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Practical AI workshops for the builder in us all. What will you Build First?

I am very grateful for the washing machine in my apartment. Throughout my life, doing laundry has been one of my least favourite chores, so tossing clothes in a machine and having it do all that work is a great blessing. But, more than being a less tedious way of washing, using a machine is also a way of getting back time for myself. You see, this is something technology tends to do very well. Instead of spending hours washing clothes by hand, I can use a machine and be done in 15 minutes. In...

A few weeks ago I accidentally sparked, via this tweet, an entertaining debate about what it means to be a developer. This led to my post "Do you even develop, bro?", where I explained my view on when it might be appropriate to call yourself a "developer." (Spoiler: It's a broad term.) But my friend Brendan Whitsitt of Imprint Development has just published an even better post on the topic. It's called "Developer vs. Dirt-Flipper" and you should give it a read. In it, he says this:So if we tr...

The feature reduces disk space requirements for node operators by approximately 300 to 500 gigabytes.

What makes a person a great leader? (Lede/ TL;DR/ Spoiler: Learning makes a great leader.) There was a time when leadership was thought to be the result of innate personal traits. In 1840, Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures on heroism in which he proposed that human history is defined by “great men” with qualities that empowered them to transcend society and lead others. Open-Source Learning is yours. Free.Get the white paper here Apart from being a sexist artifact ...

An interesting new memecoin experiment is playing out in real time on the Solana blockchain.

Welcome to today’s edition of Slide Rule Pass, your concise daily digest of the latest transfer news from across European football.

Melbourne, Australia, offers a civic parable: a city that doubled its urban tree canopy to preemptively adapt to extreme heat. They didn’t just plant more trees—they redesigned their protocols: how they identified, protected, and stewarded urban forests. And they did so through visionary municipal leadership, supported by policy integration, data systems, and public affection. Their 2012 Urban Forest Strategy aimed to increase canopy from 22% to 40% by 2040, reduce urban heat, increase biodiv...

What a BIZARRE ride June was! As the first full month of BIZARRE Summer, it delivered an intense whirlwind of BEASTLY onchain action, massive treasury injections, game-changing launches, and an explosion of $BEAST community power. We’re not just building; we’re unleashing a full-throttle BIZARREBEASTS ($BB) Empire! From record-breaking distributions to new art, game milestones, and strategic collaborations, June proved that the $BB universe is expanding at an exponential, BIZARRE pace. Let's ...