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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…
then do life with them.
Bricklink, LEGO’s biggest online marketplace and lifeblood of the LEGO community has made quite an alarming announcement. From 12 December 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in 35 countries around the world, which means that LEGO and Bricklink members will no longer be able to buy or sell on…
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology devel…
500 years before Polymarket, the Vatican fought to stop gambling on papal affairs. Should we worry that it’s back?
Or, how a precocious youth briefly conquered the UK
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
Although counter-intuitive, it can be beneficial to build silos and decrease collaboration between teams. Balance the need for collaboration, coordination, and communication with these tips.
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation at the Agile Cambridge conference in England on October 2nd, 2025. The topic was “The Accountability Problem.” How do we define software department accountability so our business partners don’t do it for us?
Being "the enshittification guy" means that people expect you to weigh in on every service or platform that has been deliberately worsened to turn a buck. It's an impossible task (and a boring one besides). There's too much of this shit, and it's all so mid – a real "banality of enshittification" situation.
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or di…
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.
Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim.
Railway Mania, dot-com, AI. Technology bubbles follow a pattern older than any of them. What's different this time is that everyone knows the script.
With a map!
Silver Bulletin will begin publishing some new features soon — including Trump approval ratings. But the media just lost an extremely valuable resource.
It takes time and a lot of skill to write great code, so surely that code is valuable, right? Wrong. You might love it and nurture it, protecting it from harm, but I’m afraid that code of yours is potentially worthless. Why? Read on.
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?
AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to do away with my Netflix subscription. I simply was barely using it, and whenever I did it was more ou...
We are in the middle of the biggest red ocean I have ever seen in software development.
A year ago, Mihail Eric wrote a blog post detailing his experiences working on AI inside Amazon: How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet. It’s a great …
While the German economy is stagnating, Digital-Mittelstand may offer a solution.
We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups. We of course spent a lot of time discussing this before...
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
