breakfast. The pages manufactured a mood, and that mood sold papers.Three years later, ...
“[slop] which reaches an audience and produces income does so because of theft on the input side and deception on the output side. We must work to solve these problems both technically as well as culturally, but what we must ...
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to ...
If you've ever tried to enforce a security policy across a fleet of Kubernetes clusters, you've probably run into a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Your admission policies are API objects, which means they don't exist until someone creates them, and they ...
Getting a multi-column of cards to line up equally is is a headache we've all faced, and it gets even harder when working with fixed heights. Fixed-Height Cards: More Fragile Than They Look originally handwritten and published with love on ...
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Topics covered in this episode: profiling-explorer Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 VSCode AI Co-author defaults to on, then off django freeze Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: ...
Prompt API is back in the news. Can we not? How this will transpire: User visits website Popup before the page is visible: “✨️ website wants to install: [technobabble]” User is scared and confused, clicks “Yes” anyway The local model ...
I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag. I know, I know. I ...
We are showcasing the simplicity of DuckLake's v1.0 specification by developing a dataframe reader/writer with AI.
Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked in” or “cracked.” ...
There is no point getting any more outraged or disgusted at Meta for firing the Kenyan contractors who exposed the privacy fiasco of AI Glasses than you already were in the first place. They had to fire them.
We are at an interesting inflection point in how people are using AI to write online. This week Panagram – the best known AI detection software – released a new free API to detect AI writing on social media feeds. ...
If you sit in front of a screen your job is at risk. That was Robert Sterling’s take in a recent tweet. Meta and KPMG recently announced they were laying off 10% of their staff. Microsoft is cutting 7%. The ...
I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post but the underlying ...
Hello note readers! Did I mention I’m starting a limited company soon (“soon”)? I probably should save that announcement for the big blog… It’s primarily for tax stuff, we’ll see, but it needs a cool domain, obviously. That’s a problem! ...
Sundays are for walking past a minivan full of Toy Story merchandise with purple, green and white livery and knowing, knowing in your marrow that the owner has named it "Bus Lightyear". These are uncertain times, but any universe capable ...
An executive gesturing at a screen full of static, demanding it scale/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp/images/most-companies-arent-ready-for-ai.webp Most of the frustration people have with AI not being able to do what they want is actually them not being able to describe what they ...