Release: llm-mrchatterbox 0.1
See Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer.
Tags: llm
The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About
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29.03.2026
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Farewell Spit
Daren Grover was on vacation near the top of New Zealand’s South Island when he got a call: some whales needed help. Hundreds of them had stranded on a spot so notorious for whale strandings, it’s cause for celebration when a year goes by without a stranding: the Farewell Spit.
Check out Project Jonah: https://www.projectjonah.org.nz/
Giant searchable database of sustainable seafood (and seafood to avoid) from Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Version History: ‘The Macintosh’
For your weekend viewing enjoyment:
But in almost every way that mattered, the Macintosh was right.
Right about how we’d use computers going forward. Right about the
idea that computers needed to be less complicated. Right about the
fact that caring this deeply about bot...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
WorkOS
My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring the week at DF. Their latest is a CLI that launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration into your codebase. No signup required. It creates an env...
Pretext
Pretext
Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the react-motion animation library.
Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM. The usual...
Pretext — Under the Hood
Tool: Pretext — Under the Hood
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Verge: ‘Rank the Best Apple Products From the Last 50 Years’
theverge.com/cs/tech/900477/apple-50-anniversary-rank-products
Look, I’m all for democracy, but a poll whose results currently have the Extended Keyboard II down at #47 is a poll that makes me angry.
Link: theverge.com/cs/tech/900477/apple-50-anniversary-rank…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The Talk Show: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’
For your weekend listening enjoyment: Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro.
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Python Vulnerability Lookup
Tool: Python Vulnerability Lookup
I learned that the OSV.dev open source vulnerability database has an open CORS JSON API so I had Claude Code build this HTML tool for pasting in a pyproject.toml or requirements.txt file (or name of a GitHub repo containing those) and seeing a list of all reported vulnerabilities from that API.
Tags: tools, python, supply-chain, vibe-coding, security
28.03.2026
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
The 2019 Intel Mac Pro’s Unfortunate Timing
512pixels.net/2026/03/how-apple-could-have-saved-the-mac-pro/
Stephen Hackett, at 512 Pixels:
I’ve thought a lot about the bad timing Jones mentions. Had Apple
stuck to the original timeline, and killed off the 2013 Mac Pro in
favor of an iMac “specifically targeted at large segments of the
pro market,” back in 2017, Apple could ha...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS
daringfireball.net/2024/03/quickly_toggling_closed_captions_on_apple_tv
While I’m bitching about Netflix’s craptacular new video player on Apple TV, let me quote from a piece I wrote two years ago (also complaining about Netflix’s tvOS app):
Turns out there are two better ways:
If you use the Control Center Apple TV remote control on your
...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘How Apple Became Apple: The Definitive Oral History of the Company’s Earliest Days’
This feature from Harry McCracken is just spectacularly good. (And it’s a gift link that’ll get you past Fast Company’s paywall.) 50 years is a long time and there are some key players in Apple’s origin story who are gone — but because everyone was so young at the time, it’s...
Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter
For his recent London run of shows, Fred Again coaxed Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter out of his helmet and in front of the decks for a 2-hour collaborative DJ set. And you can watch the whole thing on YouTube.
Tags: Daft Punk · Fred Again · music · Thomas Bangalter · video
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Netflix Wrecked Their tvOS Video Player
pocket-lint.com/netflix-just-made-their-app-worse-and-theres-no-way-to-fix-it/
Amanda Kondolojy, writing for Pocket-lint:
Though the Netflix app is largely the same on most platforms, over
the weekend several Apple TV users on the unofficial Apple TV
Reddit noticed some small changes to the tvOS version of
the app that are making the app harder to ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Trump Is Putting His Signature on U.S. Currency
nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-signature-us-dollars.html
Alan Rappeport, reporting for The New York Times:
President Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this
year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The decision to
have Mr. Trump’s John Hancock on America’s paper currency
represented an unprecedented cha...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
New York Post: ‘Trump Considers Renaming Strait of Hormuz’
The New York Post (I’m not sure if I should tell you to take this with a grain of salt, because it’s the Post and their journalistic standards are low, or, to assign this extra credibility because it’s the Post, a right-wing Murdoch rag that Trump lackeys actually talk to):
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27.03.2026
