GodotCon Amsterdam 2026
In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon...
2nd Jul 2026
from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jul 2026
In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon Amsterdam.
It was a good occasion for us to showcase Paradox Tower and get some beta feedback from other developers.
Most importantly it was two entire days of talks about game development in...
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jul 2026
‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris John Lydon still knows how to piss people...
from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10 assist games with 14, over all-time WNBA assist leader Courtney Vandersloot.
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jul 2026
It sounds like sci-fi, but it's all coming true.
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jul 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
My Politics
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift,...
1st Jul 2026
from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Not sure why I didn’t notice before, but I’ve just realized that my key ask re cultural drift, namely let’s try to save cherished parts of our culture from being discarded by successor civs, violates key modern taboos!
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
1st Jul 2026
The possibility that AI will end up unleashing waves of 'Anti-Progress'--malicious uses, untrustworthy output and uncontrollable floods of slop--also doesn't occur to those confined in the current belief construct.
A funny thing happens on the way to understanding risk: we...
from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Jul 2026
An overstuffed, mega-sized Weekly Scroll returns to action
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jul 2026
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If a company would just once say 'make sure not to use the app' they would have my loyalty forever.
Today's News:
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jul 2026
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...
The Love Metric
If you’re publishing content, one useful way to measure success is to read what people are writing...
1st Jul 2026
from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Jul 2026
If you’re publishing content, one useful way to measure success is to read what people are writing about it online. Margarita Noriega, who’s the current managing editor of Morning Brew, calls this the Love Metric. When she sees someone saying something nice about her work online,...
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jul 2026
Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jul 2026
we got some good events cookin' up
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Jul 2026
Is there a scientific formula for catchy songs?
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jul 2026
MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we previously reported, the 775,000-square-foot "cloud" building comprises five blocks, seeking to rethink the conventional corporate campus with more public offerings.
Image credit:...
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jul 2026
In the seventeenth century, Amsterdam was likely the wealthiest city in the world. Global trade and local industry financed its artistic masterpieces and furnished the abundant foods and household goods that Dutch painters immortalized in still lifes and domestic scenes. But...
from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jul 2026
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public.
Later that month, SpaceX filed an...
from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Victorians once tried to make it happen
Proto-Modernist, Two Ways
I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by...
1st Jul 2026
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jul 2026
I doubt I’ll ever run out of blog fodder because of what happened with this photo: I’ve walked by 135 Hudson Street many times, but I finally remembered to take a picture. You don’t see something like this every day. The simple facts: it’s a warehouse completed in 1886, facing...
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jul 2026
I worked briefly in process control when I was younger, and saw Things.™ One of those Things™ was a wall of LEDs to indicate statuses of various valves and sensors across the entire plant. It was old school, but it worked. It also made you feel like you were on a 1960s-era sci-fi...
from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Trump has ruined America’s 250th anniversary. I’m still celebrating.
from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks.
By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
Can you believe it?
The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia: The big man said it. The book said it....
1st Jul 2026
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Jul 2026
The standards have changed a lot in the last few millennia: The big man said it. The book said it. The newspaper said it. I saw a photo. I saw it on TV. I read it on the internet. That’s what the AI said. There has always been room for doubt. But the last century […]
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jul 2026
As residential batteries have become more energy dense, cheaper, and smaller, more households are storing their excess solar power. Now, utilities and energy companies in dozens of countries are buying up those electrons, bundling them together, and using them to balance the...
from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jul 2026
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...
from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Good luck booking a holiday in the Highlands next summer
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jul 2026
By Reginald Jerome de Mans* I wore a pair of Gurkha trousers the other day. Those wide-waistbanded eccentricities that looked so dashing on friends’ fit posts, their criss-crossing straps so gloriously inconvenient, they put me in mind of th... > Read more
Orto Artisan Pasta
It's been almost 9 whole years I've been trying to dine at Orto. Even since they opened in 2017,...
1st Jul 2026
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jul 2026
It's been almost 9 whole years I've been trying to dine at Orto. Even since they opened in 2017, I've received recommendations from friends about the place. From its beautiful garden to their handmade pastas, this was apparently the new hot place to go in North Van. Well, it...
