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GE's Wi-Fi-enabled Smart Grind and Brew Coffee Maker is best for those who prioritize convenience over taste.

As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.

There’s an SNL UK now! Funny so far. The cold open and a few of the other skits are on YouTube.

With the Iran war doubling oil prices, experts say the airline industry’s belt-tightening is an economic canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world.

What does it actually mean to build a better web, and what do we owe each other in doing so? A response to the 32-bit Café thread about trust, onboarding, and the distance between knowing something is wrong and doing something about it.

Long-time WordPresser Miriam Schwab just rebuilt her WordPress site with Claude Code and it looks amazing. Go check it out, this is what is possible now with proper prompting. I’d love to see a WordCamp keynote from Miriam on her process in this. (And she’s doing this while missiles are flying overhead. Wow.)

Catching up on this news from Bluesky:

Hubble is a new open-source project to build and operate a whole-Atmosphere public data mirror, synchronizing every atproto repository in real-time, keeping public data available even when a PDS goes down.

Great project. It’s not like the Internet Archive (no history) but more a current mirror for PDSes that might be increasingly hosted outside of Bluesky, and so without the infrastructure for backups, etc. One of Bluesky’s strengths is data portability and this leans into that.

Apple’s Mac app notarization is throwing errors for me today, maybe networking problems, so I guess it’s time to take a break from work.

I’m experimenting with the MCP protocol for Jottit and have the basics of it working. I can now create new pages by prompting Claude on my mobile or ask it to summarise pages, make edits, etc. I’m not sure what to think of it yet, but I’m definitely intrigued…

The sitting president of the United States, on his blog:

Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP

As the elderly descend further into dementia, they lose their sense of propriety and simply speak their mind. (They also get confused and think they need to “sign” their text messages and social media posts.) Say what you want about Trump’s truthfulness generally, but here, he’s just being brutally honest. Let’s keep his “Good, I’m glad he’s dead” post bookmarked for when Trump himself finally keels over — after he chokes on a hamburger or whatever it’ll be that finally does him in — and the good people of the world rejoice and celebrate.

Stuart Breckenridge, examining a web page at PC Gamer:

Third, this is a whopping 37MB webpage on initial load. But that’s not the worst part. In the five minutes since I started writing this post the website has downloaded almost half a gigabyte of new ads.

This is so irresponsible and unprofessional it beggars belief. Web browsers ought to defend against this. Why not cap page loads by default at, I don’t know, 5 MB? And require explicit consent to download any additional content?

Do you remember when Barbra Banda scored a goal on her birthday to tie up Orlando’s match against Denver? How about when Emma Sears ran the length of the pitch with the ball at her feet to put Louisville up 2-0 on Washington? Or when the Spirit came back to tie it up with a Sofia Cantore scorcher and a Leicy Santos snipe? 

Of course you don’t. That’s because the Cascadia Rivalry happened. 

Friday’s edition of the NWSL’s most storied rivalry—and arguably its only true rivalry, as the manufactured “District vs. Empire” clash between Washington and Gotham has only just started to grow real teeth over the last couple seasons—had an air of the bizarre before the season even started. It was oddly set for just the second week of the season, and would be Portland’s home opener.