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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
Read →The feed
Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers
Readwise Books combines an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.
Read →In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B
Marvell's planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.
Read →Snap settles lawsuit accusing platform of fueling teen depression and eating disorders
The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autopla...
Read →New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Pe...
Read →Web host Squarespace lays off 19% of its employees
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
Read →Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware
German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.
Read →✨ The Best Free Windows Forms Library You’ll Ever Find (Under 200KB) ✨
I recently stumbled upon a hidden gem on GitHub: a lightweight Windows Forms library by drJhonatan00. Although it was published only a short while ago, I want to go on record saying this: it is hands-...
Read →I built the same iOS & Android app five times to measure what sharing code really costs
Most "should we go cross-platform?" debates are fought with opinions. I wanted numbers. So I built the same app five times. Each version is an iOS app and an Android app with the same product, data a...
Read →OvalFFR
Oval/slot fixed foveated rendering for OpenXR VR games, with a control panel. Built to cut GPU load for games streamed through ALVR. Work in progress (v0.5.0). The control panel, the OpenXR layer pl...
Read →My Live Job Pages Are All Empty, and My Code Cannot Tell Me Why
I opened the public job pages on Upwork Scout while writing this, expecting to screenshot a nice feed. Every one of the eleven category pages said the same thing: "No public sample for this category r...
Read →Auditing MCP Configurations and AI Agent Rules for Security Risks
Modern developer workflows increasingly rely on AI agent configurations and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Tools like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf execute local commands, connect to rem...
Read →Agents that are actually deterministic
How aigenos/flow makes an agent run the same steps every time, and why that is hard to get from a prompt or a hand-built graph. "Deterministic" gets used loosely. Here is what it means in this projec...
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