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What is the origin of the minced oath “Jiminy”?

If it's any consolation, the source may be a constellation.

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Why does it seem to be the prerogative of western philosophical thought to solve contradictions?

"We live under Aristotle 's spell."

workplace.stackexchange.com

Should I be honest about Whistleblowing at company X in my interviews for Company Y or Z?

Honesty may be a liability for some businesses.

academia.stackexchange.com

What to do if a former supervisor with whom I am writing a paper, stops answering for almost a year?

There are other communication methods besides email, you know.

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apa.org

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting

As the kids say…go touch some grass.

virtualosmuseum.org

The Virtual OS Museum

It’s Manchester, Baby!

blog.habets.se

Everything in C is undefined behavior

As Mufasa once said to his junior dev son, Simba, “Everything the C light touches is undefined behavior.”

bbc.com

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

Might be a good time for the Japanese language to have a direct translation for, “Bless you.”

aesthetikx.info

What is Date::ITALY?

Okay, but can anyone tell me when Mercury is in retrograde during the Julian Method of the Gregorian Calendar?

tanstack.com

Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need external security researchers.

blog.maximeheckel.com

On rendering the sky, sunsets, and planets

Oh, this would go crazy in the Metaverse.

arstechnica.com

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

Does there come a time when you’ve eaten too much of your own dog food?

thetypicalset.com

The bottleneck was never the code

AI haters despise this one simple trick—precise Roadmaps.

aaedmusa.com

CARA 2.0

The robotics race has come down to who can build the goodest boy the fastest.

news.mit.edu

MIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds

Now you can make a lofi bedroom beats version of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

susam.net

Three inverse laws of AI

I’d add, “Don’t fall in love with it, even if its voice sounds like ScarJo.”

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Issue 330: We've got a Heap of news for you

Call us old-fashioned (and we know you do), but we think that software developers and engineers are better than AI at coding. That’s why we’re honoring the minds and work of the people with The Heap, our new software engineering blog written for the community, by the community. And we’re standing on business this week by dedicating this entire newsletter to engineering and software excellence. Besides The Heap, we’ve got conversations with some of the best and brightest minds in today’s technological landscape. Braze’s Jon Hyman joined us on Leaders of Code for a chat about engineering leadership in the age of AI, and how the last 15 years at Braze helped him transform his team to AI-first in just a few months. We’ve got conversations with Neo4j’s Philip Rathle on knowledge context for AI agents, Honeycomb’s Christine Yen on observability in the new world of AI-assisted SDLC, and Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos on the importance of retaining human intuition in codebases even when AI writes most of the code. Plus, our very own Josh Zhang is here to answer all our questions on cloud computing (even the dumb ones). And isn’t answering your heaps of questions what Stack does best? Outside of The Heap, our community is sharing knowledge on everything from AI and artistry to the heat of the sun, food supplies on sunken ships, and how to survive a plane crash if you wear glasses. Plus, we’ve got a heap of stories from around the web on tokenmaxxing, rendering the sky, and what time it is exactly in Italy. Don’t let your stack overflow—head down below because we have that and so much more ready for you this week.

Issue 329: The heart of our technology

This week on the blog, we’re diving into all the things that make the tech we know and love possible—architecture, hardware, and databases. We sat down with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster for a conversation on silicon and chips, and how AI is helping solve the chip shortage it caused. We’re also pulling back the curtain on our own architecture and how we’re replacing Ingress-NGINX at Stack. Plus, we’re joined by Qdrant’s Brian O’Grady to decipher what exactly we mean when we talk semantic vs. vector search. Beyond the blog, we’ve got a hearty round-up of everything you’re curious about, from phishing attempts to robodogs to piston engines. And there are no dumb questions here—kind of like our new Friday column on MCP servers. Are we all pronouncing “the” incorrectly? Is human imprecision the heart of software development? Is it so wrong to fall in love with a bot? Is Cloudflare trying to hack you? We’ve got all those answers and so much more to satiate your curiousity down below.

Issue 328: As long as you love AI

If you think about it, tech is kind of like a Backstreet Boys song: it doesn’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what you did, as long as you use it. It’s beautiful how almost everyone on earth has the same addiction to social media. We really are more alike than we think! That’s why, this week, we’re spanning the entire spectrum of tech experiences. For those who’re done screwing around with AI and ready to find out, we’ve got the story of the biggest AI conference in the world, HumanX. For the coding beginner—or the expert nostalgic for the wide-eyed, bushy-tailed optimism of their early code days—we’ve got the Worst Coder in the World’s latest misadventure with agents and Python. Maybe your software genius is bursting out of your brain with nowhere to go? We’ve got you covered with Stack Internal’s Ingestion that makes sorting all your genius as easy as pie. And we haven’t even talked about the wide range of tech complexity happening on the pod: Bloomberg’s Jason Williams dives into the deceptively simple but nearly impossible task of making date and time work in JavaScript and how the Temporal proposal fixes that, while Collate’s Harsha Chintalapani explores the complexities of production data in AI systems. Ah, the dichotomy of it all. And that’s not all. From sledgehammers to infinity to Claude Code, we’ve got stories from all over the web that’ll remind you there are many ways to use technology. There’s no better example of that than our very own Stack users, who cover the entire spectrum of curiosity and knowledge. For instance, why are things the color they are? Why were old computers so weird? Why is everyone bad at math sometimes? Wanna know one of our favorite uses of technology, though? Well, it’s getting to click away on our computers so we can have all those stories and more ready for you down below.

Issue 327: We're off to see the AI agents

Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain! At least, that’s how it usually goes when you think about the software and systems that keep the internet running. But this week, we’re pulling back that curtain. On the pod, we’re joined by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to talk documenting the people and communities behind the major open-source projects that all our software relies on. Speaking of communities, Mike Swift from Major League Hacking spoke with us about building entry points for early-career devs through hackathons. And what feels more like some Wizard of Oz trickery than the AI systems we know and (sort of) love? On the blog, Reweaver.ai’s Jonathan Gordon wries about the black box that is AI, and why the “magic” of these tools needs the real work of humans. Plus, Chase Roossin and Steven Kulesza from Intuit chat with us about what it takes to get multiple AI agents to work together (spoiler: you don’t have to be a wizard to do it). Plus, there’s no place like home! I mean, that’s the place we get to go on the internet and read cool stuff, right? Good thing we’ve got plenty of fantastic and bizarre conversations from around the web this week. We’ve got the story of cocaine-fueled salmon, Pythagoras in Egypt, Minecraft servers on 1960s UNIVACs, aborted space missions, and so much more. No need to follow that yellow brick road to read any of them. We have all of those stories, links, and questions (oh my!) ready for you down below.