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The Five Stages of Being Replaced by Your Autocomplete
In 1969, the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief. They start with denial and end with acceptance. Companies later turned them into…
Read postIf AI Can Copy Photoshop, Why Would Anyone Build the Next Figma?
Earlier this month, a developer named Brandon Thomas released free copies of seven Adobe apps, including Photoshop and Premiere. He says he built them…
Read postCan AI Make Us So Productive That It Destroys the Economy?
Every economy wants higher productivity. When people get a few percent more done each year, the whole economy grows with it. But I think…
Read postRunning the Patched PHP 8.3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04 Servers With Docker
PHP fixed the two critical vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 on October 21, 2026, in PHP 8.3.36 and the matching 8.2.35, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12 releases.…
Read postCVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: What you should do now
Details of two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, leaked on 20 October 2026, before PHP had released a fix. PHP's security team rates…
Read postHow Shopify CLI Renders Theme Code That Isn’t Uploaded Yet
Every page you see in shopify theme dev is rendered on Shopify's servers, including the file you saved half a second ago that the…
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