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👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.
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Reeder Classic still good? (Podcasts)
I’m starting to get back into RSS readers to keep in touch with everything with algorithmic feeds on social media. I started with NetNewsWire, which I love, but I do listen to a few podcasts. I read that the newer Reeder app has a great in-app player for videos and podcasts, but it’s a subscription model. Not a big deal, but I’d like to stick with a one-time-purchases.
How does Reeder Classic (aka preciously Reeder 5?) hold up in comparison? I like to keep all blogs, news pages, podcasts, some occasional videos that get released in one place. I think I’m ok with a subscription, but I’d rather not. Also, im in the Apple/iCloud ecosystem
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Appeals Court Sees Nothing Wrong With Terrorizing A 14-Year-Old To Obtain A Confession
It’s easy to get submerged by the wave of bad news generated by the current administration on what often seems to be an hourly basis. Ask me how I know. My time is pretty much split between whatever ICE is doing and whatever Flock is doing, which results a whole lot of bad law enforcement […] -
I'll follow your linkblog Mastodon account from my linkblog Mastodon account if you agree to follow mine from yours.
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👁️ 'Flapping Shoe' - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.
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Started reading Alchemised by SenLinYu and was surprised that it felt pretty dark, because for some reason I thought it was YA. Nope, just regular adult fantasy. I tend to read books that sound interesting while ignoring most of the back-cover blurb. 📚
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Day one at Pantheon: good docs, good company
Today is my first day as a Technical Writer at Pantheon.
On August 17, I published a list of the roles I wanted next. Technical writing and documentation were right there. I wanted work that helps people understand software, solve problems, and get back to building.
Four weeks later, here we are. Apparently, sometimes the next chapter comes with a README.
Good docs, good company
Pantheon helps teams build and run WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites. I’m joining its developer relations team, where documentation and developer advocacy work together.
That last sentence is doing a lot of happy work for me.
Chris Reynolds shared a lovely story on DevRelShow episode 31. Before joining Pantheon, he discovered developer relations as a job through the team’s work.
I love that. Good developer relations can help someone figure out their next step with a tool—or, apparently, their career. Now I get to join that team too. A pleasing plot twist, with excellent documentation potential.
Pantheon values documentation, developer education, and relationships with the people using its platform. That’s a big part of why this role appeals to me. Here, I get to give that work my attention alongside people who care about it, too.
My new colleagues bring different expertise, notice different things, and help improve the work. For example, an advocate might hear a question at an event. A teammate can reproduce the problem. Together, we can turn that experience into a clearer path for the next developer.
One question is particularly close to my heart: “What happens if someone follows these instructions exactly?” Finding the answer is a fine team activity. Occasionally, it needs snacks.
The work I love
My path here runs through classrooms, curriculum, WordPress, open source, and developer relations. Across all those roles, I’ve helped people turn an idea into something they can do. That “Oh! I did it!” moment never gets old.
Sometimes that takes a workshop. Other times, a better example or a screenshot makes the difference. Even one sentence, placed where someone gets stuck, can give that person their afternoon back. That’s a pretty good use of words.
In 2021, I joined GoDaddy Pro as a Web Designer and Developer Advocate. I’m grateful for the colleagues and community members who helped me grow along the way. Those years sharpened my interest in how education, product feedback, and developer relationships support each other.
At Pantheon, I’m looking forward to putting that experience to work with the team. By sharing what we’re hearing and testing ideas together, we can improve things for developers. Shared curiosity, thoughtful feedback, and time to do useful work well: sign me up.
The documentation lives at docs.pantheon.io, with its source on GitHub. My approach starts with trying the thing and checking the result. From there, I write down what helps the next person. Then comes listening when they tell us what we missed.
A fresh notebook and plenty to learn
Ryan Miller and Courtney Robertson attended Evolve Digital’s meetup
WordPress, PHP, and React are familiar territory. Next.js offers plenty to learn. So does Pantheon’s platform, from its development workflows to Terminus, its command-line tool.
Being new gives me a useful window into what a new user notices. While those unfamiliar bits are still fresh, I’ll ask questions, try things, and take notes. After all, “Wait, how did you know to do that?” is research. I intend to get some mileage out of it.
This week, I’m headed to Chicago for in-person onboarding and time with my new teammates. I met one of my coworkers just 2 weeks ago at the EvolveDigital meetup. My notebook is ready. Its future organizational system remains an ambitious proposal.
And my WordPress people?
You may be wondering what this means for WordPress contributions and in-person events. Will there be more of either?
The honest answer is that I don’t know yet. As I settle in, I’m looking forward to exploring what’s possible with the team. Contribution time and event travel are still taking shape. Once there are concrete plans, I’ll be happy to share them.
WordPress is still my community, and you are still my people. I’d love more opportunities to build useful things together and catch up in person. For now, thank you for caring enough to ask—and for cheering me into this next chapter.
If you use Pantheon, tell me about a doc that helped something click. Questions you’d like the docs to answer are welcome, too. My new notebook is full of curiosity, and now I have a team to share it with.
I work at Pantheon. Opinions on this site are mine.
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From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every...
From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every “framed picture” emoji. “A total rejection of nature and reality. Why is the horizon rounded? Has this artist seen planet earth before?”
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Elon Musk’s SLAPP Threat Over ‘Space Lasers’ Doc Sort Of Admits The ‘Space Lasers’ Part
By now, calling Elon Musk a “free speech absolutist” is a joke. We have so many stories of him suppressing speech, or threatening, or suing people for their speech. At this point, anyone who still claims that Musk supports free speech is either (1) lying, (2) stupid, or (3) employed by him. So, it’s little […] -
For the last week in Codex, I've been using a single pinned thread for each app instead of deciding when to start new threads. Basically just let Codex compact its context whenever it needs to. Seems to work well.
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The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers...
The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers on “a more precise definition of kissing”, “An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing”, and the discovery “that milk proteins from cockroaches pack 3X as much energy as milk proteins from cows”.
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Rocky Sleep, You Watch, Question?
Project Hail Mary is already on my list of movies that I can just throw on in the backround while I do a bit of work or puttering around. (Not sure whether that’s an endorsement or not…I like the movie!) Anyhoo, if you get tired of the movie, you can watch Rocky sleep for 2+ hours with the PHM soundtrack playing in the background.
Tags: movies · music · Project Hail Mary · video
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Reflecting Pool Contractors: Alleged ‘Vandalism’ Was Just Our Own Botched Repair Job
The truth continues to come out, and not via Truth Social. Everything former Olympian David Hearn might need to pursue a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Trump DOJ has been leaking more steadily than the botched Lincoln Reflecting Pool repair job itself. This time, it’s the contractor admitting its repair job didn’t go as planned, […] -
Daily Deal: The Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle
It’s no secret that Photoshop can be a bit dense when you’re first getting your feet wet with it. That’s why it pays to have a expert instructors show you the ropes. Led by a Photoshop pro, the Complete Photoshop Master Class Bundle will help you master Photoshop CC and become an expert—no prior experience […] -
I think those that have some education and did not voted for Trump know it very...
I think those that have some education and did not voted for Trump know it very well…?
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I meant it in the sense “not doing enough” to resist while people from outside a...
I meant it in the sense “not doing enough” to resist while people from outside are ?
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Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday , a...
Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday, a stationary store run by (former?) graphic designer Sam Potts, who announced the shop back in March in a KDO open thread. Lots of nice touches here, including a used pencil exchanger.
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New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites
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Federico Viticci's iOS 27 review is out, with a very good chapter on Siri AI. That is the perspective I've been most interested in reading about.
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Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26...
Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26 million??! It took 2 hours and 20 minutes and the previous record was 29 million. At level 255, you hit “rebirth” and the pieces slow down to level 0 speeds again. Totally bonkers.
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This quote from Craig Federighi fits the discussion Daniel Jalkut and I had on last week's Core Int about the Duo replacing the need for both iPhone and iPad. Just makes sense unless you need a big iPad or shared iPad for the whole family.
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Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”
By now it’s old hat to point out that the mainstream media bends over backwards to pretend that Donald Trump is a “normal” president. The number of times you could point to the coverage and question how the media would cover things if a Democratic president did anything even remotely similar is impossible to keep […] -
Just discovered this IndieWeb starter pack on Bluesky and followed a few more people from it. It includes some accounts bridged to Mastodon too, so you can follow everyone in one place on Bluesky or Micro.blog.
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
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A Deep Dive Into the Full Bayeux Tapestry Story
From Deep Down History, an entertaining hour-long explainer video on the Bayeux Tapestry.
This video tells the Tapestry’s story in full, using Charles Stothard’s early colour reproduction, presented here as a seamless scroll for the first time. We follow Harold Godwinson’s fateful journey from Edward the Confessor’s court to Normandy, his later seizure of the Crown, and William the Conqueror’s invasion. Beyond its political messaging, the Tapestry is also bursting with medieval history, including jokes, fascinating technical details, and a warning for those who break their promises…
Completed within a decade or two of the events which it depicts, the tapestry is back in the news & public consciousness because it’s back in England for the first time since it was made and on display at the British Museum.
Tags: Bayeux Tapestry · video
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I'm not sure I agree with all the implications in the closing of today's Stratechery update, but like all good essays it is forcing me to really think about my own view:
... it’s worth noting that the very idea of a national or — worse! — global regulatory regime on intelligence is so deeply off-putting that I’d rather roll the dice and bet on humans figuring it out. Surviving isn’t everything; living freely counts for an awful lot as well.
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Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
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I did built a RSS Reader for the Kindle browser
I built a way to actually read news on the Kindle browser
The Kindle's browser technically works, but every news site is a zoom-and-scroll nightmare. So I built Extrablatt: you open one URL in the Kindle browser, follow sites via RSS, and articles render as clean, page-at-a-time text instead of an infinite scroll. You can also send any article to your library as an EPUB.
Try it out: extrablatt.app
It's open source and self-hosting is free: github.com/Philipp0205/extrablatt
On the hosted version, browser reading is free. Send-to-Kindle is included for the first week, then there is an optional subscription. Email delivery and hosting aren't free and I'd rather charge than run ads.
Happy to answer anything :)
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Congrats to Lex Friedman on the release of a new version of Strategery, taking over development after the game was going to stop working. So cool to give an old app new life.
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John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical:
...let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity
It's true. Just telling folks what we're against has not been enough to rebalance the web to open platforms.
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I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make...
I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make some of the best video game explainer videos out there — hell, some of the best YT videos period) and here’s their newest one: The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever.
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Birthday Lunch
Ate
fish & chips
Birthday lunch
Birthday lunch
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American Obituary
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My Brilliant Career
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media. -
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod...
In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod fishing due to overfishing. It was devastating for Newfoundlanders. This year, for the first time since then, the govt has “upgraded the cod stock’s status from ‘critical’ to ‘healthy’”.
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The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I've been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source of truth and prior art. That was the goal of the Atlantis project. I could probably do the switch right now. It's like moving out of an old house that you did good stuff in, into a replica, but built out of the latest bits. Honestly I never thought in a million years I'd get here. -
Two-Hour Mix of the Jazz in Haruki Murakami Novels
From NTS, this is a two-hour mix of jazz music featured in the books of Haruki Murakami.
‘Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on thick, forbidding chords. Like some mythic scene, the music portrays somebody’s — a nameless, faceless somebody’s — dim past, all the details laid out as clearly as entrails being dragged out of the darkness. Or at least that’s how it sounds to me. The patient, repeating music ever so slowly breaks apart the real, rearranging the pieces. It has a hypnotic, menacing smell, just like the forest’ —Kafka On The Shore
The playlist features tracks by Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Dizzy, the Bill Evans Trio, Monk, Mingus, and Miles Davis. Some of the video’s comments:
I had just prepared a light meal and hit play on this playlist when the telephone began to ring.
about to make my morning matcha, a spring breeze is flowing through the open windows, the air smells of optimism
Early morning, sun shining to balcony, having espresso and writing.
Studying the day before the exam with a bittersweet optimism while playing this and holding on to my hopes
Canned cold beer, windows open on a warm summer night, just after finishing a simple dinner of rice and salmon and sitting next to my cat
See also Classical Music from Murakami Novels. Both of these are going straight into my Underscore collection.
Tags: books · Haruki Murakami · jazz · music · video
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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys ....
We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys. Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus.
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Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in a […] -
Accesing writing the way you would a podcast
I love podcasts but with some topics I prefer reading rather than listening. I read the occasional blogposts from blogs I subscribe to through e-mail but they all have pretty short posts and even if they were longer it would be difficult for me to start and stop reading the same way as one starts and stops a podcast. To try to summerize:
- How do I find longer more in depth blog content? Is there a way to search for it the way one would search for all podcasts in the same podcast app?
- Are there any android or open source apps that I can use to open the text without loading and keep track of where I left off?
And yes, I'm aware that books and magazines exist. I read books too. But I'm looking for something that is structured more like most podcasts. With standalone episodes, and where there's a summary for each episode.
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A Little Bit Culty x WTF is on my Mind?! - Kicked Out of Our Own Book Launch (Part 2)
We’re back with Mark Vicente for Part 2 of this joint A Little Bit Culty and WTF is on my Mind?! episode. This one gets into the real meat of what happened at our book launch event gone sideways—and what it means beyond just us.
We play the last 12 minutes of Sarah’s recording from the event, then the bookstore owner's public social media post about the incident. We contrast it with what actually happened, including eyewitness accounts from people in the front row who tried to set the record straight, only to have their comments deleted. We talk about what it feels like to be publicly misrepresented with no ability to correct the record, how cancel culture weaponizes the cloak of altruism, and why the best fight is the one you don't fight. We also get into identity politics, why fusing your sense of self to a belief system makes civil discourse impossible, and why Mark thinks we're all being triangulated against each other on a macro scale.
This episode is a case study in culty thinking without a cult—and a reminder that dehumanizing the person in front of you while claiming to fight for humanity is not advocacy; it's the problem. If the comments on this one devolve into a debate about geopolitics rather than the patterns at play, you've already missed the point.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of public shaming, online harassment, and geopolitical conflict.
Also…let it be known that:
The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business, individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.
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Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin
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Children of God PT2: "Witnessing... But With Chicken"
Daniella Mestyanek Young was born three generations deep into the Children of God and today, she finally gets out.
At 15-years-old, she lands in Texas with no real education, no money and no friggin' idea how life on the outside works.
But true to form, she badasses her way through it. And excels.
Somehow, the girl who escaped one extreme, hierarchical world becomes an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, deploys to Afghanistan, and helps make history for women in combat.
But on her very first day of basic training she thinks:
"Oh... I've joined another cult."
Part Two of Daniella's incredible story is about what happens after you escape.
Because getting out of a cult is one thing.
Figuring out who the hell you are once you're free is another.
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A Little Bit Culty x WTF is on my Mind?! - Kicked Out of Our Own Book Launch (Part 1)
In this special joint episode of A Little Bit Culty and Mark Vicente’s WTF Is on My Mind?!, Mark interviews us about the “Massy incident” during our Vancouver book tour for A Little Bit Culty: Navigating Cults, Control and Coercion. Together, we unpack what happened when a conversation about cult dynamics, extremism, and pattern recognition was hijacked by a highly charged political conflict—and how loaded questions, forced verdicts, black-and-white thinking, and moral purity tests can turn a book event into a full-blown ideological cage match. Stay tuned for Part 2 on Thursday.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, the Israel–Gaza conflict, genocide, extremism, religious and political polarization, and online harassment.
Also…let it be known that:
The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business, individual, anyone or anything. Nobody’s mad at you, just don’t be a culty fuckwad.
Buy the A Little Bit Culty paperback, ebook, or audiobook on Amazon or order a signed copy.
Check out our amazing sponsors
Join A Little Bit Culty on Patreon
Get poppin’ fresh ALBC Swag
Support the pod and smash this link
Check out our cult awareness and recovery resources
Watch Sarah's TED Talk and buy her memoir, Scarred
CREDITS:
Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames
Production Partner: Citizens of Sound
Co-Creator: Jess Tardy
Audio production: Will Retherford
Production Coordinator: Lesli Dinsmore
Writer and administrator: Sandra Nomoto
Social media team: Eric Skwarzynski and Brooke Keane
Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin
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Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
This week we’re joined by Jennie Rose Halprein. Jennie is the executive director of Library Futures, a non-profit that advocates for a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they serve. We have written a bunch of stories about libraries over the years, and I have talked to Jennie a few times for those stories. I always have really interesting conversations with her, but a lot of what we talk about never makes it into a story. That’s why I wanted to share one of those conversations with you today. We of course touch upon censorship but also many other subjects, so I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/mS0xofGW2hE Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
How Real Is Netflix's The Diplomat? Ex-MI6 Chief Fact-Checks It (w/ Creator Debora Cahn)
Debora Cahn, the writer behind The Diplomat, Homeland, The West Wing, and Grey's Anatomy, joins Kate McCann and Sir Richard Dearlove to talk about writing political drama in an era when reality keeps outpacing fiction. Debora explains how "spy camp" research trips with real diplomats, spies, and generals shape her scripts, why she resists making her stories too close to current events, and what she learned about the strange double life of foreign service officers: the loneliness of constant relocation, the jockeying for a seat in the room, and the quiet patriotism that keeps them showing up. Sir Richard, a former head of MI6, adds his own view from the other side of the table, including a story about deliberately keeping a British ambassador out of the room in Washington. In this episode: 00:00 Cold Open 02:58 Russia Story Rewritten 04:11 Borgen Inspiration 06:15 Spy Camp Research 08:22 Diplomacy In The Dirt 09:35 Ambassadors Real And Fake 18:39 CIA And Embassy Dynamics 21:24 From West Wing To Diplomat 23:14 No Evil Characters 24:29 MI6 Reality Check 29:59 Demystifying Government Work 31:12 Female President Choice 33:51 Future Of Ambassadors Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and Kate McCann (Political Editor at Times Radio). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
Clustering high-frequency RSS feeds without paid tools or vector bloat
A friend of mine wanted to set up an automated news forwarder for his community, and looking at existing options made the whole thing frustrating. Most commercial feed aggregators charge recurring subscriptions just for basic deduplication and webhooks.
Even when you pay, you get almost zero granular control over publisher weighting, alert cadence, or how the output is tailored with custom prompts and analytics. Meanwhile, subscribing to active industry feeds floods the channel with duplicate alerts whenever a breaking wire drops.
Instead of paying for SaaS tiers or overcomplicating things with vector databases and heavy pipelines, I built Celerum to handle this deterministically on tiny hardware like a cheap VPS or a Raspberry Pi. It is completely open source and runs as a single Go binary with an embedded SQLite database.
Here is the approach I took to keep resource usage low:
- RFC 7232 HTTP conditional polling: Feeds cache
ETagandLast-Modifiedtimestamps in SQLite. Unchanged feeds return304 Not Modifiedwith zero response body, finishing in under 50ms and consuming almost no bandwidth. - Algorithmic clustering instead of embeddings: Raw text gets cleaned, stripped of stop-words, and hashed into sorted 64-bit FNV-1a shingles. Breaking news inherently shares named entities, figures, and tickers, making lexical matching faster and less prone to semantic false positives than vector embeddings.
- Inverted index candidate pruning: Before running similarity checks, an in-memory inverted index skips document pairs with insufficient shingle overlap. This bypasses over 80 percent of pairwise comparisons.
- Allocation-free Jaccard scanning: Candidate pairs get evaluated with a two-pointer linear scan across sorted []uint64 slices with zero heap allocations, then merged using Disjoint-Set Union (Union-Find). It clusters 100 articles in about 2.4ms.
- Velocity scoring: Clusters gain weight based on multi-source coverage, publisher tiers, and keywords, balanced by a linear time decay penalty so old stories naturally fade out.
- Hybrid alert cadence: If multiple tier-1 outlets confirm a story quickly, it triggers an immediate alert. Quieter stories stay in a sliding window, and an hourly heartbeat ticker flushes the top stories so you do not miss context.
- Decoupled synthesis and fallbacks: When an event qualifies, you have full control over the system prompt sent to an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint for the final briefing. If the AI provider times out or fails, it falls back to raw source links so delivery is never delayed or dropped.
Right now it dispatches to Telegram or generic HTTP webhooks. The entire engine sits under 15MB of RAM while monitoring active sliding windows.
The code and architecture documentation are up on GitHub: https://github.com/rafifmsn/celerum
It is far from perfect, just something I put together over a weekend to solve an immediate headache without spinning up paid infrastructure. Always open to feedback from anyone running similar self-hosted pipelines.
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#526 – Big Tech, IA et vie privée : les dérives s’accélèrent
Episode 526 avec Annabelle, Denis et Sebastien B.
Sommaire
- A comme Amendes : Suite des amendes Big Tech. (00:01:26) Les amendes dans la Big Tech. Source politico.eu.
