MyRetroTVs »

I’m a big believer in nostalgia as a form of self-soothing and this site is an incredible example of it. Currently working with 80s cartoons on the other screen and it’s bringing me a tremendous amount of peace.

tanrax/org-social: Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. »

sickos.jpg YES… HA HA HA… YES!

This website is for humans - localghost »

Since the rise of LLMs, the number of personal blogs I’ve been subscribing to has exploded. People are actually writing for other people again and not just for SEO bullshit and I love it.

New York Times - Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. »

A perfect follow-up to the Travis Kalanick interview from a couple of weeks ago where he talks about pushing the boundaries of quantum physics using a chatbot and “vibe physics”.

Graphite | Free online vector editor & procedural design tool »

Graphite is a rust-based vector editor. It’s only a web app right now (desktop apps coming later this year) but tbqh sometimes I’m just doing something so quick that it doesn’t need more than this. Handy!

The hilarious art of book design | Chip Kidd - YouTube »

A really lovely talk by graphic designer Chip Kidd about the thought process behind some of the book covers he’s designed, like Jurassic Park and IQ84. He’s such a character! I loved this.

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency »

She is five. She does not speak in sentences yet, but she knows how to answer a joke with a smirk. She organizes her markers by color, then chaos, then color again. She plays baseball without rules, which is probably the right way to play it. She hums when she’s thinking. She hums a lot.

This is beautiful.

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries »

Holy shit, the level of second-hand cringe I just got reading this is off the charts.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

Omarchy - DHH - YouTube »

Look, it’s dhh and we all have our thoughts about him and his political beliefs but when he sticks in his lane of only doing code/technical stuff, he can produce some really good stuff. His Arch/Hyprland setup here is lovely.

epa-1 – Vässla / Ever Engineering AB »

Whoa! Teenage Engineering have made an electric scooter and it’s shockingly cheap? (For TE, I mean. The base 30mAh model scooter is only slightly more expensive than the collapsible table they brought out a couple of years ago).