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Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp

I thought I had an verbal agreement with them, that “Varnish Cache” was the FOSS project and “Varnish Software” was the commercial entitity, but the current position of Varnish Software’s IP-lawyers is that nobody can use “Varnish Cache” in any context, without their explic...

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Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human...

Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story. “Narrating audiobooks today is the closest thing to that primal art form. One person, one voice, spinning a tale for another.”

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-Style Pizza

If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

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Objects From Films

Artist and poet Marcus Merritt draws objects from films — the TV above is from E.T. and the payphone is from Terminator 2. I very much dig the spare illustration style here. (via waxy) Tags: art · Marcus Merritt · movies 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. “Recently, disposable vapes have gotten...

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. “Recently, disposable vapes have gotten more advanced”; some have USB-C and rechargeable batteries.

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GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex

GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it's not yet available via their API, but they "plan to make GPT...

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Dataguessr. “This game is inspired by the work of Gapminder and Our...

Dataguessr. “This game is inspired by the work of Gapminder and Our World in Data. It uses data to give you a better understanding of the state of the world.”

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TypePad is closing down at the end of the month and Phil...

TypePad is closing down at the end of the month and Phil Gyford has shared the process for downloading a TypePad blog (so that you can turn it into “a pretty self-contained ‘static HTML’ site”).

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Coulou’s Vinyl Cafe (No. 1)

This is not some AI-generated to-study-to jazz video; it’s a guy who really likes jazz playing a bunch of records from his extensive collection. over the years i’ve built a small but reallllly incredible and meaningful record collection, spanning from jazz, classical, a ...

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Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps....

Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps. “‘Before I die in that old people’s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,’ said Sister Bernadette.” (Someone get a screenplay going on this…)

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Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.” Until the Post’s relatively recent shift towards the right, Attiah had been a pivotal figure at the paper:...

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Models can prompt now

Here's an interesting example of models incrementally improving over time: I am finding that today's leading models are competent at writing prompts for themselves and each other. A year ago I was quite skeptical of the pattern where models are used to help build prompts. Pr...

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gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates

gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates OpenAI have increased the rate limits for their two main GPT-5 models. These look significant: gpt-5 Tier 1: 30K → 500K TPM (1.5M batch) Tier 2: 450K → 1M (3M batch) Tier 3: 800K → 2M Tier 4: 2M → 4M gpt-5-mini Tier 1: 200K → 500K (5...

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Quoting Matt Webb

The trick with Claude Code is to give it large, but not too large, extremely well defined problems.

(If the problems are too large then you are now vibe coding… which (a) frequently goes wrong, and (b) is a one-way street: once vibes enter your app, you end up with tangled, write-only code which functions perfectly but can no longer be edited by humans. Great for prototyping, bad for foundations.)

— Matt Webb, What I think about when I think about Claude Code

Tags: matt-webb, claude, ai, claude-code, llms, vibe-coding, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai

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Mantle Model

Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.

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Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a...

Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a gift to the neighbours and strangers who find their way here. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.”

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How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses

Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead, people use landmarks as reference points when giving directions. Here’s a postal worker talking about how some sen...

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How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a...

How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a target of anti-Semitism…the Jewish scientist was well aware of the harm that discrimination inflicts, and sought to use his platform to speak out against the mistreatment of others.”

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David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll....

David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll. “I’m not a coder, but I enjoy how vibe coding lets me turn an idea into something real. So naturally, I turned to vibe coding for this. It didn’t work.”

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