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3D Print Secrets Stronger Parts & Snappy Fits!(opens in new tab)
Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media(opens in new tab)
After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop." — Emanuel Maiberg, ...
The New Van(opens in new tab)
I got something I’ve wanted for years and years! A camper van! I’m a camper van guy now! It’s a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and even more technically a Winnebago Revel. I scoured Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and RV-specific sites for a long ...
The AI-Driven Resurgence of Native Mac App Development(opens in new tab)
Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript!(opens in new tab)
We dive again into CSS Pie Charts! This time, Author Antoine Villepreux delivers semantic and flexible charts without a single line of JS. Another Stab at the Perfect CSS Pie Chart… Sans JavaScript! originally handwritten and published with love on ...
Google is Playing all the Layers(opens in new tab)
Thursday, June 4, 2026(opens in new tab)
I have an irrational urge to get a 19-inch CRT and a VCR.I spent several hours changing emacs to startup as a daemon. It turned out to be frustrating, over-complicated, and I didn't really gain anything. I then spent more ...
Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Delusion as a service: Destructive diagnostics. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gay Days at Disney World; Parametric 3D printable key; Fine against sculpture for "storing bike on public property"; TPP is a wash; Reagan ...
Another Gem From the Annals of Nick Bilton Jackassery(opens in new tab)
If There’s One Thing Nick Bilton Knows, It’s Television(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes Autoscaling(opens in new tab)
Workload and node autoscaling in 2026
Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past(opens in new tab)
Scott Pelley on Leaving ‘60 Minutes’: ‘Incompetence and Unprofessionalism in the New Management Have Wreaked Havoc’(opens in new tab)
How I made a 45-video course without wanting to die(opens in new tab)
Tips and tricks from me to you.
AI Predicts the Text of Answers(opens in new tab)
A stream of text reasoning its way through a locked room, landing on the one glowing stone/images/ai-predicts-answers.webp/images/ai-predicts-answers.webp There's a common argument about AI that says it doesn't understand anything about the world. That no matter how impressive it looks, it's ...
The ‘60 Minutes’ Purge(opens in new tab)
3D Modeling Hack Effortless Handle Creation No Supports!(opens in new tab)
CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’(opens in new tab)
The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses(opens in new tab)
AI Crash Math | This Week in Bitcoin 107(opens in new tab)
3D Print Design Supports Print Anywhere, Anytime!(opens in new tab)
Thoughts on AI Adoption Speed(opens in new tab)
A human figure reaching upward, lifted by rising machinery — magnified, not replaced, by AI/images/ai-adoption-speed.webp/images/ai-adoption-speed.webp One of the most talked about AI topics is the speed of AI adoption in companies, and the reasons for it. I want to give ...
offset-path(opens in new tab)
The offset-path property in CSS defines a movement path for an element to follow during animation. This property began life as motion-path. This, and all other related motion-* properties, are being renamed offset-* in the spec. We’re changing … offset-path ...
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I can’t decide whether I like the headingoffset attribute. Manuel Matuzović has written “Context-aware headings in HTML” for the uninitiated. Jake Firefox has a good garage wall video covering the attribute too. It solves a real problem for component libraries ...
@custom-media(opens in new tab)
The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries. @custom-media originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
@function(opens in new tab)
The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can accept arguments, contain complex logic, and return values based on that logic. @function originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should ...
Gitlab Still Can't Win?!(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Joe O’Donnell(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up on Zoom with Joe O’Donnell, co-founder of Canary Data, a fintech startup that builds AI-powered software to help investors analyze opportunities. Joe spent eight years at Tiger Global, where he ran the ...
Layoffs are getting Wild (ft. Big A)(opens in new tab)
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs(opens in new tab)
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget ...
No one cares anymore?(opens in new tab)
Remember the Friday Stream | Launch 69(opens in new tab)
A pond of interesting problems(opens in new tab)
Async Rust: deep dive into cooperative scheduling and Tokio's architecture(opens in new tab)
Threads were designed to parallelize compute-intensive tasks. However, these days, a lot of applications (such as a network scanner) are I/O (Input / Output) intensive. Thus, threads have two significant
More Prompts = Worse Code?(opens in new tab)
A survey of inlining heuristics(opens in new tab)
Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, operate on one function at a time. It is a natural code unit size, especially for a dynamic language JIT: at a given point in time, what more information can you gather about other parts ...
Wandler: Local OpenAI-Compatible Inference With Transformers.js and WebGPU(opens in new tab)
A practical Wandler deep dive with a local M1 Max WebGPU demo, real latency numbers, architecture diagrams, and getting-started commands.
The Case for Talking to Your Computer(opens in new tab)
I've always been a quiet person who prefers to write than to talk (though this may not be obvious based on the number of YouTube videos I've published). So it feels a little weird to say that I think ...
herdr(opens in new tab)
A tmux-like and agent-aware terminal multiplexer.
A Tale of Two Quality Cultures: The Importance of Quality Integration(opens in new tab)
Let's paint a picture of two very different environments, whose root differences can be largely traced back to differences embedded deep in their quality culture. Let's begin with what sadly is more likely to be the default state. "Quality isn't ...
Microsoft's new MAI models(opens in new tab)
Microsoft announced two new text LLMs this morning - MAI-Thinking-1 (reasoning, 1T parameters, 35B active, available to "select early partners") and MAI-Code-1-Flash (137B Parameters, 5B active, "purpose-built for GitHub Copilot and VS Code to deliver high performance and lower cost ...
Rayman Legends was a timeless 2D platformer with beautiful art, but I'll grudgingly admit that its remake is an improvement(opens in new tab)
In my memory, Rayman Legends is a timeless classic. Released in 2013, it arrived at a moment when Ubisoft were becoming best known for po-faced games like Assassin's Creed and innumerable Tom Clancy spinoffs, yet Rayman Legends was a gorgeous ...
Meta Reportedly Has a Slew of New Smart Glasses Planned for This Year(opens in new tab)
Apple, the Anti-‘Metaverse’ VR Company(opens in new tab)
The Metaverse Was Snake Oil for Isolation(opens in new tab)
Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’(opens in new tab)
datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 I want Datasette Agent to be able to generate and execute Python code safely. This alpha is looking promising so far. GPT-5.5 has so far failed to break out of the sandbox! Tags: python, sandboxing, datasette, webassembly, ...
micropython-wasm 0.1a1(opens in new tab)
Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a1 Fixes for some limitations that emerged while I was trying to use this to build datasette-agent-micropython. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, micropython
An Ode to the Exacting Pedantry of Computers(opens in new tab)
The very first computer programming class I ever took introduced me to the idea of there being different kinds of numbers, like integers, floats, and doubles (it was a C++ course). “You mean, when I assign a variable, I have ...