EFF is Leaving XAfter almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 2026-04-09T09:25:05-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Kenyatta Thomas 1,000 words Rated 2026-04-09T17:05:19-0700 - sethherr
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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleftLast week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new… Hong Minhee on Things 2,000 words Rated 2026-04-08T17:11:37-0700 - sethherr
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After 20 Years, I Turned Off Google AdSense for My WebsitesSoon after I launched this blog in February 2005, I signed up for Google AdSense. My goal was to make a little money and learn about the industry from the inside. In particular, if I was going to cover the... 2025-06-12T11:52:21-0700 Technology & Marketing Law Blog Eric Goldman 500 words Rated 2026-04-06T18:32:11-0700 - sethherr
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AIFor eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding... 2026-04-05T05:00:00-0700 Lalit Maganti 6,000 words Rated 2026-04-05T21:41:56-0700 - sethherr
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. ergosphere.blog 4,000 words Rated 2026-04-05T06:14:00-0700 - sethherr
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