I've been writing online at various sites since 2003, mostly about a wide variety of topics including web development, tech, food and whatever else I feel like writing and sharing.
A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even ‘lied’ about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein in this AI tool.
Cognition, a San Francisco–based AI company, has finalised an agreement to acquire Windsurf, including its IP, product, trademark, and remaining workforce.
OpenAI’s deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf’s R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday.
According to Mark Gurman, Apple executives are in the early stages of mulling an acquisition of Perplexity.
The goal of FAIR is not to fork WordPress. We’re still using the same core software. We’re not building a separate platform. We are adding a new distribution layer and putting our own governance on top of it. It’s a new path within WordPress, not outside it.
Remix v2 had become such a thin wrapper around React Router that an artificial separation developed between the two projects.
Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, with sustained performance on complex, long-running tasks and agent workflows. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade to Claude Sonnet 3.7, delivering superior coding and reasoning while responding more precisely to your instructions.
"We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we're proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities. "
Again, Sweeney is not a moron, he has to know all of this. But why simply sit quietly when you have an excuse to poke the bear again and raise hell for your cause? So that’s what he’s doing. He wasn’t going to win the legal fight, but he could win the political one. And now he’s not going to win this legal fight, but he can win the pressure campaign. Especially important in the weeks leading up to WWDC...
Vibe coding is great, using some sort of AI assistance to help code your app, but it isn't entirely as straight forward as some think. People tend to think they can just open up an IDE such as cursor or windsurf and ask it to build something but that's not how to achieve success with it.
Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion.
Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding in its long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games.
Following a court order that blocks Apple from taking a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says on X that the company plans to bring Fortnite back to iOS in the US “next week.”
Before entering into talks to acquire artificial intelligence code-writing startup Windsurf, OpenAI looked at buying another option: Cursor.
Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion
Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month — at 12 p.m. PST on February 28, 2025, according to a blog post.
"Moments after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s all-hands comments to employees were widely leaked, a company executive warned in an internal memo that leakers will be fired."
Vercel's AI SDK is a handy resource for building AI powered webapps but they don't have any examples on how to use it with Astro. So I thought I'd write this post to show how to set up a small chatbot in Astro that uses it.
For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he said, “In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered.”