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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube downloader". You won't be able to find it because of all of the content farms that try to rank at the top for that term. Even though yt-dlp is probably actually what you want for a tool…
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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.
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Stellar
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Kagi News
A comprehensive daily press review with global news. Fully private, with sources openly curated by our community. News is broken. We all know it, but we've somehow accepted it as inevitable. The endless notifications. The clickbait...
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New Year, New CEO
It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade. It has always been my goal for Signal to grow and sustain beyond my involvement, but four years ago that would still not have been possible. I was writ...
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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender.
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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
Learn about Google Nest, account changes, Works with Nest and more
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
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Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with being successful (or failing) at one of these three first. Below…
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use…
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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
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How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
You Don’t Have To Get Covered on Large Blogs, Why Churn Rate is Surprisingly Low, Spend a Lot of Time At User Forum, etc..
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The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
A look into the tech and tools used by Winterbloom
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DALL·E now available in beta
We’ll invite 1 million people from our waitlist over the coming weeks. Users can create with DALL·E using free credits that refill every month, and buy additional credits in 115-generation increments for $15.
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100K Context Windows
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
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I spent two years launching tiny projects
Two years ago, frustrated with a long list of unfulfilled project ideas in my phone notes, I decided to give myself one week to try each idea out in its tiniest form.
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My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal
This statement is issued in response to id Software Studio Director Marty Stratton’s “DOOM Eternal OST Open Letter”, published on Reddit.
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Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years , but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm...
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Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying