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June 13, 2026

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Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog ·

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...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog ·

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`

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog ·

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?,

Stories by Hunter Walk on Medium · Blog ·

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

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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

Eli Bendersky's website · Blog ·

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

Basic Apple Guy | Apple Wallpapers, Reviews, and Merch · Blog ·

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by BasicAppleGuy

Return Of The Razr And Local Computing

Jason Journals · Blog ·

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...

21 down, 23 more to go

Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed · Blog ·

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

Robin Rendle · Blog ·

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...

Really Simple swag

Scripting News · Blog ·

New virtual swag to go with the moment. ;-) Really Simple basketball. Really Simple player 27. PS: Go New York Go New York Go!

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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:...

Scripting News · Blog ·

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

Disil's Stuff · Blog ·

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

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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

Rubenerd · Blog ·

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

Scripting News · Blog ·

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)

Birchtree · Blog ·

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

Scripting News · Blog ·

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.

Scripting News · Blog ·

Imho -- the smartest thing facebook could do is find all the places where it's a silo and start desiloizing them..

Manton Reece · Blog ·

Watched: Disclosure Day. Really good. 🍿

Scripting News · Blog ·

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...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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...

Manton Reece · Blog ·

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...

Bill C–34 Punts Key Decisions to Cabinet and a Commission That Does Not Yet Exist

Pixel Envy · Blog ·

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

Scripting News for email · Blog ·

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)

Birchtree · Blog ·

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

Simon Willison's Weblog · Blog ·

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

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings · Blog ·

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

Duarte O.Carmo · Blog ·

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

Juha-Matti Santala - Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer. · Blog ·

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

tonsky.me · Blog ·

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