Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class (Published 2025)

The theme-park operator, like so many other companies, is abandoning America’s middle class.

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools — ArtCraft

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

Occlution Grotesque - Bjørn Karmann

Pokémon Fangames Evolve Beyond Their Origins

For fangame creators, the work they develop and the communities they inspire are inextricably tied.

So you want to make a bot | Josh Larson

Agentic orchestration and key ingredients for building a consumer bot in 2026

Amelia Wattenberger

AI should make us more capable—not just give us someone more capable to talk to.

A software engineer's tasks - before and after AI - Henry Armburg Jennings

I liked how an Anthropic article modelled a job as a bundle of tasks rather than a single thing that either survives or does not. I did that exercise on my own week as a software engineer - before AI, now, and some guesses at what the future may hold.

A Staff Engineer’s Guide to Inventing Work

A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner

We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975

Pirating the Pirates on Notebook | MUBI

Notes from the underground of film preservation.