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Flipper One — we need your help

We'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 blog

AI-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 agents

printMessageForCodingAgents()

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? - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2026-6-5 9:31pm - sethherr

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank

Science Advances 1,000 words

Rated 2026-6-6 2:19pm - sethherr

The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun

Should 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 CEOs

In 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 & Spotify

As 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 Exponential

darioamodei.com 6,000 words

Rated 2026-6-12 10:05am - sethherr

Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

In 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 researcher

According 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 Integrity

How 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 Center

Bob 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 Heid

theescapenewsletter.com

Rated 2026-6-18 5:06pm - sethherr

How Alberta eradicated rats

Rats 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 Tasks

Welcome!

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 drama

In 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 Doctorow

pluralistic.net 2,000 words

Rated 2026-6-23 7:16am - sethherr

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

Starting 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

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