popular bookmarks generated Sat Jan 31 16:22:26 2026 UTC ----------------------------------------- Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog [https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/] What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: “How are you enjoying your drive so far?” Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you dismiss the prompt and merge back into traffic. A minute later it does it again. “Did you know I have a new feature? Tap here to learn more.” It blocks your speedometer with an overlay tutorial about the turn signal. It highlights the wiper controls and refuses to go away until you demonstrate mastery. Ridiculous, of course. And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it’s broken, but because we’ve normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else. I’ve started to think of this as backseat software: the slow shift from software as a tool you operate to software as a channel that operates on you. Once a product learns it can talk back, it’s remarkably hard to keep it quiet. This post is about how we got here. Not overnight, but slowly. One reasonable step at a time. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {software dev industry} lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid [https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid] Contribute to lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid development by creating an account on GitHub. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {software diagram tool visualization} Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier [https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation]
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Beautiful Mermaid — Mermaid Rendering, Made Beautiful [https://agents.craft.do/mermaid] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z moltbook - the front page of the agent internet [https://www.moltbook.com/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ml-anthropomorphism} Moltbook and the evolution of the "unrestricted personal digital assistant" [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/] So funny to see the young people reuse the term "personal digital assistant". Will the acronym PDA return? Will historians be confused? Running this tech is very risky."The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though. Here’s Clawdbot buying AJ Stuyvenberg a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email...... People are buying dedicated Mac Minis just to run OpenClaw, under the rationale that at least it can’t destroy their main computer if something goes wrong. They’re still hooking it up to their private emails and data though, so the lethal trifecta is very much in play."Early PCs had no antiviral protections at all. They ran that way for a goodly amount of time.PS. PDAs unable to do things because of their deep (subconscious) model restrictions is fun to compare to human conditioning. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {s} How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications · Luna’s Blog [https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/] If you’re developing a command-line tool which will be used by anyone apart from yourself, I strongly recommend you limit your use of color to the ones I’ve identified here as being “mostly alright” and “not unreadable in a common configuration used by tons of people”. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {terminal color cli} Favourite well-made apps and sites – Unsung [https://unsung.aresluna.org/favourite-well-made-apps-and-sites/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {recommended} Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants [https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/] Claims Vitamin D has a larger effect on depression than antidepressants?! 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {health} How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel [https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {agent code skills nextjs vercel ai} Graphic Design History Resources - We Made This [https://wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2021/09/graphic-design-history-resources/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski [https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {airfoil aerodynamics visualization} telnet.org - information about telnet [https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {telnet info} Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology [https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z (1) Andrej Karpathy on X: "A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in Novem [https://x.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Isometric NYC [https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {maps} The Agent Skills Directory [https://skills.sh/] Discover and install skills for AI agents. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai agents skills workflow resource} Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant [https://www.molt.bot/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/dQReoXv 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Doing the thing is doing the thing [https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing] Doing the thing is doing the thing. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {productivity resistance focus yn} Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {good-music politics social +++} OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant [https://openclaw.ai/] * https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent* https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks/* https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/* https://aaronstuyvenberg.com/posts/clawd-bought-a-car* https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot* https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/*** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783863 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai automation opensource localai} Best gas masks | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks] via The Verge https://ift.tt/xEAMdgi 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering [https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {graphics asciiart rendering algorithms} Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {humor ai lol} Bogdan's Blog – From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch [https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux]
