Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint & Sean McDonald is leaving the company. MCD published so many good titles/authors: Questlove, Enshittification, Robin Sloan, Jeff VanderMeer, Sloane Crosley, Dilla Time, Tamara Shopsin…
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Builders
In an episode first aired back in 2025 on our sister show, Terrestrials, we take you on a musical journey all about beavers. Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an expert engineer that br...
09.04.2026
I just watched this again. Here are some unused scenes.
YouTube
Only Lovers Left Alive â "Old Mirror Gag"
2014 Jim Jarmusch, Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright
🎬 Only Lovers Left Alive
Love the music, love the set and costumes, the pretty night shots, the characters, the dialogue, the humour. A pretty perfect movie!
👍 Recommended!
Israel to hold direct talks with Lebanon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his cabinet to begin direct talks with Lebanon, but states "there is no ceasefire" and Israel will "continue to strike Hezbollah with force". Also: the US warns Iran against placing a toll on the Strait of Hormuz; Melania Trump den...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month.
For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, un...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch
of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major
bug:
Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17
hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of ...
Simon Phillips on ghost notes #drums #drummer #shorts
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
GitHub Repo Size
Tool: GitHub Repo Size
GitHub doesn't tell you the repo size in the UI, but it's available in the CORS-friendly API. Paste a repo into this tool to see the size, for example for simonw/datasette (8.1MB).
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
asgi-gzip 0.3
Release: asgi-gzip 0.3
I ran into trouble deploying a new feature using SSE to a production Datasette instance, and it turned out that instance was using datasette-gzip which uses asgi-gzip which was incorrectly compressing event/text-stream responses.
asgi-gzip was extracted from Starlette, and has a GitHub Actions scheduled workflow to check Starlette for updates that need to be ported to the library... but that action had stopped running and hence had missed Starlette's own fix for this issue.
I ran the workflow and integrated the new fix, and now datasette-gzip and asgi-gzip both correctly handle text/event-stream in SSE responses.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/oe1ap9h/
“thenickdude”, on Reddit:
They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already
installed when you visit on their website.
When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home, they load this image
using JavaScript:
https://detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com/cc.png
If ...
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece. “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
686: Write Two Letters
Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
UniFi Travel Router
Cascades trail
Shenandoah National Park
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
Follow-up:
Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
Stephen Robles
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Casey’s snarky toot
Tangentially related...
#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age
Lars Brownworth is a historian, teacher, podcaster, and author specializing in Viking history, medieval Europe, and the Byzantine Empire.
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See below for timestamps, transcript, and to g...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Lickspittle of the Week: Todd Blanche
politicalwire.com/2026/04/09/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day-1022/
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, speaking of the president of the United States in a totally normal way:
I love working for President Trump. It’s the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I’ll say, “Thank you very much, I love you, sir.”
The phrase Blanche was looking for is “Thank you sir, may I have another.”
Link: politicalwire.com/2026/04/09/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day…
The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”.
Controlling the stickiness of tap...