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Shot from 90 perspectives, 88 focus stacked images each. Nikon Z8, full frame, f/7.1, exposure 1/160, ISO 100, Laowa 180mm macro lens, with LED light and blu...
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 have gotten ample attention for their whizbang Unreal Engine features and potential major cast resurrections, but one of their key 'enhancements' may seem horribly dry: their creation will be much, much better documented than ...
Penpot has a bug that makes it practically unusable. I guess I’m just unlucky, or does nobody else use Penpot? At least one person does because they reported the bug three weeks ago. That’s a long time unless we’re both ...
Today's links There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple Stores exist; Responsible spam; Australia loves Hollywood('s copyright); ...
A compromised npm maintainer account published 637 malicious versions across 317 packages including size-sensor, echarts-for-react, timeago.js, and hundreds of @antv scoped packages, affecting 15M+ monthly downloads.
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last ...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, will be released on May ...
A browser-based game on online profiling.
This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s Creator Studio icons. It’s the ...
Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
A substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2, particularly on long-horizon agentic tasks.
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one! Didn't get a ...
The Largest World Download Project in 2b2t, and in Minecraft altogether. Full info + Renders + Timelapses (+ Torrent soon) - 2b2tplace/1m_release
There are whispers on the wind that a new trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 will be out this week. There were whispers it would be last week, too. Whenever the next look at Rockstar’s open world crime-’em-up arrives, it's ...
This is Part 1 of a two-part series about cross-document view transitions, going over all the gotchas, from ditching the deprecated way to opt into them to a little-known 4-second timeout. Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions originally handwritten ...
How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer? I’ll share my advice below. I’m also looking for front-end folk to advise me too. What are your whetstones? That is to say: sources of news and knowledge to ...
For many players, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will never be anything other than a seedy clone of ZA/UM's reputation-making Disco Elysium – a soul-sucking forgery of a doomy leftist masterpiece, whose original lead writers and designers have been ousted ...
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training ...
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
In 1713, Johann Sebastian Bach sat down at his desk in Weimar and began copying out concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. He transcribed them note for note, in his own hand, working through at least nine of the L'estro armonico concertos ...
