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@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
https://aicoding…

Just when you thought you’d seen it all… Space-time? No, space-crime!
https://www.kwch.com/2026/02/15/kansas-woman-sentenced-federal-prison-lying-law-enforcement-about-space-crime/

Kansas woman sentenced to federal prison for lying to law enforcement about space crime
The 51-year-old woman falsely claimed that her estranged spouse, a NASA astronaut, had illegally accessed her bank account while in space.

What a treat: A reader send me a bunch of hand-printed cards inspired by my article "Something From Nothing" https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

The gulf between the utopian (or sometimes dystopian, all publicity being good publicity in an attention economy) visions propagated by those at the bleeding edge of technology and the – for want of a better word - mundanities of real-world implementations has never been wider, as our latest research shows.
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Everyone’s using GenAI, few are truly benefiting
In the third part of our coverage of IT trends in 2026, we look at the LLMs used in business and how they are being ...

Today I learned… if you are doing something naughty in JavaScript* (and let’s face it, of course you are) that TypeScript’s type checker is giving you an error for and you – being you – want to keep being naughty (because you can and that’s half the fun), there’s a better way to silence the error than using @ts-ignore which, umm, just ignores it.
Instead, you can use @ts-expect-error (with the error message, to remind yourself what you’re expecting).
This way, if the error ever g…

You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-is-going-al…

What happened in Gramzow is just awful, and I really hope they can remove all the oil
There something interesting linguistically, though. They're all using “die PCK Schwedt,” which sounds odd. Apparently, “PCK” has lost the property of being an acronym for “das Petrol-Chemische Kombinat” but turned into a modifier or even only arbitrary first part of the name “die Raffinerie.” Similar as people use “der Radio” or “der Fernseh” skipping “apparat.”

so, i have something important to say. on 9th of December 2025, i woke up to someone who stalked me for eight years being inside my home, finding my address through means that are still not fully clear.
i know that several people reading this have in the past supported her (knowingly or not) or tried to "help" her after they learned of the stalking.
𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩. your goodwill (or sometimes spinelessness) is being exploited. all you're doing is adding to the harm do…