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· Dec 10
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We are finally making a svelte skill for claude (and turning the repo into a claude marketplace so you can install the MCP and the skill with two commands).
Please check out this PR, there's a zip file with the skill that you can download..try the skill without the MCP and report if it works! 🧡
Please check out this PR, there's a zip file with the skill that you can download..try the skill without the MCP and report if it works! 🧡
feat: claude skill + marketplace by paoloricciuti · Pull Request #110 · sveltejs/mcp
This adds a svelte 5 skill that you can download manually to put in Claude code OR Claude desktop/web, but also makes this repo a Claude marketplace/plugin.
This will ease the experience of sharing...
github.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We are finally making a svelte skill for claude (and turning the repo into a claude marketplace so you can install the MCP and the skill with two commands).
Please check out this PR, there's a zip file with the skill that you can download..try the skill without the MCP and report if it works! 🧡
Please check out this PR, there's a zip file with the skill that you can download..try the skill without the MCP and report if it works! 🧡
Government consulting on foreign state ownership of 'Newspaper Enterprises'...bizarre
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Consultation on The draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) (No.2) Regulations 2025
This consultation seeks views on further changes to the Enterprise Act 2002 (as it will be amended by the draft regulations before Parliament) in order to clarify the scope of the exceptions and to en...
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Government consulting on foreign state ownership of 'Newspaper Enterprises'...bizarre
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
I hate literally every second of using Google Cloud
October 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I hate literally every second of using Google Cloud
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20% of US adults say they now regularly get news on Tiktok, up from 3% in 2020.
By age, 43% of 18-29s often get news on Tiktok, 25% of 30-49s, 10% of 50-64s and 3% of 65+. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
By age, 43% of 18-29s often get news on Tiktok, 25% of 30-49s, 10% of 50-64s and 3% of 65+. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
1 in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
Among adults under 30, 43% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.
www.pewresearch.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
20% of US adults say they now regularly get news on Tiktok, up from 3% in 2020.
By age, 43% of 18-29s often get news on Tiktok, 25% of 30-49s, 10% of 50-64s and 3% of 65+. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
By age, 43% of 18-29s often get news on Tiktok, 25% of 30-49s, 10% of 50-64s and 3% of 65+. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
I accidentally launched a podcast search app on Product Hunt this morning
it's currently closing in on #9: www.producthunt.com/posts/vol-2
why accidental?
after hitting publish I wanted to polish the svelte app a bit more, but couldn't cancel so yeeted it into the future
then forgot about it...
it's currently closing in on #9: www.producthunt.com/posts/vol-2
why accidental?
after hitting publish I wanted to polish the svelte app a bit more, but couldn't cancel so yeeted it into the future
then forgot about it...
September 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I accidentally launched a podcast search app on Product Hunt this morning
it's currently closing in on #9: www.producthunt.com/posts/vol-2
why accidental?
after hitting publish I wanted to polish the svelte app a bit more, but couldn't cancel so yeeted it into the future
then forgot about it...
it's currently closing in on #9: www.producthunt.com/posts/vol-2
why accidental?
after hitting publish I wanted to polish the svelte app a bit more, but couldn't cancel so yeeted it into the future
then forgot about it...
Finally: social features limping back into Spotify
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-08-26/i...
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-08-26/i...
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s...
newsroom.spotify.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Finally: social features limping back into Spotify
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-08-26/i...
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-08-26/i...
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Substack is only site to report year-on-year traffic growth in August among the top 50 English-language news sites in the world
Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: Substack is only site to report YoY traffic growth in August
Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Substack is only site to report year-on-year traffic growth in August among the top 50 English-language news sites in the world
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We're working to fix common issues when working with Svelte and AI. If you use AI with Svelte, we want to hear about the specific issues you've encountered. Your feedback will help us build an official MCP server and provide suggestions to AI models through static analysis. forms.gle/FhVGVAMCLBpw...
AI & Svelte: Common Issues
One of the biggest challenges when using AI with Svelte is that the syntax for Svelte 5 is quite new, and AI models often confuse it with the older Svelte 4 syntax. We're working to fix this by develo...
forms.gle
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We're working to fix common issues when working with Svelte and AI. If you use AI with Svelte, we want to hear about the specific issues you've encountered. Your feedback will help us build an official MCP server and provide suggestions to AI models through static analysis. forms.gle/FhVGVAMCLBpw...
I think most of my bsky network is either 'ML researcher' or 'AI sceptic'.
If you're in the latter group you're going to violently disagree with this: mbanerjeepalmer.substack.com/p/should-pro...
