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I saw the last of the summer sun light up an aeroplane, and I imagined that aeroplane exploding, right there in the sky while I watched. The fireball would hang in the sky, and debris and people would rain down on us. We would think of nothing else for weeks.

• Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes | Website Wizard JOSM Plugin

ok, this was something that, for some reason, i could not turn away from. this is a delightfully quick little diversion and there’s even a homebrew recipe for josm. which makes the process that much simpler. the hardest thing in this little writeup is finding the filter panel in the JOSM tool.

sidebar, this is a peek into a very cool world where software meets built reality and all sorts of data sources and layers and cool shit. that i had the time to poke at this in earnest.

Protecting Engineers’ Skills in the AI Era

An operator who only ever supervises automation slowly stops being an operator. The hands go cold. The mental model of what the plant is actually doing gets fuzzy. Then comes the day the automation hands control back. It’s always the worst day, because automation only quits when it’s confused or in trouble. But by then, you have a person in the chair who hasn’t truly operated the thing in years. The manual steps were there to keep the human current. It was inefficient by design, on purpose.

insert snarky comment about vs code fans.

Voters Have a Message for Democrats - The Atlantic there are some interesting bits in here: Julie, a Democrat from Arizona, said this about her party’s leaders in an April 2025 focus group: “They didn’t make people connect to them emotionally enough. And we need that emotio...

work with me here what if the watcher is really a story about america’s dysfunctional relationship with safety and real estate? i’m really trying to find some sort of justification for having wasted time watching this stupid series on netflix. what if instead of being a whod...

So you want to use OpenRouter? — Mo Moustafa

this is a great compendium of the various nits and gremlins that exist within openrouter and more specifically the backing providers. well worth the read.

i have to admit that i was recently, casually, & completely blown away by 1981’s Eki / Station. in this film we have a hokkaido cop who gets sucked into a deep hokkaido winter, a season which is given nearly as much of a character role as the actors. and, everybody kn...

Just landed a "repost" button in @hypertexting.com. 🤯

I think this is going to have a significant impact on my link blogging cadence. 📈

I've been slowly replacing all of my cameras with HomeKit Secure Video cameras and generally much happier with them – including the sub-$40 Aqara G100 – than HomeKit compatible cameras like the Arlo Ultra 2, which were ~$100-150 each. Competition FTW!

I'm surprised by this Apple Intelligence in Home pricing though. If it was purely storage-based pricing, I would probably turn it on for all of my cameras and end up spending more in the long run. This per-camera pricing means I probably won't even try it.

👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.

It Turns Out Chihuahuas Are Actually Part Coyote

Unlike some other lap dogs, Chihuahuas are known for their independent, proud, and self-assured natures, despite their size. We’d like to think it could be the wild coyote within, though it is difficult to say for sure.

Honestly I think coyotes are more chill than these little monsters.

I just noticed the trees in my front yard are starting to change colors. Bring on the hoodie weather!!! 🍂

New Sonic cartoon and Crazy Taxi movie in the works for Netflix

Crazy Taxi will see a feature film written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, who penned the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun. It will be produced by Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher and Sega’s Toru Nakahara, the producers of the Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie franchise.

Idk, man. Sonic, I get. There’s only so much you can do with giving people taxi rides though. But then again, regular Taxi was a great show and it wasn’t even crazy.

👁️ ‘Flapping Shoe’ - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.

Crisis engineering is the practice of navigating high-stakes crises, understanding why complex systems fail, restoring shared clarity, and using disruption as an opportunity for lasting improvement. The book is written by a former government CTO and two former Google SREs1,...

Why is Cheddar Cheese Orange?

Because cheesemakers add orange coloring during the cheesemaking process. It’s the result of hundreds of years of tradition, dating back to the time when cheddar cheese in England was made with milk from cows whose beta-carotene-rich diet produced an orange tint in the milk. Today, orange cheddar cheese is colored with annatto, the fruit of the achiote tree, while white cheddar is made without any added color.

I saw someone post a link to something like this the other day (maybe on Bluesky?) and I keep thinking about it lol never knew it was just added coloring.

🔗📼 Zeteo

Honestly, the fact that Apple is two years behind on releasing its AI, and that it isn’t as cutting-edge as other models is the right way to do it imo. As someone who isn’t a hardcore AI power user, this is enough for me. I don’t think they ever set out to be a ChatGPT killer.

The next milestone will be installing Atlantis on my new macbook, and hooking a monitor up to it, a really nice one, and move my work to that desk. then Berkeley, the name of the system I've been using for eight years, will be here as a backup and source of truth and prior art. That was the goal of the Atlantis project. I could probably do the switch right now. It's like moving out of an old house that you did good stuff in, into a replica, but built out of the latest bits. Honestly I never thought in a million years I'd get here.