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Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in...

Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success.”

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New apt acronym for America’s lamest president: TACO, which stands for Trump...

New apt acronym for America’s lamest president: TACO, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. He should be hounded about his perpetual lack of spine…this is the sort of thing that really gnaws at fake strongmen.

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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a...

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins. “‘This piece,’ he warned, holding it before her: ‘You forget you ever saw it.’” Great read.

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I started the FeedCity blog with a first blog post.

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llm-github-models 0.15

llm-github-models 0.15 Anthony Shaw's llm-github-models plugin just got an upgrade: it now supports LLM 0.26 tool use for a subset of the models hosted on the GitHub Models API, contributed by Caleb Brose. The neat thing about this GitHub Models plugin is that it picks up an...

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First monthly sponsor newsletter tomorrow

I'll be sending out my first curated monthly highlights newsletter tomorrow, only to $10/month and up sponsors. Sign up now if you want to pay me to send you less!

My weekly-ish newsletter remains free, in fact I just sent out the latest edition.

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llm-mistral 0.14

llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral's new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I'm not using an official client library for llm-mistral - I rolled my own c...

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llm-tools-exa

llm-tools-exa When I shipped LLM 0.26 yesterday one of the things I was most excited about was seeing what new tool plugins people would build for it. Dan Turkel's llm-tools-exa is one of the first. It adds web search to LLM using Exa (previously), a relatively new search en...

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Atlas Obscura Presents: Traveling Back in Time for Coconut Cake with The Sporkful

Today, we’re sharing an episode from our friends at the Sporkful. Dan Pashman goes on a tour of Los Angeles, with an Atlas Obscura guide in hand. In search of an elusive slice of coconut cake, Dan begins at the airport, takes a detour to an underground tunnel system, and pays a visit to a very unusual store: Time Travel Mart.


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Apple’s Annual App Store Scam and Fraud Report

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Apple Newsroom, yesterday: Apple’s strong antifraud infrastructure helps ensure that malicious developer and customer accounts are swiftly flagged and eliminated. In 2024, Apple terminated more than 146,000 developer accounts over fraud concerns and rejected an additiona...

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Gurman: Apple Is Going to Re-Version OSes by Year, Starting With iOS 26, MacOS 26, tvOS 26, Etc.

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Hell of a scoop from Mark Gurman, at Bloomberg: The next Apple operating systems will be identified by year, rather than with a version number, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the current iOS 18 will give way to “iOS 26,” said the people, who...

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Hello, World!

Earth has a new city: FeedCity. Where anyone can become a citizen and follow their favourite RSS feeds (and Atom and JSON feeds, too, of course).

Read more about what FeedCity is on its home page and/or by reading the announcement I published on my personal site.

On this very blog, I plan to write about all things RSS, Atom, JSON (and probably also a little bit about microformats and the Fediverse), announce new features or explain design decisions of existing ones.

If you want to follow along, you can subscribe in the following ways:

You can also contact me at mail@feed.city.

/Daniel

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Archaea

Under the two-domain system, anyone who punches you is technically an Archaean pathogen.

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AI-assisted development needs automated tests

I wonder if one of the reasons I'm finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests. I've been trying to stay true to the idea of a Perfect Commit - one that bu...

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This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more...

This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more like Michael Scott.” The future he’s selling us is Stark Industries but what we’re getting is Dunder Mifflin.

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A Disillusioned Urban Planning Glossary. “NIMBY – Stands for ‘Not in My...

A Disillusioned Urban Planning Glossary. “NIMBY – Stands for ‘Not in My Backyard.’ From the Old English nimm bæc yarde, meaning ‘no change shall occur within sightline of my bird feeder.’”

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Happy 20th anniversary to Swissmiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg’s design/creativity/positivity blog....

Happy 20th anniversary to Swissmiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg’s design/creativity/positivity blog.

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The Great Span: President John Tyler’s Grandson Dies Aged 96

Born in 1790 just a few months after George Washington took office, John Tyler was America’s 10th president, serving from 1841-1845. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Tyler’s last living grandson, died this past weekend at the age of 96. As long as he lived, much of the great sweep of...

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A recent study: “Ibn al-Shatir was the first astronomer to have successfully...

A recent study: “Ibn al-Shatir was the first astronomer to have successfully challenged the Ptolemaic cosmological system of planets revolving around Earth and corrected the theory’s inaccuracies about two centuries before Copernicus.”

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Jeff Tweedy - How to Write One Song

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In June 2024, I got to go to the Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, which is organized by the band Wilco. I performed some of my new songs, and I got to interview Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of Wilco, on stage as part of the festival. Jeff, in addition to b...