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ChatGPT for macOS Now Directly Edits Code

2025-03-06

ChatGPT for macOS Now Directly Edits Code

OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT macOS app now features direct code editing capabilities, supporting developer tools like Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. The feature is available to paying users now, with a rollout to free users planned for next week. This builds on the "work with apps" functionality launched in November 2024, minimizing the need for copy-pasting code. This puts ChatGPT in more direct competition with AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI reportedly plans a dedicated software engineering product. While AI coding tools are gaining popularity, concerns remain about security, copyright, and reliability risks, including increased debugging time for AI-generated code.

(techcrunch.com)

Development Code Editing AI Coding

Apple's Closed Ecosystem Holds Back AI-Powered iOS Development

2025-02-19

Apple's Closed Ecosystem Holds Back AI-Powered iOS Development

A veteran iOS developer laments Apple's closed-source ecosystem, hindering its ability to compete with AI-powered app building platforms like lovable.dev and a0.dev. The article highlights the complexities of iOS compilation, proprietary Xcode project formats, the closed-source nature of SwiftUI, and the challenges of deploying macOS servers at scale as significant roadblocks to developing robust AI-assisted iOS development tools. In contrast, Android's open-source nature provides a significant advantage in AI app development. The author argues that Apple's long-standing neglect of developer experience has ultimately left them behind in the AI race.

(www.telkins.dev)

Development iOS development developer experience

VMware Sues Siemens Over Unlicensed Software

2025-03-26

VMware Sues Siemens Over Unlicensed Software

VMware is suing Siemens' US operations for allegedly using more VMware software than licensed. The dispute began when Siemens requested extended support, submitting a list of its VMware software that significantly exceeded its purchased licenses. Siemens later attempted to retract the list, leading VMware to believe they intentionally concealed unlicensed software use. This lawsuit follows VMware's recent announcement of changes to its software download process, a move aimed at better tracking license compliance.

(www.theregister.com)

Tech Software Licensing

Ars Technica's Guide to Mechanical Keyboards: A Clickety-Clack Adventure

2024-12-28

Ars Technica's Guide to Mechanical Keyboards: A Clickety-Clack Adventure

Confused about buying a mechanical keyboard? Ars Technica's comprehensive guide navigates the complexities. Learn about keyboard sizes (full-size, TKL, 60%, etc.), switch types (linear, tactile, clicky), keycap materials (ABS, PBT), backlighting options, and advanced features like N-key rollover and macro support. The guide clarifies each element with illustrations and examples, catering to both beginners and enthusiasts seeking their perfect keyboard.

(arstechnica.com)

Hardware mechanical keyboards keyboard buying guide mechanical switches

Apple Fitness VP Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture

2025-08-22

Apple Fitness VP Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture

Jay Blahnik, Apple's VP of Fitness Technologies, is facing accusations of fostering a toxic work environment. Multiple current and former employees allege verbal abuse, manipulation, and inappropriate behavior, leading over ten employees to take extended medical or mental health leaves since 2022. Despite an internal investigation, Blahnik remains employed and faces multiple lawsuits, including one alleging sexual harassment. The situation raises concerns about Apple's corporate culture.

(macdailynews.com)

Tech

Info Warfare: Truth and Digital Risks in the Next Conflict

2025-03-09

Info Warfare: Truth and Digital Risks in the Next Conflict

In war, truth is often the first casualty. In the next major conflict, virtually all information could be a victim. Over-reliance on digital communication exposes Western societies to significant risks, as seen in Ukraine's experience with Russia. Hacker groups (both military and criminal) have infiltrated television, the internet, and streaming radio, spreading disinformation, launching denial-of-service attacks, and jamming GPS signals, posing a serious challenge to societal narratives and stability.

(www.spectator.co.uk)

Tech information warfare digital risks

Tariffs Hammer the Bike Industry: Price Hikes and the Onshoring Struggle

2025-04-03

Tariffs Hammer the Bike Industry: Price Hikes and the Onshoring Struggle

Newly imposed US tariffs are dramatically impacting the bicycle industry. The article analyzes the effects on bikes and parts from various countries (China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, EU, etc.), predicting significant price increases, especially for high-end products. While the US encourages onshoring, the lack of infrastructure and specialized expertise presents massive challenges for domestic production of performance bike components. The conclusion notes that bike prices will rise and selection will shrink, but cycling enthusiasts will continue to enjoy the ride.

