The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
Show Your Work: The Case for Radical AI Transparency
A colleague told me something recently that I keep thinking about.She said, unprompted, that she appreciated seeing both sides of my AI conversations. Not
Emergency Pedagogical Design: How Programming Instructors Are Scrambling to Adapt to GenAI
ChatGPT has been publicly available for over three years now, and generative AI is woven into the tools students use every day: web search, word processors,
The following article originally appeared on 'Dan Shapiro's blog' and is being reposted here with the author's permission.Companies are now producing dark
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
Thinking Elixir Podcast 299: Don't Paste That Into Your Terminal
The EEF needs your support for a major security grant, Hex.pm completes its first security audit, José Valim drops a massive Tidewave update, and we discuss the ClickFix supply chain attack that hit Axios, and more!
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back | The Quietus
As technology has developed in the last twenty years, it has brought with it a sense of enablement. Over time, access to nearly everything has become simpler, and as such, the message from Silicon Valley and its offshoots was that you can do it all. I have worked in the music industry since the late […]
They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd
Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the aftermath of the wars, and that al…
Weeknotes 384 - Thoughts on repetitiveness as a signal for losing or learning in an intelligence world, new strategies for care. And the latest news captures on physical AI.
From Mic Blip to Wiki Page: Meet Hubert, Our Self-Writing Meeting Machine
Meet Hubert, our self-writing meeting machine, inspired by the legendary OSS 117. Like Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, it navigates chaos with effortless charm, turning audio into structured notes. No buttons, no fuss. Just results, delivered with the panache of Jean Dujardin’s iconic wink.
I was supposed to give a 20-minute presentation this morning, but alas, it is 2026 and our household, once again, has COVID. So I’m skipping the part where I read this piece of writing aloud to a Zoom audience, even though there’d be no chance of infecting them
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.