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This was the most boring Apple Event I've watched in decades.

jbaber built a web version of the sing-song encoder/decoder.

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil Dash

A good programer will produce orders of magnitude better code with AI.

We watched "Murder Building" (Le Crime du 3e Étage) yesterday.

I don't like slop.

I love this. > Claudette is our solution to Claude being a great engineer with one incurable condition: it talks like it's delivering a TED talk about its own pull request. github.com/adnanakil/no...

This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section).

Me, trying to explain that crypto-rails have already solved a problem to the atproto crowd.

@luciano wrote: writers use emdashes ai learns how to write from writers people who don’t write think emdashes signify ai writing how are we supposed to help these people?

Good morning

Today I had a long discussion with Eric, a professor of architecture from Austria while we were both enjoying the afternoon by the sea.

I call this a “blog”, but I keep using the term I used many years ago only out of convenience.

A summer morning.

Pre-1150 (Old English) fēdan: "to nourish, give food to, sustain" — the base verb, from Proto-Germanic *fōdjan, ultimately PIE *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed"). 1570s–1580s (agriculture/animals/plants) First noun use of "feed" (1575, George Gascoigne): fo…

Like postcards of a beloved place and time.

Big news.

If the title was "Meta developers accessed the internet and hacked another firm", the reactions would have been different.

Codeberg is such a disappointment.

For every one of my blog posts, my static site generator1 pre-computes an atproto TID defined by the post date time and its slug: const TID_ALPHA: &[u8; 32] = b"234567abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; fn atproto_tid(date_rfc3339: &str, slug: &str) -> Result<S…

I think I have completed my setup.

ENS is an extraordinary piece of tech.

Airports are special places.

I've spent some time in bsky.app and exploring the ATproto ecosystem (atmosphere).

Debating anti-LLM zealots and toxicity is a huge waste of time and energy.

Z80 has turned 50.

bckt v0.7.5 is out, with lots of performance improvements that make a huge difference for blogs with a large number of posts.

SPACEX price bellow IPO opening price.

AI agents are increasingly being used to review code, summarize documents, analyze contracts, and answer questions.

I install a lot of small tools.

Shell history is one source of leaked credentials.

polyagency: the practice of engaging in or being open to using multiple AI agents concurrently.

CSAR is a proposed EU Regulation whose purpose is "to prevent and combat child sexual abuse" (procedure 2022/0155(COD))1.

You share your blog post on X, Facebook, Bluesky, etc and you know it will be presented so much better if it has an image.

Bloatware is not a recent invention but recently, I see so many products "just like X, but with 100 more features".

This was fun: A "Where Is Waldo" game for QR codes.

It was never about Balogun, a relatively unimportant player compared to the rest of World Cup teams roasters.

When I moved to a static blog, I also removed comments.

I'll write more about listnr, a fediverse bridge for my statically generated blog.

Testing ActivityPub

Derek Thompson wrote one of the most interesting things I've read lately.

Frontier LLMs are becoming infrastructure.

My EU age verification post triggered a long debate on lobste.rs.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Washington, Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma said the U.S. and the Netherlands share common goals over preventing sensitive technology from ending up in dangerous hands.

There is a lot of chatter about online age verification.

It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — a new Linkfest, in which I sort through the planet-wide digital rummage-sale of the Internet to locate the finest items of culture, science and technology, just for you.

Open Tab: Kevin Kelly The radical optimist on starting Wired, stories from the early internet, originating 1,000 True Fans, and why the only way to steer technology is to use it https://on.substack.com/p/open-tab-kevin-kelly Some people are worth listening

I updated my homepage: People evolve and change, the homepage should stay in sync with the owner.

bubbles.town is a beautiful way to dicover blogs and posts.

@simonmaechling wrote: We don't have an information problem.