News

  1. All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 (www.theolivepress.es)
  2. ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (opensource.posit.co)
  3. Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI (letsdatascience.com)
  4. M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan (earthquake.usgs.gov)
  5. NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (www.axios.com)
  6. GitHub's Fake Star Economy (awesomeagents.ai)
  7. zeno timer trick (alok.github.io)
  8. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons (simonwillison.net)
  9. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (ashley.rolfmore.com)
  10. 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026 (mastodon.social)
  11. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
  12. When I quit my PhD (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  13. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (www.pcgamer.com)
  14. Vercel April 2026 security incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  15. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (www.legalnomads.com)
  16. WHY ARE YOU SO CALM?! My scooter accident (alok.github.io)
  17. Misaligned, uncontained slop (approximateknowledge.net)
  18. ME163* (figbert.com)
  19. SDF Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
  20. President Graph – FRED Data Broken Down by Party and President (probablydance.com)
  21. SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` (avi.im)
  22. Effective pre-journaling (approximateknowledge.net)
  23. [RC] Week #3: Journey through Ziglings (lvsl.github.io)
  24. Art14 Residency: Week One (writing.natwelch.com)
  25. Beyond strength (alok.github.io)
  26. Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
  27. How to Dine with a Baby (www.alisoneroman.com)
  28. How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
  29. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery (www.discovermagazine.com)
  30. Fish Cakes with Beans and Greens (www.alisoneroman.com)
  31. Ashland birds (and one bug) (cceckman.com)
  32. Equipment (cceckman.com)
  33. Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age (phys.org)
  34. The amount of honor to go around is very limited (alok.github.io)
  35. Infinite Lives, 2000: Diablo II (approximateknowledge.net)
  36. Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust (medium.com)
  37. Eleventy (macwright.com)
  38. Chicken Noodle Soup with Cabbage, Dill and Lots of Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  39. A Soothing Six Minutes of Chicken Soup (www.alisoneroman.com)
  40. Chicken Broth, The Long Way (www.alisoneroman.com)
  41. EsoNatLangs Bring the Complexity of Natural Language into Code (esoteric.codes)
  42. From Priests to Software Engineers (alok.github.io)
  43. Solar Revolution (approximateknowledge.net)
  44. Chicken Meatballs with Orzo and Spinach (gochugarugirl.com)
  45. Soft-launching Little Irons (george.mand.is)
  46. I'm Coding by Hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
  47. Mid-April, Miscellaneous (harihareswara.net)
  48. Living Personal Systems Pt. 2: The Intentional Years (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  49. A brief history of time units: Seconds (approximateknowledge.net)
  50. why homeless people hide drugs from kids (alok.github.io)
  51. Why Rust Wins in the Age of AI (hamy.xyz)
  52. Generating a Color Spectrum for an Image (amandahinton.com)
  53. All Their Pretty Persons (alok.github.io)
  54. Clubs, really? That’s what you call those? (approximateknowledge.net)
  55. Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)
  56. the last slop post (alok.github.io)
  57. Partial review: Language Implementation Patterns (sawyer.dev)