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Back to Fish Shell(opens in new tab)
Apple’s Annual Environmental Progress Report(opens in new tab)
Claude remembers when you swear(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Comrade Trump: Burning down the American empire to save it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA's threat-based 'education'; Cuehack; Heinlein on GWB; AT&T v the internet; British tax-havens v HMG; What is neoliberalism?; Newspaper ...
How to buy a used graphics card: spotting scams and dodging duds in the memory shortage crisis(opens in new tab)
Oh boy, you’re looking to buy a new graphics card in 2026. As exciting as that is, howeber, there is one big catch: you have to buy a new graphics card in 2026. The impact of ongoing memory shortages is ...
Did Claude really get dumber again?(opens in new tab)
Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026(opens in new tab)
[Folk Fest] is not an intellectual experience, it’s an emotional experience. Bob Banghart Visiting Alaska gives me the feeling that people are chasing after when they travel: a little taste of what it’s like to be a part of another ...
Markdown + Astro = ❤️(opens in new tab)
Although Astro has built-in support for Markdown via .md files, I'd argue that your Markdown experience can be enhanced with MDX. Markdown + Astro = ❤️ originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter ...
The AI Wars(opens in new tab)
Rating and Roasting Your Projects(opens in new tab)
#477: Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
GOOSE IT UP(opens in new tab)
I’m in school1 again. I’m going back to school because my work, my entire career, for my entire adult life, has been writing things for the Internet. That’s going away,...
How we lost the living Now(opens in new tab)
Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nanosecond, shipped in real ...
663: The 99.8% Rescue(opens in new tab)
Build yourself flowers(opens in new tab)
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded ...
Weak vs. Strong AI Rollouts(opens in new tab)
Weak vs Strong AI Rollouts diagram/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp/images/weak-vs-strong-ai-rollouts.webp I get to see and help with a lot of Anterprise AI rollouts. Some are brilliant, but most even in 2026 are surprisingly bad. I've been thinking about and trying to summarize what I ...
Robin Sloans Magic Postcards(opens in new tab)
Hook It Up to the Machine(opens in new tab)
In the early 2000’s, my parents took us on a road trip to Glacier National Park in Montana. We made the journey in our new (used) family van: a green Dodge Caravan whose reputation was soon to become “a lemon”. ...
Jessica Chastain Says Apple TV Will Finally Release ‘The Savant’(opens in new tab)
Why one of the world's largest digital banks chose Clojure and Datomic(opens in new tab)
WorkOS FGA: The Authorization Layer for AI Agents(opens in new tab)
Linux Dev Time – Episode 148(opens in new tab)
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Just have such strong nostalgia for this song. Still slaps. Close second from MC Chris. Curious, this record isn’t streaming anywhere, and he just makes the album available as downloadable MP3’s in a Google Drive.
Death of the whiteboard problem(opens in new tab)
The Mythos Situation | TheStandup(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
Sundays are for watching Youtube videos about different types of laminate primer and working out if you've taken on too much by redecorating the kitchen. One video will recommend one brand and 120 grain sandpaper, another will talk about MDF ...
Dice rolling and more on Minimal Character Sheet(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires(opens in new tab)
AI SaaS Replacement is the Fire of Fires/images/blog/the-fire-of-fires/header.webp Added to my reminders this week: - Cancel Zapier - Cancel Resend - Cancel Figma - Cancel Canva - Cancel Browserbase - Cancel Supabase Recreated all this in my own PAI harness ...
★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’(opens in new tab)
Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.
Mac Mini and Mac Studio Supply Shortages(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Georgia's voting technology blunder: It's possible for Dominion machines to suck, but not in the way that Tucker Carlson says they do. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GWB's illegal iPod; McDonald's breakfast sandwich fanfic; ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
I don’t know about you, readers, but this past week’s gone by in a bit of a blur. Did I volunteer to take WAWAPs for today, or was I forced at Ziff Davis canteen sporkpoint? I can’t even remember, but ...
Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts(opens in new tab)
Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted(opens in new tab)
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens(opens in new tab)
Font data (C header) All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font. ...
Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments(opens in new tab)
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54(opens in new tab)
Add Define A Set Of Class Methods as a Ruby TIL (opens in new tab)
What’s !important #9: clip-path Jigsaws, View Transitions Toolkit, Name-only Containers, and More(opens in new tab)
This issue of What’s !important brings you clip-path jigsaws, a view transitions toolkit, name-only containers, the usual roundup of new, notable web platform features, and more. What’s !important #9: clip-path Jigsaws, View Transitions Toolkit, Name-only Containers, and More originally handwritten ...
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a strong comeback for a strategy RPG series with few modern competitors, though it could explain itself better(opens in new tab)
It's been over a decade since the last Heroes of Might & Magic game, and more than 25 since we set foot in the fantasy world of Enroth, the setting of the first three titles in the strategy series. So ...
With the right settings, Pragmata can hack it on the Steam Deck - more or less(opens in new tab)
Sci-fi dadblaster Pragmata is Capcom’s second smooth-running RE Engine game in two months, dishing out loads of ray-traced frames on muscular PCs while still running at a decent clip if you don’t quite meet all of its minimum system specs. ...
Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
Prompt BATTLE! Recreate NASA's UI without coding.(opens in new tab)
Friday, April 17, 2026(opens in new tab)
Rally Point: Genre-crushing choose-your-own strategy Heart of the Machine might be peak Arcen(opens in new tab)
Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before Times of 2015, the ancient age before even that of 2013, and perhaps, some fringe scholars suggest, even before the beginning of this sentence, there was Arcen ...
Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Tiktokification shall set us free: Zuck keeps accidentally freeing his hostages. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: B2B Trotsky; Public service games; NZ 3 strikes rule; Snowden, vocalist; Obama says money compromised him; Bullshit treescrapers; ...
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Atlassian software is where user experience goes to die. Microsoft aspires to reach the soul destroying level of misery that is Atlassian. I was especially fond of the two-factor roulette game in which I had to guess which one of ...
This model is kind of a disaster.(opens in new tab)
Jensen vs. Dwarkesh on China Chips(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrbq66XqtCo Dwarkesh Patel talked to Jensen Huang in this videohttps://youtu.be/Hrbq66XqtCo, and I wanted to make a couple of points about it. I take Jensen's point about not wanting to give up a tech stack to a competing country — wanting ...
