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FeedCity
24 Apr 14:48

New little feature: a multi-image gallery now features a little image count indicator.

Such a horizontally scrolling gallery is rendered, when an entry includes multiple images as enclosures, or they are added via the Media RSS extension. Example feed: Kenneth Wajda

kottke.org
24 Apr 14:39 • Jason Kottke

1D Chess . “You might initially find it more...

1D Chess. “You might initially find it more difficult than expected, but assuming optimal play, is there a forced win for white?”

Daring Fireball
24 Apr 14:30 • John Gruber

★ ‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’

George Lucas got so many nuances right in Star Wars. Little touches that said so much. One of the most overlooked is a moment that I vividly remember from first seeing it, on the big screen, as a kindergartener or thereabouts. It’s during the scene where Luke enters the Mos ...

Radiolab
24 Apr 14:00 • WNYC Studios

Forests on Forests

radiolab.org/podcast/forests-on-forests

For much of history, tree canopies were pretty much completely ignored by science. It was as if researchers said collectively, "It's just going to be empty up there, and we've got our hands full studying the trees down here! So why bother?" But then around the mid-1980s, a f...

Daring Fireball
24 Apr 13:36 • John Gruber

XOXO Explore

xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/

Andy McMillan and Andy Baio: Today, over 10 years later, and almost two full years after we retired the festival for good, we’re finally launching that website. Named after what we thought would be a throwaway title for a short-lived GitHub repo, allow us to introduce XO...

Daring Fireball
24 Apr 13:36 • John Gruber

New Zealand Passed a Generational Smoking Ban in 2022, But Repealed It Before It Went Into Effect

theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/27/new-zealand-scraps-world-first-smoking-generation-ban-to-fund-tax-cuts

Eva Corlett, reporting for The Guardian in 2023: New Zealand’s new government will scrap the country’s world-leading law to ban smoking for future generations to help pay for tax cuts — a move that public health officials believe will cost thousands of lives and be “cata...

Dan’s Polaroids
24 Apr 13:29

24.04.2026

A man sitting on the other side of a sidewalk table with food on it. — Lunch with Schepp.

Colossal
24 Apr 12:33 • Kate Mothes

Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time

The contrasts and tensions of contemporary urban life and timeless landscapes merge in otherworldly images.

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Longreads
24 Apr 12:00 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

"Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest."

Longreads
24 Apr 10:00 • Longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Deaths in donation bins, the Hardy boys, MAGA slop, billionaire playgrounds, and nostalgia for the complicated.

Daniel Pietzsch
24 Apr 07:04

HWC DUS April is behind us. Daniel told us about his (CSS) color palette and color spaces deep dive. And about emojis and the plain symbol version of those. So here’s some links to the things we talked about:

Next event: Beyond Tellerrand on April 27, 2026 – April 28, 2026 at Capitol Theater, Düsseldorf.

Dan’s Polaroids
24 Apr 06:13

23.04.2026

Five people sitting behind a table with a board game on it. — An evening at Meeple und Macchiato playing Viticulture.

Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Apr 06:12

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two preview models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash. Both models are 1 million token context Mixtur...

Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Apr 04:54

It's a big one

This week's edition of my email newsletter (aka content from this blog delivered to your inbox) features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide.

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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
24 Apr 04:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Garden Week: Cementerio Municipal José María Azael Franco Guerrero

The José María Azael Franco Guerrero Cemetery in Tulcán, Ecuador is a topiary anomaly and a lush green paradise for the dead. This week, we’re celebrating the arrival of spring with classic and new stories about unusual gardens around the world.

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Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Apr 01:57

russellromney/honker

russellromney/honker "Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics" for SQLite, implemented as a Rust SQLite extension and various language bindings to help make use of it. The design of this looks very solid. It lets you write Python code for queues that looks like this: import honker ...

Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Apr 01:57

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems. The models themselves were not to blame, but three separate issues in the C...

Simon Willison's Weblog
24 Apr 01:57

Serving the For You feed

Serving the For You feed One of Bluesky's most interesting features is that anyone can run their own custom "feed" implementation and make it available to other users - effectively enabling custom algorithms that can use any mechanism they like to recommend posts. spacecowbo...

Daring Fireball
24 Apr 01:48 • John Gruber

United Kingdom to Enact Smoking Ban Only for Those Who Are Not Yet Legal Adults

nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/uk-smoking-ban-2009.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dVA.f9yJ.YMVg9N8QOlio

Ephrat Livni, reporting for The New York Times (gift link): Britain aims to raise a “smoke-free generation” by permanently banning the sale or supply of tobacco to anyone born in 2009 or after, with a bill that was approved by Parliament on Tuesday. The bill applies to ...

kottke.org
23 Apr 22:45 • Jason Kottke

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael...

Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael biopic out in theaters right now: “How can you tell an authentic story about Michael Jackson without ever mentioning the fact that he was seriously accused of being a child molester?”