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Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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WWDC always brings a torrent of new content, details, and platform-wide changes. One of the first things I noticed after installing the macOS Golden Gate beta was the updated icon design.

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Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing

If you are having a hard time with agentic engineering, stop, and think about whether normal software engineering is also tough for your company. Slapping AI on a dysfunctional system, be it people or software, will not fix your problems. Since 1975 we've known that adding more people to late projects makes them later. Adding a fake person is no better.

macOS Golden Gate Icon Comparison — Basic Apple Guy

WWDC always brings a torrent of new content, details, and platform-wide changes. One of the first things I noticed after installing the macOS Golden Gate beta was the updated icon design. The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adjusted, and the refraction in the Liquid Glass effect has changed significantly, especially in icons like Journal.

Success, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Unsung Hero of The Lord of the Rings

om Bombadil is one of the greatest characters in the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is the oldest being in Middle-earth, completely immune to the Ring’s power, and — unfortunately — overlooked by a huge swathe of readers.

BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge

Software brain is powerful stuff. It’s a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. Marc Andreessen, the literal embodiment of software brain, called it in 2011 when he wrote the piece “Why software is eating the world” as an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. But software thinking has been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time.

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THE NEW ATLANTIS

Francis Bacon and the Scientific Method - IEEE Spectrum

In 1627, a year after the death of the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon, a short, evocative tale of his was published. The New Atlantis describes how a ship blown off course arrives at an unknown island called Bensalem. At its heart stands Salomon’s House, an institution devoted to “the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things” and to “the effecting of all things possible.” The novel captured Bacon’s vision of a science built on skepticism and empiricism and his belief that understanding and creating were one and the same pursuit.

Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license - Ars Technica

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so it’s dumping the custom Gemma license.

The Complete Cloudflare Wrangler Guide: From Local Development to Global Deployment - Tao's Blog

Cloudflare Wrangler is the official command-line interface (CLI) tool designed for building, managing, and deploying applications on Cloudflare’s developer platform. Think of it as the main bridge between your local development environment and Cloudflare’s global network, letting you seamlessly interact with all of Cloudflare’s serverless products. As part of the broader Cloudflare Workers SDK, Wrangler works hand-in-hand with create-cloudflare (C3) project scaffolding tool and Miniflare local simulator to create a complete and efficient development toolchain.

Ollama taps Apple’s MLX framework to make local AI models faster on Macs - The New Stack

Running large language models (LLMs) locally has often meant accepting slower speeds and tighter memory limits. Ollama’s latest update, built on Apple’s MLX framework, goes some way toward easing those constraints – especially for developers running AI agents directly on their machines.

5GW Data Center Buildout Requires Novel Engineering - IEEE Spectrum

Though the project’s stated 5-GW scale is the largest among its peers, it’s just one of several dozen similar projects now underway. According to Michael Guckes, chief economist at construction-software company ConstructConnect, spending on data centers topped US $27 billion by July of 2025 and, once the full-year figures are tallied, will easily exceed $60 billion. Hyperion alone accounts for about a quarter of that.

Data Center DC Embraces 800V Power Shift - IEEE Spectrum

By converting 13.8-kV AC grid power directly to 800 V DC at the data center perimeter, most intermediate conversion steps are eliminated. This reduces the number of fans and power-supply units, and leads to higher system reliability, lower heat dissipation, improved energy efficiency, and a smaller equipment footprint.

OpenAI drops AI video tool Sora, startling Disney, sources say | Reuters

March 24 (Reuters) - On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), opens new tab and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI's AI video tool. Just 30 minutes after that meeting, the Disney ‌team was blindsided with word that OpenAI was dropping the tool altogether, a person familiar with the matter said.

Why Frictionless AI Might Be Harmful - IEEE Spectrum

Most people who regularly use AI tools would say they’re making their lives easier. The technology promises to streamline and take over tasks both professionally and personally—whether that’s summarizing documents, drafting deliverables, generating code, or even offering emotional support. But researchers are concerned AI is making some tasks too easy, and that this will come with unexpected costs.