Steve CarterThe Scottish Highlands looking very Scottish Highlands yesterday morning.
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Chris MessinaGitHub is really going for it:
"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out. Review this update and manage your preferences in your GitHub account settings."
kottke.orgCraig Mod is software bonkers. “I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.” https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/
Rik ViergeverRead below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests
"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).
The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."
https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/
Johannes ErnstSo happy to see that #Mastodon has become a member of the W3C and is now coming to the renewed #ActivityPub standardization activity.
From today's notes: https://hackmd.io/PaXqEd7-T7CLULV9Y4nwcA?view
“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States.” https://departmentofnaturalhistory.com/Field-Guide-to-Dollar-Tree-Trees
Martin FowlerNEW POST
Rahul Garg sees a frustration loop when working with AI and identified five patterns to help. Here's the first: priming the LLM with knowledge about the codebase and preferred coding patterns.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/reduce-friction-ai/knowledge-priming.html
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉This was glorious, and it is now implemented in SwiftTerm by default.
While it is true that certain users in a dorm at Darmouth or MIT might carry with them the script to tune their color palette, I believe that users in the wild deserve to keep their retinas.
https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783
Simon WillisonI feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
Sometimes when reading a novel (here: The Jokers, by Albert Cossery) you are smacked on the head by the currency (the governor === Trump).
"This governor was a face—possibly the most ridiculous face—of the universal reign of fraud. Heykal knew him by sight, having often seen him at the municipal casino, surrounded by his most fervent supporters. They formed a sinister crowd of lackeys hovering around him and smiling ... https://pzingg.micro.blog/2026/01/29/sometimes-when-reading-a-novel.html