Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB.

Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring…

The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That's why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad.

Residents of a small coastal Cuban town face severe hardships despite living near energy sources. Santa Cruz del Norte experiences daily blackouts and fuel shortages, forcing people to cook with coal and firewood.

See how AI code review tools perform on real pull requests. Qodo's benchmark measures precision, recall, and issue coverage at scale.

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Vibe coding is too much work.

I don't want to orchestrate a barnyard of agents to generate, refactor, validate, test, and document code I don't see, all while burning through a coal mine of tokens. I don't want to "live dangerously" or YOLO code.

I'm not…

Temporarily taken down due to a request, will be back at a later date. (Have a guess why) :) In the meantime, you can read another of my write-ups here: 1.4 Billion exposed user records via insecure Firebase instances in top Android apps

OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/Clawdbot) promises the ultimate personal AI assistant with full computer access. But the massive security risks make sandbox deployment an absolute requirement.

Frontier large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini are increasingly used for mental-health support with anxiety, trauma and self-worth. Most work treats them as tools or as...

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

I want to go over the initial side project, how that turned into a more ambitious idea, manufacturing and testing a physical product, setting up a company, spreadsheets, setting up the digital infrastructure for the business, marketing and ads, burn-out,…

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter ...

Some market watchers have suggested $70,000 is a key level to watch and a break below that could lead bitcoin to decline further.

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