Here’s the updated full guideline for section 4.1:
4.1 Copycats
(a) Come up with your own ideas. We know you have them, so make
yours come to life. Don’t simply copy the latest popular app
on the App Store, or make some minor changes to another app’s
name or...
Perhaps inspired by All Streets, Ben Fry’s map of all the streets in the US, Nelson Minar built a US map out of all the rivers in the country.
Minar put all the data and files he used up on Github so you can make your own version.
[This is a vintage post originally from Jun 2013.]
Tags: Ben Fry · maps · Nelson Minar · timeless posts · USA
This is the trailer for an HBO documentary called Thoughts and Prayers about “the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities across America”.
It’s tough to watch, as is this clip from the film in which a girl describes a bag o...
21st-Century Culture Has Hit a Wall. “We — creators and audiences alike — have to make an effort to encourage bold new forms of culture. Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested products.”
Konnichiwa! I’m back from Japan and finally getting over my jetlag, which took much longer than I expected. Here’s a list of all the things I’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and experiencing over the past few months.1 Let us know what movies, books, art, TV, music, ...
I talked with CL Kao and Dori Wilson for an episode of their new Data Renegades podcast titled Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison.
I fed the transcript into Claude Opus 4.5 to extract this list of topics with timestamps and illustrative quotes. It did such a good ...
Chindōgu is the Japanese practice of inventing things that are not exactly useful but neither are they useless; they’re more unuseless, a term coined by chindōgu’s originator Kenji Kawakami. Some examples are tiny umbrellas for shoes, chopsticks with a tiny fan on them to co...
My Car Is Becoming a Brick. “Cars used to be entirely mechanical objects” but now “certain models are destined to age their way out of compatibility with the latest software” (like smartphones).
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
PromptArmor demonstrate a concerning prompt injection chain in Google's new Antigravity IDE:
In this attack chain, we illustrate that a poisoned web source (an integration guide) can manipulate Gemini into (a) collecting sensitive credent...
Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy
ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
Bryan’s toot
pen.tips
Paperlike 3
Paperlike Pencil Tips
Follow-up:
macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electron slowdown (per shamelectron)
Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
Gaming in ARM
A...
Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level
Substantial LLVM contribution from Trail of Bits. Timing attacks against cryptography algorithms are a gnarly problem: if an attacker can precisely time a cryptographic algorithm they ca...
Vanity Fair sat down with Harrison Ford and asked him to identify which of his lines he’d said in which movie, mostly as a way of getting him to talk about his career. A few observations:
I love that they trolled him with The Star Wars Holiday Special…and he knew the lin...
