The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
John Battelle's Search Blog A “White Collar Recession”? It Won’t Be AI’s Fault.
BULLSHIT! That’s what I found myself yelling at a recent board meeting, unimpeded by my usual filters of propriety or self-restraint. But I couldn’t help myself. The board was debating …
Hypervisor as a Library
Why we need lisp machines
A personal mind dump on operating systems
RTEMS Statement Deepens Libogc License Controversy
Earlier this month we covered the brewing controversy over libogc, the community-developed C library that functions as the backbone for GameCube and Wii homebrew software. Questions about how much …
Open Source Hiding In Plain Sight
On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc debacle. [Tom] has been interviewing some of the principals involved, so he’s got some first-hand perspective on it …
The last design you'll ever make
Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair.
Mystical
AI-led or Human-led Coding? We have to choose.
It is time we take a closer look about how we code with AI and the ramifications on our industry.
Stop Building AI Tools Backwards | Hazel Weakly
I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and...
2025.20: Product Dreams and Marketplace Realities
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 12, 2025, including Airbnb and the limits of Founder Mode, Inside the NBA lottery in Chicago, and femtoseconds.
My Augmented Coding Tools As Of 16 May 2025
Flavors of genies
Version Control To The Max
There was a time when version control was an exotic idea. Today, things like Git and a handful of other tools allow developers to easily rewind the clock or work on different versions of the same t…
Switch project, part 1
Pi Box V2: an all-in-one Raspberry Pi 4-powered Mini PC #piday #raspberrypi
A nice mini pc build using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and a 5-inch display from Arnov Sharma on Hackster.io. This is a update to the Pi Box from earlier this year: This is Pi Box, an all-in-one Raspb…
CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation)
Back in the 1960’s and early 70’s Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges. Designed for classroom use, they included wonderful man…
Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Controversy Aside, Gumroad’s MIT Licensing Change Matters
Considering how the user benefits when a mature project goes fully open-source—even one with the baggage of something like Gumroad.
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
: Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-waste
Introducing Lua for Elixir
Execute sandboxed Lua code on the BEAM VM using Luerl
The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding
I’ve been using AI coding assistants like Claude Code for a while now, and I’m here to say (with all due respect to people who have…
ELI5: HTTP Authentication | Lukas Niessen
Simplest overview of HTTP Authentication
The Language That Never Was | Celes' Ramblings
Labeling a root cause is predicting the future, poorly
Why do we retrospect on our incidents? Why spend the time doing those write-ups and holding review meetings? We don’t do this work as some sort of intellectual exercise for amusement. Rather,…
The Winner's Curse in Machine Learning
An exploration of the Winner’s Curse, how it causes us to overestimate model performance, and what to do about it.
Just fucking use HTML
Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.
Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Protractor Keyboard
Don’t you love it when the title track is the first one on the album? I had to single out this adjustable keyboard called the Protractor, because look at it! The whole thing moves, you know. …
Genie Wants to Leap
Which works until it doesn't
The DIY 1982 Picture Phone
If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines. In their heyday, magazines like Popular Electronics, Radio Electr…
Vintage Stereo Stack Becomes Neat PC Case
Vintage hi-fi gear has a look and feel all its own. [ThunderOwl] happened to be playing in this space, turning a heavily-modified Technics stereo stack into an awesome neo-retro PC case. Meet the &…