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AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong

AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong Absurdly useful roundup from Corey Quinn of AWS changes you may have missed that can materially affect your architectural decisions about how you use their services. A few that stood out to me: EC2 instances can now...

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John Gruber

Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Five Months Ago

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Kwan Wei Kevin Tan, reporting for Business Insider five months ago:

Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup Anthropic, said on Monday that AI, and not software developers, could be writing all of the code in our software in a year.

“I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then, in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” Amodei said at a Council of Foreign Relations event on Monday.

Complete bullshit, but, I guess he still has one month to go. (Via Dave Winer on Threads.)

Link: businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6…

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David Ho on BlueSky: A pelican tried to eat my bike

David Ho on BlueSky: A pelican tried to eat my bike

David Ho caught video footage of one of the pelicans in St James's Park expressing deep curiosity in his bicycle.

I think it wants to ride it.

Frame from the video. A beautiful large white pelican has its beak around the top part of the bicycle frame.

Tags: pelican-riding-a-bicycle

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‘No Frame Missed’

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Five-minute short film from Apple, about people with severe hand tremors from Parkinson’s disease using the iPhone’s Action mode to shoot steady video — including filmmaker Brett Harvey, who was diagnosed at the way-too-young age of 37. There’s also a brief short with Harvey explaining the settings to shoot in Action mode by default, or to use voice controls to avoid needing to tap buttons.

Apple at its very best. If this doesn’t hit you, you’re not hooked up right.

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=hEalzEnT70k

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Jason Kottke

The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (aka Your Local Epidemiologist) has a frustrating update on how Covid vaccines are probably going to work this fall under the ideologically corrupt Trump regime. The FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restri...

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Cesium

Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.

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Jason Kottke

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My...

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom. “Was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? […] At the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether A.I. could replace me.”

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‘American’

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Kieran Healy on, just now — amidst all this — becoming an American citizen: When I sat down to write something about becoming a citizen, I was immediately tangled up in a skein of questions about the character of citizenship, the politics of immigration, and the relation...

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★ How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone

I’ve been using two iPhones throughout the summer — one running iOS 18, the other running iOS 26 betas. I found myself wanting to switch between them with iPhone Mirroring on my Mac, but couldn’t figure out how. The answer, from Apple Support, “iPhone Mirroring: Use your iPh...

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The World Is Burning, But Want to Meet Up for Thirty-Four-Dollar Cocktails?...

The World Is Burning, But Want to Meet Up for Thirty-Four-Dollar Cocktails? “Nothing makes me want to drink a fancy aesthetic cocktail more than what’s happening right now.”

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Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency

Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency As promised in their August 4th release of the Qwen image generation model, Qwen have now followed it up with a separate model, Qwen-Image-Edit, which can take an image and a prompt and return an edited versio...

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Jason Kottke

Teaser trailer for season two of Fallout. My son and I really...

Teaser trailer for season two of Fallout. My son and I really enjoyed s01.

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XSLT on congress.gov

Today I learned - via a proposal to remove mentions of XSLT from the HTML spec - that congress.gov uses XSLT to serve XML bills as XHTML - here's H. R. 3617 117th CONGRESS 1st Session for example. View source on that page and it starts like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> ...

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As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story

As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story

A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.

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PyPI: Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks

PyPI: Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks Domain resurrection attacks are a nasty vulnerability in systems that use email verification to allow people to recover their accounts. If somebody lets their domain name expire an attacker might snap it up and use it to gain acce...

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llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp

llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp Really useful official guide to running the OpenAI gpt-oss models using llama-server from llama.cpp - which provides an OpenAI-compatible localhost API and a neat web interface for interacting with the models. TLDR version for ...

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r/ChatGPTPro: What is the most profitable thing you have done with ChatGPT?

r/ChatGPTPro: What is the most profitable thing you have done with ChatGPT?

This Reddit thread - with 279 replies - offers a neat targeted insight into the kinds of things people are using ChatGPT for.

Lots of variety here but two themes that stood out for me were ChatGPT for written negotiation - insurance claims, breaking rental leases - and ChatGPT for career and business advice.

Tags: reddit, ai, openai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms

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Bezos Numbers of the Week: Counterpoint Research on ‘Smart Glasses’

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Counterpoint Research, in a report titled “Global Smart Glasses Shipments Soared 110 Percent YoY in H1 2025, With Meta Capturing Over 70 Percent Share”: The global smart glasses market grew by 110% YoY in H1 2025, fueled by robust demand for Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses an...

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[Sponsor] Phoenix.new

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Resurrect your side projects with Phoenix.new, the new AI app-builder from Fly.io. Just describe your idea, and Phoenix.new quickly generates a working real-time Phoenix app: clustering, pubsub, and presence included. Ideal for multiplayer games, collaborative tools, or quick weekend experiments. Built by Fly.io, deploy wherever you want.

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Google Gemini URL Context

Google Gemini URL Context New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a new -o url_context 1 option adding support for this feat...