Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice
Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood...
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Your AI Workflow Is Missing a Composable Architecture
“Don’t ask the model to build your whole app. Break your request into smaller parts and generate one function, hook, or component at a time.” You’ve...
Read moreResearchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots
The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream...
Read moreKubernetes v1.35: Introducing Workload Aware Scheduling
Scheduling large workloads is a much more complex and fragile operation than scheduling a single Pod, as it often requires considering all Pods together instead of...
Read moreGenerative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt
Every engineer has a moment early in their career when they realize the truth: You cannot learn everything. Much like doctors choose specialties, engineers eventually pick...
Read moreMake GNOME’s App Grid Scroll Vertically (Like it Used to)
A new GNOME Shell extension brings vertical scrolling back to the app grid. Ideal for mouse scroll wheel obsessives running GNOME 49. You’re reading Make GNOME’s...
Read moreChina drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence
China drafted landmark rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally manipulating users, including what could become the strictest policy worldwide intended to prevent AI-supported suicides, self-harm,...
Read moreWhy Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS
Over the last decade, the industry accepted a simple truth: If you wanted a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, you consumed it in the cloud...
Read moreGraham: [KDE] Highlights from 2025
Nate Graham looks back at how 2025 went for the KDE project. Today Plasma is the default desktop environment in a bunch of the hottest new...
Read moreThe Performance Of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS On AMD EPYC Servers
One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for...
Read morePresentation: Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads
Bruno Borges discusses a paradigm shift in performance management: moving from manual tuning to automated SRE agents. He explains how to leverage the USE and jPDM...
Read moreNTFSPLUS Linux Driver Renamed To Just “NTFS” With Latest Code Restructuring
One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft’s NTFS file-system with better performance and more...
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