This morning I came across an article on Macanorak that opens with a very simple example, one I’ve been turning over in my head for a while now. Alice and Bill live in the UK. They have the same iPhone, they use …
Yesterday I closed my article on von der Leyen’s announcement with a line that was half question, half bet: “The part of the EU Kids Act I genuinely care about isn’t the age. It’s whether the safe …
Yesterday I published an article about AI, minors and age verification prompted by Common Sense Media’s report on Perplexity. The thesis was that the age checkbox is a double failure: fakeable from the outside and …
Every month, 2.2 million job postings in the United States result in zero hires. Four in ten companies admit their listings are fake. Seven in ten call it morally acceptable. 85 percent still bring candidates in for …
A few days ago I was reading a fascinating essay by David Bessis that made me think deeply about something we all take for granted: intelligence. Bessis, a mathematician and author of Mathematica: A Secret World of …
A few days ago I watched a video that has given me a lot to think about. Jeffrey Way, founder of Laracasts and one of the most influential people in the Laravel/PHP community, shared a brutally honest reflection on how …
A few days ago I discovered Tangible Media Collection, a website that has resonated deeply with me. It’s a collection of some 1700 objects related to information storage: from vinyl records and magnetic tapes to …
A necessary reflection on the “AI-Native Engineer” I read Addyo’s article about the “AI-Native Software Engineer” and, as a Principal Backend Engineer who has seen technological promises …
