datasette 1.0a30
Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The extensible "Jump to" menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on t...
May 24, 2026
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Cinnamon desktop is getting its own, native screenshot tool
Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop, ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when taking screenshots and will...
by Joey Sneddon
datasette-agent 0.1a4
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a4 Taking advantage of the new makeJumpSections() JavaScript plugin hook added in Datasette 1.0a30, datasette-agent now presents this "Start a new age...
datasette-fixtures 0.1a0
Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating...
Predicting AI job exposure
It would be really nice if we had some way to analyse which jobs, companies and industries were exposed to AI, and if we could assign scores, and build charts, and map that against the progress of lar...
by Benedict Evans
The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we...
by Gergely Orosz
Western conference finals, game 4. 🏀
When I read that someone on Bear asked for help to manage photos, I couldn’t resist diving in 🧑💻 Here’s what came out of it: Bear gallery upload plugin
Quoting Armin Ronacher
The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the...
Canonical to shut Ubuntu Pastebin after 18 years of service
Canonical will decommission its long-running text-hosting service Ubuntu Pastebin on May 31. The company is pulling the plug as part of a broader “infrastructure modernization and migration proj...
by Joey Sneddon
Adapting Vintage Glass to Sony In Its New Outfit: Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 Specifically.
Adapting Vintage Glass to Sony: Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 Specifically. Subtitle: So Close, Sony… So Close. You Need To Copy Off Of Fujifilm’s MF Aid Homework. The Outfit. Wrote...
by Eric L. Woods
Why Steve Kerr Stayed With the Warriors
Terrific, poignant profile of Warriors head coach Steve Kerr by Wright Thompson for ESPN: Kerr doesn’t want the Warriors to end up like the New England Patriots, marred by grudges and grievances....
by John Gruber
I asked ChatGPT for a list of FeedLand features that are new or distinctive. "FeedLand combines RSS, OPML, public curation, subscribable reading lists, rivers, categories, and realtime WebSocket updat...
Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games
Tool: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games Via Hacker News I learned that UK publisher Usborne published free PDFs of their 1980s Computer Books, some of which I remember wo...
If you’re wondering why I’m posting status updates here even though I wrote Last blog post — I’ve decided to sunset the blog on the last day of May 😊 Haven’t decided yet if I&...
Bear gallery upload plugin
I read Harry's post Bear Community, I need your wisdom and thought to myself, "What an awesome Sunday tinkering challenge". This is what I came up with: A Bear dashboard gallery plugin. After adding t...
by robert
Agents want flexible schemas
My friend Matt Holden says that LLMs are fuzzy compilers. I like this analogy. It points toward the profound shift that is happening in software.The thing about computers is that they can do anything...
by Gordon Brander
Alexa has a terrible habit, when I ask for a song from the Echo on my desktop, it ends each song with a helpful message. There's a live version of this song, do you want to hear it. You have a message...
People who believe in the web, stop dissing RSS, it’s an important part of our future.
+ Three things watching The Crow made me think about art and artists
by Matt Birchler
What to Read This Weekend
I have been missing in action for a couple of weeks. I apologize for my tardiness, but I have been busy with personal matters. Both my heart and mind were not in it. Anyway, this week I have some gre...
by Om Malik
Looking at the Daylight computer again, so nice. I love that the “smooth video playback” section uses Steamboat Willie for the video clip. Public domain Disney. 🎉
Notes for May 17-24
My sinuses are still giving me grief, but this week was much more successful at pretending to be enjoyable, at least. For starters, we watched Project Hail Mary, and it was every bit as good as I wou...
by Rui Carmo
24th May 2026 at 15:32
Playing shadowlands everywhere I go today
by Robb Knight
Love: I ask Claude for a list of names and values, it responds quickly with exactly what I asked for. Nothing more. Unconsciously I say "perfect" -- out loud.
Trying out the new Bluesky support in the WordPress reader. Very cool. Similar to what we’ve tried to do with Micro.blog, but totally different user experience, which is great.
I have a Mac laptop that I keep updated with the latest versions of Mac OS. I got a warning today saying that Electric Drummer won't run on the next release of the OS. Now I don't use it very much if...
Potret Terbaru Demografi Indonesia: Perubahan (Mungkin) Datang Lebih Cepat.
Setiap satu dekade sekali, Indonesia melakukan Sensus Penduduk. Namun di antara dua periode sensus itulah Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) menggelar Survei Penduduk Antar Sensus, atau yang dikenal dengan...
by hasanuddinali
My Linux Journey: Back to Debian pt.2 and Ranking Linux Distros
In the spirit of my upcoming Linux guides, I feel that it's quite the right time to make a special post, which mean besides telling about what happened with my system, you will also see my own ranking...
by disil
Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now available to download
Daily builds of Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ are now available for download, as development on the distro’s next major release kicks in to gear. As the name suggests, new ISOs ar...
by Joey Sneddon
TechCrunch review of the Bee: In a world where the average person is beset from all sides by constant digital surveillance, I appreciate any opportunity I can get to not be recorded. Therefore, the i...
On Trails is a wandering tale that blends hiking, science, and history
Hiking is one of life's great joys. Turning off the screens and stepping out into nature for an extended period of time, perhaps even several days, is rejuvenating. Unfor...
by Terrence O’Brien
Signing homework
I’ve reached the point when it’s getting hard to keep up and help my oldest daughter with her homework. Chinese lessons may be the perfect example of that. Not sure my signature on a C...
by [email protected] (Jeremy Herve)
Apple’s latest MacBook Air is $200 off in both sizes for Memorial Day
If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll still perform well several years from now, Apple’s latest MacBook Air is hard to beat. Now, in particular, is a good time to pick o...
by Sheena Vasani
Clicking around on Peter Steinberger’s release.bar. Interesting repo summaries. Because all the Micro.blog apps are open source, looking at my account provides a snapshot of recent changes.
244 ☼ Feeding Light to Hungry Film
Dear friends,A few weeks ago I loaded a Mamiya 645 Pro with a roll of Kodak Ektacolor Pro Gold 160 ISO filmt that expired in the year 2000. The camera was built in 2000. The film expired in 2000. And...
warmth
Recently I’ve been contemplating about the self, or perhaps a better word is the psyche. I’m thinking how noisy it is: it generates a ton of feelings and thoughts, and the wa...
by Winnie
Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our...
by Robert Hart
Why Nuro thinks being a robotaxi ‘second mover’ gives it an advantage
Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US. A number of companies, includi...
by Andrew J. Hawkins
App Marketing: Free App Analytics vs all the “Free” paywall companies
When SensorTower acquired AppMagic earlier this week it got me thinking about why. AppGoblin and many other tools offer many free and open resources for what SensorTower and AppMagic charge thousands...
by James O'Claire
Scripting News: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Sunday, May 24, 2026 I asked ChatGPT for a list of FeedLand features that are new or distinctive. "FeedLand combines RSS, OPML, public curation, subscribable reading lists, rivers, categories, and rea...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Yunnan IV · Lijiang
A week in Lijiang — ancient towns, medicinal hot pot, and architecture that looks more like Tibet than China.
The Orchestration Tax
Starting more agents is easy now. However, more agents running doesn't mean more of you available - your cognitive bandwidth doesn't parallelize. All the judgement to actually steer them and merge the...
Rebuilding My Blog In Elixir
A recent bout of a hacking cough gave me plenty of late nights to hack… and as a result this blog has a new architecture. 🎉 The Problems I had accumulated several problems that I wanted to solve: M...
Building Pi With Pi
Pi is now part of Earendil, but in the important sense it is still Mario’s project. He has been living with its issue tracker longer than I have, and he has been exposed to the weirdness of the...
by Armin Ronacher
Moving the blog stack to Europe (kind of)
AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). × AI-generated, one-shot from the blog title via Gemini (Nano Banana). There’s a version of this story where I...
by [email protected] (Philipp D. Dubach)
How DORA Made Sovereignty a Bank Problem
× I’ve heard variants of the same line from probably a dozen people in the last six months. A consultant I know has done more US-to-EU migrations this calendar year than in his en...
by [email protected] (Philipp D. Dubach)