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How do open-source projects prevent “design drift” when hundreds of contributors make small changes?

No wonder some folks in tech appreciate dictators when they work so well in open source.

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How can I get fired less?

"A pretty straightforward first step is to stop lying."

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Is it possible to create a language with no paradoxical statements?

This is the semantics department. You want logic down the hall.

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Is the weather intrinsically chaotic?

It's not chaos, it's differential equations.

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Why self-host?

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I'm in vibe code hell

This is only the second circle, by the way. Wait until you get to the fifth circle of learning-to-code hell: an internship where you do nothing.

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A history of large language models

In a time long ago (the 80s) in a galaxy far away (Canada), neuroscientists and psychologists were laying the first seeds of LLMs.

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IP over lasers

Cats would love it if we used lasers instead of the WiFi from now on.

hazyresearch.stanford.edu

We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU

If only they could do this to the 80% of our brain power we're not using.

arstechnica.com

That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

This router is the reason UPS keeps texting you that your packages aren't delivered.

youtube.com

I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone!

If we can just figure out how to integrate Roblox into this, we can solve the AI chip problem.

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Kvick sört

Copy this for your next whiteboard interview.

anniemueller.com

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

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thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Is life a form of computation?

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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Issue 298: One call, and your API is there

Why work harder when you could work smarter? That's probably what your API is thinking right now. And if you're of one mind with your API, you're probably thinking about the MCP protocol too. On the pod, we've got two guests who know all about APIs in the AI world. Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, joins us to talk AI agents and API consumption, and how the agentic space is ripe for the picking for businesses. Plus, we have Merge's co-founder and CTO, Gil Feig, on the pod to explore how they're turning third-party APIs into a single call. XX So your API has reached singularity. Now what? Well you better make sure your AI agents are in order. Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google Developer Experiences, shared the answers for getting documentation and AI workflows right when he joined us for Leaders of Code. And you know how they say your AI is only as good as your data? The newest release for Stack Overflow for Teams is making sure your knowledge is as tidy as it needs to be. XX With all this talk of all-powerful APIs and autonomous AIs, let's not forget they're only as good as the human creativity that builds them. We've got some really creative humans from across the web for you, like one Minecraft player who built ChatGPT out of blocks, and the story of how the oh-so creative phishing scammers are using routers to annoy you with spam texts. Plus we have some unproven physics theories, rocket science, and the not so unique but deeply human experience of wanting to get a PhD. All those stories and more in the links below.

Issue 297: Making your dev life easier

Ah, the life of the developer. It's never quite easy, is it? But this week, we're looking at the ways your world might be incrementally improved. On the pod, Pia Nilsson from Spotify's Backstage joined us to talk about what makes their open-source IDP so ideal for developers. Jeff Hollan from Snowflake shared how they went from a database to an AI platform, and how their data marketplace is making AI development easier. And if you'd like to be reminded how hard things used to be, we've got the history of software development on the blog from AWS' Darko Mesaroš, looking back as far as 70 years to how development has changed through the years. But nothing is easy in life, right? For instance, math is hard, and some are wondering if life is a form of computation. We've got that story for you from the web, plus the tales of two beginners trying to break into software development—one who can't read technical tutorials, and one who can't get an entry-level job with no experience. And we have one of the hardest things of all for you too...a set of IKEA instructions (although it's a pretty good medium to visualize quicksort, unlike when you're trying to build a desk.) So in conclusion? The life of a developer may not be so easy, but we made finding some more interesting tales and answers from around the web easy for you. If you're curious about Leonardo da Vinci, becoming first author, or Jack Swigert's thought processes, we have all those answers from users. We've even made it easy for you to add a website to your vape, if that's something you're into. That one's easy access for you in the links below.

Issue 296: MCP in the CRM

Are you ready to get your acronyms on? On the podcast, we've got two talks that tackle three terse terms. First up, double your acronymic pleasure as Ryan chats with Karen Ng of Hubspot about implementing an MCP server for a CRM. Next up, look Ma, no head! Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger to discuss where a headless CMS fits into a componentized and service-oriented world. If you want to learn more about those acronyms, check out those pods. XX If you want to learn some other stuff, we've got you there. Heck, all you collegiate types can learn a lot from our site resources, including new coding challenges (but only if you want some extra credit). For funzies, learn what happens to material sciences once energy constraints aren't an issue. If computer history is more your thing, learn about the order of punctuation within ASCII (another acronym). XX On top of all that, we have a meadow of juicy links for grazing. Need a way to prank your IT department? Is AI making the world look WEIRD? Could open-source be used for good? One click gets you the answers below.

Issue 295: AI vs. Gen Z

AI has changed a lot in the software engineering world. On our Leaders of Code podcast, Peter O’Connor, our Director of Platform Engineering, talks with Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at Google, Developer Experiences about how AI is changing dev teams and experiences. On the blog, we explore how AI has changed the software engineer pathway for Gen Z. And on the podcast, we talk to Geraint North, AI and developer platforms fellow at Arm, about how AI is changing their chip designs for mobile. XX There's also a lot of changes happening in how we communicate on and with the internet. We're adapting to this new reality by adding a chat interface to our public knowledge base—hear from the folks who built it. Some websites are communicating how they should be compensated for AI access using licenses. One questioner wonders how they can prevent players from communicating outside of the game. XX But variety is the spice of life, and the rest of this newsletter gets spicy. Is brute force better than an efficient solution with overhead? What's dampening the humanoid robot hype (besides terminators, of course)? And what happens when you let songs mate?

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