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How uv got so fast

How uv got so fast Andrew Nesbitt provides an insightful teardown of why uv is so much faster than pip. It's not nearly as simple as just "they rewrote it in Rust" - uv gets to skip a huge amount of Python packaging history (which pip needs to implement for backwards compati...

kottke.org
26 Dec 22:06 • Jason Kottke

My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05):...

My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05): “a floating man with a blowout”.

kottke.org
26 Dec 21:12 • Jason Kottke

It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and...

It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and Must Be Replaced. “…so that Americans don’t have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the democracy they were promised.”

kottke.org
26 Dec 20:06 • Jason Kottke

The Anthony Bourdain Reader

The Anthony Bourdain Reader (Amazon) is a collection of writings from the late author, TV host, and chef, including some unpublished pieces. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is also a showcase for new and never-before-seen material, like diary entries from Bourdain’s first tri...

kottke.org
26 Dec 19:09 • Jason Kottke

Digging the soulful jazz + drum & bass energy of Chanpan. Hard...

Digging the soulful jazz + drum & bass energy of Chanpan. Hard to categorize what this is — so many influences and styles.

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Simon Willison's Weblog
26 Dec 18:38

How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"

Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here's a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don't. F you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time ...

kottke.org
26 Dec 18:12 • Jason Kottke

Clean Energy Is Still Winning. These 10 Charts Prove It. In March...

Clean Energy Is Still Winning. These 10 Charts Prove It. In March 2025, more electricity was generated with clean energy than with fossil fuels for the first time.

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kottke.org
26 Dec 17:34 • Jason Kottke

Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense...

Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense of uninhibited freedom, fully enjoying the life of the moment, and he had a great barreling laugh.”

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kottke.org
26 Dec 17:06 • Jason Kottke

Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

Since we had a robust discussion last month on whether Pluribus sucks or not, I thought I’d ask: now that the season finale has aired, what did you think of the first season as a whole? My impression of the show has improved slightly, but this feeling remains: It was som...

kottke.org
26 Dec 17:06 • Jason Kottke

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so...

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back.”

xkcd.com
26 Dec 16:06

Truly Universal Outlet

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

kottke.org
26 Dec 15:48 • Jason Kottke

The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge...

The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge success”. “Pollution: -22%. Revenue for mass transit: $548M.”

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kottke.org
26 Dec 15:18 • Jason Kottke

Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping...

Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping now? (It’s currently more than 200 miles above the surface of the Earth.)

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Radiolab
26 Dec 15:00 • WNYC Studios

Fertility Cliff

As she -- and her friends — approached the age of 35, senior correspondent Molly Webster kept hearing a phrase over and over: “fertility cliff.” It was a short-hand term to describe what she was told would happen to her fertility after she turned 35 — that is, it would drop ...

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
26 Dec 05:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Maine’s Burning Blueberry Fields (Classic)

Travel to Penobscot, Maine, where one farmer maintains the tradition of burning his crop each year to rejuvenate it the next.

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Simon Willison's Weblog
26 Dec 00:21

A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code

I've released claude-code-transcripts, a new Python CLI tool for converting Claude Code transcripts to detailed HTML pages that provide a better interface for understanding what Claude Code has done than even Claude Code itself. The resulting transcripts are also designed to...

Daring Fireball
25 Dec 21:45 • John Gruber

A 3D Tour Inside Trump’s Oval Office

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/23/us/trump-white-house-oval-office-gold-decor.html

Terrific interaction design from The New York Times. Not so terrific interior design from the president.

Link: nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/23/us/trump-white-house…

kottke.org
25 Dec 19:00 • Jason Kottke

Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House....

Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House. “NORAD’s official tracking app confirmed that Santa Claus paid a visit to his former girlfriend’s house around 3 a.m. Wednesday.”

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
25 Dec 05:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Maine Week: All Lighthouses Have Ghosts (Classic)

Over the course of its 200 year history, the lighthouse on Wood Island in Maine has been home to a celebrity dog, a grisly murder, some mischievous ghosts, and a monster storm that may or may not have been brought on by a pickpocket’s curse. Learn more about Wood Island Ligh...

Daring Fireball
25 Dec 01:57 • John Gruber

The Talk Show: ‘A Naughty Citizen’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/24/ep-437

Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple’s executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO.

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Link: daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/12/24/ep-437