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June.
Wiki, we had a few things fail this month, see: solar cooking experiment, and ipad media station. Also, the pressure sprayer that we use as an outdoor shower and to rinse dishes...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Jul 2026
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs
from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Jul 2026
30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in June 2026
1) In the last 5 years no accidents have been recorded at Liverpool Street Station involving pushchairs being taken through ticket barriers.
2) During 2025 defibrillators were used on 50 occasions across the London...
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
Walking into a great history museum is the closest we can get to true time travel. From London and Berlin to Cairo and Mexico City, these 15 institutions rank among the best history museums in the world. Each museum holds culture-defining artifacts including the Rosetta Stone,...
from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jul 2026
Bonus: How to get human growth hormone (HGH) for cheap
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jul 2026
The Battle of Malvern Hill
was fought near Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy, on July 1, 1862.
Not as well remembered as Antietam or Gettysburg, it was the last of the Seven
Days Battles in the Peninsula Campaign, and prompted Confederate General Daniel
H. Hill to...
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KEK society
I was browsing jazz music on bandcamp and discovered Storyville records. I thought they had an...
1st Jul 2026
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jul 2026
I was browsing jazz music on bandcamp and discovered Storyville records. I thought they had an interesting catalogue so I became curious about their origin story. One thing led to another and...
from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jul 2026
All we have left now is money.
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jul 2026
The post Medina de Rioseco appeared first on The American Scholar.
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Jul 2026
For the thousands of people experiencing AI psychosis, there is help
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jul 2026
The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.
from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jul 2026
A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
Recently
June was a big month: I went to Porto & Lisbon, and had a lot of life stuff happen. I'll get into...
1st Jul 2026
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jul 2026
June was a big month: I went to Porto & Lisbon, and had a lot of life stuff happen. I'll get into the trip once I get my rolls of film developed. Three rolls at a new photo developing place: fingers crossed!
Reading
I finished reading Intermezzo (of the bag) and it was fantastic....
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jul 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in June I left Chroma, and I start a new role in August. In this liminal time, I am spending a couple of weeks in Japan and practicing photography.
June, 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already...
1st Jul 2026
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jul 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already cryptographic in retrospect.
from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jul 2026
The university will survive AI. That doesn’t mean we’ll like what it turns into.
from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
30th Jun 2026
The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the organ’s “stops”. There were 5 core memory boards in this instrument which differ in how many words were...
Hiring With AI
We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
30th Jun 2026
from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups
30th Jun 2026
We’re in the process of hiring an investment associate (or two!).
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
29th Jun 2026
A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues. When visiting the Renaissance’s birthplace last summer, I ran into a fellow physicist even on a Saturday morning. I was wandering around the Uffizi Gallery, a museum blessed with some of … Continue reading →
from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life.
One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems.
It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Jun 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR...
I Mostly Stopped Typing
I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType, and my daughter did the voice over for...
25th Jun 2026
from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th Jun 2026
I built the dictation app I wanted. It's called TongueType, and my daughter did the voice over for the video. (Family business.)
It hasn't gotten much traction yet, and I think I know why: dictation has been bad for so long that most people stopped paying attention. I don't blame...
Fade to Blue
Redesigning as a method of interrogation.
Okay, okay, okay. I did it again.
Sometimes you design a...
24th Jun 2026
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
24th Jun 2026
Redesigning as a method of interrogation.
Okay, okay, okay. I did it again.
Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this unsettling feeling sinks in, and you think: “I’m not happy with this. What’s the problem?”
Friggin'...
from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life
24th Jun 2026
Inspecting some ethical claims, in the hope you might revisit some of your own intuitions
Stealing is a Skill
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency,...
24th Jun 2026
from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature
24th Jun 2026
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!
Stealing is good for the soul. If done well, you will be able to build value at...
Six Websites in Ten Days
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a...
