16.01.2026
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Punchline
This episode, first aired in 2019, brings you the story of John Scott, the professional hockey player that every fan loved to hate. A tough guy. A brawler. A goon. But when an impish pundit named Puck Daddy called on fans to vote for Scott to play alongside the world’s...
New logo icon
FeedCity now has an updated logo icon. Here is the previous and the new icon side by side (the old one left/first):
It’s for sure an incremental update, but the larger RSS icon makes it a little more recognisable in small sizes. Plus, it looks a little more polished.
The site and its manifest.json file now also include a maskable version without the surrounding circle. This way, operating systems can crop or mask it as they see fit when installing FeedCity as an app (PWA), making the icon look more native to the platform.
(If you had FeedCity already installed as an app, you need to reinstall it to make the new icon show.)
/Daniel
Features | The Verge
• Justine Calma
How to fireproof a city
Down the street from the Los Angeles Angels' stadium in Anaheim, a crowd gathers to watch two homes burn. In less than 30 minutes, one structure is reduced to its smoldering, blackened wood frame, while the other, thanks to simple changes to its design, is remarkably unscathed. Of course, this was the point of the […]
🎬 Checker Tobi 3 - Die heimliche Herrscherin der Erde
letterboxd.com/danielpietzsch/film/checker-tobi-3-die-heimliche-herrscherin/
Kackfurzgute Unterhaltung für Jung und Alt. Lustig, kurzweilig, lehrreich. Nix zu meckern an diesem Kinonachmittag.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Fendika Cultural Center (Classic)
The story of the Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is the story of Melaku Belay and his journey from homelessness to international acclaim as a community leader.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fendika-azmari-bet
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Open Responses
Open Responses
This is the standardization effort I've most wanted in the world of LLMs: a vendor-neutral specification for the JSON API that clients can use to talk to hosted LLMs.
Open Responses aims to provide exactly that as a documented standard, derived from OpenAI's R...
By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...
By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part of the collective, globe-sized world.”
Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....
The Florentine Codex
The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century illustrated encyclopedia of indigenous Mexico, “the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.” Courtesy of the Getty, the entire document is online and searchab...
Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...
Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought about by polycrisis. “I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me — now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive.”
From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...
From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers.
The Design & Implementation of Sprites
The Design & Implementation of Sprites
I wrote about Sprites last week Here's Thomas Ptacek from Fly with the insider details on how they work under the hood.
I like this framing of them as "disposable computers":
Sprites are ball-point disposable computers. Whatever ma...
Bread Infographic
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business:
From their post:
This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead of the new London Living Wage coming in April 2026. Th...
“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...
“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.”
Features | The Verge
• Stevie Bonifield
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the entire Windows 10 installation I'd been running for years at that point. I hesitated for a second - maybe I should […]
15.01.2026
14.01.2026
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Retracing A Grandfather’s Footsteps
Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s grandfather survived the Armenian genocide, journeying nearly a thousand miles (much of it on foot) out of what is now Turkey and into the Syrian desert. Dawn chronicled his journey in her book The Hundred Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey – and also retraced her grandfather’s route herself to better understand what he endured.
Read Dawn’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Walk-Dawn-Mackeen/dp/0544811941
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Quoting Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu, Jeremy Chen and Manas Joglekar
When we optimize responses using a reward model as a proxy for “goodness” in reinforcement learning, models sometimes learn to “hack” this proxy and output an answer that only “looks good” to it (because coming up with an answer that is actually good can be hard). The philos...