• Tyshawn Jones The General Jason Kottke

    Ooops, guess we’re doing two tonight. Goodness. Compare this to the video from last night. Tyshawn Jones is just getting so much speed up for these tricks. It’s like a different sport. Bo…

    Yesterday · 23:05
  • Chris Coyier

    I signed up for the paid version of PJ Vogt’s Search Engine show. One of the latest (free) episodes, Who’s behind these scammy text messages we’ve all been getting?, was fascinated a…

    Yesterday · 22:15
  • Urban Freeride Fabio Wibmer Jason Kottke

    Well, Fabio Wibmer is very, very fast on his bicycle. Just about the first trick in here is Fabio successfully jumping the Lyon 25 Stair we learned about earlier this week. And, uh, he does s…

    Yesterday · 21:36
  • “Their wish for all the Beyoncé uproar? Those folks will finally recognize... Jason Kottke

    “Their wish for all the Beyoncé uproar? Those folks will finally recognize that Black women and girls reign supreme at the rodeo. Carter added that most people questioned why Bey, a Housto…

    Yesterday · 19:40
  • How Do You Rhyme in Sign Language? Jason Kottke

    A conversation at dinner with the kids left me wanting to know how to rhyme in sign language and when I found out, it feels like it should have been obvious. In phonology (the study of the…

    Yesterday · 18:23
  • “According to Mr Peryer, it is not uncommon for geese to be... Jason Kottke

    “According to Mr Peryer, it is not uncommon for geese to be bisexual, though he adds that the duo were the only pair in the Waikanae Estuary…It is also not unheard of for geese to mate wi…

    Yesterday · 16:35
  • ‘I Will Always Love You’ at 50 Jason Kottke

    Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ was released 50 years ago a couple weeks ago and it’s a very good song. We all know Parton famously wrote IWALY and Jolene on the same day, whi…

    Yesterday · 15:32
  • Phil and Phyllis Punxsutawney Had Babies Jason Kottke

    Punxsutawney Phil and his mate Phyllis have had babies and both of the articles I read about this deeply weirded me out. Listen, I get it, you don’t get to be President of The Punxsutawney…

    Yesterday · 12:23
  • Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation between Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss. Lots of gems around improving your writing, showing up for yourself, making room for new experiences and consistency. In 2013 S…

    Yesterday · 12:17
  • The Butter Emoji Tina Roth Eisenberg

    There is a butter emoji? Did you all know? My life is complete. Waving from from my #butterverse.…

    Yesterday · 11:59
  • Begin Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “Doubt increases with inaction. Clarity reveals itself in momentum. Growth comes from progress. For all these reasons, BEGIN!”
 – Brendon Burchard
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    Yesterday · 11:58
  • Matter and Privacy Sean Coates

    When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the…

    Yesterday · 10:30
  • When Whales Could Walk… Excuse Me? Jason Kottke

    At the beginning of this documentary, the narrator says something about “how did whales end up in the ocean,” and to be honest that fucked me up because whales make sense to me if I think…

    Yesterday · 09:40
  • Goat farmers traveling from MN to CA got stuck in traffic in... Jason Kottke

    Goat farmers traveling from MN to CA got stuck in traffic in UT and goats must be milked every 12 hours, so when traffic cleared they stopped at Tractor Supply where the community learned to…

    Yesterday · 08:05
  • “Ms. Sharr proposed that Olga move into their Cambridge home temporarily so... Jason Kottke

    “Ms. Sharr proposed that Olga move into their Cambridge home temporarily so the system could get to know her better. They would support her, they said… She was floored by their generosity…

    Yesterday · 06:50
  • Merge pull request #1757 from simonw/heic-heif Simon Willison

    Merge pull request #1757 from simonw/heic-heif I got a PR into GCHQ's CyberChef this morning! I added support for detecting heic/heif files to the Forensics -> Detect File Type tool. The ch…

    Two Days Ago · 23:37
  • Wrap text at specified width Simon Willison

    Wrap text at specified width New Observable notebook. I built this with the help of Claude 3 Opus - it's a text wrapping tool which lets you set the width and also lets you optionally add a…

    Two Days Ago · 21:36
  • llm-gemini 0.1a1 Simon Willison

    llm-gemini 0.1a1 I upgraded my llm-gemini plugin to add support for the new Google Gemini Pro 1.5 model, which is beginning to roll out in early access. The 1.5 model supports 1,048,576 input to…

    Two Days Ago · 21:32
  • Gou Miyagi Skates Very Mellow Jason Kottke

    I like the skate videos where the skaters show how high or fast or far they can go and the control they have over their bodies while flying through the air, but I also like the videos where t…

    Two Days Ago · 21:17
  • Road Snacks #1 Jason Kottke

    Because I don’t hardly blog anymore, I turned the email newsletter for my ice cream shop into kind of a blog where sure I talk about ice cream a good amount, but I also tell stories about w…

    Two Days Ago · 19:44
  • What Did You Learn How To Do This Year? Jason Kottke

    Hey, real quick, what’s something you always wanted to do, but only just started to learn how to do in the last year? I always wanted to learn how to play guitar and last year my son and I…

