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Let's rank bird bills, from best bill to least-best bill.

1 (TIED): Toucan

We should all wear masks like the ICE cops wear. They deserve recognition for blazing new fashion trails.

In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Charlotte Bax at WordCamp Europe about making websites more environmentally sustainable. Charlotte shares her journey into sustainable web design, offers practical advice on reducing a website’s carbon footprint, like choosing green web hosting, optimising images, improving UX, applying caching, and managing visitor traffic, and introduces advanced concepts like grid-aware websites. The conversation also touches on WordPress’s role in digital sustainability and recent efforts to revive its sustainability team. Charlotte offers resources and invites listeners to connect for further advice on building greener websites. If you’ve ever wondered how digital choices impact the planet, and what steps you can take today to help, this episode is for you.

Houstonian Mike Peppercorn bought property along Lake Livingston in 2008, choosing timberland where his family would have privacy and pasture where they could raise cattle for Future Farmers of America projects. He and his neighbors with acreage along Barrett’s Landing Road all figured that surely this lake—which serves as a reservoir for the City of […]

The post Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir  appeared first on The Texas Observer.

John Allsopp has a new platform Conffab that is for livestreaming conferences as well as providing on-demand access to past recorded conference presentations. Some of which are behind a paywall. He’s got good reason to productize this. It boils down to incentives. If it all works, it’s a better place for all: presenters, organizers, and […]

I saw that screencasting.com launched recently. It’s training courses all about building high-quality screencasts. Seemed like a great idea to me with the perfect domain name. There is so much video lately in today’s media and plenty of it involves editing together camera footage, stock clips, screen recordings, etc. The learning curve on doing all […]

Razer’s haptic gaming cushion can make your favorite virtual worlds feel real, if you don’t mind the uncomfy seat.

When Major League Baseball announced the roster for the 2025 All-Star Game, it was no surprise to see William "Will" "Bill" Smith listed as the starting catcher for the National League. The backstop has been tremendous for the Dodgers since he debuted in 2019, and this season is on track to be his own personal best. Showing sturdy power, savvy plate discipline, and a sweet swing, Bill was apparently tired of hearing people say he "hits well for a catcher." Among NL batters, Bill is leading the field in average and on-base percentage, and his OPS is second only to his L.A. teammate Shohei Ohtani.

Said fellow Dodger Freddie Freeman, “People are gonna tune into the All-Star Game, they’ll throw his numbers up on the TV, and they’re gonna be like, ‘Whoa, that’s a really good season.’”

Someday Manton and I will make a very nice Markdown editor for Mastodon, and it'll work very nicely, and then I'll pitch Rich Siegel to do the same for BBEdit. That will nail it once and for all that Mastodon is a blogging platform. He's the right guy to do it, he has all the protocols implemented on micro.blog. All I want is a REST version of what the MetaWeblog API has been doing since 1998 or so. We're turning the clock back to move forward. Trying to undo the damage Twitter did to the web.

Early studies show that 3D printers may leave behind similar toolmarks on repeated prints.

This month I ordered a meal at the Bojangles drive-thru in South Carolina, which is now using AI. This is how AI becomes the background noise of the world.

This comment makes my day. Some features you develop and never use. I poured a month or so into the blogroll software last year, and it turned out to be a total win. All the new stuff floats to the top. I can quickly find out what they posted. It's a portable version of my fe...

The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.

The GNU Foundation has announced that the latest public release of the Bash (version 5.3) command line interpreter is now

The post Bash 5.3 Has Some Big Improvements — Here’s How You Can Test It appeared first on The New Stack.

What if the secret to better relationships isn't fixing problems but simply making people feel understood? Clinical psychologist Caroline Fleck reveals why validation—not agreement—transforms how we connect with others. In her groundbreaking book Validation, Caroline shares ...

Whether you’re hiking, tailgating, or relaxing in the garden, take the weight off in style with these WIRED-tested chairs for the great outdoors.

To our fellow residents of Pinecone Meadows, thank you—truly—for your patience, your support, and your passive-aggressive Facebook posts over the last seven weeks. This journey has been long, chlorinated, and emotionally complex. However, as of 9:47 this morning, we have dra...

Third time’s a charm for this elegantly designed and sonically refined Bluetooth speaker.

With the app Substage, users can type out file management tasks in plain English, then use the commands it generates to convert file types, manage folders, create zip files, and more.

I test sleep products for a living and my favorite cooling sheets are silky, thick, durable, and priced below $100 on Amazon.