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James Harris

@jbwharr.is

Humanity’s use of AI, visualized

James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 7h

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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Michael Druker

@mdruker.app

In the meantime, best I’ve been able to do is chronological feeds (I.e. scroll down to go forward in time) that remember your spot based on what posts the app says you’ve seen

December 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Coda

@codahale.com

I just wrote a poem for a friend’s engagement and was thinking about how fucking hollow and pointless it would make that if I’d punted to an LLM. Real gift card energy.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 4d

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

December 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

name the film

December 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Dan Kim

@dankim.com

packers send cease and desist to a tiny company making a cheese hat (petty much?), they pivot to a cheese grater hat, bears players wear it, hats go viral.

seeing the bears defeat the packers in literally every way is truly :chefs_kiss: 🤌

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/22/b...

Rojas said he’ll think about being a Bears fan now. He only started making the cheese-grater hats after the Packers sent him a cease-and-desist for selling his own version of a “cheese hat.”

“We couldn’t fight them,” Rojas said. “So we developed this.”

December 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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Dan Kim

@dankim.com

there is something very cool (extremely nerdy?) about this explanation of stereo sound on a vinyl record sleeve

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On a conventional, monaural record, however, the needle moves from side to side, or laterally.
The lateral movement has been used ever since the flat record replaced Edison's cylinder
What about the stereo record? Each groove on the stereo record has two sound tracks containing both lateral and vertical modulation. In order to pick up the two sound tracks, a stereophonic cartridge equipped with a small diameter stylus has been developed to move both laterally and vertically simultaneously.
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Stereophonic sound on records is finally here. It will be widely discussed, widely written about, and, perhaps, widely misunderstood. It cannot help but be; it is a complex achievement as well as an extraordinary one. We offer the following primer on the subject with the hope that it will both help you in understanding how and why stereo works and enhance the hours of listening pleasure stereo will offer you in your home.
Before stereo recording techniques were developed, the impulses of music were picked up by only one microphone. These impulses were then fed to one tape and from there to the conven-tional, monaural record, which you heard in your living-room through one loudspeaker. The conventional record offered brilliant sound and exciting sound, but, of necessity, it also offered only one-dimensional sound.
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Stereo sound is simply the attempt to give you music as it is heard by both ears. Essentially, what happens is that two microphones, left and right, pick up what goes on in the orchestra at the recording session. These two …

The sound from a record partly depends upon how the needle moves or vibrates. For example, when Edison designed his phonograph to play cylindrical records, he made the needle vibrate up and down. This is called the "hill and dale" system, or vertical cutting.
On a conventional, monaural record, however, the needle moves from side to side, or laterally.
The lateral movement has been used ever since the flat record replaced Edison's cylinder.
What about the stereo record? Each groove on the stereo record has two sound tracks containing both lateral and vertical modulation. In order to pick up the two sound tracks, a stereophonic cartridge equipped with a small diameter stylus has been developed to move both laterally and vertically simultaneously. This stylus reproduces the lateral and vertical modulations contained in each groove wall and channels the intormation to the proper amplifier and speaker. The intor-mation contained on the inner groove wall is fed to the right hand speaker whereas the information on the outer groove wall is fed to the left hand speaker.
The net of it is an overlapping and blending which gives music a more natural, more dimensional sound. For the first time, your ears will
Loudspeaker A
Loudspeaker B
be able to distinguish where each instrument and voice comes from-left, right or center. In short, enveloped in solid sound, you will hear music in truer perspective.
Stereophonic sound is the latest step in an improvement process that began about 80 years ago. In listening to it, you will enjoy the highest achievement yet in the art of recording.

December 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

a beautiful website
deuxfleurs.fr

Deuxfleurs : fabriquons un internet convivial

Association qui œuvre en utilisant ses propres infrastructures, des outils sobres et des valeurs fortes.

deuxfleurs.fr

December 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

playin’ It Takes Two with my twins

TV showing May the wooden doll from It Takes Two

December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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The Verge

@theverge.com

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install

Epic claims it’ll fight the fees.

buff.ly

December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

I keep chilled water in the fridge, in Soda Stream bottles.

