Salmonella Risk: It's Not Just Chocolate Bars That Were Recalled
Spring & Mulberry's chocolate bars have been recalled, and they're not the only Salmonella danger that might be in your pantry.
January 27, 2026
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AWS EKS: Create Your First Cluster Using AWS CDK
TL;DR - Create an EKS cluster using AWS CDK Python - Provision infrastructure via AWS CloudFormation - The setup includes a VPC, EKS control plane, and a managed EC2 node group - Configure IAM access ...
January 28, 2026
The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models
Blending two different teams carries one major risk: most blending problems are invisible until metrics start to drop. In fact, 44% of failed integrations are directly linked to “cultural incompatibil...
January 27, 2026
Alessio Vinassa on The Hidden Skill Behind Every Successful Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the practice of making meaningful decisions with incomplete data. Alessio Vinassa says uncertainty is not an obstacle to leadership. Decision-making is a cognitive skill, not innat...
January 27, 2026
Securing AI in CMMC Level 2 Environments: A Strategic Guide for CISOs and Cloud Security Engineers
Leveraging generative AI and machine learning can offer huge productivity gains – even for organizations handling sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Federal Contract Information (...
December 17, 2025
LLMs can’t be trusted to do scientific coding accurately, but humans make mistakes too
I often hear the comment that LLMs/generative AI (large language models) can’t be trusted for research tasks. Image Google’s Nano Banana tasked with “Generate an image of a male African researcher hol...
January 13, 2026
Correcting for multiplicity in the ’emmeans’ package
In my recent book (see below), on page 166 and earlier, I made the point that, with pairwise comparisons and, more generally, whenever simultaneous statistical tests are performed, it is necessary to ...
January 21, 2026
Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI says?
Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes. For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons... Continue r...
January 26, 2026
nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs
Guest post by Christian Martinez, developer of the nycOpenData package in R. nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package ...
January 27, 2026
Is It Time to Rethink Human-Centered Design?
Human-centered design helped shape the modern web—but in today’s AI-driven, globally connected world, it’s time to expand the definition. The next era of design will need to balance empathy with ethic...
December 03, 2025
The Death of Ownership in Web Design — and Everything Else
Ownership is quietly disappearing from every part of our digital lives. From Photoshop to Spotify, Kindle to Netflix, we’re trading permanence for convenience — and losing control in the process. Web ...
December 05, 2025
7 Real Predictions for Web Design in 2026
Forget the buzzwords — 2026 isn’t about AI hype or flashy tools. It’s about designers reclaiming taste, calm, and authenticity in a web that’s lost its soul. The future of design is slower, smaller, a...
December 30, 2025
Your Brand Just Evolved: The Rise of AI-Generated Identities
What if your favorite brand could change its logo, colors, and voice in real time — just for you? Generative branding is turning static identities into living, adaptive systems that evolve with contex...
January 08, 2026
Why Designers Are the New Bureaucrats
Modern designers aren’t creating anymore—they’re managing frameworks, meetings, and Figma files like corporate clerks. Creativity’s been replaced by process, and originality has drowned under layers o...
January 15, 2026
Density vs. Clarity: The Core Tension in Modern UI Design
Modern UI design is torn between two opposing forces: clarity and density. Minimalism promised calm, but often hides complexity—while dense interfaces like Figma or Notion prove chaos can be "beautifu...
January 26, 2026