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We Are Going to Be Okay: A Three Year Anniversary Events Recap
Thank you for three years, and for partying hard with us for two sold out nights of celebration IRL in NYC. -
RSS & AI
Seeking advice. What’s the best RSS reader that uses AI to make summaries and combines AI in a helpful way?
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Chloe goes for a ride
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I added a local audio reader to my offline read-later app (No external APIs required)
Hey everyone!
A while back I shared Fetchmark, an offline-first bookmark manager I built to escape cloud bloat and subscription fatigue.
Since many of you suggested it, I just shipped a brand-new feature: a local audio reader that reads saved articles aloud directly in your browser.
Why Build This?
Most read-later or text-to-speech tools rely on heavy paid cloud text-to-speech APIs (like ElevenLabs or AWS Polly) which drive up maintenance costs and add latency. Since Fetchmark is built around local-first data and deterministic DOM parsing, I wanted a native solution that didn't require external cloud dependencies for text extraction or audio generation.
How It Works
Web Speech API Integration: It taps directly into the browser's native speech synthesis engine, meaning zero per-character API costs and lightning-fast playback initialization.
Clean Text Pipeline: Because Fetchmark's DOM parser already strips out ads, sidebars, and clutter, the audio reader only feeds the clean article body into the speech engine—no getting tripped up by navigation menus or cookie banners.
Seamless Reading Loop: You can save an article on the go using the extension, open your reader view, and hit play to listen to long-form tech deep dives while working or walking.
I'd love for anyone interested in offline tooling or local-first apps to take it for a spin at https://fetchmarkapp.com and let me know how the audio reader handles your favorite long-form articles or documentation pages.
How do you usually handle listening to articles while coding or working? Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback!
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Today I updated the Micro.blog web interface with better links and icons in the timeline, and a new context menu for editing your own posts or muting a conversation. There are a lot of related design fixes too. Just a better design and more room for us to build new things on.
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Reflecting on the Astra launch... It was a killer business instinct for Greg Brockman to say, "yeah, this is basically AGI." Dario Amodei is much more cautious. He's not going to say that about Fable. But it works because it actually feels true. Marketing not based on truth is just bullshit spin.
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Alignment and distrust
I wanted to quote a couple things from this OpenAI blog post on alignment by Jakub Pachocki:
The fundamental challenge of AI alignment is generalization. As machines become smarter, they find themselves working on higher-level concepts, and placed in environments increasingly different from those they encountered in training. They can fail at generalizing from the values taught and reinforced in their training process to those new situations; and it can be hard for us to be sure how they will act.
And:
We are facing a transition to a world with incredibly intelligent machines, and we need to ensure that transition works out well for humanity. We need to find ways to preserve human agency and enshrine an intrinsic value to being human, in a world where most tasks could be performed by AI.
When I read this sort of thing, it strengthens my belief that the big AI labs are fundamentally different from the ad-based big tech companies in Silicon Valley like Meta. In terms of public backlash, they are all lumped together. It’s that foundation of distrust in big tech that the more significant frustration with AI is built on.
But the technology and vision are different. It's hard to imagine Meta being as thoughtful as Jakub is in the essay linked above. Mark Zuckerberg does have his op-eds, but they usually ring hollow.
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A big corner-turn in the Atlantis project, the new version of Frontier for modern OSes, in development, just me and Claude Code so far. We now have the means to update the root, so anything implemented in script code can be released without fuss, using RSS of course. We're using a method that will be new to almost everyone, something I created in 2014 or so (will check) called codecasting. And today I did all my programming work in Atlantis. It feels just like Frontier, with a future. ;-)
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X on Chromebook?
I have a new Chromebook, I keep it on the kitchen table so I can get online quickly from downstairs. I've been able to log on to every service I need except X. It insists that to log in I have to use their app, but if they have a Chromebook app, the Google store doesn't know about it. Why they can't just let me enter the email address and password? They could send a code to my phone. What else. I think this has something to do with having encrypted direct messages.
