New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…

CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.

Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.

but you might not get it.

A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.

To kick off 2026, I had clear objectives in mind: decommissioning my trusty VPS and setting up its successor. Embracing a complete paradigm shift, I built myself a container-centric, declarative, and low-maintenance setup for the years to come.

Giving agents access to a sandboxed environment with a shell and a filesystem has been the latest hype when it comes to agentic harnesses. Recent examples of this include:

Turso’s AgentFS
Anthropic’s Agent SDK, which brings Claude Code’s harness to non-coding…

An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.

<p>In 1968 an obscure Swiss hotel manager published a book ennoscriptd Erinnerungen an die Zukunft. An English edition appeared under […]</p>

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It performs five general functions to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and, more generally, the public…

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

Accessible Keys for Video

A simple, well-designed, portable, and safe data expression language that compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL.

TEAMShambler Quake Level Reviews

Talk to Jeffrey Epstein on iMessage

The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.

Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.

A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.

Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.