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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for...
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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War and national security uses of AI.
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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.
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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice
Call you Congresspeople, right now.
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Setting up phones is a nightmare
Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today.
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OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for…
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iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information
Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with information assurance requirements of NATO nations.
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What Claude Code chooses
Benchmarking and Ground Control for developer tool providers. Understand agent choices and test what helps them succeed.
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Google Street View in 2026
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?
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Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
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Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet
Today, it’s my great pleasure to announce the first public release of Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance. Hardwood is …
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Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
When a codebase is large and complex, it's risky to big changes. Here's a structured way to approach
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BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
Most people know BuildKit as the thing that makes docker build fast. But BuildKit is a general-purpose build framework with a programmable architecture that can produce any artifact, not just container images. Here's how it works and how I used it to build Alpine APK packages.
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This time is different
3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX. The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who…
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The real cost of random I/O
How good is the random_page_cost default, and should you lower it on modern flash storage?
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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
New immigration rules for the UK are being enforced starting February 2026. This means citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit, even for tourism. Luckily, you can apply (and pay) digitally. Unfortunately, the government…
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H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery
The famed architect made a surprising error on one of his most notable buildings — or did he? A deep dive to uncover the truth.
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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
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The happiest I've ever been
It was around January 2020. I became the head coach of a youth basketball team.
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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their...
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How will OpenAI compete?
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie
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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.
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Making MCP cheaper via CLI
I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)
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Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.
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The Slow Death of the Power User
There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read…
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