I was doom-scrolling Hacker News at roughly 11:40 PM on a Saturday — the kind of evening where you have already decided you are not going to do anything produ...
Charles Petzold is not the kind of person who writes angry blog posts. The legendary programmer — yes, that Charles Petzold, the one who wrote "Programming Wi...
Last Thursday, I was on a call with Greg — a threat intelligence analyst I've known since we both worked at the same SOC in 2019 — when he forwarded me a Pa...
Digg is dead. Again. And this time, the killer was not a redesign, not a competitor, and not the slow bleed of irrelevance. This time, AI bots showed up within ...
I was halfway through writing a script to chunk a 340-page legal contract into 8K-token segments when Sandra pinged me on Teams. "Check Claude blog. Right now."...
There is a ritual that every person interested in running AI locally has performed at least once. You read about some exciting new open-source model — maybe i...
Angela Lipps has never been on an airplane. She has spent nearly her entire life in north-central Tennessee, raising three kids and spoiling five grandchildren....
Last Tuesday, my team lead Marcus forwarded me a research paper with the subject line "read this before our sprint planning." I almost ignored it — Marcus for...
Last week, the Debian project — one of the oldest and most respected Linux distributions in existence — held a vote on whether to accept AI-generate...
It started with a simple question from my business partner, Claire. We run a small content agency — twelve people, mostly remote, operating out of coffee shop...
My neighbor Lisa runs a bakery. Twelve employees, two locations, open six days a week. Last September, she cornered me at a block party and said something that ...
I want to tell you about Mira, James, and Priya. They run a marketing agency called Canopy Digital out of Austin, Texas. Three people. No interns. No contractor...
Something shifted in early 2026, and if you blinked, you might have missed it. AI chatbots — the kind you type a question into and get a response back — ar...
I have a confession: I'm the person who always forgets to take meeting notes. Two years ago, my manager pulled me aside after a client call and said, "Did anyon...
My client needed a marketing plan by Friday. It was Wednesday at 4 PM. Normally, a solid marketing plan takes me two to three weeks. Market research, competito...
I almost fired my virtual assistant last March. Not because she was bad at her job — she was great. But because an AI tool I'd been testing for two weeks was ...
I wrote 50 blog posts using 10 different AI writing tools over the past three months. Some of those posts got thousands of views. Others were so bad I deleted t...