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Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica: What’s striking about the Intel Mac era is that Apple switched to and away from Intel chips for basically the same reason: It was looking for a more compelling pro...
by Nick Heer
Apple’s WebKit team has lots of news about what to expect in Safari 27, and maybe the best is customizable Select: Customizable select is coming to Safari 27. With this technology, developer...
by Nick Heer
You ever dread writing a sentence because you know its going to ruffle some feathers? I've been debating on exactly how to approach this for a while now, but I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I'm...
by Brandon
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a3 Fixed a bug where users without the create-app permission could still create apps. #27 Fixed a bug where it was impossible to grant permission to...
If Claude were human it would learn from you even if they didn't record what it learned in a notebook, two or three times and they would remember. Not so with Claude. If it isn't written down it will...
The first Day One journal turned out so well that I ordered another one. They make it so easy.
Sometimes you have to just start with beauty. Listen to Jon Batiste’s Beethoven Blues, then relish this interview, where he plays and talks about it. I can’t wait for Black Mozart, whi...
by Matt
Welcome, new leader. We’re glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can’t wait to see what you can do at this company. We’re going to say th...
by rands
Paris Marx, with a thoughtful take on the recently announced Bill C-34, the “Safe Social Media Act”: The media focused on the higher age limit — it’s been happening in other parts of t...
by Nick Heer
Here’s a quick tip for passing the infamous Cloudflare Turnstile captcha checkbox pages: press Tab key, to focus the checkbox (I use my index finger) press Space bar, to select the checkbox (I u...
by by Matt Sephton
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a2 Custom network/CSP origins for apps are now guarded by a new apps-set-csp permission, with an optional allowed_csp_origins plugin allow-list for n...
Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql, which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a m...
Physical exercise is a foundation for living a good life. It’s something all of us benefit from doing. Whether or not we particularly like running or lifting weights. We often fail to exercise enough....
by Scott Young
Just now, to Claude: "Amazing how we get lost in the weeds, that's why you have cut way down on the verbiage. I am a human -- you can absorb all that info in an instant. My brain does not work that wa...
This post was backdated, because we were in transit at the time. This was the last day of our Vietnam 2026 trip. While it couldn’t hold a candle to our journey last year that also took us to Hà...
by Ruben Schade
Now that basketball is over, can we ask why the Spurs played cartoon music to introduce the Knicks. I was surprised they did it again in Game 5 after the butt-kicking they got in Game 4.
Bloggers, can we make better titles for our posts?by Michael HarleyMichael makes the case for us bloggers to use better titles when writing our posts as it helps discovery.Read po...
Brent Simmons blogs about what he’s been up to with NetNewsWire over the last year. I also created a PR for Inkwell sync in NNW, but the work stalled because I wasn’t confident enough in t...
A couple of weeks ago, I shared how I am planning to transform a Bazzite PC into a multimedia console. The goal was to use it both as a Steam-based gaming console and as an Apple TV replacement. With...
by [email protected] (Kevin Wammer)
Last week I was walking through town with my wife and our son in the stroller. We ran into a former high school classmate. We were both pleasantly surprised to see each other after so many years....
by Darius Foroux
"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios p...
An example of the latest version of the library generator, which is of course just a script. Note that there's a disclosure at the bottom of the page where it says how and why it was created, and then...
Often when I use the term RSS feeds it will link to this page. In the coming weeks and months I'm going to talk a lot about RSS feeds. I want to be clear, that it is a short hand for RSS, Atom and RD...
I'm creating a new way to do messaging, a network that only understands RSS feeds for incoming and outgoing messages. The only API you'll need to subscribe is a feed reader. The idea is to show develo...
Request for Claude, please add a close box to this message box. I wasn't using the new model. Once is enough for this message.
A slick desktop music player that connects to your Plex or Jellyfin server. I found this a couple of months ago, but just rediscovered it in my pile of links. I’m not sure if I’ll end up u...
by Mike Rockwell
Animated feature The Violinist looks special. A couple moments in the trailer reminded me a bit of Grave of the Fireflies, although on balance it probably doesn’t go that far into tragedy. Hopefully g...
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Michael Galloway leads Platform Engineering at Mercari, while Snehal Shinde leads Cost and Performance Engineering. Together, they have been at the...
by Justin Reock
Good morning sports fans! Going to the Knicks parade in NYC on Thurs? Starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through Canyon of Heroes, concluding at City Hall.
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Kelly Anne Pipe is Head of Developer Experience at Vanguard, and Nicole Scribner is a Director in the firm’s Chief Technology Office focused o...
by Justin Reock
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.In this session from DX Annual, Eleanor Millman, Senior Staff Product Manager, and Mina Tawadrous, Associate Director of Product Management at Siriu...
by Justin Reock
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.Brian Scanlan is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Intercom, where he works on platform engineering, developer productivity, and AI adoption ac...
by Justin Reock
Dan Provost blogs about launching a custom guitar company. Looks really nice. The best products make me wish I was into the thing being made.
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A few years ago I started building a thing called Backcast. The idea was simple: I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I wanted a way to back them up. I got as far as parsing OPML exports, writing some...
by Tom
My thinking on Anthropic has been shaped most by Ben Thompson and Peter Steinberger. Peter created OpenClaw so is affected by closing models to third-party apps. Ben has an article today after the Fab...
Welcome to RSS Club! These posts are only available to RSS and Atom subscribers. You can read more about the idea at Dave Rupert's site. I recently received an email from a distraught reader: I was...
by @edent
Last night had a UFC fight on the White House lawn, which is…a thing…"But Matt, why can't you liberals just enjoy this? Trump has said it's a "gift to Americans"...
by Matt Birchler
It’s been a while since I’ve written about my home network, which I totally rebuilt after moving last year. Here is my rack as it stands today: I am all in on UniFi gear, as you can see from all the...
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by Kevin Mullins
Listen to this post: Log in to listen I’m sympathetic to the cynics who consistently characterize Anthropic’s public statements, particularly those sur...
by Ben Thompson
In 2003 me and two of my friends went down a very steep hill in an old bathtub and my friend broke his leg in three places because it went through the front of the bath when we hit the bottom and we c...
by Robb Knight
This is a great case study featuring a really useful HTML web component called validation-enhancer. The results? When we launched, the number of people completing the form doubled. The analytics...
The service was humanist instead of religious, which surprised no-one who was present. The young couple were just that — young — and for them, religion’s trappings seemed as faintly disquieting as the...
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themsel...
Monday, June 15, 2026 Good morning sports fans! Going to the Knicks parade in NYC on Thurs? Starts at 10AM at Battery Park, goes up Broadway through Canyon of Heroes, concluding at City Hall.# Now tha...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is "me, but 3 years ago" or a good friend. — Julia Evans, write for 1 person Tags: writing, juli...
I'm leaving New York this December for the research triangle area of North Carolina. I've considered leaving New York many times for the same reason: lower cost of living to help me start a company wi...
In Proverbs 4:4 a father implores with his son to take hold of wisdom. The past three chapters assert that both parents have been providing a banquet of wisdom and highlight the advantages and danger...
I have complicated feelings about LLMs. I mean, a lot of people I know do. But this is also my blog, so I get to pontificate on those feelings and people… willingly read about them? When it comes to v...