    Two Days Ago · 16:05
  • Dancing on My Own Jason Kottke

    This 2013 Kings of Leon cover of Robyn’s Dancing on My Own inspired Callum Scott to sing Dancing on My Own for his audition for Britain’s Got Talent, which eventually lead to Scott’s ve…

    Two Days Ago · 11:55
  • “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time Simon Willison

    “The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time I'm quoted in this piece by Benj Edwards for Ars Technica: "For the first time, the best available mode…

    Two Days Ago · 10:58
  • Annotated DBRX system prompt Simon Willison

    Annotated DBRX system prompt DBRX is an exciting new openly licensed LLM released today by Databricks. They haven't (yet) disclosed what was in the training data for it. The source code fo…

    Two Days Ago · 09:33
  • Big Bite Hot Dog Sparkling Water from 7-Eleven Jason Kottke

    I get furious every spring there isn’t an iced tea soda because I just want to try it once even though I know it would probably be terrible and we have chocolate milk soda and I can’t get…

    Two Days Ago · 09:18
  • “The suspect…told his probation officer about his activity. The probation officer tipped... Jason Kottke

    “The suspect…told his probation officer about his activity. The probation officer tipped off the SPCA after attending a training module called “Recognizing Animal Cruelty” and realizi…

    Two Days Ago · 08:14
  • Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common New York Apartments Tina Roth Eisenberg

    OMG, I love YouTube! I stumbled upo this video by Michael Wyetzner, breaking down five of the most common apartment types found in New York City. So interesting!…

    Two Days Ago · 07:44
  • Greyson Blanket Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Love this Greyson Blanket made from 100% Recycled Clothing Material, handwoven on a traditional loom, ethically made by Mexican artisans carrying on centuries of skill & tradition. What I love th…

    Two Days Ago · 07:40
  • Inner Change Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “Without inner change there can be no outer change, without collective change, no change matters.” – Angel Kyodo Williams…

    Two Days Ago · 07:37
  • Here’s a cat holding on for dear life to a pint of... Jason Kottke

    Here’s a cat holding on for dear life to a pint of ice cream and it’s illustrative of a quirk of cats where you can’t tell if the cat really loves the pint or is furious at it. Peep the…

    Two Days Ago · 06:23
  • Cricut Explore Air 2 [tif] Remy Sharp

    I've been eyeballing Cricut machines for a few years now, but it was mostly for stickers for my own use and the cost just couldn't be justified. However, last Sunday I found a faulty Cricut on eBay, p…

    Two Days Ago · 04:56
  • Brutal Lyon 25 Stair, Destroyer of Action Sport Dreams Jason Kottke

    I love Australian pro skater Ricky Glaser’s narration of all the videos he could find of people attempting to jump a famous set of 25 stairs in Lyon. Aaron “Jaws” Homoki (no relation),…

    Three Days Ago · 21:07
  • Paris Waiters Race Run for the First Time in 13 Years Jason Kottke

    There was a race in Paris where waiters from all the restaurants and cafes and hotels rush through the streets carrying trays with water, croissants, and empty cups of coffee. The race starte…

    Three Days Ago · 19:47
  • You can make friends with crows, and this thread from Carl T... Jason Kottke

    You can make friends with crows, and this thread from Carl T Bergstrom will tell you how. I want crow friends, but we’ve only got robins and sparrows. “It’s so much fun to have bird fr…

    Three Days Ago · 14:43
  • Musical Clock Museum in Utrecht Jason Kottke

    Jason’s only got one rule for guest editors and it’s, “If you’re going to post about Utrecht once, you have to post about Utrecht three times,” which is a bad rule imo and problemat…

    Three Days Ago · 13:33
  • gchq.github.io/CyberChef Simon Willison

    gchq.github.io/CyberChef CyberChef is "the Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis" - entirely client-side JavaScript with dozens of useful tool…

    Three Days Ago · 11:08
  • Fish Doorbell in Utrecht Jason Kottke

    Fish in the Netherlands travel upstream to spawn in the spring, but unfortunately for the fish in Utrecht, the boat lock on the river through the city is closed in the spring. Ecologists put…

    Three Days Ago · 11:06
  • Old Bone Full of Old Drugs Found in Utrecht Jason Kottke

    Researchers from the Freie Universität Berlin working in the Netherlands recently found a little bone container full of drugs in a pile of 86,000 other bones they had found outside a farm in…

    Three Days Ago · 10:18
  • llm cmd undo last git commit - a new plugin for LLM Simon Willison

    I just released a neat new plugin for my LLM command-line tool: llm-cmd. It lets you run a command to to generate a further terminal command, review and edit that command, then hit to execute it…

    Three Days Ago · 09:37
  • Ilia Malinin Is Good As Hell At Ice Skating Jason Kottke

    Ilia Malinin is 19 and just won the world championship title of international ice skating or something by being an absolute wizard on ice skates. I’ve only been on ice skates 6 or 7 times i…

