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TL;DR: I rewrote Name My Color to use Web Components instead of React!

This week Anthropic announced that to comply with an EU AI Act they would watermark text generated by Claude models.

The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game by C.

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So I read this story about Trump’s teleprompter operator allegedly betting on words that Trump would say during speeches, and wow what a 2026 story that is!

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a wild ride, and maybe it’s because I’m on vacation and disconnected from the world (relatively speaking) but I devoured this 400 page book in a day and a half!

Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love by Michael Schur My rating: 5 of 5 stars (probably closer to 4.5 stars) I would read Michael Schur (Parks and Rec, The Good Place, A Man on the Inside, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Rutherfo…

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I like this book, and it (almost by definition) very hopeful!

Happy Pride everyone!

Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell My rating: 5 of 5 stars The world being what it is, I am getting more and more defensive about not reading depressing things (books, social media, movies).