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There’s been an amusing turn in the saga involving President Trump’s vile effort to remove Lisa Cook as governor of the Federal Reserve. Trump has relied on his flunkies to cook up allegations of mortgage fraud against Cook—and other foes as well—but now&...

In this WP Behind the Builds episode, Mark Westguard discusses the upcoming Podcaster Plus plugin with founders Nathan and Dan, emphasizing its features like customizable audio players and automation for podcasters.

A few interesting reads or listens:

What the company's accidental legal filing and the Browser Company's acquisition tell us about the true future of the web

Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

I’ve never been a Snapchat user and can’t relate to most of what’s in Evan Spiegel’s note to employees, but the part about AI use actually sounds true. It’s not wildly inflated like some quotes we’ve seen from other CEOs:

Engineering is already seeing momentum, with AI now generating about a quarter of all code and new agentic infrastructure underway to further boost developer productivity.

Although autonomous LLMs are inherently unreliable, there’s a long software tradition of building reliable layers on top of unreliable layers. That applies here too. We can’t guarantee that you’ll never be led astray when building an XMLUI app with the help of agents that use the XMLUI MCP server to extract patterns from docs, sources, … Continue reading Context engineering anchors AI agents to ground truth

A sunny day in Bristol.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Jack's Lab

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I’m on beta 9 of iOS 26 and there’s still a voicemail tab caching bug. Maybe I notice more than folks at Apple because I have almost no notification badges enabled, so it really stands out? Have to force quit the Phone app about once a day. I don’t usually complain… Surprised this hasn’t been fixed.

It’s so hard to get people to take a second look at a product. Rabbit has continued to work on improvements for over a year, and now they’ve wrapped it up in a rabbitOS 2 update. Overview video on Twitter / X.

There are only two ways to email people: Individually, or all at once.

I'm starting to roll up the user interface of the new product, and so it's time to start talking about the features that are coming, and also let's talk about the mistakes we made last time, almost always caused by people not working with each other, and let's not do it this time. If you care about this stuff and you're a developer, please have a listen. This is a good time for us to start really working together. All I can do is put out the invitation, it's up to others to show up.

I cover a lot of territory in this podcast, I don't have time to write it all up. I have however asked Google to make a transcript of it. Maybe that will help. ;-)

And if you're a developer and have ideas about this, why not write a blog post about it and send me a link. That's the first step in really booting up the blogosphere -- actually using it.

Still diggin!

Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.

Podcast: Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs.

Dana Rubinstein, New York Times reporter who covers New York City politics and government, and Brigid Bergin, senior political correspondent for WNYC and Gothamist, share their reporting on the possibility that Mayor Adams will drop out of the mayoral race to take a job with the Trump administration (despite the mayor's assertion that he's staying in the race).

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Men’s tennis is just Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz hurtling toward one another, with loud and incandescent results. Since Sinner returned to the tour in May after a three-month suspension, the rivals have entered the same tournament five times. In all five instances, they...

Montgomery County is a small, rural area in the middle of North Carolina. The county has struggled financially for years, and its school district depends on government grants to survive. This year, the Trump administration cut $600 million in grants to teacher-training progr...

There is an easy answer to the question "How long does it take to write a book?" but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the first draft and when the book is finished. Maybe that's two or three years. Maybe it's 10. But the true answer is that it takes a lifetime to write a book.

Like creative art of any kind, the work is an accumulation of experiences. A book is not just words in a random order. It is made up of all the smells and sounds and emotions and people you've ever encountered. At their best, books provide a snapshot of what a person's life looked like for a specific period of time, or at least how they felt. My most recent book, for example, has everything I read and thought and dreamed about for at least half a decade in it.

Cristian Farias, legal journalist who writes for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and other publications, and the host of The Bully’s Pulpit, a podcast of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, talks about the many legal issues the Trump administration is running into, related to sending the National Guard in to LA and DC, deportations and more.

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