Beginners guide to vibe coding
We talk a lot about vibe coding. And to be honest, I’d heard the term far too many times before I took it seriously. It made...
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The Foilies 2026
Recognizing the Worst in Government Transparency The Foilies were written by EFF’s Beryl Lipton, Dave Maass and Aaron Mackey and MuckRock’s Dillon Bergin, Kelly Kauffman and...
Read moreDirk Eddelbuettel: tidyCpp 0.0.10 on CRAN: Even More Maintenance
Yet another maintenance release of the tidyCpp package arrived on CRAN this morning, a mere week and a half after the previous release. It has been...
Read moreAI Czar David Sacks wants Trump to ‘get out’ of Iran
He might have realized he’s about to lose a lot of money. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images David Sacks, the White House’s...
Read moreEx-Snowflake engineers say there’s a blind spot in data engineering — so they built Tower to fix it
AI coding assistants might have made it easier to generate software, but getting that code to run reliably — packaging it, deploying it, scaling infrastructure, collecting...
Read moreDR-DOS Is Back, But Not Quite as We Knew It
If you weren’t around for the early PC era, or were a little more casual about operating systems, you could perhaps be forgiven for not knowing...
Read moreAI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion
If you’ve got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character’s voice throughout a scene, there’s...
Read moreMarco d’Itri: Bypassing deep packet inspection with socat and HTTPS tunnels
Recently I found myself with a few hours to kill, but with the only available connectivity provided by an annoying firewall which would normally allow requests...
Read moreSamsung’s Galaxy Buds 4 Pro are the choice — if you have a Galaxy phone
The Galaxy Buds Pro 4 are a nice improvement over the Buds 3, but still require a Galaxy device to use all their features. Samsung promised...
Read moreThe fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a...
Read moreA practical guide to the 6 categories of AI cloud infrastructure in 2026
Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200 architectures has flooded the market with...
Read moreLive-service games are a mess
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow...
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