23rd Jun 2026
from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology
23rd Jun 2026
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a publisher that did not exist before: MP1, a static site generator that lives as a ZIP file inside my own CMS. This post is about what made that possible: automating the dull work...
from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology
23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
Reading, ignorance
The papacy, people say, counts in centuries, and perhaps never even thinks of counting, because its...
23rd Jun 2026
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
23rd Jun 2026
The papacy, people say, counts in centuries, and perhaps never even thinks of counting, because its goal is eternity.1
It has been a pleasure every few months to buy the latest volume in the new translation of À la recherche du temps perdu. I've now read the third, by Peter...
from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science
23rd Jun 2026
A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage.
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
23rd Jun 2026
For a while there, many people thought vitamin D was magical—that it could improve bones, the heart, infections, cancer, heart disease, longevity, even mental health. But among people I respect, opinion is now overwhelmingly that taking vitamin D does nothing unless you’re...
from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life
22nd Jun 2026
My realization that I want to write more and without AI assistance and also what we're learning about how we want to promote and not promote our courses.
from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming
22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI
22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming
22nd Jun 2026
Complaining about tech interviews is the favorite pastime of software engineers. We know they're broken, we've seen exactly how they're broken, but, despite a decade of collective hand-waving, we haven't fixed them. In fact, we haven't even understood why they're broken:...
Legibility of Effort
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology
22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups
22nd Jun 2026
@SemiAnalysis_ recently found something bizarre in the economics of AI coding subscriptions. If you run them at max usage limits, you’re actually paying 20x-70x cheaper than you would buying tokens through the API.
Many people looked at this and said: oh my god, look how much the...
from Johnathan Bi: Transcripts [alt+shift+b] in history
21st Jun 2026
Weber, Aristotle, Girard, Kripal
from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative
21st Jun 2026
The role of intuition in discovering truth
Lost confidence
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without...
21st Jun 2026
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
21st Jun 2026
RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.
from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI
21st Jun 2026
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
20th Jun 2026
There’s no better time to escape Tokyo than the summer. While beaches and mountain retreats offer temporary relief, there’s another way to flee the capital: follow the art. From giant robotic insects in rural Aomori to a celebration of one of Japan’s most beloved manga artists in...
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Jun 2026
Self-answering the question posed in a recent Hacker News discussion
from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups
20th Jun 2026
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
This is going to be a very nerdy post so bear with me. Here is a function. Read it the way you would read any other function, and then tell me its type.
fn fib(n) =
var a := 0
var b := 1
repeat(n) fn
let t = a + b
...
from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history
19th Jun 2026
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly there will be comic book premiums and punch out books.
To start how about "Flashlights in Space...!" This was a comic premium from Ray-O-Vac batteries company. There was not much...
from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance
19th Jun 2026
In this series, we suggest worthwhile reading material on a variety of topics, not all of which are directly related to investing.
from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups
19th Jun 2026
I’m not going to say it’s my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
19th Jun 2026
on failures and fathers and color and country
from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history
19th Jun 2026
Nearly three years have passed since Chinese authorities unveiled a plan in September 2023 to support its eastern Fujian Province in exploring new approaches for integrated development across the Taiwan Strait.
from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science
19th Jun 2026
June 21 is not just father's day but the day of the summer solstice
The post Sunday is Both Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Jun 2026
I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which forks are active and what they’re working on.
GitHub has a Network tab for this. I find it lousy.
It’s hard to see active forks at a glance. Panning and zooming the UI is slow and...
May ’26: Angelic timing
May was an enjoyable month. I kept reasonably busy, as well as doing a bit of travel around the UK....
17th Jun 2026
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
17th Jun 2026
May was an enjoyable month. I kept reasonably busy, as well as doing a bit of travel around the UK. I visited King Charles’ Poundbury for the first time, as well as the south coast and the Cotswolds for a weekend. Meanwhile, the news has been dominated by Trump’s Iran war, and in...
from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th Jun 2026
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while, and he said he hopes I'm doing well.
The truth is, some days I am and some days I'm not.
I want to share a little bit about what's been going on, and what the future looks...
from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology
16th Jun 2026
Probably no, right?
