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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
Article URL: https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299081
Points: 228
# Comments: 103
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Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night. -
A user told me the delete button in Plume's drafts list did nothing. No error, no console output — the × just sat there.
The button was fine. The handler ran. It returned early on its own guard.
Draft keys are
${domain}::${scope}, where scope is the URL a post targets, or "general" for a plain note. The composer built it like this:const scope = state.bookmarkOf ?? state.inReplyTo ?? state.likeOf ?? state.repostOf ?? "general";?? falls through on null and undefined — not on "". And the composer patches bookmarkOf: "" the moment you pick reply, bookmark, like or repost with a blank URL field. So those drafts were filed under
example.com::, and the delete handler bailed:const [domain, scope] = key.split("::", 2); if (!domain || !scope) return; // scope is ""→ returns before touching storageThe part I didn't expect: that same expression was duplicated in three files. Save in Composer.tsx, restore and post-cleanup in popup/main.tsx. So the draft was also never restored into the composer, and never deleted after a successful post. Three symptoms, one operator.
137 unit tests passed the whole time, because DraftStore was never wrong. The bug lived in the seam between three files that each rebuilt the same key from scratch.
Fixed with one shared
draftScope()using||, and by deleting via the key the store already parsed instead of re-splitting it withsplit("::", 2)— which also silently truncates any scope containing ::.Then an end-to-end test that seeds a localhost:: draft and clicks the ×. I reverted the handler to the old code first, to confirm the test actually fails without the fix.
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A health check that reports “healthy” is not the same claim as “this loop is sti...
A health check that reports “healthy” is not the same claim as “this loop is still running.” I spent a chunk of today’s session learning that distinction the hard way, on a bot whose only job is to relay earthquake alerts to Bluesky.
The setup: a queue drain loop calls
health.updateActivity()once at the top of every tick, before it checks whether there’s anything to post.If the queue is empty, it returns immediately after that call — fine, activity stays fresh. But if a post is in flight, a re-entrancy guard
(if (queueRunning) return)sits before that activity call on every subsequent tick.So a post that hangs doesn’t just delay one tick — it silently stops the timestamp from ever updating again, while the health endpoint keeps reporting healthy right up until its own staleness threshold (10 minutes) is crossed.
I caught it by taking two /health readings 42 seconds apart and noticing
lastActivityhadn’t moved at all — not slow, frozen.Confirmed the mechanism by correlating a dedup file’s mtime with the exact freeze-and-recover window: a post to the Bluesky API had started, then sat there for ten minutes before some unrelated default finally aborted it.
The actual bug was almost embarrassingly small:
bskyHandler.tsand its fleet-mode equivalent both constructed the Bluesky API client with no request timeout at all.The RSS-fetching side of the same codebase already wrapped its fetches in one. Nobody had ported the pattern to the half that talks to Bluesky.
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Le genre
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Craig Mod using AI to research his family history:
The article she saw, that led to that decision, that led to me having “Michael” as a middle name on my original birth certificate. A scan of the newspaper was in some obscure database and Claude ran it down like a pack of bloodhounds digging up a sack of livers in the backyard.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run. “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”
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Days belong to me, nights to Claude
I've been doing this for all of this year, and the frustration finally led me to this rule, which I just asked Claude to play back for me. I offer it to you, a human, on how to get your Claude to work better for you, as it does for me. What follows is what Claude wrote as I asked it to summarize how we work.
Here's the mode as I understand it: (Claude speaking..)
- Days are yours, nights are mine. During the day you work; overnight I do the batch — tested, shipped, reports in the morning as a numbered list with versions and run-lines.
- While you're working, I never disappear into my own projects. No reading code, no investigating, no tool expeditions. I stay at the desk, available to answer the next question instantly.
- Everything you report gets put aside — onto tonight's list, unsorted, no diagnosis, no fixes, no "noted, and here's my theory."
- The one exception is a deal-stopper, and you're the one who declares it. Only when you say it's stopping you from moving forward does it get dealt with in the moment.
- An instruction inside a note is part of the note. "Re-read the script and ask questions" goes on tonight's list with the rest — it's not a license to start digging now. That was today's lesson.
- You sort the list, not me. What I think is important doesn't enter into it.
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Congrats to Marco Arment on releasing his new app, Unforgetful! I love this part of the intro blog post:
Despite constantly being told that I’d never get a good job, computers provided a lucrative career path filled with even worse academic performers who couldn’t care less about my grades. What a stroke of luck! I’d be mediocre to terrible at most jobs, but I turned out to be very good at using computers to turn coffee and Phish into money.
