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YOU DON'T NEED A CONTENT CALENDAR, YOU NEED A POV

Define your positioning pillars, then content ideas should emerge naturally from these foundations.

7-ELEVEN TEAMS WITH LIVE NATION FOR NOSTALGIC MUSIC FESTIVAL ACTIVATIONS

7-Eleven is partnering with Live Nation to secure its first-ever US festival naming rights.

8+ ECOMMERCE SITE SPEED TIPS & TOOLS

Sites that load within 1 second have a conversion rate 2.5X higher than those that load in 5 seconds.

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WHAT AI CAN'T—AND SHOULDN'T—DO FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS

AI is transforming product management by streamlining tedious tasks, but overreliance risks eroding the empathy, trust, and deep understanding needed to build great products. To use AI effectively, teams must automate selectively while maintaining direct user engagement, manual insight synthesis, and authentic stakeholder relationships.

THE AI QUALITY COUP

AI is reshaping the definition of quality work, making style replication easy but true artistry rare. Navigating this new era demands deeper creativity, richer narratives, and constant exploration beyond the obvious.

WHY YOUR PRODUCT DISCOVERY FEELS TOO THEORETICAL

Product discovery should be treated like a product - focused on reducing uncertainty, not rigid frameworks - with its intensity matching the team's level of uncertainty. Success is measured by evidence-based decisions that validate real problems, discard bad ideas early, and prioritize impactful work.

7 BOLD MOVES TO DEFEAT THE BLOODY FEATURE FACTORY BEFORE IT BURNS YOU OUT

The true threat to product management isn't AI, but the feature factory mindset of mindless shipping. Defeating it requires radical focus, customer connection, and treating product development as a strategic investment.

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MASTERING AI EVALS: A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR PMS

Building strong AI evaluation systems enables rapid iteration, debugging, and fine-tuning by focusing on real-world performance, custom metrics, and continuous data review, not just picking models or frameworks.

MOST PEOPLE ARE BUILDING AI PRODUCTS WRONG - HERE'S HOW TO DO IT RIGHT

In the era of "compound AI," most companies bolt AI onto products, creating flashy but shallow features, while companies like Attio succeed by deeply integrating AI to make workflows seamless and intuitive. By democratizing experimentation, focusing on user problems, building invisible infrastructure, and prioritizing human-centered evaluation, teams can create AI-driven products that solve real problems without forcing new user habits.

BRING IT BACK TO THE PROBLEM

The advice to "prioritize based on value" is misleading, as "value" is meaningless without a clear strategy, making formulas like RICE ineffective. Instead, product leaders should align around OKRs or prioritize critical problems to maintain momentum even without a full strategy.

AMBIENT AI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AS A PRODUCT MANAGER

Ambient AI, which operates silently in the background, enhances user experiences by reducing friction, anticipating needs, and enabling more intuitive, personalized products. As generative AI excitement fades, ambient AI offers lasting, transformative value.

PULLING THE FUTURE INTO THE PRESENT

Tech advances rapidly, but adoption lags behind, shaped by trust and habits - bridging that gap faster creates a lasting competitive edge.

INCORPORATING AI INTO YOUR UX WORKFLOW

AI adoption in design is accelerating rapidly, shifting expectations from novelty to necessity. Designers who embrace AI for efficiency, creativity, and ethical practice will lead the next wave of innovation.

HOW META UNDERSTANDS DATA AT SCALE

Meta has invested heavily in data understanding technologies as part of its Privacy Aware Infrastructure to manage and safeguard user data effectively at scale. This includes adopting a "shift-left" approach by integrating data schematization and annotations early in development and creating a universal privacy taxonomy for standardized data privacy management. Meta has cataloged millions of data assets over the past decade, classifying them daily and embedding privacy considerations at every stage of product development.

MIGRATING AWAY FROM RUST

A game developer initially chose Rust and the Bevy game engine for their personal enjoyment and the community's openness. However, they transitioned to C# and Unity due to challenges in collaboration, high-level gameplay abstraction, migration burdens with Bevy updates, and limitations in learning resources and modding. A focused experiment showed that core features could be implemented much faster in Unity, leading to a full port of the game.

HOW I GOT EXPLOITED AT MY FIRST STARTUP

This developer recounts his experience at a startup called Fixr, where he was exploited but still gained some valuable experience. He and a friend rewrote the startup's app, but the cofounders lacked vision and contributed to its failure. The app launched to no users and died shortly after.

THE ONE-PERSON FRAMEWORK IN PRACTICE

PlanGo is a seven-figure business created by a solo developer using Ruby on Rails. He was initially overwhelmed by early customer demand and overcame technical debt with a full rewrite by using Rails' conventions and tools like Turbo Native. After a decade of solo work, PlanGo attracted investment, which then allowed the team to grow.

ZODEST

Zodest is a modern, type-safe, and lightweight CLI builder based on Zod for runtime validation, supporting command aliases, nested commands, global/command-specific options, and shareable command presets.

WEB-EVAL-AGENT

The web-eval-agent is an MCP server that uses a browser-powered agent to autonomously debug web applications by navigating, capturing network traffic and console errors, and performing autonomous testing within a code editor.

SLI

Sli is a tool for devs to create presentation slides using a markdown-based format.

WHY DID WINDOWS 7, FOR A FEW MONTHS, LOG ON SLOWER IF YOU HAVE A SOLID COLOR BACKGROUND?

Windows 7 briefly experienced slower logons when using a solid color background. The issue was from the system's design, which waited for all desktop components to report their readiness before dismissing the Welcome screen. When a solid color was used, the wallpaper readiness signal was never sent, causing a 30-second delay.

