Coding agents work by sending your prompt and files to a model’s API over HTTP and receiving generated code and tool calls in return, including Bash scripts that execute on your machine. Coding…

Prettier formats code in fenced code blocks! When I type three backticks and then a code block, Prettier evaluates the code in the block and tries to format it per my global .prettierrc.

Sergiu Gatlan reports: WhatsApp is finally allowing users to reserve usernames, a privacy feature that lets them hide their phone numbers from people not in their contact list. Meta says that more…

Techreccs now has emojis. I was inspired to figure out how to do this by Kev. I thought it would be hard with Ghost, but it turns out you can Windows Key+Period it (Standard Emoji Picker). Feel free…

A new Tradecraft Garden and Crystal Palace release is available. This release introduces a proper install script and consolidates its commands behind a cpl [verb] CLI interface. I’ve also added an…

In Super Mario Galaxy, shooting Mario at a very specific spot on the cliffs surrounding the beach in Deep Dark Galaxy will cause him to enter a glitched rolling state. The player can move him around…

Thus it came to pass that Postmark Games graduated from dice to cards. After some of the finest print-and-plays in recent memory — after Voyages, Aquamarine, Waypoints, and Scribbly Gum — I suppose…

The US still has a Pandemic Action Crisis Plan which posits stay-at-home orders, school closures, business shutdowns, test and trace and high-speed vaccines. It needs to be scrapped urgently, says…

The 17th annual Panda’s Thumb Photography Contest begins now, Monday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., MDT (MDT = UTC(GMT) – 6 h). Owing to the short notice (we have been preoccupied), we will accept entries…

Programming note; this is the 150th issue of NULL BITMAP, and NULL BITMAP will be going on a hiatus for a while, maybe just for the Summer, maybe indefinitely. I think I need a bit of a break from it…

Brief Biography: David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also founded the…

A reader writes: Nine months ago, my (wonderful) boss chose to leave her VP role in our medium-sized organization. Rather than backfill the role, her boss (our relatively new CEO) decided that I…

Aalto UniversitySchool of Arts, Design and ArchitectureOtaniementie 14Espoo, 02150FinlandApplication deadline: August 31, 2026, 11:59pmRead the original post hereAalto University School of Arts,…

overall - what a fun day! had fun, no IT band pain post tri / no cramps on the run. finished on la crema vineyard with wine + pizza from diavola :D other thoughts - tris are tough for partners cause…

After finishing sixth in the 2026 ORC World Championship, Per Roman’s GP42 Garm42 was on the winning team for the 2026 Sardinia Cup. A tech investor since the 1990s, he shares the parallels with his…

FourthAmendment.com covers today’s welcome SCOTUS decision on geofence searches: A geofence warrant is a search because it captures location data. The mere collection of private data on the…

Just Wait ‘Til I Get These Fucking Rubber Bands Off by a lobster.

I’ve never been great at dealing with stress. I have a tendency to overthink, assume the worst and constantly worry, it’s a great combination! This summer has been the most stressful of my life. My…

If you’ve been writing TypeScript for a while, you might have written code like this: // utils.ts export type Color = 'red' | 'blue' | 'green'; // app.tsx import {Color}…

In the midst of the legion horde, the Thousand Eyes of the Destroyer laughed at the blood of the fallen and the souls of the dead. This collection of texts tell of the many battles of the Galchutt…

Howard Oakley: Hot Macs have their own paradox: open Activity Monitor, select the CPU view, and at the top of the CPU % list will be kernel_task hogging the CPU cores with 100% or more, rather than…

Basic Apple Guy: But what exactly is a Mavericks? Where is Sonoma? And how many Mac users could point to where Ventura or Tahoe on a map? I decided to trace the history and real-world locations…

The Tour de France gets a new climb, the Col du Haag. A dilapidated forest road has been repurposed into a cycle path and now awaits Tadej Pogačar and company as the final climb on Stage 14.…

