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Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog · 11:58 PM

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document....

We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World

On my Om · Blog · 11:30 PM

I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his moth...

by Om Malik

California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog · 11:08 PM

California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, in San Mateo County, CA, USWe took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chi...

Scenes Seen/Father & Son Gallivanting: GFX + ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2.

Eric L. Woods · Blog · 10:44 PM

Scenes Seen/Father & Son Gallivanting: GFX + ROKKOR 58mm f/1.2. The motivation. The usual. Photography as a distraction. Much needed nowadays. The setting. Took the rig wherever I wen...

by Eric L. Woods

Two new search experiences in Jetpack Search

Jetpack · Dev · 10:18 PM

Site search used to mean picking between whatever your theme renders and a separate overlay UI that doesn’t always match the rest of your site. Jetpack Search Blocks project closes that gap. Th...

by Jasper Kang

Father & Son Gallivanting/Analog Therapy: Fujifilm GA645 Professional – Lucky 200.

Eric L. Woods · Blog · 10:13 PM

Father & Son Gallivanting/Analog Therapy: Fujifilm GA645 Professional – Lucky 200. The camera. The ridiculously consistent and great performing Fujifilm GA645 This Old Camera: Fuj...

by Eric L. Woods

Greenland 2: Migration

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · Blog · 10:09 PM

If you suspend disbelief so that the distance they cover in vehicles leftover from an apocalypse feels realistic, this is still not a good movie.

by Robb Knight

A search built for your WooCommerce store

Jetpack · Dev · 10:05 PM

Shoppers don’t search the way readers search. They want to narrow by category, brand, price, rating, and stock status — and they want to do it without leaving the results page. Jetpack Search B...

by Jasper Kang

Build your search page with blocks

Jetpack · Dev · 9:57 PM

Most search results pages look the same: a list of titles, a snippet, maybe a date. Whatever your theme ships is what your visitors get — and if you want filters, sort, or a different empty state, yo...

by Jasper Kang

Viltrox Appreciation Post: One Graduation Celebration, Three Lenses, & A Vintage Z2 Mini TTL On-Camera Flash.

Eric L. Woods · Blog · 9:49 PM

Viltrox Appreciation Post: One Graduation Celebration, Three Lenses, & A Vintage Z2 Mini TTL On-Camera Flash. Subtitle: Far better flash than its humble $39 price point would lead one to belie...

by Eric L. Woods

Sennheiser’s new Momentum 5 headphones have upgraded ANC and a replaceable battery

The Verge · News · 6:00 PM

Sennheiser is sticking with the redesign it introduced with the Momentum 4 Wireless. | Image: Sennheiser Nearly four years after the last version of Sennheiser's Momentum...

by Andrew Liszewski

fragcoord.xyz

Robin Rendle · Blog · 5:53 PM

Huh: FragCoord is a real-time GLSL fragment shader editor. Write shader code on the left, see the result rendered instantly on the right. No setup required — just start typing. That’s from the docs...

The Wave

Robin Rendle · Blog · 5:38 PM

Alessandra Ram: Every major technological boom has produced the same figure, the person who gives everything to the wave...

Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive

The Verge · News · 5:33 PM

The Ferrari Luce will start at €550,000 in Italy, but US pricing hasn’t been announced. | Image: Ferrari After months of teasers, Ferrari is offering the first full view o...

by Adi Robertson

Iris Rejected From the App Store

Michael Tsai · Blog · 5:31 PM

Tyler Hall: Rejected after six days waiting for review, and four minutes after launching the app for the first time. The app uses one or more entitlements which do not appear to have matching functi...

by Michael Tsai

OpenAI Model’s Proof of Erdős Unit Distance Problem

Michael Tsai · Blog · 5:31 PM

OpenAI (Hacker News): This proof is an important milestone for the math and AI communities. It marks the first time that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solve...

by Michael Tsai

Apps for YouTube℠™®!

Michael Tsai · Blog · 5:30 PM

Jeff Johnson: Several of these apps have a link to a privacy policy web page that’s hosted on a generic free site such as sites.google.com, docs.google.com, github.io, wixsite.com, or vercel.ap...

by Michael Tsai

Google’s Intelligent Search Box

Michael Tsai · Blog · 5:30 PM

Sarah Perez (Hacker News): The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a...

by Michael Tsai

Why it’s totally ok that I quit my bikepacking trip

Jan-Lukas Else · Blog · 5:28 PM

As I wrote, I had planned a bikepacking trip covering a total of 224 km. Well, things didn’t quite go as planned. Shortly after my post, I changed the route due to a lack of good camping options along...

