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50 Years of Travel Tips
Simon Willison
50 Years of Travel Tips These travel tips from Kevin Kelly are the best kind of advice because they're almost all both surprising but obviously good ideas. The first one instantly appeals to my…
Today · 23:39 -
LLM 0.22, the annotated release notes
Simon Willison
I released LLM 0.22 this evening. Here are the annotated release notes: model.prompt(..., key=) for API keys chatgpt-4o-latest llm logs -s/--short llm models -q gemini -q exp llm embe…
Today · 23:19 -
You’re Not Creating Enough Prototypes – Blog – zeroheight
Brad Frost
David Darnes says You’re Not Creating Enough Prototypes, and I agree! David shares some great real-world examples of how he’s wielded design system components for rapid prototyping. We need more o…
Today · 19:29 -
XOXO Festival – Cabel Sasser, Panic
Brad Frost
So much great stuff here. We want to be seen. Appreciate everything endlessly. Reach out to people to say nice things Go down all the rabbit holes Truly amazing. …
Today · 09:19 -
Pattern Club
Brad Frost
Pattern Club is a curated gallery to find pattern inspiration.…
Today · 08:44 -
How to Be Less Busy and More Happy – The Atlantic
Brad Frost
How to Be Less Busy and More Happy is a great reminder about the busy busy busy waters we swim in. It’s been a long journey to work at this in my own life, and it feels like it will never be a “so…
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Introducing Perplexity Deep Research
Simon Willison
Introducing Perplexity Deep Research Perplexity become the third company to release a product with "Deep Research" in the name. Google's Gemini Deep Research: Try Deep Research and our new expe…
Yesterday · 17:46 -
The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long...
Jason Kottke
The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long for electronic music to creep into pop music and now you can barely find any music that doesn’t have electron…
Yesterday · 16:10 -
Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at...
Jason Kottke
Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at first the robot was computer-generated but gets more and more hand-painted throughout the film. “She literally begins to fuse with…
Yesterday · 13:33 -
Quoting Kevin Samuel
Simon Willison
[...] if your situation allows it, always try uv first. Then fall back on something else if that doesn’t work out. It is the Pareto solution because it's easier than trying to figure out what y…
Yesterday · 13:10 -
Run LLMs on macOS using llm-mlx and Apple's MLX framework
Simon Willison
llm-mlx is a brand new plugin for my LLM Python Library and CLI utility which builds on top of Apple's excellent MLX array framework library and mlx-lm package. If you're a terminal user or Pytho…
Yesterday · 12:13 -
New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In...
Jason Kottke
New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In Person. “Early Mesopotamians created the first cuneiform tablets in 3200 BCE because they couldn’t bear the…
Yesterday · 10:52 -
My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition
Jason Kottke
Hey look at this, a media diet post that’s not months and months since the last one! Phew, it’s a been a long-ass six weeks since the beginning of the year, hasn’t it? Here’s a list…
Two Days Ago · 16:12 -
How Trying Became Cool Again
Jason Kottke
Nathan Zed argues that a lack of effort and vulnerability has made art, media, design, music, and architecture boring — that everything has the “soulless, monotonous no-personality vibe…
Two Days Ago · 15:32 -
Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...
Jason Kottke
Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set, and Wim Wenders’ Pina. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…
Two Days Ago · 14:56 -
Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...
Jason Kottke
Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything, and leaves Everything untouched — yet suddenly this new thing exists, with strange and formidab…
Two Days Ago · 14:25 -
The Crazy Thing About Babies
Jason Kottke
This is lovely: man the crazy thing about babies is that like, some people would think that reading a baby a book about farm animals is teaching them about farm animals, but really it’s…
Two Days Ago · 13:59 -
Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...
Jason Kottke
Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million girls, women, and nonbinary individuals by 2030” with their programs designed to educate girls, women, and NB f…
Two Days Ago · 13:22 -
I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...
Jason Kottke
I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a map of my life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. Tap a box to see what I was doing where that week.”…
Two Days Ago · 12:39 -
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...
Jason Kottke
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from…
Two Days Ago · 12:03 -
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...
Jason Kottke
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, R…
Two Days Ago · 11:32 -
Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips
Jason Kottke
Kevin Kelly is the biggest traveller I know and he recently shared some of the advice he’s learned over his 50+ years on the road. Here are a few of my favorites: If you hire a driver, o…
Two Days Ago · 10:59 -
Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...
Jason Kottke
Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All Fours to develop as a TV series.” I wonder if July herself will be starring… …
Two Days Ago · 10:23 -
From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....
Jason Kottke
From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK. “whenever AnYONE running the CLIENt Presses caPs LOck, it PRESSEs for everyone ELsE.” (i wrote tHIS POST WItH I…
Two Days Ago · 09:53 -
Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...
Jason Kottke
Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is known as “the father of the game cartridge”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org …
Two Days Ago · 09:19 -
An Update
Jason Kottke
Hey, everyone. This week has been a little wonky/distracted for me — I was tending to a sick kid for a couple of days and am trying not to get sick myself, so I didn’t get to spend as muc…
Two Days Ago · 08:42 -
Subatomic Design Tokens Course: Chapter 2 now live!
Brad Frost
We’re thrilled to announce that Chapter 2 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course is now live! This chapter provides 74-minutes of video diving deep into design token architecture and foundation…
Two Days Ago · 08:22 -
Preview OpenAPI as HTML using Scalar Lorna Mitchell
The API DevTools space is alive and well with lots of new and exciting products popping up all the time. I’ve been especially impressed by the new tools in the docs space, but some of the option…
Two Days Ago · 07:49 -
10 More Things I Wish Every Design Student Knew
Cameron Moll
View the full slide deck here → Recently I gave a presentation to UX university students building on 10 Things shared years ago, and n…
Two Days Ago · 06:55 -
Studio Notes #19
Dan Cederholm
Hello, Cool Folks. Here's issue #19 of Studio Notes—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🥽 I've become a fan of Walton Goggins. Not only of his acting, but just...him. And his cool name. GQ…
Three Days Ago · 22:00 -
files-to-prompt 0.5
Simon Willison
files-to-prompt 0.5 My files-to-prompt tool (originally built using Claude 3 Opus back in April) had been accumulating a bunch of issues and PRs - I finally got around to spending some time with…
Three Days Ago · 21:14 -
How to add a directory to your PATH
Simon Willison
How to add a directory to your PATH Classic Julia Evans piece here, answering a question which you might assume is obvious but very much isn't. Plenty of useful tips in here, plus the best expla…
Three Days Ago · 19:40 -
How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...
Jason Kottke
How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.”…
Three Days Ago · 18:15 -
The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions
Jason Kottke
Professor Christina Pagel of University College London has mapped the actions of the Trump administration’s first few weeks into a Venn diagram (above) with “five broad domains that cor…
Three Days Ago · 17:38 -
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World...
Jason Kottke
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? “If we cannot organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large e…
Three Days Ago · 16:52 -
“Fuck the Middle Ground”
Jason Kottke
Jessica Valenti on why there’s no room for compromise or middle ground on abortion rights. Anyone still holding out hope for a ‘compromise’ on abortion rights needs to give it up. Righ…
Three Days Ago · 16:16 -
House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to...
Jason Kottke
House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to show a passport or birth cert. when voting as proof of citizenship. But 140M Americans don’t have a passport and 69M w…
Three Days Ago · 15:30 -
Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important,...
Jason Kottke
Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important, apartheid is a business plan. It’s a system designed to exploit cheap Black labor, without ever letting Bl…
Three Days Ago · 14:49 -
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is...
Jason Kottke
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is a forthcoming book that’s “an exposé of private equity’s devastating impact on American lives, communities, and the e…
Three Days Ago · 14:18 -
shot-scraper 1.6 with support for HTTP Archives
Simon Willison
shot-scraper 1.6 with support for HTTP Archives New release of my shot-scraper CLI tool for taking screenshots and scraping web pages. The big new feature is HTTP Archive (HAR) support. The new…
Three Days Ago · 14:02 -
Is This the End of the American Constitution?
Jason Kottke
Jamelle Bouie has started posting video essays on his YouTube channel about the current US political crisis. His latest one is an adaptation of his NY Times piece, There Is No Going Back.…
Three Days Ago · 13:30 -
On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the...
Jason Kottke
On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the US now scores a 0, its lowest score since the Civil War. “The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of…
Three Days Ago · 12:52 -
Just So You Know
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Just so you know– everything in the entire universe is always about love. And when it is not about love, it’s about the absence of love. Hope this makes sense. – Unknown…
Three Days Ago · 12:47 -
My Friend Brendan is Building Internet Tubes
Tina Roth Eisenberg
My studiomate Brendan is building new internet tubes with number0. He is a deeply wonderful and smart human.…
Three Days Ago · 12:46 -
There Are A Hundred Paths
Tina Roth Eisenberg
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But, who wants easier?” – Mary Oliver…
Three Days Ago · 12:44 -
Coldplay All My Love
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Well, this was delightful. (via Joe)…
Three Days Ago · 12:41 -
RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department....