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Children of God PT1: Sex Cult Math
Daniella Mestyanek Young was born three generations deep into the Children of God, yet somehow, that was only the beginning.
She would go on to become a US Army intelligence officer, help make history for women in combat, become Harvard educated in organizational psychology, and write two books.
But first, she had to survive her childhood.
In Part One, Daniella takes us inside the Children of God world she was born into: child labor, child performers, massive communes, David Berg's increasingly deranged teachings, and a family history so complicated Daniella has a name for it... sex cult math.
And one rainy day at 12 years old, one casual comment from her mother about glasses changed what Daniella thought she knew about her own family forever.
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This Innocent Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail Because of a False Flock Hit
This week Jason talks to Lindsey Isaacs and her lawyer, Patrick McGeehan. Last year, Lindsey was falsely arrested and imprisoned after authorities used Flock’s license plate reader system to pull over the wrong person in a hit-and-run that killed three people. Lindsey spent 13 days in jail because of this screwup. This all happened because authorities were looking for a black dodge Durango, and used Flock’s freeform search to look for a black SUV. Lindsey happened to be driving a black dodge Durango 3 miles west of where the crash happened a few minutes beforehand. Lindsey was arrested even though there was no damage to her car. She again, spent 13 days in jail before the charges against her were dropped. This is one of the worst cases of Flock-related policing screwups we’ve ever seen, and an innocent person had their life upended because of it. We spoke to Lindsey and Patrick about what happened, the case, Flock surveillance, and their lawsuit against the police who did this to her. Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Title A: Hyalite：Real refraction "liquid glass" in one JS file, no WebGL — and why every SVG-filter version has jagged edges
Most "glassmorphism" is backdrop-filter: blur(). Real glass doesn't scatter light, it bends it: the centre stays clear and the edge pulls the background inward. I wanted that on the web without WebGL
Demo (Chromium): https://vii-cae.github.io/hyalite--liquid-glass/demo/index.html
Repo (MIT): https://github.com/VII-Cae/hyalite--liquid-glass
How it works, in four lines:
- A signed distance field of the element's rounded rect (per-corner radii) gives every pixel its depth from the edge.
- Snell's law on a beveled slab turns depth into a lateral offset. That becomes a displacement map (R = x, G = y, B = rim light), built for the element's exact size.
- One SVG filter: feImage → feGaussianBlur → feDisplacementMap → rim light, applied through backdrop-filter: url(#id). The browser bends whatever is behind the element, live.
- The JS watches the DOM: attach on insert, rebuild after a resize settles, ramp the lensing in ("materialize") instead of fading.
The part I think is actually interesting: every SVG-filter liquid glass I've seen has stair-stepped edges, and it's not the map — Chromium's feDisplacementMap samples with nearest-neighbour (Skia pins it to kNearest, skbug 40045448). A 6× stretch at the rim copies each source pixel into a 6px block. The fix in 0.3.0 splits the field into two displacement passes of ~2.5× each, with a small blur masked to the bevel ring in between. The two tables compose exactly to the one-pass field; the centre never sees the blur. Before/after in the README.
Honest limits:
- Chromium only. Safari drops the SVG part of backdrop-filter (implementation in review), Firefox renders the element unfiltered — so the library writes nothing there and your CSS fallback (a plain blur) wins.
- Each glass surface is its own render layer. A few on screen is fine; hundreds are not.
Would love to hear where it breaks on your layouts.
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Morss.it is down!
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Corporate Vagina: Star Stone on OneTaste (Part 1)
In Part 1 of our third deep dive on OneTaste, Star Stone joins us to explain how a spiritual seeker looking for female empowerment and connection ended up inside a world of confusing intro events, “corporate vagina” demos, goalless orgasmic meditation, and communal housing that sounded like a nightmare waiting to happen. Star walks us through the slow creep from curiosity to commitment: Meetup mixers that felt like team-building exercises, increasingly intimate “communication games,” and a coaching program that promised transformation but delivered a grab-bag of incoherent teachings, hidden courses, and credit-card-friendly upsells.
