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Add Use Claude Code From Multiple Accounts as a Claude Code TIL (opens in new tab)
The Bulldozing of an Interface(opens in new tab)
Marcin Wichary has a lovely article titled “Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2”. If you’re into the minutiae of interface design, this is a good ‘un. It perfectly illustrates how impossible it is to try and compare two interfaces side ...
#495: Banned(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: EuroPython 2026 videos are online The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back htmx 4.0.0 has been released 🐍 Functionally Zen Extras Joke Watch on YouTube Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our ...
The Socrates Agent(opens in new tab)
A charcoal sketch of four slumped people being fed sheets of paper by a tall purple machine, while across the room one person writes at a wooden desk and a small purple Socrates leans in with open, empty hands/images/the-socrates-agent.webp/images/the-socrates-agent.webp One ...
Openai Releases GPT 6 Astra ⟡ Vitest 5 is Here⟡ Audacity 4 Gets a facelift ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
AI/ML and complex batch workloads continue to push the boundaries of Kubernetes scheduling. Following the foundational workload-centric enhancements introduced in previous releases, Kubernetes v1.37 delivers the next major milestone in the Workload-Aware Scheduling (WAS) journey. In this release, the core ...
NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUs(opens in new tab)
Bit of an anticlimax, really. After months of (justified) revulsion and anti-anticipation over Nvidia DLSS 5’s AI rendering, it’s now available in a live game - license laden b-baller NBA 2K27 - and it looks... maybe not that bad? This ...
CodePen: exposed!(opens in new tab)
I promise this post is not merely a comment on a Hacker News submission because good lord that would be desperate but that is where I’m starting: “They send all typed into editor input to codepen.dev almost immediately (you would ...
★ SuperDuper 4(opens in new tab)
SuperDuper feels like impossibly good software.
Gemini spent all my money(opens in new tab)
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Question for Svelte enjoyers! Can you help me? I’m migrating from Svelte 4 to 5. I have an old component with a default slot. This is a reduced example: This was used like so: — whereby doTheThing callback was attached ...
"20 players is the sweet spot": Guild Wars 3's action game combat is a first for MMOs, but it doesn't work at traditional raid scale(opens in new tab)
Arenanet are keeping a lot of Guild Wars 3 hidden away. Throughout the short presentation of their new fantasy MMO, the refrain is 'We're not talking about that yet'. Mounts, professions, dynamic world events, even shops and the economy are ...
🔥 Gonna go on record one last time and say that I…(opens in new tab)
Gonna go on record one last time and say that I hope Apple names its folding phone the iBook.
Watch the Plot(opens in new tab)
Charcoal cutaway of a three-story building: a small purple glass lab on top where researchers admire a humanoid robot, and two much larger sienna floors below crowded with a family at a kitchen table, an old man in a sickbed, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 402(opens in new tab)
The Good Person Bank(opens in new tab)
A charcoal sketch of a man whose head is an open purple ledger with a rubber stamp on it, dropping coins into a donation box held by a smiling person on his left while his other arm shoves a startled ...
Humans Aren't Aligned Either(opens in new tab)
Charcoal sketch of a man in a long coat holding a carpenter's level against an upright purple machine, while behind him a toppled column smokes and small figures huddle in the rubble/images/humans-arent-aligned-either-header.webp/images/humans-arent-aligned-either-header.webp One of the weirdest t...
Kimchi(opens in new tab)
Open weights, open harness
Automatically detecting AI text in my browser(opens in new tab)
llms.txt adoption, one year later(opens in new tab)
Almost exactly a year ago, I measured how many of the top one million websites had adopted llms.txt, the web experience optimized for LLMs. Back then, the number was 1.22 %, or around 12k domains. A lot has happened in ...
Add Generate Image Alt Text Across Claude Models as an LLM TIL (opens in new tab)
New York State Fair Giant Horses and Baked Potato(opens in new tab)
★ And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map(opens in new tab)
What we want is a system where geographic names are determined democratically, by voting. And that is the system we in fact have.
Combat and socially agonised teens impress in Persona 4 Revival, the RPG that series director Kazuhisa Wada feels a "duty" to make(opens in new tab)
Look, before you say it, I know. Persona 4 Golden is held up by some as one of the best and most important RPGs ever. After all, it was the series' Final Fantasy 7 moment, where many of the mechanical ...
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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem (Gamers Nexus, YouTube) We all know that smart TVs phone home but it’s far more invasive (and illegal) than you could possibly imagine. Unplugging the network is not even safe because ...
Monday, September 7, 2026(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner Bros; Privacy wars get worse; "Weapons of Math Destruction"; HK ...
Stop Pretending You Understand Your Codebase(opens in new tab)
Website Speedrun(opens in new tab)
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?(opens in new tab)
I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up ...
Trying a new Emacs config(opens in new tab)
Linux Dev Time – Episode 158(opens in new tab)
🔥 Maybe it's because I got to see it in IMAX, but…(opens in new tab)
Maybe it's because I got to see it in IMAX, but I really liked Christopher Nolan's Castaway reboot. Casting Zendaya as Wilson was a bold choice, though.
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for luxuriating in the chill of the September air and hoping for more of the drenching rain that's ended the summer heat. Though, it's a luxuriating that's quickly pierced by the worry that we've seen the last warm ...
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After discovering shin honkaku detective fiction and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, I’ve read: Murder in the Crooked House (Sōji Shimada) The Decagon House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) The Mill House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) Shimada’s second book (translated into English) is far ...
🔥 Biggest knock on Astra so far is that when I…(opens in new tab)
Biggest knock on Astra so far is that when I raise an issue during a long-running task, it will acknowledge my concern and then stop all work. Then I put the Tim Cook anecdote with "then why are you still ...
How I Clean My Glasses(opens in new tab)
I'm near-sighted and worn glasses ~daily for the past decade or so. It took me awhile to find a simple and effective approach to cleaning my glasses so here I wanted to share what I've found useful. H...
Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians v looking at the internet; Advice for self-publishers; Advice for writers; ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
This is the first Saturday in a month I've woken up without a blocked nose or a mucus-hurling cough. Trips to Spain, Sweden, and Germany in quick succession and loaded on top of a cross country bike ride may have ...
🔥 First Astra impressions: it's like Fable, but…(opens in new tab)
First Astra impressions: it's like Fable, but faster. If you value your time, I can't see why you'd drive a coding agent with anything less than a Fable/Astra model. They produce so much less rework.
Latent Powers(opens in new tab)
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, ...
Socratic AI(opens in new tab)
A charcoal sketch of a student at a desk with a finished handwritten page in front of him while a purple AI figure across the desk hands his pencil back to him, its other palm open and empty/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp I've been ...
Cliff's Notes for Everything(opens in new tab)
A sienna sketch of a man squatting under a giant open book he is lifting overhead, while a purple robot arm on a desk hands a striped summary sheet to a faint gray figure/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp There's something really interesting about the ...
Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user ...
★ Writing With Unnatural Constraints(opens in new tab)
It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.
Abattoirs of taste(opens in new tab)
I keep hearing this damned word pop up and it’s starting to annoy me. It’s fast-tracking its way to becoming the free space on buzzword bingo for magic 8 ball enjoyers. That word is “taste”. I’ll try to define “taste” ...
Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights(opens in new tab)
Full disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper. "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting into sadness as the two other members of my space station infiltration team stepped forward under the ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 64(opens in new tab)
