20.03.2026
Another HWC Düsseldorf has taken place this week, where we shared what we’ve been up to with our personal sites. Nina continued to write more and more for her homepage as well as work on the code. She started adding music to her blog posts. Jochen continues to make selfhosted tools and recently added a (private) “Archive” site where he adds podcasts episodes to, and transcribes the audio into text. I recently added the latest Polaroid to my homepage.
We also talked about Kagi’s Small Web initiative, AI, how much personal information to share online, and easter eggs. Links mentioned:
- Kagi Small Web
- lynnandtonic.com/archive/ (re: general inspiration)
- florian.photo/2025-11-20 (re: sound on websites)
- zachleat.com (re: easter eggs)
Trump considering 'winding down' Iran military campaign
President Trump posted on social media that the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives in Iran. Earlier he told reporters he didn't want a ceasefire. The BBC's US partner, CBS, has reported that US military officials are making detailed preparations for the poss...
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed
In Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borland's 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable - a 39,731 byte file that somehow included a full text editor IDE and Pascal compiler.
...
A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier ....
A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The idea that we must have a crisp line dividing one country from another is often inaccurate when it comes to what states are actually claiming.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google Search Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Headlines
Sean Hollister, The Verge (gift link):
After doing something similar in its Google Discover news
feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the
traditional “10 blue links,” too. We’ve found multiple examples
where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did no...
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
Musk on Mars
A timeline of Musk's pronouncements about Mars exploration and settlement
Quoting Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2!
We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.
— Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot, responding to reports that Composer 2 was built on top of Kimi K2.5
Tags: kimi, generative-ai, ai, cursor, llms, ai-in-china
This is a diabolical phishing attack . “That...
This is a diabolical phishing attack. “That generated a real case ID, and triggered real Apple emails to my inbox, properly signed, from Apple’s actual servers.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Perhaps Bluesky’s Revelation of an 11-Month Ago $100 Million Investment Was, in Fact, an Act of Transparency
Regarding my earlier post expressing confusion/discomfort with Bluesky announcing a $100 million funding round almost an entire year after it closed, I had an interesting back-and-forth with Adam Vartanian on Bluesky (natch), where he wrote:
If you see press reports that...
Star Formation
This is hilarious. A man was pictured in two different...
This is hilarious. A man was pictured in two different photos on the same front page of a local newspaper: one of him painting a holiday sign and a gs station security cam still of him taking a wallet.
“Some countries are better positioned to weather...
“Some countries are better positioned to weather this energy crisis than they would have been just a few years ago. That’s because of the rapid growth of renewable energy, battery systems and electric vehicles…”
Britain Has Invaded All but 22 Countries
Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them. The lucky 22 include Sweden, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Belarus. The full analysis is available in Stuart Laycock’s book, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded.
Stuart Laycock, t...
An online museum of Chinese cigarette packaging art .
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Bluesky Raised $100M a Year Ago but for Some Reason Only Disclosed It Now
Bluesky:
In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led
by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Alumni Ventures,
Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation and True
Ventures. In the months since, we’ve focused on scaling our team
to mee...
Iran renews attacks on Gulf countries
Tehran has fired missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours causing blazes at a Kuwait refinery and a Bahrain warehouse. Israel has launched more air attacks against Iran. Powerful explosions were reported in the capital. Iranian media said sixteen of its cargo ships anchor...
The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory...
The words shark (the animal) and shark (a predatory scoundrel) may have two different origins. “This would make ‘shark’ possibly the only word borrowed from a Mayan language into English directly.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Quiche Browser
Quiche Browser is a rather astonishing app from the one-man indie developer Greg de J./Quiche Industries. (What a killer domain name that is.) Quiche Browser is a very robust, exquisitely designed, stunningly handsome web browser exclusively for iPhone. Just iPhone — althoug...
Parachord is “a new kind of music player that...
Parachord is “a new kind of music player that invites all your streams, local audio files, and playlists scattered across multiple services to the same party”. Interesting!