Sometimes I use it uncarbonated, for coffee or whatever. Sometimes I make bubble water.

Today I fucked up and made a carbonated protein shake. Surprisingly not bad!

Vega shake mix and a half-full Soda Stream bottle

December 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Jason Byrne

@geekwithsoul.bsky.social

"This suspicious individual’s keyboard lag was “more than 110 milliseconds,” reports Bloomberg."

How do the HR departments of these tech companies keep letting this kind of thing happen? I've seen numerous cases like this now.

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

A barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter.

www.tomshardware.com

December 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

I’ve drawn a new spin-the-bottle icon
Holo (2012)
Material (2014)
web (2025)

3 icons, each featuring bottles and arrows

December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Sung Kim

@sungkim.bsky.social

Why AGI Will Not Happen by Tim Dettmers

This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective that is often missing in the current discourse: the physical reality of computation.

timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...

Why AGI Will Not Happen — Tim Dettmers

If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skep...

timdettmers.com

December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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Michael Druker

@mdruker.app

The stuff these guys are doing with SQLite is wild

Fly.io @fly.io · 15d

🚀 Just dropped: Litestream VFS. Query SQLite databases directly from S3 with zero download penalty. It uses HTTP range headers for lazy fetching and LTX for compaction, enabling instant startup even for large databases.

🔗 ➡️ fly.io/blog/litestr...

December 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM

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Zac Sweers

@zacsweers.dev

This could, and I'm not overstating this, save human kind

Tasha Robinson @tasharobinson.bsky.social · 17d

WHAAAAAT

‘Pushing Daisies’ Season 3 In The Works, Says Creator Bryan Fuller

Ned, the pie-maker, could be getting ready to make more pies as Pushing Daisies creator, Bryan Fuller, says a third season is in the works.

deadline.com

December 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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Bridget Phillips

@jingibus.bsky.social

I hope that every programmer I know reads and internalizes this pronto. A foundational document for LLMs in engineering practice.

Much here should be obvious, but depending on your POV you will find crucial guidance here in one place or another

Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 20d

I have put together a (long overdue!) draft RFD on using LLMs at @oxide.computer, but I know that there is a ton more to be said on the topic; thoughts and experiences welcome!
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide

rfd.shared.oxide.computer

December 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM

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Bridget Phillips

@jingibus.bsky.social

Climbing the engineering ladder means you get to go from being a person who is told not to do something stupid because it's wrong, to being a person who does something stupid in spite of it being wrong

December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Michael Druker

@mdruker.app

Transit gets better with more frequency!

Biking gets safer with more people riding!

City streets get more vibrant when there’s more foot traffic!

December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM

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Dave Rupert

@davatron5000.bsky.social

Creating a universal app store for PWAs seems like an obvious win here vs. heuristics triggered installs. But think about smaller, more bespoke app stores! An app store for your intranet apps. An app store for your webring of online mutuals. An app store for kid-friendly apps. That's fun territory.

Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · Nov 24

On the Edge team, we think web apps should be easier to install.
The default browser install button is great, but we'd like something which you can use on your own site, how and when you want it.

That's why we're proposing the Web Install API, which you can now test!

The Web Install API is ready for testing

We're happy to announce that the Web Install API is now ready for testing on your own site, as an origin trial in Microsoft E

blogs.windows.com

November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Jesse Wilson

@swank.ca

Whoa, just saw <editor-fold> in a generated .kt file. I love it.

Code Folding | IntelliJ IDEA

www.jetbrains.com

December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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squillace

@squillace.bsky.social

I might be even more thrilled for the entire @fermyon.com and #Akamai teams here than they are. Akamai has realized that it could put together a next-gen cloud native platform that both enables and pushes a huge amount of work far, far closer to the users than ever. And Fermyon....

Fermyon @fermyon.com · 26d

Today, we are super thrilled to announce that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.

Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology.

www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...