REQUIREMENTS CHANGE UNTIL THEY DON'T

Using formal methods to mathematically model system is really hard when requirements are constantly changing. While testing is easier for quickly adapting to shifting requirements, formal methods become valuable when a solution stabilizes and long-term maintenance is necessary. Successful features create a new, permanent requirement of making sure they continue to function the same as more features are added.

QWEN 3

Qwen3 is the latest iteration of the Qwen large language model family. It was released with open-weighted models, improved performance in coding, math, and general capabilities, hybrid thinking modes, multilingual support, and better agentic capabilities.

THIS BLOG IS HOSTED ON A NINTENDO WII

Hosting a blog on a Nintendo Wii running NetBSD is possible - the console is actually surprisingly capable performance-wise.

MINI PHOTO EDITOR

Mini-photo-editor is an online WebGL2 photo editor with effects, filters, and cropping, built using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML and powered by mini-js and mini-gl libraries.

STATE OF AI 2025

AI is improving fast and learning to use AI will provide a significant advantage for devs in the future.

WAYMO MIGHT BE WILLING TO SELL YOU A SELF-DRIVING CAR, SAYS SUNDAR PICHAI

Waymo's long-term business plans include the possibility of personal ownership. The company recently expanded testing to Japan and plans to introduce robotaxis in Austin this summer. Waymo previously floated the idea of selling self-driving cars when it made a deal with Chrysler in 2018 to build self-driving Pacifica minivans. Tesla also aims to release a personal self-driving car - it announced at an event last year that the Cybercab will be available by 2026 for $30,000.

AS COMPANIES BEGIN CIRCLING CHROME, GOOGLE CLAIMS NONE OF THEM CAN HANDLE ITS BROWSER LIKE IT DOES

Google claims that it is the only company capable of running Chrome effectively due to complex service integrations. Separating the browser from the company's servers could make some features unusable. Despite Google's claims, experts believe that a Chrome divestiture is technically feasible. There are many parties interested in buying Chrome, including OpenAI and Yahoo.

ROBOT DEXTERITY STILL SEEMS HARD

Humanoid robots are becoming increasingly capable as more and more companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the technology. Some are now being tested in the field to see if they can do useful work. Humanoid robots can now dance, run, and do flips, but while manipulation capabilities are improving, they still have a long way to go. While it's possible to automate any specific task, building a robot that can flexibly perform a variety of actions in a novel or highly variable environment is much harder.

CHONGQING, THE WORLD'S LARGEST CITY – IN PICTURES

Chongqing, China, is as big as Austria. With 34 million inhabitants, the city is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. It has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world. This article contains a gallery of images from all over the city showing sights like the Yangtze River, street food stalls, various shopping centers, and more.

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TMUXAI

TmuxAI is an AI-powered assistant for the terminal that works alongside users in a tmux window. It observes and understands the content of tmux panes to provide assistance without users changing their workflow or interrupting terminal sessions. TmuxAI features context-aware terminal assistance, universal terminal compatibility, prepare and watch modes, and zero-configuration setup. It can understand context across multiple panes.

MAGNITUDE

Magnitude is an AI-native testing framework for web apps. It uses visual AI agents to provide end-to-end testing, allowing it to adapt to any changes. Magnitude can be used to build test cases easily with natural language. It can run tests locally or in CI/CD pipelines.

CHINA'S HUAWEI DEVELOPS NEW AI CHIP, SEEKING TO MATCH NVIDIA

Huawei's new Ascend 910D AI chip could be more powerful than Nvidia's H100, a popular chip used for AI training. It is still in early development and still needs to be tested to assess performance. The company will receive its first batch of samples of the processor as soon as late May. Huawei faces challenges in producing its chips - it has been cut off from TSMC and China's closest alternative is blocked from purchasing the most advanced chip-making equipment.

TECH WORKERS ARE JUST LIKE THE REST OF US: MISERABLE AT WORK

Tech positions nowadays are starting to look like regular jobs. Workers are contending with the constant fear of layoffs, longer hours, and increasing responsibilities for the same pay. A few years ago, tech talent was so in demand that some people were being hired to do virtually nothing. Employees are now doing the work of multiple laid-off colleagues. Changing jobs used to be a surefire way to secure a raise, but now, asking for more money can lead to a job offer being withdrawn.

ELON MUSK'S XAI HOLDINGS IN TALKS TO RAISE $20 BILLION

The funding would value the company at over $120 billion.

BEZOS-BACKED SLATE AUTO DEBUTS ANALOG EV PICKUP TRUCK THAT IS DECIDEDLY ANTI-TESLA

Slate Auto's first trucks will be available to customers for under $20,000 with the federal EV tax credit by the end of 2026.

DEEL FILES COUNTERSUIT AGAINST RIPPLING AS RIVALRY ESCALATES

Deel has filed a civil suit against Rippling alleging that Rippling was not remitting its customers' payroll tax and social benefits dollars to local taxation authorities but rather categorizing and reporting the funds as its own earnings.

WHAT IF WE COULD REBUILD KAFKA FROM SCRATCH?

A look at what traits and characteristics could be desirable to have for a Kafka rebuild that looks beyond separating storage and compute and object store support.

WHY ARE BIG TECH COMPANIES SO SLOW?

Big tech companies have packed in as many features as possible to make money - the interaction of these features adds an unimaginable amount of cognitive load.

APPLE WANTS NEARLY EVERY IPHONE 18 SOLD IN THE US TO COME FROM INDIA

India currently produces about 40 million iPhones per year, a bit less than a fifth of Apple's global iPhone production.

THE SEVEN-YEAR RULE

You are a completely different person today than who you were seven years ago - there's no need to dwell on things for a version of you that doesn't exist, and there's no reason to plan for a future version either: focus your energy and attention on the present moment.

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