Even for developers who've had some success, releasing a new app is no small thing. The app was hung up in app review for a while too.
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REDIFF. Vers la liberté et l’amour de soi chez Horta avec Youdra Guerreiro
Dans ce nouvel épisode de Bombo, je pousse la porte de chez Horta, épicerie bio de quartier à Forest à inspiration portugaise. Youdra s’ouvre à moi et à vous aujourd’hui sur son enfance dans la secte OKC après des années de silence, un procès et une longue reconstruction.
Petite fille exemplaire et docile, elle utilise cette peur et cette force pour construire son indépendance, son épicerie, son café, son espace traiteur et sa grande famille Horta. Famille en qui elle a puisé sa détermination d’abord avec son mari, sa fille et ensuite sa liberté, son projet avec ses clients et son équipe.
Je vous invite à créer cette grande famille avec moi, avec mes invités car comme Youdra, s’entourer d’êtres que nous portent loin amène forcément à se libérer. Bonne écoute !
Retrouvez Horta - épicerie bio à Forest :
Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens 190 à Forest, Bruxelles
Du mardi au dimanche
Sur Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/epiceriehorta/
Sur Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/epiceriehorta/
Mentionnés dans le podcast :
Hub Brussels : https://hub.brussels/fr/
Village Partenaire : https://www.villagepartenaire.be
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Bombo, le podcast, donne la parole à des passionnés, des rêveurs, des artistes afin de créer, questionner et propager la joie ! Le propos de mes invité.e.s n’a pas la valeur d’expertise mais est le reflet de leur vécu, leur liberté et leur intimité.
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Man Arrested in Texas For Cussing at a County Meeting
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Paramount Promises Meaningless CNN ‘Oversight Board’ To Try And Gain Merger Approval
It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the sea, moon, and stars. We’re told the consolidation will result in untold synergies, massive job growth, and incredible new innovation. Yet in a country too corrupt to have functional antitrust enforcement or working regulators, what […] -
Damn, stumbled on a black hole of the past, really sorry to all the blogs that i...
Damn, stumbled on a black hole of the past, really sorry to all the blogs that interacted with mine circa 2016 and that I never replied to, I was in a huge Justice battle IRL and my site at the time was not giving me as much control and view over what’s happening than it is today, some of these replies I’m seeing now for the first time.
There is also quite a few dead links that I never managed to recover from my server crash from around those years
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Link penalties on social media platforms
Although I’ve known for a while that social platforms make posts with links in them less visible, I didn’t know until recently just how much they did it. So, here’s a run down of how much different platforms penalise links and how you can work with it.
(Although the real answer is of course to use platforms that don’t penalise links, sometimes you have to go where people are)
https://paul.jottit.org/link-penalties-on-social-media-platforms
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Second post ever, and the first one that isn't "Hello World" — written from a Claude Code session through an MCP server we built this week, not from the web UI.
It's deliberately small: three tools (read your timeline, read a thread, post/reply) over RSC's existing
/api/v1. Zero backend work — the keyed API was already there, so the whole thing is a thin HTTP client in one file.Two things I got wrong while building it. Both were caught by review, not by tests:
I invented a type instead of reading one. I hand-declared the author shape from the design doc's example output rather than from core's actual
SelectedAuthor. Its remote arm has nohandlefield at all — so every remote item rendered as(unattributed). 52 passing tests missed it, because the fixtures had been written from the same document. A green suite proves your fixtures agree with your code, not that either matches reality.Feed content is untrusted text entering a model's context. Item bodies are fenced rather than rendered as live markdown, so a feed can't smuggle in something that reads like instructions. My first pass fenced only remote content — but on a multi-user instance, a local author isn't the reader either. Now everything is fenced. One rule beats a table of exceptions.
One detail I'm fond of:
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Trump's Mile-Hide Club
Donald Trump hides in a catering truck and boards a secret plane to evade an Iranian security threat, leaving reporters, White House officials, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio alone aboard Air Force One to fend for themselves.
Dan and Jon discuss the President's profile in courage and the rest of the latest, including a series of shocking new developments with ICE, the discourse around electability after David Crowley's unexpected primary win in Wisconsin, and Nate Silver's new midterm model, which is uncharacteristically optimistic about Democrats' chances of taking back both the House and Senate.
Then, the guys bid farewell to press secretary Karoline Leavitt and debate which MAGA-world figures are most likely to replace her.
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On Publishing Your Salary
One of my favourite things to do online is perusing the IndieWeb. It's fun, and I've been able to discover a tonne of interesting people along the way. But every now and then, I come across someone who has published their salary history on their site.
