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Photos from the New York Subway in the 1940s, by teenage Stanley Kubrick.

Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with 32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB of RAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” on Apple.com. And estim...

On March 30, Sycamore announced a $65 million seed round to build what its founder calls an operating system for

The post Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft agree that the harness is the product. They disagree on the price. appeared first on The New Stack.

It’s pretty clear that apps and services are all going to have to go headless: that is, they will have to provide access and tools for personal AI agents without any of the visual UI that us humans use today. By services I mean things like: getting a new passport; finding an...

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These were docs included in the code, they belong here in worknotes.

Each user is stored as data/{screenname}.json:

{

email: "...",

emailSecret: "...",

screenname: "...",

posts: [ { text, when, link }, ... ] // daverss item format

}

Panic announced that the Playdate Catalog will no longer accept games that use generative AI for content such as art and dialog. AI for coding is okay, for now, but you can tell Panic isn’t happy about it: For the time being, we will allow Catalog titles that have used AI a...

Getting info from config.json to the code running in the client app.

When daveappserver returns the home page for the site, it also does a string replace for macros.

The values of the macros can be anything chosen from config. So it can be told for example what the URL of the server was that launched it. It doesn't need to be hard-coded into the client app.

Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.

Why Anthropic’s “emotion” paper accidentally misleads the public.

Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner. Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works with WordPress sites via the wpcom API via the wpIdentity server. A new frontier. ;-)

First beta of Inkwell for Android was rejected by Google, re-submitted. But good news they’ve approved a round of bug fixes in the Micro.blog app for Android.

Reproductive technologies have enabled children to be posthumously conceived from the frozen eggs and sperm of deceased parents, raising legal, ethical, and practical questions.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.

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The people who call themselves Mets fans who are sad when the Mets don't make the playoffs are really Yankees fans.

These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automation without messing up your home’s vibe.

Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there. Give your music a proper bath with this handy guide.

A gaming laptop without a discrete graphics card feels revolutionary, but the TUF Gaming A14 doesn't quite take full advantage of AMD's daring new silicon.

Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up.

Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more.