Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.2026-01-28T05:47:01Z 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 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im] Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes :: [https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {postgresql_tips} Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology [https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Things I’ve learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager [https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {management} I use the 'unicorn prompt' with every chatbot — it instantly fixes the worst AI problem [https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-use-the-unicorn-prompt-with-every-chatbot-it-instantly-fixes-the-worst-ai-problem] A universal solution to better chatbot responses 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ai prompt fav} Daniel Kennett - A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing [https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/] I'm an old Mac-head at heart, and I've been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don't tend to think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there's a thing to be said about the simplicity of older software, but most of my fondness for those days is nostalgia. An exception to that, however, is Apple's Aperture. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ui ux} (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] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Bonsplit - Native macOS Tab Bar with Split Panes for SwiftUI [https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {design inspiration web} GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. [https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot] bjtitus starred clawdbot/clawdbot 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {from:ifttt github} Unrolling the Codex agent loop | OpenAI [https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {llm agents} What "The Best" Looks Like | Alex Kurilin [https://www.kuril.in/blog/what-the-best-looks-like/] A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {hiring} telnet.org - information about telnet [https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {telnet info} 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] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {macos macbook} Isometric NYC [https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {maps} Some notes on starting to use Django [https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/27/some-notes-on-starting-to-use-django/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {django} Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant [https://www.molt.bot/]
Moltbot — The AI that actually does things. Your personal assistant on any platform.2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ia ai utils bot tools} Dithering - Part 2 [https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-2/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {design education algorithm visualization graphics} This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anythin [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {vrai} Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability - Apple [https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improved-findability/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lUmEB7w 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format | MapLibre [https://maplibre.org/news/2026-01-23-mlt-release/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {mapping} building isometric nyc [https://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {mapping} llmspy.org [https://llmspy.org/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {llm ui python} Trump DOT Plans to Use Google Gemini AI to Write Regulations — ProPublica [https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-artificial-intelligence-google-gemini-transportation-regulations] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {regulation} Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking? | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/policy/867202/ice-mask-ban-no-secret-police-california] via The Verge https://ift.tt/RunFkBE 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z 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.2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {news minneapolis 2026 politics activism} 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 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {opensource} The Agent Skills Directory [https://skills.sh/] Discover and install skills for AI agents. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ai agents skills workflow resource} 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] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {repo text-editing tool awk sed} 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. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {videos wiki public_domain} pageman/sutskever-30-implementations: sutskever 30 implementations inspired by https://papercode.vercel.app/ [https://github.com/pageman/sutskever-30-implementations] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {deep-learning ilya-sutskever ml} TSMC Risk – Stratechery by Ben Thompson [https://stratechery.com/2026/tsmc-risk/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {history predictions statistics money manufacturing computers china america business ai llm economics amazon microsoft facebook google} Iran builds its national net prison [https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/] Similar China. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {s} THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION [https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation [https://wisprflow.ai/] paid, but works amazingly, best voice dictation app 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {aigenai macos menubar audio mustknow musthave dictation} 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 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z nra chief tortured a cat to death [https://archive.is/xdmUL] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {nra cats} Dockhand — Modern Docker Management [https://dockhand.pro/] A powerful, intuitive Docker platform. Free for homelabs, ready for enterprise. