The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Long before Joe Exotic got the country talking about big cats, there was Joe Taft – regular guy – who began raising and rescuing these types of felines in Indiana.
MORE: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/exotic-feline-rescue-center-2
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We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year
Bit of a hyperbolic framing but this looks like another case study of vibe-porting, this time spinning up a new custom Go implementation of the JSONata JSON expression language - similar in focus to jq, and heavily associated with the Node-RED platform.As with other vibe-porting projects the key enabling factor was JSONata's existing test suite, which helped build the first working Go version in 7 hours and $400 of token spend.
The Reco team then used a shadow deployment for a week to run the new and old versions in parallel to confirm the new implementation exactly matched the behavior of the old one.
Tags: go, json, ai, generative-ai, llms, agentic-engineering
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Speaking of power adapters, this information guide from Rands in Repose is both useful and enlightening.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
I mentioned the other day that I was mildly irked by a change in iOS 26.4 that moved the list of available updates in the App Store app one additional screen further into its hierarchy. Good news (via Nate Barham on Mastodon): you can long-press on the App Store app on your Home Screen and jump right to the Updates screen from the contextual menu. Nice! (This feature has been around for a few years, apparently, but it’s extra useful in 26.4).
Alternatively, you can create a Shortcuts shortcut that jumps you to the Updates screen. Just one action: open the URL itms-apps://apps.apple.com/updates. Save it as an “app” on your Home Screen or an action in Control Center. Me, I’m just going to use the tap-and-hold contextual menu item on the App Store app.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
blog.chromium.org/2026/03/android-sets-new-record-for-mobile-web.html
There’s an upside-down “H” on the facade of a Frank Lloyd Wright building in Illinois. Here’s a deep dive into how it got there.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/melania-trump-robot.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Well, at least we know who taught her to talk like that.
Link: nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/melania-trump-robot.html…
On Saturday, I’ll be live on stage with Brutal Unrest again.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/apple-can-distill-googles-big-gemini-model?rc=jfy0lk
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
businessinsider.com/sora-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-ai-shutting-down-farewell-why-2026-3
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
macrumors.com/2026/03/25/macos-tahoe-26-4-slow-charger-macbooks/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Jennifer Daniel, on her “Did Someone Say Emoji?” blog:
First came Melting Face 🫠, our collective surrender to the liquid state.
Then Dotted Line Face 🫥, the visual representation of sublimation: turning from a solid into a gas just to escape a conversation.
Now, we have Distorted Face (U+1FAEA), a moment defined by tension: where you aren’t just feeling an emotion — you are being physically altered by it.
I’ll live, but it feels a tad spiteful that Apple only adds new emoji to the current-year OS updates. So this year’s 8 new emoji are in MacOS 26.4, but not MacOS 15.7.5, despite both being released this week.
Link: jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/new-emoji-distorted-face
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a2
actoris now available to thellm_prompt_contextplugin hook. #2
A comparison of different sorting algorithms (bubble, merge, heap, timsort). You can run them one at a time or race all seven.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
