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660: It’s All Chicken Salad

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Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results Goose Goose @ Richmond Allianz Ampitheater, 3 October 2025 Allianz Ampitheater Chicken Salad Chick Nugs.net ZZQ Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order: Hungersite Give it Time How it Ends Dripfield Follow-up: ATP i...

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A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway

Giorgia Lupi and her team at Pentagram have created a data-driven animation for the MTA called A Data Love Letter to the Subway. More from Lupi (who calls this an “absolute dream project”): The project, “A Data Love Letter to the Subway,” visualizes each train line ...

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“We’ve put together a reading list about capitalism, imperialism, policing, and the...

“We’ve put together a reading list about capitalism, imperialism, policing, and the politics and strategies of anti-war resistance movements of the past and present — tools in the struggle against repression, surveillance, and state violence.”

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An interview with Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s English translator. “I had never...

An interview with Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s English translator. “I had never heard of Ferrante. I didn’t know anything about her. I still don’t know anything about her.”

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Quoting Gergely Orosz

I get a feeling that working with multiple AI agents is something that comes VERY natural to most senior+ engineers or tech lead who worked at a large company

You already got used to overseeing parallel work (the goto code reviewer!) + making progress with small chunks of work... because your day has been a series of nonstop interactions, so you had to figure out how to do deep work in small chunks that could have been interrupted

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Tags: gergely-orosz, parallel-agents, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms

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Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025

The organizers of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition received more than 33,000 images for 2025’s contest; here are the winners and runners-up. Photos above by Franco Banfi, Francesco Guffanti, Tibor Litauszki, and Andreas Hemb. If you have no idea what yo...

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TIL: Testing different Python versions with uv with-editable and uv-test

TIL: Testing different Python versions with uv with-editable and uv-test While tinkering with upgrading various projects to handle Python 3.14 I finally figured out a universal uv recipe for running the tests for the current project in any specified version of Python: uv run...

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Skateboard

I understand it's hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I'm worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.

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Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now

This isn't necessarily surprising, but it's worth noting anyway. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building a full Datasette plugin now. I've seen models complete aspects of this in the past, but today is the first time I've shipped a new plugin where every line of code and te...

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This is a lovely & thoughtful essay on the messiness of teaching...

This is a lovely & thoughtful essay on the messiness of teaching and learning, an alchemy endangered by efficiency & automation. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”

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A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Amazon) by Ned & Constance Sublette is a book which offers an alternate view of slavery in the United States. Instead of treating slavery as a source of unpaid labor, as it is typically understood, the...

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Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

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The Oatmeal’s take on AI art. “When I consume Al art, it...

The Oatmeal’s take on AI art. “When I consume Al art, it also evokes a feeling…until I find out that it’s Al art. Then I feel deflated, grossed out, and maybe a little bit bored. This feeling isn’t a choice.”

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The Family of Migrants is a new book & museum exhibition that...

The Family of Migrants is a new book & museum exhibition that tells the story of the past 120 years of human movement in photographs.

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As they labor to fight off the slop bots, Wikipedia maintains a...

As they labor to fight off the slop bots, Wikipedia maintains a fairly extensive list of signs & tells that text was written by AI. “This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules.”

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Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

Miguel Grinberg uses some basic benchmarks (like fib(40)) to test the new Python 3.14 on Linux and macOS and finds some substantial speedups over Python 3.13 - around 27% faster.

The optional JIT didn't make a meaningful difference to his benchmarks. On a threaded benchmark he got 3.09x speedup with 4 threads using the free threading build - for Python 3.13 the free threading build only provided a 2.2x improvement.

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Tags: gil, performance, python

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Quoting Simon Højberg

The cognitive debt of LLM-laden coding extends beyond disengagement of our craft. We’ve all heard the stories. Hyped up, vibed up, slop-jockeys with attention spans shorter than the framework-hopping JavaScript devs of the early 2010s, sling their sludge in pull requests and...

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Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about using his books for cooking fuel. “Let’s use...

Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about using his books for cooking fuel. “Let’s use one or two for now, and when the war’s over you can replace them. The kids need food more than they need to be read to.”

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Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App

Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App In the wake of Apple removing ICEBlock from the App Store, Brent Simmons talks about why he still thinks his veteran (and actively maintained) NetNewsWire feed reader app should remain a native application. Part of the reason is cost - NetNew...

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Knit Hello, a Simple Typeface for Knitting

Designer Rüdiger Schlömer has created a new typeface for beginning knitters called Knit Hello. Knit Hello is a typeface for hand knitting. It was made for beginners: knitters and typographers who love type. You may remember Schlömer from his Futura-based Knit Grotesk. And of course, the earliest bitmap letters weren’t found on a computer screen; blocky letters have been used in cross stitch and knitting for hundreds of years. (via colossal) Tags: design · Rudiger Schlomer · typography 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →