Had my priorities been better aligned, I would have first begun building Linux skills sometime during the Bush (W) administration. It has left me feeling as though I should make up for that lost time.

I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look…

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI and stocks are soaring, but Goldman cautions earnings haven't caught up to the hype.

Shopify successfully migrated two of its largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds…

The US energy secretary says the quiet part out loud: the tributary $750 billion in energy purchases the EU has promised in its Trump deal is meant to lock Europe into "long-term" energy dependence.

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We study whether generative AI (GenAI) constitutes seniority-biased technological change, disproportionately affecting junior relative to senior workers. Using

Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!

Joseph Macken said he did the project as a hobby in his upstate basement.

We're releasing DuckDB version 1.4.0, codenamed “Andium”. This is an LTS release with one year of community support, and it packs several new features including database encryption, the MERGE statement and Iceberg writes.

Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "Mother of All Demos" at SRI showcased interactive computing innovations, including the mouse debut, hypertext, real-time editing, and collaborative tools, envisioning augmented human intellect.

Column: San Francisco's absurd, redundant startups are a relic of the past. 

Claude 4 is being favored over GPT-5

US auto safety regulators are probing whether Tesla Inc. door handles are defective, scrutinizing an approach the company has taken with millions of vehicles sold for more than a decade.

For the first time, researchers report that Arctic algae can hustle along in -15 C – the lowest-temperature movement ever recorded in complex, living cells.

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Nothing but history's most interesting letters. Click to read Letters of Note, by Shaun Usher, a Substack publication.