For 12 years I've been responsible @spectrum.ieee.org's annual rankings of the Top Programming Languages, but this is both the most interesting and possibly final one we do as the impact of AI is heralding some fundamental changes for programming languages #coding #vibecoding #programming #TPL2025

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #235 "GW"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #234 "Flotsam"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #233 "2-branes"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #232 "Negotiation"

"The market for humanoid robots is almost entirely hypothetical. Even the most successful companies in this space have deployed only a small handful of robots in carefully controlled pilot projects." spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #231 "Jerron"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #230 "Intrusion"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #229 "Patrol"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #228 "Eleven"

Age verification? I know how to *dial* phone numbers.

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #227 "Sandycove"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #226 "Address"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #225 "Supervision"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #224 "Forest"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #223 "Tensed"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #222 "Spire"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #221 "Ripple"

"While the Internet was the ultimate monoculture killer, the experience of getting online for the first time was largely monocultural. Usually, it started with a modem connecting to a phone number and dropping us into a single familiar place." spectrum.ieee.org/end-of-aol-d...

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #220 "Snow Day"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #219 "Infiltration"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #218 "West"

"The technology works, it has many advantages over chemical batteries, and it can be utilized safely. But what very few companies have been able to do is find a new market for these batteries and make a product that has an impact." spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-batt...

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #217 "Renno"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #216 "Wishes"

BONUS JOURNALISM JOB: @wired.com is also hiring a features editor—a too-rare dream job for someone who has a keen eye for great longform journalism and the skills to make these stories shine. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #215 "Red light/Green light"

“With bullshit, it’s not a problem of the model becoming confused about what is true, as much as the model becoming uncommitted to reporting the truth.” spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...

Imagine the big warehouse at the end of Raiders of The Lost Ark being cracked open…

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #214 "Bay"

At least MIT appears to be much more proactive this time than they were over the Food Computer debacle...

"Ah well, who knows but still may dawn Another fairer day Wherein my little joys may come A-dancing out to play." --Theodosia Garrison #HamRadio #Hope2025 #ToTA

Weavings by Marilou Schulz (Diné) on view in “Once within a Time” at SITE Santa Fe.

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #213 "Bloom"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #212 "Mater"

Civ IV was the last good entry in the Civilization series.

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #211 "Barricade"

Please someone start a company that exclusively makes and sells electronics and appliances that don’t connect to the Internet. Could call it “Luddite”. “Hey how’s your new Luddite dishwasher?”—“Great, it washes dishes and never crashes!”

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #211 "Crest"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #210 "Ground Plane"

There is no feeling of moral righteousness so pure and perfect as when one's personal training session is cancelled at the last minute. On leg day.

If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you

This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #209 "Rendezvous"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #208 "Floors"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #207 "Pedestrian"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #206 "Bennet Field"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #205 "Sidhe Shacks"

Rescuing 1 image a day from the depths of my Photo Library #204 "Gallery'