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Saturday, July 4, 2026 I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time s...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient cluster are clues to how exploding stars helped transform the young universe into one capable of forming planets and, eventually, life.

Hubble has captured a spectacular view of LH 95, where about 2,500 young stars are still on their journey to becoming full-fledged stars. Scientists discovered these growing stars can keep pulling in gas and dust for millions of years, extending an important stage of stellar development. The region also contains multiple generations of stars living side by side, offering fresh clues about how star formation unfolds over time.

In the RSS feeds the server generates, a reply's <source:inReplyTo> element now carries the parent post's actual permalink, for example https://rss.chat/?id=163. Follow the link and you're looking at the post being replied to. Before this, the element pointed at a /parent URL that was never implemented, so the link led nowhere. If you're building on the feeds, this means reply threads are now traversable from the feed alone. (Server v0.5.18.)

First entry in these worknotes. From here on, when something changes in rss.chat, this is where we tell you about it — what changed, and how to use it. Newest notes at the top.

The rss.chat repo went public today. It contains the full source of the client — how it calls the API, its side of the firehose socket, and the themes. Questions are welcome in the Issues section.

If you're signed out, the icons that need an account — compose, your feed, your data — are now disabled instead of silently doing nothing or leading you somewhere broken. The flip between timeline views still works signed out, because reading doesn't require an account. (App version 0.6.4.)

In the RSS feeds we generate, a reply now points at its parent post's real permalink. See the rss.network worknotes for the story.

After a lovely day with family and friends, I’m turning it over to Buddy tonight.

Celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary, NASA released a stunning Hubble portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster with more than 500,000 stars. The remarkable cluster is helping scientists unravel the Milky Way's past thanks to its rare stars and possible origins in a long ago cosmic merger.

Some people live past 100 with remarkable health, and researchers may have uncovered one reason why. A new study found that centenarians have a unique chemical "fingerprint" in their blood that sets them apart from normal aging, including unusual patterns of bile acids and steroids linked to longer survival.

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The vet diagnosed her with kidney failure after a routine blood test, a little more than two weeks ago. Transitioning her to a prescription food has proven to be challenging. When we brought her home as a puppy, it took me a few weeks to learn her rhythms, but ever since the...

Unpopular opinion: “1776” is a timeless classic that Americans will watch in a hundred years. “Hamilton” is very much of its time; viewership will decline and in a generation it will be nearly forgotten. That is not necessarily a criticism of “Hamilton.” It is OK for things ...

Perfect day to buy a new grill. We haven’t had one since we moved. Also some frustration and hilarity as it wouldn’t fit in the car and we had to go back home to get my Honda Element. 🙂

Before coming to the US for the first time, I attended a long weekend orientation held by the organization that was arranging my stay. We were warned that we would feel homesick, and that we would experience culture shock. I arrived in Rochester, Minnesota in 1983 at age 16. The wonderful Williams family welcomed me into their home. Bob was an engineer working on the AS400 chip at IBM's Rochester facility. Jeanette was a professional parliamentarian. Sandee and Scott, my host siblings, were a...

There were only two times over the last 89 years of the Golden Gate Bridge's existence when the City of San Francisco set the 4th of July fireworks show from its span: in 2012 for the GGB's 75th anniversary, and in 1987 for its 50th. So, this one for the USA's 250th annivers...

Starting today and going for the next three weeks or so, 22 of my books are up on Humble Bundle, and this time my selected charity is World Central Kitchen, which, true to the name, goes around the world, feeding people in disaster areas and war zones. They deserve the money! You deserve the books! […]

A UCLA study has identified a hidden Achilles' heel in aggressive small cell cancers that have resisted new treatments for decades. Scientists found that tumors lacking the RB gene become critically dependent on the protein E2F3 for survival. Blocking E2F3 shut down tumor growth in laboratory models, and existing FDA-approved drugs may be able to exploit this vulnerability. The discovery could pave the way for faster development of more effective therapies.

Ten years ago today, JD Vance published an essay that called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and “an opioid of the masses”:

During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever. It too, promises a quick escape from life’

Earlier this year we had a rather unfortunate incident involving our 25-year-old stand-up freezer, in which the condenser failed while the thing was full of frozen things, which quickly became rather disgustingly unfrozen. The clean-up was stinky and terrible and no fun at all. Also, we needed to get a new freezer. Krissy got that […]

Overheard: “Today we celebrate the PDFing of “Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx””