The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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We step foot into the Haines Shoe House, a famous shoemaker’s ambitious advertising experiment. Then, we trek to the World Famous Giant Shoe Museum, a giant collection from a man’s giant fixation.
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Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed.
Release: llm-echo 0.5
I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have been fed to it. The new release now updates the simulated token usage counts to take tool calls, system prompts, and reasoning tokens into account.
Example usage:
uvx --with llm-echo llm -m echo 'hi there' -o thinking 1 --usage
Outputs:
First I consider the prompt, then I decide what to say.
{
"prompt": "hi there",
"system": "",
"attachments": [],
"stream": true,
"previous": []
}
Token usage: 2 input, 24 output
Tags: llm
Release: web-edit 0.1a2
web-edit (previously) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale.
I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and image data. I needed this because I was running pelican prompts on a laptop from my phone (here's DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017) and I wanted an easy way to copy the resulting logs into a Gist.
Tags: projects, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, deepseek
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q42026
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Login looks simple until you’re building password resets, email verification, MFA, social providers, session management, and the enterprise SSO your first big customer asked for last week.
WorkOS AuthKit lets you:
Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
In today's livestream I talk about a Steely Dan song, that I've always wanted to learn.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
theinformation.com/articles/apple-developing-ai-wearable-pin
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Manton Reece:
All I can come up with is that Apple doesn’t want you to buy the wall-mounted version unless you’re really sure that’s what you need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might buy it based on price, then be unhappy because it’s too much trouble to install.
Oh, that clicks for me.
Link: manton.org/2026/10/17/in-john-grubers-initial-thoughts.html
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
In today's livestream I talk about a Steely Dan song, that I've always wanted to learn.
🎉 Get My Musicianship Bundle For Just $59: The Beato Book Interactive + my rebuilt Ear Training Method, plus Music Theory for Songwriters → https://rickbeato.com/s/steely-dan
Ends Tuesday, October 20th at 11:59pm ET
Inline rendering with document.currentScript
Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline
<script> element that replaces itself when the page loads:
The year is <script>
document.currentScript.replaceWith(
new Date().getFullYear())</script>
If you define a shortcut function like this:
$=(...n)=>document.currentScript.replaceWith(...n)
You get a tiny template language:
The year is <script>$(new Date().getFullYear())</script>
Tags: javascript
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber