Friendly Google and Enemy Remedies – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The reason to start this Article with railroads and Rockefeller and the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act is not simply to provide context for this case; rather, it’s important to understand that antitrust is inherently political, which is another way of saying it’s not some sort of morality play with clearly distinguishable heroes and […]

 I just coded “Angry Pumpkins 🎃” (any resemblance is purely coincidental 😂) using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics

I just coded “Angry Pumpkins ” (any resemblance is purely coincidental ) using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics. Source: Javi Lopez ⛩️ on X: “Midjourney, DALL•E 3 and GPT-4 have opened a world of endless possibilities. I just coded “Angry Pumpkins 🎃” (any resemblance is purely coincidental 😂) […]

You win or you learn

an internal Automattic memo Source: @waxpancake • This is apparently an internal Automattic memo making the rounds on Tumblr, indicating that they?… • Threads

Typing fast is about latency, not throughput | Hacker News

It occurs to me that because we use both hands, the way we type is inherently ‘asynchronous’. For example, when trying to type(‘the’), the individual ‘function calls’, typechar(‘t’), typechar(‘h’), typechar(‘e’) may be initiated (i.e. fingers begin moving towards their target keys) in that order, but there’s no guarantee they are terminated (i.e. fingers hitting their […]

What I learned getting acquired by Google

Working at Google is like having a second passport. Go to any major city in the world and your badge2 unlocks a beautiful office with great food, desks, and a high speed link to every person in Google’s 200,000+ person network. And like visiting America as a foreigner, everything you see inside feels oddly familiar […]