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PlayStation announced that they will stop making disks. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.

A blog about software craft and quality

Member states reactivate expired chat control regulation. EU Parliament caught off guard before summer break.

We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach to maintaining the project and engaging with the community.

Latest updates and announcements.

In September 2022, I impulsively signed up for a Bachelor

On building Mr. Baby Paint, a radically simple co-op drawing app for toddlers & accidentally discovering a flood-fill cellular automata, plus developing pixel-fattening algorithms for bitmap fonts.

New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies.

A 4-year study of 100 successful blogs reveals how Google's updates and AI transformed blogging. See which sites survived and which disappeared.

A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time.  An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, Malamy had received transparent, dime-sized medusae of the species Clytia hemisphaerica from Evelyn Houliston’s lab at the Marine Observatoire in Villefranche.

Temperature records were smashed in June - and scientists warn this is a sign of things to come.

A Delta flight arriving at Chicago's Midway International Airport on the Fourth of July reportedly made contact with a firework, the airline said.

The Phosh 0.56.0 Release

A universal document converter

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job.
Every week I’d spend countless hours in a flow state, which quiets the default mode network. The DMN is responsible for daydreaming/reflection but also rumination/worrying, so quieting it settles your mind. If I didn’t manage to write code for a week, I’d start to notice it.
Now it’s context switching all day I’m clearly much more productive now. I’m doing five things at once very effectively, switching between multiple agent sessions from morning to night. After working full-time like this for ~8 months, one thing I’m sure of is that this way of working involves much less time spent in a flow state.

An Atomic Force Microscope made by icspi helps develop custom selective-etching techniques for laser-created diffraction gratings on stainless steel. Makers ...

Early-access alpha of PCBJam — KiCad running in your browser. Open the example boards or your own KiCad project. No install, nothing uploaded.

Reverse-engineered system prompt and skill library that turns an LLM into an opinionated, accessibility-aware, AI-slop-resistant design collaborator. - Trystan-SA/claude-design-system-prompt

At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.