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The Theater of Computation: What Alan Turing's Story Still Teaches Us About Building Systems

Watching Breaking the Code reminded me that the principles Turing fought for—elegant abstraction and human dignity—still matter in system design.

Meta's Muse Spark: A Tool-Heavy Return to the Frontier Model Race

Meta drops Muse Spark with 16 tools, Code Interpreter, visual grounding, and Meta content search. But is a hosted-only model what we really wanted?

GitHub Copilot CLI: When Your Terminal Becomes Sentient (Sort Of)

GitHub's agentic AI moves into the command line. I spent time with Copilot CLI to see if coding from the terminal finally makes sense again.

OpenAI Sued After ChatGPT Allegedly Fueled Stalking and Delusions

A new lawsuit claims OpenAI ignored multiple warnings about a user who became delusional and used ChatGPT to stalk his ex-girlfriend.

How Meta Escaped the WebRTC Forking Trap Without Breaking Everything

Meta's multi-year migration from a divergent WebRTC fork to upstream reveals hard-earned lessons about maintaining open source dependencies at scale.

AI-Assisted Development: The Taste Problem

Why coding with AI agents works brilliantly for implementation but falls apart for API design. Lessons from building real systems with Claude.

GitHub's March Meltdown: What Four Major Outages Tell Us About Scale

GitHub experienced four significant incidents in March 2026. Here's what went wrong, why it matters, and what it reveals about building at scale.

Tubi's ChatGPT Integration: When Streaming Meets the Search Bar

Tubi becomes the first major streamer to build natively inside ChatGPT. A strategic pivot or a desperate play for relevance?

Spotify's AI Playlist Generator Now Handles Podcasts, and It's Actually Useful

Spotify extends Prompted Playlists to podcasts. I tested the AI-powered discovery tool and found it surprisingly competent at solving podcast overload.

Intel Saves Musk's Terafab Dream (And Maybe Its Own Skin)

SpaceX and Tesla's ambitious chip fab gets a reality check as Intel steps in. What this partnership means for AI compute and the foundry business.

When Data Centers Become Geopolitical Targets: The OpenAI Stargate Threat

Iran's IRGC threatens OpenAI's Abu Dhabi data center, highlighting how AI infrastructure is becoming a new front in international conflicts.

When AI Infrastructure Becomes a Geopolitical Target

Iran's threat to OpenAI's Abu Dhabi data center reveals how AI infrastructure has become intertwined with international power dynamics.

GitHub's Performance War: How Simplifying React Components Made Diffs 10x Faster

GitHub gutted their diff viewer's React tree and won big on performance. Here's what happens when you stop overengineering your components.

GitHub's Performance Overhaul: Why Simplicity Beats Clever Architecture

How GitHub slashed heap usage by 10X and made massive pull requests usable again by questioning every abstraction and DOM node.

The Axios Attack: When Social Engineering Becomes Your Supply Chain's Weakest Link

A sophisticated social engineering attack compromised Axios maintainer credentials through fake job interviews. Every open source maintainer needs to know this.

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