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Wie auch sein erstes Buch, mochte ich dieses zweite auch sehr gerne. Ein, zwei Kapitel waren mir etwas zu ausschweifend, aber ansonsten ein kurzweiliges Buch, das interessante Einblicke in das Leben einen Independent-Musikers gibt im Speziellen zur Corona-Pandemie-Zeit und bei gleichzeitigem Familienzuwachs.

All the public feed profile pages have gotten a new look.

Finally put the next date up for the Homebrew Website Club meetup. Happening in two weeks on 23.09.2025.

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can't be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had been lead to believe this was due to the non-associ...

In Ystad, Sweden, every night at 9pm a night watchman scans the horizon for fires from the tower of St Mary’s Church, and sounds his trumpet to let the city know it is safe. This tradition goes back to the Medieval Ages. The Night Watchman of Ystad is one of the last keeping his tradition, and today his role has taken on an even bigger significance. Author and journalist Eliot Stein takes us through the evolution of the night watchman. 

Read more in Eliot’s book, Custodians of Wonder.

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In Python 3.14, I have implemented several changes to fix thread safety of asyncio and enable it to scale effectively on the free-threaded build of CPython. It is now implemented using lock-free data structures and per-thread state, allowing for highly efficient task management and execution across multiple threads. In the general case of multiple event loops running in parallel, there is no lock contention and performance scales linearly with the number of threads. [...]

For a deeper dive into the implementation, check out the internal docs for asyncio.

— Kumar Aditya, Scaling asyncio on Free-Threaded Python

Tags: threading, async, scaling, python, gil

Aubrey Hirsch is an eternal optimist. In her latest comic, she writes/draws about “freaking the hell out” about the current political situation and the limits of optimism.

Here’s a short video by Arthur Brooks (that you are probably watching on your phone) about why you should log off, put your phone down, and let yourself be bored.

You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t be clearer.

See also In Praise of Boredom, In Defense of Boredom, and “Boredom: the great engine of creativity”.

Tags: Arthur C. Brooks · video

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Ben Thompson has a wonderful take on yesterday’s event and what it says about Apple overall:

Apple, to be fair, isn’t selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this year’s seasonal concoction is particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company does still make new products — I definitely plan on getting new AirPod Pro 3s! — the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space in which it innovates.

Link: stratechery.com/2025/iphones-17-and-the-sugar-water-trap/

Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {"type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from URLs as part of resp...

“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems.” Is Covid-19 to blame for “the global surge in non-covid infections”?

Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR):

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

That is, to say the least, an incredibly bold statement. But I think it’s true. This is a fascinating post, cogently written.

Link: security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

The Wall Street Journal (gift link): President Trump on Thursday led leaders of the world’s biggest technology companies in a version of his cabinet meetings, in which each participant takes a turn thanking and praising him, this time for his efforts to promote investmen...

Apple Newsroom posts:

• Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

• Introducing iPhone Air, a powerful new iPhone with a breakthrough design

• Apple debuts iPhone 17

• Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 11, featuring groundbreaking health insights

• Introducing Apple Watch Ultra 3

• Apple introduces Apple Watch SE 3

• Introducing AirPods Pro 3, the ultimate audio experience

• Apple announces Final Cut Camera 2.0

Link: apple.com/newsroom/

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:

For the first time, every model in Apple’s latest flagship iPhone 17 lineup features a base 256GB storage capacity, up from the lowest 128GB option in the iPhone 16 series. The regular iPhone 17 now comes in 256GB and 512GB storage options, while the all-new ultra-thin iPhone Air and the iPhone 17 Pro come in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities.

Meanwhile, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is offered in the same three capacities as the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro, but with the addition of a maximum 2TB option.

I know it’s been 18 years, but it’s kind of wild to compare today’s storage tiers to the original iPhone’s 4, 8, and 16 GB options.

Link: macrumors.com/2025/09/09/iphone-17-lineup-starts-256gb…

I haven’t watched it yet, but I have seen so many recommendations for this gonzo birdwatching documentary called Listers over the past few days that I wanted to share it with you.

Two brothers travel across the United States in a used minivan on a mission to find as many bird species as they can in a single year.

Yeah, not your typical birdwatching fare…the vibe of the brothers’ quest is more like a surf or skate video. Here’s the trailer:

And the whole 2-hour movie is available on YouTube as well:

I’ve hoping to make some time to watch it this weekend; it looks great. The two brothers have also released a companion book, Field Guide of All the Birds We Found One Year in the United States.

Tags: birds · Listers · movies · trailers · video

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An interview with Rebecca Solnit. “It feels like part of this horrible new culture where you can have any truth you want — as if history began and ended yesterday. Everything’s infinitely revisable, and there’s no accountability.”

Todd Weaver uses analog & in-camera experimental techniques to achieve subtly geometric and colorful surfing photographs. Of one of his photos, Weaver says: This one was taken on my half-frame camera at my favourite place to surf, First Point in Malibu. The colour is a one of a kind. I don’t think I could repeat it in a thousand tries. The stripe is an artefact of my pre-exposing process. You can find more of Weaver’s work on his website and Instagram. If you like these surf photos, you might be interested in getting a copy of Dream Weaver Journal Volume 2. Tags: photography · sports · surfing · Todd Weaver 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Without looking it up, what’s the longest single-syllable English word you can think of? (Here are the answers.)

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