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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...
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Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo
Apple's first foldable can be yours next month.
Read →Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
Read →Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment
"We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."
Read →4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
Read →ChatGPT Images 2.5 Could Bring Faster Generation and More Precise Editing
OpenAI may be preparing ChatGPT Images 2.5, a reported update that could make image generation faster, improve visual fidelity, and add more direct ways to guide edits. The potential upgrade is releva...
Read →Your Tests Pass. Your Layout Is Broken
You change one line of CSS. A flex-direction, a max-width, a padding on a shared card component. Every test passes. The button is still there, the text still says "Continue", the modal still opens. G...
Read →Abstract Algebra in Action: Semigroups and Monoids in C#
Many production problems are aggregation problems in disguise: merge partial results, combine filters, reduce collections, or compute values in parallel. Abstract algebra gives those operations precis...
Read →Migrating CI/CD from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions with Azure OIDC and ACR
Introduction As part of learning and preparing for a migration from Azure DevOps pipelines to GitHub Actions, I decided to build a small practice project before working with a real applicat...
Read →OpenAI Brings Template-Based Marketing Design to ChatGPT With Adobe Express
OpenAI is bringing template-based marketing design into ChatGPT through its Adobe Express plugin. The integration gives users a guided way to create and customize common visual formats, including soci...
Read →L'écureuil volant : quand le CMS Spip devient serverless
Au commencement.. Le Web français était informe et vide.. quelques sites (universitaires notamment), reliés aux autres par des liens et référencées par des annuaires. 1996 : les premiers...
Read →Date Slop: building a deliberately bad UX with AI
A while ago now, I entered a Bad UX competition, where a prize went to the worst date-picker. Since then I have finally found some time to polish it and make it safe to release to the public; here it...
Read →Batch Transaction - Testcases
Automated test coverage for the Batch transaction feature (XLS-56), grouped by the invariant or execution mode each test exercises with 189 tests. Category Test Count Execution Modes 42 Mult...
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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