Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Powerhouse Arts asks, will we care for the future of our planet the way we care for the animals we love?
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Menagerie of Animal Sculptures by 50+ Artists Populate ‘The Ark’ appeared first on Colossal.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Longreads
• Longreads
War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
From alchemy to doomsday prophecies, we delve into the lore of Johannes Kelpius, a mystic believed to have started a cult in the Wissahickon Valley near Philadelphia.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4.
Tags: datasette
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4.
Tags: datasette
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
"Like anything else, everything changes," says owner Thomas Lupo. "Time goes on."
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The video rental store as “third place”. “Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.474095/gov.uscourts.cand.474095.59.0.pdf
The End of Google Search. The internet giant is “changing the formula” of its products and media folks are beginning to assume that there will be no search traffic in the future…and fretting about their survival.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
semi-rad.com/2026/08/do-it-14000-times-slower-with-this-one-trick/
This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items (here and here) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit about making a sandwich hit close enough to home for me to make me laugh aloud.
Link: semi-rad.com/2026/08/do-it-14000-times-slower-with-this-one…
