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Flipper One — we need your helpWe're finally ready to talk about Flipper One — a project we've been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times. It's an incredibly hard project, both financially and technically. So today we're going public not with a big shiny announcement, but to tell the whole story straight. Honestly? We're genuinely terrified, and we need your help. TL;DR With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge... 2026-5-21 3:46am Flipper Blog Pavel Zhovner 4,000 words Rated 2026-5-21 8:02pm - sethherr |
AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blogAI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question. 2026-5-19 12:00am Evil Martians 4,000 words Rated 2026-5-24 8:14am - sethherr |
Protestware for coding agentsprintMessageForCodingAgents() 2026-5-28 8:00am Andrew Nesbitt 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-5 9:29pm - sethherr |
Can This Guy Get People to Live in America’s Emptiest Downtown? - WSJRated 2026-6-5 9:31pm - sethherr |
That Methyl Methacrylate TankThat Methyl Methacrylate Tank Science Advances 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-6 2:19pm - sethherr |
The Butlerian Jihad Has BegunShould we wage 'Holy War' against the Thinking Machines? 2026-5-28 2:55pm Syndekit Charles McBryde, Syndekit 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-8 3:50pm - sethherr |
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOsIn the last three months I've had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What's been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would be an "all hands" email in which the CEO talks up how amazing LLM tools are and saying that… 2026-6-9 11:11am Techdirt 5,000 words Rated 2026-6-9 9:22pm - sethherr |
Incorruptible & SpotifyAs the story goes, at 23 years old, Daniel Ek had the fancy sports car, loads of money and was partying at the high end clubs in Stockholm. He was also completely miserable. 2026-6-4 4:15pm linkedin.com Brendan Marsh 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-10 7:09pm - sethherr |
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponentialdarioamodei.com 6,000 words Rated 2026-6-12 10:05am - sethherr |
Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office OverhaulIn a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S.... 2026-6-10 3:54pm Electronic Frontier Foundation Joe Mullin 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-12 3:35pm - sethherr |
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcherAccording to the one person who actually read the research paper 2026-6-15 2:07pm The Register Jessica Lyons 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-16 5:56am - sethherr |
Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of IntegrityHow Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished 2026-6-11 11:38am The Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters, Matthew Morgan 6,000 words Rated 2026-6-16 3:48pm - sethherr |
The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law CenterBob Moser writes on the Southern Poverty Law Center firing its co-founder and longtime mastermind Morris Dees, after years of allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination against him. #Marketing #Sexual Harassment 2019-3-21 8:05am The New Yorker Bob Moser 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:02pm - sethherr |
The AirPods Effect - The Escape with Markham HeidRated 2026-6-18 5:06pm - sethherr |
How Alberta eradicated ratsRats have conquered nearly every place on earth where humans live. Only Alberta soldiers on. #History 2026-6-15 5:19am Works in Progress wip-admin 3,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:07pm - sethherr |
Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capacity for peak write and read load ahead of Christmas Day, the busiest day of the year for the company. Rails manages queries and schema changes for each primary database within the same codebase, and now with the additional capacity of many... 2026-6-16 6:15am Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Andrew Atkinson 4,000 words Rated 2026-6-19 10:50pm - sethherr |
Hey, N00b, We Didn't Hire You to Complete TasksWelcome! 2026-5-15 6:35am Software Design: Tidy First? Kent Beck 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-19 10:55pm - sethherr |
FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency dramaIn February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine. 2026-6-18 3:08pm Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-21 10:25pm - sethherr |
Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-23 7:16am - sethherr |
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under wordsStarting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors. 2026-6-22 7:00am The Old New Thing Raymond Chen 1,000 words Rated 2026-6-23 7:59pm - sethherr |