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Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.

PerceptionBench evaluates visual perception at the level of atomic capabilities discovered from model failures, measuring what multimodal models actually see rather than what they infer.

cat file | grep is abuse. grep can open files by itself. Stop the useless use of cat.

reFrame is an experimental camera with a color ePaper display. Designed to capture and display one photo at a time, making every frame memorable.

Credit card rewards aren’t free money.

Native C# implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL): parser, type checker, and evaluator with zero dependencies.

Every now and then I go digging through Report URI's Threat Intelligence data feeds, looking for domains that show up in CSP reports where they really shouldn't. Last week one jumped out at me: netdna-ssl.com. If you've been around the WordPress world for a while,

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a lengthy essay on X titled "The Reverse Information Paradox," sharply criticizing major AI model providers like…

The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he is and entirely missing the central points of the arguments made by people who don’t enjoy his kind of privilege reminds me that there are some OSS projects that have become so large, so important, and so monolithic, that the behavior of their project leadership becomes indistinguishable from a monopoly/monopsony.

One astronomer has a bold solution to getting around the high cost of building big telescopes.

A post about how AI slop has completely ovetaken software engineering.