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