Russell Coker: Links March 2026
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It has been two weeks since the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, but an estimated 300,000 US businesses still have no idea if or...
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Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has sued its co-founder and former CEO, alleging that he stole a...
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The shameful pile of screenshots on my phone was as useless as it was disorganized. Rodeo and Swipewipe are helping to change that.
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There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was...
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In New Hampshire, just off the western shore of the vacation destination Lake Winnipesaukee, there’s a town called Laconia. With a population somewhere south of 17,000,...
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Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at least, the changes...
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In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python stacks, queues, and priority queues. You’ll review LIFO and FIFO behavior, enqueue and dequeue operations, and how...
Read moreThere are 2 kinds of devs. One of them is screwed. Justin Searls interview [Podcast #210]
Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He’s a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that’s still going – even after he figured...
Read moreCNCF Graduates Dragonfly, Marking Major Milestone for Cloud-Native Image Distribution
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced recently that Dragonfly, its open source image and file distribution system, has reached graduated status, the highest maturity level...
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Increasingly, enterprises are interested in improving their level of control over their data, achieving digital sovereignty, and even building their own sovereign cloud. However, this means...
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An unknown hacker used Anthropic’s LLM to hack the Mexican government: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite...
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