I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something...
I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened. “Within a week, I’d raised $6,000. Within a month, $10,000.”
The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls
Ok so this is weird and delightful. Swedish electronics company Teenage Engineering makes a collection of singing wooden dolls called the Choir. The dolls are basically speakers but with some autonomy and personality…and they can work together:
what you see are eight wooden...
Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and...
Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and prophecies, and it makes no assertions about what the future will hold. It’s a book which unpacks how we think about the future.”
llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow - a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code
llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow - a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code
Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted a missing LLVM compiler optimization while hacking on it, with the assistance of Claude (Alex works for ...
Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers....
Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers.
Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer
I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.
Tags: Andy Weir · books · Christopher Miller · movies · Phil Lord · Project Hail Mary · Ryan Gosling · space · trailers · video
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...
Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.”
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...
The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent.”
Dehumidifier
Underutilised Feed Data
A feed file can contain quite a bit of useful information. And I think this is underutilised by a lot of existing feed readers.
Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents
Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents
Armin Ronacher delivers a 37 minute YouTube talk describing his adventures so far with Claude Code and agentic coding methods.
A friend called Claude Code catnip for programmers and it really feels like this. I ...
How to Fix Your Context
How to Fix Your Context
Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so:
Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other er...
Tip: Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses
Tip: Use keyword-only arguments in Python dataclasses
Useful tip from Christian Hammond: if you create a Python dataclass using@dataclass(kw_only=True) its constructor will require keyword arguments, making it easier to add additional properties in the future, including in subclasses, without risking breaking existing code.
Tags: python
★ Apple Announces Sweeping but Complicated Policy Changes for Apps in the EU, Attempting to Comply With the Latest Dictums Regarding the DMA
Let’s start with Apple’s own announcement at Apple Developer News:
The European Commission has required Apple to make a series of
additional changes under the Digital Markets Act:
Communication and Promotion of Offers
Today, we’re introducing updated terms that let de...
Apple’s Full List of Differences between ‘Tier 1’ and ‘Tier 2’ in the EU App Store
developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/store-services-tiers/
Apple Developer:
By default, apps on the App Store are provided Store Services Tier
2, the complete suite of all capabilities designed to maximize
visibility, engagement, growth, and operational efficiency.
Developers with apps on the App Store in the EU that
communicate...
WorkOS
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My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Modern authentication should be seamless and secure. WorkOS makes it easy to integrate features like MFA, SSO, and RBAC.
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Upcoming Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball
Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007. They’ve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy. They generate good money. There’s only one sponsor per week and the sponsors are always r...
The Happy Pod: A song fit for a King
We meet Jack Pepper, the composer who's written a song for King Charles. The piece celebrates the harmony between people and the natural world. Also: hope for Alzheimer's patients; and how tourism could help stray dogs.
🎬 Nightcrawler
In the beginning I thought Jake Gyllenhaal’s character is pretty implausible. But then I just enjoyed his and Riz Ahmed’s performances, the pretty night scenes, the suspense and just his sheer dry ruthlessness. And the film also gives you plenty to think about.
Laser Danger
