Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

I don't know what to make of the golden egg slides from Softbank. What I can say is that those eggs look delicious.

The news from Scientific American this week has been heartbreaking. While the magazine itself will go on under its new owners, many *extremely talented* writers and editors have been let go. I do worry about the future of #science #journalism… 😔

I think I'm going to start acknowledging my mistakes with "that was a bad grep on my part"

A fun part of wrangling LLM agents is still fighting their gleeful amplification of any pattern they can find. We special-cased this thing to get around a short-sighted design decision? Special cases are now the house style.

Maybe a PreToolUse hook will get my Claude subagents to think twice about committing directly to main? Hope so, otherwise I'll have to resort to following instructions. code.claude.com/docs/en/work...

Run parallel sessions with worktrees - Claude Code Docs

Isolate parallel Claude Code sessions in separate git worktrees so changes don't collide. Covers the --worktree flag, subagent isolation, .worktreeinclude, cleanup, and non-git VCS hooks.

code.claude.com

OMG I have so many elegant design decisions and perf optimisations in this project nobody will ever use, probably not even me as soon as I come to my senses.

It would appear that GPT-5.3-Codex is not familiar with the very-not-reassuring idiom "the fix is in". (e.g. idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+fix+is+in)

I feel seen

Molly White@molly.wiki · 6mo ago

soon i shall touch dirt! soon i shall spend $50 to grow one misshapen tomato!

I've never been great about writing documentation for my ephemeral side projects. I'm looking at some old ones right now, though, and I can't believe how many readmes I actually did write by hand.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

simonwillison.net

Thinking about how what's on marketing pages affects the side-by-side feature comparison ChatGPT generates between competing solutions; the strengths and limitations it infers; the target customer it declares each is "best for." 😬

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One of many many favourite Catherine O’Hara clips… youtu.be/ZQMUtkWv3Ik?...

Perma-Lacque Hair Spray Commercial

YouTube video by SCTV

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as someone who works with information for a living, i can tell you that even good, uplifting lighthearted information has an affect on your body and mind recency and frequency biases are powerful, emotional responses even more so there’s a lot of information out there, engage with it intentionally

Incidentally, touring bands can't be beat for hustle. We saw @thehappyfits.bsky.social at the tail end of an intense tour and they played their hearts out for an appreciative 1000-person crowd. Really good live show. Apparently planning a bunch more US dates in spring.🤘

Thanks to the same young person who years ago implanted Megalovania permanently into my brain, I have this by @thehappyfits.bsky.social on relentless internal repeat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYZr...

Cruel Power

YouTube video by The Happy Fits - Topic

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If I get any errands run today, the true motivation will have been to see how cute that frat/sorority house with the extensive residual halloween decorations and the 80% burnt-out strings of xmas lights looks under a fresh blanket of snow

I'm still squeezing a little bit of amusement out of being among the last humans to grow up confident that words came out of people with intent. (re: qwen3:0.6b informing me that lagomorphs are small primates distinguished by their ability to produce and consume fruits and nuts)

I may be Corrosion's biggest fan (who hasn't got large quantities of fast-changing globally distributed services to keep track of). Love to see it finally get its Fly.io blog post! fly.io/blog/corrosi...

Corrosion

Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.

fly.io

I was contacted by someone via my website. They played the Star Trek mainframe game on an actual computer at a university - one with no screen. He still has the printouts form one of his games, some of which can be seen here. A fascinating piece of gaming history.

Still haunted by last night's dream about an all-hands meeting where everyone's value was to be judged by the spectacularity of the Sora videos they made to dramatize their previous-quarter contributions.

I now want to learn Ash just so I have an excuse to buy the strangely appetizing book

Rebecca Le@sevensea.cat · 11mo ago

Feels pretty surreal to finally be holding the Ash Framework book in my hands. Thank you to everyone (especially @zachdaniel.dev and the team at @pragprog.com) who helped make this happen!

The Happy Fits are growing on me. Lots of layers, very tight. Love the vocals in this, especially the second half after the beat drops www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-Z...

The Happy Fits - Lovesick #1 (Misery) (Official Audio)

YouTube video by The Happy Fits

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I made this a while back with Elixir/Phoenix and Fly.io, and I still get a kick out of it. Create a Fly Machine near you, with the push of a button! It's useless! where.fly.dev

:oh-no: There's more than one accessibility problem in my TUI app. Some are easier to fix than others... (This is iTerm2; in GhosTTY there's simply no VoiceOver)

I decided to nail down which keybindings I can use in my TUI writing app, and things got a little out of control clutterstack.com/posts/2025-0...

Older teletypewriter manual (TG-16 and TG-17)

"DIRECTORY HOLDER" (Yes I have opened up a Teletype manual again. What's it to you?)