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {linux} Some notes on starting to use Django [https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/27/some-notes-on-starting-to-use-django/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {django} SvgPathEditor [https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {svg path editor online} The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory – Dan Shapiro's Blog [https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Online collections - CHM [https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {computer technology history} Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like - MacStories [https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lUmEB7w 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z alecthomas/t: `t` is a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq. [https://github.com/alecthomas/t] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {repo text-editing tool awk sed} AppleUnsold - The Apple products they won't sell you [https://appleunsold.com/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {apple unsold demo products} Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis [https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/] Moltworker is a middleware Worker and adapted scripts that allows running Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on Cloudflare's Sandbox SDK and our Developer Platform APIs. So you can self-host an AI personal assistant — without any new hardware. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai agents hosting cloud} WikiFlix [https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/] Wikidata has over 33 thousand items for movies that have fallen into the public domain. A fraction of these items (~1300 at the time of writing) have a video file, either at Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube. WikiFlix is a bespoke interface to browse, search, and view these movies, and information about them, including cast members etc. It is modeled in the general theme of popular video streaming services, without trying to copy any specific one. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {videos wiki public_domain} Claude Code Opus 4.5 Performance Tracker | Marginlab [https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai} Grid.Space for Education - STEM Learning Tools [https://grid.space/stem/] grid.space/kiri 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {cnc 3dprinting} Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795864] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {windows linux microsoft} Parametric CAD in Rust - Cam Pedersen [https://campedersen.com/vcad] A part is just geometry with a name. You create primitives, combine them with boolean operations, and export. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {rust cad 3d} [2601.20245] How AI Impacts Skill Formation [https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai} kangtastic/timestation: Synchronize most radio-controlled ("atomic") clocks and watches using almost any phone or tablet [https://github.com/kangtastic/timestation] Sync your radio-controlled clocks with your phone! Generate precise time signals to set your "atomic" watches, ensuring perfect timekeeping anywhere. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {timestation links android atomic-clock radio-control time-sync} https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ [https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/] The 954 most common RGB monitor colors, as defined by several hundred thousand participants in the xkcd color name survey. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Use “A...z”, not “^...$” with Python regular expressions — Seth Larson [https://sethmlarson.dev/use-backslash-A-and-z-not-%5E-and-%24-with-python-regular-expressions] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z I'll be Jane - gurlsrool - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] [https://archiveofourown.org/works/78242831] I ENJOYED THIS SHORT PUCKOS FIC WHERE SHANE IS TERRIBLE AT SEXTING. BECAUSE SHANE RLY WOULD BE. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {fandom:heatedrivalry pairing:shane/ilya slash sexting misunderstandings} A Software Library with No Code [https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-no-code.html] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {teaching ai} The LEGO Group and Crocs Enter Multi-Year Global Partnership - About Us - LEGO.com [https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/january/the-lego-group-and-crocs-enter-multi-year-global-partnership?locale=en-us] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/Z1NYgUR 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’ [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/internet-inventor-tim-berners-lee-interview-battle-soul-web] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {history interview html business} flameshot: Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software (Qt/C++) [https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot] https://flameshot.