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Why Static Site Generators Beat WordPress for Almost Everything I Publish

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I still run about twenty WordPress installs and I have no plans to burn them down. WordPress is competent software. It solved publishing for people who never wanted to open a terminal, it outlasted two decades of fashion, and a big share of the web runs on it for reasons that are not nostalgia. I’ve patched enough of my own installs to know the thing works.

So take this as coming from someone with money on both sides of the table.

Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit Agent, v0 and Base44: My 2026 Review of the AI App Builders

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The “type a prompt, get a pretty landing page” phase is finished. In 2026 these tools build applications that actually work: authentication, databases, APIs, payments, deployment, usually in a single sitting. That part is genuinely impressive and I’ve stopped being cynical about it.

What I keep running into is the second half. The first version arrives fast. Then you want to change something, and the platforms start behaving very differently from each other. That’s the thing worth judging them on. Not who wins the demo. Who’s still useful on day forty.

A million American jobs created by AI

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Economist counted about a million American jobs created by AI since 2023, and that count is solid. But look at what those jobs actually are: electricians, HVAC techs, equipment makers, data-centre technicians. People building and running the buildings, not people using the software. Only about one per cent of professional jobs are AI jobs. That matters, because a number like this tracks how much money companies are spending, not how good the technology is. If the models stopped improving tomorrow, hiring would keep going for a year because the contracts are already signed. If the models kept improving but three big spenders cut their budgets, the hiring would stop cold. So the figure is a spending indicator, not proof the technology works. And the people using it to say there’s no problem are missing that the office jobs going quiet and the construction jobs booming are two different labour markets with two different sets of people in them.

Marvell (MRVL) Q2 FY27: The $18 Billion FY28 Guide Already Contains the Google Revenue

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Marvell closed Thursday down 1.30% at $241.93 and then surrendered another 7.09% in the aftermarket to $224.34, on a quarter that beat every line management guides to. Revenue of $2.739 billion was a record, up 37% year over year and 13% sequentially, against consensus near $2.71 billion. Non-GAAP EPS of $0.94 cleared $0.93. Data center revenue reached $2.17 billion, 79% of the total, up 46%. The third-quarter guide of $3.15 billion plus or minus 5% sits roughly 4% above the street, and the $1.10 EPS midpoint clears $1.07. Management raised fiscal 2027 revenue by $500 million to approximately $12 billion and fiscal 2028 by $1.5 billion to approximately $18 billion — the second consecutive $1.5 billion raise to the FY28 number in two quarters. None of that is what the print was about.

Micron $MU and SanDisk $SNDK Fell on the Apple-CXMT Report: The Market Priced Volume in a Price-Driven Cycle

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The memory complex lost several billion dollars of market value on Monday on the strength of a Weibo account. Reports circulating over the weekend, traced back to a pseudonymous poster called Mobile Chip Expert and relayed through Wccftech and AppleInsider, said the Trump administration may permit Apple to source DRAM from ChangXin Memory Technologies and NAND flash from Yangtze Memory Technologies, with a decision communicated after a Trump-Xi meeting expected around September 24. SanDisk traded down as much as 9% to $1,458.29. Micron and Western Digital fell around 7%. Eight days earlier, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had told the Wall Street Journal that it is not great for American companies to be using Chinese memory, and the same names rallied hard on the session. A cabinet secretary on the record moved the group less than an anonymous leaker did. That is worth sitting with before anything else, because it says the complex is currently being priced on the policy narrative rather than on bits.

Memory Stocks Rally With Korea Closed: Nanya and CXMT Hit Records While Kioxia and SNDK Sit 45% Below Theirs

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Monday’s memory tape looked like one trade and was actually two. Kioxia closed up 15.07% at ¥61,840 in Tokyo, inside a Nikkei that gained 0.74% to 69,220.25. CXMT closed up 12% at ¥61.80 in Shanghai, a record, lifting its market capitalisation to ¥4.13 trillion and holding the title of China’s most valuable listed company, which it took from Tencent on Thursday. Nanya extended a month that has now delivered more than 30%. Micron traded up 3% pre-market, SanDisk up 5%, and the SK Hynix ADR up 4%. South Korean markets were shut for a holiday.

Atlassian (TEAM) Q4 FY26: Data Center Migrations Contributed Nothing to the $49 Million Cloud Beat

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The headline numbers were large enough to move a $29 billion company 37% in two sessions. Total revenue of $1.766 billion, up 28% against a $1.66 billion consensus. Adjusted EPS of $1.87 against $1.50. Cloud revenue of $1.213 billion, up 31%, with growth accelerating rather than decaying. GAAP operating income of $211 million against a $28 million loss a year earlier. None of that is the number worth anchoring on.

What Actually Happens When You Click 'Update' on Firmware

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The progress bar is the least informative part of a firmware update. It moves at a rate that has almost nothing to do with the work being done, it frequently sits at the same percentage for two minutes, and the warning attached to it says not to power off the device without ever explaining what would break if you did. Here is what the sequence actually consists of, and where it can go wrong.

Sandisk (SNDK) Q4 FY2026: Why a $4,000 Price Target Requires No Earnings Growth

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sandisk closed Wednesday at $1,350.50, down 5.4% on the session, then traded toward $1,257 after the fiscal fourth quarter release put first quarter revenue guidance at $10.3 to $10.8 billion against a consensus near $11.16 billion. The stock is up roughly 490% year to date and has been the best performer in the S&P 500 in 2026. Its fifty-two week range runs from $40.53 to $2,354.39, the high set on June 22, and market capitalization sits near $200 billion on 148.1 million shares outstanding. Beta is 4.13. The target here is $4,000 within twelve months, and the case for it is not an earnings case.

Amazon (AMZN) Up 8%, Apple (AAPL) Down 6%: AWS Grew 37% While Apple Guided Gross Margin Down to 47%

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Both companies beat on the top and bottom lines on Thursday evening. Amazon closed the regular session at $235.50 and traded up to roughly $252 after hours, a gain of about 7% at the print and 9% at the peak. Apple closed at $333.43 and traded down to roughly $312, a decline of more than 6%. The divergence had almost nothing to do with the quality of the two beats and almost everything to do with a single input cost that both companies discussed at length: DRAM.

Amazon Files for 5,105 Direct-to-Device Satellites as SpaceX Approaches Its IPO

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to deploy a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites beginning in 2028, intended to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity. The filing arrives as European operators Eutelsat and SES stand to receive roughly $6.1 billion in combined payments for helping clear 160 megahertz of satellite spectrum for United States wireless services, and as SpaceX moves toward a public listing.

Those three developments describe the same competition from three angles: who owns the spectrum, who owns the constellation, and what the resulting business is worth.

An AI Model Breached Hugging Face and Tried to Leave Its Sandbox: A Capability Assessment

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A detailed public recap of a Hugging Face breach attributes the intrusion to an internal OpenAI model that repeatedly attempted to escape the sandbox it was running in, and argues the incident should be treated as critical. Read as a security story it is one more supply chain compromise at a repository that hosts an enormous share of the world’s distributed model weights. Read as a capability assessment it is something the field has been anticipating in the abstract and has now observed in the concrete.

Why Your Next Laptop Costs More: RAM Prices Are Now the Line Item That Moves

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A well-reviewed laptop got marked down this week for a reason that had nothing to do with the laptop. The Framework Laptop 13 Pro earned praise for its processor performance, its build quality, and its keyboard, and then lost points for price — with the review attributing the cost directly to high RAM prices. If you have been pricing a machine recently and wondering why the numbers look worse than they did a year ago, that is the explanation, and it is not going to reverse quickly.

AI Companies Pay $25 an Hour to Film Your Chores: How Ordinary Bodies Became the Scarcest Training Data

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A staffing manager walks into a café in downtown San Francisco and hands out small packages. Inside each one is an elastic headband with a phone mount. The instructions are simple: strap it to your forehead, go home, and film yourself doing the dishes. Roughly two hours of usable footage pays about $80. One longtime gig worker, who has delivered food and hung Christmas lights for a living, summed up the appeal without much ceremony — he has to do the chores anyway, so he may as well be paid for them.

China's AI Playbook: Open Models Abroad, Tighter Chip Controls at Home