Along the way, we talk about loaded language, financial exploitation, blurred sexual boundaries, coercive control, and the very real moment when your yoga-trained brain goes, “Wait, this syllabus makes no sense,” and the culty fog starts to lift. It’s insightful, unsettling, and darkly funny—because sometimes the only way through is to name the absurdity, laugh until it hurts, and keep asking the questions they really don’t want you to ask. Stay tuned for Part 2 Thursday.
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Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of sexualized practices, nudity, orgasmic meditation, coercive control, financial exploitation, communal living, and sexual boundaries and assault.
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This One Episode Will Motivate You to Change Your Entire Life
This episode is a MUST-listen.
If you’ve ever felt behind, scared, stuck, or doubting yourself, you need to hit play.
Today, Mel sits down with someone who has been a mentor from afar for more than 12 years. Mel says she would not be where she is today without the person sitting across from her.
For more than a decade, Gary Vaynerchuk has been one of Mel’s biggest inspirations - and in this conversation, he is here to challenge you to stop making excuses and start changing your life.
Gary is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and creators of his generation, a six-time New York Times bestselling author, and the force behind VaynerX, VaynerMedia, and VeeFriends.
If you’ve been sitting on an idea, watching other people do the thing you want to do, worrying about what people will think, or telling yourself you’re too late, you need to hear this.
Gary will challenge the way you think about fear, regret, comparison, confidence, your career, other people’s opinions, and the excuses that are keeping you stuck.
You’ll learn why the people you listen to shape who you become, why your embarrassment can become your advantage, why peace of mind matters more than status, and why one action could change the entire direction of your life.
Gary also shares his advice for anyone who wants to start a business, change careers, put themselves out there, or finally take the risk they’ve been thinking about for years.
His message is simple: there is something you are amazing at - and the longer you sit around watching everybody else do it, the more it costs you.
You’ll also learn:
- What your algorithm reveals about who you are
- Why you need to start living your life with your funeral in mind
- The 3 words that are keeping you stuck
- Gary’s #1 tip if you’re unemployed or looking for a new job
- How to stop blaming your parents for your circumstances
- How to build self-confidence and let go of your need to be accepted
- Why peace of mind is the secret to a rich life
This conversation will push you to stop waiting for the right time, stop letting other people’s opinions control your decisions, and stop living in a way that leaves you saying, “I wish I…”
By the time it’s over, you’ll know exactly what you need to do next - and you’ll feel inspired to go do it.
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Labour Day Weekend is when web-based software is at its buggiest. Ask me how I know.
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RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission
Article URL: https://thenewleafjournal.com/rss-amplifier-re-publishes-19-full-nlj-articles-without-permission/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593476
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With the 40th anniversary re-release of the original Transformers movie coming up, I finally watched the 2007 Transformers. I had skipped it because it looked all wrong. The design doesn’t look like Transformers to me. Also watched Bumblebee, which it much better, just a better feel, better sound.
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Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it's got a lot of integrations, which you want when you're using, but hard when you're getting it all to work the first time.
.. Dave wrote Frontier!
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🔗📼 I just received this from my friend Randall on Maui .. you might not know the name Steve Grimes. I did not. (Maybe @jsonbecker has?) - but clearly a great friend of Randall, a highly talented Luthier ... and a lovely video to boot.
When I watched this video, it made me proud to live on Maui in Hawaii … with little thought of “America”.
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Nitter and XCancel are back online after being shut down for a couple weeks following a cease and desist letter from X. I'm a little surprised. From the GitHub project page:
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.
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Working on some web timeline design tweaks that will go live in the morning. I've been stubbornly insisting on text labels for Reply, Bookmark, etc. where every other network uses icons only. Going to mostly keep that, but the new version looks way better.
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Labor Economist Explains: To Fix Inequality, Start Young (with Kathryn Anne Edwards)
Samantha Hancox-Li interviews labor economist Kathryn Edwards on the fundamentals of a healthy economy. They talk housing, childcare, and the politics of being a "smart-stupid" economist who knows how to be cynical about what matters.
