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Do I prefer Linux now?(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech: Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sex work synonyms; Carthedral; French pirates; Suffragette surveillance; Hidden library ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026(opens in new tab)
#487: Minimum requirements(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: dust - a better du Hermes Agent: The AI agent that grows with you llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk ...
sqlite-utils 4.0rc4(opens in new tab)
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 The last RC before the 4.0 stable release. Mainly implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5. Tags: sqlite-utils, claude-mythos-fable
Blog about things you don't understand yet(opens in new tab)
★ Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’(opens in new tab)
Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.
Add Lint And Format Project With Ruff as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Late Night Linux – Episode 393(opens in new tab)
Markdown Now Has a Uniform Type Identifer (UTI) in Apple’s Version 27 OSes(opens in new tab)
DIY Hinges Avoid This Common Friction Mistake!(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Anthony Vinci(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Anthony Vinci, co-founder and CEO of Vico, a startup that produces forecasts of political, geopolitical and economic events, in midtown. We both had tea. The idea behind Vico is to mine ...
Do You Read The Code? ⟡ HTTP Gets a NEW Method ⟡ Codex Gets Sol Ultra ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Backblaze Versus Dropbox(opens in new tab)
Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’(opens in new tab)
ATP Member Special: Mac-Assed Mac Apps(opens in new tab)
Sell 3D Prints With Portals(opens in new tab)
Behold the perfect algorithm!(opens in new tab)
1984, Minority Report, Black Mirror — bedtime stories compared to the horrors the UK Government publish, am I right? I’m led to believe “Watch this space” is the latest propaganda piece from His Majesty’s Nanny State. I haven’t read past ...
Monday, July 6, 2026(opens in new tab)
Introducing kiac: Real Kubernetes Nodes on Your Mac, Each Its Own Lightweight VM(opens in new tab)
kiac runs local Kubernetes on macOS where every node is its own lightweight VM via apple/container: kubeadm or k3s flavors, Cilium on a custom kernel, built-in LoadBalancer, Grafana, Gateway API, and clusters that survive reboots.
Write a coding agent from first principles: better tools(opens in new tab)
Improve the capabilities of your agent by providing it with better tools. Introduction This tutorial builds on the coding agent you implemented in the tutorial “Write a coding agent from first principles”. In this tutorial, you'll take your agent and ...
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Browser Hacks were a necessary evil in the Internet Explorer days. I thought they were a relic of the past but recently Safari has tempted a resurgence. Eric Meyer’s post on split-cell table headers uses @supports to detect Safari. I ...
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“Generative AI killed that career. Towards the end, I was asked to replace my thoughtful activity with ill-gotten slop. My prior activity was supported by my unique relationship with the tools and practices learned and refined over a long career ...
LIVE PREMIERE July 17th, 7pm UTC | The Java Story | The Official Documentary(opens in new tab)
S3 is a better abstraction than NFS / networked block storage(opens in new tab)
While I agree that S3 is far from perfect and I would love to see a newer S4, the Super Simple Storage Service, from what we've learned in the past
Customizing my Xteink firmware and wallpaper(opens in new tab)
I got the Xteink X4 device, and it's really fun to hack around with!
Stephan's Quintet(opens in new tab)
North is right (mirrored). 0.53"/pixel [17'x12' field]. FWHM=3.7" Ok, this is a crazy one. Five tightly spaced galaxies with visible tidal interactions: However, looking at redshift data, the blue spiral on the left is ten times closer than all the ...
C2PA only works if everything is signed(opens in new tab)
Create a shared task to deduplicate logic listing recent TILs (opens in new tab)
Add two new browsing tasks for popping open latest TIL in browser (opens in new tab)
Add Deduplicate List While Preserving Original Order as a Unix TIL (opens in new tab)
1000 3D Printers Live with Slant 3D(opens in new tab)
LAN Before Time(opens in new tab)
Making a Shuffle Button(opens in new tab)
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of this writing, I have 974 “notes” that I’ve published. For ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026(opens in new tab)
The Sunday Papers(opens in new tab)
You know what, reader? Sundays are for whatever you goddamn feel like. Go swimming. Get lost in the woods. Take a kintsugi pottery class. Fix a broken appliance. Eat more than one hot dog. Learn Welsh. Smash your kintsugi pottery ...
What America has meant to me(opens in new tab)
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Travel notes: PLDI Boulder(opens in new tab)
I had another excellent PLDI this past June. It was my fourth1. I continued to meet new people and learn new things! Overall: I got to meet a lot of new people, which was exciting. I had some good chats ...
Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix(opens in new tab)
Add Set Up Pyright Type Checking In GitHub as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
Now is the winter of your discontent, console blaggards: the RPS team reflect on PlayStation going digital-only(opens in new tab)
This week brought the news that Sony will stop selling physical PlayStation games at the start of 2028. Not just for their own games, but third-party, too. Here in the world of PC gaming, we've largely been without physical game ...
What are we all playing this weekend?(opens in new tab)
This weekend marks the first wedding of the season (and the first of three in July alone). There will be suiting, there will be booting, and there will be demanding the DJ plays Toxic. Though, I might change up the ...
Add Generate Permutations Of All Valid 9-ball Racks as a Math TIL (opens in new tab)
Better Models: Worse Tools(opens in new tab)
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not ...
★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job(opens in new tab)
Felix Rieseberg, quite obviously, is the answer to the question why Claude is an Electron app. It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw ...
Why Don't We Put Handguns in the Convenience Aisle?(opens in new tab)
We don't put handguns in the convenience aisle/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp/images/handguns-in-the-convenience-aisle.webp A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate. Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the conven...
Linux After Dark – Episode 125(opens in new tab)
Fixing full-bleed CSS(opens in new tab)
I’m a front-end developer not a medical practitioner. If you’re bleeding IRL visit the hospital and stop googling medical issues! The full-bleed layout — as described there by Josh Comeau — can be done with CSS grid (and subgrid). Sometimes ...
what if websites were felt?(opens in new tab)
