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Half of everything is luck, the other half is The Rewatchables. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit the first James Bond film with Pierce Brosnan in ‘GoldenEye’ also starting Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, and Famke Janssen.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture of Experts model called Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. Interest...

I introduced Showboat a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have created. I've been finding new ways to use it on a daily basis, and I've just released two new tools to help get the best out of the Sho...

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to:

• Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
• Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
• Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
• Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Watch it here.

Link: sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source…

I'm a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web, Anthropic's excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs in a container environment managed by them, greatly reducing the risk of anything bad happening to a computer I care about. I don't use ...

Pre-show: Marco beach… and app… cleanup results Instagram reel that John found Due YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit We’re recording ✨from the future✨. Follow-up: Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k? Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) ...

Polio was nearly eradicated. But immunity gaps allow the virus to resurface. The fight isn’t over, and one case can spark an outbreak. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #polioawareness #polioeradication #poliofree Sources & fu...

We asked you to send us stories about the places where you’ve stayed the night – some of you had some interesting experiences that live in your head forever. 

Plus, we want to hear your stories about your unforgettable spring break travel stories. Where did you go? What made this trip so memorable? Did everything go as planned? Or did things go wrong? We want to hear it all. 

Give us a call at (315) 992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Or you can record a voice memo and give it to us. At hello@atlasobscura.com.

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The AI Vampire Steve Yegge's take on agent fatigue, and its relationship to burnout. Let's pretend you're the only person at your company using AI. In Scenario A, you decide you're going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it ...

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your back end requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh. That’s it.

Simplify your integrations with WorkOS Pipes.

Link: workos.com/docs/pipes?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium…

Joanna Stern (last week):

After 12 years with The Wall Street Journal, this is my final column and video as a full-time employee. I’m off to build something new and independent. I’ll still pop up on these pages and at WSJ events from time to time. Can’t get rid of me that easily! Before I go, I wanted to reflect on the past dozen years in tech — in a letter to my first-month-on-the-job self.

The video version of her sign-off column is worth it for the Velveeta gag alone.

Link: wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/12-years-consumer-tech-phones-ev…

I'm occasionally accused of using LLMs to write the content on my blog. I don't do that, and I don't think my writing has much of an LLM smell to it... with one notable exception:

    # Finally, do em dashes
    s = s.replace(' - ', u'\u2014')

That code to add em dashes to my posts dates back to at least 2015 when I ported my blog from an older version of Django (in a long-lost Mercurial repository) and started afresh on GitHub.

Tags: generative-ai, typography, blogging, ai, llms, python

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field...

Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format Fascinating new project from Gwern Branwen and Said Achmiz that targets the challenge of combining large numbers of assets into a single archived HTML file without that file being inconvenient to view in a browser. The key tr...

It's wild that the first commit to OpenClaw was on November 25th 2025, and less than three months later it's hit 10,000 commits from 600 contributors, attracted 196,000 GitHub stars and sort-of been featured in an extremely vague Super Bowl commercial for AI.com.

Quoting AI.com founder Kris Marszalek, purchaser of the most expensive domain in history for $70m:

ai.com is the world’s first easy-to-use and secure implementation of OpenClaw, the open source agent framework that went viral two weeks ago; we made it easy to use without any technical skills, while hardening security to keep your data safe.

Looks like vaporware to me - all you can do right now is reserve a handle - but it's still remarkable to see an open source project get to that level of hype in such a short space of time.

Tags: ai-agents, openclaw, ai, open-source, domains

One song from our gig in Aachen last weekend.

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.

— Eric Meyer

Tags: css, web-standards, eric-meyer