very cool project I found while on the hunt on linked in opensubstance.org

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

Virtual tickets for the Hollywood Climate Summit are free www.hollywoodclimatesummit.com also... how is this race and ethnicity drop down? separate white/caucasian options as well as separate pacific islander/polynesian options... and no "more than one" options besides mestizo?

Nav is looking very close to my original figma design. But my icons were png for some reason and so I went down a rabbit hole of trying to find an AI that can convert / redraw for svg. Found one, but of course you must pay to download or retrieve the paths. 🙄

Anthropic has a bunch of (free) online courses covering Claude, Claude Code, the API, MCP, agent skills, and subagents, plus AI fluency tracks for educators, students, and nonprofits doi.org/10.59350/wsh...

Had to go turn this off

This is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Career-switcher. Backend engineer. Mentor. Join @RoxanaCodes and Briana Valmont on June 8 at 1:30 PM ET for the next episode of @SheShipsPodcast as they discuss building scalable systems, growing a career in tech, and helping others find their place in the industry. What would you ask Briana?

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...

I am absolutely invested in the bricks and minifigs scandal.

I am about halfway through the free Claude Code course on frontend masters. This is helping me understand more about context, sub-agents, harness vs model, model capabilities, effort levels, tools vs skills etc. Great intro/mental model so far. Gives me things to look for in codex docs

Started learning to program game stuff :> #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev #coding #programming #godot

✔️mobile nav in squadgoals is behaving how I want, now just gotta fix alignment then move on to the page mobile layouts ✔️most of today was trying to troubleshoot codex. I got started on auth on supabase but codex cloud suddenly didn't wanna play nice with github 🥲 #100devs

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

Google are losing users: DuckDuckGo installs are up 30%, and Kagi is seeing 3X growth These numbers exclude Ecosia, Brave, Qwant and StartPage, which have all seen similar results. Keep it up and spread the word. No better time to make an impact.

Back from vacation ✔️got my first table of supabase hooked up on the project migrated from lovable ✔️set up context so I can get my mobile layouts going for the squadgoals project #100devs

Joseph talks to Zack Whittaker all about stalkerware, the pervasive malware that ordinary people install on their partners' phones.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you're looking for the original study: 'Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence', Cheng et. al., 2026 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ArXiv version: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995

"everyone" = men with money

My team and I are facing a UI design issue and gameuidatabase.com is incredibly helpful in showing a full spectrum of ways to approach & address it. Why reinvent the wheel when you can look at 1000 other designs at a glance?! What an amazing (and free!) resource.

www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n... City of Portland, Ore., has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for 150 low-income families. The city has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioning units to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves.

You wanna build a data center? Fine Power it with your own solar/wind Cool it with seawater filtered through your own desalination plant You will be required to fund and build the complete infrastructure needed for the product that makes you billions of dollars and fucks the surrounding communities🖕

Imagine a future where electric motors rely on 100% recycled materials! Ford's latest breakthrough not only matches traditional performance but could also disrupt a supply chain that's over 90% reliant on one country. Curious how they did it? 🔋

NEW: After months outrage from residents, Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with Flock. Then, a dissenting councilmember crashed out saying would be introducing measures to ban cell phones, the internet, cameras, and nearly all technology in the town of roughly 900 people.

"Offsets" is not a solution; it's a confession. In this video, I break down four ways you should interrogate this term when you hear it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPe2... #DataCenters #AI #Offsets #NetZero #CarbonNeutral #Sustainability #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Greenwashing

the company that made this free deepfake tool raised $450 million 👍 www.404media.co/streamer-rea...

too soon

Lol

✔️lovable project successfully moved to vercel and deleted from lovable.

Japanese robot detects 0.1mm rail cracks and repairs them autonomously at night using 10,000 RPM grinding and ultrasonic inspection

And requiring 5 times the power and water supplied to surrounding counties.

✔️train page placeholder layout ✔️fixed horizontal scroll and fixed bug where unanswered questions were saving as null (just so there is a proper answered question count on the squad page) ✔️mission scheduler takes birthday and day preference into account ✔️eval tags added on squad page #100devs

✔️save buttons wired found a horizontal scroll on one of the questions so I want to fix that ux issue before calling the page "done" #100devs

“The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah.”

✔️last setting is rendering the evaluation properly. Now I just need to adjust the save buttons to handle this setting and eval page should be fully functional! #100devs

AI frustration continues... I am at the point in the AI project where I was going to add supabase for backend. Did the planning with chatGPT AND lovable. When I asked lovable to start the plan, it immediately spun up a cloud with a SEPARATE supabase project -- ignoring my direct instructions.

✔️3/4 settings functional. Hopefully the last one will go a bit quicker - at least I won't have to build additional interactive components, just have to watch the right state and change what is saved. Not much logic left with BE. #100devs

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

✔️answers are saving properly ✔️eval score recalculated and saved ✔️friend list updated with reassignments based on eval score ✔️squad lists handle both cases of no eval and those with updated scores ✔️list limits and total contacts limit implemented #100devs

here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs

This is an incredible piece of work - something I'm basically probably going to be using every single day. I didn't even know it was possible to create something like this. I'll share a few demonstration visualisations from the data compiled here a bit later!!

✔️had to chase down a bug where the first slider in the list was not rendering the same starting point as the others. turns out my datalist sorting needed to happen on fetch so the slider and datalist used the same reference. pheeeeew 🥲 #100devs

✔️sliders rendering. had to figure out snapping logic for saving to state. and after all that, turns out firefox doesn't like datalist for rendering labels (even though I used the MDN docs as a guide) so this is just some <p> labels instead (until I figure something else out or build my own) #100devs

Hey!! New @crikey.com.au piece here - on why big tech is laser-focused on hiding its shame. I don't think people realise just how shockingly bad the lack of disclosure is from companies, even as the mandatory disclosures show their footprint is getting worse: www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/04/d...

Google DeepMind employees in London have voted to unionize, in a bid to prevent the lab from providing its tech to American and Israeli militaries:

Having carved a unique path into software engineering, he now is able to offer some guidance with how to navigate the current market. You’re not alone - come join us at Torc with @dominick-j-monaco.bsky.social for the hunt! 📅 May 7th ⏰ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Register here: luma.com/yvgcns7d?tk=...