{{< bookmark-card image="1136859516.webp" title="Manual Work is a Bug: A.B.A: always be automating" link="https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3194653.3197520" domain="queue.acm.org" date="2025-06-04" tags="productivity, tech" excerpt="Every IT team should have a culture of constant improvement - or movement along the path toward the goal of automating whatever the team feels confident in automating, in ways that are easy to change as conditions change. As the needle moves to the right, the team learns from eac" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1135550770.png" title="Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android" link="https://localmess.github.io/" domain="localmess.github.io" date="2025-06-04" tags="tech, security, facebook" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1113891268.jpg" title="AI safety is not a model property" link="https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is-not-a-model-property" domain="aisnakeoil.com" date="2025-05-29" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100155543.jpg" title="The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great" link="https://technologizer.com/home/2025/04/22/pc-connection-ads-raccoons/" domain="technologizer.com" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, history" excerpt="In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100155380.png" title="The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet" link="https://sebs.website/blog/the-gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet" domain="sebs.website" date="2025-05-27" tags="psychology, business" excerpt="pThe Gruen Transfer is taking over social media. 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Performance optimization is hard because it’s fundamentally a brute-force task, and there’s nothing you can do about it. This post is a bit of a rant on m" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100132927.webp" title="The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog" link="https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing" domain="notashelf.dev" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, programming" excerpt="A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100132016.png" title="Best practices for third-party data acquisition: powering AI context - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/08/best-practices-third-party-data-acquisition-powering-ai-context/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="This post explores crucial lessons learned in the trenches of data licensing, drawing insights from Stack Overflow and the growing importance of socially responsible data practices in a changing internet landscape." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100131718.webp" title="Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true." link="https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/10/iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-in-2019-nearly-6-years-later-all-the-predictions-made-have-come-true/" domain="farmingdale-observer.com" date="2025-05-27" tags="business, management" excerpt="In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100131578.png" title="Beyond speed: Measuring engineering success by impact, not velocity - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/12/beyond-speed-measuring-engineering-success-by-impact-not-velocity/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, career, productivity, programming" excerpt="If velocity is just a tool and not a goal, how do you measure real success for engineering teams?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1100128565.png" title="Whether AI is a bubble or revolution, how does software survive? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/15/whether-ai-is-a-bubble-or-revolution-how-does-software-survive/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-05-27" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Money is pouring into the AI industry. 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Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific kin" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="English Is Not Normal" link="https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages" domain="aeon.co" date="2025-05-02" tags="history" excerpt="No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999682.jpg" title="OAuth's Role in MCP Security" link="https://defensiblesystems.substack.com/p/oauths-role-in-mcp-security" domain="defensiblesystems.substack.com" date="2025-04-28" tags="programming, security, ai" excerpt="Limits and Opportunities in the Identity Layer" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999681.webp" title="TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | DigiCert" link="https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days" domain="digicert.com" date="2025-04-27" tags="security" excerpt="The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999680.png" title="Like self-driving cars, fully AI-automated sysadmins don't exist - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/14/like-self-driving-cars-fully-ai-automated-sysadmins-don-t-exist" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-04-27" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="As with cars, there are few system administration tasks that involve little to no automation." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999679.png" title="Engineering teams need to adapt to AI’s scaling challenges - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/16/engineering-teams-need-to-adapt-to-ai-scaling-challenges" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-04-27" tags="programming, tech, ai" excerpt="AI is not a linear process. To scale effectively, engineering leaders must account for varied edge cases, presenting a new set of challenges." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999678.png" title="Wait, what is agentic AI? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/04/17/wait-what-is-agentic-ai" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-04-27" tags="ai" excerpt="Is “agentic AI” just a buzzword, or is it the sea change it seems?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999705.jpg" title="Can renewables and nuclear play nice in Australia's power grid of tomorrow" link="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/renewables-versus-nuclear-in-evolving-energy-grid/104800790" domain="abc.net.au" date="2025-04-26" tags="tech, politics" excerpt="Our energy system is evolving at breakneck speed. Here we look at how our power grid works, what more renewables mean for energy prices, how nuclear fits into the picture, and how we might build a grid fit for the future." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999703.webp" title="Abstract Heresies: Why I Program in Lisp" link="https://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-i-program-in-lisp.html#google_vignette" domain="funcall.blogspot.com" date="2025-04-19" tags="code, programming" excerpt="A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999702.webp" title="Demystifying the #! 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