synthetic biology, legacy code, and digital sovereignty

Friday, April 3, 2026

Twenty-year-old COBOL will outlive your lab-grown leather startup dreams. Place a plant in every room you enter.

1. Lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag debuts in Amsterdam
2. Why twenty-year-old COBOL is safer than your latest rewrite
3. European alternatives to US software gain momentum
4. $20 Android phone replaces Twilio’s $50/month SMS costs
5. AI hallucinations are polluting scientific literature with fake citations
6. I used AI. It worked. I hated it. A developer’s tortured relationship with tools that feel wrong but function