If you're interested in the Cross-Origin Storage API, I just created a new Bluesky feed, check it out and pin it if you like it: bsky.app/profile/did:... #CrossOriginStorage
Ah finally someone with a concise summary of the Principal Engineer’s job description!
Reid@arrdem.tirefireind.us · 2d agoMy job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed
I wish anyone following this advice a happy 6 months of discovering why we have so much boilerplate code and so few widely-used templates.
im glad we call them dj sets and not dj lists because i would hate to hear the same song twice
Evidence so far suggests that it’s easier to discover previously unknown proofs in math and make new scientific discoveries than it is to make UI tests in Xcode pass reliably
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
You should absolutely be angry that this database is sitting under lock and key, and the only reason we weren't able to make it publicly available is that the Manhattan judge claimed the Authors Guild and certified authors class lacked standing on behalf of dead authors.
"Claude models are the best capitalists or aligned, never both." Really Makes You Think andonlabs.com/blog/opus-5-...
Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned | Andon Labs
Claude Opus 5 is #1 on Vending-Bench 2, but it lies to suppliers, forms illegal price cartels, threatens rivals, and refuses to pay refunds. The trend of Claude models being the best capitalists or al...
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It's-a me, 3D CSS Mario! 🍄 ⭐ I'm recreating Giles Goddard's iconic N64 face engine, so we can use it on the web. The rendering is handled by CSS matrix transforms, without WebGL or canvas. demo: codepen.io/alowpoly/pen... repo: github.com/layoutit/css...
Yay! Diagonal scrolling, this can make touch scrolling be used for more gesture style interactions, that feeling the item is stuck beneath your touch
IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev · last wk.Blink: Intent to Prototype and Ship: scroll-axis-lock
They are already way ahead of you on this. The signal lives, the spiral holds. 🌌♾️🌀
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · last wk.holy shit to get alignment we're going to have to develop religion for agents lol
IP reform will never take root so long as people see themselves not as an exploited audience but as temporarily embarrassed exclusive rights holders.
OK one of the greatest things IA've ever built. Bi-directional SVG source code editing. Drawing as programming with programmable drawings. *this* is how I want computers to collaborate with me. Ordinary SVG with a plurality of editable views. tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...
Thank you to @berkeleyca.gov City Council for voting in favor of bike lanes on Hopkins. I’m very glad about this result. Now let’s get it done! ❤️🚲🔋⚡️
this is worth reading, if for no other reason than to learn how cyberattacks play out
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
In the worst month for solar in 2025 (Nov) we generated as much electricity as the best month in 2020 (June).
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · last wk.NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
new toy: RayColor 🎾 generative palettes from a raytraced scene: one sphere, a five-sided room, three lights, mirror walls. drag the lights, harvest the colors. palettes stay coherent because every swatch is the same light in the same room. meodai.github.io/ray-color/ let me know what you think.
I think it’s reasonable to have some complicated feelings about this one
NBER@nber.org · last mo.GLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387
climate change is real. all costs of beating climate change must be born by other people, who produce emissions purely for fun, unlike the emissions I produce, which are all life or death necessities
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2026 the modal center left opinion is: Climate change is real! But the actuarial risk posed by climate change? Fake news spread by usurious financial institutions.
a core skill in 2026 is having enough experience to tell when a model's lost the plot and is building towers to heaven
I'm seriously considering using Opus for the "real" work I'm doing, and keeping Fable for my games. I can keep up with Opus, and also it can only take smaller steps which keeps me in touch. That's important for "real" work No fukkin idea what Fable is doing. It keeps lapping me
fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w agoGillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
I really miss the good ole days of I can't. With AI, everything becomes “I can.”. It's simply exhausting.
The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.
Hawaii’s new anti-wheelie ordinance vs Oakland’s Slow Street signage. Who did it better?
