Cute interactive system that helps you understand modern email verificatioin

Mods for the gay sex app on Android, involving installing your own version of an app and a modding framework

Essential 90s queer punk zine has a revival

A fresh look at the authentication technology

A friend of mine has published a peer reviewed lengthy biography of the famous anthropologist Marshall Sahlins

Pictures of optimal square packing going up as many as 2000 squares

New vibe coding platform so simple you can build from your phone. A lot of friends of mine are excited about it. They've had trouble explaining what they do, this blog post is a start

A funny but useful hack for installing operating systems on hard drives

Standalone tool that looks at code changes in git and applies four different AI agents to do a code review

Scroll down for a remarkable image of political polarization by geography in Paris

Data on email signatures. About 30% of domains now are saying "if the mail is not signed right treat it as spam". More than I'd guess!

Tour of a 300kW charging spot in China. We are a decade behind having this in the US

Self-driving car expert has a car crash in a self driving Tesla, muses on the dangers of current AI systems. "We’re experiencing an uncanny valley of autonomy."

Detailed investigation into the artist's identity. It's a good yarn.

Example of the kind of content Facebook spams me with. These videos are real weird, uncanny AI stuff but also it's not clear what the endgame intent is

Popular DNS service lets you flush the cache for specific domain names

A satire project claiming to use AI to reproduce open source projects without any copyright or license

Open source no crap PDF processing tools. Work is done locally, no upload needed.

A theory that thousands of holes dug into a hill in Peru are a sort of storage and accounting system similar to the knot tying accounting technology

A link archiving service that's serious about being permanent and has support from libraries. A simple financial model

Moving robots made with various generic leg components bolted together. Reminds me of Karl Sims' old evolution experiments

Excellent overview of the major AI companies and the increasing concern that these systems are getting out of control. You don't need a sci-fi superintelligence to have a computer system that is dangerous.

New word puzzle from the Wordle creator

Marketing site for a new book about attention management in the Internet era

Agent programming prompts and framework

A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly

Funny Onion gag