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Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg9j1lmy3k

a massively-multiplayer online rave

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This week I shipped an MCP so AI agents could read one of my sites. The same week, one of my hosts shipped a CAPTCHA to keep them out. Only one of us is reading the room.

This is a story about music, backups, nostalgia and, I guess, the iPod touch.

Every WordCamp program has a slide deck called something like “An Introduction to the Settings API.” It’s fine. It’s competent. It’ll be on WordPress.tv by Friday, where four people will watch it, two of them related to the speaker. No shade — we’ve all given that talk. But here’s the thing we rarely say out […]

Things all programmers should know

A roundup of infrastructure news for those publishing on the new web

It’s time for our 11th annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? For the third straight year, what will Apple’s AI story be?…

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season. “Key environmental indicators show that the nation is a tinderbox, gripped by widespread drought and with a light snowpack in the mountains.”

The safety benchmarks enterprise buyers rely on to evaluate AI models are measuring the wrong thing. That’s the finding from

The post OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Amazon, and xAI all fail on type of attack, study finds appeared first on The New Stack.

Demolition continues on 51st street.

The Rams just traded for Cleveland Browns superstar pass rusher Myles Garrett. But before you ooh and ahh at the prospect of the NFL’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year joining Sean McVay’s superteam-in-waiting, you should probably consider what Los Angeles gave up to ac...

Kath Korevec, who works at OpenAI, in a post on X:

Devs do a lot more than “just coding.” They write docs, design apps, design architecture, manage devops, work with data, etc. It’s no wonder codex is so good at “all the things.” It’s because we built it for developers.

Steve Troughton-Smith in a Mastodon post:

The best kind of WWDC is the WWDC that gives me a big grab-bag of tools to make my apps better along several axes, and doesn’t burden me with a huge amount of needless churn just to tread water.

JetBrains announced on Monday it has open-sourced Mellum2, a 12B-parameter coding model aimed at the infrastructure layer of agentic AI

The post JetBrains open-sources Mellum2 to go where Claude Code can’t appeared first on The New Stack.

John C Reilly has only one audiobook, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He's the best audiobook narrator. Wish he would do more. Also there's a great interview with him on the Rachel Martin podcast.

I’ve probably featured this before but always worth a re-up: “A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including banned and challenged books — no matter where they live.”

With Nvidia announcing the RTX Spark today, I revisited my quick comment from last year about the DGX Spark. It appears the price went from $4k to $4700 since then. Mac Studio price hasn’t changed.

No pricing yet for the RTX. It has better specs, but you’ve gotta run Linux or Windows.

Of course hardly anyone needs a computer with 128 GB of RAM. I’m only interested in following this because some new things are possible when users have (let’s say) 24 GB. With memory so expensive right now, and cloud-based AI continuing to outpace everything else, local AI models will be somewhat limited. I think more apps could adopt a hybrid approach of using both cloud AI and local when possible.

It's almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we'll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that made the tournament. Why the top 15? Because that's how many we needed to do in order for the USMNT to make the cut. You can read all of our previews here.

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The World Cup is too big and important to require its participants to seek any extra sources of motivation. You don't step onto the field of the planet's biggest sporting event with desires as petty as "proving the haters wrong" filling your head, because no hater can exceed the meaning of a World Cup. But if there is one team coming into this year's tournament that might be able to find some extra motivation elsewhere, it's Senegal.