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Is Warp the first ‘open slop’ project? “Today we are announcing a fundamental change in how we build Warp: the Warp client is now open-source, and the community can participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz, ...

curl 8.20.0(opens in new tab)

You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (total: 13,922)521 commits (total: 38,545)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)0 new curl ...

On wintering.(opens in new tab)

The winterer is out of the loop; they're not maintaining a position because they don't have a position to maintain. They can do work that takes longer than a quarter, longer than a year, longer than 5 years, because nobody ...

Vibe code in Rust(opens in new tab)

If you are vibe coding and you don’t review any of the code, like a true vibe coder, you should build your system in Rust. I know, that’s a controversial statement. But hear me out. We will see how good ...

When Sites Need to Walk Away(opens in new tab)

The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published ...

Alternative thoughts(opens in new tab)

My regular schedule of CSS and HTML tips will return after this brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim. “Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that… Alternative facts - Kellyanne ...

Before GitHub(opens in new tab)

GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I moved projects to Bitbucket, back ...

AI Is Not the Villain (or the Hero)(opens in new tab)

A figure walks away from a cracking corporate tower toward humans connecting peer-to-peer/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now. The common narrative ...

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I’ve been listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks. The premise is fun and the story has its moments but I’d have given up if it wasn’t for the narrator Jeff Hays. I thought I was listening to a full ...

AI Layoffs Aren't About AI(opens in new tab)

A single figure at a peak with tendrils of light extending outward, faint silhouettes dissolving below/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp Let me try to explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% an...

RSS Club #007: Running(opens in new tab)

Today Sabastian Sawe ran an historic sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. A marathon is around 42 kilometres, aka 26 miles in freedom units (we use miles in the UK too but not for running distances). I feel the record ...

The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)

Sundays are for realising that you aren't who you thought you were. You thought you were Jonathan Frakes. You thought you'd starred in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and 1995 video game Multimedia Celebrity Poker. You thought you'd played ...

AI & Alignment(opens in new tab)

Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other ...

At Machine Speed(opens in new tab)

Yesterday, I opened Discord to a message from my friend Bastian Allgeier that I had never quite seen in all the years I’ve been building sites with his Kirby CMS. “Today we are releasing our biggest security release in the ...