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Isometric cutaway of a house at night: the owner asleep upstairs in sienna while four distinct purple people work the lamplit rooms below, one at the front door with a lantern, one sorting his mail into a ledger, one at ...
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on ...
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News.This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude Code, Codex, ...
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack on LLM projects, and occasionally ...
John Gruber makes his picks for the iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone 5S iPhone X iPhone 17 Pro Ok, my turn. Here’s my iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone X iPhone 12 Mini ...
Apple has been extremely cagey around usage limits for Private Cloud Compute, only sharing that subscribers of higher tiers of iCloud+ are allowed more usage. Well, my apps make liberal use of Apple's language models and I'm now constantly hitting ...
It's too bad Amphetamine for macOS is free. Given how many engineers' AI workflows depend on keeping their MacBooks awake at all hours, if only they'd charged a subscription they probably could have raised $50M at a $3B valuation by ...
Sundays - well, very early Sunday mornings - are for watching a whole queue of hungry wild animals pass your kitchen window, because a neighbour has decided to leave a bollard-sized catfood dispenser outside the block entrance while they're away ...
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags: sqlite, datasette
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max-Age parameter, so they ...
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, USI only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife
First impressions: Series 12 is a massive performance improvement. Siri AI is much faster than on the 11, and for the first time the podcast app can actually play and download shows on demand without crapping out multiple times.
It's well and truly not summer now. I'm writing this with the lights on because the screen's backlight is suddenly too bright for these eyes grown weak and lazy by the abundance of natural illumination. Read more
This is my Part 3 about [[Omarchy]], after using it for more than a year full time, as my main daily driver first on Lenovo ThinkBook 14 AMD, and now TUXEDO InfinityBook, for my business and personal use, replacing my ...
The plan was to read Seishi Yokomizo but two different authors caught my attention: The Moai Island Puzzle - Alice Arisugawa The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino Moai Island was great. Perhaps my second favourite of the shin ...
A charcoal sketch of a small purple sorting machine taking in a flood of envelopes, dropping most into bins, and sending two glowing envelopes up a narrow ramp to a large engine behind it/images/jev-decision-gate.webp/images/jev-decision-gate.webp Okay, I’ve got a video coming ...
Clauses 4 through 6 were about knowing your business, leading it, and planning. Clause 7 is where the standard asks the blunt follow-up question: do you actually have what it takes to do any of it? Clause 7 covers a ...
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irregular, which ...
What? Axe-con ’27: The world’s largest digital accessibility event. Where? At your computer. When? February 23-27, 2027 Who? Me! I’m a keynote speaker along with Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). There will be 70+ other amazing ...