    Three Days Ago · 06:44
  • GGML GGUF File Format Vulnerabilities Simon Willison

    GGML GGUF File Format Vulnerabilities The GGML and GGUF formats are used by llama.cpp to package and distribute model weights. Neil Archibald: "The GGML library performs insufficient validation…

    Three Days Ago · 00:47
  • Cohere int8 & binary Embeddings - Scale Your Vector Database to Large Datasets Simon Willison

    Cohere int8 & binary Embeddings - Scale Your Vector Database to Large Datasets Jo Kristian Bergum told me "The accuracy retention [of binary embedding vectors] is sensitive to whether the model h…

    Three Days Ago · 00:19
  • My binary vector search is better than your FP32 vectors Simon Willison

    My binary vector search is better than your FP32 vectors I'm still trying to get my head around this, but here's what I understand so far. Embedding vectors as calculated by models suc…

    Four Days Ago · 22:56
  • Brandon Semenuk Flipping His Bicycle Off the Side of a Mountain Jason Kottke

    The thing about going out into the badlands of Alberta and riding your bicycle off the side of the mountain and doing flips where you kick your legs out and such, is the flips isn’t really…

    Four Days Ago · 20:41
  • Semgrep: AutoFixes using LLMs Simon Willison

    Semgrep: AutoFixes using LLMs semgrep is a really neat tool for semantic grep against source code - you can give it a pattern like "log.$A(...)" to match all forms of log.warning(...) / log.error…

    Four Days Ago · 18:51
  • Quoting Seth Rosen Simon Willison

    Them: Can you just quickly pull this data for me?Me: Sure, let me just: SELECT * FROM some_ideal_clean_and_pristine.table_that_you_think_exists— Seth Rosen…

    Four Days Ago · 17:33
  • The Marlins will energize their stadium this year by telling fans to... Jason Kottke

    The Marlins will energize their stadium this year by telling fans to bring their instruments. The notice forbids pots and pans, but doesn’t say shit about keytars. The team only wants instr…

    Four Days Ago · 16:52
  • NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2024 Submission of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra Jason Kottke

    The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is “a collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elements of performance, comedy and satire.” They recently submit…

    Four Days Ago · 15:20
  • Writer Adam Sharp has made a list of how you’d say couch... Jason Kottke

    Writer Adam Sharp has made a list of how you’d say couch potato in 8 other languages including divine hag of the ashes (Irish), slipper guy (Italian), and armchair fungus (Flemish). Collect…

    Four Days Ago · 14:04
  • How Would You Turn This Dial To Make The Freezer Colder Jason Kottke

    Imagine you own an ice cream shop and the thermostat on your dipping cabinet, which is the freezer ice cream is dipped (scooped) out of, is set to 4, which is too warm, and you want to make t…

    Four Days Ago · 13:57
  • Bears in a Boat Jason Kottke

    A bear enclosure at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire flooded so the zookeepers gave the bears a swan boat to entertain them because as everyone knows, black bears are often mollified by lar…

    Four Days Ago · 11:43
  • We’ve Only Been Roasting Veggies Since the 80s Jason Kottke

    According to this 2014 article in Slate, roasting vegetables is a cooking technique popularized only in the 80s/90s. The concept of roasting as a general vegetable technique seems to have or…

    Four Days Ago · 10:51
  • Jalapeños are less spicy now because big pepper product producers procure alternate... Jason Kottke

    Jalapeños are less spicy now because big pepper product producers procure alternate heat for their products anyway and farmers generally produce what the big pepper product producers want. (…

    Four Days Ago · 08:25
  • Being the Guest in Radio Roggermann Marc Thiele

    Last week I had the honour of being the guest of Silke in her live streamed radio show Radio Roggermann. It was great fun and you can listen back to…

    Four Days Ago · 06:13
  • Reviewdog filter settings with GitHub Actions Lorna Mitchell

    Reviewdog is a tool to use with GitHub actions for applying review tools in your CI. I use it with Vale, and it’s really good. One thing that has tripped me up multiple times is that by default,…

    Four Days Ago · 02:10
  • sqlite-schema-diagram.sql Simon Willison

    sqlite-schema-diagram.sql A SQLite SQL query that directly returns a GraphViz definition that renders a diagram of the database schema, by Tim Allen. The SQL is beautifully commented. It works a…

    The Other Day · 23:12
  • Hello, Everyone, Let’s Have A Week Jason Kottke

    I am excited to be back editing Kottke.org this week for the first time in one thousand years, and I am also scared because what if I don’t remember how to write on the internet? Everything…

    The Other Day · 18:15
  • Welcome Aaron Cohen Back to the Site Jason Kottke

    Hey, Jason here. I’m off this week (Mar 25-29) to spend some time with family (and Edith is working on Drawing Media), so my friend and ice cream impresario Aaron Cohen will be taking ove…

    The Other Day · 14:38
  • Reviving PyMiniRacer Simon Willison

    Reviving PyMiniRacer PyMiniRacer is "a V8 bridge in Python" - it's a library that lets Python code execute JavaScript code in a V8 isolate and pass values back and forth (provided they seria…

    The Other Day · 11:00