I find stories and analogies very fascinating and — to explain message queues in a super approachable way, we will use some analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices. Stay with me … Databases are primarily used for data persistence — think Postgres or MongoDB. Like databases, message queues…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. The Canon RF 45mm f/1.2 STM, which was announced towards the end of 2025, brought a fresh outlook to Canon's RF mirrorless system. With a price tag of about $469, this small lens (78 x 75mm, 346g)…

Photography is often spoken about as if it were a competition, measured by likes, awards, or comparisons with others. Yet at its core, photography is a deeply personal practice. The way we see, decide, and capture moments is unique to each of us, shaped by our experiences, timing, and attention.…

Farcia Harvey considers herself to be pretty well traveled. The 27-year-old has crossed off New York City, New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Barcelona and Madrid from her travel bucket list. But one of her favorite trips was her 2024 birthday trip to Cincinnati, of all places. "I think about that trip to…

If you're thinking about getting a cheap USB flash drive, hear me out. Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive. SSD thumb drives can be faster than some external SSDs…

Five Steps to a Better Writing Process David Arndt Lays Out Some Action Items Via The Craft of Writing David Arndt January 9, 2026 This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. Give Yourself Time The time of writing is different from the time of daily life. In daily…

The Do List Ivy Buck, NPR Jan 6, 2026 Updated Jan 8, 2026 Save Article Failed to save articlePlease try again A selection of some of the best nonfiction to start your 2026 with. (NPR) If you’re looking to learn something new in the new year, we have the book list for you! Below you’ll find some of…

WD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives on the market, but their branding is about to disappear. Following Western Digital's flash-business spinoff, SanDisk announced it was retiring the beloved names and rebranding its NVMe lineup under the SANDISK Optimus…

My father, a playwright, says that his choice of profession can be parsed as humbly as considering the impulse of a child to showboat on a bicycle screaming, “Look at me!” towards a distracted mother. He could have said that this was the driving impulse of all writers, not only his own. My father is…

Canon showcased its prototype Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) sensor at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, promising extraordinary dynamic range and low-light capabilities while offering a tantalizing glimpse of how digital capture might evolve over the next decade, especially in environments where…

The Cost of Starting Your Own Business talks to founders to get an honest look at what it really takes to create a company. Not just the financial, but the personal and emotional costs, too. Like many people during the pandemic, writers Anika Jade Levy and Madeline Cash were craving community. The…

As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges no choice but to lower their expectations. One shocked professor has described young adults showing up to class, unable to read a…

The year is 133 BCE. The place Rome. Tiberius Gracchus, a tribune of the plebes, is killed in the streets, together with 300 of his supporters. He had angered many in the Senate by sponsoring anti-aristocratic legislation, in particular redistribution of land, a shortened military service, and…

We do this to our philosophies. We redraft their contours based on projected shadows, or give them a cartoonish shape like a caricaturist emphasising all the wrong features. This is how Buddhism becomes, in the popular imagination, a doctrine of passivity and even laziness, while Existentialism…

Crispin Sartwell argues that the Occupy leader seemed to be moving from anarchism to liberalism before his death. January 20, 2024 Politics Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging…

We need to talk about war. And we need to talk about companies building bots that propose to rewrite our source code. And about the people behind both, and how we preserve what is great about FOSS while avoiding disruption. How do geopolitical conflicts on the one hand and the risk of bot-generated…

This article is about comparative HD optical disc formats. For a history of the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war, see High-definition optical disc format war. Comparison of optical properties and physical layout of various optical storage media This article compares the technical specifications of multiple…

This story is part of our ‘Habits to Embrace—and Ditch—in 2026’ series. Read the whole list here. This past summer, I went all in on nonalcoholic drinks. I’m lucky enough to have never had a dependency on alcohol, but there are plenty of other reasons to ditch booze. As a health journalist of over a…

LLM E2EE made simple Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works. Dan Goodin – Jan 13, 2026 7:00 AM | 45 Credit: Getty Images Credit: Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn…

A lot of people want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck. That’s in part because our perception of what websites should be has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years. The “Hard” Way It’s easy to forget how simple a website can be. A website can be just one page.…

We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a landmark total of $1.5 million to support the foundation’s work, with an emphasis on Python ecosystem security. This investment will enable the PSF to make…

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored…

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral.…

Lock them up Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule FCC waives rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after activation. Jon Brodkin – Jan 12, 2026 5:07 pm | 12 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size…

1/14/2026 I am an LLM productivity skeptic. I find LLMs useful as a sort of digital clerk - searching the web for me, finding documentation, looking up algorithms. I even find them useful1 in a limited coding capacity; with a small context and clear guidelines. But doing "prompt-driven development"…

I became a member of Exponential View because you are consistently insightful and forward-thinking. — Stephen B. Nine years ago, I told an audience that the future of human work is artisanal cheese. I got a laugh. GPT-4 didn’t exist yet, the trend line was invisible to most, and “knowledge work”…

On this page Dear JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention. JS, Web Standards, Web Platform, Web Architecture No, this is not another rant about npm’s security issues. Abstraction is the cornerstone of…

Published on 01/01/2026 Updated on 14/01/2026 #ecmascript#javascript#benchmark When it comes to iterating over arrays, for...of loops are believed to be significantly slower than traditional indexed loops. This has some grounding, since for-of loops are based on the iteration protocol, where the…

What is the secret to happiness? We’d like to believe there’s a silver bullet. That we can snap our fingers and dispel every source of despair, every tragedy, every inexplicably unfair event in the news. That the next app, the next pill, the next book, the next dietary restriction will finally quiet…

We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks. Our goal is to understand how far we can push the frontier of agentic coding for projects that typically take human teams months to complete. This post describes what we've learned from running hundreds of concurrent agents…

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This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete ideas. At least, that’s what I did with a few features I’d meant to build for months, but didn’t get around to…