(www.renehersecycles.com)

Tech bicycle industry

Ancient Hittite Texts Get a Digital Boost

2025-03-31

Ancient Hittite Texts Get a Digital Boost

The Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig), a digital tool providing access to ancient Hittite cuneiform texts, has received a major update. TLHdig 0.2 now includes over 98% of all published sources—approximately 22,000 XML text documents, comprising almost 400,000 transliterated lines. Researchers can search and filter texts in transliteration or cuneiform. Furthermore, an online submission pipeline allows scholars to contribute new texts, ensuring TLHdig remains a dynamic, constantly expanding resource for Hittitology research, including AI-driven approaches. The upcoming TLHdig 1.0 promises complete coverage of all published texts.

(phys.org)

Tech Hittite cuneiform

Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

2025-02-01

Severance Season 2: From Corporate Satire to Cult Investigation

Season one of *Severance* captivated audiences with its unique premise of memory severance between work and home life. Season two delves deeper, transcending corporate satire to explore social control mechanisms, particularly those mirroring cult dynamics. The showrunner and actors confirmed research into numerous cult documentaries, cleverly weaving parallels between cults and corporations to expose the darker sides of power structures and information control. This elevates *Severance* Season 2 beyond a simple corporate critique, transforming it into a profound exploration of social control and the nature of power.

(arstechnica.com)

Game cult

Run Local LLMs in Your Browser: Introducing BrowserAI

2025-01-22

Run Local LLMs in Your Browser: Introducing BrowserAI

BrowserAI is an open-source project enabling you to run large language models (LLMs) locally within your browser. Prioritizing privacy, all processing happens on your device, eliminating server costs and complex infrastructure. It supports multiple models, including those from MLC and Transformers, leveraging WebGPU for blazing-fast inference. A simple API allows developers to easily integrate text generation, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Many models are already supported, with a roadmap outlining future enhancements such as advanced RAG capabilities and enterprise features.

(github.com)

AI

AtomicOS: A Security-First Educational OS

2025-06-21

AtomicOS: A Security-First Educational OS

AtomicOS is an educational operating system built from scratch, prioritizing security over performance. It utilizes a deterministic programming language, Tempo, and implements real memory protection, cryptography (AES-128, SHA-256), and a full MMU. While currently lacking features like a network stack, file system, and drivers, its security-focused design and implementation are noteworthy. The project is open-source but requires attribution and disclosure of modifications.

(github.com)

Development

The Man Behind Apple's Iconic Sounds: The Sosumi Beep and More

2025-06-12

This article unveils the story behind Jim Reekes, the creator of iconic Apple sounds like the Mac startup chime and the iPhone camera shutter sound. He reveals the inspiration for the Mac startup sound – the final chord of The Beatles' 'A Day In The Life' – and the origin story of the Sosumi beep, born from a trademark dispute. Multiple video links showcase interviews and clips of Reekes detailing his creative process, including the synthesizers and camera he used.

(reekes.net)

Tech Sound Design Mac Startup Sound

Ultrasonic Cutting: The Future of Cake Slicing (and More)

2025-03-22

Ultrasonic Cutting: The Future of Cake Slicing (and More)

From a single slice of cake at home to thousands for a commercial bakery, the way we cut cake needs an upgrade. Regular knives struggle with sticky foods, leading to messy cuts and inefficiency. Enter ultrasonic cutting, a technology that uses high-frequency vibrations to prevent sticking, resulting in perfectly clean cuts. This isn't just for food; it's used in rubber, textiles, and more, even melting and sealing edges. While maybe overkill for home use, it's a game-changer for anyone who needs perfectly sliced cake – or other materials.

(hackaday.com)

Tech ultrasonic cutting food processing

FreeBSD as a High-Fidelity Audio Server: A Deep Dive

2025-02-06

FreeBSD as a High-Fidelity Audio Server: A Deep Dive

This comprehensive guide details configuring FreeBSD as an audiophile-grade audio server. It covers system and audio subsystem parameter tuning, real-time operation, bit-perfect signal processing, and optimal methods for enabling and configuring the system's graphic equalizer and high-quality audio equalization using FFmpeg filters. A comparison with Linux is included, along with numerous commands and configuration examples to help build a superior audio system. Linux users will also find valuable insights, particularly regarding MPD player and filter configuration.

(m4c.pl)

Hardware Audio Server High-Fidelity Audio

Keygen's #NoCalls Approach to Enterprise Sales: A Case Study

2025-01-16

Keygen's #NoCalls Approach to Enterprise Sales: A Case Study

Keygen founder Zeke Gabrielse shares how his company successfully scaled into the enterprise market by completely eliminating sales calls and embracing asynchronous communication via email. He argues that enterprise clients often resort to calls due to a lack of understanding regarding the product, its usage, pricing, and company trustworthiness. Keygen tackled these issues through clear product messaging, a robust self-serve onboarding experience, transparent pricing, and a focus on publicly available security documentation. This resulted in securing enterprise clients without relying on sales calls. This article offers an alternative sales strategy for founders who dislike traditional sales calls.

