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1. LLMs reward expertise
2. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
3. Don't be a meat proxy
4. pi, minimal and performant | earendil
5. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on Security — This sums up how I tend to use AI. Not for anything I can't check, nor for any skills I want to keep.
6. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
7. Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
8. Please use AI
9. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI - ACM Queue
10. TerminalWidget for Mac, iPhone, and iPad | Terminal Widget
11. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work — During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what it means, and the actions now underway.
12. The Listening Museum — 36 mechanical keyboards, sound-mapped. Click any one. Type on your keyboard. Hear it. From IBM Model M to HHKB to modern thocky customs.
13. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed — via @ike@pkm.social boost of https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles/statuses/01KXX7EG8HYD2E4YSE31SNZ5TC
14. Free Printable Paper Globes — Folding Paper Globes
15. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement | Lil'Log — this
16. Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight — ref https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
17. The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
18. firecrawl/anydoc: Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to clean Markdown. Built in Rust, with Node.js and Python bindings.
19. Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
20. The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing – Rands in Repose
21. Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hEx31L0
22. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury / Short Stories
23. Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog — Use an agent to personalize your software
24. The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
25. The valley of webhooks | Weli's blog
26. 29. ikea complexity index
27. How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners - The New York Times
28. The Phone in Your Hand
29. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
30. boldsoftware/meat: meat.dev
31. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook — "So what's a boy to do? How do I offload the boring work to LLMs without ceding control of my own work and cognition to the slop machine? I've come up with a solution that's grossly inefficient and perhaps slightly comical: I ask…
32. help wanted - lake hope
33. What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones — Really cool project to analyze skin colors and transform them into a color space, so that you can pick anything from inside a sphere and get a reasonable skin color
34. Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration
35. isopolis — behind the scenes
36. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles — A fabulously gay blind author.
37. The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times
38. ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley | Life and style | The Guardian
39. Atlas of Surveillance
40. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
41. I Hate Adobe
42. Wellness Ping — Regular email check-ins. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
43. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | Hacker News
44. Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet | The Cloudflare Blog — Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardrails.
45. Design Engineer Tools
46. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
47. rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
48. MAKE MY DRIVE FUN
49. At an LA Costco, Skateboarding and Learning About Loss - The New York Times
50. The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic — We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
51. An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
52. ‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech — "This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a
53. The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About | by Jake Orlowitz | Regarding Wikipedia | Aug, 2026 | Medium — via @MaddieM4@raphus.social boost of https://social.wikiworkersunited.org/@wwu/117032196592598575
54. Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. - The New York Times
55. Forget em-dashes: A viral report on AI-generated writing has surprising new clues
56. Anime User Interfaces
57. Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/nwPldHx
58. Chasing the Hallucinations: PwC report hallucinates product and government customers — This investigation analyzes four reports published between 2024 and 2026 by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) member firm PwC Middle East. Together, these reports show a pattern of irresponsible AI usage resulting in hallucinated (vibe) cit…
59. A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It — Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.
60. Elevators
61. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
62. Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
63. Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
64. Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This - The New York Times — Discusses Sam Bankman Fried's 49-51 bet
65. Qwen3.8-Max Blog
66. From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
67. Comfy — Professional Control of Visual AI — Comfy is the AI creation engine for visual professionals who demand control over every model, every parameter, and every output.
68. Did Ulysses S. Grant Predict This About the Next Civil War? | Snopes.com
69. “As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program.” – Unsung
70. What DMARC Actually Protects You From, and What It Does Not - SenderLedger
71. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? - JFrog Security Research — 3.51.2
72. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? — Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
73. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest | Hacker News — Interesting thread on HN about MCP versus skills.
74. Daring Fireball: Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
75. 6 Awe-Inspiring Destinations on U.S. Public Land, but Not in National Parks - The New York Times
76. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
77. How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed — "Look through the words scattered around this page. Every one of them is among the most commonly used words in the English language. They come from a 2023 list of about 2,800 words, shown to cover over 90% of general English use, intended for people learning the l…
78. Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider wants to grow the platform and the protocol | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/AXuprHZ
79. How Castform + Neon Beats Frontier Models on Price and Efficiency - Neon - Modern alternative to RAG
80. $2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use • The Guardian — Emma Loffhagen: The hotly anticipated manuscript Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body, by Jerry Falade, was withdrawn from sale by its agent despite reportedly receiving an offer for more than $2m (£1.5m) from Minotaur, owned by Macmillan US, as part of a 14-w…
81. Reading Maps - Browse all routes — Reading maps: Browse the routs of book and film plots and characters on a map
82. MikeLuu99/searxng-rust: a metadata search engine similar to searxng in rust — A SearXNG-style metadata search engine written in Rust. Fans out queries to multiple search engines concurrently, scrapes their HTML results, deduplicates by normalized URL, and ranks using Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).
83. cloudflare/cloudflare-os: Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company’s context and systems.
84. These 5 changes unlocked 100 percent of Claude's power — Five small workflow changes that turned Claude from a simple Q&A chatbot into an actual assistant that gets things done.
85. Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS | Artificial Intelligence — K3: you will need... 8 NVIDIA B300s interesting that in AWS-world you need a Training Plan to run inference on it
86. leonickson1/Swiftlet — Run 35B and 80B Qwen models on ordinary Apple devices, including iPhones. Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime for the Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5/3.6 MoE hybrid model family. It keeps only the small dense core of a model resident in memory and streams the routed Mixture-of-Experts weights from storage on demand
87. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
88. Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
89. Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow — The nine layers of Claude Code only pay off when they work together. This article shows how to assemble them into a workflow that holds up across real sessions.
90. Introducing Shieldstral. | Mistral AI — “Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation”
91. Lakeview Cabin 2 by Hypnohustler — "This time, the terror is real..." Play as four companions as they use anything they can find to survive against terrifying foes. Explore the possibilities of emergent gameplay and dive deeper into the lore of the Lakeview. Just make sure you have a plan before the night falls...
92. - YouTube — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hEx31L0
93. I tested over 100 Claude Code plugins—here are the 5 that actually matter
94. HP OmniBook Ultra 14 (Snapdragon X2) Review - Thurrott.com — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/vcVRhex
95. GitHub - 0xchasercat/draco: Draco is a faster, cheaper and lighter firecrawl drop-in replacement that you own entirely, running on your machine, with a built in MCP, free websearch, and browserless JavaScript console. · GitHub
96. Seven books I keep close because I love them — The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write.
97. Switch - AltTab replacement — A keyboard-driven window switcher for macOS. ⌘-Tab cycles windows, not apps.
98. google webfonts helper
99. Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences - ABC News — "Today, salmon sushi is a staple of Japanese cuisine, all thanks to the Norwegian government."
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