Listening to 11 year olds watching Christiano Ronaldo in a soccer match just now: “go to bed, Grandpa”, “put him on life support”. The guy is still one of the most fit people who ever lived. Preteens are brutal 🙃

12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.

Full technical breakdown as to why Crowdstrike's update caused a worldwide BSOD – crashing computers at Airports, Banks, Casinos, 911, Hospitals and more. 🧵 (1/n)

Crowdstrike

Making a product worse can actually make it better. Here’s my #1 unconventional tip on becoming a better designer: Make 'cursed product designs' Here's why... 🧵

Hopefully, nothing more serious than Aurora Brooklyanis…

“Our mission is to create the Experience of a Lifetime for our employees, so they, in turn, can create the Experience of a Lifetime for our guests.” vailresorts.com/about-us/ 3rd day in a row that I am picking up family early from PCMR because resort ops are a shambles. 😖

New York’s top ten super speeders and the locations where they terrorize New Yorkers. Time to stop super speeders.

Research preview of regular image to equirectangular skybox for lightning speed ⚡️ zero-shot instant style transfer to help with consistent world-building.

Pope Francis’ reign included an astronomical increase in CVEs recorded…

TL;DR: We built a transformer-based payments foundation model. It works. For years, Stripe has been using machine learning models trained on discrete features (BIN, zip, payment method, etc.) to improve our products for users. And these feature-by-feature efforts have worked

People liked hearing the non-technical side of enterprise/B2B sales from a technical person so let's continue: another significant non-technical driver of sales is understanding that your buyer doesn't want to get fired, and ensuring buying your product is a safe choice.

Finally spent a few days in ghostty (@ghosttyorg). Super performant. Friction free. Surprised that what won me over is its filmic color management, font rendering, and layout. I didn't even know there was a problem, and now I cannot unsee the garishness of other Mac terminals.

I told you we’d be back

Every airplane on Earth: Emirates Flight 129: LEEEEEEEROYYYYY JENKINNNNNNNNNSSSS

My coding agent setup doesn't complain about the unreasonable overhead some languages force on their users (e.g., "I wish I didn't have to simulate a foo compiler in my head to do this task"). Is there a way to prompt it so that it "has taste"?

If these numbers are to be believed, they are reminiscent of the level of optimism of 1999 which, though we hit a pretty big speed bump, was justified. Interesting times!

Darkest pattern: HP Instant Ink. If, like me, you decide you aren’t printing frequently enough to justify the monthly expense (I only had one refill in 2 years), and you cancel, they DEACTIVATE the full toner cartridges you “bought”.

Is it now easier to design a CAPTCHA that only AI's can succeed at than one that only humans can succeed at?

The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning. This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free website. I don't care if it reduces book