That would be very dangerous, especially if the phishing website serving it is an exact copy of the thing you was looking for.
Well that's what happened to me!
TL;DR
I found a fake tronscan blockchain explorer duplicate on the #1 position in the
from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history
16th Jun 2026
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
from Token for Token [alt+shift+b] in AI
15th Jun 2026
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
15th Jun 2026
I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are attending, and have nothing better to do, consider catching one of these sessions I get to be a part of with some fantastic colleagues and Ken! Basemaps Are Not Just the Background...
from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups
15th Jun 2026
An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process accountability.
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments,
which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that
your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when...
from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI
15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
never waste a token
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with...
15th Jun 2026
from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI
15th Jun 2026
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI
15th Jun 2026
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.”
That’s me, in The Guardian a few days ago, trying to distill a message that I’ve been trying to get out as broadly as possible for...
from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Jun 2026
I made an app!
What Can’t I Press? is an app that allows you to:
Read, search, and filter through screen reader keyboard shortcuts.
Scan open apps and add their keyboard shortcuts to the collection.
Copy a keyboard shortcut to your clipboard, with modifier keys to format the...
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
14th Jun 2026
On being seen, the ARC Network, and a wedding
from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Jun 2026
Introduction
A Galois Field Introduction by Example
Base Galois Fields
A Real World Example of a Base Galois Field
GF(2)
Extended Galois Fields
Extended Galois Field Addition
Extended Galois Field Multiplication
A Field Defining Irreducible Polynomial
A Primitive Polynomial
From...
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Jun 2026
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a bit...
A World of First Drafts
Five short essays on where we are currently at.
A World of First Drafts
Dreams and the Uncanny...
14th Jun 2026
from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming
14th Jun 2026
Five short essays on where we are currently at.
A World of First Drafts
Dreams and the Uncanny Valley
Fiddlers in the Room
The Last Hike
Semantic Satiation of an Acronym
A World of First Drafts
I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill”, a collection of early...
from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI
14th Jun 2026
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful attention to the foundations and not let the AI make all the decisions for you.
from hookswitch to grave
Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left
a famously complicated...
14th Jun 2026
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Jun 2026
Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left
a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in
American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often
rivaled the federal government in the size of its budget...
Every Frame Perfect
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me:
A stated goal of Wayland is...
13th Jun 2026
from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Jun 2026
A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me:
A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”.
And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland is...
Decisions and Dollars
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
12th Jun 2026
from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups
12th Jun 2026
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 yesterday, the first Mythos-class model the public can use.
from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history
12th Jun 2026
The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had
notations for for each , for , but everything
else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that
for example had to be written as . (Wikipedia)
In an older article about Egyptian fractions...
from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Jun 2026
For a long time I’ve wanted to add Spirographs to my (awesome ) drawing app for kids, Kidz Fun Art, and today it’s ready! There was quite a bit of fun mathematics in getting it to feel natural and work with all sizes of circles, but it seems to have worked out very...
from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Jun 2026
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page.
One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer games.
This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section as...
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
11th Jun 2026
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups
11th Jun 2026
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would be like. I had just come back to Montreal. Twice I'd failed to get a place in Toronto. My dream of traveling in a van had also fallen apart. So I rented a U-Haul and went to pick...
from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life
11th Jun 2026
The pawn can only move forward
from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI
11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
10th Jun 2026
An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption on Earth
from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science
10th Jun 2026
I don’t use AI to draft my writing. These are fine handcrafted artisanal essays, every word placed individually with loving care.
I use AI a lot for researching, occasionally for brainstorming, and increasingly for fact-checking. But not for outlining, drafting, or directly...
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
10th Jun 2026
The Australian immigration system must exclude dickheads, bullshitters, and bludgers. This post has been inspired by Joe Walker’s recent set of three exemplary interviews (Martin Parkinson (former Treasury, author of 2023 migration review), Mark Cully (historian), Mike Pezzullo...
from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
10th Jun 2026
Experimenting with Claude Code + Mac Mini setup, building mobile apps, and so much more
from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology
10th Jun 2026
Today, Ivanti published an advisory.
