Ever heard of tulip mania? It was quite a strange chapter in Dutch history where a single tulip bulb became extremely valuable.

Adding deliberate friction back into development

A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal - HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL

It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things. Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase…

Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation. When I finish an agentic session, I get all...

How to backup with git using machines you have at home

An excerpt from the new book Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home.

Catch the slop AI coding agents leave in your code: narrative comments, swallowed exceptions, as-any casts, dead code, oversized functions. 50+ rules across 7 languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Pyt...

Be sure to use AI when making

People who are denied the use of electronic ID solutions such as BankID find it difficult to live full, independent lives in Norway, according to Marte Eidsand Kjørven. She is highly critical of what she describes as a lack of public oversight.

AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!

The agent era will not be on Linux

An accidentally fast variable-length integer encoding

My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute.
Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest…

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.

We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously

GTA 6 developers have formally announced a union to combat Rockstar Games’ actions which will be debated in court. On Thursday, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) a…

A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.

AI systems now match human solutions on many tasks, but reach those solutions via measurably different processes. This gap can be exploited to detect AI agents and online bots.

A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.