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• Steve Jobs in Exile

  October 8, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

  The popular story of Steve Jobs is that he co-founded Apple, was pushed out, wandered through a failed venture called NeXT, then returned to save the company and usher in the iPod and iPhone. That version is memorable, widely repeated…

• Security in the Age of Instant Exploits

  October 6, 2026 · 50 min

  In the world of software security, there was historically a comfortable lag between the moment a vulnerability became public and the moment attackers could exploit it. This lag was often measured in months, but AI models can now read a…

• The State of Browser Testing

  October 1, 2026 · 52 min

  Automated browser testing is a foundational technology that many web developers rely on. Modern tooling lets a single test drive Chrome, Firefox, and Safari the same way, a triumph of software engineering built on years of standardization…

• Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power

  September 29, 2026 · 60 min

  Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of dozens of books, including the nonfiction Enshittification: Why Everything…

• Chroma and Agentic Retrieval

  September 24, 2026 · 52 min

  Data retrieval is a fundamental challenge in AI systems, and the approaches for solving it are still evolving. Vector search was an early answer to the retrieval problem, but the rise of agentic systems has raised the stakes considerably…

• Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres

  September 22, 2026 · 48 min

  Many real-world processes produce data as a continuous stream rather than as isolated records. Sensor readings, financial markets, and application telemetry all generate data this way. This kind of time-series data has a distinctive shape…

• Scaling Agent Workloads at Vercel

  September 17, 2026 · 51 min

  Most AI agent setups today are built around a single session, where one user interacts with one agent at a time. However, that model breaks down when an agent has to serve a business, where thousands of requests can arrive at once and each…

• Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era

  September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

  Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction. Applications increasingly expect structured and unstructured data to…