The Great American GLP-1 Experiment. In the last few years, people have come up with all sorts of off-label uses for GLP-1s, including treating concussions, menopause, long Covid, IBS, drug addiction, anxiety, hair loss, and arthritis.
🔗 IWC DUS 2026 Feed List
I made a public list of feeds for IndieWebCamp 2026 in Düsseldorf, taking place very soon on the weekend of April 25 and 26.
So far, I have put people on the list that are listed as participants on the Wiki page for the event:
So, if you like, you can use this list to see what everyone’s up to before, during, or after the event. You can just browse the list’s web page, or chuck its feed into any feed reader and follow along that way.
I’ll update the list whenever new people RSVP or show up at the event.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The California Town With Less Than 30 Residents Begging for Young People to Move In
"The gold that once drew opportunists to this slice of California now attracts a new generation."
BBC in Iran as mediation efforts continue
The BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet gains rare access to report from Iran. Residents living under the fragile ceasefire tell her they feel scared and are unsure if a US deal can be struck. Pakistan's Army Chief, Field Marshall Asim Munir, has landed in th...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
So Close to Getting It
David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sang):
Sofa 5. A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is
now a great way to manage everything you w...
datasette.io news preview
Tool: datasette.io news preview
The datasette.io website has a news section built from this news.yaml file in the underlying GitHub repository. The YAML format looks like this:
- date: 2026-04-15
body: |-
[Datasette 1.0a27](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/chang...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Sofa 5.0
Shawn Hickman:
A show you started last month. A book on your nightstand. A game
you keep meaning to get back to. Finding something new is easy.
Remembering where you left off is the hard part.
Sofa 5 helps you keep track of this stuff. Progress rings show up
on covers t...
datasette-export-database 0.3a1
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a1
This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie.
Tags: datasette
datasette 1.0a27
Release: datasette 1.0a27
Two major changes in this new Datasette alpha. I covered the first of those in detail yesterday - Datasette no longer uses Django-style CSRF form tokens, instead using modern browser headers as described by Filippo Valsorda.
The second big chang...
Live Show Announcement Brooklyn, NY June 11, 2026 7pm #livemusic #sho
Make It Myself
A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic...
A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic eruption in the Solomon Islands.
From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert ....
From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert. Machinehead and Glycerine still hit.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Lisa Melton: ‘Memories of Steve’ (and Memories of Safari’s Unique Page-Loading Indicator in Particular)
Lisa Melton, who ran the team that created Safari, regarding her interactions with Steve Jobs:
When Steve asked you a question? You didn’t ramble and, whatever
you did, you didn’t make up an answer. If you didn’t know, you
just said that you didn’t know. But then you tol...
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a...
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose. “From a shareholder’s perspective, the bag that falls apart is the better product. That’s the business model. Repeat failure, repeat purchase, repeat revenue. The quality decline isn’t a side effect. It’s the strategy.”
Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026...
Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026 flowcharts of their penguins’ relationships. “Penguin drama can include serious crushes and heartbreaks but also adultery and egg-stealing.”
Vintage Pan-Am Luggage Tags
I love these oversized prints of vintage Pan-Am luggage tags from artist Ella Freire. The typography and colors are just perfect. (via daringfireball)
Tags: art · design · Ella Freire · travel
15.04.2026
Quoting John Gruber
The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but because third-party software on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is regressing to the mean, to some extent, because fewer developers feel motivated — artistically, financially, or both — to create well-crafted idiomatic native apps exclusively for Apple’s platforms.
Tags: apple, john-gruber
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts.
It's presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview as the model ID, but can only output audio files.
The prompting guide...