How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.”
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"A Ferrari and a distinctive Highland Park home combined for an iconic scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off."
Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s still serving out his life sentence for, IMO, having absolutely nothing to do with the murder at the center of Netflix’s Making a Murderer.
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a3
- Fixed a bug where users without the
create-apppermission could still create apps. #27- Fixed a bug where it was impossible to grant permission to edit an app to users who were not the app's owner. The rules for edit/delete are now the same as view: if the app is private only the owner can modify it, otherwise permission is controlled by Datasette's regular permission system. #29
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The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/europe-could-force-google-to-open-android-to-other-ai-assistants/
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
The photographer is driven by a desire to "explore the reality that humans are not separate from nature, but intrinsically part of it."
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Tamara Dean Blurs the Boundary Between Bodies and Natural Landscapes appeared first on Colossal.
How to get out of bed. “There is no 28 point shot in basketball. The only way to come back from a 27 point deficit is one shot at a time. Two points here. Two points there. A few three pointers sprinkled in.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q22026
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration.
Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how do AI agents programmatically register with services? That’s the question Auth.md aims to answer. By exposing a single, machine-readable Markdown file at your service root, AI agents can dynamically discover your OAuth Protected Resource Metadata, parse required scopes, and authenticate seamlessly.
Markdown, baby. Who’d have thunk it?
With native support in WorkOS AuthKit, you can now implement this protocol out of the box, giving AI tools a standardized, secure way to log into your application. Read the Auth.md docs, and watch its on-stage introduction at the MCP Night: Agent Night keynote.
Link: workos.com/auth-md?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium…
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"On the life of a garbageman."
DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing a “collaborative reimagination for orchestra” of his seminal album Endtroducing… in December. Tickets are already sold out, but there will be a recording!
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Release: datasette-apps 0.1a2
- Custom network/CSP origins for apps are now guarded by a new
apps-set-csppermission, with an optionalallowed_csp_originsplugin allow-list for non-privileged users. The Datasette Agent app creation tool enforces the same rules. #24- Stored query picker now supports keyboard navigation and shows the three most recent accessible stored queries when focused.
#fragmentlinks inside apps are no longer intercepted by the external-link confirmation modal. #23- Fixed link confirmation modal and logging panels in
?full=1full-screen mode. #26
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