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The Atlas Obscura Podcast
24 Sep 04:16 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Love Thy Neighbor (Classic)

We share stories about our neighbors – from an unusual pet in Maryland, to an out-of-place front yard in Brooklyn, to a beekeeper with a secret.

Plus: We want to hear YOUR neighbor stories! Tell us about your neighbors’ yards, their house decor, their habits – and what you like about them. Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and favorite story about your neighbors. Or you can record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com

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24 Sep 04:05

The Ghosts of Five Supernovas

Explanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together, ...

xkcd.com
24 Sep 00:42

Voyager Instruments

Convincing him to turn off the stupid laser show and useless sound system was such a huge ordeal that no one has wanted to do it again.

kottke.org
24 Sep 00:24 • Jason Kottke

Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98...

Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet.” A little more social than solitaire, but not by much.

Daring Fireball
23 Sep 23:42 • John Gruber

Changes to App Tracking Transparency in the E.U.

developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-use/

Apple Developer: As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the option to use an alternat...

Simon Willison's Weblog
23 Sep 23:14

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

My comment on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary — Hacker News.

I've been wanting this from Cloudflare for years.

The classic problem here is if you do that thing where user agents that send "accept: text/html" get HTML, while user agents that don't get JSON or some other format.

This used to be impossible to deploy behind Cloudflare caching, because they ignored the Vary header on anything other than images - so you risked caching the JSON version and then serving it up to someone who was expecting HTML.

(Independent of the Cloudflare feature I ended up deciding never to use that pattern, because I prefer having URL that predictably returns HTML or JSON - I add a .json suffix to my apps to serve JSON instead.)

Tags: http, cloudflare

kottke.org
23 Sep 22:45 • Jason Kottke

The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is...

The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is to build an exhaustive, authoritative compendium of every art project that uses time as part of the work.”

Daring Fireball
23 Sep 22:30 • John Gruber

★ The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally

The most extraordinary Apple event in the company’s modern history was the emergency press conference on Friday, 16 July 2010 to address “antennagate” — the out-of-control media narrative that the iPhone 4 had a defective antenna design. The event was only scheduled one day ...

Rick Beato
23 Sep 22:15

The World Ended In 2012... We Just Didn't Realize It

Why 2012 Was The Year Music Changed Forever

In this episode, I talk about one of the most significant turning points in modern history, the year 2012. The function of culture, entertainment and media fundamentally changed, which caused a seismic shift in our minds and in our lives. My Beato Club supporters: Justin S...

kottke.org
23 Sep 21:39 • Jason Kottke

I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by...

I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by the trailer, Hope by Korean director Na Hong-jin looks pretty good.

Simon Willison's Weblog
23 Sep 21:06

Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio samp...

Simon Willison's Weblog
23 Sep 21:06

Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium:

Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples

Tags: css

Longreads
23 Sep 20:36 • Brendan Fitzgerald

My Two Front Teeth

"Reflections on a lifetime of dental drama."

Daring Fireball
23 Sep 20:24 • John Gruber

‘Prepare to Ship’ Is a Clever Software Solution That Allows iPhone 18 Pro Max to Ship With a Battery That Would Otherwise Exceed International Shipping Regulations

support.apple.com/en-us/127848

Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries and regions. To addre...

kottke.org
23 Sep 20:06 • Jason Kottke

When’s the Last Time You Cried?

For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears (archive). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not an incipient burning behind my eye sockets. It wasn’t t...

kottke.org
23 Sep 19:09 • Jason Kottke

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately...

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.

Daring Fireball
23 Sep 18:57 • John Gruber

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev

apps.apple.com/us/app/update-my-phone-apps-guide/id6753936837

“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software Update screen. It ju...

Colossal
23 Sep 18:09 • Kate Mothes

Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts

Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales.

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 Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts appeared first on Colossal.

Daring Fireball
23 Sep 17:33 • John Gruber

★ AppZapper 3000

Back in the mid-2000s there was a golden era of exuberantly designed Mac apps. Paul Kafasis coined it “The Delicious Generation”, a perfect name. The delicious was both a reference to Wil Shipley and Mike Matas’s Delicious Library — a personal media library management app th...

kottke.org
23 Sep 16:57 • Jason Kottke

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation...

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”