Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide
The Pyodide 314.0 release announcement (via Hacker News) includes news I've been looking forward to for a long time: You can now publish Python packages built for Pyodide (or any Python runtime...
June 13, 2026
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I started collecting anonymous stats for our Mac app for the first time. We support old versions of macOS for a long time, but I wanted to know more about how much memory people have. Results after le...
I’m so emotionally invested in these Spurs games, probably too much, that after a win or loss I’m too wired to do anything except work, even though it’s almost midnight. So finishing...
luau-wasm 0.1a0
Release: luau-wasm 0.1a0 See Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide for details. Tags: lua, webassembly, pyodide
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`
Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additional information b...
Technical Interviews Are Dead — What Comes Next?,
Technical Interviews Are Dead — What Comes Next?, The Cosmetics You Buy Online Are Fake (and Unsafe), If You Can’t Get a Job Right Now It’s Your Fault, and +++ [link blog]Is it summer yet?The Last Tec...
by Hunter Walk
Crazy finals. Spurs have had so many leads, every game up 10, 15, more. And then it falls apart in the last couple minutes each time. Amazing season, though. 🏀
Plugins case study: Pluggy
Recently I came upon Pluggy, a Python library for developing plugin systems. It was originally developed as part of the pytest project - known for its rich plugin ecosystem - and later extracted into...
by Eli Bendersky
macOS Golden Gate
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by BasicAppleGuy
Return Of The Razr And Local Computing
In my tenacious tech trek, I’m now back to using the Motorola Razr 2024 in Spritz Orange. It’s flippin’ good. The reason? Local-first computing. You know, that thing we used to do before cloud comp...
Pluralistic: Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026)
Today's links Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Msft v Linux geeks; James Joyc...
by Cory Doctorow
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity...
by Terrence O’Brien
21 down, 23 more to go
It’s 11.35am, 27°, clear sky with only a few tiny little clouds here and there. I’m standing at the same parking spot where I ended the previous walk, and I’m about to tackle segment number 5...
by [email protected] (Manuel Moreale)
Make Believe
This morning was a total stinker. I woke up with a dull headache, teeth grinding, fists clenched. Sometimes my body becomes haunted, a vessel for a thing; total and all consuming. It could be a conver...
X-Men ’97 has what Master of the Universe is missing
In 2026, Marvel and Mattel are both releasing projects designed to capitalize on people's love for iconic animated heroes from their childhoods. Masters of the Universe h...
by Charles Pulliam-Moore
Really Simple swag
New virtual swag to go with the moment. ;-) Really Simple basketball. Really Simple player 27. PS: Go New York Go New York Go!
I was expecting this drama from the Mythos shutdown. The Wall Street Journal reports that it started with a call from Amazon, but just generally Anthropic and the government are not on the same page:...
Imagine if someone cracked the speed of light. Now we could visit far off galaxies on vacation. Do you think we'd build it or argue about whether we should? Heh I know the human species, we don't do t...
Update 18
More than a year had passed since the last update. I take inspiration for this update from various websites, most importantly from classless.css. Going forward, any changes happened to the site would...
by disil
Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for a record $3 million
You know this came for free bundle with the console for $150, right? | Image: Heritage Auctions A copy of Super Mario Bros., still in the box and sealed with its original...
by Terrence O’Brien
John Gruber blogging about the limitations in Private Cloud Compute: The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI. That&rsqu...
#Vietnam2026: Museums and Ho Chi Minh City views
This post was backdated, because I didn’t get around to publishing at the time. On the penultimate day of our Vietnam 2026 trip, we packed our bags and bid farewell to the beautiful Vũng Tàu pen...
by Ruben Schade
The thing about tech, you have to start out small and simple, and carefully add features based on actual real-world-now use cases. Otherwise you end up missing the target, and have to go back and patc...
Xbox embraces exclusives again (and why Nintendo may have played the long game brilliantly)
Joe Skrebels: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 Recap: The Return of Exclusives, World Premieres, and Anniversary HardwareAs part of our focus on the return of XBOX, we also announced that Gears of War: E-Day...
by Matt Birchler
The giftarticles feed is now a simple RSS 2.0 feed. It's not pretty, that would require some work with Masotdon, but it does work.
Imho -- the smartest thing facebook could do is find all the places where it's a silo and start desiloizing them..
Watched: Disclosure Day. Really good. 🍿
AI is a miracle of human science, it took generations to get to the point we're at now, and the rate of development building software on top of it is imho the basis for a revolution. We use computers...
Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox
Asha Sharma. | Image: The Verge, Microsoft Microsoft is preparing to lay off a significant chunk of its Xbox division and is reevaluating the plans for its next-generation...
by Terrence O’Brien
Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price
Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra headphones fold down for easy storage. | Image: Bose If you’re planning on traveling anytime soon, Bose’s second-generation QuietCom...
by Sheena Vasani
My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac
I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to mac...
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power
Mike Rugnetta is a writer, podcast host, producer, audio engineer, educator, musician, sound designer, and father. In short, the man wears a lot of hats. He's the cocreat...
by Terrence O’Brien
Dave Winer blogging about silos and the opportunity for AI: We’ve created a predictably bad system now, predictable because we always create silos when we give big money a chance to call all th...
Great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about imperfection in the in-between state of animated transitions. The most polished apps usually sweat these little details. Hard to do, and my own apps often fall...
My yard is dying, so I made an app for that
When I returned to my computer five minutes after giving Gemini a lengthy prompt, I had two things: a functional app in a preview window, and a message about a bug. "~ Ch...
by Allison Johnson
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national secur...
by Terrence O’Brien
A better way to manage all your screenshots
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 132, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy soccer, and also you can read all...
by David Pierce
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse
iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing feature...
by Allison Johnson
Echo Isle is a pint-sized adventure inspired by classic Zelda
Echo Isle is heavily inspired by The Legend of Zelda, and it's not afraid to show it: The retro graphics bear a striking resemblance to Link's Awakening, the main charact...
by Jay Peters
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made ab...
by Charles Pulliam-Moore
Bill C–34 Punts Key Decisions to Cabinet and a Commission That Does Not Yet Exist
Catharine Tunney, CBC News: Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, would force social media services — defined as traditional social media platforms, live-streaming services and adult content servi...
by Nick Heer
Scripting News: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026 JY Stervinou proposed Universal Mentions, an interesting new low-tech web-like protocol for mentioning people, places or things via link elements in the head section of any HTM...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
US government forces Anthropic to kill Fable and Mythos (for now)
Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend...
by Matt Birchler
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts: The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control direc...
Dangerous Technology For Americans Only
There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leaders...
by Armin Ronacher
How I Hermes
In January this year, OpenClaw went viral. You probably heard about it. My guess is some of you even use it - or at least tried to. I certainly did. I remember it clearly. I installed it, and ve...
by Duarte O.Carmo
Future Frontend 2026 Recap
Mid-June we organised our 4th annual Future Frontend conference in Dipoli, Espoo, Finland. As the conference series was a continuation of our previous React Finland conference, th...
Every Frame Perfect
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking...
by Nikita Prokopov
Workflow SDK now runs natively in Nitro v3
by Rihan Arfan