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There are two options. One is that AI makes the pie bigger and everyone gets richer. That is, firms pay AI service providers $2 trillion/year because AI makes them more productive and therefore more profitable. Unfortunately, as far as anyone can tell, th

This is really cool and in only 181 lines (Jeremy undersells it in the title) we get a really great explanation of how #OTEL works and why we'd want it.

As #LEGO are releasing the SmartBrick soon, it's a good time to point to this article from a few years back with IMO a much cooler "smart" LEGO brick with embedded screen and capacitive touch studs. Please, James Brown, sell me some of these! /a...

Pretty neat technical dive into extracting the GameBoy Color's boot animation and using Imagemagick to transform it to an 88x31 button. via Robb: https://rknight.me/blog/88x31-button-curios/ a aria-label="Permalink to bookmark" rel="bookmark" title="Perma

My 2025 in shell history

Once there is a Ruby organization that is accountable to the maintainers, and accountable to the community, with openly and democratically elected board members, I commit to transfer my Bundler trademark to that organization. Super happy to see that André

One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Chefs have fragile egos and they all seem to enjoy cooking (???) so it's obvious they

I'll be trying out these GitHub CI performance improvements soon for sure.

The bottom search in Callsheet and "search drawer" in Ketchup, both built or designed by Ben, have been inspirational in my own app design. So much easier to use. It's surprising to me that despite Maps and Safari having their search (or equivalent) bars

So often we need to do "hacks" like this in the Apple ecosystem. This one seems pretty straightforward but it would be great if we had an arbitrary custom metadata field available in cases like PHPhoto. CNContact also comes to mind as I've been using Cont