3. In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)

John Addison (1930–2026) died last summer, 2025, at the age of 96. He was my PhD advisor at UC Berkeley, and I count myself extraordinarily lucky to have worked under his guidance. When I arrived i…

14. Codegen is not productivity (www.antifound.com)

There is a whole lot to say about generative AI. LLMs generate a bunch of code, this much is certainly true. Should we celebrate that? There is a long tradition of trying to measure software development output, and most of it tells us that lines of code is a poor metric of programmer productivity. I have some thoughts.

25. Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies (www.theolympus.net)

Washington state is home to about 126 artificial intelligence data centers. These data centers evaporate millions of gallons of freshwater each day to provide cooling, but at the cost of draining local resources. The rapid expansion of these data centers strains regional drinking water supplies, as well as increasing blackout risk due to the high...

29. SuperTux 0.7.0 (github.com)

The SuperTux Team is pleased to announce the stable release of version 0.7.0! You may wonder what took us so long to develop another release. Over the past couple of years, we've made dozens of cha...

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