This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who co…

within Rust is a smaller language struggling to get out

It has been 7 years since Valve revealed Proton, their compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux systems. What an incredible time it has been.

SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of…

I think, at this stage of AI, it is a common courtesy to disclose this.
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A nifty trick for debugging your tables easier.

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I’ve been coding entirely with Claude Code for the past two months. At first it was exhilarating. I was speeding through tasks. I was committing like mad.
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The same thermal waters that feed Budapest’s famous baths and spas have also created a subterranean underwater labyrinth that divers are still discovering.

AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data as company operating…

Imagine the typical everyday scenario in which you have been imprisoned in the wine cellar
of an evil combinatorialist. She promises to let you go, but only if you can solve her riddle.

Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.

I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without…

The latest uv release (0.8.13) quietly introduced an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format. This addition brings code formatting directly into uv’s toolkit, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for basic…

Let's make the CPython team regret adding pattern matching to Python!

The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. Kids who always choose the easy route and copy their homework…

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.

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AI job titles are a confusing mess of mix-and-match terms. This decoder ring breaks down the patterns behind titles.