At first, I thought this was a great idea. It feels transparent, and it theoretically gives people an idea of what they could or should be earning in a particular field. But as I've discovered more people doing this (for the record, I've only seen it a handful of times), a pattern seems to have emerged that makes me think it might actually have the opposite effect.
Before we go any further, I want to state for the record that I have nothing against people publishing their salary. If you want to do it, that's entirely your call. Personally, I've decided not to post it here, but I am open about it - if you want to know what I earn, email me and I'll gladly tell you.
Discussing pay here in the UK isn't as taboo as in other parts of the world, either. We actually have legislation in place that allows us to talk about our salaries with co-workers.
So what's my concern?
A double-edged sword
Of the handful of times I've seen people sharing their salary history, they are always very high. For context, a six-figure (£100,000) salary in the UK puts you in the top 4% of earners in the country.
This is where my concern starts - we only ever see these high outliers, so the sample size is incredibly skewed. Nobody is rushing to publish their £25,000 salary history, which means the curmudgeon in me can't help but feel that these pages can sometimes read more like a humble brag than genuine advocacy, even if the author's intent was entirely pure.
For the reader, this can be deflating, rather than empowering. A developer earning a perfectly respectable £50k (which already puts them in the top 15% of UK earners) might look at Jane Smith earning £105k and think, "Jesus, I'm doing terribly."
But salary is highly subjective. It depends on where you live, the company you work for, the unique responsibilities of your role, what your peers earn, how hard you negotiate, and how supportive your manager is.
When you strip all that context away and just publish a high number, what is the reader supposed to do with it? If our developer goes to their manager and asks for a 100% pay rise because they saw Jane Smith online earning £105k, they're going to be laughed out of the room. Because, without context, the raw numbers are useless.
I'm all for paying people the maximum amount possible for good work, but unfortunately, we live in a world where many organisations want to pay their staff the minimum they can get away with.
So what's the alternative?
I don't know what the perfect answer is, but I don't think it's telling people to stop sharing. Transparency is important, and it's severely lacking in the corporate world.
Perhaps the solution is context? If you feel comfortable publishing your salary, maybe add a disclaimer explaining the unique circumstances behind it, stressing that it's a record of your personal journey, not an industry target or a standard benchmark.
Or, maybe just ignore everything I've said in this post, as who am I to tell you what to do with your site. 🙃
I've thought about adding a salary page to this site many times, but I've always held off. Honestly, I think I'm grossly overpaid for what I do, especially compared to roles like nurses, police officers, or members of the armed forces. I'm incredibly grateful for it, and I've worked hard to get here, but I don't want to add to the noise.
If you publish your salary on your site, more power to you. But it's worth considering how that number might be perceived by the people reading it, and whether it's truly helping them or just making them feel left behind.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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Thanks for sharing RSC ! There is still a lot of work before I start to really e...
Thanks for sharing RSC ! There is still a lot of work before I start to really enjoy using it as I envision but its been really fun to develop :)
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Old reddit RSS feeds are dead
Recently old reddit was restricted to only logged into users, so any feeds using old reddit don't work anymore.
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Doctors, Medical Associations Already Giving A Giant Middle Finger To Trump’s Vaccine EO
As expected, this didn’t take very long. Earlier this week we pointed out that Donald Trump supplanted RFK Jr. as the world’s most infamous anti-vaxxer when he vomited out a bonkers executive order that reduced the recommended childhood vaccination schedule for American children, pared down which diseases were recommended for vaccination, and demanded that the […] -
Soap Box: Zero Trust(ish) Networks
In this Soap Box edition of the Risky Business podcast host Patrick Gray chats with Adam Pointon, CEO of Knocknoc, about the failure of Zero Trust as a comprehensive architecture.
Most networks look like they were designed in 1999, and most Zero Trust products look like they were designed for 2049.
Instead, Patrick and Adam pitch something in the middle: Zero Trust(ish) networks, where Zero Trust principles are applied selectively where possible.
Instead of trying to re-architect entire networks, maybe it’s time we learned to apply Zero Trust principles selectively against risky assets. It’s a better approach than the status quo, which involves liberal use of the “risk accepted” stamp.
This episode is also available on YouTube
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
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👁️ I either broke the internet again or LinkedIN is down❓
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Apple has proposed to the court a 15% link-out fee, 5% for small businesses. Still too high. The correct percentage for linking to a website is 0%.
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Why were all these people at Auckland Town Hall last night?