Blogging, it's been a minute

Robert Birming · Blog · 5:16 PM

This sentence took a couple of seconds to write. This one has more words in it, partly because of this unnecessary filler in the middle, so it took a bit longer to write. Maybe a minute in total now....

by robert

The Ferrari Luce

512 Pixels · Blog · 4:51 PM

Ferrari has unveiled its new four-door EV, designed by Jony Ive. It’s a quad-motor monster, clocking in at 1,035 horsepower, a mere 757 more than my used Toyota Tacoma. I like some things about...

Hanging out with JY and Don Park

Scripting News · Blog · 3:35 PM

I've worked with both these guys, JY Stervinou and Don Park, for a long time, and now we're in the same sphere again, and it's very useful to be able to tell them about what I'm doing. They understand...

25th May 2026 at 16:27

Robb Knight • Everything • RSS Feed · Blog · 3:27 PM

Nobody on Four in a Bed gets angrier than the people who run B&Bs in Blackpool.

by Robb Knight

Moat: A Security Review for Your GitHub Account

Laravel News · Dev · 2:48 PM

Moat is a new tool from Nuno Maduro that reviews the security posture of a GitHub user, organization, or repositor...

by Eric L. Barnes

Cox Media fined after bragging it spied on users through their phones

The Verge · News · 2:28 PM

An exceptionally weird controversy has come back to haunt Cox Media and a pair of marketing firms, which claimed they were secretly listening to users via phones and smar...

by Adi Robertson

The Ask

Rands in Repose · Blog · 2:05 PM

Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he’s fine. Status meeting — listen. Staff meeting — read the notes from last...

by rands

Building a real-time power outage map with Next.js on Vercel

Vercel News · Dev · 2:00 PM

by Ben Sabic

Apple Shortcuts Versioning

Initial Charge · Blog · 1:41 PM

Manuel Grabowski: It’s almost impressive what a miserable, useless piece of crap the Shortcuts app remains. First off: No actual concept of versioning or upgrades for shared shortcuts. Sharing shortc...

by Mike Rockwell

Manton Reece · Blog · 1:16 PM

Apple insisting on approving beta versions of iOS apps that are going to just a handful of people remains one of the dumbest possible things about the App Store. A waste of time for everyone. Likely m...

Scripting News · Blog · 1:12 PM

Speaking of memorials, do you remember UserLand Frontier and all the cool stuff we developed with it? Like Manila, Radio, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, adding so many cool open features to the web. When people...

The Pope used his first encyclical to warn about tech centralization

Ben Werdmuller · Blog · 1:12 PM

Link: In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few, by Claire Giangravè for Religion News ServiceIt’s perhaps a sign of how integrated technology...

by Ben Werdmuller

Scripting News · Blog · 1:10 PM

Good morning. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. We remember all the men and women who gave their lives to keep our country safe and a bastion of liberty for the world. Don't give up on us ye...

Managers Are Struggling to Keep Up with the AI Productivity Boom

HBR.org · Magazine · 12:05 PM

To avoid being a bottleneck, they need to change how they work, give feedback, and communicate.

by Liz Fosslien

Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)

Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers · Dev · 12:00 PM

This article is a sponsored by ProtoPie There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “do...

by [email protected] (Eric Joseph L.)

Retiring BurnRate (In Favor of Claude’s Status Line)

Tom McFarlin · Blog · 12:00 PM

A few months ago I shipped the first version of BurnRate (and another version after that). It’s a macOS menu bar app that showed your Claude Code usage limits at a glance. It solved a re...

by Tom

Manton Reece · Blog · 11:52 AM

Working a little on our Strata app this morning. There were a few changes for Android in the queue, those should be out this week. Also the Liquid Glass update for iOS.

PHP - simple way to send HTTP headers before a script ends

Terence Eden’s Blog · Blog · 11:34 AM

Suppose you want PHP to keep processing after it has sent back an HTTP response. Normally, this doesn't work: <?php header( "Location: https://example.com/" ); // Long operation. sleep(...

by @edent

Kuatnya budaya ‘yes-man’ di sekitar Prabowo, kualitas kebijakan publik dipertaruhkan

Home – The Conversation · Magazine · 11:19 AM

Presiden Prabowo Subianto memasuki ruang rapat paripurna Gedung Nusantara MPR/DPR/DPD RI, Jakarta, pada Selasa, 20 Mei 2026. Cahyo/Biro Pers Sekretariat Presiden, CC BY ● Budaya ‘yes-man’ dan ‘asal ba...

by Agie Nugroho Soegiono, Dosen Departemen Administrasi Publik, Universitas Airlangga

Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

The Verge · News · 11:05 AM

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica humanitas" on May 25, 2026 in Vatican City, Vatican. | Getty Images Pope Leo XIV warned of...

by Mia Sato

IHSG Bakal Crash ke 4,700??

