Meta says Threads has overtaken X in monthly active users, with time spent up 20% YoY. Impressive numbers. But are people actually enjoying Threads, or has the algorithm just gotten better at holding them hostage? Engagement and enjoyment aren't the same thing. socialmediatoday.com/news/me…

TikTok is moving creator content into scripted micro series with studio partners. The interesting bet is that people will follow a story inside the feed, not just scroll past one. Vertical TV, with the skip button right there. newsroom.tiktok.com/tiktok-a…

The week is almost over, and what a week it was for software.. How do you cope?

Do you have a raspberry pi? What do you run on it?

The how the internal state of software feels like after yesterday

Which OS would you put on a family member's laptop if you wanted the fewest support calls: Linux, Windows, or Mac? Choose carefully, you become the help desk.

Hot take: The threat of humans misusing AI is bigger that AI going full-on Terminator

PHP is a language and also a museum with a deploy button.

OpenAI says thousands of agents analyzed a mouse brain CRISPR dataset in 32 minutes. The interesting question isn’t whether they can generate hypotheses quickly. It’s which ones survive the next experiment.

A passing test suite is not proof your software works. It is proof the bugs you remembered to test for are currently behaving.

Software security in 2026 is wild. One day you're updating dependencies to fix vulnerabilities. The next day, you're wondering whether the update itself is the vulnerability. Compromised packages, supply-chain attacks, critical zero-days...

It'll soon do it on its own xD