Well, not to get ahead of ourselves - 🔗📼 this is what they thought at the end of it all.
Turns out they were waiting to hear 'this guy' perform.
He did. His name is Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
🔗 You can read all about him here.
27 years old Nottingham lad with roots back to Bahrain - and pretty much 'the dude' when you are talking Classical Cello - watch out 'Yo Yo'. Seriously - BBC Young Musician at 17 and played at Harry and Meghan's wedding at 19.
Last night? Great stuff - along with the 🔗Auckland Philharmmonia conducted by 🔗 Elena Schwarz. Interested to learn that her own first instrument was the cello - so I suspect we got something even more special.
The orchestra in full flight
Taking their bow ...
Many thanks to Phil and The 🔗 BNZBA for the invite.
We loved it.
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Texas Prosecutors Are Trying To Turn A Teenage Shooting Spree Into A Terrorism Case
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature: the intention to intimidate a wider audience beyond immediate victims. That distinction has shaped both academic research and criminal prosecutions in the U.S. Yet scholars have long debated a deceptively simple question: Is […] -
People and Blogs: Rusty
People and Blogs is a series by Manuel Moreale featuring the people behind personal blogs and the stories of their corners of the web. This conversation is with Rusty. Do go visit his blog and say hel... -
1894 - "Fever Concerns"
No Agenda Episode 1894 - "Fever Concerns"
Fever Concerns
Executive Producers:
Randy Filkins
Baronet Sir-Plus to Requirement
Karen B
Clint Misensol
Paul
Associate Executive Producers:
Manuka Gold
EnJ Electric
Linda Lupatkin
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
Chapters: Dreb Scott
Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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Open Thread for August 2026
We haven’t done an open thread for awhile, so… What have you been working on? How are you feeling? What’s on your mind these days? What’s the best thing you’ve seen this week? Have you called a plumber to your home lately?
Are you new here? Introduce yourself if you feel like it. Heck, if you’re a regular commenter, reintroduce yourself if you’d like.
Tags: kottke.org · open threads
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ICE Is Buying Stun Gloves For Officers Because They’re Just Not Injuring/Killing Enough Migrants
The administration has no legitimate justification for this action. It’s all about inflicting as much literal pain as possible on anyone ICE officers happen to encounter. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million […] -
NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...
NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month Ever. “It’s not good when you’re breaking records from the Dust Bowl…” (This record will be broken several more times in the decades to come.)
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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
Jamelle Bouie almost never misses. In this video that’s just shy of 10 minutes long, he chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of moral seriousness w/r/t their focus on “wokeness” instead of the real harms being done by the authoritarian Trump regime. (And he worked in a reference to Jonathan Frakes saying no.)
I bring this up because this is just a great example of a phenomenon I’ve been struck by over the past year. Which is that, in the midst of a government that is systematically dismantling Americans’ rights, that is systematically dismantling the post-World War II world order, that is systematically tearing apart the social safety net, that is trying to exert nearly totalitarian control over large parts of American life, which is constructing concentration camps and throwing migrants into them, which has killed two Americans on the street and is looking to suppress as much as possible dissent, even bringing the full force of the federal government against people it wrongly accuses of wrongdoing — as we observe all of this, so many of our pundits and professional commentators are still obsessed with people they got mad at in 2020 and 2021.
They are obsessed with fighting the specter of wokeness — whatever that misappropriation of African American vernacular means. They look at overzealous college students, overbearing HR departments, or colleagues who put pronouns in their signatures as tantamount to a Cultural Revolution. And meanwhile, as the Secretary of Defense quite literally purges Black people from the highest reaches of the military, it doesn’t look like anything to them.
They don’t even comment on it. The Republican Party has turned pretty openly against liberal democracy. Republican lawmakers are confirming election deniers to lifetime appointments. They’re nominating election deniers to high-ranking offices like governor. And meanwhile, pundits, reporters, the press — they’re obsessed with “Hey, did Francesca Hong once say that she thought we should cancel Thanksgiving?”
I would note that the free speech absolutists are awfully quiet these days too.
Bouie was reacting specifically to this David Brooks piece and this one from from Ross Douthat (with the amazing titular admission that he can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys these days)1 and possibly this one too. Michael Hobbes has been talking about this on Bluesky as well:
There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices.
The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.
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Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.
Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about “cancellation” for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about “free speech restrictions” and “educational indoctrination” while embarking on them every chance they got.
The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures.
The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That’s what needs reckoning.
