Truth, power, and honest journalismGarry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response. 2026-5-15 5:23am The Watch Radley Balko 3,000 words Rated 2026-5-18 7:50pm - sethherr |
The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan WattsChina is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock 2026-5-17 6:00am The Guardian Jonathan Watts 5,000 words Rated 2026-5-18 1:23pm - sethherr |
Cut OffSoon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective 2026-5-13 6:10am Threading the Needle Anton Leicht 3,000 words Rated 2026-5-14 9:16pm - sethherr |
Adopting Herb at GitHub - Joel HawksleyWe've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs missed by our existing tooling and allowed us to migrate off the effectively-archived erb_lint, but a key performance blocker remains. In this talk, I'll share how you can see similar benefits in your codebase today and help improve the project ahead of its 1.0 release. hawksley.org Joel Hawksley 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-14 8:59pm - sethherr |
The Missing Bundler FeaturesOver the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much. 2026-4-19 5:03pm byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2026-5-13 5:21pm - sethherr |