If you're in the latter group you're going to violently disagree with this: mbanerjeepalmer.substack.com/p/should-pro...
September 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I think most of my bsky network is either 'ML researcher' or 'AI sceptic'.
If you're in the latter group you're going to violently disagree with this: mbanerjeepalmer.substack.com/p/should-pro...
If you're in the latter group you're going to violently disagree with this: mbanerjeepalmer.substack.com/p/should-pro...
Lose the ability to read complex prose and he fears you may also lose the ability to develop complex ideas that “allow you to see nuance and to hold two contradictory thoughts together”. The medium is the message, and the message is currently 280 characters long.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?
As people read less they think less clearly, scholars fear
www.economist.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Lose the ability to read complex prose and he fears you may also lose the ability to develop complex ideas that “allow you to see nuance and to hold two contradictory thoughts together”. The medium is the message, and the message is currently 280 characters long.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Must-read. Eliot is spot-on.
Notes:
1. Every media consumer I've seen wants a truthful, quality, diverse media diet. (Yes, even *those* ones.)
2. But base motivations (curiosity, status, anger, mood) shape behaviour.
Aspirations come from System 1 but we live in System 2. So we need to align them
Notes:
1. Every media consumer I've seen wants a truthful, quality, diverse media diet. (Yes, even *those* ones.)
2. But base motivations (curiosity, status, anger, mood) shape behaviour.
Aspirations come from System 1 but we live in System 2. So we need to align them
This is why so many current debates about speech miss the point. The real challenge is how our information systems decide what we see, what we believe matters, and ultimately how we understand reality itself.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Must-read. Eliot is spot-on.
Notes:
1. Every media consumer I've seen wants a truthful, quality, diverse media diet. (Yes, even *those* ones.)
2. But base motivations (curiosity, status, anger, mood) shape behaviour.
Aspirations come from System 1 but we live in System 2. So we need to align them
Notes:
1. Every media consumer I've seen wants a truthful, quality, diverse media diet. (Yes, even *those* ones.)
2. But base motivations (curiosity, status, anger, mood) shape behaviour.
Aspirations come from System 1 but we live in System 2. So we need to align them
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It seems clear that legacy publishers are growing more and more comfortable building editorial products around the personal brands of their individual journalists. Yes, there's risk to this strategy -- the most prominent being that the journalist could eventually leave to launch their own competing
How The Economist and Financial Times manage personality-driven newsletters
Newsletters led by star writers are proving an effective tool for publishers to supercharge loyalty. But putting key journalists front-and-centre is not without its risks, as the FT's Sarah Ebner and ...
voices.media
September 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It seems clear that legacy publishers are growing more and more comfortable building editorial products around the personal brands of their individual journalists. Yes, there's risk to this strategy -- the most prominent being that the journalist could eventually leave to launch their own competing
Gmail bizarre spam filtering reaches new level as it filters out Google's own culture newsletter
September 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Gmail bizarre spam filtering reaches new level as it filters out Google's own culture newsletter
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Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com
Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search
Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.
council-search.bellingcat.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Finding key information shared at council meetings takes time and effort. Today, we've launched a tool that allows you to search verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland, without the need to watch long recordings or sift through extensive notes. council-search.bellingcat.com
Mightily tempted to build 'study LLM behaviours as a service'.
So many of these scientific papers are literally just evals.
1. We wrote a set of questions
2. We assigned scores to types of responses
3. We asked the questions to a set of LLMs and scored the answers
4. Journal article
So many of these scientific papers are literally just evals.
1. We wrote a set of questions
2. We assigned scores to types of responses
3. We asked the questions to a set of LLMs and scored the answers
4. Journal article
August 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Mightily tempted to build 'study LLM behaviours as a service'.
So many of these scientific papers are literally just evals.
1. We wrote a set of questions
2. We assigned scores to types of responses
3. We asked the questions to a set of LLMs and scored the answers
4. Journal article
So many of these scientific papers are literally just evals.
1. We wrote a set of questions
2. We assigned scores to types of responses
3. We asked the questions to a set of LLMs and scored the answers
4. Journal article
On the other hand:
- Friends who are good at writing React are very productive with LLMs.
- But (1) you need to be good at React in the first place (2) you can't ask it to write something unfamiliar.
- We should help LLMs unlock similar productivity for people who can already write Svelte.
- Friends who are good at writing React are very productive with LLMs.
- But (1) you need to be good at React in the first place (2) you can't ask it to write something unfamiliar.
- We should help LLMs unlock similar productivity for people who can already write Svelte.
