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The entire board behind the National Science Foundation was fired on Friday. They were planning to release a report on how the U.S. is ceding ground to China on scientific endeavors. The Trump admin likes to say we’re competing with China but in reality this is just an excuse to not regulate AI.

The reason fascists hate science is because scientists can call bullshit on their edicts. The government can claim “clean coal” exists or windmills cause cancer but science can easily debunk that. So the solution is to defund, discredit and destroy the pillars of science as much as they can.

🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

I’m at an internal event and they’re using the teams ring to let us all know that we need to move from the reception into the talks and I’m getting PTSD from this sound

GitHub Copilot is officially moving to usage based billing from its current model of allocating a fixed number of “premium requests” per month for using advanced features. The post states it’s no longer sustainable for GitHub to absorb inference costs. The Uber moment for AI token pricing is here.

Right click desktop View Hide desktop icons Sighs in relief

all my pull requests, gone?

Mamdani is showing that all it takes for a leader to make impactful changes in a short amount of time is being willing to do so. This is also a lesson Trump taught MAGA during his first term and one Democrats have refused to learn for decades.

New Rule: ̶N̶o̶w̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶t̶i̶c̶i̶z̶e̶ ̶g̶u̶n̶ ̶v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ It’s totally the right time to politicize this shooting and ask taxpayers to spend $400M building a fancy ballroom like the one from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Some companies such as Nvidia are finding themselves spending more on AI tokens for engineers than their salaries. An open question for AI adoption is whether token prices keep increasing as AI companies drop subsidies or if new chips (e.g. Groq LPUs) will cause inference costs to get cheaper?

How is everyone managing their agent SKILL.md files? Is it just chaos? Global skills, repo-specific skills, keeping them in sync between machines, figuring out which ones you have installed, authoring new ones. What are we doing?

Sure, a lot of white collar jobs are bullshit but these “bullshit jobs” are also how millions of people feed their families. How is that so hard to understand?

The WSJ notes tech layoffs have accelerated this year driven by big tech choosing to spend on AI infrastructure over personnel and betting AI coding tools mean fewer people needed to generate the same output. The article flags the potential costs of losing institutional knowledge as a major risk.

OpenAI missed its 1B ChatGPT user goal last year and multiple revenue targets this year. Enterprise adoption is lagging as Anthropic gains ground. With the CFO & board questioning their huge datacenter spend, this isn’t a great narrative leading into a $830B+ IPO later this year.

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.

The ogres are blooming again

It’s been two days and I still can’t believe this is real.

Found out today that for several months, I was serving a 2.5MB .png on the landing page for my new course because I forgot to set up the <picture> tag to serve the 34KB .avif instead. 😭 Sorry to all of the mobile users who visited this page in the past!

The EU plans to require Google to open up access to AI integration on Android devices to competing chatbots. For instance allowing ChatGPT or Claude to send an email using the user's preferred email app, order food or share a photo with friends. As a U.S. iPhone user I’m jealous we won’t get this

Chips used to be considered the limiting factor to meeting AI demand but electricity has proven to be an even bigger factor. The cost to build new gas power plants has gone up 66% in two years given larger demand from datacenters and the waiting list for gas turbines now stretches into the 2030s.

the blessed relief

AI is 80% multilevel marketing scheme, 20% genuinely useful technology

OpenAI and Microsoft rewrote their deal yet again: • OpenAI can now sell services via other cloud providers (e.g., AWS). • AGI clause gone and instead Microsoft’s IP rights are now a fixed license through 2032. • Microsoft stops paying rev share to OpenAI.

What’s truly absurd is that Claude and LLMs in general have been marketed in such a way that users are surprised when it deletes the production database.

claude fact checked this post: it's actually 80% MLM and 30% genuinely useful

What you can buy cheap in the wake of an economic crash: 2008: Aeron chairs 2028: Graphics cards

Ordered this book when it came out last week, but had nothing to do on the plane ride to GodotCon so read it electronically. We lived through it, but Adam reminds you just how gross the entire chapter was.

Future historians will probably wonder why the emdash suddenly vanished from printed works in the 2020s.

I was working. Now I’m invested in helping a baby bird survive the neighborhood cats.

revenge is a dish best served cellar-temperature

Girl, same.

Ming-Chi Kuo, who has broken Apple hardware news in the past, reports OpenAI is reportedly building its own "AI-first" smartphone to compete with the iPhone. It’s designed around a continuous AI Agent layer so no more jumping between apps. Mass production reportedly is targeted for 2028.

"You're absolutely right. I will update my memory to never shoot your foot again." —a gun pointed at your foot

Mark Gurman, a regular source of Apple leaks, says the company has six major hardware products in development. 1. AI AirPods 2. Smart glasses 3. Pendant 4. Smart display 5. Tabletop robot 6. Security camera I’m most interested in upgrades to AirPods and Apple’s take on smart glasses.

I won’t shit on the OpenAI phone because I was an enthusiastic supporter of the Palm Pre and the Amazon FirePhone.

This is where I skeet from

youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o?...

Americans lost less than a 100th of a percent of Amazon’s market cap to scams last year.

Who remembers this *other* #Ruby app deployment tool? 😬 web.archive.org/web/20130217...

I got to see with my own two eyes: this course is amazing! @joshwcomeau.com does such a thorough job with everything, while still keeping everything FUN!

I can't take any more of this absurdity. Muting "ballroom" 😅

A must-read for everyone, especially if you are using Gen AI reugarly. joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

Browserslist works across Babel, PostCSS (preset-env), and Lightning CSS (on CodePen). I like it. One place to store browser support information, multiple tools use it.

🌸 As many a wise elder sage predicted 🌸 Note there's _zero_ mention here why this is good for users, only mentions why this is good for Microsoft…

The Last Software Engineer www.epicproduct.engineer/the-last-sof...

iPad delivered :) so far not bad

Tuscan cooking school is off to a great start

Inspired by Casey Newton getting rid of his link blog because people can just ask AI to summarize top stories, I decided to automate how I find tech news. The results 1. ChatGPT found 8 stories. Two I posted today and two I’m still considering posting.

asking the gun why it shot them in the foot: "did you just shoot my foot? BE HONEST"

Say what you will about Apple but it’s amazing that I can set up an AirPort Express that’s 15 years old and has been discontinued for 8 years just automatically when selecting the Wi-Fi network on my current generation iPhone and AirPlay 2 works just fine with it

Love the alignment of the "info" icon in this here design software that's been the industry standard for 36 years and counting

It's kind of funny how when your skeet makes it to the Discover tab almost all replies are explaining your skeet back to you

"When your very tired employees point out that maybe the robot did a bad job, you can point to the same gradient that everyone else uses and say ‘hmmmm, but I like it’. Truly an uncursed timeline." 😂😂

ed's clearly a bit too excited and tired because it's ed balls day eve

I know the burnout is almost over when I get the urge to make tech content again.

reading primarily LLM output is a problem. people write like they read

We got the Nazi Bars, the Genocide tone policing bars and the Zionist bars. Really not a lot of choices.

#iOSDev #MacDev I have a vague memory of seeing some years ago some kind of indie Mac app for quickly generating simple test icons for Mac apps from e.g. emoji, anyone remembers what that was?…

This is cool. Asked Claude to generate some color options for this UI element, and it generated a bunch of sample palettes + UI mockups.

journalists: "here's what the footgun had to say about the unfortunate incident with the foot"

$5 / hour at A&W in 1996.

Backup of a static binary swoops in to save the day, thanks developer years ago who choose not to have stupid library dependencies

Meanwhile Bending Spoons: 👀 :p