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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
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Read →“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Read →Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
Read →Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Read →Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
Read →Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Read →The Six Blank Fields I Fill In Before I Give an AI Agent Any Tools
The six blank fields I fill in before an AI agent gets any tools. Model choice can wait. Before I connect an AI agent to anything, I open Notes and type this: goal | may read | may write | ask me be...
Read →The #1 professional-development spend of 540 engineers isn't a book
I spent a weekend reading all 540 comments from Hacker News' biggest Ask HN on professional development: "What is the best money you have spent on professional development?" (524 points, 540 comments)...
Read →10 SEO tips
How I Optimized SEO for a Web Agency Without Chasing Keywords When I started working on SEO for my web agency, I made the same mistake many developers make: I focused too much on keywords....
Read →The graph is not the trust layer
Disclosure: Software Sausage is our product. Blake McCarn did not sponsor, review, or endorse this article. AI tools helped draft and edit it; the evidence boundaries are stated below. The g...
Read →Startups ask for the cheapest option first. It is not a question about price.
Startup enquiries are more alike than founders expect. Different products, different markets, different stages, and the same ten requests, usually in the same order, often inside the first ten minutes...
Read →Google Keeps AdX as Court Favors Behavioral Remedies Over an Ad Tech Breakup
Google will not be forced to sell its AdX advertising exchange under the current remedies path in its U.S. ad tech antitrust litigation. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema rejected the Department...
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