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Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1

Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0.1 release.

You can see an example of the output in this JSON file.

Tags: projects, inaturalist

Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0

This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of Datasette. Configuration looks something like this:

plugins:
  datasette-llm-limits:
    limits:
      per-user-daily:
        scope: actor
        window: rolling-24h
        amount_usd: 1.00

Tags: llm, datasette

Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read books about physics. “The question of ‘What is space-time?’ doesn’t belong only to scientists. It belongs to everyone who has ever wondered about the bigger picture.”

Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research. “Infused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect and agency regardless of their behavior.”

“Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.”

Link: youtube.com/watch?v=eBKWKu2Rqxc

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses… “Empowerment won’t fix the mess we’re in. Women know it now. They’re mad as hell. Anyone trying to sell them advice instead of a way to use that anger to build a better world for women deserves to be fired.”

Yesterday, regarding the “Magic Cursor” feature Google teased for its upcoming Googlebook/Aluminium OS platform, I wrote: Shaking your cursor over something is an interesting gesture. The only feature I’m aware of that uses that gesture is MacOS’s feature that makes your...

The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal thei...

Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives.

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Update: I originally posted this item thinking the aluminium-os.com website was official. It’s not. And the fact that it’s not is only mentioned in small print in the page footer. My bad, and my apologies for not noticing. No wonder I thought the descriptions were so un-Goog...

25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.

Tool: QR code generator

Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks.

Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.”

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”.

In this interview, I sit down with legendary audio engineer and producer Eddie Kramer at Toronto’s legendary Revolution Recording Studios. We discuss his ridiculously impressive discography, crafting the iconic psychedelic rock sounds of Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling...

Everyone's talking about the Fitbit Air

This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here. The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769): Priestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen. Tags: infoviz · Joseph Priestley · maps · timelines

Donald Trump has left China after talks with Xi Jinping that the US president says have settled "a lot of different problems". President Xi called it a "landmark" visit, but gave no details of any new agreements. On Iran, President Trump said the Chinese president would pre...