Jason Kottke
RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. There has been a lot of horrible news over the past month but this one is making me feel ill. I’m gonna log off f…
Three Days Ago · 09:39 -
Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln...
Jason Kottke
Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln to Eisenhower, and how the country has been turning back toward “the idea of a small government that serves the…
Three Days Ago · 09:04 -
Troika #54: Best of 2024
Jon Hicks
This episode is a 'Triple Troika' of my favourite tracks from 2024. Slightly different from my rundown of favourite albums, I was hoping to get this out in December, but better late than never! With t…
Three Days Ago · 06:50 -
⇾ The Pocket Photographer by Mike Kus Marc Thiele
My friend Mike Kus release a lovely book a while ago and I can’t remember if I already pointed you to it. If I did, well, than this is the second t…
Three Days Ago · 05:27 -
python-build-standalone now has Python 3.14.0a5
Simon Willison
python-build-standalone now has Python 3.14.0a5 Exciting news from Charlie Marsh: We just shipped the latest Python 3.14 alpha (3.14.0a5) to uv and python-build-standalone. This is the first re…
Four Days Ago · 23:25 -
URL-addressable Pyodide Python environments
Simon Willison
This evening I spotted an obscure bug in Datasette, using Datasette Lite. I figure it's a good opportunity to highlight how useful it is to have a URL-addressable Python environment, powered by P…
Four Days Ago · 22:13 -
Quoting Sam Altman
Simon Willison
We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intel…
Four Days Ago · 15:43 -
Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model
Simon Willison
Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Nomic continue to release the most interesting and powerful embedding models. Their latest is Embed Text V2,…
Four Days Ago · 15:24 -
The trailer for season six of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh, no reason....
Jason Kottke
The trailer for season six of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh, no reason. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →…
Four Days Ago · 15:20 -
Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1
Simon Willison
Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food s…
Four Days Ago · 15:01 -
What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because...
Jason Kottke
What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because millions of people do a couple things well, not because one person does a million things.”…
Four Days Ago · 14:35 -
Do Not Obey In Advance
Jason Kottke
Speaking of Timothy Snyder, Literary Hub published the first chapter (the one on not obeying in advance) of his 2017 book On Tyranny. It begins: Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of…
Four Days Ago · 13:42 -
You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed...
Jason Kottke
You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed left-leaning person in America right now, why wouldn’t you be experiencing depression and anxiety?”…
Four Days Ago · 13:00 -
Trump’s Obsession With Immigration Is Really an Obsession With Segregation. His policies...
Jason Kottke
Trump’s Obsession With Immigration Is Really an Obsession With Segregation. His policies are a continuation of the 1790 Naturalization Act (only landowning white men were citizens), the 188…
Four Days Ago · 12:22 -
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by...
Jason Kottke
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba “is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe…
Four Days Ago · 11:30 -
“We Are Hurtling Towards Having a Russian-Type Regime”
Jason Kottke
Writing from Ukraine on his way to the front in the country’s war with Russia, Timothy Snyder muses about the differences in life & freedom on the Ukrainian & Russian sides of the war’s f…
Four Days Ago · 09:56 -
Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil...
Jason Kottke
Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil Rights. “His attack on DEI isn’t about increasing merit or fighting wrongful discrimination; it is about reimposing hierarchie…
Four Days Ago · 09:22 -
Meetings & Space
Chris Coyier
Seventeen bits of advice from Ariel Salminen on Leading Successful Product Teams. I really like all of them. Allow me to pluck off a few about meetings: People gotta work yo. Including yourself. You g…
Four Days Ago · 09:05 -
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a...
Jason Kottke
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a read: Look Past Elon Musk’s Chaos. There’s Something More Sinister at Work.…
Four Days Ago · 08:55 -
How to disable Google Gemini in your Google Workspace [link] Remy Sharp
Google's AI offering came along to paid accounts without permission or request. What made it worse is that it couldn't be turned off, which… I don't even have words. It was via Jan on Mastodon that…
Four Days Ago · 04:38
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