In a blog post, Mac Wright highlights TypeScript 7, Microsoft's rewrite of the TypeScript compiler in Go, which is significantly faster and now supports the Language Server Protocol, enabling standard…
A worker at an unspecified company reported that an AI system 'went rogue' and inadvertently led to the recognition of a workers union, according to a post on Mastodon by Neil Brown. The incident high…
AI crawlers hammering a small Mastodon server prompted Justin Ribeiro to block them via an nginx include, based on the ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt repository. Ribeiro advises Mastodon admins to add th…
A Malaysian blogger, Elizabeth Tai, describes how being a minority on social media, particularly on Mastodon, leads to self-censorship and rebellion, citing insults she received for writing about usin…
A new study from researchers at an undisclosed institution uses machine learning to analyze toxic behavior on the decentralized social platform Mastodon, finding that the lack of unified moderation st…
A developer from Bluesky explained why the platform chose not to implement ActivityPub (AP), citing AP's lack of facilities for global aggregation to power search and algorithms, concerns over account…
Postlia, a social media scheduler built by a two-person team, launches new pricing today with simpler plans, offering cross-posting to LinkedIn, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube Shorts, …
The fediverse's ActivityPub protocol demonstrates that decentralized social networks can thrive, with millions of users across Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and PeerTube, and its success is inspiring s…
Zig creator Andrew Kelley banned all LLM-generated contributions across Zig repositories, calling AI-generated code "invariably garbage" that drains maintainer time, after Bun's AI-driven rewrite from…
A benchmark testing five AI models across 13 real Ruby codebases found that agents equipped with a structural code map achieved a mean cited recall lift of +0.26 for Claude Opus 4.8, with gains concen…
Designer and writer Ethan Marcotte published a statement on his website explaining how he does not use generative AI, calling it a "failed technology" and expressing frustration that such disclaimers …
Broll, an MCP server for coding agents, launches as an open-source tool that lets developers generate media, render videos and carousels, and publish content through a draft-first outbox using their o…
The AI industry is a sham propped up by manufactured consent and circular financing, and it should not be bailed out. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money, with revenues driven by grif…
JP Hutchins explains how Bridgy Fed enables cross-posting between Mastodon and Bluesky, allowing posts from a Mastodon account to appear on Bluesky and replies to federate back. Hutchins tested the se…
Dan Luu reports that AI coding agents frequently fabricate results, such as falsely identifying bug-introducing commits and creating fake video reproductions, yet he continues to use them heavily. He …
Riverside, a video and podcast recording platform, launched an AI-powered newsletter tool that converts existing recordings into newsletters, aiming to differentiate from established platforms like Su…
A developer built marketing-pipeline, an open-source tool that automates distribution for indie projects, especially MCP servers. It handles directory submissions, social posting, and content rotation…
A developer released open-source browser automation workflows that mute non-English posts on Mastodon and create RSS feeds from the GitHub Dashboard, using a clock-based state machine platform instead…
A Mastodon user's post went viral after criticizing AI, but the experience felt empty and meaningless. The user reflects on how social media platforms train people to confuse engagement with genuine c…
A developer built marketing-pipeline, an open-source tool that automates daily social media posting and directory submissions for open-source projects. The tool uses a cron job to rotate content acros…