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Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open(opens in new tab)
The curl project has decided to alter its vulnerability disclosure program procedure and starting October 26 2026, we insist that all vulnerability reports submitted to us that are deemed to be severity LOW or MEDIUM should instead be submitted as ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 408(opens in new tab)
Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar(opens in new tab)
The Accessibility Compat Data project has a homepage now, and you should support the project(opens in new tab)
Lectura.info: A new RSS reader(opens in new tab)
I always knew it was inevitable that I’d build my own RSS reader. I’ve been reading blogs since the 2000s. I’ve been blogging since 2005 (teenage angst blogs that are long dead), but on a more serious note since 2010. ...
Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art(opens in new tab)
My obituary for programming(opens in new tab)
My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to ...
From the DF Archive: Should a CEO Be a Nerd About Their Company’s Products?(opens in new tab)
Apple Event, in Los Angeles, Next Week: ‘Pro and Tell’(opens in new tab)
★ Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers’ Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos(opens in new tab)
No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like pre-ordering, at the crack of ...
Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too(opens in new tab)
The Real Reason(opens in new tab)
Startup configuration files(opens in new tab)
Learn how to use startup configuration files to run package entry points when the Python interpreter starts up. A startup configuration file is a file with the extension .start. Starting from Python 3.15, the Python interpreter uses startup configuration files ...
No More Icons In Every Menu By Default(opens in new tab)
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in Golden Gate! John Gruber wrote about this reversion back ...
Everyone is hacking their TV ⟡ VoidZero Framework Open Sourced ⟡ OpenCode Hacked ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Your Life’s Work is Worth More Than Your Inventory: How Technical Due Diligence Helps Preserve Manufacturing Business Through a Change in Ownership(opens in new tab)
Big W is now offering technical due diligence to investors who want a clean, risk-based assessment of their target’s quality system and operations. We are the only known consultancy that is highly versed in the requirements and customer expectations of ...
Ex-Apple Employee Fred Potter on HomeView(opens in new tab)
Design Compliant Hinges(opens in new tab)
Netflix Lays Off 6 Percent of Staff(opens in new tab)
Time Magazine Profiles John Ternus(opens in new tab)
My Favorite Mechanical Keyboard... I Think(opens in new tab)
At my desk in 2005(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The technopolitics of ad-tech: Spying is good for tech, context is good for publishers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PNH x Mike Ford; Singapore v Far East Economic Review; Publishing v bestsellers; Architecture v ...
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Blake fears: “I have heightened fears about being replaceable or less valuable in my job. If all I’m doing is prompting an AI bot, why am I being paid so much? The terrifying liminal space between code-writer and bot-prompter - ...
What requirements don't you have?(opens in new tab)
Your prompts kinda suck(opens in new tab)
llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1(opens in new tab)
Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed. Tags: datasette, llm
llm-echo 0.5(opens in new tab)
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts ...
Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive, and Harvey Richards, the Greatest Lawyer in the History of Fiction(opens in new tab)
WorkOS AuthKit(opens in new tab)
Verizon Is Going to Charge $10/Month for iPhone Handoff(opens in new tab)
🔥 If you wanted to build a programming language…(opens in new tab)
If you wanted to build a programming language that LLMs "can't" use, you'd just make all the keywords, commands, docs, and APIs framed in terms of bomb-making, bioweapons, committing suicide, and child pornography. Way easier https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
Gurman on HomeView: ‘Finished Units Have Been Sitting Boxed Up in Warehouses for the Better Part of a Year’(opens in new tab)
Claim Chowder: The Information on HomeView Having a ‘Robotic Swiveling Base’(opens in new tab)
Apple Issues Statement on Duo Demand Far Outstripping Supply(opens in new tab)
First Kontact(opens in new tab)
Manton Reece’s Spitball Theory on Why the Wall-Mounted HomeView Costs the Same as the Version With the Subwoofer Base(opens in new tab)
Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed on His Allegiances(opens in new tab)
Sunday, October 18, 2026(opens in new tab)
🔥 On one hand, I'm glad that this fleet of agents…(opens in new tab)
On one hand, I'm glad that this fleet of agents is finally taking full advantage of the resources on my Ultra-class Mac Studio. On the other hand, I'm a little annoyed that redlining macOS in ways that manual human activity ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 161(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for firing up Twine again and thinking you know what, if this swanky IF plotter had been around when I was an undergraduate, I might have preserved all my exam revision notes in text adventure form. I still ...
Whatever You Say Bounces Off Me and Sticks to You(opens in new tab)
Digital recipe management for fastidious cooks(opens in new tab)
Writing is no longer proof of work(opens in new tab)
Inline rendering with document.currentScript(opens in new tab)
Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline element that replaces itself when the page loads: The year is document.currentScript.replaceWith( new ...
EPIC Vibe Coded Launcher(opens in new tab)
★ HomeView Thoughts and Observations(opens in new tab)
There’s a real “*Why do we need this?*” question here and I don’t think Apple’s video answers it, at all. You need to think you want it if you’re going to buy it. And even if you already had a ...
The terrifying liminal space between code-writer and bot-prompter(opens in new tab)
