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While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also changed my opinions in a number of ways. Foremost, it solidified my belief that the industry too often treats engineers like children to be managed, rather than adults to be involved, and […]
TL;DR Android 17 is said to be shifting away from flat design toward translucent, blur-heavy visuals. Google could roll out a frosted-glass look across core UI elements, including the volume slider and power menu. Dynamic Color will reportedly tint blurred panels, helping the new transparency effects blend with your wallpaper and theme. Android 17 is […]
The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks will face off in Super Bowl LX. For those of you who just can’t with Roman numerals, that’s Super Bowl 60, and it’s taking place this year at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, on February 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET. Like all other Sunday Night […]
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in […]
AI agents are accelerating how work gets done. They schedule meetings, access data, trigger workflows, write code, and take action in real time, pushing productivity beyond human speed across the enterprise. Then comes the moment every security team eventually hits: “Wait… who approved this?” Unlike users or applications, AI agents are often deployed quickly, shared […]
Binary Search Trees are elegant, but their performance depends entirely on shape. In the worst case, a BST degrades into a linked list, turning logarithmic operations into linear ones. AVL trees were one of the earliest solutions to this problem, introducing strict self-balancing to guarantee consistent performance. This article focuses on how AVL trees maintain […]
The problem with most retirement calculators and spending rules is that they assume life is linear and static. In reality, life and spending tend to be lumpy. JP Morgan’s Guide to Retirement has a neat breakdown of how spending tends to change for retirees as they age. These are the average spending levels for retired households […]
the browser is the sandbox. Paul Kinlan is a web platform developer advocate at Google and recently turned his attention to coding agents. He quickly identified the importance of a robust sandbox for agents to operate in and put together these detailed notes on how the web browser can help: This got me thinking about […]
With the marshals under attack, Kennedy deployed first the Mississippi National Guard and then thousands of federal troops as well. (That military operation, codenamed RAPID ROAD, was actually the first and only time during the Cold War that the military activated and used plans it had developed to quell civil disturbances in the wake of […]
It’s not surprising when the guy who’s been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns his ire towards ICE. But something different has been happening over the week or so, following the most recent shootings of civilians by federal agents — even accounts that stay laser focused […]
