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Isaac Asimov (from a 1988 interview), providing a different perspective on trust, incentives, and guardrails: It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a…

As AI shrinks engineering teams and the EM role splits in two, the Technical Program Manager could be the most overlooked answer hiding in plain sight.

A fake abbey fronts for a distillery and family tensions boil over! Take me to the content This is part of my ongoing blog series where I use a random wikipedia article as inspiration for system…

Never Lose That Feeling [1992] Back to the good ole days when I was twenty. Me and my mate Tony would stay up late, drink and smoke, listening to all the new and groovy sounds on cd. I'd totally…

DOCUMENT TA-008 TYPE ARTICLE REVISION REV B STATUS DRAFT ISSUED 2026.06.29 PROJECT GW-001 TRUST ARCHITECTURE Two developments matter this week if you are making procurement decisions about AI…

Meeting Notes is a free offline desktop app for 1:1s. Organise notes by person, tag topics, and transcribe meetings on-device with Whisper.

By assembling a landscape from components that are often hidden away inside PCs and server racks, or discarded as e-waste, the sculpture reminds us that the digital world is built on a massive…

Event Strategies, which put on the disastrous Great American State Fair, knows how to put on professional presentations. But since they started getting no-bid contract after no-bid contract, they…

Thanks, Annie and bunnies Demerara and Cristál! Annie writes, “Demerara and Cristál definitely know the sound of the treats bag opening!”

The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered on an X-ray brightening from the Be/X-ray binary pulsar 4U 0115+63 on 2026 June 29 (MJD 61220). The previous X-ray outburst from this source was observed on…

I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually a…

The S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) lost money every day of the trading week ending on Friday, 26 June 2026. By week's end, the index dropped 1.95% from the previous week's close, ending up at 7,354.02 .…

It's that time of year again. Monocle just released its annual survey of the most liveable cities in the world. If you're a regular follower of the magazine and/or its quality-of-life survey, you'll…

Connie Francis & Harve Presnell. When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965). What possessed a Hollywood producer to pitch a 1960s update of the George and Ira Gershwin stage musical Girl Crazy starring…

>- Complete guide to securing your OpenClaw AI assistant. Learn how to implement firewall rules, file permissions, tool allowlisting, and automated security monitoring for production deployments.

I’ve been writing online since 2007, and over the years I’ve covered many different topics. One of my favorite series was on the snake-handling churches of Appalachia. One of the most fascinating…

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By Javier Medina ( X / LinkedIn) TL;DR Hardened perimeters mask HTTP replies, causing false positives or false negatives on standard scanners. This post shows how we mapped plugins from an updated…

How I built and run Reframe, an AI product-photo app for Shopify merchants: the architecture decisions that let one person operate a GPU pipeline in production, how session recordings drove churn…

The tempting move is to hand an LLM your customer data and ask which accounts are about to churn. That's the expensive, unreliable way to do the one thing classic ML is great at. I built the whole…

In Chapter 4, we built the first memory-management layer: Now we add the next layer: paging. Paging lets the CPU translate a virtual address into a physical address through page tables. In 32-bit x86…

Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – ...…

Spec-Driven Development is one of those ideas that software engineers have reached for before and then set aside when the effort stopped paying.

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While looking for a old keyboard in store room , I found my old notebook from high school. Going thought the notebook I realized that , I'm not a curious person anymore. That notebook is full of…

The month June I can describe best as hot, hot, hot and slowing down. We had 2 weeks of uninterrupted rain and 2 weeks of heatwave. Talk about contrast! Maybe the longest heatwave the Netherlands…

If Obsession got under your skin, you don't want more gore, you want more of that squirm. These nine movies, from Curry Barker's $800 debut to a Satoshi Kon classic, live in the same discomfort.…

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the last few years, including right now, the ability to write a great AI prompt is a bit of a superpower. If you can write a better prompt, you’re going to get better…

Few arcade shoot-em-ups made as much of an impact in the early 1990s as Seibu Kaihatsu's Raiden. First released into arcades in 1990, the vertically scrolling shooter quickly became a huge hit thanks…

These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend – and reviewed by Fresh On The Net’s Neil March and Sherry Sahayaraj this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single…

Ten startups, forty top-tier investors, and more than one hundred strategic connections forged in a single room. As Ruhbir , one of our volanteers and startup founder who pitched, aptly noted, the…

I write a Flutter app in a container on a Hetzner box and build it on my Mac. Mutagen copies each change to the Mac over SSH, not Docker.

LIberalism, even when not wholly blind to modern imperialism, is incapable of seeing the extent of its evil. Millions have been slaughtered on the watch of Bush Snr, Clinton, Bush Jnr, Obama, Trump…

On this day in 1613, the original Globe Theater in London, built by Shakespeare and his gang of thespians, burnt to the ground after a special-effects cannon set fire to some thatching during a…

This weekend involved a lot of time away from the computer. This is healthy and fine, but I'm looking forward to stagnating at my desk for the next couple of days.There's yet another…

Professor Asifa Majid of the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (UK) has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research

News reached NOSE that last month, nose member Astrid Groot was elected vice president of the International Society of Chemical

Yesterday was a good Sunday. As I was driving and driving and driving on Saturday followed by a night when I was up and down, I wondered if I would be just exhausted on Sunday. Happily, I felt fine.…

––––– To mom and dad, I haven't written as much as I'd like to, I've been focusing on present day, present time. For as long as I could remember — you both wanted to forget your past at all costs,…

"I am speaking out today because many more asylum-seeking children are at risk due to plans to withdraw support and forcibly remove children whose families have failed asylum claims." The children’s…

if you are suffering breathe let the breath lead you upwards to your head feel the energy you get when inhaling if you want some more breath in deeper and then a bit more then let it go and follow it…

If your organization uses Self-Service Password Reset in Microsoft Entra ID, there is a change coming that you need to be aware of. Starting September 7, 2026, SSPR will only accept explicitly…

For the third appearance of Code: Red, I thought that it was time to reveal just who was behind the formation of this team. Who better than the most famous redhead in comic strips? I'm glad she's…

TL;DR: A visibility timeout is a lease. It tries to keep two consumers from working on the same queue message at the same time, but only for a limited period. If message handling takes longer than…

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I am RIDDLED with flu and seem to have spent most of the weekend waiting for my flu meds to kick in. To pass the time, I picked up Dearest Beast and it did a very good job of distracting me from my…

A post on X predicted that development would all move to remote sandboxes. Here is why I think that is a mirage, what makes the model attractive to executives and unappealing to developers, and where…