Ah yes, DHH is certainly who we should look towards for how to govern the NixOS foundation. /s
This blog post is the wildest shit I had to read in a while.
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/18/how-to-piss-off-your-nix-friends
Two Funded PhD Positions in Environmental Systems & Risk Modeling at the University of #Minnesota, USA
https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs:Job-02051
Apple announces a new Foundation Models framework for developers, a new Core AI framework, and a set of Xcode enhancements aimed at agentic coding workflows (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-unveils-xcode-and-models-impr…
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/chamath-palih…
Staff of Czech public broadcasters stage a warning strike, protesting government plans to shift funding from license fees to the state budget starting next year (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/czech-public-media-financing-p…
I just backed this. I really enjoyed the demo on Steam and want to see what the full thing could look like. The mod support and lua coding is a distant stretch goal, but just seeing this reach the base level funding would be great.
Past halfway funded, and only 7 days left.
https://www.kickstarter.com…
Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train "continual learning" models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ex-google-appl…