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selfh.st/apps Now Features SSO and Trending Filters (opens in new tab)
The directory's most requested features have (finally) arrived
Wednesday, September 16, 2026(opens in new tab)
Inside Kueue: How Kubernetes Decides What Runs Next(opens in new tab)
See how Kueue brings order to overloaded Kubernetes clusters by intelligently managing batch workloads with a hands on demo.
My Last Quest(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet Rated; Libdem copyright sabotage; ...
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Apple’s daily harassment beat me into submission. I installed iOS 27 and macOS 27. I was told they’re both an improvement over 26 with less of the glasshole nonsense. I dialled back every setting I could and macOS 27 is ...
Icon Fall Web Component(opens in new tab)
How I Built My AI SaaS on Kubernetes(opens in new tab)
How I Code Without Typing(opens in new tab)
DuckDB Skills for Claude Code(opens in new tab)
The duckdb-skills plugin gives Claude Code a growing number of skills that use the DuckDB CLI to read data files, run queries, convert formats, explore object storage, work with spatial data, search the documentation and recall earlier sessions.
jid(opens in new tab)
A JSON incremental digger with auto completions and expressions.
Jev means structured output is interesting again(opens in new tab)
🔥 So I guess we're all just agreed that, "it's not…(opens in new tab)
So I guess we're all just agreed that, "it's not against the law if an AI agent does it," then? https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover
The Four Tiers of Tab Importance(opens in new tab)
Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian. I’ve been back on it the last month or so though. It’s still very usable as they keep the Chromium version ...
2026 Roll-037(opens in new tab)
Bottlenecks Get a Bad Rap(opens in new tab)
Poor bottlenecks. Always seen as problematic, antithetical to efficiency. But bottlenecks aren’t universally bad. Think about it: a bottle’s neck is designed to constrain the amount of liquid that can flow out. A decrease in bandwidth is its entire purpose! ...
Kubernetes v1.37: Pod-Level Resource Managers graduated to Beta(opens in new tab)
With the release of Kubernetes v1.37, the Pod-Level Resource Managers feature has graduated to Beta status (disabled by default)! First introduced as an Alpha feature in Kubernetes v1.36, this enhancement builds on Pod-Level Resources by equipping Kubelet's Topology Manager, CPU ...
★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s ‘Surprise and Shine’ Event; the Announcements of the iPhones 18 Pro, AirPods 5, Apple Watches Series 12 and Ultra 4, and the iPhone Duo; and the Dawn of the Ternus, John Ternus Era at Apple(opens in new tab)
The keynote, the products, and a new era.
Tim Willits doesn't think Rideshare's generative AI is damaging Saber's reputation(opens in new tab)
A few weeks ago, when I spoke with Tim Willits, chief creative officer at Saber Interactive, makers of games like Space Marine 2, SnowRunner, and World War Z, the company was dealing with the shitstorm that ensued from their announcement ...
[Sponsor] WorkOS: How SSO Works and the Fastest Way to Add It(opens in new tab)
#496: A lake house in Seattle(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Pandas Should Go Extinct Pydantic-pint puts real-world units in your Pydantic models How Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) AWS acquires DuckLabs Extras Joke Watch on YouTube Sponsored by Logfire from Pydantic: pythonbytes.fm/logfire Connect ...
Paradox's grand strategy game Afterworld hasn't got a fixed history, it changes with every playthrough(opens in new tab)
Each time you start a new campaign in Afterworld, Paradox's upcoming post-apocalyptic grand strategy game, a tiny virtual historian cracks their knuckles and gets to work writing a new 200-year history for what happened to North America in the dying ...
🔥 By far the biggest change in the agentic coding…(opens in new tab)
By far the biggest change in the agentic coding era has been that I'm no longer chained to my computer all day. Just got more done by sending a few messages from my iPhone on the driving range than I ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026(opens in new tab)
I Want Your Sex (2026) ★★★★(opens in new tab)
How are they Losing so Bad(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Everybody pees: Even Jeff Bezos. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zune won't play Microsoft files; Papercraft 1:1 Mustang; Third gender for Aussie passports; France hacked Canada; EC v links; Welcome to Night Vale; University ...
Obsidian Vault to Enterprise Company Brain: Where Agents Write, Branch and Merge(opens in new tab)
I’ve been using a personal second brain for many years. I started with OneNote and pivoted to Obsidian due to the linking feature. Since then, I have built a full net of knowledge for my personal life, but not only ...
Rust generics: from Static to Dynamic dispatch(opens in new tab)
Imagine that you want to add a camera to your computer which is lacking one. You buy a webcam and connect it via a USB port. Now imagine that you
Table of Contents Web Component(opens in new tab)
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Not long ago I was fooled into thinking Digital Ocean had done right by CSS-Tricks. Turns out it was all Geoff and the authors working for free? Digital Ocean would rather fund outright fascism than their own publication.
🔥 Say what you will about macOS Tahoe, but it…(opens in new tab)
Say what you will about macOS Tahoe, but it accomplished the longest uptime I've ever experienced on a Mac (131 days, 40 mins) after 4+ months overseas. I tapped the dusty keyboard, and it immediately woke up my janky 6K ...
Kubernetes observability in 2026 with OpenObserve 1.0 as the backend(opens in new tab)
A 31 ms full-text search over 4.2 million Kubernetes log rows, and a whole cluster on 43m CPU under 600 MiB: a hands-on run of OpenObserve 1.0 as the backend.
Tell agents the why, not just the how(opens in new tab)
Anthropic's Misuse Report, Condensed to 117 Findings(opens in new tab)
The cover of the UL summary of Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report, with the eight section titles down the left side and 117 findings in the corner/images/ul-anthropic-misuse-report-2026.webphttps://share.danielmiessler.com/G2BrZSoRq3/raw?dl=1 click the cover to download the pdf Anthropic pu...
Late Night Linux – Episode 403(opens in new tab)
Managers Are Catalysts(opens in new tab)
As an industry, we like to shout a lot about experiments when we kick them off, all confident swagger that this time our superior intellects have landed from first principles on the correct reimagining of this or that piece of ...
Developing for the iPhone Duo ⟡ React 19.3 Is Here ⟡ Pi announces Radius ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences(opens in new tab)
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta. If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage ...
Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It ...
📸 iOS 27's nifty Captive WiFi feature(opens in new tab)
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but I was tickled to discover that iOS 27 ships with a keyboard completion that will fill wi-fi details into captive portals you've previously filled out before.
I wish you the best in the Offline(opens in new tab)
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely. In Goodbye, ...
🔥 A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadth…(opens in new tab)
A friend wrote to say that my "Full-breadth Developers" essay is aging frustratingly well, in his estimation. Is it? I'm not nearly employed enough to have a good read on things. https://justin.searls.co/posts/full-breadth-developers/
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Aha! Yes! I’m called out at the start of Slop Talk Show #732 for last week’s note :) This is a proud achievement! How does one go about framing an audio clip to display in my office? Have the transcript ...
Did AI Kill React Native?(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark money ...
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) ★★★★(opens in new tab)
The Grammar of Data: From Definition to Execution(opens in new tab)
In Part 1, we discovered the grammar for data: a way to define a data project with its complex requirements and how we define it declaratively as a grammar in one sentence with nouns (sources), transformations (verbs), templates, and modifiers, ...
Solar Eclipse Toggle Web Component (two state dark/light mode toggle)(opens in new tab)