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We get to define "AI" however we like, but a definition of AI that includes a SQL planner is so broad that it includes literally all complex software. When I wrote that a broad def…

I watched Dr. Hipp's keynote. Here's my summary for folks who don't want to sit through it. (This is hand written, not LLM-generated.) Dr. Hipp suggests a definition of "AI" in whi…

Today, Gmail and other major providers do this by tracking sender reputation at the domain level. If users mark your emails as spam, that hurts your domain's reputation. If a domai…

> It should be really, really cheap to send an email to one person (like a fraction of a fraction of a cent), but get exponentially more expensive the more you send. The problem is…

For the "quick one-off script" case (where Implicitly Declared Classes shine), I think the most galling ceremony in this example is explicitly converting all N items in a list of l…

POJOs and records require more configuration (e.g. Jackson's @JsonProperty, @JsonDeserialize). That could plausibly be out of scope. But for constructing JSON out of strings, numbe…

A stated goal of the API is to have "low ceremony"; this seems like a lot of ceremony. IO.println(JsonObject.of(Map.of("providers", JsonArray.of(List.of(JsonString.of("SUN"), JsonS…

Yes, I did. When you set up a passkey on your phone in your password manager, you'll transfer it to your other device using your password manager. Either your password manager will…

All of the major operating systems and all of the major browsers are password managers. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are all password managers. They all have apps that let…

"Most" apps? So it works in some apps, but not others? Setting your preferred password/passkey manager on Android 17 to 1Password works fine in Chrome and Firefox to log in to any …

Did you try it? That’s not correct. I just logged into GitHub with a password (+ 2FA), on an account that also has a passkey. No major bank revokes your password when you setup a p…

> Every single major password manager supports export. They all support exporting passwords , but, check your CSV; you won't find any passkeys in the CSV export for Apple, Google, …

Citation needed. Walk in with photo ID, a bank card, and your PIN, and all the major banks will send you a reset-password email.

Sure, that's alarming, but if you set up a passkey on the "wrong" password manager, you've (temporarily) lost your passkey. You should probably be kinda alarmed about that. You can…

I don't think you're giving those seniors good advice. When the banks ask people to "switch" to passkeys, they're not removing the passwords; they're adding passkeys as an alternat…

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and 1Password don’t let you export passkeys to a file that you can read and backup, but Bitwarden, Proton Pass, and KeepassXC do. I think Bitward…

Then you'll login to your Apple iCloud account using your password. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager; you can't login to a password manager without somet…

This is much, much simpler than you think it is. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. If you lose your passkey, you'll reset your passkey the same way you r…

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Wikipedia's traffic (and donations) are collapsing. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wik... People don't like to think of it this way, but Wikipedia is fund…

The graph proves the cause of their decline was AI, and not aggressive question moderation. Ask yourself: in what year did it become difficult to ask questions on Stack Overflow? 2…

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/rjBSVWAGoHo/m/FhEGrTIkAwAJ?pli=1 "Declaratively control various aspect of HTML fragments:" - Sanitize them - Bring them from …

https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html explains why this isn't the default (and probably will never be the default). > rigid type enforcement can successfully prevent the customer na…

This blog post further undermines my trust in Jarred. He makes it sound like Claude did a fantastic Rust rewrite, and "the work continues." But when the Rust port merged to main, t…