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California Brown Pelican(opens in new tab)

California Brown Pelican, in Fort Mason, CA, USI'm at the Microsoft Build conference today, held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. There are California Brown Pelicans diving into the water directly behind venue! Tags: microsoft, ai, generative-ai, llms, llm-release

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Get in! My ascension 10 wins in Slay the Spire 2 continue. I finally ran a deck with The Defect that felt coherent. 4 Claw combined with 3 Feral and just enough block.

::search-text(opens in new tab)

The CSS ::search-text pseudo-element selects the matching text from your browser's "find in page" feature. ::search-text originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

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Overview of Digital Accessibility Technologies by Declan Chidlow is an insightful list of lesser-known technology. How do website makers ensure what we’ve built is accessible? It is impractical to test everything. Even with access to all devices we’d struggle to ...

Pasted File Editor(opens in new tab)

Tool: Pasted File Editor I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attachment instead. ...

micropython-wasm 0.1a0(opens in new tab)

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a0 My latest sandboxing experiment: This alpha package bundles a lightly customized WASM build of MicroPython with a wrapper to execute code in it via wasmtime. Tags: python, sandboxing, webassembly, micropython

Social RSS (?)(opens in new tab)

What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would probably not be as cool ...

Challenge and opportunity(opens in new tab)

I am back! Ten days “offline”. For me that just means online without talking to anyone. My break came at a time of high industry (and personal) stress. “Seeing talented people lose motivation bums me the hell out. Reach out ...

Monday, June 1, 2026(opens in new tab)

STATUS: All-in Linux and Emacs...againTODO: Finish staining the deckWATCHING: "Nemisis" on NetflixI love the first day of a new month. I get to print new calendars, review photos from last month, create a new monthly spread in my notebook, etc. ...

Best part about using fountain pens(opens in new tab)

Refilling some pensThis might be my favorite part about using fountain pens.Inks:iroshizuku shin-kai in the Lamy 2000. It's a beautiful blue.Noodler's Bernanke Blue in the Pilot Custom 823. The Pilot has a juicy nib so, being left-handed, I need a ...

Pika Backup(opens in new tab)

I chose Pika Backup for backups on Linux because it's very basic and simple to use, which is at least as important as features. Anyway, I somehow stepped on May's org-journal file and was able to browse the backups and ...

#482: Mr. Beast's episode(opens in new tab)

Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Brian #1: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective Marcelo Trylesinski suggested by Lee Luocks Short version: ...

May 2026 newsletter(opens in new tab)

I just sent out the May edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Al got expensive, and Anthropic had a really good ...

datasette 1.0a32(opens in new tab)

Release: datasette 1.0a32 A minor bugfix release. Fixes a bug with INSERT ... RETURNING queries via the new /db/-/execute-write endpoint and a bunch of base_url issues which showed up when I was experimenting with Service Workers yesterday. Tags: datasette, annotated-release-notes

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Holy moly! I pulled of back-to-back shiv builds in Slay the Spire 2 to destroy my first ascension 10! And I was beginning to lament how difficult The Silent is to pilot. I even took down the two bosses without ...