Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

Update:As of August 2026, this issue is still present. I was creating a Google Workspace account for my company, as everyone knows, it’s a pretty straightforward sign-up process, until I’m hit with a weird, confusing error when I type my domain name: “Enter a valid domain name instead of an email provider” Huh? An email … Devamını oku

Everything I own, owned

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been doing agent-driven reverse engineering of peripherals that happen to be within arm’s reach. From those devices, I’ve come away with a full plaintext command shell inside my microphone, a webcam whose activity LED I can switch off while it records, and a key light that hands out memory … Devamını oku

The Vibe Tax

So you have decided to start on that long-awaited, from-scratch todo app. There are millions of such apps but this will be yours. Something tailored for youruniqueworkflow. Normally you wouldn’t even take up such an endeavour. Any handwritten code takes time. And time is one thing you don’t have. Doesn’t help that you also write … Devamını oku

Fable and the End of the Free Lunch

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over. WhenMoore’s Lawwas in effect, it didn’t make sense to ruthlessly optimize your code. In 18 months, a CPU would arrive … Devamını oku

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. The free model wasreleased on OpenRouteron Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” On X, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison … Devamını oku

How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer

Note: this post was revised after publishing for increased clarity, based on reader feedback. “How do you find problems worth working on?” a senior engineer I mentor asked me recently. He’s trying to make the jump to staff engineer and realized that the role isn’t just about doing the work he’s assigned. He also needs … Devamını oku

Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

Tagged:AI,GenAI,Learning Futures,Psychology,TPACK This piece was alsocross-postedon the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you can find atThree Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece … Devamını oku

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

With back-to-school season approaching (or already here in some places), keeping track of everyone’s schedules can get pretty chaotic. Between work, school, appointments, sports, chores, and everything else going on, a regular paper calendar just doesn’t cut it. That’s whereLinkdaze’ssmart digital calendar comes in — a touchscreen tablet built specifically to organize a household rather … Devamını oku