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Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting Tim Berners-Lee

I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale. If you could put anything on it, then after a while, it would have everything on it.

But for the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my Cern managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone.

— Tim Berners-Lee, Why I gave the world wide web away for free

Tags: web, tim-berners-lee, computer-history

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• Jason Kottke

In Praise of Comfort Films

In his latest video essay, Thomas Flight praises the comfort film and shares some examples (The Big Lebowski, Perfect Days, Mon Oncle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Moonrise Kingdom) from a few different types. We want high stakes to make things interesting. But if you’re cons...

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• Jason Kottke

Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because...

Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.”

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• Jason Kottke

Oh I don’t know, the appearance of two perfectly overlapping fiery rings...

Oh I don’t know, the appearance of two perfectly overlapping fiery rings in the sky doesn’t seem like a good omen to me, even at low frequencies.

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• Jason Kottke

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will...

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You. “There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo.”

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Bad bots

Two of my public Datasette instances - for my TILs and my blog's backup mirror - were getting hammered with misbehaving bot traffic today. Scaling them up to more Fly instances got them running again but I'd rather not pay extra just so bots can crawl me harder. The log file...

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S&P Global

marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/metadata-marketplace-(d4ef915d-a8f4-4bf5-b8da-5cbce63db415)?utm_source=display&utm_medium=daringfireball&utm_campaign=11921-AD-2509-GL-CT-DR-All-DCD-EDODaringFireball

My thanks to S&P Global for sponsoring this last week at DF. S&P Global believes that the future of information delivery is AI — and AI thrives on clean, trustworthy metadata. That’s why they’re embracing open web standards to make data more accessible and machine-readable. Explore their open data at dunl.org, their open data portal, and discover rich metadata at S&P’s Metadata Marketplace.

Link: marketplace.spglobal.com/en/solutions/metadata-marketplace-…

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

For a while now I've been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once - firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in the same repo, sometimes against multiple checkouts or git worktrees. I was pretty skeptical about th...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines I've had trouble getting my head around DSPy in the past. This half hour talk by Drew Breunig at the recent Databricks Data + AI Summit is the clearest explanation I've seen yet of the kinds of problems...

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• Jason Kottke

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96. I loved that...

Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96. I loved that show — almost every time I’m driving and see a herd of cows in a nearby field, I shrill, “Mind the cows, Richard!”

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• John Gruber

Cheap Batteries Are Dangerous

theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect

Andrew Liszewski, The Verge: Lumafield has released the results of a new study of lithium-ion batteries that “reveals an enormous gap in quality between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells” that are readily available through online stores including Amazon and Temu. T...

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The Happy Pod: The teenager empowering thousands to succeed

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An 18-year-old entrepreneur who has helped more than twenty thousand teenagers get skills, training and mentoring has been recognised with a global student prize. Adarsh Kumar grew up in poverty in rural Bihar and says he was inspired by wanting to solve the problems he saw...

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• John Gruber

★ Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store

Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: DOJ officials, at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down ICEBlock, a move that comes as Trump administration officials have claimed the tool, which allows users to anonymously report ICE agents’ pr...

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• Jason Kottke

80 of the Most Iconic Guitar Intros

Watch as Paul Davids plays 80 of rock’s most iconic guitar intros, including ones from Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, Joan Jett, AC/DC, Blur, and The White Stripes.

Tags: best of · music · video

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• Jason Kottke

Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born...

Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born in the year 1997, and yet we can find no trace of them in popular culture.”

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I think I’m gonna read Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence next,...

I think I’m gonna read Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence next, inspired by Evan Puschak’s recent video. Just downloaded the free ebook from Standard Ebooks.

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Harvard Library’s collection of Soviet and post-Soviet lapel pins. Sputnik, Aeroflot, the...

Harvard Library’s collection of Soviet and post-Soviet lapel pins. Sputnik, Aeroflot, the 1980 Olympics, Tolstoy…collect your favorites!

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• Jason Kottke

Swift Justice: A Look Inside a Taliban Courtroom

Swift Justice is a short documentary that, perhaps for the first time, takes viewers inside a rural Afghan courtroom operated by the Taliban, whose arbiters decide cases using Sharia law. [Content warning: a man is visibly beaten in the courtroom to make him “speak the tru...

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Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

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• Jason Kottke

Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem, an interview with Ted Chiang...

Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem, an interview with Ted Chiang from earlier this year. “I don’t believe it’s meaningful to say that something is better art absent any context of how it was created. Art is all about context.”

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