AI boosting productivity, hindering delivery

I've been trying to find a good solution for having responsive widgets which people can use to embed show listings, sign-up forms and the like on their websites, and have finally come to a good solution: Web Components (with Stencil to make things easier). It's got an acceptable 97% caniuse rating (Safari having some caveats). The iframe-based...

The new DORA report got released and has 30 pages dedicated to AI adoption. One particular finding stuck out to me: an increase in AI adoption was correlated with an increase in code quality, quicker code reviews, decrease in code complexity, decrease in technical debt and improved documentation. However, it was also correlated with a decrease in...

Note: This one has an HN thread. I lost a Stripe dispute of USD $210 because the customer that purchased tickets from my site used an email that he claimed to his bank was not his. Stripe and the bank asked me to provide evidence that this wasn't fraudulent and I sent them: The invoice sent to the email the customer entered The actual tickets...

American people don’t seem to see what’s right in front of them. In this short post I’ll tackle one glaring phenomenon that gets zero air time from any of the Western media, be it the traditional propagandists like CNN, Fox and MSNBC to the more progressive style of outlets. It is this: the continuous wealth transfer that is happening from the...

Raptors Republic was acquired by Better Collective last week marking an end to my involvement with the company I founded in 2008 alongside Sam Holako, Brandon Larabie, Scott Phillips (rest in peace) and Josh Budd. The decision to sell the company was a culmination of a few things: Our expenses (primarily salary) were too high and we simply didn't...