Parker's Alley at night, illuminated by hanging lights between brick buildings in downtown Detroit.

Love from Detroit

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I spent a few days in Detroit, primarily to visit the Detroit Institute of Arts and its world-class collection. Along ...

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Elizabeth Catlett's cedar sculpture Black Unity, showing a hand forming a raised fist.

What Blacksky brings to the open social web

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Blacksky is frequently described as an alternative to Bluesky. That is true, but it is not the most interesting thing ...

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Planispheric astrolabe signed by Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khujandi, Iran, 984 AD.

The Tool Is Not the Author

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On July 19, 2026, Levent Alpöge posted a tweet with a few lines of polynomial that closed an 87-year-old question in ...

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The Knowledge You Give Away

The Knowledge You Give Away

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Reverse Information Paradox by Satya Nadella: … In the AI age, the buyer risks giving away knowledge, just in order to ...

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Theme colors, shipped

Theme colors, shipped

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Some time ago I wrote A Kind of Blue to explain why the Blue theme did not survive the Fluent refresh in Visual Studio. ...

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AI Splits the Market

AI Splits the Market

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Most predictions about the AI era assume one outcome across the whole software industry. Startups will eat incumbents. ...

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An open Gutenberg Bible on display in a museum case, both pages showing dense two-column Latin type with hand-illuminated initials in blue and red.

The agent always cost this much

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GitHub moved Copilot from Premium Request Units to AI Credits this week, and developers on Reddit were reporting within ...

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"A close-up of a red leather cricket ball on a dark wooden surface, showing gold stamped text that reads 'HAND MADE,' 'ALFRED READER,' and 'MADE IN INDIA,' along with a small crest logo.

What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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I worked at a startup in Toledo called Heartland Information Services. We provided transcription services to some of ...

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Weathered wooden sign reading 'Stay on the trails' in a green forest.

The Limit of Software Brain

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Software brain, AI backlash, databases, and automation by Nilay Patel on Decoder: I've been calling it software brain, ...

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