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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
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Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win.
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I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
Dieter Rams and his friends (Dietrich Lubs and Ludwig Littman) designed many great looking alarm clocks.
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I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
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ChatGPT Search
Get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources
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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games…
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Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
A refreshed, more powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a new experimental AI capability: computer use.
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Why is Chile so long?
Chile is so long, it's curved. How long is it? Why not longer? Why is no other country as thin? How does that make Chileans incomprehensible?
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
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Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back
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Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
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An NFC movie library for my kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...
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Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
The 2000-year-old scroll discusses music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures.
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AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics
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Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
This morning while perusing the settings of a bunch of apps on my iPhone, I discovered a new setting for Photos that was enabled by default: Enhanced Visual Search. (I manually disabled it before taking the screenshot below.)
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Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton , make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I…
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ...
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Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents
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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
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Greppability is an underrated code metric
Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run. A collection of guidelines to keep your code base greppable
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I Am Tired of AI
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in general.
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Starting Hospice
I’m entering hospice. It’s time, and realistically past time. The squamous cell carcinoma tumors are growing, and the two doses of spot radiation I got on June 10 and 12 have utterly destroyed what…
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From where I left
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Apple acquires Pixelmator
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.