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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child-Safety Lawsuit(opens in new tab)
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 62(opens in new tab)
They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore(opens in new tab)
After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text. I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view ...
Using and Styling the Dialog Element(opens in new tab)
There's a lot of nuance to the element, a seemingly little piece of web architecture. I've got some notes from digging into it. Using and Styling the Dialog Element originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really ...
"Ideas like this usually just die": Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency(opens in new tab)
I’ve been scrolling through Nexus Mods near enough every weekday morning for three or four years now. On a good day, I might spot a couple of new mods potentially worth writing news about and a couple, usually Skyrim player ...
View from the Office: Mashfik Siddique(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Mashfik Siddique, founder of startup Feastly, at Bryant Park. We were introduced by a friend and former colleague, Liz Goldenberg. Mashfik grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father was in the ...
Twitch chat in Balatro(opens in new tab)
10% of the world computers were hacked(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Gabe Einhorn(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Gabe Einhorn, co-founder of the startup VryfiD, at Le Pain Quotidien. I had a mint lemonade; Gabe passed on getting a coffee. I stumbled across Gabe while doomscrolling on LinkedIn. He ...
Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026) (opens in new tab)
I'm pickin' up good (vibe)rations
I bought Black Market AI Tokens on Chinese Amazon(opens in new tab)
Found on HN: discussion
Sonic Pi v5(opens in new tab)
Meta's Claude Code clone is INSANELY cheap(opens in new tab)
Add Publish A Package To A Test Env As A Dry Run as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs(opens in new tab)
NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto. Chris messaged me the other week asking if I wanted to implement zero-knowledge proofs. I initially was not interested, but then he said: What if I told you there’s a ...
How to keep thinking(opens in new tab)
We Need to Talk About the Future of ScottoKeebs(opens in new tab)
Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’(opens in new tab)
datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette
OpenAI Files 28-Page Motion to Dismiss Apple’s Lawsuit (PDF Link)(opens in new tab)
Outburst(opens in new tab)
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is ...
Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’(opens in new tab)
Portals Handles the Printing and Shipping(opens in new tab)
datasette 1.0a38(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system. Site administrators who serve ...
datasette 0.65.3(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38. Tags: datasette
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging(opens in new tab)
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It includes my answers to the ...
Add a Shortcut to Control Center to Open the Current App’s Preferences in the Settings App(opens in new tab)
2.5 Admins 311: Couch Cushions(opens in new tab)
Your Next Income Stream: Portals(opens in new tab)
This Company Accounts For Over 15% Of All Equities Trading in the US — and They Use C++(opens in new tab)
BMW Executive in 2023: No Plans to Sell in-Vehicle Ads(opens in new tab)
StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer(opens in new tab)
2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys(opens in new tab)
A few notes and takeaways from the 2026 State of CSS survey results, including a nice CSS-Tricks cameo! 2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars(opens in new tab)
Anthropic Needs New Engineers(opens in new tab)
Fear not, samurai masochists, Onimusha: Way of the Sword's flashiness hasn't replaced its challenge(opens in new tab)
Last month, I played an extended preview of upcoming action slasher Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and came away impressed - if a bit sore in the fingers. Though the samurai action genre is a crowded one these days, with ...
Your tip might be causing your soldering problems. #soldering #mechanicalkeyboards #electronics(opens in new tab)
Add Remove Blank Values From A Hash as a Rails TIL (opens in new tab)
Balatro movie trivia(opens in new tab)
Big Walk simulates the strange, childlike sensation of being unexpectedly separated from your friends, and the joy and relief of finding your way back(opens in new tab)
The other week, the SIM card in my phone stopped working. At first, working from home, the change was barely noticeable: a router handled my internet coverage, and Whatsapp messages continued unabated. Only once I left the house did I ...
View From the Office: Joseph Moore(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with historian and author Joseph Moore for lunch at The Porch in Bryant Park. I had the sliders. He had the chicken wrap. Joseph has a new book out called: How to ...
Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x Second Life; Spammers x blog pings; Privacywashing v Doordash; Good ...
Figma for Agents: How Airflow's Creator Coordinates AI ft. Maxime Beauchemin(opens in new tab)
It’s hard to keep up with the AI evolution; new AI tools drop every week, but how are experienced practitioners actually using them? Most of us are overwhelmed and unsure about the many possibilities, yet we need to keep going ...
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing(opens in new tab)
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson ...
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2(opens in new tab)
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work! Muse Spark ...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models(opens in new tab)
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post) and another ...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing(opens in new tab)
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. From their ...
Add List And Count All Posts In TIL Repo as a Git TIL (opens in new tab)
Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’(opens in new tab)