Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026—if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?

Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)

Python, open source, and the internet

Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?

Guidelines for programming when code is cheap.

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

Zero tenant isolation, exposed military training data, and a five-month responsible disclosure timeline.

The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls

Python, open source, and the internet

Why I Created phpc.tv

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative

With Idiot Proof SEO, you can analyze any SERP and find instant weak spots, generate hundreds of low competition keywords, and track your keyword rankings over time.

Agent Skills

AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

Farewell to a Giant of Botany

Farewell to a Giant of Botany: Peter Raven, the transformative conservationist and father of “coevolution,” passed away this week

How Many Children Learned Mathematics from Kiselev's Textbooks?

How Many Children Learned Mathematics From Kiselev’s Textbooks? A demographic estimate, with sources, of the readership of A.P. Kiselev’s textbooks across Russian and Soviet education — and a …

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

Contribute to angelos-p/llm-from-scratch development by creating an account on GitHub.

Async Rust never left the MVP state

I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...