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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor...
Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 (claude-opus-4.8). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. De...
Mike (just Mike): Can we have the day off?If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in th...
by Matt Birchler
One concept I'm obsessed with is the general idea of whether things (art, money, anything) are getting worse, or if we're just nostalgic for when we were younger and simply didn't know...
by Matt Birchler
Feels like a great, tight series even with a couple blowouts like tonight. As a Spurs fan, that run in the 3rd quarter was fun to watch. Expecting game 7 to be close, though, maybe more like OT in gam...
Broke my own rule and backed a hardware kickstarter
by Robb Knight
Tool: markdown-svg-renderer A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for swi...
I applied to speak at WordCamp US in Phoenix in August. I want to give a rip-roaring talk about how WordPress is at the center of the universe and it doesn't even know. Let's get busy filling in the b...
Really Open this time vs Really Simple last?? Hmm.
The other day that stupid thing called the Enhanced Games took place. As you might have guessed by the name, this is basically the Olympics on steroids, quite literally. The event itself is n...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube My latest mixtape captures my attempt to get over the depression and anxiety that can accompany “The Gulp” in between when you finish something and finally p...
by Austin Kleon
Dries Buytaert says you have to grow the ecosystem, not just yourself.
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 today. GPT-5.6 is probably soon. Which is better seems increasingly subjective. It’s hard to notice small steps forward when you’re already at really good. Peop...
This week on the podcast: Stephen has been blogging, Myke has been shopping, and Federico has been… CLI’ing.
If you want to know who’s responsible for the good karma the Knicks are experiencing look to Kevin Durant. While while he was trying to build some weird rivalry between the Knicks and the Nets, the Kn...
Jill Biden says she wondered if Joe Biden was having a stroke during the presidential debate. One of the great what ifs to think what would’ve happened if the debate had been a week earlier or a...
This is going to come as a shock—a SHOCK—to some of you, but I harboured a not insignificant obsession with liners when I was a teenager, both of the ocean and air kind. I loved reading about commerci...
by Ruben Schade
Another great thing about building software with Claude Code, I can implement something the simple way knowing that later on I can change it to work in the more complex way without having to relearn a...
Bluesky is now showing Standard.site info in the timeline: Starting today, Standard.site links will have an enhanced render in the Bluesky app, with extra, actionable metadata about the post, includi...
The big wait betw Knicks series isn't just hard on the team, it's confusing for the fans/addicts like me. It's about the time of year that the Knicks are no longer in, and two teams I don't care about...
I sometimes hear people my age (I'm 55) talk about tech and the younger generation. Not just the usual conversations about social media and doomscrolling bringing civilization to its knees. Yes, they...
by robert
Overworld is a new website by Brendon Bigley and Pablo Marti Cordero that's designed to be a single page to go and see what's going on in the world of video games. As someone who r...
by Matt Birchler
Making good progress on Micro.blog 3.7 for iOS. You can follow along with the beta version on TestFlight. The blog post text editor has been rewritten. Getting rid of Obj-C hacks that I bolted on in p...
Allergy season is finally fading (at least for me), but today was the first time I had to turn on the AC in the office, and it was great to realize that despite the recent Wi-Fi changes and almost fo...
by Rui Carmo
Scott Hanson is working on the Baseline theme for WordLand.
From the announcement: Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your...
by Mike Rockwell
Link: Know Your Point C, by Corey FordThere’s so much packed into this idea:“You started at Point A. Now you're at Point B. To reach your big goal, you don't just need to paint...
by Ben Werdmuller
I've hesitated at calling FeedLand a feed reader. I'm concerned people would stop listening right there. They know what a feed reader is. But FeedLand is not like most feed readers. Your subscription...
Writing a lot of test posts. And thus have coined some (mostly) rhyming pairs of words. Greek sneakers. Geek peekers. Feast of yeast. Villa in Manila.
Real-world AI test: I tried for the first time using Copilot at work today. In the app, I added a pdf file of a plot plan with clear text and tags. I asked AI for a simple numbered equipment list f...
Link: The 'normal' response to the Social Web, by Saskia WelchA smart, accessible, nuanced piece from Saskia Welch about marketing the open social web, which translates easily to being a pie...
by Ben Werdmuller
Pertama dipijet waktu bayi, aku jadi anak yang melegenda sepanjang karir per-pijet-an Budhe yang mijet aku. Aku adalah klien pertamanya, didorong oleh Ibu yang melihat potensi Budhe itu. Setiap kali b...
by sekar
My electricity bill during this heatwave
by Robb Knight
Thinking about this perspective from Alan Jacobs about AI and people wanting to be recognized: Millions of people desperately want affirmation. They don’t want to go to the trouble of writing or pain...
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by Kevin Mullins
An Interview with Eric Seufert about building models for generative AI, why Meta's foundational models are so important, and why understanding advertising leads to optimism about humanity's future.
by Ben Thompson
More details from Mark Gurman about the upcoming Siri redesign: Apple has redesigned Siri for modern iPhone hardware, making it live inside the Dynamic Island as an always-on agent that can help user...
Spurs vs. Thunder tonight, game 6. It has taken all my restraint not to buy tickets. Feeling really lucky that I’ve been able to go to a couple playoffs games this year. And just in case this is the l...
Looking forward to resuming my Texas state parks visits, including eventually the new Silver Lake State Park under development. It will be the state’s second-largest park at 54k acres: The new...
Thursday, May 28, 2026 I've hesitated at calling FeedLand a feed reader. I'm concerned people would stop listening right there. They know what a feed reader is. But FeedLand is not like most feed read...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
This morning, I was walking to a coffee shop on Bloor Street in Toronto, listening to the Mostly Technical podcast. Aaron Francis was interviewing Jesse Hanley, the founder of Bento....
by Justin Jackson
The original Steam Deck launched four years ago to massive praise, and I was one of those people who absolutely loved it. It released with a very reasonable entry price of $399, making handheld PC gam...
by Matt Birchler
The Agence France-Presse reporting on the U.S. president’s social-media-and-cryptocurrency-and-maybe-nuclear-fusion operation: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) reported revenue of l...
by Nick Heer
Verity Townsend writing for IGN: about how Dragon Quest 12 has been completely restartedIn a special video to mark Dragon Quest’s 40th anniversary on May 27, Dragon Quest 12 executive producer...
by Matt Birchler