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The Truth About the Bezelless Concept Phone

This TECNO 0mm "borderless" concept phone actually has some interesting quirks

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llm-anthropic 0.27

Release: llm-anthropic 0.27

This release mainly provides compatibility with the recently released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which switches from httpx to httpx2. OpenAI made the same change in their v3.0.0 release two weeks ago.

Anthropic provide this migration guide for upgrading to 1.0, so I prompted Fable 5 in Claude Code with:

Upgrade to anthropic>=1 - read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python/refs/heads/main/MIGRATION.md and get the tests passing

Here's the resulting PR.

Tags: python, httpx, llm, anthropic, claude

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Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine

"While Melon lay dying under my bed, I contacted the Facebook group."

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Billy Joel Talks About "And So It Goes" #billyjoel #songwriting #shorts

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Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field...

Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers. So metal! 🤘

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Everything I Thought I Knew About The Black Crowes Was WRONG

In this interview, The Black Crowes founding members Chris Robinson (lead vocals) and Rich Robinson (Guitar) stop by the studio. We discuss the band's origins in the Atlanta music scene, how they developed their unique sound, and their breakthrough record "Shake Your Money M...

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Europe’s Carousels Eternally Whirl in Luca Battaglia’s Nostalgic Photos

Europe’s Carousels Eternally Whirl in Luca Battaglia’s Nostalgic Photos'Ticket non remboursable' takes a spin down memory lane.

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BitCam: The 1-Bit Camera App Turns 2.0

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10 years ago I wrote about BitCam 1.0: Gorgeous, unbelievably faithful one-bit camera app for iPhone done in the style of the original Mac. A lovely tribute to Bill Atkinson’s remarkable dithering algorithm. “Catnip for old-school Mac users,” says John Siracusa. Check ou...

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(comic) Tie initiatives to P&L

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Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things...

Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here. (I’ll still be posting though…it’s nice to sit down and flow state through some links occasionally.)

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More on TestFlight’s Screwy Sort Order

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I complained last week that starting with an update last month, the list of apps I’m testing in Apple’s TestFlight app has been sorted alphabetically, rather than by recency. Whatever is going on with this sort order, it isn’t affecting everyone. John Siracusa, amongst many ...

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Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards...

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.”

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Why Ebola Keeps Coming Back

Ebola outbreaks can be contained, but ending them is another story. Conflict, fragile healthcare systems, and limited access to vaccines give the virus new chances to spread. Stopping one outbreak helps prevent the next. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #lea...

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Nosheen Iqbal Translates Islamic Ornament into Meticulous Wood-and-Thread Patterns

Nosheen Iqbal Translates Islamic Ornament into Meticulous Wood-and-Thread PatternsThe Dallas-based artist draws on her background in product design and illustration.

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Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the...

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the littlest brook to the mightiest river, has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6.”

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Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration...

Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration against the Washington Post. They are ordered to reinstate her and pay full back pay. The Post fired her almost a year ago for her remarks in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

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Your executable is a SQLite database

Your executable is a SQLite database Farid Zakaria describes a neat Linux pattern for creating a SQLite database file that can be directly used as an executable binary. The trick sets the SQLite file format's 4-byte application ID (68 bytes into the file) to SELF, standing f...

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What if America Went Completely Dark?

"The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years."

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The Children a Scientist Took Home

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in some cases, approval of his professional peers and colleagues: In his journals and […]

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A child on a partly seen yellow inflatable duck, photographed from above. A snack plate is seen and Pasta is used as teeth.
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