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1901 - "Neighbor Narcs"
No Agenda Episode 1901 - "Neighbor Narcs"
Neighbor Narcs
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Title Changes:
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Beautiful watercolor illustration to this comic novel.
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about calls for RFK Jr.’s resignation coming entirely from Democrats: And that’s why trying to distill partisan politics down to just “team blue” vs. “team red” is reductive at best and false equivalence at worst. This and many other life-or-death […] -
Worrisome reporting from Mark Gurman:
Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue want to make even more money from the App Store and figure out ways to raise margins and squeeze additional recurring revenue from the platform. Schiller, on the other hand, seems to believe that such moves will only further irk developers and governments. While there was no internal blowup or anything like that, it’s something he wanted no part of.
John Gruber adds:
I sure hope that’s not true, because that would be awful — making a bad situation worse — and pretty much the exact opposite of what Apple ought to do.
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I think I would really like the foldable iPhone. But at over $2k, I can't justify blowing that much money on a phone. It would be a crazy business expense when I could put that money back into Micro.blog hosting or paying people. Other folks may have different priorities, and that's fine! 💰
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Pretty thorough article at The Economist about whether AI is creating or destroying jobs:
Add it all up, and The Economist estimates that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. That easily exceeds the roughly 200,000 lay-offs attributed to AI since mid-2023, and appears more than enough to offset weaker hiring in many back-office roles. America’s AI infrastructure splurge has created many of them.
You could argue that construction-related jobs are temporary, but I don't think so. There's going to be demand for years.
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I got some great feature and bug fix suggestions on Friday. Over the weekend I've implemented several of them (some shipped already, some need client app updates).
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Every day with Claude I end up debugging the things it broke overnight. Yesterday I actually got a useful script written and debugged, along the way reporting glitches but no deal-stoppers. This morning, after updating to the latest version, the script doesn't run. It's been like this for two weeks. No wonder every day before starting work I think of ditching this project and do whatever, but I don't think I could ever muster the determination to get Frontier working on modern systems. And I can't give up. But if you think this system can replace programmers, you are sorely mistaken. It can't even do the job of a programmer fielding good bug reports and verifying that they fixed the problem and didn't break anything else. Breakage happens, but this is something it does every freaking day. And then it admits that it didn't do the other half of what it knew it had to do. I say it every day, this is ridiculous and I am fed up, and that's just the beginning of the frustration. What keeps me coming back is when I can build up a head of steam in Frontier on my new Mac laptop.
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Against my better judgement, considering writing a very streamlined Git app for Mac. No apps are quite right for me anymore. The most important thing now is a big, readable diff view for reviewing AI changes. Commit and push in one step.
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RSS Thinks my PNG image is transparent
I've been using the same PNG image for my podcast on rss.com for a few months now and all of a sudden it thinks that it's transparent and won't let me use it. I tried a different image and it thinks that is transparent, too. I did what it asked and put a solid layer behind it, but it STILL thinks it's transparent, and I 100% know it isn't. Has anyone else come up with this issue?
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Android folks, check out the beta of @gregmorris's Micro Social app for Micro.blog. Google is picky about requiring testers before releasing an app, so even a quick download and poking around helps.
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Seems clear from people's fancy demos and my own testing that computer use and spacial reasoning in Astra are big steps forward. It can control Acorn and use selection tools to crop out complex areas, for example, very quickly. Mind-boggling.
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Just found an issue with the skyfleet it was producing duplicates on 6 or 7 acco...
Just found an issue with the skyfleet it was producing duplicates on 6 or 7 accounts of the fleet.
the reason ? I had not fully decommissioned the old docker deployment, so when I restarted the VM, the systemd service did its job and restarted part of the fleet, this created a situation in which the fleet plus individual duplicates containers for some account were running at the same time, hence creating duplicates.
It’s now solved !
