Jonathan Dowland: Our study, 2025
We’re currently thinking of renovating our study/home office. I’ll likely write more about that project. Embarking on it reminded me that I’d taken a photo of...
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F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email
And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.
Read moreBehold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
Read moreBalasankar ‘Balu’ C: Granting Namespace-Specific Access in GKE Clusters
Heyo, In production Kubernetes environments, access control becomes critical when multiple services share the same cluster. I recently faced this exact scenario: a GKE cluster hosting...
Read more10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your Linux Desktop Bautifully
The Hyprland ecosystem has matured significantly. We are no longer just looking at ‘text files’, some of these projects are complete desktop shells that outclass macOS...
Read morePinta 3.1 is Out with Axonometric Grids, Marching Ants + More
Pinta 3.1 is available for download. The open source image editor adds axonometric grids, polygon selection tool, lower memory usage – and lots more! You’re reading...
Read moreThe 3 a.m. Call That Changed The Way I Design APIs
At 3:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, my phone buzzed with the alert that would reshape the way I think about API design. Our customer-facing API had...
Read moreThe Best After-Christmas Deals on Gear We’ve Tested (2025)
Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars.
Read more5 Key Trends Shaping Agentic Development in 2026
So far in my review of agentic development over the past year and heading into 2026, I’ve looked at some of the trends shaping LLM services....
Read moreTrends That Defined JavaScript in 2025
The year 2025 proved to be a transformative period for the JavaScript ecosystem, marked by a shift toward performance optimization and “post-React” exploration. We look back...
Read moreThe Top 7 Consumer Electronics Stories of 2025
In 2025, many of IEEE Spectrum‘s top consumer electronics stories were about about creating the experience you want with technology. Open-source software offered more customization for...
Read moreAI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver
Summary In data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits. Copper cables face a...
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