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Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

The address that I use for this newsletter has long since been overrun by nonsense. Seemingly every PR and marketing firm in existence has gleefully ... Read more

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The Return Of The Screwdriver Age

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Formae, from Platform Engineering Labs, addresses the brittleness of Day 2 operations by using Apple's robust Pkl configuration language.

A full-stack developer and Angular consultant explains how AI models can be treated as local assets, enabling better performance and privacy.

Keynote: The Power of Queues - David Ware | MQ Summit 2025 Comments welcome! View the span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"/spancode-sync/span tag for more Code Sync talks!

:AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…

We've been watching enterprises struggle with the same customer service paradox for years: They have all the technology in the world, yet a simple address

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are enough valid reasons to do so, however, and enough legacy hardware that …

We had two repos of Elixir, seventy-five LiveView components, five sheets of high-powered Phoenix channels, a saltshaker half-full of SQLite databases, and a whole multicolored collection of Burrito deployables, Tauri binaries, WebView wrappers, hot-reloaders… Also, a quart of WebSockets, a quart of GenServers, a case of Ecto queries, a pint of raw BEAM bytecode, and two dozen supervisors. The only thing that really worried me was the WebView. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a developer in the depths of a cross-platform binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ultimate goal of any data effort is to enable better decisions and drive meaningful organizational outcomes.

M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser's Back. His problem starts with OpenAI's GPT Atlas, which some publishers won't let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you a…

A repost, with some updates.

Six months on, the industry is converging: code-execution over tool registries. Anthropic’s data and Cloudflare’s Code Mode show the path…

The first Agentic Internet Workshop (AIW1) took place on October 24, 2025, the day after IIW 41, bringing together a global group to explore how agents, identity, and infrastructure intersect. With 40+ sessions and participants from 10 countries, AIW I marked the beginning of a focused conversation on building an internet that acts on our behalf—securely, transparently, and with human agency at its core.

When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the paradigm switch from analog to digital transmission. At the dawn of the n…

Introducing pg_lake, a set of open-source PostgreSQL extensions from Snowflake that allow you to query, manage, and write to Iceberg tables in your data lakehouse.

A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.

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A short survey of compiler targets like assembly, LLVM, C, JVM and Brainfuck.

Using AI agents, the incident commander isn’t a micromanager but more of a strategist, offloading context gathering and synthesis to focus on high-stakes decisions.

Our industry loves acronyms. In fact, sometimes it feels as if half our job is simply keeping up with them, while the other half is explaini...