Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Machine code isn't scary. If you can make sure your JSON conforms to a JSON schema, you can write machine code.

Lightning-fast completions, deep code understanding, and agentic software engineering—right where you work.

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A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' local network without permission - WICG/local-network-access

After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted chats, sensitive chats, etc.

Turn AI coding assistants into more reliable development partners

Apple's Notes app is rumored to be getting limited Markdown support in iOS 26 and macOS 26, according to 9to5Mac. The feature would allow users...

Cursor 1.0 brings Bugbot for code review, a first look at memories, one-click MCP setup, Jupyter support, and general availability of Background Agent.

"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these…

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

The Make Anything App. Chat with AI to make 3D assets, 3D models and CAD.

How can you make affine transformations (the only ones SVGs are capable of) resemble perspective transformations?

How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.