Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
What the Scissor Lamp looked like 6 years ago
In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required...
In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required Reading. “White supremacy welcomed his rage, and that made it irresistible.” Excerpted from Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration by Joseph Margulies.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Classical Musicians Interpret Astronauts’ Footage of the Planet for Earth Music Theater
The multimedia project marries sonic experiences with incredible imagery captured from Earth's orbit.
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 Classical Musicians Interpret Astronauts’ Footage of the Planet for Earth Music Theater appeared first on Colossal.
“Starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, and Willem...
“Starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, and Willem Dafoe, Tenzing follows the true story of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary’s historic first summit of Mount Everest. History remembers the summit, but not always the man who made it possible.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘Measuring Nothing (With Great Accuracy)’
Seth Godin back in 2014:
You can’t tell if a book is any good by the number of words it contains, even though it’s quite easy and direct to measure this.
(Vis-à-vis my sidenote over the weekend about Apple refusing to publish mAh battery specs for iPhones.)
Link: seths.blog/2014/01/measuring-nothing-with-great-accuracy/
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
Tomato Cure
"The quiet medicine of small jobs, finished before dark."
Music for the Dyeing
This story, about a dressage trainer who shot his female...
This story, about a dressage trainer who shot his female student and got away with it, is completely bonkers. “Largely through the medium of Facebook, Kanarek had driven Barisone mad.”
I am stunned that we are still finding new species of cat...
I am stunned that we are still finding new species of cat in 2026. “The analysis revealed that the sanctuary cat belonged to a previously unrecognized species whose lineage split from its relatives about 1.4 million years ago.”
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
White Squirrels of Olney
Olney, Illinois is your quintessential Midwestern small town. It’s in the middle of farm country - a place you might drive right past. But people do stop, and they come for one thing: squirrels. But for how long?
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Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
Cole Escola’s Broadway smash Oh, Mary! is coming to HBO...
Cole Escola’s Broadway smash Oh, Mary! is coming to HBO in 2027. Excited for this…I’ve never seen the play.
Amazing piece by Nikole Hannah-Jones about the betrayal...
Amazing piece by Nikole Hannah-Jones about the betrayal her child felt at her school choice. “So you had money to send me to one of the best schools, and you chose not to? Because other kids are disadvantaged, you didn’t want to put me in a great school?”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple TV to Finally Air ‘The Savant’ in Early 2027, Supposedly
deadline.com/2026/09/jessica-chastain-the-savant-new-release-date-apple-tv-1237108228/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Yours Truly on CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ Friday
I genuinely enjoyed that Sara Eisen laughed a little when introducing me as having written a 5,000-word review of the iPhone 18 Pro.
Link: youtu.be/WrwY_jVaN-w
Quoting voxium
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.
— voxium
Tags: ai-misuse, llms, ai, generative-ai
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
GM Revives CarPlay for 2027 Trucks
autoweek.com/news/a73761352/gm-revives-apple-carplay-for-2027-chevy-silverado-gmc-sierra/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
WorkOS: How SSO Works and the Fastest Way to Add It
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring this last week — a big week — at DF.
SSO is table stakes for enterprise deals, but building it into your app yourself means writing SAML controllers, parsing XML assertions, and handling IdP-specific quirks for each provider. Learn how SAML flows work, the tradeoffs between building or buying, and best practices for security, routing, and UX.
Or, skip the hassle and add SSO with WorkOS. Read their developer’s guide to learn more.
Link: workos.com/guide/the-developers-guide-to-sso?utm_source…
