Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
A reader asked if this Gary Choyka who hit two holes-in-one in the same round of golf back in 2020 is the same Gary Choyka who was my history teacher 30+ years ago. Indeed it is. He looks good. (He was a hell of a basketball player too.)
Link: usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2020/02/02/golf-amateur-gary…
What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too large to carry around? “I would like to recommend you to a practice I call Chop That Book Up Into Reasonable Sizes.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser trailer for Madden, starring Nicolas Cage as John Madden and Christian Bale as Al Davis. Boom?
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with some very astounding numbers. If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.” And it could last months?
Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s upcoming album, While the Flood Rages, which will be available wherever you stream your music on Oct 16.
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Harriet Mena Hill is devoted to documenting a community amid demolition.
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 On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
This is a fun daily game: Catfishing. You guess the Wikipedia article from its categories.
Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of musicians improvisationally play 53 melodic fragments in the key of C. This web app lets you play multiple In C live performances layered on top of each other. In C to the power of In C, if you will.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
inc.com/jason-aten/meta-keeps-apologizing-for-muse-its-explanations-miss-the-point-entirely/91409363
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder.
We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge.
Tags: coding-agents, ai, llms
“The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions.”
