I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools, the Results Are Terrifying
# I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools — The Results Are Terrifying Every day, millions of developers paste sensitive code, API keys, passwords, database queries, and proprietary business logic into free online tools. JSON formatters. Diff checkers. Base64 decoders. Regex testers. Most developers never think twice about it. I did. I opened […]
Self-Hosted Software List
The directory includes both free and proprietary self-hosted software options. Free software typically offers a cost-effective way to deploy solutions without the financial burden, though they may come with their own set of limitations or require more technical know-how to customize and maintain. Proprietary software, while often requiring a purchase or subscription, may provide advanced […]
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
Have you heard about CRDTs and wondered what they are? Maybe you’ve looked into them a bit, but ran into a wall of academic papers and math jargon? That was me before I started my Recurse Center The Recurse Center The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City. […]
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Iran War Cost Tracker
For Comparison Post-9/11 Wars: $8,000,000,000,000 over 20 years (~$300,000,000/day avg.) 3 aircraft lost to friendly fire (Feb 28): $270,000,000 — equiv. to 3,375 teacher salaries for a year Iraq War avg. oil price: ~$72/bbl (approx. $100+ in 2026 dollars) Iran-Iraq War (1980–88): $622,000,000,000 total (est. 9 years of Iran’s GDP) U.S. national debt interest: $1,000,000,000,000 […]
Intel’s make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
Intel this week formally introduced its Xeon 6+ processors codenamed ’Clearwater Forest’ that pack up to 288 energy-efficient Darkmont cores and are the first data center CPUs made on the company’s 18A fabrication process (1.8nm-class). Intel aims its Xeon 6+ ’Clearwater Forest’ processors primarily for telecom, cloud, and edge AI workloads as they feature Advanced […]
Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO’s
“A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better.” – Jack Dorsey, announcing 4,000 layoffs at Block, February 2026 Everyone agrees: AI is coming for the developers. The $200,000-a-year engineers writing CRUD apps and maintaining CI pipelines. The line workers of the knowledge economy. Trim them. Automate them. […]
Why payment fees matter more than you think
One of the small advantages of riding in the front seat of a Cuenca taxi, apart from the superior view of traffic misdemeanors and roadside drama, is that the dashboard functions as an unexpectedly reliable indicator of financial evolution. Permits, guardian saints, and, increasingly, a tidy arrangement of QR payment stickers: Deuna, JEP, Jardín Azuayo. […]
Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports
When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It?
AI Is Rewriting the World’s Software Code Metal recently raised $125 million to rewrite defense industry code using AI. Google and Microsoft both report that 25–30% of their new code is AI-generated. AWS used AI to modernize 40 million lines of COBOL for Toyota. Microsoft’s CTO predicts that 95% of all code will be AI-generated […]