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {containers open-source software selfhosted server} The lost art of XML — mmagueta [https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-xml/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z lucasgelfond/zerobrew: A drop-in, 5-20x faster, Rust-based experimental Homebrew alternative [https://github.com/lucasgelfond/zerobrew] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {homebrew} Donald Trump “will go and we will stay,” he said. “We Somalis know how to survive. We’ve been through a lot—civil war, refugee camps.” [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/] A very good description of the MSP resistance. I am at the periphery of it and this provided me context for those more directly engaged. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {s} Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709270] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale [https://maggieappleton.com/gastown] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z JuiceSSH - Give me my pro features back [https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Electricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch [https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z The state of Linux music players in 2026 // crescentro.se [https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {GenAI code digital.transfo} ClawdHub [https://clawdhub.com/] ClawdHub — a fast skill registry for agents, with vector search. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {clawdbot} I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship [https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {issue268 posts} My Claude Code psychosis [https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code] 1. "I now get why software engineers were AGI-pilled first — using Claude Code has fundamentally rewired my understanding of what AI can do. I knew in theory about coding agents but wasn’t impressed until I built something. It’s the kind of thing you don’t get until you try." 2. "The second-order effect of Claude Code was realizing how many of my problems are not software-shaped. Having these new tools did not make me more productive; on the contrary, Claudecrastination probably delayed this post by a week." 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {artificial-intelligence claude} Icon Sets • Iconify [https://icon-sets.iconify.design/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {DealCircle Icons} Vjeux » Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month [https://blog.vjeux.com/2026/analysis/porting-100k-lines-from-typescript-to-rust-using-claude-code-in-a-month.html] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z ChatGPT can analyze Apple Watch health data. Here’s how a doctor views it • The Washington Post [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/26/chatgpt-health-apple/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NDAzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNzg1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk0MDM2MDAsImp0aSI6ImViNDBkZWYyLTVkMjktNGVjMy1iNDk0LTA1NDE4Njk0OTEyYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjYvMDEvMjYvY2hhdGdwdC1oZWFsdGgtYXBwbGUvIn0.fSfYcqq7mFPbXm2th3uixV4OXkEqeAC3cvVoYNAlFWs] Geoffrey Fowler:
So, a long way from being your new doctor. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {chagpt health watch} affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. [https://github.com/affaan-m/everything-claude-code] Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {claudecode claude} The future of software engineering is SRE | Swizec Teller [https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {software sre llm future} simple crispy pan pizza – smitten kitchen [https://smittenkitchen.com/2026/01/simple-crispy-pan-pizza/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {recipes} Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data] ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why – On my Om [https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/] "Why does everyone feel overwhelmed by information? Why does it feel impossible to trust what passes through our streams? We tend to blame individual publications, specific platforms, or bad actors. The real answer has less to do with any single media entity and more with structural changes in the information ecosystem. I started my “information” life typing copy on an ill-tempered Remington. As a teenage reporter, I saw newspapers being typeset, one letter at a time. It was a messy, slow, and laborious process. So I don’t carry romantic notions about the old days. I’ve been quick to embrace any technology that, in Stephen Covey’s words, helps me keep “the main thing the main thing.” The main thing is telling a thoroughly reported, well-written story. The early 1990s Internet, followed by blogging at the turn of the century, and social media a decade later all helped me do that main thing. In the mid-2000s I embraced Dave Winer’s mantra of “sources going direct.” As far back as 2009, I outlined the coming changes in my essays “How Internet Content Distribution and Discovery Are Changing” and “Amplification and the Changing Role of Media.” For the past decade and a half, the whole information ecosystem has become much larger, faster and noiser. It is hardly surprising that nothing works. And we feel a collective sense of overwhelming disappointment. So, why does nothing work? Authority used to be the organizing principle of information, and thus the media. You earned attention by being right, by being first in discovery, or by being big enough to be the default. That world is gone. The new and current organizing principle of information is velocity. What matters now is how fast something moves through the network: how quickly it is clicked, shared, quoted, replied to, remixed, and replaced. In a system tuned for speed, authority is ornamental. The network rewards motion first and judgment later, if ever. Perhaps that’s why you feel you can’t discern between truths, half-truths, and lies. With so much coming at us all the time, it is difficult to give any single story or news event much weight. More content means already fragmented attention fractures even further. Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, Epstein Files, Dodgers. On and on. Networks have always shaped how societies are organized. Roman roads didn’t just make travel easier; they mapped the reach of the state and the limits of power. Shipping routes determined where colonial empires flourished and where they faded. In the Victorian age, the railways didn’t just shorten journeys; they rearranged British society. They created commuting and leisure, turned market towns into suburbs, standardized national time, and collapsed the meaning of distance. They also reordered authority: timetables mattered as much as parliaments. What looks like cultural choice is often the echo of infrastructure. Today’s mobile, cloud-linked world is another Victorian moment. Networks compress time and space, then quietly train us to live at their speed. That’s why we get all our information as memes. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is carried. You don’t need to read the thing; you just need the gist, compressed and passed along in a sentence, an image, or a joke. It has taken the role of the headline. The machine accelerates this dynamic. It demands constant material; stop feeding it and the whole structure shakes. The point of the internet now is mostly to hook attention and push it toward commerce, to keep the engine running. Anyone can get their cut. Velocity has taken over. Algorithms on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter do not optimize for truth or depth. They optimize for motion. A piece that moves fast is considered “good.” A piece that hesitates disappears. There are almost no second chances online because the stream does not look back. People are not failing the platforms. People are behaving exactly as the platforms reward. We might think we are better, but we have the same rat-reward brain. We built machines that prize acceleration and then act puzzled that everything feels rushed and slightly manic. The networks of the past were slower and at a scale that was adaptable. I wrote about this years ago, and nothing since has disproved it. So when the author of “beliefs outrun facts” says nothing works, now you know why. The fundamental network-level changes should give you a good idea of why we have a growing ambivalent relationship toward media as an organized information entity. I will get into technology media from startup perspective in a separate piece. For now, I will stick to the broader media ecosystem. Let’s use YouTube technology reviews as a case study, because they are universally understandable. Take the launch of a new phone: when the embargo lifts, dozens of polished video reviews appear on YouTube. They run about 20 minutes, share similar thumbnails, and use the same mood lighting. The reviewers had access to the phones before everyone else, so they had time to prepare their reviews. In the old days, before the current phase of content abundance, folks like Walt Mossberg, Ed Baig, David Pogue, and Steven Levy were often the first to get Apple products for review. Sure, these folks had big platforms, but that head startgave them a lot of clout, which meant many non-Apple companies offered them early access to their products. I never felt cheated or misled by their reviews, though I did notice what they omitted after using the product for a few months. These days, things are markedly different. For YouTubers, access is the currency of survival. Access, of course, means suggested talking points. Again, nothing new. What’s different is that every reviewer knows that if they paint outside the lines, they’ll lose access. If you don’t have the review out when the embargo lifts, it doesn’t matter if you have a better review; no one is going to notice. The system rewards whoever speaks first, not whoever lives with it long enough to understand it. The “review” at launch outperforms the review written two months later by orders of magnitude. The second, longer, more in-depth, more honest review might as well not exist. It’s not that people are less honest by nature. It’s that the structure pays a premium for compliance and levies a tax on independence. The result is a soft capture where creators don’t have to be told what to say. The incentives do the talking. We built systems that reward acceleration, then act surprised when everything feels rushed, shallow, and slightly manic. People do what the network rewards. Writers write for the feed. Photographers shoot for the scroll. Newsrooms frame stories as conflict because conflict travels faster than nuance. Even our emotional lives adapt to latency and refresh cycles. The design of the network becomes the choreography of daily life. In older networks, the constraints were physical. The number of train lines limited where cities could grow. The number of printing presses limited how many voices could speak. In our case, the constraint is temporal: how fast something can be produced, clicked, shared, and replaced. When velocity becomes the scarcest resource, everything orients around it. This is why it’s wrong to think of “the algorithm” as some quirky technical layer that can be toggled on and off or worked around. The algorithm is the culture. It decides what gets amplified, who gets to make a living, and what counts as “success.” Once velocity is the prize, quality becomes risky. Thoughtfulness takes time. Reporting takes time. Living with a product or an idea takes time. Yet the window for relevance keeps shrinking, and the penalty for lateness is erasure. We get a culture optimized for first takes, not best takes. The network doesn’t ask if something is correct or durable, only if it moves. If it moves, the system will find a way to monetize it. The algorithm doesn’t care whether something is true; it cares whether it moves. Day-one content becomes advertising wearing the mask of criticism. All of this folds back into a larger point. When attention is fragmented and speed becomes the dominant value, media rearranges itself around that reality. Not because anyone wakes up wanting to mislead people, but because the context makes some paths survivable and others impossible. The YouTube algorithm is the real enforcer because it rewards velocity. Get into the algorithmic slip stream and you get the numbers and make money. So it is no surprise that most day-one reviews are, well, anything but. This goes back to my original premise that when