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Why fonts look so much better on macOS than Windows. TL;DR: “in short: macOS treats fonts with respect and dignity, and Windows mercilessly beats and tortures them to death and throws their mangled, desecrated corpses by the roadside all while laughing about it”

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CEO asked me “what are we doing about Russians exploiting 0days in AI” Meanwhile our servers are on Ubuntu 14, our SRE team quit, IT is pasting bash scripts into the JAMF editor untested, and the CFO has a 2-star chrome extension to make gmail’s font comic sans

Asteroids made $700m-$800m in its first 12 months In 1979 dollars

Wild…

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

Great time chatting with Ken Johnson and SeThLaW (l4wke) - we already have some fun stuff in the works for another Absolute AppSec episode in the future!

A lot of people are ignoring that Go is becoming a commonly used language for prompting pipelines. Python in prototypes and Go in production is another common combo.

Load in 4k to spot the ISS

Boom! We cracked it! Today we are introducing Boomless Cruise—supersonic flights up to 50% faster with no audible sonic boom. We quietly (har har) demo'd this on XB-1's first supersonic flight—three times actually. 🧵👇

"have you ever made an api request to openai" this question weeds out 95% of engineering applicants. which is wild. people have been talking non stop about AI for three years if you haven't made a single API request in that time, you have no curiosity and you're not qualified

Thrilled to announce... devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typ…

… how is there no approval process for X ads

Can we ban the word “cracked” it’s been cringe for at least 6 months now. Instead of saying your team is cracked just bring the fucking receipts, what have they done.

I feel like we have to adopt Ghostty at Ghost Security as a corporate engineering standard. Pretty much have no choice.

Before trusting someone's advice on a topic, ask them how many NFTs they bought.

Idea: we make it illegal to show US citizens a cookie banner, punishable by a huge revenue fine.

This is wonderful and I'd love to see more companies embed their taste into writing. It's good for both humans and agents. vercel.com/design/guideli…