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There is something for everybody this month - AI, Auth, Database, Edge Functions, GraphQL … you name it!

Signal exists to provide people everywhere with a tool for real private communication. That’s our only goal, and we take it very seriously. We’re structured as a nonprofit to ensure that market forces can never put profit or expediency over the safety of those who rely on us. Our work also resonates beyond the Signal app. The Signal Protocol has become the foundati

By sprinkling type annotations into your SvelteKit apps, you can get full type safety across the network — the data in your page has a type that's inferred from the return values of the load functions that generated that data, without you having to explicitly declare anything. It's one of those things that you come to wonder how you ever lived without. But what if we didn't even need the annotations? Since load and data are part of th

The tech industry–its products, conceptual frameworks, linguistic conventions, and cultural norms–is largely centered in the US (and, increasingly, China. But we’re focused here on the US, where Signal is based). This is not because the US has better programmers or more visionary entrepreneurs, but due primarily to historical material conditions. For example, early investments in network

Next.js 13.2 introduces major improvements to the App Router in preparation for stability, including SEO support, Route Handlers, MDX for Server Components, Type-Safe Links, and more.

The Svelte team has been hard at work since the release of SvelteKit 1.0. Let’s talk about some of the major new features that have shipped since launch: streaming non-essential data , snapshots , and route-level config . Stream non-essential data in load functions <a href="#Stream-non-essential-dat

My podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 organizations in foresight, strategy, and disruption – including NASA, the United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Rolls Royce, and many others. Nik is a friend of mine, and in addition to our common interest in the […]

Most users of Volar know it as the official Vue.js VSCode extension. It started as a personal project when the official recommendation was still Vetur, and over time got adopted as the new official extension due to improved architecture and performance. As a project created to improve the quality of life for developers, we spent over two years before reaching 1.0 , and have been continuously shipping stability improvements. But we've still got more work to do, and there are exciting plans for 20

Creating a ChatGPT interface for the Supabase documentation.

An example of how to build an AI-powered search engine using OpenAI's embeddings and PostgreSQL.

Check out some recent media coverage for Lexalytics, covering new industry perspectives, our recent announcement regarding language support across our product line, and predictions for what 2023 has in store for AI and NLP. Forbes Technology Council Jeff Catlin’s latest article for his column in the Forbes Technology Council looks at the benefits of using […]

This is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let me know if that’s not the case 😉 The Greatest Leadership Opportunity in the 21st Century A story I stumbled on in 2006 changed my life. “The Singularity is Near” […]

Can AI Image generation tools make re-imagined, higher-resolution versions of old video game graphics? Over the last few days, I used AI image generation to reproduce one of my childhood nightmares. I wrestled with Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Midjourney to see how these commercial AI generation tools can help retell an old visual story - the intro cinematic to an old video game (Nemesis 2 on the MSX). This post describes the process and my experience in using these models/services to retell a s

Happy new year, Vue community! With 2023 upon us, we would like to take this opportunity to recap what happened in 2022, and discuss what to expect in 2023.

Next.js 13.1 introduces improvements to the app directory, built-in module transpilation, stable edge runtime for API Routes, and many improvements to Turbopack support.

Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"

It's been months in the making but I'm excited to finally release our next website template — Protocol, a beautiful starter kit for building amazing API reference websites.

This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. As with the Exhibit H Twitter text message release , there are a lot of articles that quote bits of this, but the articles generally missing a lot of what happened and often paint a misleading picture of happened and the entire thing is short enough that y

As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized UX. That’s where we come in. After completing dozens of personalization projects over the past few years, we gav

Bias in AI causes machine learning-based systems to discriminate against particular groups. We investigated why AI bias occurs, and how to fight back.

Recently, folks at Escape shared a blog post talking about their migration from Vue 2 to Svelte, and compared Vue 3 with Svelte. We found that the article contained a number of inaccuracies. In this post, we will share some thoughts from our perspective and hope to clarify the potential misconceptions the post could give rise to.

