inaturalist-clumper 0.1
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, in...
May 15, 2026
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AI plans are expensive. They’re also wildly unprofitable.
Every few months, it seems Anthropic does something to restrict how you can use their subscription plans, either their $20, $100, or $200 plans, and it gets people upset. I’m not going to sit h...
by Matt Birchler
Apple Developer App 11.0
Zac Hall (MacRumors): The update also adds these changes: Refreshed look with Liquid Glass. List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics. Improved reliability of ima...
by Michael Tsai
OmniFocus 4.8.10
OmniFocus 4.8: OmniFocus 4.8 introduces a visually refreshed interface, adopting beautiful Liquid Glass design elements and a modernized look and feel when run on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, or iPadOS 26...
by Michael Tsai
Wanton Destruction of CBS Property
“Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.” ★
by John Gruber
The New Yorker on the border wall in Texas around Big Bend: The construction strikes many locals as both unreasonable and unstoppable. “You’ve got desert and high mountains and rugged, rough country...
Replacing my ISP router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max
So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were some things I wanted to do with my network that my ISP-provide...
Dropover, a Mac Shelf Utility That Makes Clever Use of Mouse Shaking
Yesterday, regarding the “Magic Cursor” feature Google teased for its upcoming Googlebook/Aluminium OS platform, I wrote: Shaking your cursor over something is an interesting gesture. The only fe...
by John Gruber
Aluminium OS: Google’s ‘Android for PC’ OS for Googlebooks
Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apol...
by John Gruber
15th May 2026 at 19:28
I’ve been meaning to pick up some of the Paper Apps games for a while so a 26% sale seemed like a good reason to pick up the whole set.
by Robb Knight
People discussing NetBSD and Project Glasswing
I’m a long time lurker (and occasional poster) to the netbsd-users mailing list, the official mailing list for NetBSD users. Thanks Ruben, that explanation was helpful. Back on the 16th of April...
by Ruben Schade
It's Really Rather Simple
It's Really Rather Simple img{-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;} table, td{mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;} .mceStandardButton, .mceStandardButton td, .mceStandardButton td a{mso-...
OpenClaw is run like the bleeding-edge project you’d expect it to be. An excerpt from of a longer post by Peter Steinberger on X: Part of what excites me so much about working on OpenClaw is th...
2026.20: Shifting Alliances in a Changing World
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; h...
by Ben Thompson
AI in Everything, Everywhere
After I published AI is the New Netflix, Surj Patel, a former colleague, intellectual sparring partner, and long-time reader, asked a sharp question. Given my argument that AI will drive the next wav...
by Om Malik
Spurs vs. Timberwolves game 6 tonight is going to be big. Nice article at ESPN on the organization’s culture and longevity: On any given day at the facility, a current Spur can walk into a room...
BTW, here's the JSONL version of Scripting News. It has the same data as the RSS file, but in the format that AI apps are looking for, so I am told. I thought I'd try to kick this off by pushing an RS...
Yer So Bad
I really thought I’d slow down on recording after I released Covers, but that hasn’t been the case at all. Not sure how or when it happened, but I already have a nice large batch of songs...
by <span class='p-author h-card'>Geoff Graham</span>
Thinking about adding <source:inReplyTo> to the source namespace. Its value is a URL, by default, and has an optional isPermaLink attribute, a boolean, to indicate if it's not a permalink. Works ju...
I wish they had an outliner in Claude. I would use it. ;-)
Dave's vibe coding amusement park
I reached a point in my Claude work where now I can do vibe coding, in a world that I used to just be a programmer in. This means if I want to do a heavy lift, I can tell Claude what I want and it can...
Sometimes the national anthem at high school track...
Sometimes the national anthem at high school track meets can be a bit painful to listen to, but we were fortunate to hear a fantastic one by a high school junior this week. I must say the effects...
Tito as Gaeilge
Last year Jeremy Keith blogged about completing Duolingo Irish, and I’ve added that as a goal for myself. I found myself in London with him in February at State of the Browser. It’s probably the...
Western Gull, Feral Pigeon
Western Gull, Feral Pigeon, in Los Angeles Area (custom), CA, USI went for a bird walk in the morning before PyCon, and we spotted a local seagull enjoying a Starbucks.
I remain skeptical of Tesla robotaxis and this report doesn’t make me feel better: Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles…...
KDE adds Plasma Bigscreen
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta arrives with Plasma Bigscreen, new Union theme system gamingonlinux.com Another big exciting addition is Plasma Bigscreen, which is KDE's attempt to make Plasma look good on bigge...
by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)
Unexpected Synology Woes
Last weekend my DS1019+ decided, for some unfathomable reason, to stop working after I took it out of the closet, dusted it and put it back, and I have feelings about it. In fact, I’ve had them...
by Rui Carmo
Andrew Sharp has one of the best blog posts I’ve read recently about not just the OpenAI trial, but stepping back to see the big picture of OpenAI’s founding and where things are now. On t...
RMF
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with RMF, whose blog can be found at baccyflap.com/prs/blog. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the n...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
+ The Vision Pro's uphill battle
by Matt Birchler
I work every day on a lot of different things. This requires being able to flow between projects without hitting walls. App review is a wall. It’s a momentum killer. It’s like wading throu...
ChatGPT personal finance is going to be popular, eventually, but initially I expect people to be cautious about giving AI access to their bank accounts. It’s read-only, which I assume is enforce...
Seeing And Believing
Today's devotional can be summed up in one verse: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” — Psalm 19:1 God's grandeur and glory are clearly visible. May G...
Now four days since I appealed the Inkwell rejection. I’ve drafted a full blog post explaining all the problems I’ve run into with app review. Going to hold the post until Monday, just to...
Urban crop circles. “The nerds were right.” 📸
Codex has had a section in the ChatGPT mobile app for a while, but only for the cloud version. The update this week is a rewrite (apparently in SwiftUI) and can connect to a Mac running Codex. Seems g...
15th May 2026 at 11:31
Brian Butterfield will return in Avengers: Doomsday
by Robb Knight
AI-assisted release notes
We have lots of native apps, but I will never use that as an excuse to write generic “bug fixes” release notes. I like including good release notes both for our users and for myself later,...
Secret Life of Insects
I tried something different and managed to capture an insect - maybe a Megarhyssa - walking on a log. It feels like I’m spying on their secret life....
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One’s Happy
The browser is the security boundary. Websites operate within it. Native apps bypass it. Like I said last year: But there’s still one thing that native apps do better than the web. If you w...
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret"...
by @edent
QR code generator
Tool: QR code generator Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks. Tags: tools, ai, genera...
Scripting News: Friday, May 15, 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026 I wish they had an outliner in Claude. I would use it. ;-)# BTW, here's the JSONL version of Scripting News. It has the same data as the RSS file, but in the format that AI apps a...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Tiny Glade is now officially on the Mac...
Tiny Glade is now officially on the Mac! It runs on macOS — yeah! Good to know. It even runs on the A18 Pro Neo. While I’m already running it on my PC laptop, I’m glad it finally has arrived on Mac...
‘Musk v. Altman’ Closing Arguments
Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witne...
by John Gruber
Let’s Run a Neologism Poll
After posting the previous item referencing dickpanels, a term I’ve been using since 2022, it occurred to me that they could also be called dickovers (like popovers, but dickheaded). The latter sound...
by John Gruber
datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit fo...
Rich Guy Quote Journalism
Peter Shamshiri: The answer is that there’s an entire genre of media coverage best described as “rich guy has an opinion.” It’s surprisingly common, and once you notice it you’ll see it everywhere...
by Nick Heer
Separate Lawsuits Claim OpenAI and Perplexity Are Sharing User Data With Third Parties for Targeted Advertising
Madeline Batt, Tech Policy Press: The recent lawsuit Noel v. Perplexity brought the question of AI monetization onto a courthouse docket. Since voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, the details...
by Nick Heer
The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
Una Hajdari, reporting for Euronews: A new independent institute dedicated to making artificial intelligence safer for children will beformally [sic] presented at the Danish Parliament on Tuesday...
by John Gruber
datasette-agent 0.1a2
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2 Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background...
Ascetic Computing
I hope this comes across as fun rather than preachy! At least it has some drawings...
by Dave Gauer
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I w...
Midyear Portfolio Review: The Rotation Worked. Europe Didn't.
× This is a personal-portfolio review for my own long-term book — what I weighed, what I changed, and what the calls cost me through May 2026. It is not a recommendation. In December I...
by [email protected] (Philipp D. Dubach)