I'm far from the first to share it today, but for the many broken hearted today, who like me, would find listening to this demo of 'Africa', featuring only D'Angelo on vocals and piano, a fitting way to remember him. music.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLP...

Ouch.

Had NASA devoted significant funding to video slop, not only would they have made it to the moon in the 60s, they'd have stayed there

mmmm did Russia just attack Poland?

The Trump admin really knows how to score own goals www.axios.com/2025/09/05/t...

Bravo to Lenovo, this is insane, but totally worth exploring and welcome given the tech industry's tendency for group think. TheVerge reviewed it www.theverge.com/reviews/7174... and found it gasp, "genuinely useful."

The time is right to give to the poor children of Eve, banished from Eden, and condemned to labor in Excel, the power of code notebooks (marimo), a sane package manager (uv), and source control management that will lead them to a reproducible salvation

Debugging with an LM really does feel like pulling the lever on a slot machine; I wasted a lot of cycles yesterday forgetting that fact until I decided to R(ead)TFM(anual)

We saw Superman last night and I'm happy to report that the corny man of steel is 💯

When did Amazon start writing specs? Isn't a 1-pager all you need? ;-)

The venerable google search box (an <input type="text" />) is being supplanted by a question box, a <textarea /> and this seemingly tiny change will profoundly change how we browse the web

AWS IAM Identity Center is a complete usability disaster. And yes, you could have guessed that just by the sheer number of acronyms involved.

I'd like to think fair use is for HUMAN BEINGs and NOT machines that can memorize and regurgitate at completely inhuman scale. simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/...

When did @quillmatiq.com decide to run for mayor of NYC? And he’s polling at 52%!!!

🤔 Why doesn't lazy.nvim default to hererocks if it can install an isolated luarocks along w/ the required version of Lua that Neovim works with? I mean, that seems l like the lazy thing to do?

Is the iPad a computer yet? Can I install chrome?

Liquid glass is gratuitous

Wow, shareholders are finally questioning Elons ability to work 40h work weeks at n different companies. You’d think our capitalists would be better at math than this, but hey, better late than never

TIL that “agentic search” is actually just letting the LLM call `grep` on your codebase. You really have to wonder why the LLM providers have to be so over the top with their terminology.

Am I alone in finding that Sam x Jony video cringe inducing?

Google's AI mode makes a ton of sense. I've long predicted Google would augment search with a chat. I've long wanted to just ask questions about the Google search results, and refine with follow-ups questions.

the comments to this Japanese carpenter's video are just one foreign carpenter after another praising his craftsmanship www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRn8...

Airbnb designers interviewed millions of customers to discover that at the root of their often unpredictable experience with the service was … boring, static icons.

How ironic is it that criminals are using bitcoin to ransom Coinbase?

Stuck in endless loop on Eventbrite trying to 'claim' tickets; Eventbrite just keeps redirecting from the mobile app to the website, then back again.

This is why googling in Safari is going down btw: Google are interrupting search results with the most annoying mobile app download MODAL.

Zuckerberg just wants you to have a friend, that’s all.

Damn, Pierre Poilievre lost his very own riding.

Good thing Bezos instructed the WaPo's to write in support and in defence of "free markets" www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/w...

Pope Francis, requiescat in pace. I’ll dearly miss this Pope for he never pandered to the divisions in the Church, he understood his role was not be liked, but to challenge all of us to walk in His ways.

I literally cried watching this — the horrifying, illegal imprisonment of Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s in a foreign gulag is a travesty youtu.be/JN1oBfg0fwI?...

Bears repeating (on a near weekly basis at this point) that Elon Musk is a moral degenerate.

At the rate Americans are saying 'sorry', Canada will have no choice but to annex.

TIL that Harvard awarded Navarro a PhD. And there I thought you could only buy an undergraduate degree from the Ivy League.

PSA: LLMs (e.g. Claude Sonnet) cannot reason about about race conditions in asynchronous code like Javascript promises, but they will pretend to do so!

my finance app just keeps buzzing all morning with 52w lows, how is anybody supposed to get any work done in this environment

Isolationism is going to require a lot more software and I think a lot more open source alternatives to boot

We will learn just how patriotic the “designed in California” motto is in the coming months

I foresee the whole world embracing minimalism, not by choice of course. Poverty has its benefits.

Blowing shit up is easy, building is hard

Trump may be failing to bring unity to America, but he has managed to inspire Quebecers from our French speaking province to admit that they are in fact Canadians and PROUD of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYXY...

Every time I read about `nix`, I wonder, is it designed to recruit software developers into a cult? A cult that worships declarative reproducibility? Where do I sign up?

if you elect Dumb, he will hire Dumber

Lock them up

Incompetence like this is criminal, right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Spyware AND terrible speakers to boot, great combo!

Astonishing to see how the tables have turned in the automotive sector www.ft.com/content/36ae...

OpenAI gaslighting, errr I mean lobbying, to ban DeepSeek, the most open, advanced model on the market, is so plainly self serving www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjS...

We have to teach everyone (especially our kids) to _assume_ an LLM generated answer is non-sense until verified. LLM generated answers are equivalent to junk food, yes, it can be give you pointers (calories) in a pinch, but an information diet dominated by it will be ruinous.

👇 In which I learned that Elon's grandfather CHOSE to move from Canada to South Africa because, get this, he thought APARTHEID South Africa would become the "the leader of white civilization in the World"?