I wrote a short post yesterday about AI as an alien species. Steve Mays breaks it down into parts, and got every bit right. This is the kind of back and forth that the web is capable of. Update: It's...
June 16, 2026
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There's no point resisting
I’m afraid nuclear weapons are here to stay. There’s no point resisting. I’m afraid assault weapons and school shootings in the US are here to stay. I’m afraid cars are here to stay. Corporate...
datasette 1.0a34
Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are av...
How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bott...
by Chris Coyier
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s...
by Chris Coyier
SpaceX Acquires xAI, Goes Public, Acquires Cursor
Elon Musk (February, Hacker News): SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mo...
by Michael Tsai
Apple Intelligence in appleOS 27
Apple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced the next generation of Apple Intelligence, powered by a bold new architecture that integrates the latest Apple Foundation Models deep into Apple’s plat...
by Michael Tsai
Apple Foundation Models in appleOS 27
Apple: At the heart of this architecture is our third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), a family of five foundation models custom-built in collaboration with Google. These span from on-dev...
by Michael Tsai
Agentic Password Updates
Hartley Charlton (9To5Mac): Apple today announced that the Passwords app can now automatically update weak and compromised passwords using Apple Intelligence and Safari to take action on a user&rsquo...
by Michael Tsai
Photos AI in appleOS 27
Apple (MacRumors): With Spatial Reframing, users can improve the composition of a photo after it’s been taken. Spatial Reframing builds on Apple’s deep understanding of spatial models tha...
by Michael Tsai
AI-Generated Shortcuts
Hartley Charlton: Apple today announced that users can now describe a shortcut in natural language, with Apple Intelligence automatically building the automation in the background. Marcus Mendes:...
by Michael Tsai
Kubernetes runs on feedback loops
For the past few years I've spent most of my time building database operators on top of Kubernetes. Along the way I kept coming back to the same idea: under all the YAML and the moving parts, Kub...
by Fatih Arslan
Jason Calacanis challenges people to develop certain open source software, offering a bounty on specific projects, but I think the real incentive for people to pitch in is that Jason has a lot of sway...
[GR02.06] camellia, single
Same session as the last two camellia photographsThis is another one of those photographs that feels almost perfect....
by Nat Bennett
datasette-tailscale 0.1a0
Release: datasette-tailscale 0.1a0 A very experimental alpha plugin which lets you do this: datasette tailscale mydata.db \ --ts-authkey tskey-auth-xxxx --ts-hostname datasette...
Claude added the close box I asked for yesterday. Bravo!
Quoting Georgi Gerganov
I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5...
Everyone wants to know things humans can do better than AI systems. One answer — relate with humans. The machines have no clue how our minds work. They act as if we're just like them. They could tell...
I'm gorging on NBA podcasts this week. So much fun for a Knicks user to hear how much-loved the Knicks are. Basketball is an intimate sport for fans, it's like five consecutive boxing matches. We get...
Not sure what to make of Snap’s new Specs. First impression is that they sit in between Meta’s Display glasses and the Vision Pro, both technically and because of the $2200 price. So many...
Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock: a good dock at a good price that is probably overkill for most people
Today, famed keyboard maker Keychron has released their first Thunderbolt dock, the Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock (14-in-1).Where I'm coming fromI've been using a dock for my computer for abou...
by Matt Birchler
Apple Announces Liquid Glass Transparency Slider
Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors: Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Gl...
by Mike Rockwell
Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems
One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about st...
by Martin Fowler
End of the line for ad-blocking extensions on Chrome and (most of) its forks
Google will remove the last traces of Manifest v2, the feature that enabled robust ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, in Chrome versions 150 and 151. Chromium forks — Edge and Opera — hav...
by Rodrigo Ghedin
Two Way TV - product photos of 1997's hottest gadget
Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV. I saw a demo of "Two Way...
by @edent
Pruning again with Tracy Durnell
Tracy Durnell is shaking things up: I’ve done a purge of my feed reader (down to 80 feeds lol). Rather than defaulting to my phone, I’m recommitting to books as my after-lunch reading. She go...
by [email protected] (Colin Devroe)
Stephen Hackett has a rundown of some of the xAI data center news: SpaceX and the NAACP are in a legal battle over the use of turbines in Southaven, Mississippi for powering the Colossus II data cent...
I’m still slowly getting over the Spurs losing in the finals. What an amazing season and playoff run that was. 82 games is hard, no guarantee a team can get back there, but can’t wait to s...
Menjaga Jarak dari Kekuasaan: Saatnya Memperkuat Independensi Statistik Nasional
Di era ketika data menjadi fondasi utama setiap kebijakan publik, maka kualitas statistik nasional tidak lagi sekadar persoalan teknis, metodologi, dan angka-angka yang diumumkan ke publik. Ia telah...
by hasanuddinali
Remnants of the old Morton Salt Seneca Lake Mine in Himrod, New York.
by [email protected] (Colin Devroe)
Fox Buys Roku, The Problem With Fox’s Smart Strategy, Streaming That Works
The market hates Fox's acquisition of Roku, but the company is trading extraction from rights holders for leverage as a renter.
by Ben Thompson
The valuation of SpaceX is wild. When it comes back down to earth, what impact will it have on the market? I don’t worry too much about an AI bubble, but I do worry about the market imploding be...
Finally watched Hoppers last night. Really fun. Used to be that I would see every animated feature opening weekend… So many movies now and it’s harder to keep up. 🪵
Simon Willison blogged more on the Fable shutdown drama: This whole situation is such a mess. Non-technical decision-makers have been hearing that models that can “craft cyber attacks” ar...
Fragments: June 16
“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs...
by Martin Fowler
WordPress blogs in Micro.blog
Several months ago I blogged that we wanted to have more integration with WordPress and Ghost in Micro.blog. I’ve now rolled out the first part of that, with an option to add a WordPress blog to...
The Sunday Edition — 06.14.26
Happy Sunday friends! We had an exceptionally short spring — temperatures went from 2 or 3 degrees to 30 degrees in about 24 hours, and this happened close to the end of May. The result: Perhaps...
DOJ Lobbies for Dropping SpaceX Lawsuit, Citing National Security and Grok’s Role in Iran War
SpaceX and the NAACP are in a legal battle over the use of turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, for powering the Colossus II data center in Memphis. This week, the Department of Justice got involved, a...
📝 2026-06-16 08:11: Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to the office... ☀️
Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to the office... ☀️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is...
📝 2026-06-16 07:55: Like we don't have enough animals already. This little black blob will be joining us...
Like we don't have enough animals already. This little black blob will be joining us on August. Thanks for r...
A Review of the Wyze 5070 Thin Client
I found the Wzye 5070 to be quite a capable little computer for a number of common applications, but it was not without issues.
My new programming font - Moxy
Every time I switch or try out a new font, I track it in my my-new-programming-font series. Some of the popular ones: IBM Plex Mono, Recursive, Commit Mono, Berkeley Mono. This time’s a litt...
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense I quoted The Atlantic quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the "jailbrea...
Scripting News: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Jason Calacanis challenges people to develop certain open source software, offering a bounty on specific projects, but I think the real incentive for people to pitch in is that...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic
Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She...
Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand
TIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) t...
The New Software Lifecycle
I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ideas in it I think actually matter, plus s...