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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

<a href="https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d" rel="nofollow">https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d</a>

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-pay-567-mln-teen-mental-health-fund-2026-08-06/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p...</a><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic...</a><p><a href="https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-567m-make-changes-for-underage-users/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5...</a><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo</a><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-...</a>

Taste Is All That's Left

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

<a href="https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/amd-acquires-taalas-to-advance-compute-solutions-for-rapidly-growing-ai-inference-market" rel="nofollow">https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am...</a><p><a href="https://chatjimmy.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://chatjimmy.ai/</a>

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

Zed DeltaDB

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

Mario Meets Pareto

Mario Meets Pareto

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

<a href="https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768</a><p><a href="https://gwern.net/guardian-angel" rel="nofollow">https://gwern.net/guardian-angel</a>

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest