I was going to write something on the new MacOS but I couldn’t possibly better this piece: rakhim.exotext.com/benjamin-but...

YES WE ARE www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Popped @tailscale.com on the kids laptop before he headed back to college so he can connect to my home music archive. So easy, just works. Something I've never said about any VPN product in my life!

Year+ ago I setup a desktop for home use and bought a cheap mini-PC thing that I velcro'ed to the back of my monitor to play with modern Linux distros for "fun", never thinking it would become my main computer. I was wrong, it's where I spend 95% of my desk time now.

One by one they will fall. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/26/e...

Anthropic has released Claude for Chrome to about 1,000 beta testers. Claude runs directly in your browser and can take actions on your behalf. Before installing it when it becomes widely available, read this report first.

Our greatest ethical question as we eat cows and let children starve is whether a for loop in Python feels pain.

custom schemes in web browsers. uphill both ways in snow. github.com/mozilla/stan... and some interesting bits from @rbyers.net re threat modeling challenges: github.com/whatwg/html/...

Difficult to overstate how valuable focus and the resulting decisions are over the lifetime of a product. Tailscale is fairly unique in this category, as a result. Very to resist doing all the use cases with any sort of networking tool.. (been there, it did not end well!)

Just now learning about 'uv' for python packages / environments. Yes, it's been that long since I did any python stuff! (of course I still just did 'python3 -m venv foo' by habit..)

When a community is joyfully sharing a fun technical advancement, open source and available to be run by all, is maybe not the right time to drive by yell at everyone.

The upside of Mozilla shutting down Pocket is that we now have Folio, the spiritual successor crafted by some of the same folks that made Pocket so beloved. Folio is actively maintained, indie, and I’m so happy I still have a wonderful read it later! :) savewithfolio.com/blog/meet-fo...

Super smart. Love it.

20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-...

I have NFI what’s going on. This concludes my TED talk. 🤷‍♂️

New blog post up on the Rust font loader now shipping in Chrome. I only had a small part in this personally but am proud of the team's work. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...

Great piece. One thing I hope Bluesky team keeps in mind is that Bluesky is succeeding because of product and user experience, not because of decentralization. Decentralization is cool and can be beneficial, but the product should always serve the user, not the protocol.

@thebenedictevans.bsky.social is right, the “risk factors” section in the CoreWeave S1 is epic. More broadly, just interesting to see another example of a crypto hedge fund pivoting to AI and finding an even bigger gold mine. DeepSeek, CoreWeave, I wonder how many more? www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

“everything’s computer” is a deeply funny line I think we will all be quoting until we are gone 😂

Word of the day: potash

Happy with how this iPod refresh turned out, even though I no longer have fingerprints. My soldering skills really need improvement.. 😂

Because everyone has thoughts on Mozilla and Firefox after this ToS stuff, I wrote up my thoughts in decidedly non-bite-sized form: www.vmunix.com/gecko-mozill...

My father was a pioneering graphics researcher at Xerox PARC. This *extensive* interview covers: * The early days of Xerox PARC * The world's first digital videographics system, with a modern palette / canvas metaphor * The origins of modern computer animation * Growing up as a kid in Silicon Valley

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Years of constant AI hype + deliberate use of the umbrella term AI to refer to wholly unrelated applications such as text generation and values-based decision making (the main point of "AI Snake Oil") has confused the public enough that replacing civil servants with AI seems at least plausible. 1/2

Love reading the Backblaze Drive Stats report each year. Looks like the new 24TB drives are off to a good start! www.backblaze.com/blog/backbla...

Can't downgrade a New Relic plan without booking a call with them first. i.e. how to make sure I never buy a plan from you ever again! 🤦

Instant Dad Points (tm) with “the space station is overhead, let’s go take a look” super powers. 😎🔭

Nothing like a little rsync -Paz to wrap up a lovely evening.

Hour-long unskippqble ads are the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to get people to stop blocking ads on YouTube. Once they detect you have an ad blocker, not only do you see ads but then you can’t skip them at all. I never expected things to get this user hostile.

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

2025 appears to be yet another year where neither GMail or Apple Mail can parse Air Canada reservation emails to suggest a calendar event. Impressive!

Samsung and other AI strategy only makes sense one assumes they are announcing all these sarcastically youtu.be/J0om0NlmXOg?...

Daughter needed my macbook for a video editing project, have been living off my $500 linux mini-pc for the last few days and you know what? it's great. quick, everything works.. 2025, the year of the.. (I won't jinx it)

Sorry AI bros. I ain't even close to being done. musictech.com/news/music/b...

TIL: 32TB hard drives exist now. Terra. Bytes. 💾

I’ve been playing with DeepSeek and admit I did not ask these questions, and should have.

First day at work this year. So many choices…

There’s definitely no bot problem on BlueSky.. (hard problem, oof)

The end result of a week of trying note taking apps is this: it's really hard to beat "files in folders". Notes. Photos. Everything. I feel like this year is a bizarre return to where I started with computers. Simplest possible tools, filesystems.

Still amazed how when wild sci-fi level tech “just works” it can feel so completely normal almost right away. #waymo

Never felt Internet so broken before. Google just Reddit links & AI slop only from 2024. Siri seems drunk when it used to do maps, messages & music kinda fine. Just wanna log on Instagram see friends over holidays & it hides their posts & slams me with ads, stolen TikTok crap & now this fresh hell:

Have been living in Safari for the last week. Haven't tried this experiment in.. 6+ years? Have added Noir, Wipr2, and StopTheMadness extensions. I wish the compact tab UI was better, but I'm settled in now and webcompat has been.. fine? Performance feels comparable to Chrome on an M3. Ok then!

woah!

v0.0.763 may be in my future..

"In the December 2024 survey we received responses from 1,149,724,280 sites across 272,582,582 domains and 13,260,653 web-facing computers." I've been getting the Netcraft survey for.. 20 years now? Still a fun monthly quick read! www.netcraft.com/blog/decembe...

Excellent post discussing whether "AI progress is slowing down". www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog... And if you're not subscribed to @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social 's great newsletter, what are you waiting for?

The amount of AI slop shipping right now so PMs can hit their KPIs truly boggles the mind.

Adopting "jip-a-tee" as my default pronunciation of GPT from here on out.

Rabbit holes are fun, and I really enjoyed this story “Century Scale Storage”. How *do* you store something digitally for 100 years? h/t @maxy.bsky.social lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...