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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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Monotype font licencing shake-down
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length…
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Google Antigravity
Every advancement in model intelligence for coding has encouraged us to rethink how development should be done. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)…
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Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Edit (November 26th, 2am Pacific): This post was originally titled “Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work”. We’ve had a bit of time to reflect on this blog p...
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Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.
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Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Replicate’s going to carry on as a distinct brand, and all that’ll happen is that it’s going to get way better. It’ll be faster, we’ll have more resources, and it’ll integrate with the rest of Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
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A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
Expiry of key LFP battery patents in 2022 reshaped the EV sector—open access to tech is driving global strategy shifts as old IP barriers fall.
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I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
I have recordings and emails showing attacks months before Coinbase's 'discovery'. Timeline, headers, and audio evidence.
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The fate of "small" open source
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection…
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Three kinds of AI products work
The very first LLM-based product, ChatGPT, was just the ability to talk with the model itself: in other words, a pure chatbot. This is still the most popular…
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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts
I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
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Mag Wealth (2024)
Mag World: an intuitive sense of scale, using orders of magnitude
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Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
Kiro, Spec-kit, Bmad, Tessl, and other SDD frameworks turn business analysts into Markdown reviewers. Isn't there a more agile way to use Coding Agents?
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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
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Zed is our office
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
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Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Valve is about to win the console generation
Valve does nothing and still wins
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
Linus Torvalds worked for them after he completed his degree, but left in 2003
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa…