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My blog is standard.site ready but I’m pausing full integration for now. I desperately wanted the fancy button but after its novelty wore off I’ve accepted the truth. The Bluesky button is bad UX. This has been widely complained about ...
I have no RAM, and I must scream
Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API
Demo sessions are often terrible ways to see a game, doubly so at conferences. You want to sink into a game at your own pace (and with unbroken access to fresh cups of tea), not get dropped into the middle ...
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
Exactly on this day, September 25 2001, Apple shipped version 10.1 of their OS X operating system. The one they later would rename to macOS. Exactly twenty-five years ago today. Within all their fancy release presentations and videos there are ...
The best platform for cycle-accurate retro PC emulation may just be the Mac. The M6 achieved a stable 600MHz clock using a 6.0 derived 86Box build.
SAFA details the full exploitation of CVE-2025-13032, turning a double-fetch vulnerability in Avast's kernel driver into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11.
Charcoal cutaway of a tall sorting tube: a figure drops a slip into the funnel, eighteen gauges along the tube steer it, and it drops into the fifth of seven machines that grow larger from left to right/images/glance-routes-model-and-effort.webp/images/glance-routes-model-and-effort.webp Every pro...
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I read way too many comments about DHH's Rails World keynote, and the substantive arguments seem pretty thin. Some people who love Ruby and Rails seem to feel disappointed/depressed/afraid to be told the things they care about don't matter anymore. ...
Hugging Face hosts hundreds of thousands of datasets, and DuckDB can read them directly, exactly where they are and without downloading anything, over the DuckDB `hf://` protocol. This post looks at how the integration works and the scenarios where it ...
Paste a URL or a prompt. Get a launch video, written and rendered by Opus 5.5 on an OpenComputer serverless agent. No video model.
Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags: git
Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use. Tags: javascript, datasette, web-components, ...
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner AWS has just released something fascinating in the form of CloudWatch Omni. I want to be upfront before I dive further: "CloudWatch Omni" is a wretched name ...
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the question everyone is asking
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Dudes? Hot off the heels of the release of their massive multi-year sequel project Crashlands 2, ...
For seemingly the sixth time in my career, DHH has arrived at the same conclusion I have—this time, that AI coding means we should be building more native apps, because development cost is no longer the bottleneck—but the way he ...
Alice and Bill have identical Apple devices. Only one gets Apple’s strongest iCloud protection.
A few people suggested Radicle so I listed it as a GitHub alternative. Well it turns out Radicle is not a serious project. “Two critical security vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes were reported. Disclosure of Vulnerability ...
Purple machines pour signals into a funnel that lets one spark fall onto a seated figure's phone, while a ribbon from his mouth feeds a projector that turns it into film/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp My AI stack and harness LifeOShttps://github.com/danielm...
I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only options for local sales ...
A type foundry for bastard web fonts.
Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla. When is Toyota...
I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.
Across my 6 iOS apps, each GitHub issue is automatically triaged and assigned by an orchestrator agent to be implemented by a subagent UNLESS it's been labeled as "human" for specification or verification reasons. At this point, less than 10% ...
