Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

China's military establishment is accelerating humanoid robot development for eventual battlefield use, planning scenarios from urban assaults to infiltrating enemy lines, according to a Reuters revie...

Run Perplexity Computer locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Private, on-device work with cloud escalation when needed.

Software engineers are now Claude Code managers. But how can I manage what I’m forgetting how to do myself?

Washington has leaned heavily on reserves since the US-Iran war began.

This post, along with seventy-eight others, is collected in the book Utopia Is Creepy. A while back I wrote that Web 2.0, by putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withhol…

Plus: Meta's cross-platform AI, AI-driven cybercrime, and Alibaba's robot push.

Plus: Bezos's artificial engineer, Apple's Siri line, Pokémon Go's military afterlife.

Wherein I mourn the death of the open web, and muse about what comes next.

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Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?

Markdown editor for the agentic era. Contribute to solo-ist/prose development by creating an account on GitHub.

Blur everything but your active window — just wiggle your cursor.