Meta censored a political organisation during a national voting campaign, blamed its own automation, then claimed its automated systems had detected another automated tool.
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? ...
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down.
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly.
Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 723 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
If xAI defaults on its debt, Apollo Global Management ends up in the GPU rental business.
A blog about software development and programming.
Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
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An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
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Broadcom pulled public VMware VDDK downloads, creating new challenges for customers migrating to Azure, Nutanix, OpenShift, KVM, and other platforms.
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …
What WWDC 2026 actually revealed about a foldable iPhone, which clues are confirmed or reported, and why Apple’s adaptable software matters to developers.
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."
Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.
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Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
