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Infinidash: AWS's New Observability Play Has Great Bones and a Terrible Bedside Manner AWS has just released something fascinating in the form of CloudWatch Omni. I want to be upfront before I dive further: "CloudWatch Omni" is a wretched name ...
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After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...
If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Dudes? Hot off the heels of the release of their massive multi-year sequel project Crashlands 2, ...
For seemingly the sixth time in my career, DHH has arrived at the same conclusion I have—this time, that AI coding means we should be building more native apps, because development cost is no longer the bottleneck—but the way he ...
A few people suggested Radicle so I listed it as a GitHub alternative. Well it turns out Radicle is not a serious project. “Two critical security vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes were reported. Disclosure of Vulnerability ...
Purple machines pour signals into a funnel that lets one spark fall onto a seated figure's phone, while a ribbon from his mouth feeds a projector that turns it into film/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp/images/vigil-and-idea-to-video.webp My AI stack and harness LifeOShttps://github.com/danielm...
I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only options for local sales ...
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Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla. When is Toyota...
I don’t know what truck this video fell off the back of, why it took 16 years, or how it came into the hands of “Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music”, but I’m sure glad it did.
Across my 6 iOS apps, each GitHub issue is automatically triaged and assigned by an orchestrator agent to be implemented by a subagent UNLESS it's been labeled as "human" for specification or verification reasons. At this point, less than 10% ...
I was listening to the episode “Make Your Own Thing” from the Off Protocol podcast where Jim Ray interviews John Gruber. They cover a variety of topics, including Gruber’s thoughts on the dilution of personal brand by publishing through “chain” ...
Is it absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary to make an uninstall utility with an exquisitely detailed 3D laser gun as its UI? Fuckin’-A right it is.
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample ...
Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css
Control Resonant is almost everything I wanted from a Remedy-flavoured character action game, including several sub-things I didn’t initially believe it would pull off. However, one particular ambition has failed to come good: the ability for me to play it ...
DHH opens Rails World 2026 in Austin with a keynote on the age of AI agents: why 37signals has gone "pencils down" on handwritten code, why Rails' convention...
My experience and practical tips from doing a Working Holiday in Australia. Sharing my experience of life in Australia and what to prepare for a Working Holiday.
Safari 27 adds scroll anchoring, tighter HTTP caching, and static Service Worker routes, while Chrome improves performance tooling.
While Docker is now the main way to distribute backend software and CLI tools, you may be wondering how to build minimal and secure Docker images for your Rust projects.
Topics covered in this episode: Tachyon: A sampling profiler ships in Python 3.15's stdlib Python Workers are now generally available on Cloudflare Flet 1.0 - build cross-platform apps in Python marimo-book: Build static books from marimo notebooks Extras Joke Watch ...
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top ...
Last week I built and published a multiplayer Game of Life with Rust + Datastar. You can play it on my Labs Server. In this post we'll walk through a bit about how it works. What is it? A multiplayer...
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Yesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It's going to take a while to get a good read ...