From St. Peter’s Basilica from The World’s Best Sacristan™. Here is something interesting at The Parish™. For extra credit, who can explain this? White mates in 4. NB: I’ll hold…

ALT“At the Beach” (A la platja), drawn between c. 1910-1920 by the Catalan artist Feliu Elias. Ink and coloured pencil on paper.National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

Windows blanked, end wall cornice added, gaps puttied, corner bevels adjusted. Ready for stucco. The arcade is coming along, but that'll get its own post.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is a cozy fantasy novel that follows Linus, a caseworker for a government organization that runs orphanages for magical children. As a cozy novel fan, I am…

Texas schoolchildren will learn Bible stories, "The Lord is My Shepherd" and "Blessed are the peacemakers."

While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which…

Ralph Nader (born 1934, still active today) is a consumer advocate and political leader who interviewed me for his radio show in 2016. Typospherian Elizabeth L. kindly typed up the following…

IDK how long this entry will be, but regardless it IS an entry! To put short, not much has really happened in June, aside from me going to watch the Backrooms movie and seeing TADC finale. The…

Deep in the Heart of Texas I’ve never been a good fit for this place. Even as a child, I was repulsed by the provincialism that permeates this society. Texas is one of the few states that mandates a…

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I'm going to describe a character archetype to you, found in many modern comedies. These characters have an extremely high opinion of themselves, but are generally incompetent. They are also…

The sequel to Legends And Lattes.

The Bible Shelf The other day I visited Aligro, a Swiss cash-and-carry supermarket. If you have never been to one, imagine a place where everything is sold in quantities suggesting that you are…

Investors instinctively turn to past performance when choosing funds. But new Morningstar research on 6,003 European funds finds it is far more reliable as a warning sign than a buy signal.

There are dozens forged or cast parts, like the one below, in an aircraft. Forming their shapes with polygon meshes and Bevel modifiers is difficult, because of their complex, rounded edges. Usually…

How I built Tinkerfont, a browser extension for inspecting and swapping fonts on live websites -- Manifest V3, content scripts, and a Firefox port.

Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm a generalist. I design, I code, I end up in a lot of places where typography matters but isn't really the job. Reviewing a client's staging site.…

When mihomo runs in TUN mode (stack: system, auto-route: true), starting it kills all network connectivity, including SSH. The problem isn’t the mihomo config — it’s two system forwarding…

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been drafting and re-drafting our discovery playback deck, straightening up the story we need to tell so that it’s clear. It’s also helping us create shared…

Ich bin seit gut 20 Jahren ein Touchpad-Nutzer. Zunächst auf iBook und MacBook, dann mit dem Magic Trackpad. Das lag daran, dass die Apple-Mäuse so schlecht, die Touchpads dagegen gut waren. Als ich…

In addition to being a software developer, I'm also a little bit of a DIY handyman. Not a very good one - I'm not one to make things *look* good, just function well. But mostly, I just love tools. A…

This week, lots of people were talking about FSF's policy of not accepting LLM contributions to Emacs core (see the last two items in the AI category). Comments seem generally supportive of FSF's…

Most amusement park enthusiasts point toward the original Bat at King's Island as the world's first, permanent, suspended roller coaster. And in the modern era, this is true, as it ran from…

The prolific publisher behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk franchises, CD Projekt, has rebranded itself as CD Projekt Red. Some of you might be confused, but until June 23rd, CD Projekt was the…

What is the actual state of AI? I guess, it depends on who you ask. On the one hand, Google (and obviously others) is forcing AI to the absolute limit, replacing the default search behavior because…

I praised ⌘⇥ recently in my essay for cleverly not showing itself when you press the keys really fast . Here’s another nice detail. If you press and hold ⌘⇥, you will eventually stop at the end. (You…

Lester, it’s okay, he’s already dead. Lester. LES! You can stop now!!! Thanks to the patrons for supporting this comic which, unlike Compass Guy, is still very much alive and not getting…