Whoever speaks badly, thinks badly and lives badly. We must find the right words: words are important! —Nanni Moretti

A reader reached out to me the other day to talk about the future of tech writing as a profession. They asked me a pretty good question:…

An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.

DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.

Every Apple Silicon Mac can run AI locally. Here's what model sizes actually fit your machine, the tools to use, and the daily-driver use nobody talks about.

The country’s low overdose rate suggests an unlikely benefactor

Canadian-Haitian writer Thélyson Orélien has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac for his first novel.

A rare Ebola strain is spreading in the DRC, with no confirmed vaccine. Global health organizations are using Claude to respond as fast as possible.

A langgraph based workflow with a C++ CUDA suite to optimize CUDA kernels - bertaye/agentic-cuda-optimizer

Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker integrated in git - git-bug/git-bug

Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.

You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the…

In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully…

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene"

The FAA has one of my favorite examples of thoughtful rulemaking. They haven't banned flying with a baby on your lap, because the extra cost would mean many parents would drive instead. Since driving is far less safe than flying, a ban would lead to more…

Subsidies for fabs do not help.

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.

Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your…