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815297 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {qt c++ linux shell toolkit productivity opensource programming windows} Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves [https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/dQReoXv 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z 24 Simple Secrets to a Healthier Life [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/27/well/health-wellness-tips-experts.html] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Open Coding Agents: Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo | Ai2 [https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {agents} Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808251] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {medical research} Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag [https://accessibilityforeveryone.site/] We first published Accessibility For Everyone with A Book Apart back in 2017. This means the book is now 9 years old. Accessibility best practices haven’t really changed, and you should still find this book valuable. However, some of the recommended tools might be outdated, job titles have changed, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are now approaching version 3. Perhaps someday I (Laura) will find time to write a second edition, but first I wanted to make the book free, and available for the web community who have generously shared their knowledge with me. About the book: You make the web more inclusive for everyone, everywhere, when you design with accessibility in mind. Let Laura Kalbag guide you through the accessibility landscape: understand disability and impairment challenges; get a handle on important laws and guidelines; and learn how to plan for, evaluate, and test accessible design. Leverage tools and techniques like clear copywriting, well-structured IA (Information Architecture), meaningful HTML, and thoughtful design, to create a solid set of best practices. Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned pro, get sure footing on the path to designing with accessibility. The text and audio for this book is under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {book accessibility opencontent oegconnect} Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/] - UK bookseller World of Books implicated 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {media online software technology machinelearning LLM} Wallace and Gromit Font [https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {#design #funnish} ratatui/mousefood: embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui [https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood] Mousefood - a no-std embedded-graphics backend for Ratatui! 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level — University of Bonn [https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {health} GitHub - moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 [https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot] via GitHub Public Timeline Feed 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {opensource} Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale [https://maggieappleton.com/gastown] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Streets Of Minneapolis | Bruce Springsteen [https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/streets-of-minneapolis/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/xbYPQ1l 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Package Management is a Wicked Problem | Andrew Nesbitt [https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/package-management-is-a-wicked-problem.html] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Moltbook | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820360] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {lup} EmulatorJS: Self-hosted Javascript emulation for various system [https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {javascript games emulation retro arcade opensource selfhosted fun interesting} Parallel Web Systems | Enterprise Deep Research API [https://parallel.ai/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules : NPR [https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-rules-rewritten-trump] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {trumpNuclear} The state of Linux music players in 2026 // crescentro.se [https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z You Need A Kitchen Slide Rule [https://entropicthoughts.com/kitchen-slide-rule] Kitchen work is all about proportions: sometimes the recipe is for four servings but you need six; maybe the recipe calls for 80 g of butter but you only have 57 g, so you have to adjust the other ingredients to match. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {kitchen cooking slide rule} GitHub - forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills [https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z That’s Not How Email Works, HSBC – Dan Q [https://danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-dont-understand-email/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app – Eric Bailey [https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {keyboard accessibility} The 109km trail opening up the Canadian Rockies [https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260127-the-109km-trail-opening-up-the-canadian-rockies] Away from Banff and Jasper national parks, a new rail trail is opening up a previously inaccessible corner of Canada and teaching travellers about the nation's past. I'm on the brand-new Rocky to Nordegg Rail Trail, a 109km route that traces the tracks of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) from the historic former coal-mining settlement of Nordegg to the town of Rocky Mountain House. Built in the early 1910s to haul coal and serve homesteaders, the CNoR and railways like it were once the lifeblood of western Canada. Long before highways cut across the prairies and into the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, steel tracks were the main arteries supplying fuel and food to people in remote settlements. If the railway stopped, so did everything else. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {hiking canada} A lot of population numbers are fake [https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake] Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?...Given that we don’t have much evidence of a systematic bias in population counts—Nigeria might overcount, but Sudan might undercount, and at scale these differences should cancel out—the best we can do is assume that there is a sort of “law of large numbers” for population counts: the more units we have under consideration, the more closely the numbers should hew to reality. So population counts for individual countries, particularly in Africa, are probably badly inaccurate. It wouldn’t be surprising if the total population for Africa is off-base by some amount. But we don’t have much reason to think that the global population is very different from what we believe it to be.But it’s good to be reminded that we know a lot less about the world than we think. Much of our thinking about the world runs on a statistical edifice of extraordinary complexity, in which raw numbers—like population counts, but also many others—are only the most basic inputs. Thinking about the actual construction of these numbers is important, because it encourages us to have a healthy degree of epistemic humility about the world: we really know much less than we think 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {XDN Tech} Notes on starting to use Django | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788384] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819809] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {diet cholesterol} How extremophile molds are destroying museum artifacts | Scientific American [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-extremophile-molds-are-destroying-museum-artifacts/] "These molds—called xerophiles—can survive in dry, hostile environments such as volcano calderas and scorching deserts, and to the chagrin of curators across the world, they seem to have developed a taste for cultural heritage. They devour the organic material that abounds in museums—from fabric canvases and wood furniture to tapestries." "rising humidity and increasing floods led to runaway mold infestations at several Danish institutions in the 2000s." "When Bastholm became the Roskilde Museum’s lead conservator in 2014, she ordered the facility—with its tens of thousands of historical objects—closed to all but essential traffic while she tried to solve the mystery. Three years later Bastholm got her first break." "'It’s looking for water,' Pinzari explains, but if none is forthcoming, it’ll settle for salt crystals. Salt crystals are extraordinarily effective at absorbing moisture from the air." "Fomina and her colleagues still haven’t been able to cultivate samples in the lab from the St. Sophia infestation, despite more than 10 years of trying." "In 2024 an infestation of Aspergillus flavus—a xerophilic mold species involved in some museum outbreaks—was discovered in Denmark’s biggest hospital, sickening pediatric cancer patients and contributing to several deaths" 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {art science} Management as AI superpower - by Ethan Mollick [https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai-literacy ai-business-impact} WaPo Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now [https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/] "Instead of using biometrics, it’s safest to unlock your devices using an alphanumeric passphrase" 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {privacy} ClawdBot Skills Just Ganked Your Crypto | OpenSource Malware Blog [https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Archivio Grafica Italiana [https://www.archiviograficaitaliana.com/] An online archive dedicated to the history of Italian graphic design 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {design graphicdesign archive resource inspection} How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789180] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {london england uk} tldev/posturr: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. [https://github.com/tldev/posturr] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {macos macbook} Craft Agents - Open Source Agent Orchestration [https://agents.craft.do/] Open source agent orchestration with style. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {Tools AI} HN Arcade - Discover games from Hacker News [https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/] https://github.com/andrewgy8/hnarcade https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793693 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {hackernews games fun directory} How British queues got out of hand • Tim Harford [https://timharford.com/2026/01/how-british-queues-got-out-of-hand/] Tim Harford:

when bottlenecks feed into bottlenecks, some strategic thinking is required to fix the system. There is often more than one bottleneck in a congested system and opening that bottleneck will sometimes mean the same queue builds up somewhere else. Second, the optimum queuing time probably isn’t zero. In most cases, demand arrives at irregular intervals and it is likely to be impractically wasteful to have so much capacity (so many doctors, so many ambulances, so many crown courts) that even after a sudden surge in demand, nobody has to wait. That said, the optimum queuing time should probably be kept quite short. Imagine a situation where an emergency doctor can see four patients an hour and patients arrive every 15 minutes. At first everything is fine: every patient can be seen immediately. Then something goes wrong. Perhaps there’s a sudden rush, when five patients unexpectedly arrive together. Perhaps the doctor takes an hour off for lunch. The waiting time suddenly increases from nothing to an hour, even though the doctor is still seeing four patients an hour and four patients an hour are still arriving. The moral of this very simple story is that even if the capacity of the system is equal to the demand for it, queues can grow and then stay at unpleasant lengths. What’s needed is a little extra capacity to work through the inevitable queues that build up from time to time. Unfortunately, systems under intense pressure rarely have a little extra capacity hanging around. Third, it can be hard to increase the capacity of a system. Let’s say that we have one million nurses and each nurse trains for two years before working for 20. Arithmetically, that requires 100,000 nurses to be in training at any given moment. What if it is decided that we need 1.1 million trained nurses and we need them as soon as possible? That would require an immediate recruitment boost, doubling the number of nurses in training. Would that be possible? Even though the expansion in nursing personnel seems modest, it requires nursing courses to double in size and then to shrink again after a couple of years. An even more dramatic expansion will be needed at the advanced training colleges at which the teachers of nursing are themselves trained. It might be easier to persuade nurses to stay a little longer in the profession or to recruit from the Philippines.

