Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple HomeView
apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/meet-apple-homeview-a-new-way-to-enjoy-entertainment-and-manage-the-home/
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/meet-apple-homeview-a-new-way-to-enjoy-entertainment-and-manage-the-home/
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
The ingenious device is an adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop.
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If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift. Instead, I write a pre-commit hook that checks the git diff for direct calls to observability modules that bypass my diagnostics module. Boom: fail the commit, inject a prompt telling the agent to use the diagnostics library. All of a sudden it's ten out of ten.
— Geoffrey Huntley, nobody should type code by hand anymore. here's what's left.
Tags: coding-agents, generative-ai, git, agentic-engineering, ai, geoffrey-huntley, llms
Release: web-edit 0.1a0
I was working on a project from my phone using Codex Remote when I found myself wanting to edit a credentials file without round-tripping those credentials through the LLM itself.
So... I had Codex and GPT-6 Astra Extra High build this Python web app which provides a web UI for viewing and editing files in a folder. It's intended to be run over Tailscale, so I can have an agent start this running and then edit files via my Tailscale network directly from my phone.
Here's the interface for browsing files in a folder:

Editing uses CodeMirror 6 - I was going to use Monaco but that still doesn't have a great mobile experience yet.
Tags: projects, python, ai, tailscale, generative-ai, llms, codex
“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3, and The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually seem to run very well.”
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row."
Longreads
• James Whorton Jr.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
We go to Fayerweather Island, off the coast of Connecticut, and get the story of Kate Moore, one of the first recorded woman lighthouse keepers. Over several decades, she poured her heart and soul into a task and defied common expectations of what a keeper should be.
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Bill, Chris, and Van, head to Camp Blood for a fun summer at the lake and to revisit the 1980 horror classic ‘Friday the 13th’ starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, and Kevin Bacon.
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Longreads
• Krista Stevens
"He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned."
Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and the silence to go deeper into our thoughts and our understanding of ourselves and of the world.”
Release: datasette-ports 0.4
My plugin for detecting and listing all Datasette instances on the current machine now works with the latest version, and displays the detected PID as well. Knowing the PID makes it easier to attach the new Python 3.15 profiler.
Tags: datasette
Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British Colonies Now Searchable Online. “The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies…”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us feared the shock of being uprooted and tried to avoid it if at all possible. But to understand this reaction…I say that nobody could possibly have foreseen the ‘final solution.’”