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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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Godzilla Minus Zero IMAX trailer teases King Ghidorah
Director Takashi Yamazaki's hotly anticipated sequel takes place two years after 2023 film's events.
Read →Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change
Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.
Read →Supreme Court forces TV stations to sell more election ads at steep discounts
Republican victory means stations must offer lowest ad prices to political parties.
Read →NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research
Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.
Read →The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.
"Science fiction imagines the future. We build it."
Read →Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
Read →GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time
Preservation "goodies" also includes downloadable 3D models for desktop perusal.
Read →LG TV shown capable of tracking user activity, even when offline
“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”
Read →How barometer.today draws its isobars
barometer.today shows air pressure for any city: the reading now, the change since yesterday, and the week ahead. It also has a world isobar map, animated hour by hour from a day back to four days ahe...
Read →The Application Shell: GtkApplicationWindow vs AdwApplicationWindow
This is the first proper entry in A Field Guide to GTK Widgets — a series about which widget to reach for, when, and what bites you when you do. We start where every app starts: the window. Each post...
Read →The Anatomy of an AI Agent: Five Parts and the Framework That Wires Them Together
Ask a language model to book you a table for six this Thursday and it will do something quietly maddening. It will explain, fluently and with total confidence, exactly how one might book a table for s...
Read →Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?
A few weeks ago I wrote about hitting ReAct in the coursework and having a record scratch moment, because I had already met it without knowing its name. That post ended on a section called "Building A...
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