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I can't even describe how beautiful this movie is. Every frame a painting. A Vermeer. The way they look at each other throughout is the greatest thing. This was my 5th or 6th watch and I still can't breath for ...
Exploring the new HTTP Query method with first principles, what is the need for new method, and where it sits. We explore the limitations of GET and the unintuitive use of POST methods for filtering
sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package, including support for complex table transformations, automatic table creation from JSON ...
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions. Tags: sqlite-utils
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well. Short version: you ...
This is my first Father’s Day without my dad. It’s been two months since he passed at the age of 99 after a brief illness. Today would normally be a day I’d drive down to have lunch with my parents. ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Chris Van de Voorde, the founder of JUUNOO, which makes reusable, modular interior walls for construction, at his office near Union Square. We had coffee and Danishes from Ole & Steen. ...
AI has ruined just about everything. My self-hosted journey has focused on software because homelab hardware costs are through the roof. I heard the situation was bad so I checked the prices on stuff I bought in 2024. Yeah… that’s ...
Sundays are for sitting by a window in your pants eating cold pasta, as a game of football meanders through its grassy paces on a screen not too far away. Light curtains drawn in an attempt to eliminate any chance ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad for the world. Some quick post-debate thoughts: I think Zach is very wrong about the tech itself and its capabilities, and the speed with which it's ...
RFC 10008 is brand new a specification detailing the new HTTP method called QUERY: This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and ...
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to think and talk about AGI and ASI. I've thought a lot about these terms in the past, but they're mushy in my mind now in ...
Today's links How the Epstein Class recruits: Oh wait, THAT'S what this was?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA blasted in WSJ; RFID skimmers; Post-Soviet inventions; "Farthing"; "Dirty, Drunk and Punk"; Dweb v founders' frailty; Tax ...
I'm not addicted to the internet. I'm not remotely addicted to my phone. What I'm addicted to is sitting at a computer. Some days I sit here all day, just clicking on things and farting around with software that I ...
I haven’t played Slay the Spire 2 for a couple of weeks. The new patch invited me back. They replaced final boss Doormaker with Aeonglass which I’m now learning has a boring mechanic. I turned a bad Necrobinder deck into ...
Saturdays are for realising that there are ASMR playlists for Frictional's Amnesia games. ASMR playlists, for games that make use of subliminal crackling noises to suggest mounting delirium, and Shepard tones to create the impression that a life-saving generator is ...
What I loved and hated
My last attempt at a vacuum tube technically worked, but not very well because there was a lot of glass between the anode and cathode: Because of this, many any electrons that miss anode and build up on the glass. ...
The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the ...
Today's links The Big Con: Making the pile of shit bigger won't increase the number of ponies underneath it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: TVA v SETI@Home; Telemarketers v DHS batphones; Matt Stone's MPAA censorship memo; ...
You’ve probably heard the term. It’s meant to convey how difficult it can be to start something. “Blank page paralysis”. But for my money, beginning is easy. Finishing is the hard part. In software, they call it “the last 90%”. ...
Companies with money but no AI vision burn down while the disciplined few pull away/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp Absolutely insane to me the damage that multiple companies have done to themselves with their AI strategies. - Meta spent...
Billionaires rarely make for very interesting fabulists - they have people for that sort of thing - but in their obsession with securing a legacy, they do necessarily spend a lot of time in the realm of make-believe. Nowhere is ...
CSS is hard and it should be hard. For good reason: “CSS isn’t just a complex language, it’s one of the most advanced graphics, layout, and typesetting languages available in computing. The deskilling of web dev is harming the product ...
Let's poke at the differences between scroll-driven and scroll-triggered animations. A First Look at Scroll-Triggered Animations originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
::interest-button is an interesting idea. It’s trying to solve the accessibility concerns of Interest Invokers — tooltips and hover cards being the go-to examples. How do they work if a user can’t hover? Slap a button everywhere is one answer. ...
Bug fixes and performance improvements
When you first start Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator, you're standing in a small office annex of the walking artillery unit you call home. A board in front of you lays out the process of firing the turret's cannon. First ...
I just ran a quick benchmark comparing the different xxHash hashing functions on an AMD Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., XXH3 is
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with will do. Or a card component ...