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Markdown comments drive auto-captured screenshots in Rails help docs
A developer building Jelly solved the chronic problem of stale documentation screenshots by embedding capture instructions directly into Markdown source files.
Molyneux's Legacy burned players for $54M in crypto, funded his next game
Peter Molyneux's 2023 game Legacy extracted roughly $54 million from players who pre-purchased NFTs on promises of a sophisticated economic simulation and play-
Niri 26.04 Wayland compositor lands long-awaited background blur
Niri, the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that arranges windows in columns along an infinite horizontal strip, has shipped version 26.04 with background bl
OpenAI retires SWE-bench Verified as a frontier coding benchmark
OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified has saturated as a measure of frontier coding ability. Top models now cluster near the ceiling, leaving little headroom to distin
Prime Video unveils full Spider-Noir trailer with dual black-and-white and color cuts
Prime Video debuted the full trailer for its live-action Spider-Noir series at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City, releasing it in two parallel formats: a Raymond Chandler
Romance Scam Response Needs Trained, Empathic Victim-Support Teams
Romance and confidence scams continue to inflict outsized financial and psychological damage, yet most organizations treat victims as a downstream reporting pro
Sawe breaks two-hour marathon barrier in competitive race for first time
Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe won the London Marathon in 1:59:30, becoming the first athlete to break the two-hour barrier in a record-eligible race. The time be
Statecharts: the case for hierarchical state machines over hidden state in code
Statecharts extend traditional finite state machines with hierarchy, parallelism, and history, addressing the state explosion problem that plagues flat state ma
Strange New Worlds S4 teaser signals tonal shift back to serious Trek
Paramount+ debuted a fresh teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season four at CCXP in Mexico City. The footage suggests a course correction from season thr
The abandoned side-project that succeeded by teaching its author what it was meant to do
A developer recounts building a Svelte + Netlify quiz app to drill Latvian noun cases — a language with seven cases, two genders, and roughly 84 possible noun e
The dividing line: engineers who use AI to think harder vs. think less
The piece argues that AI is splitting software engineers into two camps. The first uses AI to offload drudgery — boilerplate, summaries, test scaffolding, routi
Three constraints a builder uses to kill bad ideas before they ship
A decade-in builder lays out three filters he runs every idea through before committing to build. First: the entire concept must fit on one page. The one-pager