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Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work
Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.
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Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off
A few decades back my teenage son and I approached Las Vegas at night while traveling south on Interstate 15. When the skyline of the city began sparkling into view, the kid said, “Wow. Think…
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A year of funded FreeBSD development
For several years leading up to this point I had been talking to Amazonians on and off about the possibility of Amazon sponsoring my FreeBSD/EC2 work; rather predictably, most of those conversation ended up with my contacts at Amazon rhyming with "Amazon should definitely sponsor the work you're doing... but I don't…
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.
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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
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Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...
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Startup Equity 101
Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...
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We are no longer a serious country
And the world is starting to notice
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"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
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Doubling Down on Open Source
Open Sourcing all Product Features in Langfuse under the MIT license
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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8. The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader. As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence of consumers getting their hands on one. Also, that £8…
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Cinematography of “Andor”
Continuing the ongoing series of interviews with creative artists working on various aspects of movie and TV productions, it is my pleasure to welcome Christophe Nuyens . In this interview, he talks about the transition of this creative field from film to digital, bridging the gap between feature films and episodic…
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Canonicals Interview Process
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
The lost art of the "Somers System" of land valuation
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U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc. , a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as “ pig butchering .” In January 2025, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Funnull was…
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What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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Mistral Agents API
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric
Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.
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TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds
💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial
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You’re a little company, now act like one (2009)
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
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We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
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Claude 4
Discover Claude 4's breakthrough AI capabilities. Experience more reliable, interpretable assistance for complex tasks across work and learning.