Articles by rmason
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21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google (addyo.substack.com)

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Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads (forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel)

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Can a slow-release bolus crack methane reduction for pasture raised cattle? (agfundernews.com)

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Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool for Designers (wired.com)

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Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme, original UI designer explains why (pcgamer.com)

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SpaceX Installs Starlink Vending Machine in Iowa (pcmag.com)

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Tech In the D: MOT MOT (3 min video) (blacktechsaturdays.com)

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How A Pantry Staple Helped Scientists Turn Water into Wine (foodandwine.com)

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Mitch Albom's notes from a book tour: America still turning its pages (freep.com)

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Solar Neighborhoods (In Detroit) (detroitmi.gov)

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NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace (8 hrs in 4K) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed (steve-blank.com)

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Inside NY Time's Hoax Factory (twitter.com/davidsacks)

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Write Your Own Obituary – Then live up to it (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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AWS-Lambda-Roadmap (github.com/aws)

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Is Your Car Spying on You? Here's how (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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Secrets in unlisted GitHub gists are reported to secret scanning partners (github.blog)

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Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Multiple Runtimes- 2025 (chrisebert.net)

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Testing MCP Servers with MCP Inspector (chrisebert.net)

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Anthropicnews.com (anthropicnews.com)

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Locker 247 (twitter.com/mrpitbull07)

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Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Know This.. (3 Min Video) (youtube.com)

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Founder of Cincinnati tech firm Rumby admits defrauding investors, repay $7M (usatoday.com)

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SEO Community Reacts to Adobe's Semrush Acquisition (searchenginejournal.com)

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The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Painful and Healthy (ceodinner.substack.com)

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Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority (eatingpolicy.com)

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Can AI tell when someone's lying? MSU study says not yet (msu.edu)

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The Complete Claude Code CLI Guide (github.com/cranot)

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Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat 'for generations' (theguardian.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – Why It's Better for Us to Think of AI as a Tool Than as a Worker (oreilly.com)

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Detroit Tech Fellowship (makemymove.com)

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Sam Altman apparently subpoenaed moments into SF talk with Steve Kerr (sfgate.com)

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[flagged] Man spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever (supercarblondie.com)

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The True Tale of Seattle's Sherlock Holmes (seattlemet.com)

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These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories (freep.com)

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GM's top software leader leaves company, prompting tech dept overhaul (freep.com)

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What caused the Edmund Fitzgerald to sink 50 years ago is still a mystery (freep.com)

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How to DevRel: The Most Un-Natural Act (adatosystems.com)

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Inside The Shin Bet's startup factory (calcalistech.com)

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How entrepreneurship is rising in India's small cities (cnbc.com)

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Three billionaires went out for chicken and beer, and paid for everyone's meal (cnn.com)

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This Solo Founder Can Predict the Future – The Polymarket Story (solofounders.com)

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AOL to Be Acquired by Italy's Bending Spoons (variety.com)

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New Infrastructure-as-Code Tool "Formae" Takes Aim at Terraform (infoq.com)

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Guy turned his wedding suit into a sponsored billboard (famouscampaigns.com)

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Michigan startup transforms brewery waste into revenue streams (mlive.com)

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Business Services Will Transform Affordable Private Schools (medium.com/ai-in-education-flourish-sty...

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A Data Love Letter to the Subway (pentagram.com)

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The Engineer Who Drives a Propeller-Powered Car (wsj.com)

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Are You Ready? (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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In Times Past - The New York Times from a New Point of View (nytimes.com)

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Tim O'Reilly – AI Integration Is the New Moat (oreilly.com)

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AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea (arstechnica.com)

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Technical Debt vs. Architecture Debt: Don't Confuse Them (thenewstack.io)

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Google's new vibe coding AI Studio experience lets anyone build, deploy apps (venturebeat.com)

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United Kingdom Gov Reuse Library (Web Components) (digitalgovernmenthub.org)

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The bot keeping humans out of dangerous silos (thehustle.co)

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Jeremy Daly – Finding My Rhythm Again (jeremydaly.com)

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AI Tutoring Doesn't Solve the Problem in Education (johnwdanner.medium.com)

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At the inaugural SlutCon, 'flirt girls' teach tech guys how to woo women (sfstandard.com)

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Why AI and Defense Are Soaked in Capital While Food and Water Go Thirsty (globalagtechinitiative.com)

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A once-in-a-generation discovery is transforming a Michigan dairy farm (msu.edu)

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Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings (sfgate.com)

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What it's like to have AI coworkers, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad (sfstandard.com)

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Brad Feld – Leveling Up in the Vibe Coding Video Game (feld.com)

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YC Unicorn Predictor (yc-unicorn-predictor.vercel.app)

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SendPai - Open-Source 550 HP Kei Truck EV Built in Detroit (Video) (youtube.com)

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That Time Ford Designed a Nuclear-Powered Car, the Nucleon (jalopnik.com)

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We Created Turso, a Rust-Based Rewrite of SQLite (thenewstack.io)

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Microschools Are the Hacker Fringe of Education (johnwdanner.medium.com)

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AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release (amazon.com)

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Prison guard, shot six times, hails FCC push to allow cell jamming behind bars (nbcnews.com)

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Spotify's co-founder Daniel Ek to step down as CEO after nearly two decades (latimes.com)

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Generate Swift code programmatically with declarative syntax (github.com/brightdigit)

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How Ruby Went Off the Rails (404media.co)

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Edison founders rant- Canada won't let him build hybrid truck and America blocks [video] (youtube.com)

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Washi: The Japanese paper crafted to last 1000 years [video] (bbc.com)

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The Quiet Ones (nikunjk.com)

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Are Michigan's small farms ready to go EV? MSU demos an electric tractor (bridgemi.com)

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X402 Support (With Crypto) (thirdweb.com)

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MSU researcher hopes hydrogel shampoo could prevent hair loss from chemotherapy (usatoday.com)

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You Have Permission (2018) (jeffreylminch.substack.com)

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Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in NY -3 min video (youtube.com)

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Startup Uses Shrimp Shells to Help Plants Better Absorb Fertilizer and Pesticide (lancasterfarming.com)

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Google Admits Censorship Pressure from Biden Admin, Pledges to Reinstate Accts (dallasexpress.com)

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Coinbase's UK musical ad hits a nerve – sparking debate (August) (cnbc.com)

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Jimmy Fallon Pitches His New Invention at Detroit's Newlab (2 Min Video) (youtube.com)

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A $5k Lean Startup Experiment Became Michigan's Innovation Hub (jointhequarter.com)

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TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday (cnbc.com)

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How Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned – and became a bestseller (2024) (bbc.com)

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How to Stop Your Event-Driven Architecture from Turning into Chaos (boyney123.substack.com)

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Nepal's Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room (nytimes.com)

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Amazon Suspends Engineer Who Sent 'Threatening' Letter to CEO Andy Jassy (indiatimes.com)

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Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns (bbc.com)

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The controversial sweet that fuels Norwegians (bbc.com)

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Teen coder made first millennial Catholic saint at youthful Vatican event (reuters.com)

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Michigan Marvel: John King Books has a 'secret,' owner says (detroitnews.com)

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iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings (cnn.com)

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Jetson One – Palmer Luckey's First Flight and Delivery (3 Min Video) (youtube.com)

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You're right: Lessons learned vibe coding our asset management system (dannorris.me)