“No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back at you, across the street.
Today’s rare advisory outlines two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Sentry product, appealing directly to our inner desire for sophisticated server-side,
from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life
9th Jun 2026
I’m Charlie Becker, a second-generation bookseller building an AI tool for used bookstores out of my family’s store in Houston, Texas.
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Jun 2026
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Jun 2026
Stop internalizing failure and externalizing success. Own your achievements with confidence.
A Love Story
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships
9th Jun 2026
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
9th Jun 2026
Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
8th Jun 2026
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents:
Most discussions about AI-native development jump from this problem – agents’ tendency to accumulate tech debt – directly to tests. … Tests verify...
from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
8th Jun 2026
A lovely map of the electric interurban lines radiating out from Chicago “over hill and valley, by lake and stream,” compiled by the Chicago Evening Standard newspaper. The source I obtained this map from tentatively dates it to 1921; perhaps people with more familiarity with the...
from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel
8th Jun 2026
Here’s all you need to know about our year-long digital customer experience pilot in Toronto
The post TTC and Transit app are teaming up appeared first on Transit.
from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups
8th Jun 2026
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly...
Saturday
I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
8th Jun 2026
from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups
8th Jun 2026
I write this sentence down, and then spend ten minutes sitting here, thinking about it.
from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Jun 2026
It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s.
Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out plausible text and create cheap-looking images and videos, resulting in
a lot of low-quality content being shared.
It was also a huge disappointment to see a human-written post...
from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups
8th Jun 2026
Maybe the future of work is… termites? Let me explain.
from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history
7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th Jun 2026
I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for WWDC. Apple’s software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this year’s event won’t do much to help. Perhaps it’ll be the beginning of an upswing, but we’ve got...
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th Jun 2026
1948 was an interesting time for computing.
For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically.
Now these electromechanical relays and counting wheels were being used to build room-filling general-purpose computers such as Harvard Mark...
from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI
6th Jun 2026
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root?
The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and...
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Jun 2026
This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are...
Communities of Not
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around
abstinence from something:...
6th Jun 2026
from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI
6th Jun 2026
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around
abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these
communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy,
choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets...
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes
cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is
going on?
Say hello to kvestigate your
kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
5th Jun 2026
Leni is purpose-built for investment teams that can’t afford to be wrong.
from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Jun 2026
What would you build if you couldn't build AI?
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
5th Jun 2026
Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Jun 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 56 - 2026.06.05
from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2026
Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate.
from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Jun 2026
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for?
You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could...
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on the class Universe of GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS. I defined the class itself and the main methods, Universe.Register and Universe.Simulate.
The class represents a collection of bodies and manages the parameters and...
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2026
A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser.
I’ve been copying that fixture from project-to-project, but recently I decided to add it to chives, the utility library I use for all my static websites (or tiny archives).
One of my rules...
Do We Need Billionaires?
A significant portion of the population in the USA still thinks of Reaganomics as certified fact...
5th Jun 2026
from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel
5th Jun 2026
A significant portion of the population in the USA still thinks of Reaganomics as certified fact rather than a largely discredited theory. By this mindset the engine of our economy requires people to strive for a ton of money. A rising tide lifts all boats and all that.
First, I...
from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2026
I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to
JAX, using
Flax as the neural network layer.
For various reasons I wanted to use Safetensors
to store checkpoints of the model. It took a little while to get it working;
here's the trick I learned.
If you look at the Safetensors docs, you'll...
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
4th Jun 2026
A few weeks ago, I assessed the value of SpaceX ahead of its initial public offering, with the admission that I was making my estimates with drabs of data, some of it coming from unofficial sources. I also promised to revisit my valuation, when the prospectus came out, and now...
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2026
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
Quiet Authority
In his commentary on the book of Job, Pope St Gregory the Great outlines a distinction between the...
4th Jun 2026
from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life
4th Jun 2026
In his commentary on the book of Job, Pope St Gregory the Great outlines a distinction between the imposition of power led by will and the testimony of quiet authority led by conscience.
