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I'm a CTO who was awake for 48 hours because of the PHP crisis. Octob…
A CTO shares what it was like to go 48 hours without sleep as he dealt with the PHP security flaw — and why he expects …
I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my rep…
I’ve decided to archive the source code of my Ruby gems to make it clear that I’m no longer working on them; I’ve writt…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to programmers: Stop building the hous…
The former Google CEO said today's AI coding tools surpass his skills and free up programmers to be the architects, not…
What smart people are saying about the cybersecurity 'vulnerability t…
Execs and analysts are warning that major cybersecurity threats could leave critical systems — from energy and water to…
Margret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90
As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margret Hamilton was responsibl…
A Modular Macro Keypad
The introduction of the ATmega32U4 microcontroller, with its integrated USB controller, made a lot of hardware tasks mu…
The Deep Magic of 3D Graphics Perspective
Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike p…
Margaret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer, Dies Aged 90
As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsib…
Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node
Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s dif…
Fragments: September 29
agents make programming harder, creating a breakaway agent needs super-persistence, AI needs a conscience more than con…
Retro gaming is being overrun with AI
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser,…
How Apple can win the smart home
This week, Apple is hosting its first-ever dedicated smart home event. While the company hasn't shared details about wh…
No Man Is an Island
AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous.
2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus
[Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least o…
Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
Someone asked me, given that LLMs exist and likely keep improving, whether I thought Ruby on Rails still made sense? Th…
Deno Is Joining Cloudflare
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
Tesla’s Optimus production hits snags with hands, The Information rep…
Tesla has increased Optimus production about tenfold in recent months. It is still struggling to build the humanoid rob…
300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban A…
SmallTV Hacking With Surprisingly Little Fuss
We’ve seen the GeekMagic SmallTV line of devices before — these cheap gadgets combine a microcontroller and a display i…
What is Beam? The buzzy American AI model being called the 'DeepSeek …
The company says it rivals some of China's leading open models while using far less computing power.