In the corridors of newsrooms, on the dashboards of independent publishers, and among SEO strategists around the world, a growing question is being asked: is Google quietly staging a slow‐motion killing of the web? It’s not a conspiracy theory—it’s one grounded in shifting user behavior, shrinking traffic numbers,…
Imagine a team adopting an LLM assistant like Copilot, Claude, or similar. At first, productivity seems to skyrocket. Developers write prompts, get code snippets, paste them into their projects, and move on. But the aftermath isn’t so bright. When someone later has to modify, debug, or extend that…
Vercel today announced it has closed a $300 million Series F round, valuing the company at $9.3 billion. The raise comes at a moment when developer platforms are under pressure to evolve — and when enterprises are scrambling to harness AI without rebuilding their cloud stacks from scratch.…
Anthropic’s head of training, Nick Joseph, paints a picture of AI progress that is both simple and brutal. “My OKR is still the same as day one: make the loss go down,” he says. In a wide-ranging conversation about the company’s pre-training program, Joseph argues that the teams…
Eric S. Raymond, known for “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” asserted on X that project Codes of Conduct are a net negative, that they attract “shit-stirrers,” and that the only policy that works is a one-liner: if someone becomes more annoying than their contribution is worth, remove them.…
When the web was young, building layouts meant painstakingly wrestling with floats, clears, browser quirks, “reset” files, and vendor prefixes. CSS itself underwent major evolution (from CSS1 → CSS2 → modular “CSS3” specifications) to catch up. Early attempts to simplify layout included CSS resets—e.g. Eric Meyer’s reset.css (2007)—to…
Can you run Next.js with SSR wholly under DigitalOcean App Platform? The answer is yes! App Platform gives you a managed Node.js runtime, buildpacks or Docker builds, HTTPS by default, scaling, logs, and environment variable management. From Next.js’s point of view, it’s a regular self-hosted Node server, so…
Imagine asking someone, “Where are you right now?” In a world of phones, you might expect a crisp answer — city, country, even street. But on the Internet, that same question is surprisingly slippery. For decades, systems built for wireline telephony baked in geography. A telephone numbering plan…
You ship a Next.js app to Cloudflare Workers. The homepage renders, so far so good. Then you click around, reload a few times, and suddenly you’re staring at a Cloudflare captcha or a gray error screen that says 1102. That code means your Worker gobbled up more CPU…
In the booming world of generative AI, one question haunts every team building with large language models: how do you know your model is really better — and not just “feels” better? Google is trying to answer that question with Stax, a framework aiming to turn subjective judgments…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is officially going all-in on IPv6. On Monday, the company announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports IPv6-only workloads, meaning developers can run containerized applications without relying on the decades-old IPv4 system. The world has been running out of IPv4 addresses for…
When you first heard your team mention “DigitalOcean” or “Vercel,” it may have sounded like generic cloud-provider names. But behind each is a distinct philosophy about how cloud infrastructure should appear to you, the developer — and that difference is only growing more visible in 2025. DigitalOcean began…
