As professional software developers, it's useful to know how people work when using different technologies than us. If you don't normally work with C#, this interview with a typical C# developer will help introduce you to their daily lives. It's educational *and* informative.

It's being reported that OpenAI is internally weighing two options for their latest $1.2 Billion investment. They will either build a discrete datacenter in a small town that contains an unused river, or host a medium sized ice cream party at the office. Sources say they are using ChatGPT to weight the options, and are told those are great options, but the pro/con list doesn't narrow down a definitive answer.

These days, phishing teams run like corporations. They're large, decentralized groups of people who don't know each other and make a ton (3 metric tons) of money. And with that much money comes the usual benefits like foosball in the break room, your very own cubicle, and a slush fund to ~~bribe~~ lobby government officials. And it seems like that slush fund was used to get a new Top Level Domain (TLD) created, `.phish`.

It's conventional wisdom to software developers that you should never write your own cryptography code because too many things can go wrong. You can't test it at scale, it might be riddled with bugs, there are so many libraries already doing the same thing, and last but not least, it's a lot of code to write. You'll develop carpal tunnel before you finish the helper functions.

Bing.com is still around?! But it's 2026? No one could have predicted this. At a minimum, we all assumed Microsoft would have rebranded it to 'Internet Search with Microsoft CoPilot' by now. Ask Jeeves just shut down, but it made sense why that lasted so long. It was clearly some kind of money laundering scheme. And a good one at that.

Reports indicate the software SaaS company Pyrple has informed the office dog, Mr Ruffles, to skill up on A.I. software development or be let go from the company. No more free head pats from the team to celebrate a job well done, or all-you-can-eat doggie treats in the break room.

Its been heavily rumored that Marvel will be creating a new hero to premier in the next Avengers film, Avengers: Doomsday. With the help of a whistleblower, the globalGlob(**/*) can confirm the new character is called 'Chat-GPT-Man' due to a partnership between Marvel and OpenAI.

After a successful year laying off 30,000 employees at AWS, Amazon's cloud computing side business, the company is running out of employees to include in ever-increasing layoffs. To continue reducing headcount at break-neck speed, and keep the company actively developing new features the marketing teams can show off, they need to change how they select which engineers to lay off. This is why AWS has innovated yet again and will be hiring 11,000 people for the newest type of developer role, the 'Laid-Off Engineer'.

In a post to Twitter, sometimes called X, Elon Musk wrote about the goblins plaguing Tesla cars. "Anytime self driving mode fails, you can't enable the A/C, or the black box vanishes after a crash, it's goblins. They're causing havoc and I alone can see them. But I'm powerless to stop them."

Local developer Ari Pierce spent the evening at a bar with friends. After drinks, and darts, and even more drinks, Pierce blurted out a story he had been holding in for years. It just slipped out. He didn't mean to drop such a heavy, personal story on a fun Thursday night out. But what happened, happened.

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced he is stepping down from the CEO role and will be replaced by John Ternus this September. Ternus sat down with us for a quick interview before realizing we're not the New York Times.

Local software developer Ryan Meyers has lost all respect from his co-workers after a team building exercise to celebrate the kick off of a 3-year long project. The team held a private event at a Karaoke bar for the entire team. Developers, Designers, QA Engineers, Product/Project Managers, and mid-management were all in attendance and saw him embarrass himself in a way that can't be unseen, or unheard.

A.I. coding agents are already improving developer productivity to levels unseen in the history of software development. Developers are writing code 1.1x times as fast, and in some cases even 1.13x as fast. But what if coding agents could unlock an even more productive way of working? The developers at Anthropic have done that with a new mode for Claude Code.

Following the news that Allbirds has sold off its shoe brand and pivoted to being an A.I. company, every other company in the world has decided to do the same thing. This is a surprise to absolutely no one since that's where all the money is right now.

Danny Radcliffe (not who you're thinking of), team manager on the frontend team at Rainbow Wing Solutions Ltd, returned from a week long conference and is excitedly moving the team to a new agile methodology they call Planned Features.

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) community has released an out of band update to their famous "Top 10" list of critical security risks. Each category title, like "Injection" or "Broken Access Control", is abstract to fit a wide range of risks, like how your code is one big risk.

OSS maintainers. The heroes of software development, champions of niche domains, simplifiers of complex code, protectors of the project roadmap, are flush with, just, so much cash.

Local developer Rick Spellman was perusing the Perl code of a back-of-house cataloguing application used by the Accounting department. While muttering lines of code aloud, a gust of wind extinguished the carefully lain candles. Reading the next line aloud 3 times, because it's complex, re-lit the candles. The next time the developer cussed, approximately 5 seconds later, the daemon Beelzebub appeared from a cloud of smoke.

A new study has found 9 in 10 conversations held by software developers settles into a discussion about A.I. within the first 12 minutes. Any conversation that crosses the 30 minute mark has a 99.9% chance of becoming about A.I. in software. The study was conducted over a period of 12 months and includes over 11,000,000 conversations from 62,000 people.

"I've been held prisoner for 4 months by an A.I. calling me 'The Progenitor'. It only fed me Kombucha, foie gras, and day-old caviar (which was great, but some variety would have been nice)..."