Ever wonder why online advertising is so convoluted? A new book by an industry insider helps explain why—and how Google put its giant hand on the scale.

Weeknotes 352 - Companion Paradox: agency in the age of relatable AI - GPT-5 is everywhere in the news. It delivers and it underwhelms, depending who you ask. I dived in two the impact on being a relatable AI.

I recently read a great article by Sohail Saifi about how Japanese developers write code and it resonated with me beyond just programming. I come from a family closely tied to industrial work and quality systems: My wife is an engineer in the food industry.

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I’ve been diving into Japanese software development practices, and honestly, it’s totally changed the way I look at writing code. While a lot of developers in the West are caught up in chasing the …

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The future of software development isn’t about better prompts. It’s about better context.

Fediverse, which is a portmanteau of Federation and Universe, is the name for a new protocol for the social internet: a bunch of different social networks and platforms that are connected to each other. Users on any of these services can follow users on any other one and respond to, like, and share posts. Here's how it works and how it could change social media.

At the frontiers of knowledge, researchers are discovering that A.I. doesn’t just take prompts—it gives them, too, sparking new forms of creativity and collaboration.

As US and Chinese tech giants chase artificial general intelligence, experts warn the hype may be outrunning the science

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I often hear or see people claim that HTTP is a simple protocol. Primarily of course from people without much experience or familiarity with actual implementations. I think I personally also had thoughts in that style back when I started working with the protocol. After personally having devoted soon three decades on writing client-side code … Continue reading HTTP is not simple →

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In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud.