Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Internet Archive updates GifCities, their GeoCities animated GIF search engine
now with semantic search and size filters #
Links
Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Garbage Day · Ryan Broderick
Emotionally psyopping yourself with AI
Read to the end for meatball sub at 70
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Every 5×5 Nonogram
600k of 25 million Picross puzzles have been solved so far, with 1,400 people currently playing #
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Event Creation Still Largely Feels Like an Unsolved UI Problem
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Sky Extends A.I. Automation to Your Entire Mac
Federico Viticci, MacStories: For the past two weeks, I’ve been able to use Sky, the new app from the people behind Shortcuts who left Apple two years ago. As soon as I saw a demo, I felt the same way I did about Editorial, Workflow, and Shortcuts: I knew Sky was going to fundamentally change […]⌥ Permalink
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
Large Language Profanity
Commit message: "Polite didn't work. Profane didn't work. Trying both."
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
⌥ ‘Nimble Fingers’ Racism and iPhone Manufacturing
Tripp Mickle, of the New York Times, wrote another one of those articles exploring the feasibility of iPhone manufacturing in the United States. There is basically nothing new here; the only reason it seems to have been published is because the U.S. president farted out yet another tariff idea, this time one targeted…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Excerpt From Patrick McGee’s ‘Apple in China’
Justin's Linklog · Justin
The “SohoTV” demo, revived!
Back in the 1980s, I wrote quite a few demos on the Commodore 64. One of my favourite hacks from that period was a bit of code which uploaded a routine to the 1541 disk drive -- which itself contained a fully functional 6502 CPU -- and used pulse-width modulation and bit-banging to flash the disk drive light in time…
Justin's Linklog · Links
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” This is jaw-dropping legal logic: [Meta's] defense hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless — one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM…
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Airbnb's New App, Experiences and Services, Chesky's Founder Mode
Airbnb has a new app with new offerings for experience and services; I'm not sure the economics make sense for either.
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matthew Haughey
The Slate EV truck
A bunch of friends sent me the announcement of the new Slate EV truck yesterday, asking what I thought. I was already looking forward to the Telo Truck, but the Slate looks even better and frankly, it's frighteningly close to my dream EV platform.What would an ideal
Stratechery · Ben Thompson
Apple's China Problem, Apple in the Short Term, Tech's Complement Risk
A focus on the tariff's impact on Apple specifically, and how Apple itself contributed to China's technological development.
Money Stuff · msprvs1=20216Vk7WqxwK=bounces-280172-1781@bounce.news.bloomberg.com
Money Stuff: Can You Blame the Chatbots?
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Spending 30 days in the nearly-empty virtual world of There.com
I wrote about There a year before its 2003 launch and didn't know it's still kicking with a tiny tight-knit community of about 30 players #
Justin's Linklog · Links
My Philosophy on Alerting
My Philosophy on Alerting Rob Ewaschuk's "My Philosophy on Alerting" -- a classic text on alerting philosophy and best practices; I can't believe I didn't already have this bookmarked, it's been a classic since he wrote it in 2014. "Symptom-based alerts" is still a great rule of thumb IMO Tags: philosophy alerting…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music
"what you see is what you hear!" the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #
Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk
Stenography, in this case, badly misleads the public The post Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk appeared first on Press Watch.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Economist on Trump’s Mindless Tariffs
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History’
Justin's Linklog · Links
Inside an Amazon CoE
Inside an Amazon CoE This is a decent write-up of what Amazon’s “Correction of Error” documents look like. CoEs are the standard format for writing up post-mortems of significant outages or customer-impacting incidents in Amazon and AWS; I’ve had the unpleasant duty of writing a couple myself — thankfully for nothing…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Styscraper
Matt Round's latest game for Vole.wtf is an addictive physics-based tower builder; don't miss his long thread on its development from start to finish #
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
It's a Fine Line Between Stupid and Uh...
Yet more on AI, which everybody wants to hear about. It's not getting talked about anywhere else. Great stuff.
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matthew Haughey
Links for February 27, 2025
Make yourself less valuable to tech companies is a great, step-by-step guide to removing personal details from all your accounts so tech companies can't profile, analyze, or sell your information to others. A recent John Oliver episode of Last Week Tonight covered this subject, but it's
Today in Tabs · Rusty Foster
Tabs Hiatus 2: Hike Harder
Ok this time I’ll finish the Appalachian Trail for sure.
Blog - Ethan Zuckerman · Ethan
Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented you.) How does a nation become resilient to foreign election interference? Atte Jääskeläinen, director of Finnish foundation Sitra, argues that…
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
Justin's Linklog · Links
Yahoo Mail hallucinates subject lines
Yahoo Mail hallucinates subject lines OMG, this is hilarious. What a disaster from Yahoo Mail: A quick Google search revealed that a few months ago Yahoo jumped on the AI craze with the launch of ”AI-generated, one-line email summaries”. At this point, the penny dropped. Just like Apple AI generating fake news…
Hicks.design Journal: Latest articles
The start of the process is blank
In the beginning there was nothing You're probably familiar with Brendan Dawes' drawing The Process, a succinct, sketched representation of the creative process. It resonates with a lot of people, and I'm definitely of the 'keep refining until I'm happy with it' frame of mind. I'm in danger of taking it too…
Justin's Linklog · Links
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens “Critical ignoring” as a strategy to control and immunize one’s information environment (Kozyreva et al., 2023): Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain…
Justin's Linklog · Links
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture This is a great story; bonus that it’s a notable improvement for the humble hash-table data structure: Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture,”…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Little Sisyphus
clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author's own programming language for NES development #
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Apple Support: ‘About Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts’
Building Slack · Johnny Rodgers
Values
We did many things fairly well at Slack. One thing we never did well, however, was figuring out how much office space we’d need. We outgrew our Clementina Street office in July of 2014, just five months after launch. Our new office in a freshly renovated building on
Justin's Linklog · Links
Artsy’s Technology Choices evaluation process
Artsy’s Technology Choices evaluation process This is a nice way to evaluate new technology options, from Artsy: We want to accomplish a lot with a lean team, which means we must choose stable technologies. However, we also want to adopt best-of-breed technologies or best-suited tools, which may need work or still be…
The Technium · Kevin Kelly
Weekly Links, 12/27/2024
Interesting shift that seems to be happening in the US as “crunchy” organic, home-made vibe shifts from lefty to righty. I embrace this widening. How the Right Claimed ‘Crunchy’ The principles outlined here are basically the ones we use for … Continue reading →
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
‘Ghosts’ of Spotify
Liz Pelly, Harpers: According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe a dinner soundtrack. In the…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
The Name of This Game Is Steve
Steve is a new puzzle game by Tyler Hall and family. Dead simple premise with often diabolical gameplay — as any good puzzle ought to be. Free download with generous terms, and a single $3.99 (in Canada) in-app purchase to unlock unlimited games. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
ADVERTISING: FITTING IN, OR STANDING OUT
A friend of mine once told me about a gold Rolex she bought for her fiancée. She knew he’d always wanted one, so she gave it to him on his birthday. That evening they went out to dinner … Continue reading → The post ADVERTISING: FITTING IN, OR STANDING OUT first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.
Dave Trott's Blog · Dave Trott
LEARNING LESSONS FROM BOOKS
I was reading the latest Richard Osman book. The chapters are very short, about 3 pages, which I like, before I have a chance to get bored the various stories change and intertwine. But what surprised me was, … Continue reading → The post LEARNING LESSONS FROM BOOKS first appeared on Dave Trott's Blog.