Indonesia & US Value Investing · Blog · 10:41 AM

Pak Teguh langsung saja, prediksi IHSG turun sampai berapa? Dan kapan kira-kira dia akan naik lagi? Jumat 22 Mei kemarin IHSG sempat tembus di bawah 6,000, apakah dia akan lanjut turun sampai 4,700? (...

by Teguh Hidayat

Kivikakk’s way of being

Rubenerd · Blog · 10:22 AM

A standing ovation from me this morning for this great post: My hobby/craft/profession/practice/way of being isn’t about the things I’ve made; it is not about value, (the) economy, outcomes or output...

by Ruben Schade

How to deal with negative people and criticism

Darius Foroux · Blog · 9:37 AM

My wife told me a story recently that I couldn’t get out of my head. Her close friend works as a waitress at a restaurant. Hard worker, nice person. One evening she made a mistake at a table of se...

by Darius Foroux

Australian train news, May 2026

Rubenerd · Blog · 9:30 AM

Upgrades to Canberra–Sydney rail link ABC News: The Canberra to Sydney rail link is set for a $100 million upgrade in a bid to reduce the passenger train trip time to under four hours. Initial upgrad...

by Ruben Schade

Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow · Magazine · 8:21 AM

Today's links No honor among (ad-tech) thieves: Including "and" and "the." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Budweiser nunchuks; GOP vote-suppressor voted illegally; Air...

by Cory Doctorow

Cara Backup Google Photos Unlimited dengan Kualitas Foto & Video Original

Eka Wirya · Blog · 8:11 AM

Saya baru tahu kalau upload foto dan video dari smartphone Google Pixel generasi pertama itu tidak mengurangi kuota di Google Photos. Ini yang bikin harga second-nya masih lumayan tinggi, padahal umur...

by Eka

The Atlas of Beauty

The Independent Photographer · Magazine · 8:00 AM

by Elizabeth Kahn

KPR 40 tahun: Harga rumah tak pernah ditekan, tenornya yang selalu dipanjangkan

Home – The Conversation · Magazine · 7:13 AM

● Presiden Prabowo Subianto menjanjikan KPR berdurasi 40 tahun. ● Produk pembiayaan rumah ini ditujukan untuk pekerja kelas menengah ke bawah seperti buruh. ● KPR 40 tahun memang bisa membuka akses...

by Ratna Indriani, Mahasiswa Doktoral Ilmu Manajemen, Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Indonesia

Mini-story: Decision

Matt Gemmell · Blog · 7:00 AM

When the doors of the lift opened, Darren Grey stepped out, walked for about ten feet, and then stopped. The ground floor of the shopping centre was almost indistinguishable from either of the two le...

Apakah kita lebih mudah menyerap informasi dari kertas ketimbang layar? Tergantung jenis layarnya

Home – The Conversation · Magazine · 5:00 AM

Michal Parzuchowski/UnsplashBaru-baru ini, Pemerintah Swedia memberlakukan pembatasan gawai di ruang kelas dan beralih kembali ke buku teks fisik. Kebijakan tersebut dipicu oleh kekhawatiran terkait...

by Erik D Reichle, Professor of cognitive psychology, Macquarie University

[Love to see it.]

Jason Journals · Blog · 4:41 AM

Love to see it.

Scripting News: Monday, May 25, 2026

Scripting News for email · Blog · 4:00 AM

Monday, May 25, 2026 Good morning. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. We remember all the men and women who gave their lives to keep our country safe and a bastion of liberty for the world. D...

by [email protected] (Dave Winer)

Laravel Fluent Validation: An Object-Oriented Rule Builder

Laravel News · Dev · 2:39 AM

Laravel Fluent Validation provides a fluent, type-safe API for building validation rules, replacing traditional st...

by Yannick Lyn Fatt

Laravel Paper: A Flat-File Eloquent Driver

Laravel News · Dev · 2:32 AM

Laravel Paper is an Eloquent driver that allows you to use Markdown and JSON files as data sources while maintaini...

by Yannick Lyn Fatt

Bertahan di tengah pasang-surut iklim: Kerentanan di balik ketangguhan perempuan dan orang muda pesisir

Home – The Conversation · Magazine · 2:13 AM

● Perempuan dan kaum muda pesisir menghadapi eksklusi sistemik yang diperparah perubahan iklim. ● “Resiliensi” mereka bukan karena berdaya, tapi terpaksa demi bertahan hidup. ● Perlu kebijakan inkl...

by Smita Tanaya, GEDSI and Ocean Research Analyst, World Resources Institute

Manton Reece · Blog · 12:04 AM

He blocks among us. 🏀