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Om Malik’s family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. I’ve linked to Malik numerous times over the years, first at Gigaom and...
Most AI apps started from a reasonable fear. Models were unpredictable, prompts were fragile, and nobody wanted production behavior living inside a magic paragraph. So we did what engineers usually do when a system feels unsafe: we...
There are so many things to love about summer: The long, long days, with the mid summer sun rising at 4.30am and setting just after 10pm. These 16 ½ hours of daylight (roughly double what our day length is in midwinter) are energising...
Shelley and Joseph walk through four picks apiece from Q1 and Q2 2026, followed by a discussion on a couple of the bigger releases of the year thus far, Darkthrone, Immolation, fanatics, and the limits of a viable career.
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background...
AI-generated image of a man presenting “Web App Using SwiftNIO” to an audience Recently, I’ve been experimenting a lot more with Swift as a language for web applications. I’ve primarily been focusing my efforts on the web framework Vapor...
I can’t believe the Fourth of July is just days away! Whether you’re looking for a dish to celebrate the bounty of summer produce, something easy to bring to a potluck cookout, or you’re ready to fire up the grill, I’ve got you covered....
I’m running the next cohort of my course Launch in 48 right now. Registration closes tomorrow, June 30. That’s something I haven’t said in a while. Because for the last two years, I told myself I was done with cohorts. I stopped doing...
Robin Springburr, ruler of Springburr, offered her service to plan the raids and lead the warriors into Fieldlin, for she had experience leading people in the ways of violence. Torn accepted her service and remained in Lograt to lead the...
Focus Features / YouTube: Do not dread the darkness. Embrace it. Robert Eggers’ WERWULF is only in theaters this Christmas. Witness Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunting experience yet. Focus Features presents WERWULF, a harrowing...
A deep dive into Laravel Context, from request metadata and automatic log enrichment to hidden context, scoped values, queues, scheduled commands, and internals. Read more
The calculator utility bc has a minimal math library. For example, there’s no tangent function because you’re expected take the ratio of sine and cosine. (The Gnu version of bc goes have a function for tangent, but the POSIX version does...
Q: It seems as if journalists are now calling the initials of every organization an acronym. But I always understood it to be an acronym only when the initials can be pronounced as a word. A: It’s not just journalists. Many English...
Follower Tony Spalding sent a link to an auction of 95 lots from a previous unknown (?) UK folk art environment The Branxton Cement Menagerie. Great stuff! You should be able to find it. Thanks Tony! "Hi, Jim. I saw this (it's in the UK)...
The forecasts were sadly right: temperatures hit the mid-30s for several days in a row, resulting in poor sleep, irritability and general lethargy. Our homes and bodies just don't function in such heat. L and the kids thankfully had...