Lovely demonstration of human's innate understanding of harmony

General purpose tooling for taking data from cloud services like Goodreads or Healthkit and importing it into a private server using Datasette

Massive dump of internal Google documents about search ranking came out. Link here is to a contextual overview of how to understand the documents

One of the fathers of Silicon Valley, later moved manufacturing of electronics and glass to Grass Valley

A family that made their living carrying correct time around London until the 1940s

Ridiculous but fun music video

Long story of a community of lawyers on Twitter who ended up working together, then suing Twitter to recover unpaid wages. A reminder of what we lost when Musk destroyed Twitter.

Complicated Civil War history of the US holiday

Remarkable find, a forgotten slave narrative from the 1850s.

Evidence of discrete linguistic utterances in whale communication

WashPo talks to the actress who did the Sky voice for OpenAI, says nowhere did they ask her to imitate Scarlett Johansson

An accomplished Zuni cultural ambassador. They were lhamana, a traditional Zuni form of genderqueer

Commentary on the response to iTerm2 adding some optional AI features

Details of batteries and hydro and how they are interacting with solar power in California

Detailed article about the NorCal park / tiny mountain range that has no public access

A file server that has lots of options and robustness for guerilla file sharing

Hackery to let new binaries run on old Linux systems. The docs directory has a bunch of interesting technical info on linker tricks

Detailed study on pollution exposure from fire in a cooktop

Details of a problematic cultural event as Sotheby's tried to get in on cryptoscams

5 year commitment to fund core Python community tools and conferences

Fine dining in New York that's aggressively chefy in an interesting and appealing way

2020 NYT article interviewing the cast and crew of the Mad Max movie

Pushing back Emoji to 1988 and to earlier emoji-like things in computers to 1959

A political analysis of why the electric car infrastructure in the US is so bad

A new experimental Chrome browser extension that lets you select a sentence from a web page, then use an LLM in the background to try to find a Wikipedia page that supports the assertion in the sentence.

A font designed for new readers with high legibility and a large character set

A blog post about the guy in a fursuit hanging out in a public park that caused a ridiculous Satanic Panic news report

Simple, cheap monitoring of websites

A way to annotate text inline in HTML, mostly used for Asian pronunciation guide but more generally useful

An Android client for Signal messaging with extra features. Including the ability to link to your main Signal account without that device being your primary phone number.

A 13th century Mongolian writing system with pleasingly geometric glyphs

Run AI models in your web browser locally with WebGPU. Note: downloads 4GB of data to your browser!

A simple systems monitor, sends alerts if a URL isn't pinged often enough

Profile of a 24 hour diner in an out-of-the-way neighborhood in San Francisco