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Winds of Change

Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting

9 months ago 11 votes
The Software Slog

As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.

over a year ago 16 votes
Don't be foie gras

If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.

over a year ago 14 votes
Vertical Aggregation

I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.

over a year ago 18 votes

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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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All the Switch 2 pricing questions I had last week are answered

Last week I wrote 2 main posts in reaction to the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement, and today we have new info on some of the open questions that lingered waaaay back then. Game-key cards I saw a remarkable amount of arguments against this new "physical" purchase option based

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Odds and Ends #65: Economic growth is core to a progressive agenda

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7 hours ago 1 votes
Meta got tricky with LLM benchmarks

Oh boy, Meta released their latest llama models this weekend (I guess because they leaked, hence the rushed weekend release?), and it benchmarked quite well on LMArena. However, as Kyle Wiggers reported for TechCrunch, not all may have been on the up and up: Meta’s Benchmarks for Its

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