Shortcuts Playground: github.com/viticci/shor... "Shortcuts Playground: A Claude Code and Codex plugin for building, validating, signing, and remixing macOS/iOS Shortcuts with natural language."

Learn AI Layer by Layer: learnai.robennals.org?ref=DenseDis... "An interactive, visual guide to understanding AI from first principles."

Rulebook: lucas.io/rulebook/?re... "A Mac app that automatically sorts, renames, converts, moves, copies, archives and tags files in the background."

No matter how well-known Arkady Martine's "A Memory Called Empire" is, it deserves more.

Happy birthday to the column of Trajan, dedicated on May 12, 113 CE. You may not have any paint on you anymore & Pope Sixtus V may have plopped an odd Saint Peter on top of you, but 1,913 years ain’t nothin’. If you have a Trajan’s column pic: quote post it. www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/

The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/big-sur... "Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web."

Deep inside Skywalker Ranch, 1982: George Lucas: “Did that A New Hope tape release ship? The one with C-3PO on top?” Minion: “Sure, boss. Real fuckin’ sexy, just like you asked.” Lucas: “…what”

taken.: sinceyouarrived.world/taken "A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you." This is really well done. I love how they explain each data point and the way they wrote in general.

Here's the status line I use for Claude Code to provide useful information on my current project and session limits. github.com/alexj/oh-my-...

Hovercraft: sandwich.vision/hovercraft "A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Your slides float in the frame next to you, moved by hand. No screen share, no option-tab, no corner thumbnail."

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” ~President John F. Kennedy, 1961. Image: Bettmann via Getty Images.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

For the life of me I don’t understand saying “false claims” instead of “lies”.

Okay, this is obviously very stupid and dumb and an indication of the decline of American public discourse BUT... The fact that only 33% of Republicans think they could win a fist fight with a SEVENTY NINE YEAR OLD MAN is proof that these people are in a FUCKING CULT.

Making an original Jubilee line door button into a Hue light switch: localghost.dev/blog/making-...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Former Texas governor Rick Perry founded a startup focused on building nuclear powered AI datacenters. It IPOed last year at a $16B valuation. It currently has no customers or revenue and just fired the CEO. The CFO recently left as well. This is a good example of an AI bubble company.

While many of you were likely yelling "GO HORSIES" I'm yelling "GO ROBERT MUELLER and the rule of law!"

"In 1969, after a proposal to abolish the Electoral College by constitutional amendment passed in the House, it was only very narrowly defeated in the Senate, mostly due to the surprising opposition of…"–Jill Lepore www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW13K7W1/

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

"Nothing is improper, even though you know something isn’t right. Still, the accountants have done their job."–Om Malik om.co/2026/05/01/w...

Self-updating screenshots: interblah.net/self-updatin... This is brilliant. If you've built software for others, this idea should resonate big time.

"Laws govern people; constitutions govern governments."–Jill Lepore www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW13K7W1/

Artemis II Photo Timeline: artemistimeline.com#jeremy-hanse... "An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026."

“Ugh, we made smoke instead of gas, but we’re getting close—I think we just need one more blender,” a soot-covered Donald Jr. said while dumping half a bag of Kingsford briquettes into a new pitcher.

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

New: President Trump's memecoin project is preparing to launch a membership club promising "elite and extraordinary experiences". This is the latest attempt to prop up a token down 97% from peak.

DeckPilot — Adaptive Control Surface for Mac: deckpilot.co "Your iPhone becomes an intelligent control surface for your Mac."

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This Bookshelves item by WoodArtisTR has 167 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Türkiye. Listed on Oct 22, 2025

[working at the swastika factory named after a notoriously unreliable crystal ball used by evil forces to conceal true threats] this place is starting to smell like fascism

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

ReciproCard - Reciprocal Library Cards for Libby: reciprocard.com "Discover which reciprocal library systems you can access based on where you live. More cards means more books on Libby."

Here's how we're taking over InfoWars.

I, personally, am here for discovery

cmux — The terminal built for multitasking: cmux.com "Native macOS terminal for AI coding agents. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Aider, and any CLI tool."

MapToPoster: github.com/originalanku... "Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code."

Agentic AI, design systems & Figma: a practical guide: uxdesign.cc/agentic-ai-d... "The Figma basics you were told to get right just became the foundation for something much bigger."

MacNotch: macnotch.io?ref=DenseDis... "A powerful modular dashboard at the top of your Mac. Works with or without a physical notch and on multiple displays. Dashboard, media (Spotify, Apple Music, Plex, VOX, VLC, browsers), calendar, code hosting (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), AI…"

Allbirds stock is up +430% after announcing that they are pivoting from shoes to AI. This is after being sold for $39M last week, a fall from a peak valuation of over $4B in 2021. The stock market isn’t a serious place.

📝 Raycast Time Zone Converter: Now with Time Ranges: www.silverspider.com/2026/raycast... I've added support for converting time ranges in my Raycast extension.

Love to see corrupt authoritarians voted out.

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code: piechowski.io/post/git-com... "Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns."

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

interesting that he sent out vance to eat shit on iran while he brought rubio along to this clown show. a clear sign of who he thinks his heir is.