- C comme Claude : Claude a effacé 700 Go d'un répertoire personnel. (00:10:52) L'IA est-elle prête à agir seule ? Sources tomshardware.com et x.com.
- D comme Démocratie : Une seule solution, la manifestation. (00:22:31) Quand les robots font leur "première" manifestation. Source lefigaro.fr.
- L comme LadyBird : LadyBird avance, mais qu'espérer de ce projet ? (00:29:22) LadyBird, un autre navigateur, mais pour quoi faire ? Source clubic.com.
- L comme LinkedIn : LinkedIn dévoile un bouton pour signaler les contenus IA. (00:36:36) LinkedIn contre l’IA Slop. Sources blogdumoderateur.com, linkedin.com et clubic.com.
- R comme Repair Act : Un an après, le Repair Act est plutôt le "désespère" Act. (00:46:01) Seuls 18% des smartphones respectent grosso modo ce règlement européen. Sources theregister.com, fastcompany.com et fastcompany.com.
- S comme Sharenting : Publier des photos de ses enfants à la rentrée des classes. (00:59:21) Pourquoi publier la photo de vos enfants est devenu un réel danger à l'ère de l'IA ? Sources journaldugeek.com, lapresse.ca et journaldugeek.com.
- T comme Transparence : Transparence obligatoire du service client. (01:13:49) L'IA Act au service du client. Sources stibbe.com, fastcompany.com et fastcompany.com.
- W comme Wéménon : Snickers crée une barre chocolatée pour votre IA. (01:28:15) "Tu n'es pas toi-même quand tu as faim"... même pour une IA. Sources snickers.com et bleedingcool.com.
Toutes les informations pour vous abonner au podcast et à l'infolettre : 🌐 lestechnos.be
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NYU Professor: Do This for 2 Weeks to Get Your Focus, Motivation, & Life Back
This is one of the most eye-opening conversations Mel has had on the podcast.
Today, Dr. Jonathan Haidt joins Mel to explain what constant quick dopamine is doing to attention, motivation, confidence, and mental health - and why the impact looks very different in boys than it does in girls.
This conversation could not be more timely.
Meta recently agreed to a landmark $17.1 billion settlement in a major case accusing the company of endangering children by designing its platforms to be addictive to kids and teens. And, today, you’re going to hear from one of the experts, Dr. Haidt, whose groundbreaking research helped shape that case.
Like Mel, you may have heard about how deeply social media has impacted girls - intensifying anxiety, social comparison, sexualization, and self-harm.
But Dr. Haidt, a social psychologist, professor at NYU Stern, and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation, has a new warning: boys are being affected in a very different way.
Stop and think about what boys have sitting in their pockets all day long: a video game arcade, an endless stream of short-form videos, sports betting, and instant access to pornography.
Dr. Haidt says to think of it like this:
Imagine a boy or man you love sitting at the bottom of an ocean while thousands of fishing hooks drop down around him. Every hook is baited with something engineered to grab his attention.
A new video. Another level. A shocking image. A notification. A chance to win.
Over time, that constant stimulation can make ordinary life feel painfully slow.
And this isn’t just about young people.
If you have a son, brother, boyfriend, husband, or young man in your life who seems stuck, checked out, or like he’s lost his drive, you need to hear this conversation.
Most importantly, Dr. Haid, gives you a way forward. He is here not only to educate you but also to share the specific changes you and the people you love can make - starting right now - to take back your attention, motivation, and focus.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
-Why young men can start withdrawing from school, friendships, dating, work, and real-world goals
-What social media does to girls during puberty
-Why shallow online connection is replacing deeper friendships
-Why Dr. Haidt recommends no social media until 16
-The household rules he recommends for sleep, screens, and bedrooms
-Why long-form stories are different from endless short-form content
-How to help a struggling young man change without shaming him
-Why small changes, social support, exercise, and real-world activities can help rebuild motivation
-What research shows can happen after just one to two weeks of reducing social media use
If you’re seeing someone you love lose motivation, withdraw, or struggle with social comparison or insecurity - or if you’re noticing any of this in yourself - this conversation could change everything.
Anyone who follows the two-week protocol Dr. Haidt shares today can begin retraining their brain and improving their motivation and focus.
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