Meanwhile a very common piece of feedback I hear about the thing I've spent the last nine years pouring my heart and soul into is 'this sucks, my LLM doesn't know how to write it' which translates as 'I am incapable of building anything without a robot holding my hand'
fuckin bleak
fuckin bleak
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
On the other hand:
- Friends who are good at writing React are very productive with LLMs.
- But (1) you need to be good at React in the first place (2) you can't ask it to write something unfamiliar.
- We should help LLMs unlock similar productivity for people who can already write Svelte.
- Friends who are good at writing React are very productive with LLMs.
- But (1) you need to be good at React in the first place (2) you can't ask it to write something unfamiliar.
- We should help LLMs unlock similar productivity for people who can already write Svelte.
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We just presented at Protocols for Publishers on building an internet that actually works for news 📰
Big thanks for @unternet.co for having us and @neeldhanesha.com for the writeup!
Big thanks for @unternet.co for having us and @neeldhanesha.com for the writeup!
The next internet for news? Publishers gather to discuss protocols over platforms
Journalists and tech industry workers gathered at Protocols for Publishers to talk about building an internet that works for news.
www.niemanlab.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We just presented at Protocols for Publishers on building an internet that actually works for news 📰
Big thanks for @unternet.co for having us and @neeldhanesha.com for the writeup!
Big thanks for @unternet.co for having us and @neeldhanesha.com for the writeup!
Using LLM via API to write a huge pile of regexes offline so that the online classification is dirt cheap and lightning fast (once translated to Rust, 13k items classified in four seconds).
by @alexparsons.bsky.social
www.mysociety.org/2025/08/12/u...
by @alexparsons.bsky.social
www.mysociety.org/2025/08/12/u...
Using LLMs to write text classification rules
Balancing the flexibility of LLM classification with a speedy and examinable rules-based approach.
www.mysociety.org
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Using LLM via API to write a huge pile of regexes offline so that the online classification is dirt cheap and lightning fast (once translated to Rust, 13k items classified in four seconds).
by @alexparsons.bsky.social
www.mysociety.org/2025/08/12/u...
by @alexparsons.bsky.social
www.mysociety.org/2025/08/12/u...
Haven't tried, but very excited to
y'all @ctrlspice.bsky.social is doing some SQL dark magic with @duckdb.org. This builds and flattens a trace waterfall from the raw OpenTelemetry span data in one SQL query 🤯 (It even handles incomplete traces with orphan subtrees) github.com/CtrlSpice/ot...
otel-desktop-viewer/desktopexporter/internal/store/queries.go at main · CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
otel-desktop-viewer is a CLI tool for receiving OpenTelemetry traces while working on your local machine. - CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
github.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Haven't tried, but very excited to
new `catalina` model on @lmarena.bsky.social stands out, need to find out what it is
August 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
new `catalina` model on @lmarena.bsky.social stands out, need to find out what it is
Shout out to @logfire.pydantic.dev for being surprisingly helpful.
Certainly lots of rough edges. But compared to other platforms, which seem to be built for an o11y in-group, Logfire says "read the docs? lol we know you cba, copy-paste this instead"
Certainly lots of rough edges. But compared to other platforms, which seem to be built for an o11y in-group, Logfire says "read the docs? lol we know you cba, copy-paste this instead"
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Shout out to @logfire.pydantic.dev for being surprisingly helpful.
Certainly lots of rough edges. But compared to other platforms, which seem to be built for an o11y in-group, Logfire says "read the docs? lol we know you cba, copy-paste this instead"
Certainly lots of rough edges. But compared to other platforms, which seem to be built for an o11y in-group, Logfire says "read the docs? lol we know you cba, copy-paste this instead"
probably worth reading in full!
the tldr of our second year anniversary post is that things are going well. the business model of "try our absolute best to do good journalism and ask people to pay for it" is working. people are willing to support this type of work and it has allowed us to become more ambitious about what we do
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
probably worth reading in full!
Excellent news.
The parts of the programming iceberg that are below the water, like observability, do not get enough love.
The parts of the programming iceberg that are below the water, like observability, do not get enough love.
Congrats to @gruntled.bsky.social and @svelte.dev for becoming leaders in o11y support in ESM frameworks!
Super happy to see what I talked about at Svelte Summit becoming reality. Thanks for letting me help out out a bit along the way!
Full @sentry.io support is already WIP and will ship soon!
Super happy to see what I talked about at Svelte Summit becoming reality. Thanks for letting me help out out a bit along the way!
Full @sentry.io support is already WIP and will ship soon!
August 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excellent news.
The parts of the programming iceberg that are below the water, like observability, do not get enough love.
The parts of the programming iceberg that are below the water, like observability, do not get enough love.