Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels placed in the otherwise unused space between railroad tracks.
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
The Looting of Science Fiction
“Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.”
ICE officer kills a Colombian man in Maine
One Edge Piece Puzzle isn't enough
Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda
The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...
The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project, tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.
On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...
On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American English during the World Cup. “That’s not a foul, just a coming together.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
‘Absurdist Basketmaker’ Lewis Prosser Weaves Contemporary Visions of Regional Heritage
The Cardiff-based artist taps into storytelling, masking traditions, and public ceremony and celebration.
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Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...
Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.
If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...
If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s. “You are at the dentist’s office. No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades.”
Longreads
• Kyle Devine
Vinyl in the Veins

US reinstates naval blockade on Iran
Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
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The Princess and the Pea
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
TIL: Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
I finally found a cache-friendly recipe for using uvx tool-name in GitHub Actions workflows that I like.
The trick is setting a UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER: "2026-07-12" environment variable at the start of the workflow and then using that as part of the GitHub Actions cache key. This means any uvx tool-name commands will resolve to the most recent version as-of that date, and you can bust the cache and upgrade the tools by bumping the date in the future.
My goal here is to use Python tools in GitHub Actions without every run of the workflow hitting PyPI to download a fresh copy of the tool and its dependencies.
Tags: packaging, pypi, python, github-actions, uv
‘She’s the One’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris
Three frustrated Irish Catholics head to Long Island and share a couple of beers while revisiting Ed Burns’s 1996 romantic comedy, ‘She’s the One,’ starring Ed Burns, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, and Mike McGlone. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...
“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth shows signs of having devoured one of its planets — and is now gearing up for a second helping…” Scientists found signs of the meal by looking for “cosmic cookie crumbs”.
DOOMQL
iOS 27 Hands-On: Top 5 New Features!
First look at iOS 27 - coming soon to an iPhone near you. It's about time. MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5 ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD http://instagram.com/MKBHD http://facebook.com/MKBHD
datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub
datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub
Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The best I've found so far is this GitHub chart of frequency of code changes to my Datasette open source project:
The big spike in activity at the end aligns with Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
Tags: github, ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, coding-agents