Today, I'm excited to share a free pre-release version of our latest typeface, Turbeau, with Gold members.Years (decades?) ago, I remember seeing the end credits on one of my favorite shows from…

A 90-minute video of making a batch of woodblock prints “from blank paper to finished print” from the printer’s POV. Relaxing & ASMR-adjacent. 💬 Join th…

“‘This Show Felt Like It Was Falling Out of Me’. Six female artists on how they prepared for their major solo debuts this fall.” 💬 Join the discussion…

I love that The Kid Should See This has dozens of videos about poop, including a recent one about why poop is brown. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…

Recently our cofounder Will reported a bug he was seeing with the Firefox version of our WonderSwitcher browser extension. Our extension userbase is weighted heavily towards Chrome and Edge users, but…

simonw/codespaces-llm GitHub Codespaces provides full development environments in your browser, and is free to use with anyone with a GitHub account. Each environment has a full Linux container…

At 40, She Discovered She Was One of America’s Best Free Divers. Sara Burnett took a free diving intro course and a year later she competed in a world championship for the US team. “Why a…

If you’re still back-to-school (or racing-the-tariffs) shopping, these M4 Macbook Airs are somehow still on sale. “$800 is an absurdly low price for so much computer.”…

Car and plane travel from Canada to the US has dropped sharply year-over-year, with a 37% drop in July car trips and 26% drop in air travel. Not sure why they call it a “boycott” — the…

The Only Time Prince & Miles Davis Jammed Together Onstage: Watch the New Year’s Eve, 1987 Concert. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…

Lego is coming out with a near 1:1 replica of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy handheld video game system. It’s not playable, but you can insert & remove Lego game cartridges and use differ…

Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context Gemini and OpenAI both have million token models, so it's good to see Anthropic catching up. This is 5x the previous 200,000 context length limi…

A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online. That’s roughly a book a week. The list runs over 100 pages and he checked most of the books out o…

On April 9, 2016, several months before Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, the Boston Globe ran an editorial entitled “The GOP must stop Donald Trump”. Donald J. Trum…

Wplace Is Exploding Online Amid a New Era of Youth Protest. “Some pixels started movements. At one point there was just a single wooden ship flying a Brazilian flag off Portugal. Soon, a fl…

Today I learned that the opening theme song for the original Iron Chef TV program was adapted from a song composed by Hans Zimmer, who has done scores for films like Interstellar, Dune, Bla…

Ian sent me this clip Jamie Lee Curtis on the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert. It is phenomenal. I adore her. I resonate with so much with what she describes here. I too am an artist. I too…

Vote for the 2025 Tiny Awards Site of the Year! This looks like a fantastic group of nominees that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”.…

This website is for humans. “I write the content on this website for people, not robots. I’m sharing my opinions and experiences so that you might identify with them and learn from them.�…

Reddit will block the Internet Archive. “The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.” AI s…

I think there's been a lot of decisions over time that proved pretty consequential, but we made them very quickly as we have to. [...] [On pricing] I had this kind of panic attack because we real…

The team at Tuk South visited one of the tallest sand dunes in Chile and did the obvious: threw a tire down it and followed it with a drone to see how long it would roll. The answer: almost…

Welcome to the Era of Big Stupid in America. “When you make smart and ambitious young people feel unwelcome in America and give them no indication that they’ll have a job in this country…

No quite the same murderfest from Sweetpea 1, but still enjoyably angry at the world. I think I expected the same kind of murder spree from the first book, and it's not that at all (although Rhiannon,…

I shipped LLM 0.27 today (followed by a 0.27.1 with minor bug fixes), adding support for the new GPT-5 family of models from OpenAI plus a flurry of improvements to the tool calling features intr…

I Spent 6 Years Building a Ridiculous Wooden Pixel Display. “I built the world’s most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it.”…

Just the other day, I learned that Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the LoTR movies, did an unabridged audiobook version of the original trilogy, as well as one of The Hobbit: The Hobbit…

Scientists have found a “robust” candidate for a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the Sun-like star closest to our solar system. “Not only that, but it orbits the star in its habitable…

Reddit will block the Internet Archive Well this sucks. Jay Peters for the Verge: Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so…

Honey, I Have No Clue What You’re Talking About — I Did NOT Use AI to Write My Wedding Vows. “Do you remember when we moved in together and spent that whole first weekend building furni…

In a preseason game yesterday, Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little nailed a 70-yard field goal. The official NFL record is 66 yards. 💬 Join the discussion…

This is a fun new website featuring 80+ years of artifacts & memorabilia related to Smokey Bear, the famous spokesbear for the US Forest Service. In 1944, the USDA Forest Service, Na…

If you've been experimenting with OpenAI's Codex CLI and have been frustrated that it's not possible to select text and copy it to the clipboard, at least when running in the Mac terminal (I genu…

Karen Attiah: I Gained 20 Pounds of Muscle. Here’s What I Learned. “Weightlifting embodies a form of female expression that society is not quite ready for: physical power that we define o…

“You cannot keep your soul intact while building the Torment Nexus. The Torment Nexus is, by definition, a machine that brings torment onto others. It destroys souls. And a soul cannot take…

American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years. He’s the best thing that’s happened to us.”…

Israel’s right-wing government has murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in a deliberate attack targeting front-line journalist Anas al-Sharif.…

qwen-image-mps Ivan Fioravanti built this Python CLI script for running the Qwen/Qwen-Image image generation model on an Apple silicon Mac, optionally using the Qwen-Image-Lightning LoRA to dram…

AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was "AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an…

Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromi…

I've fallen a few days behind keeping up with Qwen. They released two new 4B models last week: Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 and its thinking equivalent Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507. These are relatively tin…

the percentage of users using reasoning models each day is significantly increasing; for example, for free users we went from…

Great new t-shirt for Gracie’s Ice Cream features a Jaws-shaped cone about to chomp a cherry. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…

The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get…

You know what else we noticed in the interviews? Developers rarely mentioned “time saved” as the core benefit of working in this new way with agents. They were all about increasing ambition.…

When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets Zenity Labs describe a classic lethal trifecta attack, this time against Cursor, MCP, Jira and Zendesk. They also have a short video demonstrating the i…

I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn't recorded but I've created…

I have a toddler. My biggest concern is that he doesn't eat rocks off the ground and you're talking to me about ChatGPT psychosis? Why do we even have that? Why did we invent a new form of insani…

Hypothesis is now thread-safe Hypothesis is a property-based testing library for Python. It lets you write tests like this one: from hypothesis import given, strategies as st @given(st.lists(st…

“James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.” 💬 J…

GPT-5 rollout updates: We are going to double GPT-5 rate limits for ChatGPT Plus users as we finish rollout. We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o. We will watch usage as we think…

I've been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread with the OpenAI team is a grea…

The Danish post office will stop delivering mail (but not parcels) at the end of 2025. “Letter volumes have decreased by over 90 percent since 2000”. But over 100 million letters were del…