(keygen.sh)

Startup sales strategy enterprise software asynchronous communication

Vlang: Go's Spicy Counterpart? A Deep Dive

2025-08-31

Vlang: Go's Spicy Counterpart? A Deep Dive

This article compares Go and V, two programming languages. V shares similarities with Go in syntax but offers additional features such as more flexible error handling, powerful structs, enums, and lambda expressions. The author showcases V's strengths through code examples but also points out the immaturity of V's ecosystem and some compilation/build issues. Despite these, the author remains optimistic about V's future and suggests it's worth exploring for Go developers.

(kristun.dev)

Development

American Singer Caught in East German Underground

2025-03-09

American Singer Caught in East German Underground

Popular American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany for a music festival and falls for the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, becoming entangled in an underground resistance movement. He teams up with Agent Cedric and Hillary to rescue her father, Dr. Paul, a scientist captured by the Germans who want him to build a new naval mine.

(binocularshot.com)

Game spy

Self-Taught AI Researcher Emil Wallner: An Extraordinary Journey

2025-02-07

Self-Taught AI Researcher Emil Wallner: An Extraordinary Journey

Emil Wallner, a self-taught AI researcher, has an extraordinary life story. From teaching in a rural village in Africa to becoming a machine learning researcher at Google Art & Culture, his career is full of adventure and challenges. He created the popular open-source project Screenshot-to-code, which translates design mock-ups into HTML/CSS, and was featured in a short film by Google for his work on automated colorization. This interview delves into Emil's AI journey, his advice for aspiring self-taught research scientists, and his insights into the future of AI research. He emphasizes the importance of practical experience and building a strong portfolio to gain recognition in the field.

(floydhub.ghost.io)

AI self-taught research

EU Urged to Break Up Big Tech Monopolies

2025-06-20

EU Urged to Break Up Big Tech Monopolies

Citizens and civil society organizations from Europe and worldwide are calling on the European Commission to act now to dismantle the powerful Big Tech monopolies controlling the digital world. These tech giants not only dominate markets but also influence European democracy. The article highlights Google's advertising monopoly as particularly harmful, damaging news media and exploiting consumers. It argues that the EU should force Google to divest parts of its business and break up other tech monopolies to create a fairer and freer internet.

(peoplevsbig.tech)

Tech

Building AI Products: A Backend Architecture Deep Dive

2024-12-27

This article details the journey of an AI team building an AI-powered Chief of Staff for engineering leaders. Initially using simple inference pipelines, they transitioned to a multi-agent system as the application grew. The author explains agent design principles, differences from microservices, and object-oriented implementation. Memory management, including CQRS and event sourcing, and handling natural language events are discussed. Scaling to 10,000 users involved sharding, asynchronous programming, LLM call optimization, and migration to Temporal.

(philcalcado.com)

AI AI Architecture Agent Systems Backend Development

Reliable Data Replication from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse using PeerDB

2025-02-22

Reliable Data Replication from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse using PeerDB

This article demonstrates how to reliably replicate data from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse using PeerDB, a change data capture (CDC) solution specializing in PostgreSQL. It compares self-hosted open-source PeerDB with a fully managed version integrated into ClickHouse Cloud (via ClickPipes). Core concepts like creating peers, mirrors, and data transformations are explained, along with a step-by-step deployment and configuration guide. Whether using the open-source or managed route, PeerDB offers a highly performant and reliable data replication solution for PostgreSQL and ClickHouse users.

(benjaminwootton.com)

Development data replication

Overprovisioning Fiber: Better Safe Than Sorry

2025-03-25

When planning fiber cabling between rooms or buildings, err on the side of caution and install more fiber than you initially need. Future expansion, bandwidth upgrades, and new protocols all demand extra capacity. Furthermore, fiber failures do happen—sometimes inexplicably—and having spare pairs allows for quick recovery. While single-mode and multi-mode fibers have different applications, having sufficient redundancy is crucial for minimizing downtime and costs.

(utcc.utoronto.ca)

Hardware fiber cabling network infrastructure redundancy

CSS Gap Decorations: A New Way to Style Separators

2025-03-20

CSS Gap Decorations: A New Way to Style Separators

Drawing separator lines is common in web design, but existing CSS methods (like borders and pseudo-elements) have limitations, especially with Flexbox and Grid layouts. This article introduces the CSS gap decorations proposal, offering more control over separator styles in grids and flexboxes, including length, color, and position, even across multiple rows and columns. The proposal is seeking developer feedback to refine its functionality.

