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Enshittification Has a New Mascot, and He’s Teaming Up With Death in a Hilarious Ad Campaign

Imagine, if you will, a pale figure of Death, dressed in a black robe holding a scythe, alongside a handsome, lumberjack-looking Nordic fella who goes by the name Enshittificator. As partners in crime, they conspire to make your life suck, all because they have the power to make digital products and services worse.

If that piques your interest — and maybe sounds too much like real life — a new “anti-enshittification” ad campaign is worth a few minutes of your time.

The term “enshittification” was popularized in 2022 by author and activist Cory Doctorow, and its massive cultural surge earned it a place in Merriam-Webster’s slang hub last year. Enshittification is a deliberate process, designed by companies to maximize profit.

This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later

Tabs are the best. They're also the worst. Sometimes I end up drowning in browser tabs containing web pages I don't remember opening, and sometimes I have a few tabs that I want to close, but I can't, because I know I'll

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The AI Code Avalanche: Building an Adversarial Pipeline to Stop Code Hallucinations Before They Hit

We are shipping code faster than ever. Or rather, our local AI agents are doing it for us. But there is a massive, hidden tax to this speed. Senior engineers are drowning in pull requests filled with AI slop. The core problem is the hallucination that looks perfectly right but

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Did Xbox Acquire Activision or Did Activision Acquire Xbox?

Back in 2023, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $75.4 billion. I can’t remember when exactly I started to hear the quasi-joke people would make: Xbox is going to eat Activision Blizzard, and Activision Blizzard is then going to eat Xbox from the inside out. That is no longer

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Building a Versioned Lambda Deployment Script With the AWS CLI

You've got a Lambda running in production and a shiny new image sitting in ECR. The lazy move is to update the image URI, walk away, and hope for the best. The problem is that this swaps the code for everyone, instantly, with no safety net. If the

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This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later

The AI Code Avalanche: Building an Adversarial Pipeline to Stop Code Hallucinations Before They Hit

Did Xbox Acquire Activision or Did Activision Acquire Xbox?

Building a Versioned Lambda Deployment Script With the AWS CLI