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Hey, you, reader:

Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"

Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.

Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.

You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Community #Blog #Blogging

George K 6d ago

Atheist Memes May 9

atheist #antireligion #antitheist

George K Apr 24

Ronan Apr 24

Waymo, a Google-owned company, which officially launched its self-driving taxi fleet in London earlier this month, has told cycling campaigners that it is “normal practice” for their taxis to veer into and block cycle lanes
#cycling #roadSafety
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has allegedly told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.But Waymo has denied making such a claim, instead pointing ... Read more

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George K Apr 21

Natalia Panferova Apr 21

It's my birthday 🎊 To celebrate and to continue the tradition I'm doing a special book sale just for today! You can get any of my Swift and SwiftUI books and bundles with a 20% discount using the coupon code BD2026 applied at checkout: https://books.nilcoalescing.com
#iOSDev #Swift #SwiftUI

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George K Apr 14

@gnuconsulting @jeff as great as it is to see Orban out, I think we should learn a bit more about the replacement. The new leader used to be a member of Orban’s party not that long ago, and holds generally very similar views. Try BBC’s profile on the newly elected leader for example. This optimism should be very cautious indeed

George K Apr 10

Sheril Kirshenbaum Apr 4

M aybe we should be a bit less reliant on fossil fuels… 🤔

George K Mar 7

Paul Hudson Mar 4

Petition to ban noreply@ being used for sending emails. If your company can email me, the least you can do is make it easy for me to email you back.

George K Feb 24

Swift Language Feb 20

📐Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0! 🎉 A stable API for process-level monitoring on Linux and macOS. Add it to your service in a few lines, plug into Prometheus or OTel, and start visualizing in Grafana. Contributions welcome! https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-system-metrics-1.0-released/

George K Feb 4

Simon Willison Feb 4

Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/voxtral-2/

Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound

Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

George K Jan 30

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jan 30

This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.