velocity becomes the defining metric, authority is displaced. You don’t need to be right; you need to be first in the feed. Generalize this beyond YouTube tech reviews and you see the same pattern everywhere. I’m flabbergasted by how much good journalism goes unnoticed every day. We didn’t just put journalism, entertainment, politics, and private lives on networks. We let the networks rewrite what those things are forand how they work. None of what I am saying is new. Decades ago the media sage Marshall McLuhan summed it up in his timeless phrase, “The medium is the message.” The medium, the technology or channel of communication, influences society and individuals more profoundly than the content, altering our senses and habits and, in turn, our perception, interaction, and culture. The only difference is that network is like a hydra, and data is the fuel that adds velocity, the new metric of perceived reality. The cost of all this isn’t abstract. It’s the review that took three months, and no one will read it. It’s the investigation that requires patience. It’s the work of understanding before passing judgment. All of it still exists, still gets made. It just doesn’t travel. In a system where only what travels matters, we’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise. The cost of all this isn’t abstract. It’s the review that took three months but no one will read. It’s the investigation that required patience. It’s the work of understanding something before declaring judgment. All of it still exists, still gets made. It just doesn’t travel. And in a system where only what travels matters, we’ve made expertise indistinguishable from noise. In the age of AI, will any of this matter when our idea of information will be entirely different?" 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {internet web online speed velocity ommalik 2026 howweread reading writing howwewrite socialmedia youtube acceleration attention noise information authority media society netwoeks commerce algorithms instagram facebook twitter tiktok journalism thoughfulness relevance thought howwethink fragmentation marshallmcluhan ai artificialintelligence} The Hidden Engineering of Runways — Practical Engineering [https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {aviation} Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html] After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived. ... The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {trump2026 ice minneapolis} M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) [https://maniek86.xyz/projects/m8sbc_486.php] The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch. From the schematic and PCB to the chipset! It is not based on existing designs, but rather on my experience with my previous experimental 486 homebrew (page about it coming soon!). I started working on it back in August 2025 and I started researching the 486 CPU in April 2025. I initially planned to make it just a 486 homebrew with the ordinary goal of getting it to run Linux and DOOM. However, my design choices made it compatible enough to run other cool stuff! 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Text is king - by Adam Mastroianni - Experimental History [https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king] "I have one more gripe against the “death of literacy” hypothesis, and against Walter Ong, the Jesuit priest/English professor whose book Orality and Literacy provides the intellectual backbone for the argument. Most of the differences between oral and literate cultures are actually differences between non-recorded and recorded cultures. And even if our culture has become slightly less literate, it has become far more recorded. As Ong points out, in an oral culture, the only way for information to pass from one generation to another is for someone to remember and repeat it.4 This is bit like trying to maintain a music collection with nothing but a first-generation iPod: you can’t store that much, so you have to make tradeoffs. Oral traditions are chock full of repetition, archetypal characters, and intuitive ideas, because that’s what it takes to make something memorable. Precise facts, on the other hand, are like 10-gigabyte files—they’re going to get compressed, corrupted, or deleted. Writing is one way of solving the storage problem, but it’s not the only way, and we use those other ways now more than ever. Humans took an estimated 2 trillion photos in 2025, and 20 million videos get uploaded to YouTube every day. No one knows how many spreadsheets, apps, or code files we make. Each one of these formats allows us to retain different kinds of information, and it causes us to think in a different register. What psychology is unlocked by Photoshop, iMovie, and Excel? There is something unique about text, no doubt, and I’m sure a purely pictographic, videographic, or spreadsheet-graphic culture would be rather odd and probably dysfunctional. But having more methods of storage makes us better at transmitting knowledge, not worse, and they allow us to surpass the cognitive limits that so strongly shape oral culture. Put another way: hearing a bard recite The Iliad around a campfire is nothing like streaming the song “Golden” on YouTube. That bard is going to add his own flourishes, he’s going to cut out the bits that might offend his audience, he’s probably going to misremember some stanzas, and no one will be able to fact-check him. In contrast, the billionth stream of “Golden” is exactly the same as the first. Even if people spend less time reading, it is impossible to return to a world where every fact that isn’t memorized is simply lost. I don’t believe we are nearly as close to a post-literate society as the critics think, but I also don’t believe that a post-literate society is going to bear much resemblance to a pre-literate society." 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {adammastroianni text reading howweread writing howwewrite 2026 form media books intrnet web online smartphones socialmedia enshittification radion tv television history wifi tiktok orality literacy walterong secondaryorality culture society photography video} the gift - stammiviktor - Heated Rivalry (TV) [Archive of Our Own] [https://archiveofourown.org/works/78031181] Ilya wanted so badly to just tell Svetlana: It’s Shane Hollander, it’s always been Shane Hollander. He wanted to invite her over after the game so he'd know it was possible for her and Shane to exist in the same room without the world collapsing. He was calling Shane back before he even thought about it, his heart in his throat. “Ilya?” “Can I invite Svetlana?" He could never have expected what happened next. Or: Only a few months after the cottage, Shane meets Svetlana—and goes to great lengths to defeat his jealousy. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {heatedrivalry ilya/shane r fic} Open Coding Agents: Fast, accessible coding agents that adapt to any repo | Ai2 [https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {agents} TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover | The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/news/867958/tiktok-upscrolled-app-us-takeover] via The Verge https://ift.tt/76L92MW 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Two cities under siege [https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities-under-siege] "Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles." 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {history politics minnesota boston} The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html]Like many people who strap on an Apple Watch every day, I’ve long wondered what a decade of that data might reveal about me. So I joined a brief wait list and gave ChatGPT access to the 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements stored in my Apple Health app. Then I asked the bot to grade my cardiac health. It gave me an F. I freaked out and went for a run. Then I sent ChatGPT’s report to my actual doctor. Am I an F? “No,” my doctor said. In fact, I’m at such low risk for a heart attack that my insurance probably wouldn’t even pay for an extra cardio fitness test to prove the artificial intelligence wrong. I also showed the results to cardiologist Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute, an expert on both longevity and the potential of AI in medicine. “It’s baseless,” he said. “This is not ready for any medical advice.” AI has huge potential to unlock medical insights and widen access to care. But when it comes to your fitness tracker and some health records, the new Dr. ChatGPT seems to be winging it. That fits a disturbing trend: AI companies launching products that are broken, fail to deliver or are even dangerous. It should go without saying that people’s health actually matters. Any product — even one labeled “beta” — that claims to provide personal health insights shouldn’t be this clueless. A few days after ChatGPT Health arrived, AI rival Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare that, similarly, promises to help people “detect patterns across fitness and health metrics.” Anyone with a paid account can import Apple Health and Android Health Connect data into the chatbot. Claude graded my cardiac health a C, relying on some of the same analysis that Topol found questionable. …Despite having access to my weight, blood pressure and cholesterol, ChatGPT based much of its negative assessment on an Apple Watch measurement known as VO2 max, the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise. Apple says it collects an “estimate” of VO2 max, but the real thing requires a treadmill and a mask. Apple says its cardio fitness measures have been validated, but independent researchers have found those estimates can run low — by an average of 13%.
The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most, Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {databases postgresql opinion} Shruti on X: "I Spent 40 Hours Researching Clawdbot. Here's Everything They're Not Telling You." / X [https://x.com/heyshrutimishra/status/2015327280911073789] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {claude clawdbot ai admin config howto} Claude's Constitution [https://www.anthropic.com/constitution] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Claude Code's 'Tasks' update lets agents work longer and coordinate across sessions | VentureBeat [https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/claude-codes-tasks-update-lets-agents-work-longer-and-coordinate-across] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z 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. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Auto-resizing columns in Finder - Lounge - RapidWeaver Support Forum [https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/auto-resizing-columns-in-finder/52435] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lUmEB7w 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ai history business justice writing} I made my own git [https://tonystr.net/blog/git_immitation] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {git sourcecontrol programming development rust} Aside From That, Mr. Cook, What Did You Think of the Movie? [https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-captured/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/dQReoXv 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Why there’s no European Google? [https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html] "Gopher’s creators wanted to keep their rights to it and license any related software, unlike the European Web, which conquered the world because it was offered as a common good instead of seeking short-term profits." "While Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee were busy inventing the World Wide Web in their CERN office, a Swedish-speaking Finnish student started to code an operating system and make it available to everyone under the name 'Linux.'" "Like Linux, Git is part of the common good" "LibreOffice, the copyleft office suite maintained by hundreds of contributors around the world under the umbrella of the Document Foundation, a German institution." 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {tech history} The behavioral cost of personalized pricing [https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-behavioral-cost-of-personalized-pricing] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {business psychology shopping} antirez/flux2.c: Flux 2 image generation model pure C inference [https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {repo ai-art ai-client source-code} Integrations — Clawdbot [https://clawd.bot/integrations] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Understanding the fundamentals of CSS Layout | Polypane [https://polypane.app/blog/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-css-layout/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {css layout reference teaching} The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up [https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-math-doesnt-add-up/] A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesnât agree. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {ai culture} Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes | Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751826] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {postgres} A Software Library with No Code [https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-no-code.html] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {teaching ai} 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. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {productivity resistance focus yn} For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/grok-sexualized-image-xai-elon-musk-women-1235501436/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lUmEB7w 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z nytimes.com [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html] Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {AI psychosis mental health .teaching ChatGPT llms psychology} How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota | Will Tell Stories For Food [https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/] "I guess this is the final thing I want to encourage people in other parts of the country to do. We are really goddamn lucky as a country that people want to move here. Immigrants are a gift, a completely undeserved gift. We should want them to come. I will note that a whole lot of Trump’s aggression toward Minnesota is specifically toward Somalis, and Somalis are fucking awesome. They are smart, argumentative, hardworking, funny, incredibly diverse in their opinions. (I remember a mid-morning MPR call-in show in 2001 or 2002 that was related to something happening in the Somali community and the host was a little surprised when she was flooded with calls from Somalis, all vigorously disagreeing with each other. I don’t know if she realized that every Somali taxi driver, which was like 95% of the taxi drivers, listened to MPR all day to improve their English.) Somalis arrived here and immediately started getting involved in politics (there were Somalis out there dropping lit for R.T. Rybak in 2001, even though mostly they weren’t citizens yet). They treasure education, they want their kids to go to college, they’re aggressively motivated in general. This is an immigrant community that everyone should want and I am SO GLAD they came here to the Twin Cities, despite the fact that we have some of the worst winters in the country and they immigrated from a country where the coldest days are like 68F. There’s a chant I’ve participated in at demonstrations that goes, “say it loud and say it clear / immigrants are welcome here.” That is a nice slogan but also: do that. Be clear in your conversations that you welcome immigrants, value immigrants, care about immigrants, consider your immigrant neighbors to be an irreplaceable part of your community. Don’t apologize for supporting immigrants. Don’t accept the premise that immigration is a problem. Immigration is good. IMMIGRATION IS GOOD. Things are really hard in the Twin Cities right now. But seeing how many people here are working hard every day to protect our neighbors makes me believe that there’s a better world on the other side of this, and we’re going to get there. " 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {immigration usa 2026 war police violence protest} mvanhorn/last30days-skill: Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts [https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {claude} AirTag 2: These Airlines Offer Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags - MacRumors [https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/airtag-2-airlines-lost-bags/] via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/lUmEB7w 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z Typography on Pencils, 1-5. – Present & Correct [https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-pencils-1-5]
It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here. Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {typography} MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients | Model Context Protocol Blog [https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-26-mcp-apps/] Today, we’re announcing that MCP Apps are now live as an official MCP extension. Tools can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation: dashboards, forms, visualizations, multi-step workflows, and more. This is the first official MCP extension, and it’s ready for production. MCP Apps let tools return rich, interactive interfaces instead of plain text. When a tool declares a UI resource, the host renders it in a sandboxed iframe, and users interact with it directly in the conversation. API examples uses Typescript & node.js Haven't found a Python version yet, but I assume it exists. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {mcp ai crossplatform artificialintelligence development} The unraveling of fictions - by Azeem Azhar [https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-end-of-the-fictions] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {misc} Stand With Minnesota [https://www.standwithminnesota.com/] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {yes MN minnesota fuckICE help webdesign thankyou} reflection-on-seo-and-ai-search [https://lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/a-reflection-on-seo-and-ai-search] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z 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. 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {book accessibility opencontent oegconnect} 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/science/archaeology-neanderthals-tools.html] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z {Archaeology HumanEvolution} GitHub - forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills [https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills] 2026-01-28T05:47:01Z