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I'm a software engineer. I've been able to work on a lot of cool stuff. What motivates me the most is developing infrastructure and tools that enable others to be creative. I believe we have only scratched the surface on what can be created by assembling building blocks made from web technologies.
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Creating a universal app store for PWAs seems like an obvious win here vs. heuristics triggered installs. But think about smaller, more bespoke app stores! An app store for your intranet apps. An app store for your webring of online mutuals. An app store for kid-friendly apps. That's fun territory.
On the Edge team, we think web apps should be easier to install.
The default browser install button is great, but we'd like something which you can use on your own site, how and when you want it.
That's why we're proposing the Web Install API, which you can now test!
The default browser install button is great, but we'd like something which you can use on your own site, how and when you want it.
That's why we're proposing the Web Install API, which you can now test!
The Web Install API is ready for testing
We're happy to announce that the Web Install API is now ready for testing on your own site, as an origin trial in Microsoft E
blogs.windows.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Creating a universal app store for PWAs seems like an obvious win here vs. heuristics triggered installs. But think about smaller, more bespoke app stores! An app store for your intranet apps. An app store for your webring of online mutuals. An app store for kid-friendly apps. That's fun territory.
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Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
techcrunch.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
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WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game.
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Google is the Apple of AI as they have a complete vertically integrated story. They make their own chips, own data centers, provide AI cloud services, build frontier models, have AI integrated business and consumer apps, a mobile OS platform, a browser and devices.
$1.4T isn’t enough to compete.😬
$1.4T isn’t enough to compete.😬
Altman Memo Forecasts ‘Rough Vibes’ Due to Resurgent Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” though he added that OpenAI ...
www.theinformation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Google is the Apple of AI as they have a complete vertically integrated story. They make their own chips, own data centers, provide AI cloud services, build frontier models, have AI integrated business and consumer apps, a mobile OS platform, a browser and devices.
$1.4T isn’t enough to compete.😬
$1.4T isn’t enough to compete.😬
I find the idea of executives getting replaced by AI very appealing. What if everyone was a company?
All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives
Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I find the idea of executives getting replaced by AI very appealing. What if everyone was a company?
Personal data brokers that balance privacy and utility when interacting with AI agents and models are going to be very useful. They should be offering advice on how to avoid problems like identity theft and ways to maximize anonymity.
Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
On-device AI processing just doesn’t cut it anymore.
www.theverge.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Personal data brokers that balance privacy and utility when interacting with AI agents and models are going to be very useful. They should be offering advice on how to avoid problems like identity theft and ways to maximize anonymity.
I am optimistic that AI and the web will compliment each other. In addition to the tools for generating sites and components for the web I can see communities built around specific types of data providing a lot of utility to this convergence.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
The inventor of the World Wide Web still believes in the internet as a force for good.
www.theverge.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I am optimistic that AI and the web will compliment each other. In addition to the tools for generating sites and components for the web I can see communities built around specific types of data providing a lot of utility to this convergence.
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+💯 @rebeccawilliams.info recommendation for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on public digital infrastructure: techpolicy.press/mayor-elect-... “the goal is not to compete with Big Tech but to replace dependence on private platforms with democratic infrastructure.”
#CivicTech by, for, & with the People!
#CivicTech by, for, & with the People!
Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Build a Tech Agenda for New York and a Model for the Country | TechPolicy.Press
By resisting surveillance, extraction, and exploitation, Mamdani can show how technology truly serves the people, writes Rebecca Williams.
techpolicy.press
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
+💯 @rebeccawilliams.info recommendation for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on public digital infrastructure: techpolicy.press/mayor-elect-... “the goal is not to compete with Big Tech but to replace dependence on private platforms with democratic infrastructure.”
#CivicTech by, for, & with the People!
#CivicTech by, for, & with the People!
Draymond Green's Best Career Assists #DubNation
30 Minutes of Draymond Green's Best Career Assists
YouTube video by Golden State Warriors
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November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Draymond Green's Best Career Assists #DubNation
Why doesn't the government radically standardize subsidies and mandate that credit/bank cards support them? Increasing efficiency and ease of use and reducing fraud would make subsidies a lot more popular. Direct payments are not optimal because subsidies need to serve as a society safety net too.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Why doesn't the government radically standardize subsidies and mandate that credit/bank cards support them? Increasing efficiency and ease of use and reducing fraud would make subsidies a lot more popular. Direct payments are not optimal because subsidies need to serve as a society safety net too.
Web metrics and analytics for visits and referrals need to evolve to account for web content preloading.
X appears to be sending fake traffic across the web
Substack and Bluesky saw a jump in “traffic” following the update.
www.theverge.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Web metrics and analytics for visits and referrals need to evolve to account for web content preloading.
The Case for Public Platform Data
Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data | TechPolicy.Press
Introducing a series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute, exploring why public platform data access is vital in today’s digital world.
techpolicy.press
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Case for Public Platform Data
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The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.
And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
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The @angular.dev team has open sourced its Web Codegen Scorer to provide quantifiable metrics for AI-generated frontend code and frameworks.
By @lorainelawson.bsky.social
By @lorainelawson.bsky.social
New Open Source Tool from Angular Scores Vibe Code Quality
The Angular team has open sourced its Web Codegen Scorer to provide quantifiable metrics for AI-generated frontend code and frameworks.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The @angular.dev team has open sourced its Web Codegen Scorer to provide quantifiable metrics for AI-generated frontend code and frameworks.
By @lorainelawson.bsky.social
By @lorainelawson.bsky.social
Magic Leap pivots again
Google and Magic Leap are showing off prototype AI glasses.
The glasses combine “Magic Leap’s waveguides and optics with Google’s Raxium microLED light engine” according to a Magic Leap announcement, and they’re under 50 grams and have a monocular design. Magi...
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Magic Leap pivots again
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October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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2. Inning
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Regulators are now catching on how Apple uses protecting users as an excuse for anticompetitive practices.
Regulators are now catching on how Apple uses protecting users as an excuse for anticompetitive practices.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Regulators are now catching on how Apple uses protecting users as an excuse for anticompetitive practices.
Regulators are now catching on how Apple uses protecting users as an excuse for anticompetitive practices.
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Teachers should be educating AI companies on how the software should be designed to benefit classrooms.
Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.
apnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Teachers should be educating AI companies on how the software should be designed to benefit classrooms.
Is AI making humans dumber?
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Is AI making humans dumber?
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Apropos of nothing, resharing this banger from @adambonica.bsky.social about the anti-corruption pathway for Dems…
October 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Apropos of nothing, resharing this banger from @adambonica.bsky.social about the anti-corruption pathway for Dems…
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California just passed a new law requiring AI to tell you it’s AI
California just passed a new law requiring AI to tell you it’s AI
If you’re a chatbot you have to tell me.
buff.ly
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
California just passed a new law requiring AI to tell you it’s AI
