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Jason Kottke

Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery

For years now, the people have wanted only one thing: for Daniel Craig’s chicken-fried detective Benoit Blanc to feature in a Muppet movie (with Craig as the only human). Earlier this year, Netflix picked up the streaming rights for Sesame Street. That partnership has borne ...

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Jason Kottke

Prepare to lose a few hours to these: Andy Baio’s top 10...

Prepare to lose a few hours to these: Andy Baio’s top 10 free browser games of 2025.

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Jason Kottke

Just dropped: Lane 8’s Winter 2025 Mixtape....

Just dropped: Lane 8’s Winter 2025 Mixtape.

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GCDB’s Guide to Gift Card Tampering Scams

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Gift Card Database (GCDB) has a guide to spotting tampered gift cards: Whilst it may seem unusual, you should tear open this version of Apple gift card before you purchase it so that you can inspect the redemption code. Look for missing or scratched off characters (it ma...

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Jason Kottke

This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything

Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesalers, setting prices, tracking inventory, and generating a profit. The newsroom’s journalists could chat with Cla...

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“Docs said I’d never walk, but I ran a marathon.” Logan Knowles...

“Docs said I’d never walk, but I ran a marathon.” Logan Knowles was born with cerebral palsy. This fall, he ran & completed the NYC marathon, his body fighting him the whole way. What a story.

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Making your own amaro at home. “…so long as the plants are...

Making your own amaro at home. “…so long as the plants are edible and the flavors appeal, a variety of contrasting and complementary elements will ultimately result in something complex and intriguing.”

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Jason Kottke

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long...

Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long & close read of Wake Up Dead Man, particularly its focus on “religion, faith, and grace”.

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Jason Kottke

On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair published a two-part story about the Trump regime’s “inner circle”, including extensive interviews with his chief of staff, who was openly critical of the people that she works with, from Trump on down. The story caused a stir and so did the ...

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A group of journalism students was able to track probable Russian spy...

A group of journalism students was able to track probable Russian spy drones launched from cargo ships to surveil European military bases. They even flew a drone of their own over one of the cargo ships: “we droned back”.

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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there's one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of LLM tool, who deposits giant, untested PRs on their coworkers - or open source maintainers - ...

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‘The Sure Thing’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

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Bill and Chris honor Rob Reiner by revisiting one of their favorite ’80s movies, ‘The Sure Thing,’ starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga and directed by Rob Reiner. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Inside PostHog: How SSRF, a ClickHouse SQL Escaping 0day, and Default PostgreSQL Credentials Formed an RCE Chain

Inside PostHog: How SSRF, a ClickHouse SQL Escaping 0day, and Default PostgreSQL Credentials Formed an RCE Chain Mehmet Ince describes a very elegant chain of attacks against the PostHog analytics platform, combining several different vulnerabilities (now all reported and fi...

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I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.

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John Gruber

Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?

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You will recall the Apple Account fiasco of Paris Buttfield-Addison, whose entire iCloud account and library of iTunes and App Store media purchases were lost when his Apple Account was locked, seemingly after he attempted to redeem a tampered $500 Apple Gift Card that he pu...

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We’re getting down to the wire for gifts to be shipped in...

We’re getting down to the wire for gifts to be shipped in time for Xmas. Take a look at the 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide if you still need to shop for your fam & friends.

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AoAH Day 15: Porting a complete HTML5 parser and browser test suite

AoAH Day 15: Porting a complete HTML5 parser and browser test suite Anil Madhavapeddy is running an Advent of Agentic Humps this year, building a new useful OCaml library every day for most of December. Inspired by Emil Stenström's JustHTML and my own coding agent port of th...

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John Gruber

The Story Behind Windows 3.1’s ‘Hot Dog Stand’ UI Color Scheme (Which Isn’t Much of a Story at All)

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Wes Fenlon, writing for PC Gamer: Did Windows 3.1 really ship with a garish color scheme that was dared into being? That was a story I needed to hear, so I went digging for the credits of the Microsoft employees who worked on the user interface back then and found my way...

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Gemini 3 Flash

It continues to be a busy December, if not quite as busy as last year. Today's big news is Gemini 3 Flash, the latest in Google's "Flash" line of faster and less expensive models. Google are emphasizing the comparison between the new Flash and their previous generation's top...

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“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the...

“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.” Includes Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood, and works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, and the Marx Brothers.

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