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🔥 Opus 5.5 seems impressively competent and…(opens in new tab)
Opus 5.5 seems impressively competent and snappy! Get all your work done now before they nerf it to hell next week.
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I’m considering if I should replace my AI policy with simple: “No, never.” As I noted at the end of “I said no and Apple said yes” it’s impossible to keep up with this bullshit. Every day there is a ...
EVE Online Departs for Python 3(opens in new tab)
Every ship in EVE Online eventually undocks and leaves the station. This time, it's the whole game. EVE has run on Python 2 since it launched in 2003, all 2.4 million lines of it, on a custom Stackless interpreter that ...
🔥 A players hire A agents and B players hire C…(opens in new tab)
A players hire A agents and B players hire C agents.
Spotlight on SIG Apps(opens in new tab)
As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform services. At the same time, they must remain ...
Prebuilt Steam Machine faceplate screens are here, delivering decent, surprisingly cheaper alternatives to Valve-approved DIY builds(opens in new tab)
If you own a Steam Machine, and still cling to the misconception that my budget faceplate ideas aren’t good enough for you, you basically have three options for front panel customisation. The first is to grab something off Etsy or ...
JEV is the coolest(opens in new tab)
I said no and Apple said yes(opens in new tab)
The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that ...
Today's changes might get Xbox a new Halo sooner, but history shows production line development makes for boring games(opens in new tab)
When I was younger, I loved Chewits. Each parcel of chewy sugar threatened to tear out a tooth, but their punch of strawberry, blackcurrent, and orange flavour was hard to resist. Left to my own devices, I would take packs ...
I taught an old man new tunes in rhythm-action shopkeeper sim Mr. Records, and now you can try the demo yourself(opens in new tab)
One of the bright spots of a miserably grey Summer Game Fest 2026 was Mr. Records, a mashup of rhythm-action autorunner and casual vinyl shop management by music game specialists Glee-Cheese Studio. I’ve since played a demo – which you ...
So I was using Fable wrong...(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs: A "settlement" that promises less than nothing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Warren on taxing the rich and class warfare; Psychology v reproducibility; Copyright troll sentenced for ...
How to Think About the Difference Between Choice and Score in Jev(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx9Z3ZXca0 First, if you want to understand Jev at a deep level, this Latent Space interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx9Z3ZXca0 with Diogo Almeidahttps://typesafe.ai/team, the TypeSafehttps://typesafe.ai co-founder who built it, is currently the best resourc...
Late Night Linux – Episode 404(opens in new tab)
DuckDB Now Ships inside dbt v2(opens in new tab)
dbt v2, which runs on the new Rust-based Fusion engine, is the first dbt release that ships with a built-in DuckDB adapter. This post covers setup, DuckLake and Iceberg catalogs, querying dbt's Parquet metadata with DuckDB, plus other v2 features ...
Making OAuth 2.0 auth code flows work between containers and their host OS(opens in new tab)
A Great Story Capturing the Essence of Being Online in 2026(opens in new tab)
I made a note of it, but Bryan Cantrill wrote a post about the ex-Anthropic employee who pegged the probability of AI killing humanity in the next decade at >10%. The article is a good one and you should read ...
Is the Jev Hype Overblown? ⟡ Claude AGENTS.md support ⟡ TinyCast smaller Raycast ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37: Tracking When a PersistentVolumeClaim Was Last Used (Beta)(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime feature gate to Beta (enabled by default). With this feature, the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) protection controller adds an Unused condition to each PVC, telling you whether any running pod currently references it — no custom tooling ...
How to Use a Keyboard with 26 Keys(opens in new tab)
AI Model "Black Boxes" Are Dangerous(opens in new tab)
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It’s a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation. It’s been rollercoastery after DigitalOcean’s acquisition. Thoughts: I have zero background knowledge of what’s going on. Just thought I’d share my gut.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links The Claude Delusion: What if we're the ones having hallucinations? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 v sex; 9/11 v flags; US customs v diplomatic Vegemite; CIA torture survivors speak; HP's inky timebomb; "The ...
