The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media
https://joel.is/bluesky/
Aider
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/31/aider/
Aider is an impressive open source local coding chat assistant terminal application, developed by Paul Gauthier (founding CTO of [Inktomi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi) back in [1996-2000](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulgauthier/details/experience/)). I tried it out today, using an …
As if this would change anything. The idea of third party cookies being bad is a... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41108095
banning third party cookies would just incentivise setting up cname subdomains on host domain
FastHTML - Modern web applications in pure Python
https://fastht.ml/
Modern web applications in pure Python
How I Use Git Worktrees | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/rvqez7/how_i_use_git_worktrees
Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062292
The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/the-puzzle-of-how-large-scale-order-emerges-in-complex-systems/
With a new framework, researchers believe they could be close to explaining how regularities emerge on macro scales out of systems made up of uncountable constituent parts.
hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036506
Carta Modern, lightweight, powerful Markdown Editor
https://beartocode.github.io/carta/introduction
Looks excellent and useful for personal apps!
Cutting an onion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbqDOKkTCw
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Gotchas with SQLite in Production
https://blog.pecar.me/sqlite-prod
What you need to know before putting SQLite in production
lobsters discussion https://lobste.rs/s/rvsgqy/gotchas_with_sqlite_production
Accelerating Music and Culture - XLR8R
https://xlr8r.com/
A member-supported platform showcasing independent artists and music.
Dieback hits Tasmanian forests after dry summer as researchers investigate impact on trees' future - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-09/dieback-in-tasmania-killing-forests-research-future-impact/103809158
Huge patches of forest in Tasmania have rapidly turned brown over recent months, with many trees dying after a dry summer. As climate change causes hotter and drier weather, can we expect more tree deaths in the future?
GitHub - Doriandarko/claude-engineer: Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks. This tool combines the capabilities of a large language model with practical file system operations and web search functionality.
https://github.com/Doriandarko/claude-engineer
Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks. This tool combines the capabilities of a large language model with practical file system operations and web search functionality. - Doriandarko/claude-engineer
Open challenges for AI engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/27/ai-worlds-fair/#slide.014.jpeg
I gave the opening keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair yesterday. I was a late addition to the schedule: OpenAI pulled out of their slot at the last minute, …
Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/14/pycon/
I gave an invited keynote at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh this year. My goal was to say some interesting things about AI—specifically about Large Language Models—both to help catch …
GitHub - jessejanderson/skylink: Detect Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) in a domain's TXT records and link to the associated Bluesky profile.
https://github.com/jessejanderson/skylink
Detect Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) in a domain's TXT records and link to the associated Bluesky profile. - jessejanderson/skylink
like rss feed badge on browser
Batteries: how cheap can they get? - by Auke Hoekstra
https://aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-how-cheap-can-they-get
How dirt cheap batteries will completely transform our electricity grid, paving the way for solar and wind and replacing grid reinforcements with grid buffers.
hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877337 with good info pn lithium battery prices
also in obsidian under solar ev etc
Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts
https://fev.al/posts/work-journal/
You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...
Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128 | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330
top comment
Right, so there is a genuine moral case for Mozilla doing this. It depends why you hate ads:
A: the main problem with ads is tracking and privacy invasion
B: the main problem with ads is manipulation and seizure of my attention
Nostr and ATProto
https://shreyanjain.net/2024/07/05/nostr-and-atproto.html
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this.