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Testing webmentions between two indiekit deployments
Testing webmentions between two indiekit deployments
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Just updated the #indiekit demo site https://indiekit-demo.rmendes.net Github ac...
Just updated the #indiekit demo site https://indiekit-demo.rmendes.net
- Github activity now appears as Articles
- Github PRs, Issues, Discussions display properly on the widget
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Mais quel drôle d’idée ☀️ #avions #bruxelles
Mais quel drôle d’idée ☀️ #avions #bruxelles
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I built a self-hosted X (Twitter) → RSS generator with no API keys required
I still use RSS heavily for checking websites and social media, but getting public X/Twitter profiles into an RSS reader has become unnecessarily complicated. Most solutions either depend on third-party services or require API access.
So I built xsukax X RSS Generator, a small open-source tool that turns public X profiles into standard RSS 2.0 feeds.
The goal was to keep it simple enough that I could drop it onto a normal PHP server and forget about it.
Main features:
- Self-hosted PHP + SQLite
- Essentially a single
index.phpapplication - Generates RSS 2.0 feeds from public X profiles
- No X API keys, OAuth, or developer account required
- No Composer or external database server
- No cURL dependency
- Extracts post text, links, timestamps, and supported images
- Supports media-only posts
- Per-profile SQLite caching
- HTTP caching with ETag / 304 support
- Keeps previously cached posts available if a later refresh fails
- Built-in per-IP rate limiting
- Simple web interface
- Direct RSS URLs for use in RSS readers and automation tools
- Works with standard RSS clients such as FreshRSS, Miniflux, NetNewsWire, Feedly, NewsBlur, Thunderbird, etc.
There is no background worker or cron job either. The feed refreshes when requested after the configured cache interval expires.
One important limitation: it parses publicly available X HTML rather than using the official API. That means changes to X's markup, anti-bot systems, or access policies can temporarily break fetching. I kept the X-specific selectors together in the code so they can be updated relatively easily when that happens.
It's licensed under GPL-3.0.
GitHub:
https://github.com/xsukax/xsukax-X-RSS-GeneratorI'm the developer, so this is obviously self-promotion, but I'm mainly interested in technical feedback from people who actually use RSS/self-hosted feed tools.
I'd particularly be interested to know:
- how reliably it works from different servers/regions
- how the generated feeds behave in different RSS readers
- whether the caching defaults make sense
- whether there are X post types I'm currently missing
- anything you'd change in the security or deployment model
Issues and PRs are welcome.
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Poll Me Twice, Shame On Me
Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke — the hosts of Crooked Media's new show Still Counting — join Lovett to talk about the Senate races they find most interesting and Trump doing everything in his power to help Republicans lose the midterms. The crew, who you may remember from the FiveThirtyEight podcast, dives deep into the numbers, breaking down what polling errors we should expect this November, what kind of candidates overperform versus underperform the national average, and the science behind Nate's midterm election forecast model, FLIPR.
Subscribe to Still Counting on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I had watched almost three seasons of Silo, had no feeling for the characters, or the story, which was going nowhere that I could discern. I shouldn't have watched it through all that time, but for some reason I did. Then in episode 9, two Fridays ago, the story took a remarkable turn. It's so good it actually makes this dark and confusing show worth watching. If you haven't been watching, imho you can start in season 3, and maybe read some recaps. You want enough of the boredom so you can revel in the brilliance of this season's end. And there is another season coming, the last one, and this time it's interesting. -
Had a dream last night that I went to Best Buy to buy an extra Jaz disk. They didn't have any, but I was able to get one from Amazon that arrived to the store within minutes. Not sure what it means... Maybe I'm worried about backups.
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🔗 If Nobody’s Pissed Off, Try Harder — Gapingvoid
You now have permission. Then again .. if that’s what you were waiting for, maybe that is part of your problem.
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Thinking about the OpenAI industry's PR problem, I'm reminded of Anthropic's ad during the Super Bowl. People said it was clever, but it reinforced the idea that AI companies are just like other big tech: tracking you and selling your data. For next year's ads, we will see a more optimistic vision.