If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for.
— Terk Terkowitz, An update from Amazon engineering leadership on the role of the developer in the age of AI
Tags: amazon, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, ai, llms
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."
This is an acoustic imaging camera
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
This museum in Stone Mountain, Georgia is home to thousands of chairs – not for sitting, and not dollhouse furniture, but miniature chairs “with a different purpose,” as the museum’s founder describes them.
Check out their website: https://museumofminiaturechairs.com/
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Newsroom yesterday:
With the 27.2 software updates released today, Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that is profoundly more capable, conversational, and personal — is expanding to more people around the world, with availability now in the French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. [...]
Siri AI is currently unavailable in the EU in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Apple is working constructively with the EU in an attempt to find a path forward.
Don’t hold your breath. (Or if you prefer, N’y comptez pas trop.)
Link: nr.apple.com/Du9G9W8Nq1
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."
“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.” There is also Walkipedia.
Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
I'm at GitHub Universe this week and, similar to last year, the conference badge is a full-blown color screen computer.I've been hacking around with it again, and then I ran into with Steve Francia... who worked with Gemini to get a full NES emulator working on it, and then went a step further and deployed an emulator for both the Game Boy and the Game Boy Color.
Which means, if you can obtain the ROM, you can run The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on your conference badge!
A neat feature of the badge is that you can turn it upside down and then use game controller touch buttons that are built into the badge body.
Tags: games, github, hardware-hacking, ai, generative-ai, llms, gemini, steve-francia
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The Berlin-based duo draw on their background in illustration and graphic design to create eye-popping compositions.
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 Playfully Vibrant Abstract Murals by Zebu Enliven Urban Walls appeared first on Colossal.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
macrumors.com/2026/10/27/macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-tomorrow/