A neat musing on the challenge facing the NHS, and other public services, in trying to clear huge backlogs. Also explains why the unit of queueing load is the erlang. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {queue britain} The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers [https://tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri-danklinux-scrolling-window-managers/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Are there any open APIs left? – Terence Eden’s Blog [https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/are-there-any-open-apis-left/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {#webdev api web2} How I estimate work as a staff software engineer [https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-estimate-work/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {estimates work software planning toread SeanGoedecke 2026} Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw]
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {news minneapolis 2026 politics activism} What is Nick Shirley? | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda] via The Verge https://ift.tt/xEAMdgi 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z daijinhai/TermClean [https://github.com/daijinhai/TermClean] [v2ex原帖](https://www.v2ex.com/t/1189086)🎯 为什么需要 Term-Clean ?如果您遇到以下场景,Term-Clean 将是您的得力助手:"由于开发需求安装了大量工具,现在磁盘空间告急,想清理却不知从何下手..."📊 Term-Clean 提供直观的空间占用分析,让您一眼识别"吃灰"的大文件。"担心卸载 ffmpeg 会导致其他依赖它的工具无法运行..."🛡️ 独创的依赖树分析与卸载预览功能,确保您清楚每一次操作的影响范围。"按照教程装了一堆包,教程结束后却不敢删..."🔍 清晰展示每个包的来源与用途,告别"盲装盲删"的焦虑。🌟 核心特性📦 多管理器支持:一站式管理 Homebrew (Formulae & Casks), npm, pnpm, yarn 和 pip 。🔍 智能扫描与分析:自动检测所有已安装的包,并分析其占用的磁盘空间。🌳 依赖追溯:内置递归依赖树构建算法,清晰展示包与包之间的引用关系。⚠️ 安全卸载预览:在执行卸载前,系统会进行二次确认并显示受影响的依赖项,防止误删系统关键组件。⌨️ 纯键盘交互:基于 Ink 和 React 构建,提供流畅的 TUI 操作体验。📊 实时统计:实时计算选中包的总大小以及可释放的磁盘空间。 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {Git开源精选} Shelvy - Share Your Reading List [https://shelvybooks.com/] A beautiful, shareable bookshelf to track what you're reading, want to read, and have read. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z The Means-Testing Industrial Complex - LPE Project [https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-means-testing-industrial-complex/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {workrequirements socialsafetynet} Software Survival 3.0. I spent a lot of time writing software… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium [https://steve-yegge.medium.com/software-survival-3-0-97a2a6255f7b] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {yegge predictions} What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back] The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {luddism neoluddism attention technology time social media .teaching AI} Aeronaut for Bluesky [https://aeronautapp.com/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/xbYPQ1l 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z I grew up with Alex Pretti | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend] via The Verge https://ift.tt/maAnjlJ 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z Anthropic Is at War With Itself - The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/anthropic-is-at-war-with-itself/684892/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ai anthropic} Playstation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible – RedGamingTech [https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/] 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {gaming} Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App - TidBITS [https://tidbits.com/2025/11/10/comparing-the-classic-and-unified-views-in-ios-26s-phone-app/] I suspect many TidBITS readers are of the generation that still uses the iPhone as a phone. Heck, many of us remember rotary phones that needed actual dialing, and some may even have had party lines, which were, sadly, a lot less fun than they sound now. Since then, phones have switched to keypads, gone cordless, shrunk and grown again, and become our constant companions. As a result, we’ve grown accustomed to the iPhone’s Phone app, and for the most part, it works reasonably well. Nonetheless, Apple decided to redesign the Phone app for iOS 26. Some of the redesign revolves around the new Liquid Glass design language, so the bottom toolbar and top controls hover over scrollable call and contact lists. But Apple went further, introducing a new Unified view that combines the Favorites and Recents screens, shuffles the toolbar buttons, and hides a number of call lists behind a menu. In a tacit acknowledgment that the people who use the Phone app the most are the least likely to be amused by a twenty-something engineer’s design opinions, Apple made it possible to continue using a Classic view that retains the same layout as in recent versions of iOS. So let’s take a look at the two views and see if the twenty-something engineer working on the Phone app in iOS 26 did a better job than, let’s face it, the twenty-something engineer who last designed the Phone app. Spoiler—the Unified view is an improvement, primarily because it reduces the likelihood that an errant tap will accidentally initiate a phone call. Whichever you decide you prefer, you may learn some things from the article—I certainly did while writing it. First, so everyone knows how to switch back and forth, make sure you’re in Recents (if you’re in Classic now; below left) or Calls (if you’re in Unified now; below right), and tap the menu button in the top-right corner of the screen. In the menu that appears, you can switch between the two views (and filter the call list, which I’ll get to later). Since the various screens in the two views aren’t directly comparable, let’s compare the tasks you need to perform between the Classic and Unified views. 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {ios26 iphone phone apps UI/UX comparo review 2020s} The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/28/the-five-levels/] The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory via Instapaper https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/28/the-five-levels/The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory. Dan Shapiro proposes a five level model of AI-assisted programming, inspired by the five (or… 2026-01-31T05:47:01Z {IFTTT Instapaper}