Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Accounting software company Visma's delayed IPO, coming amid "SaaSpocalypse" fears, is a major setback for private equity parent Hg, a software buyout giant (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Accounting software company Visma's delayed IPO, coming amid “SaaSpocalypse” fears, is a major setback for private equity parent Hg, a software buyout giant — Delayed IPO of €19bn software group Visma was meant to be a crowning moment for PE group Hg — and London
Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg:
Infineon expects data center revenue to grow from €1.5B in FY2026 to €2.5B in FY2027, as it and EU peers STMicro and NXP benefit from AI infrastructure demand — Infineon Technologies AG forecast revenue that beat analysts' expectations in the current quarter as the German chipmaker benefits …
Back to hugo
This blog has gone through a few technical iterations. Most recently: from a Laravel app with Sheets, to a static site with Hugo, to a CMS-driven site with Statamic. And now, back to Hugo!
I love Hugo. It’s purposefully built with the right abstractions, and incredibly fast. The kind of fast that makes you wonder why other software can be that fast. Fast software, the best software. But the templating language… it might be an acquired taste, but I never acquired it. Updating my theme or adding a custom page was always a chore. I got tired of it. Coincidentally, I wanted to experiment with more dynamic workflows on here (posting to social media, more control over scheduling…) so I migrated to Statamic (a lovely CMS!)
Fast forward three years and a blogging hiatus, and I started to crave the simplicity of the good old static site. Having a dynamic system was fun, but it requires maintenance and having it made me realize I didn’t need it. Add to that we’ve commoditized robots building things for us, and switching back to Hugo was the right move. A single prompt and 15 minutes later, my entire blog was translated from Statamic to Hugo. The best part: I don’t need to care about the templates anymore. Sure, I’ll dive in occasionally for some surgical styling tweaks. But generally, changes are handled with a quick prompt.
GitHub pings my webserver to auto-deploy on push. Scheduling is solved by running the deploy script every hour. As a static site, everything’s fast by default and there are almost no points of failure. Life is simple. All that remains is to write!
Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong (Scott Calvert/Wall Street Journal)
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI descriptions, designed to give customers more detail than generic motion alerts, are mistaking brake lights for house fires and humans for bears
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellphone bans got devices out of students' hands, according to the first large study. But behavior and academics have not improved, at least so far.