Overview of the new version control system that can replace git

Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town

Report from Linux kernel team seeing they're seeing a significant rise in legitimate security bug reports, AI generated

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

Fun but upsetting video about a good ol' boy in Louisiana originally from Vietnam

Simon Willison is writing a book-length guide to programming with AI agents

A humanizing essay from a Minnesotan working to protect his neighbors

Tony Gilroy finally gets to say what's on his mind

Old Internet chat system is getting a new version, the plans look serious

CIA World Factbook lives as a community-managed site

American AI companies complain competitors are probing their LLMs with queries trying to figure out how they think so as to improve themselves from it.

Māori language AI tools like voice transcription and voice synthesis, independently developed in the Māori community

A 1932 short story published in Vanity Fair, entirely in the medium of bank cheques

Young tech leader, the world's youngest self-made female billionaire (from scale.ai).

Lovely jazz from the Peanuts

A UI interaction where a button will press itself after some time if not interrupted

Thoughtful reflection on the compromises Apple has made to manufacture in China

Telnet is apparently not being blocked globally in the Internet infrastructure afterall

2000 year old Vietnamese tradition of intentionally blacking and polishing the teeth

Simon talks about tools to make AI programming more effective. One helps a coding agent demonstrate what the code it wrote can do. The other is for making screenshots.

Open letter and petition from Google employees unhappy their company is following in IBM's footsteps in enabling fascism

The second map on this page has an interesting approach in the color scale to factor for population density

Nice image showing datacenters, power, and network infrastructure

New self-hosted email archive / search tool with a text UI and AI integration

Usenet still exists as social media, a leaderboard from a working web interface

New movie being made documenting the gay bear phenomenon

Thoughtful writeup of an AI-generated art project that's not just slop

Heartfelt essay on what Heated Rivalry means to one particular gay man, and all gay men

Simon's retrospective on trends in AI in the last year

Expert gives advice on hosting small websites to simplify the maintenance load

A group of people who lived in the North American Arctic before the Inuit

Effort to develop a new version of the classic 70s British sci-fi

Small noise generator tool

Designs for spaceships in the game Factorio

Homoerotic nudes of men, some playing cello

Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters when it probably shouldn't

Small LCD displays for use to show server status, in drive bay form factors and others

Statement of strategy

Signal founder now working on making AI services that keep user data private

Run x86 Linux programs on ARM64

Nice writeup of the social history of Markdown, the functional good-enough text markup a lot of people use to write content

A short program building a functional AI agent system like Claude Code

Discussion of why Denmark's childhood vaccination schedule is the way it is

Quirky personal museum near Grass Valley

Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"

Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"

A network diagnostic tool that issues a lot of fast pings to measure latency, jitter, etc

A very early aviation event that got Los Angeles started on its path to being an aerospace hub

Overview of the Los Angeles aerospace startups, rooted in SpaceX but with a history going back much longer

Popular browser password extension currently has a bug that's breaking syntax highlighting in code samples on web pages

A collection of photos from a project to have people document Paris in 1970, organized by a map

39c3 talk about building a whole computer in the game Factorio

A video player by a major Korean company, an alternative to VLC

A nice illustration of the basic steps a digital camera takes to turn raw sensor data into a meaningful picture

A rundown of different algorithms and systems for keeping computers in sync