The future of programming: Research at CHI 2023 – Austin Z. Henley Austin Z. Henley I work on AI + dev tools. 4/27/2023 The esteemed CHI conference is happening this week, and I’m jealous that I can’t be there. Instead, … Read more
Whether or not this really amounts to an “iPhone moment” or a serious threat to Google search isn’t obvious at present — while it will likely push a change in user behaviors and expectations, the first shift will be organizations … Read more
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Jason Crawford, founder of the U.S.-based non-profit organization Roots of Progress, about human progress, why it has slowed, and how a new philosophy of progress can help to … Read more
(no this isn’t an april fools post :P) I wrote my first Application 31 years ago when I was 7 years old. Since then I have spent most of my career learning the fine art of of crafting clean code. … Read more
Uncategorized Thunderbird is quickly approaching its 20th anniversary as a standalone email client. And as we get closer to this year’s release of Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” we’re hearing a certain question more and more often: “Why does Thunderbird look so … Read more
When servers were in Swiss basements, all they had to serve was static HTML. Maybe, if you were lucky, you got an image. Now, a webpage can be a full-blown app, pulling in data from multiple sources, doing on the … Read more
There is surprisingly strong agreement in future energy scenarios about the dominance of solar and wind energy. Discussions about the future energy supply can often get controversial. But there is a surprisingly strong consensus among experts that look into the … Read more
Many companies have different perks and benefits for their employees, but when I tell my friends and acquaintances about Chilicorn Records they never fail to be impressed. Chilicorn Records is Futurice’s in-house record label. More than that, it is an … Read more
Adapted and excerpted from The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax. Copyright © David Sax 2022. Published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Reproduced by arrangement with the publisher. All rights … Read more
In 2022, large language models (LLMs) finally got good. Specifically, Google and OpenAI have led the way in creating foundation models that respond to instructions more usefully. For OpenAI, this came in the form of Instruct-GPT (OpenAI blogpost), while for … Read more