๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Why Do They Want To Get Rid of Software Engineers? Published: 2026-03-04 02:04 For a while now, I've been trying to understand the vibe behind the big push for "AI that writes all the code." Not "AI helps you autocomplete a function." Not "AI explains a stack trace." I mean the full-on narrative: "We won't need software engineers anymore." And I couldn't quite name what bothered me about itโuntil it clicked. Software engineers can do wizardry with words Good software engineers have this strange,…
๐ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books and Authors,jill biden,joe biden,memoirs,Vote 2024 ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) โ Jill Biden has broken her silence on Joe Biden's decision to abruptly end his 2024 presidential reelection bid under pressure from Democrats concerned about his age, health and ability to survive against Republican Donald Trump in a rematch of their 2020 campaign. Jill Biden, a political spouse of nearly 50 years, said she never publicly discussed her feelings about the three-week period in which her husband ended his political career, instead keeping her…
๐ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Irish jockey Declan Coeli has accused his English counterpart Nico de Boinville of "mistreating" him ahead of the opening race of day two at the Cheltenham Festival. Queally, riding I'll sort that out, and De Boinville could be seen in Act Of Innocence exchanging words at the start line while the Novice Hurdle was held up. The Irish rider appeared to have fallen off his horse before the start of the race and had to be examined by a doctor. He has been given…
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**What Youโll Learn**: TThe Boston Symphony Orchestra's termination of its contract with Andris Nelsons, its music director since 2014, came as a shock to players and conductor alike. โThe BSO and Andris Nelsons were not in agreement about the future vision,โ said a brief statement issued last week by the orchestraโs board of directors and Chad Smith, its president and CEO. Nelson will leave the orchestra after the Tanglewood season in summer 2027. In the icy world of conductor delivery and orchestral music programming,…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI,Apps,Media & Entertainment,TC,personal publishing,Publishing,WordPress,Wordpress.org ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: WordPress' publishing software can now run entirely in a web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing software announced Wednesday. Through a new service called my.WordPress.net, WordPress allows users to set up a site and start publishing without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. Instead, the new solution leverages the same technology that powers WordPress demos and makes it available as a permanent personal publishing platform. There's a big caveat to running WordPress this way:…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Il Etait Temps ran over the line in the Queen Mother Champion Chase to take trainer Willie Mullins' third win on day two at the Cheltenham Festival. Majborough was the favorite to take victory in that day's big race, but a poor jumping display made victory impossible. A mistake at the final fence almost cost Il Etait Temps the win, but jockey Paul Townend led it to the finish line on the first women's day at the festival in five years. โA lot of…
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๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐ ๐ **Category**: affordability,consumers,gas prices,inflation,Iran,iran attacks,oil and gas industry ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) โ As the war in Iran escalates, the price of crude oil fluctuates sharply. Consumers are already feeling the effects of war and its destabilizing impact on energy production around the world. Gasoline prices are rising, and many people will find some of their most pressing economic problems at the gas station. Read more: Inflation stabilized last month before the attack on Iran led to higher energy costs But you don't have to…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Iranian Sports and Youth Minister Ahmad Donyamali said that Iran is not in a position to participate in the 2026 World Cup.The team is scheduled to play three matches in the group stage of the tournament, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico and will begin on June 11.Iran is scheduled to face New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles on June 15 and 21, respectively, and Egypt in Seattle on June 26.But their participation has been in doubt since the…
๐ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Retro games,Games,Culture,PlayStation ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: forIn the mid-90s, when I was a writer for Edge magazine, Marathon was our favorite multiplayer shooter. We were all on Apple Macs, not PCs, so Bungie's sci-fi game was one of the only networked shooters we could all play together. At the end of each day, magazine staff across the company would load it up and play it for hours (usually with Chemical Brothers or Orbital Blast from the stereo). This was the era when video games discovered club…
