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GitHub is working with the OSS community to bring new supply chain security capabilities to the platform.

Tech’s past tells us that the future doesn’t unfold along a predetermined timeline. Despite the rocky starts of Humane’s AI Pin & Rabbit’s R1 device, we’re heading to a promising e…

What is DevOps, anyway? It's been around for 15 years, and has grown into an industry - generating countless tools and quite a revenue. And yet, many people can't answer the question with certainty.

Meta is once again facing investor skepticism over its spending; I can understand reasonable doubt in the short and medium term, but the long-term bet on Mark Zuckerberg still seems worth making.

Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in scale is a change in principle.

Some of you may know but I’ve been working on a book putting all the best practices, anecdotes, code samples, and experiences I’ve had over the last handful of years into a book to help others grow and scale small companies in a way that is resilient and sustainable. My book,

Unleash Your Coding Potential: Why the Terminal Beats the Mouse Every Time

The Llama large language model claims to be open source, but OpenInfra COO Mark Collier says it is anything but.

As it grapples with massive scaling, Pfizer has added a principal engineer layer and a platform to drive and measure developer satisfaction.

Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner in extra time in a crucial match—an FA Cup s…

How can we save time switching from one approach to another? Ideally everything would be decoupled and independent, right? Just hide it behind an interface!

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Where did the IMEI number come from, why is it so freaking long, and why does your phone need it? If you’ve ever wondered, we’ve got you covered.

Extreme AI Expert can answer network questions, troubleshoot operations, and create alerts for conditions such as network degradation or Wi-Fi dead spots.

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I didn't write anything last week about the Humane AI Pin, a new device that's part of the so-called "AI gadget era" – a pairing of all these purported breakthroughs in AI software we're witnessing with a new generation of AI hardware. The Humane AI Pin is a "wearable multi-modal device"

Posted on Friday 26 Apr 2024. 407 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

A practical guide to identifying knowledge bottlenecks and deploying AI-enabled solutions to break down knowledge silos in your engineering team.

In which I learn to do some new things in Mathematica, and I find an 84 year old typo.

Inventing on Principle Stop Drawing Dead Fish The Future of Programming Yes, all three of them in one episode. Phew! Links $ patreon.com/futureofcoding — Lu and Jimmy recorded an episode about Hest without telling me, and by total coincidence released it on my birthday. Those jerks… make me so happy. Lu's talk at SPLASH 2023: Cellpond: Spatial Programming Without Escape Gary Bernhardt's talk Wat Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor ("""Clean""" Audio) Braid, the good video game from the creator of The Witness David Hellman is the visual artist behind Braid, A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage Is Irreversible, Dynamicland, and… the Braid section of Inventing on Principle. Light Table by Chris Granger Learnable Programming by Bret Victor When Lu says "It's The Line", they're referring to this thing they're working on called Seet (or "see it"), and you can sneak a peek at seet right heet. Paris Fashion Week absolutely struts, and so can you! The Canadian Tuxedo. As the representative of Canada, I can confirm that I own both a denim jacket and denim pants. If you see me at a conference wearing this combo, I will give you a hug. Jimmy runs a personal Lichess data lake. Hot Module Replacement is a good thing. Pygmalion has a lot of juicy silly bits, 'parently. Cuttle is awesome! It's a worthy successor to Apparatus. Toby Schachman, Forrest Oliphant, I think maybe a few other folks too? Crushing it. Oh, and don't miss Toby's episode of this very podcast! Recursive Drawing, another Toby Schachman joint. Screens in Screens in Screens, another Lu Wilson joint. Larry Tesler. Not a fan of modes. Lu writes about No Ideas on their blog, which is actually just a wiki, but it's actually a blog, but it's actually just a garden. When we mention Rich Hickey, we're referring to the talk Simple Made Easy Jacob Collier, ugh. Suffragettes, women advocating for their right to vote, absolutely had a principle. Not sure that we should be directly likening their struggle to what we do in tech. On the other hand, it's good to foster positive movements, to resist incel and other hateful ones. Instead of linking to e/ anything, I'm just gonna link to BLTC for reasons that only make sense to longtime listeners. Stop Writing Dead Programs by Jack Rusher. Jack Rusher? Jack Rusher! It's the fish one, the one with the fish. …Sorry, these aren't actually fish, or something, because they're just drawings. René Magritte is the creator behind La Trahison des Images, origin of "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Or maybe it was Margit the Fell Omen? Magritte's Words and Images are lovely. Here's an English translation, though its worth taking a look at the original in context. Acousmatic Music Lu has made art with behaviour — various sands, and CellPond, say. Barnaby Dixon? Barnaby Dixon. Barnaby Dixon! Barnaby Dixon!! You can listen to part of Ivan's """Metronome""", if you want. Or you can listen to an early version of the song he's using this metronome to write. Or you can hear snippets of it in the Torn Leaf Zero video (especially the ending). But, like, you could also go make yourself lunch. I recommend mixing up a spicy peanut sauce for your roasted carrots. Shred a bit of cheese, tomato. Toast the bread. Pull the sausages right when the oil starts to spit. Put them straight into the compost. Look at the bottom of the compost bucket. What's down there? It's shiny. Why are you reading this? Why am I writing this? Why do we make thispodcast? Wintergatan — Marble Machine exists Oh, I forgot to add a link to Arroost earlier. You can also watch a pretty good video that is basically an Arroost tutorial, not much to it. There are also some nice examples of things people have made with Arroost. The Rain Room looks pretty cool. It's the exact inverse of how rain works in many video games. YOU MUST PLAY RAIN WORLD. Here's a beautiful demo of a microtonal guitar, and speaking of using complex machines to make music that would be "easier" to make with a computer, here's a microtonal guitar with mechanized frets that can change the tuning dynamically. This entire YT channel is gold. Shane Crowley wrote a lovely blog post about creating music with Arroost. blank.page is a fun experiment in writing with various frictions. Super Meat Boy (the successor to Meat Boy, a Flash game) and Celeste are great examples of communicating tacit knowledge through the design of a simulation. Newgrounds and eBaum's World and Homestar Runner were early examples of (arguably) computer-native media. Hey, here's this episode's requisite link to the T2 Tile Project and Robust-First Computing. I should probably just create a hard-coded section of the episode page template linking to T2, The Witness, and Jack Rusher. The pun-proof Ivan Sutherland made Sketchpad. Planner exists. The PlayStation 3 Cell processor was this weirdly parallel CPU that was a pain in the butt to program. The SpaceMouse Put all metal back into the ground. Music featured in this episode: Fingers from This Score is Butt Ugly The Sailor's Chorus from Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. ! Send us email, share your ideas in the Slack, and catch us at these normal places: Ivan: Mastodon • Website Jimmy: Mastodon • Website Lu: Mastodon • Website See you in the future! https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/71

Most reverse engineering projects we see around here have some sort of practical endpoint in mind. Usually, but not always. Reverse-engineering a 40-year-old cable modem probably serves no practica…

We have six tips to reduce the carbon footprint of the new gadget you need to buy.

Six contemporary science fiction writers weigh in on the impact of their genre on our future technologies.

The data used to train AI models needs to reflect the production environments where applications are deployed.