(blogs.windows.com)

Development Grid Layout

Cold War Relic: The 'Maintain Top Safe Speed' Sign You Probably Never Knew Existed

2025-01-14

Cold War Relic: The 'Maintain Top Safe Speed' Sign You Probably Never Knew Existed

This article discusses a fascinating Cold War-era highway sign: 'MAINTAIN TOP SAFE SPEED'. Designed for a post-nuclear attack scenario, this sign instructed drivers to speed through radiation-contaminated areas to minimize exposure. The article explores other Civil Defense signs from the MUTCD manual, including fallout shelter and decontamination center markers. While largely forgotten today, these signs offer a chilling glimpse into the anxieties of the Cold War and the government's preparations for unthinkable events.

(www.theautopian.com)

Misc Civil Defense Highway Signs

The Art of Communication: How Well-Intentioned Advice Can Backfire

2025-02-27

The Art of Communication: How Well-Intentioned Advice Can Backfire

The author recounts a workplace communication mishap: his honest assessment of the team's shortcomings, intended as encouragement for improvement, unintentionally offended colleagues and potentially caused negative consequences. This led to a realization that even with good intentions, individual perspectives and communication styles can lead to misunderstandings. The article emphasizes the importance of avoiding direct personal criticism when advocating for improvement, focusing instead on the team as a whole, using a collective opportunity-oriented approach, respecting others' feelings, and carefully choosing the timing and method of communication.

(cutlefish.substack.com)

Misc

Web Origami: A New Programming Language for Simplified Website Building

2024-12-13

Web Origami is a new programming language designed to simplify the creation of small- to medium-sized websites. Using a concise syntax that complements HTML and CSS, users can describe website structure using formulas similar to spreadsheets, transforming data and files into HTML and other website resources through simple programs. Even without JavaScript knowledge, features like full-text search and RSS feeds can be created. Origami provides a command-line interface, built-in functions, and an async-tree library, with support for JavaScript extensions. Its core concept is to abstract website building as data transformation, making site creation and deployment efficient, low-cost, and easy to understand.

(weborigami.org)

Development programming language website development

Extracting MRR from Stripe Data: Pitfalls and SQL Implementation

2025-05-16

Extracting MRR from Stripe Data: Pitfalls and SQL Implementation

This article details how to extract data from the Stripe API and calculate Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). The author highlights the unreliability of using Stripe's `subscriptions` object directly, as it only contains the latest subscription state. The correct approach uses `invoice line items`, handling discounts, varying billing cycles (monthly, quarterly, annually), and more. The article provides detailed SQL code, covering data cleaning, cycle normalization, and the final MRR metric calculations, including new MRR, churn MRR, expansion MRR, and reactivation MRR. The article emphasizes the method's adaptability and customizability, and recommends an application to simplify MRR calculations.

(www.definite.app)

Development MRR calculation

DIY Acoustic Camera: Locating Sound Sources on a Budget

2025-03-29

DIY Acoustic Camera: Locating Sound Sources on a Budget

This project details the construction of a low-cost acoustic camera using readily available hardware and open-source software. The author utilizes a miniDSP UMA-16 microphone array and custom Python scripts to capture synchronized 16-channel audio and video. Beamforming is achieved using the Acoular library, visualizing sound pressure levels and merging the results with the video stream. The post includes code examples and a comparison with an earlier attempt using a ReSpeaker 4 microphone array and a GCC-PHAT algorithm, demonstrating a surprisingly effective and affordable approach to sound localization.

(navat.substack.com)

Hardware acoustic camera

Kamal's Killer: Deploying Rails with Dokku

2025-01-21

Kamal's Killer: Deploying Rails with Dokku

Basecamp's Kamal offers a solution for deploying Rails on bare metal, but it's not the easiest tool to use. This article champions a simpler alternative: Dokku – essentially Heroku, self-hosted. The author provides a step-by-step guide to deploying a Rails app using Dokku, covering installation, app creation, database configuration (PostgreSQL), environment variable setup, domain and SSL configuration (with Let's Encrypt), and using a Procfile for web and release processes. A bonus section introduces the Deployless gem, automating the entire deployment process for streamlined efficiency.

(impactahead.com)

Development

Living with Einstein: The chasm between AI's potential and its application

2025-05-26

Living with Einstein: The chasm between AI's potential and its application

This story follows a person living with Einstein, Hawking, and Tao, initially using their genius for scientific questions. Quickly, their talents are diverted to mundane tasks – emails, cover letters, etc. This allegorical tale highlights the vast gap between the rapid advancement of AI and its actual application. We possess computational power capable of simulating universes, yet we use it for trivial matters. It prompts reflection on AI's purpose: should we elevate our expectations and fully utilize its potential?

(www.faisalabid.com)

AI AI Application

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