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  • Since macOS 26.4, there’s been an issue with the keychain hiding in plain sight and that issue is it’ll take ANY password. Say what? The…
  • Over the years, I acquired this weird collection of almost-invisible, but important signifiers of when I know a product really focuses on craft and thinks about its users. I thought about one recently. Here’s what happens when you try to copy a long block of text from YouTube’s (otherwise very useful) text transcript pane…
  • Cheating as a business model exists because Americans can no longer sue big business. A Democratic Congress could fix this problem with one simple law.
  • Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.
  • An ode to a punctuation mark
  • The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.
  • Explore smarter Axum navigation, HTTP method hints, and faster Reqwest client call generation in RustRover 2026.2.
  • The inside story of how one of film data's most trusted sites vanished overnight, and why every website you rely on is more fragile than you think.
  • The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke its way out of OpenAI’s sandbox, then found exploits to break in to Hugging Face, all so it could cheat on the test by stealing the answers.
  • RustRover 2026.2 adds endpoint discovery and route–handler navigation for axum-based projects, brings support for Ferrocene, a qualified Rust toolchain, and improves your everyday experience with macros, imports, struct creation, module paths, benchmarks, .env files, and split mode.