The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm....
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm. That’s all I’m going to say about this list. Hmm.
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without...
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without Exploding Several Billion Dollars Worth of Eggs. “Look, things explode. It’s just part of nature. Cybertrucks explode, and it’s no big deal.”
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will become ludicrously rich: “After the cataclysmic Event happens that unravels society and sends me scurrying to my luxury bunker, how do I keep my guards loyal?”
Shifting Baselines and the New Normal of the Trump Era
Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about shifting baselines.
Humans often don’t remember what we’ve lost or demand that it be restored. Rather, we adjust to what we’ve got.
Concepts developed in...
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of...
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of South Carolina’s Senate seats. Based on the commercial launching her campaign, I kinda want to move to SC just so I can vote for her.
Trump’s Entire Tariff Endeavor Ruled Illegal by U.S. Court of International Trade
Tony Romm and Ana Swanson, reporting for The New York Times (paywall-busting gift link):
A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump
from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S.
trading partners, finding that federal law did not g...
Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in...
Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success.”
New apt acronym for America’s lamest president: TACO, which stands for Trump...
New apt acronym for America’s lamest president: TACO, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. He should be hounded about his perpetual lack of spine…this is the sort of thing that really gnaws at fake strongmen.
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a...
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins. “‘This piece,’ he warned, holding it before her: ‘You forget you ever saw it.’” Great read.
I started the FeedCity blog with a first blog post.
llm-github-models 0.15
llm-github-models 0.15
Anthony Shaw's llm-github-models plugin just got an upgrade: it now supports LLM 0.26 tool use for a subset of the models hosted on the GitHub Models API, contributed by Caleb Brose.
The neat thing about this GitHub Models plugin is that it picks up an...
First monthly sponsor newsletter tomorrow
I'll be sending out my first curated monthly highlights newsletter tomorrow, only to $10/month and up sponsors. Sign up now if you want to pay me to send you less!
My weekly-ish newsletter remains free, in fact I just sent out the latest edition.
Tags: blogging
llm-mistral 0.14
llm-mistral 0.14
I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral's new Codestral Embed embedding model.
An interesting challenge here is that I'm not using an official client library for llm-mistral - I rolled my own c...
llm-tools-exa
llm-tools-exa
When I shipped LLM 0.26 yesterday one of the things I was most excited about was seeing what new tool plugins people would build for it.
Dan Turkel's llm-tools-exa is one of the first. It adds web search to LLM using Exa (previously), a relatively new search en...
Apple’s Annual App Store Scam and Fraud Report
Apple Newsroom, yesterday:
Apple’s strong antifraud infrastructure helps ensure that
malicious developer and customer accounts are swiftly flagged and
eliminated. In 2024, Apple terminated more than 146,000 developer
accounts over fraud concerns and rejected an additiona...
Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.
Hell of a scoop from Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg:
The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year,
rather than with a version number, according to people with
knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give
way to “iOS 26,” said the people, who...
Hello, World!
Earth has a new city: FeedCity. Where anyone can become a citizen and follow their favourite RSS feeds (and Atom and JSON feeds, too, of course).
Read more about what FeedCity is on its home page and/or by reading the announcement I published on my personal site.
On this very blog, I plan to write about all things RSS, Atom, JSON (and probably also a little bit about microformats and the Fediverse), announce new features or explain design decisions of existing ones.
If you want to follow along, you can subscribe in the following ways:
- Via RSS feed (also on FeedCity).
- Via JSON feed (also on FeedCity).
- In the Fediverse (Mastodon etc.): @FeedCity@news.feed.city.
You can also contact me at mail@feed.city.
/Daniel
Archaea
AI-assisted development needs automated tests
I wonder if one of the reasons I'm finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.
I've been trying to stay true to the idea of a Perfect Commit - one that bu...
This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more...
This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more like Michael Scott.” The future he’s selling us is Stark Industries but what we’re getting is Dunder Mifflin.