Peter Zingg 

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The Scottish Highlands looking very Scottish Highlands yesterday morning.
GitHub 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."
Craig 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/
Software Bonkers

Craig Mod

Read 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://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

LibreSpeed - Free and Open Source Speedtest

Free and Open Source Speedtest. Run it right now in your browser, or self-host on a PHP, Golang, Rust or Node server. License: LGPL.

So 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

Social Web WG, 2026-03-06 - HackMD

HackMD
“A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States.” https://departmentofnaturalhistory.com/Field-Guide-to-Dollar-Tree-Trees
Field Guide to Dollar Tree Trees — Department of Natural History

Field Guide to Dollar Tree Trees A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree store locations across the United States. Produced in collaboration with Tes...

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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

Knowledge Priming

knowledge Priming

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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

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist
I 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/
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …

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@andypiper At the same time, Comcast/Xfinity mail is migrating to Yahoo (that still exists?) and they will charge $5 per month for a plan that allows auto forwarding. More enshittification, natch.