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Comebacks are just what Caleb Williams does. The second-year quarterback drilled DJ Moore with a 25-yard touchdown pass with 1:43 left as his Chicago Bears beat the visiting Green Bay Packers, 31-27, in an unbelievably believable thriller of a wild-card playoff game Saturday night. The Williams-to-Moore hookup capped off the Bears' seventh fourth-quarter comeback win of the season.

Chicago hadn’t won a playoff game since 2011. That sorry skein seemed secure after the first half at Soldier Field, with the Green Bay Packers up 21-3 and moving the ball at will, and the Bears flailing and failing, never more obviously than their 1-for-4 fourth-down conversion rate over the first two quarters.

The Peach Bowl was over by halftime. It felt over after the first play of scrimmage. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore threw a pass intended for Malik Benson, in an attempt to be aggressive at the start of the drive. Bad idea. Indiana corner D'Angelo Ponds jumped the route for an interception, and ran it back 25 yards for a touchdown.

The Ducks had started the game with possession and lost it after only a few seconds. To their credit, they responded with a touchdown catch by Jamari Johnson, but then the Hoosiers' offense finally took the field to put together a touchdown drive—then, later in the second quarter, another. And another. And another. By halftime, Indiana led 35-7, and viewers at home would've been forgiven for doing something else with their Friday night.

Dan Moren makes a great point at Six Colors about the ongoing Grok is still in the App Store controversy:

It is absolutely unconscionable that, as of this writing, X is not only still on the App Store but is ranked #1 in “News” and that Grok is the #3 free app.

With trending lists, the platform owner cedes discovery to an algorithm. If Apple and Google aren’t ready to ban Twitter / X, the very least they could do is stop recommending the app to new users through these lists.

Matt Birchler on AI-assisted bespoke apps:

I’m calling it now: if 2025 was the year of “vibe coding,” 2026 is going to be the year of “micro apps.” It’s the year a meaningful number of people begin to solve their own problems by building custom software tailored specifically to their needs.

A confession: For the past week, I grew convinced that the Carolina Panthers would do it. They had already beaten the Los Angeles Rams once in the regular season, in Charlotte, and this playoff game would be at the same stadium. The weather forecast looked crummy, working ag...

Agent builders are finding that sometimes the easiest way for an agent to do its job is to simply give

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We're recommending that people running their own instances of FeedLand create another index for the items table, on the whenCreated column.

If 2025 was “the year of type checking and language server protocols” for Python, will 2026 be the year of

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This is a promising stand-alone Dolby Atmos soundbar for music fans, but it still needs a few software tweaks.

Sony’s latest full frame mirrorless is a hybrid powerhouse with features to impress both video and still photographers.

Traditionally sleep coaches treat babies. But now more and more anxious, screen-attached grownups are the ones who need nursing.

On January 7, 2025, the Palisades and Eaton Fires erupted, eventually burning down more than 16,000 structures and killing at least 31 people, becoming among the most destructive and deadly wildfires in California’s history.    Two Wirecutter writers, Gregory Han a...

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January 3 marked the return of US military intervention in Latin America. While the events unfolded between Caracas and Brooklyn, social networks had already fabricated their own reality.

So my new obsession is a Ukrainian-born musician, Alexander Hrustevich, who plays a type of chromatic Russian accordion called a Bayan. He plays incredible transcriptions of classical pieces, replicating the parts of an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you’re familiar with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, you know the Presto for Summer is one of … Continue reading Classical Accordian →

Finished reading: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Starts slow, took about a third in until I really got into it. Fantastic. 📚

As I listened to the mayor of Minneapolis speak I thought he was going say "get the fuck out of Minneapolis" but of course he couldn't say that and then he said it.

Today's song: Playing in the Band.

What’s happening with ICE is like January 6 four years later with billions of dollars behind it and many months of planning and studying history for prior art.