Part of the new PS 2026 collection, it's taken the Swedish company 26 years to finally nail inflatable furniture.
WIRED
• Jeremy White
Ikea's New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats
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WIRED
• Jeremy White
Part of the new PS 2026 collection, it's taken the Swedish company 26 years to finally nail inflatable furniture.
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• The New York Times
WIRED
• Christopher Null
Ductless AC systems get smart tech features—and the growing pains that come with them.
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• Dave Winer
Watched: Crime 101. I liked this. Has a little bit of the same vibe as Heat, almost. The name doesn’t fit… Didn’t get what they were going for with the “101” until after watching it. 📺
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins, Andrew Couts
The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials.
Chris Coyier
• Chris Coyier
Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn’t seem to be exploding in quantity or […]
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• Jonah Kowall

As software architectures evolve, observability tools must adapt. When the industry moved to microservices, distributed tracing became a necessity. Jaeger
The post Jaeger adopts OpenTelemetry at its core to solve the AI agent observability gap appeared first on The New Stack.
github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/server/code/worknotes.md
More and more I'm depending on Claude.ai to keep track of what we do here as things move along.
I wrote about Jeopardy, Firefox, Matt, Silicon Valley and the writer's web in a long comment on Doc's blog. Here's a quote. "What we really need is interop. If the source is free that’s great. But right now we have silos everywhere and I want WordPress, perhaps along with Firefox to help us boot up the writer's web."
Social Web Foundation
• Evan Prodromou
I (Evan) will be giving talk at Fediforum 26-04 next week, April 28, 2026, on the exciting topic of faking your way through ActivityPub conversations. Here’s the description: “One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityPub to sound smarter than everyone around you. In […]
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• WNYC
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's lessons for Mayor Zohran Mamdani (First) | Journalism in the common good: Michelle Adams on her Hillman Prize-winning book 'The Containment,' which charts the fight over school integration in the suburbs of Detroit (Starts at 53:15) | Jodi Kantor's advice for young people at the start of their careers (Starts at 1:15:50)
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
The discovery of a bizarre golden object two miles under Alaskan waters flummoxed scientists, but a new study pins down the true nature of the “orb.”
Gutenberg Times
• Birgit Pauli-Haack
Hi there, Good news, dear friends. WordPress 7.0 has a new release date! May 20, 2026. Announced on Friday, the post featured the updated release party schedule: All release parties happen in the Make #core Slack channel. Everyone is welcome to join. This week, I also traveled to Salzburg, Austria to discuss WordPress 7.0 features…
WIRED
• David Nield
Distractions? What distractions? Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation’s haptics and 3D audio. Maybe it will catch on with other game developers.
WIRED
• Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.
WIRED
• Jason Parham
Fans want to reclaim the music and myth of Michael Jackson in the new biopic while critics call for accountability. Who’s right?