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May 29, 2026
42 articles
For All Mankind
by Robb Knight
📝 2026-05-29 21:48
Went for another run this evening, was planning to do 3km again, but I felt good at the halfway point so I carried on. I ended up doing 5km and was hoping to do it in <35 mins....
Social Media is Broken
In 2018, during a sabbatical from work, I quit Facebook after 10 years on the platform. I made a concentrated effort to unplug for the first few weeks of my time off and just never returned to Facebo...
by Josh
John Gruber coining the term dickover for the annoying modals that obscure content: A webpage should show the webpage. An email should show the email. I should not have to explain this. Couldn’t agr...
High-Throughput Graph Abstraction at Netflix: Part I
By Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan, Rajiv ShringiIntroductionNetflix has a diverse range of graph use cases, each serving specific business needs with unique functionality and performance requ...
by Netflix Technology Blog
The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search
Jeremy Provost of development firm Think Tap Work: It’s been 64 days since we first noticed Apple’s second ad position in search results for iPhone and iPad. Our update after two weeks showed cons...
by Nick Heer
Is There a Calmer, Quieter Way to do Your Best Work?
Is There a Calmer, Quieter Way to do Your Best Work? img{-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;} table, td{mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;} .mceStandardButton, .mceStandardButton td, .mceSt...
Brazilian Internet Forum (FIB16) in Belém, Pará: A visual tour
I had the opportunity to participate in yet another edition of the Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB16), this time in the Amazon forest region, in Belém, Pará. The event, organized by NIC.br, brings...
by Rodrigo Ghedin
StopTheMadness Pro 26
Jeff Johnson: My Safari extension StopTheMadness Pro has a feature to protect private windows. In other words, StopTheMadness Pro stops websites from detecting private windows in Safari. I won’...
by Michael Tsai
Mac External Display Support Reference
RetinaDesk: How many external monitors can your Mac actually drive? Pick your exact Apple Silicon Mac — we’ll show the maximum external display count, per-port resolution and refresh caps...
by Michael Tsai
Bartender Pro
Applause Group: Bartender Pro includes everything in Bartender 6, plus Top Shelf and future Pro tools as they’re released. […] [Top Shelf is a] powerful new way to interact with your MacB...
by Michael Tsai
2026.22: Luceing Their Mind
(Ferrari) 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; highlighted links are fre...
by Ben Thompson
"The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together."
Link: The Pope on Defederation, by Laurens Hof in Connected PlacesLaurens Hof provides some of the best and most important analysis of the open social web. This piece about the Pope’s Magnifica...
by Ben Werdmuller
29th May 2026 at 16:29
men will manufacture literally anything out of a solid block of metal and put it on kickstarter instead of going to therapy
by Robb Knight
Finished reading: Moonbound by Robin Sloan. Truly bizarre, and I mean that in a good way. 📚
Junited 2026, share your blog love
I can hardly believe it's been more than two years since I published Junited: a blog love letter. Feels like yesterday. I guess that's what happens with things you love. The idea is simple, and basica...
by robert
ChatGPT images, two years apart
On May 29, 2024 I asked ChatGPT to: "draw a picture of a baseball game at Citifield in the style of an American master artist." And I asked the same question today, two years later. According to ChatG...
I have the most followers on Twitter, Bluesky has never come close. I can't get anything to happen on Bluesky, but Twitter is great. Yesterday I had an idea, put it up on twitter and within a few hour...
From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map
By Parth Jain, Rakesh Sukumar, Yingwu Zhao, Renzo Sanchez & Nathan FisherHow we built a living map of our distributed infrastructure to help engineers understand dependencies, troubleshoot faster,...
by Netflix Technology Blog
Podcast Stats Mastodon Bot
I built a simple little Mastodon bot that I’ve automated with n8n and the Podcast Index API that publishes some statistics about the podcasting ecosystem each day. If you have any ideas for what...
by Mike Rockwell
Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August and I also posted bits to my account on Twitter. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I now have a platform to...
Trying DeepSeek V4 with OpenCode
Regarding my last post: While I spent plenty of thoughts on the whole implementation, most of the coding work was actually done by DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro, and I just supervised and criticized it. W...
fLaMEd 🔥
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with fLaMEd 🔥, whose blog can be found at flamedfury.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the new...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
Seriously underestimated how long this db migration was going to take, leading to a deployment blunder that introduced a temporary cross-posting glitch. I’ve been juggling too much this week, ma...
The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time
It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other t...
by @edent
Last week’s Sharp Tech about data centers is really good. Misinformation, the lost opportunity with nuclear power, and SpaceX craziness. The most compelling point: it’s possible that the d...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explodes on Pad During a Static Fire Test
Last night, the sky lit up over Florida’s Space Coast as Blue Origin’s big rocket — named New Glenn — exploded during an uncrewed static fire test at Launch Complex 36. These tests are d...
Finished watching Hacks season 5 this week. Great series. Each season had its own theme and arc, and they knew when to call it, not drag on past the story they set out to tell. 📺
Executed
ExecutedAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 06 June 2017Rating: ★★★★☆The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn’t think they need...
Federico Viticci blogs about RemCTL, a command-line tool he built for Reminders: So I decided to take matters into my own hands and build the Reminders CLI of my dreams with Codex. After about two mo...
Scripting News: Friday, May 29, 2026
Friday, May 29, 2026 Yesterday I applied to speak at WordCamp US in August and I also posted bits to my account on Twitter. I got a really nice response from the main WordPress account. Thank you. I n...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
datasette 1.0a31
Release: datasette 1.0a31 Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execut...
Anthropic's run-rate revenue hits $47 billion
The most interesting thing about Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise cust...
ARC Overhead in Swift Sorting
Sean Heber: I made a function in Tapestry 23x faster today by sorting an array using its indices instead of using its data directly. Like this: let unsorted = items var indices = Array(unsorted.indic...
by Michael Tsai
The moment when you finally deploy a change on which you worked over some days, trying to think through every possible use case and scenario, and you just hope it’s working flawlessly. 🙏 Such a...
Butter bells, fresh from the kiln
Happy 10th birthday TurkuSec!
Today, we celebrated the 10th birthday of a community very dear to my heart, TurkuSec. The chair person of TurkuSec, Ismayil opens the evening To finish the night, I ga...
The Fountain by Casey Scieszka
Book title: The Fountain Author: Casey Scieszka Rating: 3.5/5 Where to buy The Fountain by Cas...
by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)
Ferris Sweep Review
I've been using a Crab Broom (Ferris Sweep) 3x5_2 keyboard for almost a year as my daily driver. I really like the exaggerated finger arch and dropped fifth column placement for comfortable typing....
Signals #002: The Frame vs. The Framer
Irreducibly Human There’s a story we keep telling ourselves about AI: that it’s racing to catch up with us, that any day now it will cross some threshold and we’ll be obsolete. But this story...
by Christopher Butler
Metal Gear Solid 2’s source code leaked
Daryl Baxter: Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leak: every surprise so farAt first, I thought nothing of it - I figured owner Konami would shut down links to it, and that'd be it. But in the weeks...
by Matt Birchler