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After I built my little counter last year, it got a flurry of attention. It got pretty large and was killed off a bunch as well. But after a while the attention fell off and I was really the only one tending to it, growing it. And something so b...

MIT Associate Professor Dwai Banerjee studies the impact of technology on society, ranging from cancer treatment to the global spread of computing.

Maintaining Paths for Career Growth in an AI-Driven World

“We’re still around and leading things because we accept change.”

Posted on Thursday 3 Apr 2025. 881 words, 31 links. By Matt Webb.

A digital investigation reveals how AI can latch on to technical terminology, despite it being complete nonsense.

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I...

Computer systems are poorly built, badly maintained, and often locked in a maze of vendor contracts and outdated spaghetti code that amounts to a death spiral. This is true of nothing else we buy.

responding with slowness in relations

Foursquare is still going strong, and all thanks to you! You might think it's gone, so here's the story of how it survived, evolved and thrived.

A new take on Trump’s tariffs, including using a disruption lens to understand the U.S.’s manufacturing problem, and why a better plan would leverage demand, not kill it.

Can AI Do Revolutionary Science? And If It Can, What Does That Mean?

Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—allowing edge applications to sync only the data they need, exactly when they need it.

For people whose job it is to manage complexity, we're pretty bad at describing it.

Among all the occupations AI could replace, why are we focusing so much on Engineering jobs that require such expertise? I'm well aware of quality of the code AI writes, it is beyond useful but I don't see a world where that piece of code can find its way into

This article explores the relationship between vibe coding and software engineering.

The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.

The dirty secret tech leaders won’t admit: No-code isn’t coming for your job — it’s handing you the keys to the kingdom

One more proof that it needs independent community events.

An arduously long blog post

If you're not a "UNIX person", the idea of writing a command line application can be scary and off-putting. The command line is so intimidating to…

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We tried building a game using only AI—no debugging, no coding, no Googling. It wasn't that bad of an experience.

Backoff and jitter smooth short bursts but can’t manage continuous load increases.

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Or things that are not mathematically precise will cause you pain down the line.