AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong
Before we dive in: I share practical insights like this weekly. Join developers and founders getting my newsletter with real solutions to engineering and business challenges. Subscribe here – it’s free Most developers hate AI coding tools. I love them. Here’s why we’re talking past each other – and what you’re missing if you care […]
More Women Than Expected Are Genetically Men
BY MORTEN BUSCH Sex chromosomes usually determine whether you are female or male. Women are XX. Men are XY. However, genetically, a few women are actually men. They grow up as women with a woman’s body, and most only discover well into puberty that they are different. Danish researchers map for the first time how […]
Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages – my daughters were 3 and 5 when I started, and are 7 and 9 now, so I’ve seen how they use […]
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that’s been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It’s a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the […]
Copyparty, turn almost any device into a file server
💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // […]
GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties
2025-07-28 · Research Our latest frontier model series, excels in reasoning, coding and agentic tasks. Today, we introduce two new GLM family members: GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air — our latest flagship models. GLM-4.5 is built with 355 billion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters, and GLM-4.5-Air with 106 billion total parameters and 12 billion active […]
AI Companion Piece
AI companions, other forms of personalized AI content and persuasion and related issues continue to be a hot topic. What do people use companions for? Are we headed for a goonpocalypse? Mostly no, companions are used mostly not used for romantic relationships or erotica, although perhaps that could change. How worried should we be about […]
Face it: you’re a crazy person
photo cred: my dad I meet a lot of people who don’t like their jobs, and when I ask them what they’d rather do instead, about 75% say something like, “Oh, I dunno, I’d really love to run a little coffee shop.” If I’m feeling mischievous that day, I ask them one question: “Where would […]
The Geological Sublime
Drawings (first, second, and fourth in order of appearance) and a painting (third) by Elizabeth Shull, whose work is on view this month at Lowell Ryan Projects, in Los Angeles © The artist It is not inadmissible to think of an epoch . . . not too far distant, when humanity, to ensure its survival, will find itself […]
Ferroelectric helps break transistor limits
28 Jul 2025 3 min read Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco, Calif. Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science suggests that negative capacitance helps sidestep a […]