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Vibe Coding in the 90s

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task. Well, I found a revolutionary way to write code. […]

Conductor (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in San Francisco

Hi there! It’s Charlie and Jackson, founders of Conductor. The two of us met eight years ago when we played ultimate frisbee together at Brown. Last year, we quit our jobs at Point72 and Netflix to start a company together. Conductor is used by engineers at YC, Linear, Vercel, Notion, Supabase, and other leading companies, […]

MRI Contrast Agent Causes Harmful Metal Buildup in Some Patients [study]

Editor’s Note New research offers a potential explanation for why some patients retain toxic metals long after undergoing an MRI. Published in the journal Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the findings show that gadolinium contrast agents used in MRI scans may react with common dietary compounds to form harmful metal nanoparticles in the body. As detailed in […]

TextEdit and the relief of simple software

Infinite Scroll TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions. By Kyle Chayka October 22, 2025 Illustration by Ariel Davis Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story

The Swift SDK for Android

Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms. The Android workgroup is an open group, free for anyone to join, that aims to […]

Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Joseph DeNatale, an entrepreneur and project coordinator at Jetson Home. It originally appeared in Climate Drift earlier this year, and is republished on Heat Pumped with permission. Joseph interviewed me when he was researching the piece, and I was excited to see that the final product touched […]

Validating Your Ideas on Strangers

One of my favorite ways to truly validate an idea is at a bar… on strangers. I “discovered” this a few years ago when I was still new to NYC, and since then have used this amazing technique half a dozen times.

Why I code as a CTO

Many CTOs I know stopped writing code years ago. The conventional wisdom is that as you become more and more senior, the less and less code you write until eventually you’re spending your days in back-to-back meetings. That’s not how I operate. In fact, here’s what my last 12 months have looked like: I currently […]

Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways

2025-06-01 I was recently flying between HKG & LHR via British Airways. I’d done the same flight back in 2023, and remember relying on the in-flight entertainment for the 14 hour journey. However, this time on my way to London, they had an interesting offer: Free WiFi for “Messaging”, for members of “The British Airways […]

First shape found that can’t pass through itself

Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s big enough for the other to slide through? Perhaps your instinct is to say “Surely not!” If so, you’re not alone. In the late 1600s, an unidentified person placed a bet to that effect with Prince Rupert of […]