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Apple HomeView

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Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playin...

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Meet the Lap Easel, a Portable Companion for Taking Creativity Anywhere

Meet the Lap Easel, a Portable Companion for Taking Creativity AnywhereThe ingenious device is an adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop.

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Quoting Geoffrey Huntley

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

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web-edit 0.1a0

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:

Screenshot of a web file manager interface. Header reads "WORKSPACE" above the title "Files", with buttons "Refresh", "Upload files" and "New file" (dark green). A breadcrumb shows "web-edit / web_edit / static". A table with columns "Name", "Size", "Modified" lists four files, each with "Download ↓" and "Delete" links: "app.css" 8.4 KB Oct 12, 2026; "app.js" 671.5 KB Oct 12, 2026; "index.html" 4.3 KB Oct 12, 2026 (underlined, as if hovered); "THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.txt" 32.3 KB Oct 12, 2026. Below the table: "Images under 2 MB appear inline. Select a text file to edit it." A panel below is labelled "UPLOAD QUEUE" with heading "Add files" and a "Close" button. It has a "Destination folder" text field containing "web_edit", then a dashed drop zone reading "Choose files or drop them here" and "Set a path and filename for each file before uploading." with a "Choose Files" button and the text "no files selected". A greyed-out "Upload files" button sits at the bottom right.

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

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“I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...

“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.”

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In Trump’s America, the Death Penalty Has Been Resurrected

"As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row."

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Where the Forest Went

A photograph of a green forest has been divided into a grid and then rearranged
Hugh Maxwell’s walk transformed 2.6 million acres of wilderness into a grid for sale. A writer followed his trail to survey what remains.

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Desert Stairway to Heaven

Explanation: This stairway in Chile brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. But ooh, the sky above it makes you wonder. For example, you may wonder about the dark lane of our own Milky Way galaxy rising behind the expansive Atacama Desert in Chile, the band of zodiaca...

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Improving Conversation on KDO

I’ve been really pleased with how KDO comments are working lately — you folks have been lively, informative, fun, and pushing conversations beyond what I can individually manage. And the vibe of the threads are more closely matching the vibe of the community guidelines. All ...

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The Lighthouse Keeper (Classic)

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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‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

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.

Whalefall in theaters Friday. Get tickets now: https://fandango.com/whalefall-2026-246280/movie-overview
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Rejected Space Mission Profiles

Although NASA agreed that Voyager 2 'seemed lonely' they decided against launching a companion orbiter mission after further measurements indicated that the spacecraft actually preferred the peace and quiet.

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He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back.

"He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned."

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Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...

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.”

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Hello Python 3.15, goodbye 3.10, and now I can use 3.11

Python 3.15 is here! Here's the essential What's new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to Python 3.10 and s...

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datasette-ports 0.4

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

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Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...

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…”

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Taylor Momsen destroys a mic with her voice! #taylormomsen #rockmusic #shorts 

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Mark Stephens, a.k.a. Robert X. Cringely, Died at 73

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Mary Alyce Stephens (née Neader), posting on Cringely’s Facebook account: Hello, this is Mary Alyce, Bob’s wife. I am coming to you with immense sadness to let you know that Bob passed away. His obituary follows. His family is not requesting anything, however, if you wou...

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Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...

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.’”