gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1436.0_1.pdf Here's the 230 page PDF ruling on the 2023 United States v. Google LLC federal antitrust case - the case that could have resulted in Google selling off Chrom…

This video features a number of scientists who were working on stuff like HIV treatments and life-saving cancer research but whose work has been shut down or curtailed by the Trump regime cut…

The Network of Time is a project that links people together, in the style of six degrees of separation, by appearance together in photographs. Every photo you take with someone else links yo…

Making XML human-readable without XSLT In response to the recent discourse about XSLT support in browsers, Jake Archibald shares a new-to-me alternative trick for making an XML document readable…

“New York City is marking its 400th birthday this year and almost no one gives a damn.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…

Playwright makes it easy to automate browser interactions, but testing applications across regions requires more. Sites may need to display local currencies, support different languages, or comply wit…

In tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, a choir of 7000+ people sang Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. Lovely. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…

For her newest film, director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) has adapted Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet; both book and movie are about William Shakespeare and his wife in the aftermath o…

Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life. “The sister to all other animals, the first to branch off, and the most genetically isolated animal is … drumroll please … th…

Alexander Chee: How Can I Write At A Time Like This? “We are being hit with what I would call advanced resilience targeting, an attack on our ability to be in community, to be healthy, to m…

We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. (Giving wounded people blood earlier, in ambulances, increases their chance of survival. But insurance won’t pay for it so we don’t do it i…

Of course many will ask why even have a website these days? Well, I've had my site for twenty five years and it contains the entire archive of my wo…

I didn’t know this about eels: No one has ever seen an eel reproduce naturally. Not in the wild, not in captivity, not even once. And yet, eels are everywhere. In rivers, in lakes, in oc…

Rich Pixels Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key…

Read the book, Typographic Firsts Without screwing up the space/time continuum, if I could go back in time, let’s say 45 years ago when I edited, art directed and designed underground tabloid magazi…

I just sent out my August 2025 sponsors-only newsletter summarizing the past month in LLMs and my other work. Topics included GPT-5, gpt-oss, image editing models (Qwen-Image-Edit and Gemini Nano…

Introducing gpt-realtime Released a few days ago (August 28th), gpt-realtime is OpenAI's new "most advanced speech-to-speech model". It looks like this is a replacement for the older gpt-4o-real…

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights Cloudflare launched this dashboard back in February, incorporating traffic analysis from Cloudflare's network along with insights from their popular 1.1.1.1 DNS ser…

Claude Opus 4.1 and Opus 4 degraded quality Notable because often when people complain of degraded model quality it turns out to be unfounded - Anthropic in the past have emphasized that they do…

LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call "vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating…

I'd been waiting for the grief to find me. I wasn't actively looking for it, I know which memories to poke to feel real pain, but I wanted to create space for it to find me, and throughout the month o…

Talk Python: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators I recorded this podcast episode recently to celebrate Django's 20th birthday with Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Tripl…

The perils of vibe coding I was interviewed by Elaine Moore for this opinion piece in the Financial Times, which ended up in the print edition of the paper too! I picked up a copy yesterday: Fr…

Here’s the trailer for Bugonia, dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos & starring frequent collaborator Emma Stone. “Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, co…

Hello hello, Fine Folks. Here's issue #47 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🦑 These DIY book nook kits are intriguing. Like a Lego set—but i…

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compre…