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Maurycyz

Arp 29: The fireworks galaxy

North is right. 0.55"/pixel (26'x26' field). FWHM=3.7" This one is in the Atlas of Pecular Galaxies under "one heavy arm", which checks out: the eastern arm (down) is considerably bighter and denser than the others. However, it's mostly known for ...

Simon Willison

datasette-acl 0.6a0

Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instances finely grained control ...

Daniel Miessler

10 Prompts to Run When Fable Comes Back

A runner coiled in the starting blocks, looking down a glowing purple lane/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp Fable, or something as good or better. Fable is just the temporary hotness. Now that people have tasted Fable and had it pulled ...

David Rupert

Spoons by Sam

I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast of logic, misdirection, and wordplay. It’s a frequent topic of conversation ...

Annie Mueller

This is it

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous...

Simon Willison

Quoting Charity Majors

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, ...

CSS Tricks

The Siren Song of ariaNotify()

There's a brand new ariaNotify() method — defined by the WAI-ARIA 1.3 Specification — that provides a means of programmatically triggering narration in a screen reader. The Siren Song of ariaNotify() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You ...

TalkPython

Astral joins OpenAI

OpenAI just acquired Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. And if your first thought was "wait, is uv toast?", you are not alone. But here's the twist Charlie Marsh shared with me: he thinks they may ship more ...

Simon Willison

NetNewsWire Status

NetNewsWire Status I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, really good - free from any commercial pressure. The software is NetNewsWire - "it's like podcasts, but ...

Simon Willison

datasette 1.0a34

Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table pages, and edit and delete are also available as ...