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Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
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The State of AI Coding Report 2025
Read the full Q2 2026 research report, explore the chart data, and download the PDF for free.
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The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.
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Good engineers make terrible leaders
Yuval Noah Harari in his highly celebrated book Sapiens says that human values are shared myths and that there is no objective basis in humanism. I agree with him. In several separate exchanges on Twitter, I’ve debated the claim that technology has caused progress in human society or that there’s never been a better…
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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
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AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
Effective June 17, 2025, you can no longer send or receive texts using email.
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
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The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn
Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…
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What's Going on with Language Rankings?
As the inbound DMs and emails attest, at least a few of you out there having been waiting for RedMonk to drop our latest version of the programming language rankings. Our apologies about the delay: here’s our update on the process. Normally we run these rankings twice a year, with the goal of using publicly
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In defense of the Google Chef (2011)
I'm on the road with very limited internet connectivity so I can't do the homework I normally would before posting this, so it's possible th...
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Writing Effective Welcome Emails
Learn some tips and tricks on writing welcome emails that actually get responses.
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Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet Is 1 Year Old
I’m tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there’s a bubble in tech. I understand that it’s fun to do and easy press, but it’s boring reading. I also understand that it might...
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RSA warns developers not to use RSA products
In today’s news of the weird, RSA (a division of EMC) has recommended that developers desist from using the (allegedly) ‘backdoored’ Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator — w…
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