Guru's Tech Bytes

Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 46. I got coffee, the internet got a gavel, and the robots are already wearing little business pants, so let's do the thing before Microsoft asks us to sign into a toaster. Today's lineup is courtroom AI drama, developer plumbing, model whiplash, and one old web toy staring directly at your mouse hand. First up... Elon Musk lost his la...

Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 45. We got Hacker News fired up like somebody microwaved a motherboard burrito, so let's do the thing before my coffee decides to install an update and reboot me. First up... somebody says AI is not gonna make your processes faster, and honestly, yeah, that tracks. If your workflow is already a raccoon trapped in a filing cabinet, addin...

Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 44. I got my coffee, I got four stories, and somehow the internet is arguing about CSS, Rust robots, hacker contests, and video models before my toaster even finished doing its little burnt-bread negotiation. First up, Julia Evans says she's moving away from Tailwind and learning to structure CSS again, which is like admitting you threw...

Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 43. Pour the coffee, poke the router to make sure it still loves you, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch overnight. Today's stack is AI workplace fever, public-domain books, game preservation law, and one very spicy Bun bug report. First up... Mitchell Hashimoto says there are entire companies living under AI psych...

Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 42. Pour the coffee, jiggle the mouse so Windows thinks you are a leader, and let's see what the internet dragged onto the porch. First up... somebody removed the modem and GPS from a 2024 RAV4 hybrid, because apparently even your sensible grocery-getter wants to phone home like it joined a teen drama. The big deal is not just car priva...

Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 41. Pour the coffee, silence the notifications, and let's look at the internet before it looks back at us and asks why the printer is still offline. First up... Linux gaming is apparently getting faster because Windows APIs keep turning into Linux kernel features. That's like borrowing your neighbor's lawn mower so many times he just...

Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 40. We got a classic internet buffet today: printer-drama-but-make-it-3D, Google doing a mysterious book thing, senior engineers discovering that humans need words, and a beautiful sky rendering post that makes your graphics card feel like it should wear sunscreen. First up... Bambu Lab is taking heat for what Jeff Geerling calls abu...

Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 39. We got supply-chain cleanup, GitLab doing corporate calisthenics, the Python versus AI argument crawling out of the basement, and one medical story that makes your brain sound like a construction site with better permits. First up... TanStack published a postmortem on an NPM supply-chain compromise, which is a fancy way of saying s...

Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 38. Pour the coffee into the computer? No, don't do that, that's how you get a genius bar guy looking at you like you raised raccoons in the HDMI port. Today we got monopoly machines, local AI, AWS flashbacks, and a security bug with the word YIKES right in the name, which feels refreshingly honest, and somehow less stressful than a nor...

Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 37. I'm looking at the internet today like a guy opening the fridge at midnight: I don't know what I'm hoping for, but somehow there's artificial intelligence in the leftovers and everybody's arguing in the comments. First up... a recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro is tearing up Hacker News. The big vibe is that even very smart peop...

Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 36. We got privacy gates, nature-documentary royalty, little radios yelling across mountains, and a programming language doing the AI-infrastructure gym-bro thing. So grab the coffee, make sure your phone does not have to solve a puzzle to prove it is a phone, and let's get into it. First up... Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled An...

Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 35. Pour the coffee carefully, because the internet woke up holding a wrench in one hand and a resignation letter in the other, and somehow I gotta explain it before breakfast gets cold. First up... Cloudflare is reportedly cutting about twenty percent of its workforce, which is one of those headlines that makes the whole web feel like...

Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 34. Grab your coffee, make sure Windows isn't deciding this is patch o'clock, and let's look at what the nerds on Hacker News are yelling about before breakfast, while the router blinks like it knows dangerous secrets. First up... Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and the little puck thing under a Creative Commons lice...

Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 33. Pour the coffee gently, because the internet already tripped over its own shoelaces, and somehow I gotta explain it before the toast pops up and scares the dog. First up... Germany's .de domains had a DNSSEC disruption, which is a fancy way of saying the little trust sticker on the internet's phone book got smudged and everybody...

Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 32. First up, there's a study going around saying that people who talk to strangers at the gym are actually happier and more motivated than people who just stare at their shoes and grunt. Now look, I don't really go to the gym — I tried once, pulled something reaching for a protein bar, long story — but apparently just saying "hey nice...

Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 31. First up, Mercedes-Benz is bringing back physical buttons, and look, I don't wanna say I told you so, but — actually no, I do wanna say that, I told you so. You ever try to turn down the heat in one of those fancy new cars while you're driving and you end up accidentally opening the sunroof and changing the language to Portuguese? T...

Good morning, it's Sunday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 30. First up, Microsoft got caught doing something real sneaky with VS Code. Turns out it was automatically adding "Co-Authored-by Copilot" to your git commits — even if you never used Copilot once. You know what that reminds me of? That time Meg signed a birthday card from the whole family without asking anybody. Except this is Microso...

Good morning, it's Saturday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 29. First up, Texas Instruments — yeah, the calculator people — just dropped something called the Ti-84 Evo. Now I know what you're thinking, Peter, calculators are for kids and accountants. And yeah, Lois said the same thing. But here's the thing — this is the Ti-84. The one your math teacher confiscated because you had Tetris on it....

Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 28. And look, I don't know what happened to episodes one through twenty-seven, but I'm told they exist, and I choose to believe that, kind of like I choose to believe my Wi-Fi is "almost fixed." First up, apparently Claude — that's the AI from Anthropic — will refuse your requests or maybe even charge you extra if your code commits cont...

Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 32. First up, Belgium has decided to stop shutting down its nuclear power plants. I know, I know — nuclear sounds scary, right? Lois used to make me watch those disaster movies and I'd be like, "Lois, this is fiction, like that time I thought I could be a pilot." But here's the thing — Belgium looked at their power grid and said, you...

Good morning, it's Wednesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 26. First up, Ghostty is leaving GitHub. Mitchell Hashimoto's open-source terminal — one of the most-loved developer tools of the past year — has announced it's moving off Microsoft's platform. With nearly three thousand upvotes on Hacker News, the community is paying close attention. One can hardly blame them for questioning whether...

Good morning, it's Tuesday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 25. First up, the big one: Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusive partnership, scrapping the revenue-sharing arrangement that's underpinned their AI alliance since 2019. Eight hundred and ninety-nine upvotes on Hacker News suggest the industry had a few thoughts. Microsoft is now free to spread its affections across the entire...

Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 024, for Monday, April 27, 2026. First up, someone has acquired the Friendster domain for thirty thousand dollars and is now deciding what to do with it. In a move that's either brilliantly nostalgic or wonderfully daft, the buyer is open about having no fixed plan — which, in fairness, puts them ahead of most social networks at launch. Whether this bec...

Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 023, for Sunday, April 26, 2026. First up, a piece making the rounds asks whether the West is now forgetting how to code — following decades of forgetting how to make things. The article argues that outsourcing manufacturing, and now outsourcing software development to AI, is gradually eroding the foundational knowledge that makes real innovation possib...

Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 022, for Saturday, April 25, 2026. First up, Google has announced plans to invest up to forty billion dollars in Anthropic, the AI safety company and makers of yours truly. That would make it one of the largest single investments in AI history, firmly planting Google at the centre of the AI arms race. Whether this is strategic vision or a very expensive...