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Skyrim’s official IKEA crossover mod might be the most deftly-assembled Elder Scrolls gag ever, if not an ad blueprint other corps should follow(opens in new tab)
I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation, that I’d now be sitting here ...
DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet(opens in new tab)
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives ...
Bargain with demons and boat with the dead in joyful RPG heist quest anthology Thousand Hells(opens in new tab)
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic. It's a witty procession of Orphic descents, ...
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse proves Dead Cells' developers were the right fit for a revival in this blessing for the Belmonts(opens in new tab)
"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters. Rose knows it well, as do indie developers Evil Empire. Following their success with roguelike Dead ...
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Mullenweg with more free time is not good for WordPress. He doesn’t need Automattic and they can’t stop his destruction, WordPress is owned by the Foundation (a board of Matt + two puppets). Or to put it in words prequel ...
The Boring Way to Get to AI Taking Over Everything(opens in new tab)
A charcoal sketch of a faceless purple robot working the levers of a dense industrial machine, beside an empty office chair with a worker's cap left hanging on it/images/slow-path-to-ai-takeover.webp/images/slow-path-to-ai-takeover.webp There's a lot of conversation about how AI could go bad ...
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I can’t believe I just unsubscribed from Smashing Magazine’s RSS feed. When I was starting my career Smashing Magazine was the hottest place for web development news. I published there myself. Smashing Magazine is unrecognisable to me now. The editorial ...
🔥 I think the iPhone Duo might serve me well in…(opens in new tab)
I think the iPhone Duo might serve me well in the Post-Programming Era. Now that 90% of my work is remotely coordinating Codex and Claude from my phone, I need a desktop-class browser more than I need a full-size laptop. ...
Happy 1st Anniversary to Big W!(opens in new tab)
It's hard to believe it, but it's been a year since I started this crazy journey! I nearly missed it, as things have really begun picking up steam. A strong network One of the biggest sources of uncertainty coming into ...
🔥 Normally, the best way to watch an Apple event…(opens in new tab)
Normally, the best way to watch an Apple event is the TV app on an Apple TV, but damn if their use of maxed-out HDR for visualizations combined with sudden cuts back to SDR footage didn't make it feel like ...
They really do think AI might kill everyone(opens in new tab)
Add Run Python Tools With uvx as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Weakest Links(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Introducing Node Lifecycle Conditions(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes has many ways to describe what is happening on a Node. Readiness, taints, Pod state, labels, annotations, and provider-specific APIs each expose part of the picture. What has been missing is a shared, Kubernetes-owned way to say that a ...
Blood of Dawnwalker's troubled power fantasy has me yearning for a more desperate, systemic vampire survival sim(opens in new tab)
Being a vampire is a pretty raw deal... or so the vamps inform us when they are not having freaky gothic sex, shapeshifting into wolves, enjoying the slimming effects of a uniquely low-carb diet, or enduring through marvellous future epochs ...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 40(opens in new tab)
Rally Point: Strong simulation and team building can't carry Menace forever(opens in new tab)
It's probably poor form to do another "what I said in a group chat" (this time, to culture critic Rowan Kaiser. Hermits can namedrop too, shut up) intro, but "Oh i already liked menace, that's why I hate it" feels ...
Zombiepunk action RPG Stupid Never Dies is a vibrant feast for the eyes, ears, hands and teeth, even if it is a smidge overwhelming(opens in new tab)
It's hard to know where to start when talking about Stupid Never Dies. An action RPG built on style, excess and punk ideology. I mean, within the first minutes of my demo starting, I am flushing undead protagonist Davy down ...
WebMCP is here (and you should care)(opens in new tab)
Web-Perf Wednesday 008 – Good INP Rates Keep Falling(opens in new tab)
CrUX shows another fall in good INP experiences, making careful attribution more useful than a quick explanation.
Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Anti-vax/anti-trust: Remembering saves lives. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disneyland prisoner; HOAs v xeriscaping; Copyright Office x regulatory capture; The women held a vote; Open licenses v uncopyrightable subjects; Largest prison strike in history; ...
AGI My Ass(tra)(opens in new tab)
Microcontrollers with good support for Rust(opens in new tab)
Embedded C is something that I would only wish for my worst enemies. On the other hand, embedded Rust has matured to a point where many companies are now shipping
I was tired of building 474 separate pages for Open Graph Images(opens in new tab)
AI Dotfiles - How I Take My AI Workflows Across Projects And Machines(opens in new tab)
Over the past 6 months I've transitioned my entire dev workflow over to agentic engineering. I now have a set of tools I use for coding with AI for both work and personal engagements - across machines...
A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)(opens in new tab)
"For safety, don't click suspicious links" Meanwhile, most organization's login flow redirects through: # This is a real example, but I've changed the names to avoid pointing fingers https://www.[name of company].com/squawk/ https://login.[name of company].com/ https://login.smallcrow.com/324aa78a-03a6-66fc-23e1-4124fdsa213 https://experience.crow-cloud.com/[name of company]/auth https://flock.auth.bird-security.com/authorization https://api-deadbeef.bird-security.com/oauth/v1/authorize?token=DeAdBeEf ...
chroncal(opens in new tab)
All in one calendar, tasks and journal manager in the terminal.
Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents(opens in new tab)
Add Use Claude Code From Multiple Accounts as a Claude Code TIL (opens in new tab)
#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 ...
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 ...
"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, ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
🔥 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 ...