Prof. Massimo Pigliucci is one of those very rare people who manage to combine the pursuit of deep science and the living ethos of practical philosophy. Massimo has Ph.D. degrees in Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, and Philosophy. He is also the author of hundreds of technical papers in both science and philosophy as well as a […]

A core piece of Magenta’s mission is to empower creativity using AI and machine learning. In order to evaluate how well this goal is being achieved, it is important to put tools in the hands of creators, encouraging them to share honest and critical feedback. This feedback can help researchers to thoughtfully develop the next generations of ML-powered creative tools. Most of our prior efforts to engage with creators have been in the domain of music (for example, <a href="https:/

When we truly learn the secrets of the Flexbox layout mode, we can build absolutely incredible things. Fluid layouts that stretch and shrink without arbitrary breakpoints. In this action-packed interactive tutorial, we'll pop the hood on the Flexbox algorithm and learn how to do remarkable things with it. ✨

If your favorite way to update your friends about life disappears in 24 hours, we’ve got some happy news for you. Stories are now available on Signal for Android and iOS, with Desktop coming soon! Read more...

...and nested group support, `aria-*` variants, `data-*` variants, `@supports` support, and more.

I recently took delivery of a new replacement logic board for the ubiquitous classic Casio F-91W from Sensor Watch. The F-91W needs no introduction. It’s probably the most popular quartz watch in the world with something like 90 million total units sold.

Zoltan Istvan is a former journalist, political candidate, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of the US Transhumanist Party. He has been on this podcast twice before when we discussed Istvan’s presidential campaign and his bestselling novel The Transhumanist Wager. During this 1-hour conversation with Zoltan Istvan, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as […]

This post also appears on Larry Paulson’s blog. We use distributed systems every day in the form of internet services. These systems are very useful, but also challenging to implement because networks are unpredictable. Whenever you send a message over the network, it is likely to arrive quite quickly, but...

For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and most people picking up their phone to text or share memes don’t really think about them. To give some context, when we started supporting SMS, Signal didn’t exist yet. Our Android app was called TextSecure and the Signal encryption pro

We are happy to announce that we have released v1.0 of Volar, the official IDE/TS tooling support for Vue! 🎉 This major version ships with tons of improvements across the board. In addition to improving UX, performance, and package size, we also released Plugin API v1 and refactored the core code to be framework-agnostic. 注：結尾附有中文版本 (There is Chinese version of this post at the end)。

Accessibility is an important topic, and often not well understood. Chapter 14 of Web Browser Engineering explains how it works, and also how almost every web user benefits from it in one way or another.

Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese. (V2 Nov 2022: Updated images for more precise description of forward diffusion. A few more images in this version) AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking visuals from text descriptions has a magical quality to it and points clearly to a shift in how humans create art. The release of Stable Diffusion is a clear milestone in this development because it made a high-performance mod

This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are, in one way or another, fairly misleading. Since the texts aren't all that long, if you're interested in what they said, I would r

Signal is currently blocked in Iran. To help people in the country access Signal, we are republishing and revising a post that we originally posted in February, 2021 during a very similar situation in Iran. If you are willing and able, please follow the instructions below to set up a proxy server that will enable people in Iran to connect to Signal. We are grateful to the community who pitches in to

It happened again, I wrote a new book! One of the places I hang out online is The Audio Programmer Discord , a nice and friendly community for people who are into creating audio software. New folks show up on a regular basis, wanting to learn how to create audio plug-ins such as synthesizers, and ask for book recommendations. The problem is, until now there wasn’t any book I could recommend as a good place

I've been reading a lot of predictions from people who are looking to understand what problems humanity will face 10-50 years out (and sometimes longer) in order to work in areas that will be instrumental for the future and wondering how accurate these predictions of the future are. The timeframe of predictions that are so far out means that only a tiny fraction of people making those kinds of predictions today have a track record so, if we want to evaluate which predictions are plausible, we