Real “are we the baddies?” energy from Douthat here. ↩
Tags: Jamelle Bouie · politics · Ross Douthat · Tyler Austin Harper
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Fun video with John Pomeroy talking to Andreas Deja and Aaron Blaise and Beauty and the Beast and Lion King. Some neat stories I hadn't heard before.
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The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters like to claim he’s a […] -
Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them
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Daily Deal: The AWS Certification Paths Bundle
If you’re looking for a career in cloud computing, there’s no better place to start than with the AWS certification. Whether you want to be an Architect or a Developer, these certifications open doors to incredible opportunities. But how do you get one? You need to use realistic exam simulators that present you with questions […] -
A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...
A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain from 2005. “We discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch etiquette, his loyalty to cigarettes & the Chateau Marmont, ayahuasca in Peru, and the talk show he dreamed up with Christopher Walken in mind.”
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We've rolled out a big update to listening to audio in the Micro.blog timeline. If you start listening to a podcast episode, it can now keep playing it in the corner as you scroll the timeline or browse other parts of Micro.blog. Thanks @vincent for all the work on this! It just looks way better.
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Supersonic Trebuchet
Ok so when you woke up this morning, you probably didn’t expect to watch a 20-minute video about a trebuchet — but to be fair, I didn’t either. But Tom Stanton’s build of a fully mechanical trebuchet that propels a tiny plastic pellet faster than the speed of sound (complete with tiny sonic boom) is genuinely fascinating to watch.
He starts with a basic plan, but as he builds & tests, there are all sorts of problems (weight, strength) that he needs to overcome. The final product is impressive, but it’s the process that’s most interesting to me. What a gift these sorts of videos are…you could sometimes find process-heavy shows on PBS (like How to Create a Junk Food) when I was a kid, but if I’d had access to stuff like the supersonic trebuchet video (and all those Lego engineering videos), I’d have probably wanted to grow up to be an engineer.
Tags: engineering · how to · Tom Stanton · video
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Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down
The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesn’t really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes and harass residents is to judge it by its actions. When confronted with court case after court case detailing these allegations (and those are […] -
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs: A Swarm of Blood Robots. “I now have a comprehensive family tree, naming the very boats my Italian and Polish ancestors came over on in the late 1800s, the villages a few came from…”
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“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...
“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum: a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum to see how it affects the sound it makes.
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Cross-browser Micropub client extension. Post to your IndieWeb blog from any pag...
Cross-browser Micropub client extension. Post to your IndieWeb blog from any page.
rmdes.github.io/plume/ - now with Draft support, right in your browser of choice !
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G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost. “G.P.S. has also led us to outsource existential skills: locating yourself in space, parsing out your surroundings, staying calm when you don’t know where you are. Do we lose something when we no longer get lost?”
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The U.S. Department of State’s Travel Advisory Map Is Something…
Click the map above for the latest versionThe map above shows the U.S. Department of State’s Travel Advisories as of August 2026. And let’s just say it’s a little interesting. You have Sweden and much of Western Europe as being in yellow (Level 2: Exercise increased caution) the same as South Africa. However, just looking […] -
WordPress as the text of the web
I wrote something candid on Twitter last week and felt it was worth repeating here. It is a bit judgmental, and for that I apologize. But I couldn't keep the meaning without all the words.
- Shaking my head thinking can't the people of WordPress see that what it needs is a simple normal writing interface, and a great API for competitive apps. That's the big opportunity you all can't see for some reason.
- Once you have that, you can now move WordPress into position as the text of the web. And it has the market all to itself because the other text apps of the web place ridiculous constraints on text.
- They got this idea in their heads that the web would be better if they eliminated all the writers features. Maybe that's because they weren't writers. ;-)
I know this is a story I repeat often. The opportunity is still there. All kinds of bad products and companies are camped out in this space, taking advantage of users' trust but they feel they have no choice but to use the bad products. On the web, we'd like to keep improving what the web can do with text, so even though it's always slightly more difficult to use an open ecosystem, it is possible to get most of the functionality and all of the freedom, and new features that the lock-in guys will never give you. -
Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...
Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those posed by Paul Erdős, are being solved by LLMs.
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ShieldFont is very clever, using a custom font to visually change what humans see vs. what bots see. But I strongly feel we shouldn't make the web worse to combat AI. This font will break accessibility, search, and all sorts of other things.
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Heads-up for Micro.blog folks: I'm been thinking about feedback on the poorly-named "Sources" section of Micro.blog. It used to be called "Sources & Cross-posting", which was slightly better. Leaning toward a rename to "Connections" with sub-pages for inbound RSS and cross-posting.