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Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)

Hey all. It’s Sunday afternoon of a holiday weekend and the weather is glorious here, so what better (worse) time to unleash a new feature on KDO? I’ve been working on a new wysiwyg comment editor for the past few days and it’s finally ready to go. Asking you folks to deal with HTML while leaving a comment was always a bit of a kludge, but now you can include links, blockquoted text, lists, and bold/italic text formatting in your comments and know exactly what it’s going to look like before posting.

You can try it out by sharing something worthwhile you’ve seen, heard, or learned recently. Feedback and bug reports welcome!!

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Dan’s Polaroids
05 Jul 17:25

05.07.2026

A man with camera on a dam, looking towards the viewer. — Dedicated Photography Time™ with Florian.

Rick Beato
05 Jul 16:06

Alex Lifeson talks about Moving Pictures #guitar #rush #shorts

Colossal
05 Jul 14:30 • Kate Mothes

Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González

"Creating isn't something we do (in Spain), it's something we are," the artist says. "And I come from that; I carry it in my body."

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 Women Sport Puffer Coats in Bold Baroque Portraits by Nieves González appeared first on Colossal.

Global News Podcast
05 Jul 11:06

The Global Story: US at 250 – your questions answered

27:44

As the United States celebrates 250 years since its founding, this week The Global Story has been exploring the surprising and often hidden ways the US has shaped the modern world. In this episode, listeners from The Global Story and Global News Podcast ask their questions to hosts Asma Khalid, Tristan Redman and Celia Hatton. BBC’s international editor, Jeremy Bowen, who has reported from more than 90 countries over the past 40 years, also joins.

To hear more of the US and the World at 250 special episodes, search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

Mars For The Rest of Us
05 Jul 04:48 • Maciej Cegłowski

The Plight of the Martian Farmer

Programming note: I’m delighted to announce that this newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers!

Global News Podcast
05 Jul 04:42

US July 4th celebrations disrupted

23:35

Severe weather forces thousands to evacuate the National Mall in Washington ahead of the president's July 4th speech, marking 250 years of US independence. In a delayed address, Donald Trump said no one will ever take America's freedom away. Also: Venezuela earthquakes death...

Simon Willison's Weblog
05 Jul 01:12

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)

I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try to keep to Sem...

Simon Willison's Weblog
04 Jul 23:21

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes

Building a World Map with only 500 bytes

Iwo Kadziela (assisted by Codex) figured out a way to generate a credible ASCII world map using 445 bytes of data:

The key trick is to use deflate compression, which is then wired together using this neat snippet of JavaScript. I didn't know you could use fetch() with data: URIs like this:

fetch('data:;base64,1ZpLsgIxCEXnrM...==').then(
  r => r.body.pipeThrough(new DecompressionStream('deflate-raw'))
).then(
  s => new Response(s).text()
).then(
  t => b.innerHTML = '<pre style=font-size:.65vw>' + t
)

Via Hacker News

Tags: ascii-art, javascript

Simon Willison's Weblog
04 Jul 23:21

Better Models: Worse Tools

Better Models: Worse Tools Armin reports on a weird problem he ran into while hacking on Pi: The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The...

Daring Fireball
04 Jul 21:18 • John Gruber

Day One Journal

dayoneapp.com/blog/introducing-daily-chat/

My thanks to Day One Journal for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Day One first launched in 2011 and has been the stalwart of journaling apps on Mac and iOS ever since. Day One’s apps exhibit a commitment to technical and design excellence, and, more importantly, every...

Daring Fireball
04 Jul 19:30 • John Gruber

From the DF Archive: ‘Electron and the Decline of Native Apps’

daringfireball.net/2018/12/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps

Yours truly, back in 2018: I don’t share the depth of their pessimism regarding native apps, but Electron is without question a scourge. I think the Mac will prove more resilient than Windows, because the Mac is the platform that attracts people who care. But I worry. I...

Daring Fireball
04 Jul 17:06 • John Gruber

Fantastical 4.1.15 Adds Calendar Mirroring

flexibits.com/blog/2026/06/double-booked-never-heard-of-it-meet-calendar-mirroring-in-fantastical/

Flexibits: Calendar Mirroring allows you to connect two separate calendars (like work and personal) so that events from one automatically show up on the other. The best part? No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of your device. You can cho...

Global News Podcast
04 Jul 11:03

The Happy Pod: Meeting a princess while climbing a mountain

26:29

Pete Haslam was carrying his paraplegic son Ted up a mountain, helped by friends and family, when they bumped into Catherine, Princess of Wales. She was doing the same climbing challenge, known as the Three Peaks, and stopped to chat to them three times. Pete says he almost ...

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Jul 08:54

🎬 undertone

letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/undertone-2025/

This review may contain spoilers. Tap or click to view.

Was actually quite well done with not much (effectively just one on-camera actor). But I found the plot too constructed and a little incoherent, which made it less spooky than it could’ve been.

Next event: The Haunted on July 24, 2026, 20:00 at Turock, Essen.

Rick Beato
04 Jul 06:48

Mike Elizondo on working with Avenged Sevenfold #guitar #guitarist #shorts

Global News Podcast
04 Jul 05:39

Donald Trump begins the 250th anniversary of US independence

29:00

Speaking at Mount Rushmore in the state of South Dakota, President Trump said that the United States would celebrate the American Declaration of Independence of July 4th, 1776 as "one of the most extraordinary days in the world". In a politicised speech he told the gathered ...

xkcd.com
04 Jul 03:15

Types of Tornado Alert

I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.

Simon Willison's Weblog
03 Jul 22:21

Open Source AI Gap Map

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple of days ago - ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
03 Jul 22:21

Quoting Josh W. Comeau

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot of reasons fo...