The Frog Puzzle
Here’s a probability puzzle from a TED-Ed video called Can you solve the frog riddle? by Derek...
4th Jun 2026
from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Jun 2026
Here’s a probability puzzle from a TED-Ed video called Can you solve the frog riddle? by Derek Abbott. It came up recently in this Reddit thread: You’re stranded in a rainforest after accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom. To survive the poison, you need to lick a certain...
from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative
4th Jun 2026
Youth Rebellion, The Realness Premium & Recentering Taste
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Jun 2026
Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in the US than it used to.
from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Jun 2026
The Basic Setup
Whether one’s dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields, it’s common to encounter situations that can be modeled as involving two agents that repeatedly compete with each other. One imagines that at each step each agent can take one of a...
from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history
4th Jun 2026
On May 22, 2026, amid a surge of hunger strikes in immigration detention prisons across the United States, 300 detainees announced from their cells in Newark, New Jersey that they would not eat and would not toil for their captors until their demands were met. This sparked ten...
Rose Hill Cemetery
Old Friend of the blog Michael Karpovage whose Pictorial Savannah map was highlighted here many...
4th Jun 2026
from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography
4th Jun 2026
Old Friend of the blog Michael Karpovage whose Pictorial Savannah map was highlighted here many years back has a new map of Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. This is “not just a cemetery map, but a passionately built tribute to the namesake and creative visionary behind the...
The Pax Silica Con
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep...
4th Jun 2026
from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history
4th Jun 2026
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.
Can Koya, L'Escala
I'm acutely aware that a review of a (hitherto) obscure restaurant in a small town in Spain isn't...
4th Jun 2026
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
4th Jun 2026
I'm acutely aware that a review of a (hitherto) obscure restaurant in a small town in Spain isn't going to be one of my most read posts of the year. Back in the days when I was doing 6 or 7 posts a month, slipping the odd leftfield location in now and again just made things a bit...
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
4th Jun 2026
NOT SHAKESPEARE
Poems and a Defence of Ryme (1592-1605), Samuel
Daniel – Author of the “Delia” sequence of fifty sonnets, a genuine sequence, with
for example lines ending one poem and beginning the next. For some reason Thomas Campion, a writer of
the most beautiful songs,...
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A section of trail in Switzerland
May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake...
4th Jun 2026
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
4th Jun 2026
A section of trail in Switzerland
May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake Konstanz, passing through Konstanz, Bregenz Austria, Stein am Rhein in Switzerland, and Meersburg.
A farm in Bodenseeufer, Germany
We passed a lot of operating agriculture,...
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative
3rd Jun 2026
Plus! YouTubers in the box office, BookTok drama, and a very good Odyssey post
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
3rd Jun 2026
Wood engraving is a relief technique using fine tools to carve intricate designs into the end-grain of dense hardwoods like boxwood. Gorgeously fine details can be achieved. We now have a brand new range of tools and materials available to buy in our shop, plus a lovely selection...
from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Jun 2026
A non-comprehensive and unofficial guide
from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Jun 2026
Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Jun 2026
Notice & soften & notice & soften & notice & soften & notice &
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2026
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still wrestle with on the web. We probably always will.
The post Thinking more about Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Jun 2026
Thank streetcars for making cities nice
from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2026
A small C trick that keeps Clang from flagging valid code as unreachable
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Jun 2026
Robots, wearables for kids, and more
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Jun 2026
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2026
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people. Computers...
from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Jun 2026
Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2026
この記事は日本語でもお読みいただけます。
Over the last six months, TokyoDev has received a handful of reports from our clients about fraudulent applications, in which candidates purport to be different people than they actually are. As a relatively niche job board that helped Japanese companies...
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Jun 2026
Some thoughts from watching a demo of a Software Dark Factory.
from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Jun 2026
For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on May 8th, 2026.
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Jun 2026
As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day.
For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to think about its passage in a different way.
The code, which had to be under 2048 bytes,...
from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2026
Zhang Enli, The Wires (3), 2015
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