09.10.2026
A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen.
If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game...
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
How Bernie Taupin and Elton John Became The Greatest Songwriting Duo
In this interview, songwriter Bernie Taupin gives me insights into his unique creative process. We discuss his career trajectory from his initial meeting with Elton John, to their massive global success and collaboration that has lasted nearly 60 years.
Check out Bernie's ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Ex-Apple Employee Fred Potter on HomeView
Fred Potter, on LinkedIn:
So if you ever meet someone who tells you, “At Apple, I’m the one who did this,” take it with a grain of salt. They were probably part of the team that made it happen, and that’s already something to be proud of.
Sometimes, when the final product finally comes out, you can recognize a few of the personal touches you contributed along the way. And that, in itself, is immensely rewarding.
Wishing HomeView every success!
Potter’s LinkedIn bio lists his time at Apple as July 2021 through June 2024, and describes it only as “Worked on HomeView”. (Via Christophe Laporte at iGeneration.)
Link: linkedin.com/posts/frpotter_tonight-im-looking-back-through…
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Netflix Lays Off 6 Percent of Staff
Joe Flint and Jessica Toonkel, reporting for The Wall Street Journal last week:
Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or roughly 1,000 positions
globally, its biggest round of layoffs since 2022, as it struggles
with slowing growth and customer engagement. Co-Chief Executi...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Time Magazine Profiles John Ternus
Andrew Chow, writing for Time:
Just below the broad smile he’s been wearing all morning, John
Ternus’ hands are shaking.
On this September day in Silicon Valley, Apple’s new CEO is
surrounded by celebrities, tech enthusiasts, and reporters who
have flocked to Apple Park...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.
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Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent int...
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
(comic) Building consensus
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud, YouTube, and elsewhere.
Josh Homme on finding what makes him different #guitar #qotsa #joshhomme
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Feeding the Revolution
"The burrito’s history as a symbol of resistance."
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.”
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Come Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait
The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star with a very dense stellar core that is shedding its outer layers.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump
Writing for Vanity Fair (archive link), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era.
Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, an...
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
The Doxing of Jane Doe
"The alleged perpetrators in the 'Cornell Seven' case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all."
Fusion Device
Treble Clef: Unusual X-ray Hot Radio Source
Explanation: Explanation : What is Treble Clef? This unusual radio structure extends over 2 million light-years and resembles a common musical symbol -- but has its visible light hidden by our own Milky Way Galaxy. Examined in 2004, the nature of VLSS J0318.9+5755, dubbed Tr...