Rewatched: Strange Darling (2023) 🍿 Decided to give it a rewatch. Good stuff. Clever chronology. Beautifully shot (as in cinematography).
May 16, 2026
46 articles
i stopped looking for the weird problem
i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow. but then i realized claude has all the code, so i could just tell it my problem. can you find it, i asked, realizing i had not given it info on what the problem i...
One Night (Cheese) Stand. Free samples. The text in Swedish says “Taste me, no one needs to know.” 🧀
Reddit Is Blocking Some Users From Accessing Its Website From Mobile Devices
Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay...
by John Gruber
Santa Clara County Sues Meta Over Alleged Scam Ads
Brandon Pho, reporting for San Jose Spotlight: The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that instead of cracking down on deceptive ads designed to trick users out of their money, Meta has hamstrung its o...
by John Gruber
9-1-1: Nashville
This was pretty good albeit a little over dramatic at times.
by Robb Knight
★ AI Is Technology, Not a Product
Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (News+ link to get around...
by John Gruber
Warelay -> OpenClaw
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this...
Star Fox for Switch 2 Trailer
I rented this game so often as a kid. This is likely going to be an instant-buy when it debuts. ●
Leveraging My Second Brain to Build a Chief of Staff (and Secretary)
I have been head-deep in Claude for the last six weeks or so. Every single aspect of my exploration and discovery with an AI tool is old hat for those leading the charge. But in my Canadian accountin...
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
Samantha Cole, writing for 404 Media: Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language...
by John Gruber
Trained: Upper · 48 min 💪 Working out on a Saturday, that’s what I call progress. Let’s see how long it lasts 😅 Incline Bench Press (Dumbbell) · Lat Pulldown - Close Grip (Cable) · Chest Press (Mach...
Exemplary humanship: Kindness costs nothing, but brings great value. Politeness isn’t difficult, but makes you a master. Humility is available to all, but makes those who practice it seem unique...
Just released an update to Epilogue for iOS with some fixes and a better posts list, which now includes your movie and TV show blog posts.
Quoting Julia Evans
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it serio...
A quarter of a century of open educational technology
Link: 25 Years of OLDaily, by Stephen DownesIf you’re not in educational technology, it’s possible you might not know who Stephen Downes is. If you are, there’s no way you don...
by Ben Werdmuller
Yellow flowers and crape myrtle. Yard work today for one of the last visits to my mom’s house.
Browsing: Even the dogs have started to notice from Juha-Matti Santala 🔗 My happy feels have made a difference, not only to me, but the animal friends around me.
I documented the optional source:inReplyTo element for RSS 2.0.
Heathland Trees
The other day, I visited the Hoge Veluwe with some friends that came visit. We spent most of the times on the classic white bikes, so I ended up not taking many pictures. However, we did stop...
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
Schools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit...
by Terrence O’Brien
Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?
Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas writes about the warning signs that Bitwarden might be heading for a private equity sale. The irony is that founder bu...
Stockholm Burger Fest 2026 — thought I’d beat the bun-ch by getting here before opening. That was a mi-steak and a rare experience. 🍔
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
The variety of terrible is impressive. After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarif...
by Terrence O’Brien
Announcing ios-linuxkit: Linux on iPad, the Hard Way
I’m done waiting for Apple to fix things. And one of the things I think should exist is a decent way to run Linux binaries on my iPad. And after almost six months messing about with ARM emulati...
by Rui Carmo
NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi talks about living with too much tech
Manoush Zomorodi tackled tech’s effect on our brains, now she’s looking at our bodies. | Image: Tory WIlliams Manoush Zamorodi is an accomplished reporter, podcast host, a...
by Terrence O’Brien
Turtle Beach made a good SteelSeries headset clone that’s $50 less
Both of these headsets are stellar in different ways. I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn't have to say much to get me excited abo...
by Cameron Faulkner
Exemplary humanship
I rarely watch any kind of sport, but yesterday a tennis video caught my eye. The title was 6 Minutes of Roger Federer Exemplary Sportsmanship. What a wonderful watch! A great athlete in more than one...
by robert
Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?
Bad news about Bitwarden. Apparently their CEO changed, and everything looks like they are preparing for a sale. Bitwarden has also stopped listing “Inclusion” and “Transparency” as tentpole values o...
Working on server upgrades. Hosting costs have ballooned out of control again, good opportunity to rethink the right balance of memory and storage. Some servers have really high uptime and can be repl...
Here are our favorite last-minute deals from REI’s giant Anniversary Sale
REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — is still going strong, letting you save on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you’ve got a camping t...
by Sheena Vasani
Using a MariaDB jail with Dynmap for Minecraft
Recently I posted about our Minecraft server, and mentioned on Mastodon that I’d rebuilt our Dynmap server with MariaDB. A few of you wanted to know what I was talking about, what I did, and why...
by Ruben Schade
Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)
Today's links Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permane...
by Cory Doctorow
Karl the Fog visited us in northern Sydney
He’d already started to move on by the time I was done with my morning shower, but wow. For perspective, this is just down the road from where I saw the rainbow earlier this week. I learned abo...
by Ruben Schade
These are the laptops I recommend for pretty much anyone
Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most expensive tech purchases you’ll make, and it’s something you’ll use and...
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The app you need to clean up your computer
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 128, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry this one's so Mac-heavy, and also...
by David Pierce
Mixtape is a musical portrait of teenage life
Playing Mixtape is like playing a video game version of a high school movie. Kids banter about the meaning of life and the theme songs that would play when they walk in a...
by Jay Peters
16th May 2026 at 08:14
Happy Lagwagon Day to all those who celebrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYOA4-xNaA
by Robb Knight
Scripting News: Saturday, May 16, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026 I documented the optional source:inReplyTo element for RSS 2.0.# i stopped looking for the weird problem# i'd wait till a fresh start tomorrow.# but then i realized claude has...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Notable links: May 15, 2026
Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did I miss something important? Send me an email to let me know.After the FeedI think...
by Ben Werdmuller
The Talk Show: ‘A Sociopathic Father’
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich co...
by John Gruber
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of Products at OpenAI, a Very Stable Well-Run Company
Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. Op...
by John Gruber
Don't Outsource the Learning
Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading future capability for present-day speed, and...
Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker
I built ZIP Shrinker, a little browser tool to shrink ZIP files. It also works with formats that are secretly ZIPs underneath, like EPUB, JAR, and many more. Try it out! How does it work? At a high le...
Love Hultén Works
Spend enough time with Love Hultén's work and you start to feel like you're mapping an alternate world — one built from wood, electronics, and a very particular kind of whimsy.
Even the dogs have started to notice
The past three weeks, I’ve been shouting my good feelings into the aether. The other day, I tooted: I have regained happiness in my mornings, clarity in my thoughts, creativity in my...