I Think Our Main Agents Will Have Names(opens in new tab)
Isometric cutaway of a house at night: the owner asleep upstairs in sienna while four distinct purple people work the lamplit rooms below, one at the front door with a lantern, one sorting his mail into a ledger, one at ...
“AI, make the website good”(opens in new tab)
Jev is incredible(opens in new tab)
Pool Party(opens in new tab)
The iPhone Model Hall of Fame(opens in new tab)
John Gruber makes his picks for the iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone 5S iPhone X iPhone 17 Pro Ok, my turn. Here’s my iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone X iPhone 12 Mini ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 159(opens in new tab)
🔥 Apple has been extremely cagey around usage…(opens in new tab)
Apple has been extremely cagey around usage limits for Private Cloud Compute, only sharing that subscribers of higher tiers of iCloud+ are allowed more usage. Well, my apps make liberal use of Apple's language models and I'm now constantly hitting ...
🔥 It's too bad Amphetamine for macOS is free.…(opens in new tab)
It's too bad Amphetamine for macOS is free. Given how many engineers' AI workflows depend on keeping their MacBooks awake at all hours, if only they'd charged a subscription they probably could have raised $50M at a $3B valuation by ...
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away ...
Grit your teeth and ship it(opens in new tab)
System One models like Jev can train their own replacements(opens in new tab)
🔥 First impressions: Series 12 is a *massive*…(opens in new tab)
First impressions: Series 12 is a massive performance improvement. Siri AI is much faster than on the 11, and for the first time the podcast app can actually play and download shows on demand without crapping out multiple times.
The Danger of AI Isn't an Off-Switch(opens in new tab)
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th(opens in new tab)
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
It's well and truly not summer now. I'm writing this with the lights on because the screen's backlight is suddenly too bright for these eyes grown weak and lazy by the abundance of natural illumination. Read more
A Year of Linux, a Month of Omarchy Quattro—Part 3(opens in new tab)
This is my Part 3 about [[Omarchy]], after using it for more than a year full time, as my main daily driver first on Lenovo ThinkBook 14 AMD, and now TUXEDO InfinityBook, for my business and personal use, replacing my ...
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The plan was to read Seishi Yokomizo but two different authors caught my attention: The Moai Island Puzzle - Alice Arisugawa The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino Moai Island was great. Perhaps my second favourite of the shin ...
My Early Thoughts on Jev(opens in new tab)
A charcoal sketch of a small purple sorting machine taking in a flood of envelopes, dropping most into bins, and sending two glowing envelopes up a narrow ramp to a large engine behind it/images/jev-decision-gate.webp/images/jev-decision-gate.webp Okay, I’ve got a video coming ...
ISO 9001 / AS9100 Clause 7, Part One, Resources: What It Takes to Actually Run the System(opens in new tab)
Clauses 4 through 6 were about knowing your business, leading it, and planning. Clause 7 is where the standard asks the blunt follow-up question: do you actually have what it takes to do any of it? Clause 7 covers a ...
I Can't Believe Sam, Dario, and Elon Agree(opens in new tab)
I’ll be at Axe-Con 2027(opens in new tab)
What? Axe-con ’27: The world’s largest digital accessibility event. Where? At your computer. When? February 23-27, 2027 Who? Me! I’m a keynote speaker along with Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). There will be 70+ other amazing ...
Do You Prefer Artificial?(opens in new tab)
“Artificial” things can get a bad rap next to their counterparts, but they have their place. For example, artificial light (i.e. not from the sun)? Super useful, especially at night. And when it comes to skiing, I’ll take artificial snow ...
Add Format Amount As Currency as a Rails TIL (opens in new tab)
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 65(opens in new tab)
“Programming” monitor(opens in new tab)
I’ve been rocking an LG monitor that has noticeable burn-in. The old dog takes a while to flicker into life too. I’ve had it around eight years (the Dell before it lasted ten). I think the monitor is too dumb ...
🔥 Glad people are reporting success with Siri AI,…(opens in new tab)
Glad people are reporting success with Siri AI, but I never had a single positive experience with it all summer. Three times yesterday I watched it spin endlessly, reply "I don't understand" to banal requests, or just blink and disappear. ...