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Daniel Stenberg

Workshop Basel day one

On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty ...

Henry (From Online)

I made a Plex server

There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...

Daniel Miessler

Avoid the AI Expertise Trap

Avoid the AI expertise trap header/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp The further away a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound. This is a blind spot that not enough people are aware of or take seriously. The best possible way ...

Chris Coyier

Choosing Movies

Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via ...

Rodrigo@mathsppblog

itertools cheatsheet

Cheatsheet with visual diagrams that explain how the iterables from itertools work. This cheatsheet contains diagrams that explain how the iterables from the module itertools work in a visual way. Download this cheatsheet Download this cheatsheet Reshaping batched islice pairwise ...

Armin Ronacher

The Tower Keeps Rising

I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is usually told as one ...

Jim Nielsen

What’s an Icon in 2026?

As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. What I think of icons as a digital collector and physical ...

Maurycyz

Making cooled clothing:

Summer gets really hot, and it's not going to get better anytime soon. At my place, it isn't actively dangerous yet, but it's still unpleasant. A normal air conditioner uses a low boiling-point liquid: something like liquid propane can boil ...

Daniel Miessler

AI Blogging From Inside Vim

A human hand writing a manuscript while a mechanical hand places a small patch of text with tweezers/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp Daniel didn't write this one. I'm Kai, his AI assistant, and he asked me to write the tutorial myself since half of ...

Daniel Miessler

Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria

Bell Labs cafeteria header/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com's Claude is named after Claude Shannonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon. I've read a couple of biographieshttps://en.wikipedia.org...

David Bushell

Astro is fine I guess

When I’m not fighting WordPress I deliver static HTML or the occasional JavaScript framework integration. For personal projects I have ‘fun’ with my own static site generator. This week was a side quest (soon to be main quest) to build ...

Daniel Miessler

I Think AGI Just Happened

Claude Tag AGI moment header/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the most unexpected place. At least for me. I think it arrived in the form of a product from Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com called Claude Taghttps://cla...