13.01.2026
'What Lies Beneath’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin sail up to Vermont for a sleepy weekend at the Spencer residence to rewatch the 2000 horror mystery ‘What Lies Beneath’ starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, and Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
This is outstanding news, especially given our decision to withdraw from that NSF grant application back in October.
We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-y...
TIL from taking Neon I at the Crucible
TIL from taking Neon I at the Crucible
Things I learned about making neon signs after a week long intensive evening class at the Crucible in Oakland.North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times...
North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times as much in North America compared to its peers. What is going on here?” (Maintenance fees can be 10x as expensive.)
How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It...
How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It can be squeezed out, or drawn in. You can wait for it, or you can summon it. To solicit a gift from a stranger takes a certain state of openness.”
Montreal’s Ice Surfer
There’s a guy named Orion who surfs the St Lawrence River in the winter, sometimes dodging massive chunks of ice and sometimes riding them downstream, looking for waves. If you’ve ever been in Montreal near the river, even in the summer, you know how scary the water looks — churning & choppy with many eddies; I’m gobsmacked that someone goes out in that in freezing temperatures. The footage in this short film is incredible, otherworldly.
Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’...
Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’ It’s ‘innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate.’ Everything else should default to boring, because boring has known failure modes.”
#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle
Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author of a new book titled Junglekeeper, and is someone who has dedicated his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest.
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Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr...
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr about the dangerous conflation of respect of personhood and the respect of authority.
Apple Announces Apple Creator Studio (Including Apple’s Take on Pixelmator)
Apple Newsroom:
Apple today unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking
collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade
power into the hands of everyone, building on the essential role
Mac, iPad, and iPhone play in the lives of millions of creators
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The America That Could Be
The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the door for a better future. I’m not in the mood for that message these days (IMO, our Wa...
Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy...
Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy that contains no stars. “There’s nothing like this that we’ve found so far in the universe.”
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a...
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it.
Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players...
Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made. “It featured three vertically mounted violins, each with a single active string, played by a rotating bow of 1,300 horsehairs.”
I also fixed a couple of bugs today:
- When multiple entries of a feed were fetched at once, those would show in the wrong order. Fixed
- Sometimes a feed would not immediately update, despite the receiving a WebSub request. Fixed
The design of the UI has been updated throughout the site. The changes are more on the subtle side of things, but making everything look and feel more refined and consistent.
Sailing Rigs
Sarah Perez on Core Devices, the Sequel to Pebble
techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/pebble-founder-says-his-new-company-is-not-a-startup/
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch:
“We’ve structured this entire business around being a sustainable,
profitable, and hopefully, long-running enterprise, but not a
startup,” Migicovsky told TechCrunch on the sidelines of the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last w...
Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
Elon Musk, in a tweet responding to Google’s announcement of their deal to provide Gemini to Apple for use in Apple Intelligence:
This seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that the also have Android and Chrome
I’m sure that if Grok were as popular as Gemini, Musk would turn down a deal with Apple to avoid concentrating “power” in his hands.
Link: macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/