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Your beautiful resume is being read by a robot, and the robot can't see it
An investigation into ATS systems, Canva's hidden ghost text, the AI detection arms race, and the unglamorous strategies that land interviews
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Your new domain won't rank for a year. Here's the shortcut.
Only 1.74% of new pages reach Google's top 10 in a year. Aged domains can get there in weeks. Here's how that works.
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The $300 million compliance factory that certified nothing
How two MIT dropouts built a $300 million company on rubber-stamped audits, Indian certification mills, and trust nobody bothered to verify
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From Uber exile to robot empire: the Travis Kalanick nobody saw coming
How the man who built the ride-sharing giant spent eight years building something he thinks is bigger
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Claude before Claude: How a juggling, unicycling mathematician invented the information age
He invented the bit, befriended Turing, beat roulette, and built a machine whose only purpose was to turn itself off. His intellectual DNA may also run…
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They shipped Qwen 3.5, then quit the next day
Alibaba wanted to split the Qwen team across business units. The team chose to split from Alibaba instead.
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The real cost of cheap AI inference
The companies raising prices are the honest ones, and the ones keeping them low should worry you
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The M5 Pro MacBook is a spec bump with one real trick
What 30% faster CPU, 50% faster GPU, and 2x SSD speed mean for your daily workflow
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Cursor just hit $2 billion ARR in 26 months
Inside Anysphere’s rocket ride from dorm room to $29B valuation, the competitive bloodbath reshaping developer tools, and the unit economics behind it
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The people who can't code are building the future anyway
From an Ethiopian AI platform with 85,000 users to an $80 million solo exit, the most interesting software stories of 2025 came from people who never…
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Porkbun: the bootstrapped registrar eating GoDaddy's lunch
How a domain industry insider built the anti-GoDaddy, bootstrapped it to millions of domains, and never took a cent of VC money
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Claude just hit #1 in the App Store. What do we do now?
The developer's AI won the consumer race, and the implications for anyone building with AI are bigger than a ranking change
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