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Generated code often looks idiomatic. It uses familiar abstractions. It resembles what competent developers write. That makes it easy to trust at a glance.

The race to achieve net-zero carbon emissions is redefining the global semiconductor industry. With fabrication plants consuming as much energy as entire cities, the push toward sustainability is no longer optional but a core component of corporate strategy. Erik Hosler, a voice on semiconductor materials and process control, acknowledges that long-term progress hinges not only

With 2026 just a whisker away, the browser sits at the center of a major shift in digital gaming; WebGPU, the new graphics and compute standard supported across modern browsers, is redefining what web-based experiences can deliver. As the technology matures, slot games built for browsers are expected to take a major leap forward in

Marketers always search for visual formats that feel instantly familiar, modern, and polished. A MacBook mockup has become one of the most effective tools for achieving this because it blends premium aesthetics with a clean digital environment that highlights whatever content sits on the screen. In an era where social feeds are overflowing with noisy

Learn how to integrate continuous performance testing into CI/CD using a tiered strategy that catches regressions early and scalability.

Linux runs 96.3% of the world’s top web servers, runs on 100% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers, and sits on approximately 5.27 billion Android devices.

The open web – free content written by actual humans about things actual humans care about – has been in decline for more than a decade. I’ve had a front row seat throughout &#821…

@#$%^&*???? Search is so f’d What does the Internet Make of Us? is a piece I wrote in Medium that has had 2,500 views so far. But Google doesn’t find it. Not with the query Doc Sear…

That’s what MyTerms does. Since I don’t have a photo of my own shot here in the natural world, the AI image above represents the degree of agentic scale MyTerms gives to a human meeting…

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

Considering the inherent tension of the Ovation guitar, which applied aerospace concepts to the acoustic guitar. It’s a brilliant-but-conflicted object.

The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea.

Most agencies flinch when they hear the word productisation. It sounds like someone’s about to force their work into a neat little package with a bow on top. A fixed scope, a shiny cover, a rigid process. Something that takes the soul out of the work. But productisation, when

Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that…

How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job.

YouTuber ‘Plants in Jars’ explained how she was a driving force in accidentally crashing the rare plant market with one specific method.

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January 2007, his words made their way into history: Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class. The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. So, three things; a […]

Today, it is hard to imagine a world without recorded audio, and for the most part that started with Edison’s invention of the phonograph. However, for most of its history, the phonograph was…

Plotters aren’t as common as they once were. Today, many printers can get high enough resolution with dots that drawing things with a pen isn’t as necessary as it once was. But certainl…

Explore the true history of convolutional neural networks, from Fukushima’s neocognitron to modern CNNs and LeCun’s influential work.

The recent ​announcement​ that Netflix formalized a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s television and film studios, as well as the HBO Max streaming service, ... Read more

As is his want, last week Fred Wilson wrote a provocative post I’ve been thinking about for the past few days. Titled “Netscape and Microsoft Redux?”, Fred notes the parallels bet…

Makerspaces help local communities in many different ways. They also rely on their support.

Generative artificial intelligence has amazed the World. Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3, its user adoption has been staggering. In 2022, ChatGPT surpassed one million users in just five days. For comparison, Instagram needed 2.5 months back in 2010. And it’s not just OpenAI. Anthropic has Claude, one of the best models for programming...

Reflections from 2025 and What’s Ahead in 2026

Engineering Governance into the Stack

The debate about open source AI has largely featured open weight models. But that's a bit like arguing that in the PC era, the most important goal would have

NotebookLM is proprietary and is enjoying incredible popularity at the moment, but did you know that there's an open source take on this technology?

To vet open source software, evaluating the business model, funding and governance behind projects you depend on is essential for business continuity.

I spent a month debugging why our service availability was all over the place. Turns out we had some 50MB markdown files hiding in our database.