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Defector
16 Jan 17:45 • Nicholas Russell

Natan Last Has Thought A Lot About Crosswords

It may seem like they’ve been around forever, but the crossword as we know it is barely a century old. They started in the New York World in 1913, where it was originally called a “word-cross.” Going on to obsess writers like T.S. Eliot and Vladimir Nabokov, who reportedly w...

Manton Reece
16 Jan 17:42

I blogged briefly this morning about the W3C. Connected Places has a much longer post today about the new working group and participation.

I’ve submitted my name as an invited expert. I think they will have plenty of ActivityPub experts, but I’d like to help with testing LOLA and updating Micropub.

Scripting News
16 Jan 17:34

If you don't have one of these Keurig things, you're really missing out.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
16 Jan 17:34 • Sean Falconer

SLMs vs. LLMs: Why Smaller AI Models Win in Business

Enterprise AI inherited the consumer model of AI, but it’s the wrong one for most business-to-business (B2B) problems. In the

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Dave Winer
16 Jan 17:29

They should hire me to do a Keurig ad

404 Media
16 Jan 17:24 • Samantha Cole

Behind the Blog: Putting the Puzzle Together

This week, we discuss the staying power of surveillance coverage, the jigsaw of reporting, and eyestrain.

The Brian Lehrer Show
16 Jan 17:20 • WNYC

Trump Angers Greenland, Denmark and Europe

By threatening to take control of Greenland, President Trump has undermined a once-strong alliance with Denmark. Now, several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of troops to Greenland. Margaret Talbot, staff writer at The New Yorker, reports on anxiety and anger in Denmark and Europe.

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Defector
16 Jan 17:03 • Ray Ratto

Jonathan Kuminga Is In Basketball Purgatory

It's hard to pinpoint the moment that Jonathan Kuminga first became disenchanted with the Golden State Warriors and their management, so we will have to start the clock with the trade demand that sparked the latest stage in their preposterous standoff. By that reckoning this...

Defector
16 Jan 17:03 • Sabrina Imbler

In The War On Protein, We Have Been Humiliatingly Defeated By Protein

In light of the Trump administration's escalating threats of military action overseas and the militarized occupation of Minneapolis, the administration's announcement on Jan. 11 may have come as a surprise. The White House, it seems, will be ending the war on protein, per a ...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
16 Jan 16:33 • Jakob Freund

Orchestration: The Key to Integrating AI with Legacy Systems

In today’s enterprise landscape, AI may dominate the conversation, but legacy systems still underpin mission-critical operations for many — if

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Scripting News
16 Jan 16:13

Think different about WordPress, cont'd

This is a continuation of a piece I wrote in August 2025. Yesterday I wrote a this.how doc about getting WordLand to run on sites that don't run on WordPress.com or have Jetpack installed. What this means is that their sites are accessible through the fantastic wpcom API, an...

Manton Reece
16 Jan 16:11

Reviewing some of the W3C policies, kind of interesting who can be part of a working group. Small companies can be members for $2k/year. Invited experts can also participate, but:

Invited Expert status is not normally granted to individuals employed by organizations which have significant business interest in results from W3C.

If they’re too strict about this, which I think is unlikely, it might create a hole where very small companies don’t have a clear place.

WIRED
16 Jan 16:03 • Steven Levy

Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke

The plan, which is still in its early stages, is spearheaded by former USDS administrator Mikey Dickerson.

Defector
16 Jan 15:51 • Ray Ratto

Nobody Loves An Ex-Loser Like Buffalo

On December 15, the Buffalo Sabres finally fired general manager Kevyn Adams, and no, there wasn't some kinky backstory. As Comrade Theisen explained, owner Terry Pegula just got kind of sick of him, or more properly, his results. When he was hired, the Sabres had already mi...

xkcd.com
16 Jan 15:36

International Station

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!

Daring Fireball
16 Jan 15:34 • John Gruber

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018–2026

blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-design-convergence-review-2018-2026/

Keith Broni, writing at Emojipedia, has a good illustrated survey of how most emoji sets have converged in meaning — almost entirely toward Apple’s designs: There are several structural reasons why Apple’s designs so often become the gravitational center of emoji converg...

McSweeney’s
16 Jan 15:16 • Audrey Burges

I Will Be Your Chief Executive Worrier

In these uncertain times, you need a steady hand at the wheel. An unblinking beacon of sure-footed decisiveness. A fearless, damn-the-torpedoes leader who will flawlessly accomplish every goal. You don’t have that person. But good news: You have me, a uniquely well-qualified...

Defector
16 Jan 15:09 • Dave McKenna

Texas Tech Is Rich And Good At Everything

Texas Tech is good. Good enough to play into April again. On Wednesday night, the Red Raiders ran away from visiting Utah early and stayed there, winning by a final score of 88-74. JT Toppin played as a reigning and likely future Big 12 player of the year should, with 31 po...

Defector
16 Jan 15:09 • Kathryn Xu

‘Hades II’ Is At War With Itself

This blog contains major spoilers for Transistor, Hades, and Hades II. Supergiant's 2014 game Transistor is a love story in the drapings of an apocalyptic sci-fi action-adventure game. The protagonist, Red, is a singer whose voice is stolen after an attempt on her life. Her...

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
16 Jan 15:03 • Nicole Seah

Memory for AI Agents: A New Paradigm of Context Engineering

For today’s AI agents, memory is a moat. Every conversation counts, but traditional large language models (LLMs) are stateless —

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