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New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester”. RAM chips are so expensive right now that RAM harvesters are stealing them out of demo computers at electronics stores.

Juli Clover, at MacRumors:

Apple has shared nine Little Finder Guy videos this week, and on TikTok, the thumbnails for the videos come together to make a Little Finder Guy mosaic on the Apple TikTok page.

I hope this doesn’t jinx the negotiations, but I’m working on getting Little Finder Guy as my guest for The Talk Show Live From WWDC this June.

Link: macrumors.com/2026/04/02/little-finder-guy-tiktok-youtube/

Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026 Mixtape. Available on YouTube and Soundcloud.

The intelligence chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, general Majid Khademi, has been killed in a US-Israeli air strike. An Iranian statement said he'd been "martyred" in an attack at dawn. His unit had been accused by the United States of violently suppressi...

Max Cooper’s music videos are always worth a look. This one, directed by Katia Schutz, is for a song called Pattern Index from his forthcoming album (Feeling Is Structure, May 8).

Cooper describes Feeling Is Structure as an “audiovisual album”, which I take to mean that each song will have an associated video released with it. A second video, Ebb and Flow, is already out too:

Tags: Katia Schutz · Max Cooper · music · video

Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting authoritarianism. 1. We need each other. 2. We must move, even when on uncertain ground. 3. Past trauma will bring us down if we do not release its effects on us. And more…

“The promise of the open web was colonized by internet giants. But the power of LLMs and agentic coding means we can start to take it back. We can build customized, personal software for ourselves that does what we want.”

Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland: only five US states have ever had a Black governor.

How I automatically send WebSub requests from a GitLab build pipeline for my static sites.

Google AI Edge Gallery Terrible name, really great app: this is Google's official app for running their Gemma 4 models (the E2B and E4B sizes, plus some members of the Gemma 3 family) directly on your iPhone. It works really well. The E2B model is a 2.54GB download and is bo...

Release: datasette-ports 0.2

• No longer requires Datasette - running uvx datasette-ports now works as well.
• Installing it as a Datasette plugin continues to provide the datasette ports command.

Tags: datasette

Release: scan-for-secrets 0.3

• New -r/--redact option which shows the list of matches, asks for confirmation and then replaces every match with REDACTED, taking escaping rules into account.
• New Python function redact_file(file_path: str | Path, secrets: list[str], replacement: str = "REDACTED") -> int.

Tags: projects

Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste

Super-niche tool this. I sometimes copy prompts out of the Claude Code terminal app and they come out with a bunch of weird additional whitespace. This tool cleans that up.

Tags: tools, claude-code

Release: datasette-ports 0.1

Another example of README-driven development, this time solving a problem that might be unique to me.

I often find myself running a bunch of different Datasette instances with different databases and different in-development plugins, spreads across dozens of different terminal windows - enough that I frequently lose them!

Now I can run this:

datasette install datasette-ports
datasette ports

And get a list of every running instance that looks something like this:

http://127.0.0.1:8333/ - v1.0a26
  Databases: data
  Plugins: datasette-enrichments, datasette-enrichments-llm, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26
  Databases: creatures
  Plugins: datasette-extract, datasette-llm, datasette-secrets
http://127.0.0.1:8900/ - v0.65.2
  Databases: logs

Tags: datasette

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages. They spent eight years thinking about and then three months building syntaqlite, which they describe as "h...

Donald Trump has changed the deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to Tuesday, and threatened to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants if his demands are ignored. Tehran has dismissed the warnings as "nonsense". And US forces have rescued the missing American avi...

From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:

• ~2M weekly messages on health insurance
• ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in “hospital deserts” (30 min drive to nearest hospital)
• 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours

— Chengpeng Mou, Head of Business Finance, OpenAI

Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms

In today's livestream I talk about a movie theme that is pure musical genius.

Tool: Syntaqlite Playground

Lalit Maganti's syntaqlite is currently being discussed on Hacker News thanks to Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI, a deep dive into exactly how it was built.

This inspired me to revisit a research project I ran when Lalit first released it a couple of weeks ago, where I tried it out and then compiled it to a WebAssembly wheel so it could run in Pyodide in a browser (the library itself uses C and Rust).

This new playground loads up the Python library and provides a UI for trying out its different features: formating, parsing into an AST, validating, and tokenizing SQLite SQL queries.

Tags: sql, ai-assisted-programming, sqlite, tools, agentic-engineering