Online map of surveillance camera network in the US

An op/ed about how the term "Civil War" is whitewashing in the US for what used to be called "Slaveholder's Rebellion"

Handy reference showing support dates and end-of-life for various software and hardware systems

A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp

AI-native dev environment, puts Claude Code together with git and service management and logs to help work on production systems

Funny spoofs of bad tech advertising, some AI inflected

"Creating general purpose robots for dangerous jobs". Unclear if this is real or satire or a pipedream.

Radiohead classic retuned to a major key.

Example of Kufic calligraphy, a beautiful and geometric stylized form of Arabic writing

Cambodian chef living in Oakland teaching people how to cook Khmer food online

Web browser tool for testing display consistency and latency

A deep dive on the Earth's diminishing albedo. We're absorbing more energy at a faster rate than climate models predict. That's very bad for global warming. It's also bad for what it says about the state of climate change prediction.

New login option for Google, a very short video of your face

An archive of classic videogames with direct downloads of game images

Some madman has ported Skate 3 to PC, originally with an Xbox 360 emulator but he's now rewritten the whole render system to stand alone.

Short review of a new biography of James Baldwin focussing on his homoromantic relationships

A nice short evaluation of the gay rights pioneer, without being afraid of talking about his flaws

New tutorial from an engineer with particular expertise

Young man reflects on growing up with Minecraft and what it means to him 15 years later

The history of the iconic Southern cheese spread

Swedish modern artist who did a lot of homoerotic cubist works of sailors

A very detailed panorama, high res scan

Go with no grid, free placement of stones. Looks like a coherent game.

A tiny part of Australia has a timezone 45 minutes ahead of the rest of the region

A statement in favor of using AI tools for working on the Linux kernel

A funny fictional map that was in the NYTimes in 1992, by Douglas Coupland of all people

A little toy: draw Conway's Life patterns and the webapp plays sounds related to them

A modern Do-Not-Track system, which has some legal teeth in California. Every HTTP request adds a header asking to opt out of data collection.

New California program to opt out of data brokers, looks promising. Goes live August 1.

Medium-big online community ports its Rails app to use sqlite as the database

Another gaming focussed Linux distribution, this one based on Debian

A nice overview of the history of wine in the United States

New Food & Wine article captures what makes Houston dining so exciting. (The print version has more stuff in it.)

Remarkable video of a bison flipping a man eight feet in the air

A Linux desktop environment with some aggressive aesthetic choices, but thoughtfully designed

A de-Googling alternative for Android notifications that's privacy and open source

Lovely photos of vintage industrial design

Report from a large AI coding project, porting a Javascript transpiler from Zig to Rust

A short piece on medieval medical illustrations

A very thorough history of Emacs variants, going back to TECO Emacs and including variants like Gosling and Lucid.

Making randomization in generative art interesting by giving it some texture

Analysis of census data showing where USians say their people are from: Mexican, Chinese, German, etc.

Warscape of Ukraine includes miles and miles of fiber optics cables from drones, now being used by birds to build nests.

Web-centric OpenStreetMap with a focus on usability including mobile.

Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated

Details of a fabled psychedelic from my college, apparently actually 2C-B?

Detailed map and graphic library of all the amazing tombstones in the Baroque co-cathedral in Valetta, Malta

High level reporting on the latest open weights model out of z.ai in China, main theme is that Chinese AIs are only a few months behind the US ones in terms of quality

Detailed look at the new open weights LLM applied to a real world programming task

A little SVG app for making abstract colored patterns, like for screen wallpaper

Playlist of the recently released EP

An overhaul mod for Factorio that significantly changes gameplay.

Good civilian explainer on AIs programming to improve themselves

Details on BIOS settings for a particular miniPC.

The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has long been overlooked.

Open source AI agent under the Linux Foundation umbrella. My friend Douwe works on it.

Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging, a nice little new community

The open iMessage alternative for text messaging has a special business product with fancier messages

A new leaderboard / list of 5000 independent personal bogs

A story of a coding agent going through absurdly complex lengths to accomplish something. It's mostly scary and cautionary, but also exciting?

A funny little Brotato clone, a casual shooter that's surprisingly fun to play.

Bennet Foddy strikes again

A tool to save a full web page, as you see in your browser, for later archiving. Can also integrate with linkding.

I switched the backend for my linkblog.

Alberta has no rats. It has set up a border at Saskatchewan to keep them out.

Guardian with a lovely gallery of some of Hockney's most loved paintings

A 1767 sketch by Charles Peale showing Ben Franklin with a young lady in his lap

Swift shutdown of Anthropic's new LLM may have been based on Amazon researchers figuring out how to circumvent safeguards

Thoughtful essay on how same-sex love is not synonymous with liberalism or progressivism

A beautifully written and illustrated guide to chile

Lovely essay from someone who knew the artist well

Detailed article about the complications of rendering Arabic text correctly, rooted in history

A fun queer history podcast

A poetic, slightly awed account of using Anthropic's newest LLM to build complex software products

Fun exploration of figuring out how to bash the bits on a raw disk to deliberately trigger file corruption for ZFS to detect and correct

New AI is deployed with a guardrail that if you try to use it to improve AIs, you will get silent corruption. Protecting their IP? Preventing the singularity? It's a bit baffling.

The 1913 gay novel had an afterword written in 1960

A collection of free ebooks, I think mostly things out of copyright. They have been proofread and edited

Roundup of hardware to remotely access a PC

Navigation satellites have been broadcasting encrypted data for over a decade. Really neat analysis.

Nice notes about working with an immutable OS while also heavily tinkering and customizing

Some deep-in-the-weeds details about boiling down an LLM to a small size you can run on a single desktop computer (or phone)

A popular Linux desktop environment is dropping the choice of using the old X-Windows system. It's Wayland now, although an X11 compatibility system will continue

Install Linux with LGBT pride!

Yet another service, seems to be working now