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The artist describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.”

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 Art History and Pop Culture Converge in Frederich Kunath’s ‘The Nearest Faraway Place’ appeared first on Colossal.

I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make some of the best video game explainer videos out there — hell, some of the best YT videos period) and here’s their newest one: The Tournament That Changed Tetris Forever.

Miles Abbott:

Open x.com links in a popup so you can read the one post and leave. Port of the Litterbox Safari extension.

Litterbox is a cleverer name, but Dumpster Fire is funnier.

Link: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dumpster-fire/

In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod fishing due to overfishing. It was devastating for Newfoundlanders. This year, for the first time since then, the govt has “upgraded the cod stock’s status from ‘critical’ to ‘healthy’”.

The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it precisely, and making it pleasant to use. That cost is per piece of software and doesn't transfer, so as the amount of software goes to infinity, which it will because there's no ceiling on demand, that cost becomes the whole job.

— Laurie Voss, We are all Product Engineers now

Tags: laurie-voss, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, ai, llms, deep-blue, careers

XCancel:

Unfortunately, due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings, we are required to suspend this service again until further notice. We can’t share more details.

Not surprised, and not sure what to make of the “can’t share more details” part. Again, if you want to avoid visiting X but want to see the content posted there linked from other sites (and, let’s admit it at this point: there’s not just a lot posted on X, it is outright resurgent in popularity), install a browser extension like Litterbox (Safari) or Post Peek (Chrome).

Link: xcancel.com/

From NTS, this is a two-hour mix of jazz music featured in the books of Haruki Murakami. ‘Somewhere along the line Coltrane’s soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it’s McCoy Tyner’s piano solo I hear, the left hand carving out a repetitious rhythm and the right layering on ...

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys. Today’s tech titans took all the wrong lessons from the science fiction of their youths and now they’re each building their version of the Torment Nexus.

The most reflective element on Earth, silver has transformed the ways in which humans perceive, record, and understand the world

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Deep in the Australian Outback, on the bank of the Finke river, stands a modest two-room house. Albert Namatjira built it for his family as his fame grew, but their time there was cut short. Today, the rise, fall, and enduring legacy of one of Australia’s most important artists.

 

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Release: commit-rewriter 0.1

I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases. The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they weren't fit for publication.

If you want to edit the commit messages for a repository you can run it like this:

uvx commit-rewriter path/to/repo

Omit the path if you are already in the directory for that repo.

When you submit your edits the tool creates a timestamped branch of your current repo state - to allow you to revert if you need to - and then rewrites every commit from the first one you edited to the most recent.

Tags: git, projects, python, ai-assisted-programming

Release: shot-scraper 1.12

I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this:

shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp --quality 80

The --quality option sets the quality - without that option the WebP file will be lossless.

In my experience WebP screenshots are almost always significantly smaller in file size than their JPEG or PNG equivalents. See the PR for some examples.

I shipped this feature so I could use it to generate the screenshot for my new commit-rewriter tool.

Tags: playwright, shot-scraper

The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “The New York City you live in is not my New York City; how could it be? This place multiplies when you’re not looking.”

My thanks to Glyphs for sponsoring this last week at DF. Glyphs 4 is a truly native Mac app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Glyphs lets you draw with flexible strokes and efficiently reuse shapes across huge sets of glyphs, and explore variable vector d...

In this brand new series, I spotlight my favorite bands playing live in my studio. Our first guest is an amazing band from Atlanta, GA called Heavy Weighs The King. All the performances you hear are live and from one take. Please hit subscribe and let me know what you think ...

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning:

I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data.

It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloadable GPX file and GeoJSON files. Here's that 5K route:

Tags: gpt-6-astra, generative-ai, openai, chatgpt, ai, llms

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe. It has since been entirely taken over by pelicans! Tags: wildlife

A few new thoughts from the days after the Duo unveil.

That shirt: http://shop.MKBHD.com

The full iPhone Duo Hands-on: https://youtu.be/Od6M0AXpcxQ

Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5

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John Brayton:

Unread 5.0 is available now from the App Store. This update adds these improvements and more:

• Improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
• Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
• The ability to quickly mark old articles read

I’m a NetNewsWire man personally, but I’ve long admired Unread as a different, very good take on a feed reader. Just a gorgeous app. One of the very best things about RSS is that feed readers take such different shapes and approaches.

Link: goldenhillsoftware.com/2026/09/unread-50/