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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Politicians - especially Dems - should pledge not to take AI money. They are buying up influence ahead of the midterms, and Dems who take AI $ will lose authority and trust as the public bears the cost. Their money will end up being toxic anyway. People are catching on.

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Apple is planning to bring ads to its Maps app as part of a wider effort to boost revenue from its growing services business.

the CEO of Vercel saying the saas apocalypse is real because they replaced internal tools with AI-generated apps is so funny to me… you run a software company bro. you have engineers everywhere. if YOU couldn't replace your own internal tooling with vibe-coded apps that would be embarrassing honestly, AI or not that's like a mechanic saying cars are easy to fix and concluding nobody needs mechanics anymore. yeah no shit it's easy for YOU 90% of businesses out there don't have a single person on staff who knows what an API call even is. they're not replacing their CRM with something they prompted in claude code the disconnect is wild. these tech CEOs live in such a bubble that they genuinely think their experience is universal. your company literally builds deployment infrastructure, obviously you can ship internal tools fast the SaaS apocalypse might come eventually idk, but pls get back in touch with reality

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks. It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk. Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI. The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development." It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.