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So many tech companies are setting on fire the little trust they had with our communities. They're heavily underestimating the consequences of their actions. The long term network effects among folks who care will be much larger than they expect.

also wrote a little bit about how this came about and how much i love personal websites and people who make weird things https://scott.is/writing/about/scott-v4

An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material is adapted from workshop talks and lectures at <a href='https://realm-gen-workshop.github.io/'>ICLR 2026</a> and <a href='https://cfe.columbia.edu/content/mlss2'>MLSS 2026</a>.

And the media environment that didn’t catch this is getting this issue wrong

Why independent science will depend on compute, not just funding, and why providing it is the best bet we can currently make.

https://gregwolanski.com/emails/

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Why and how we at Tempo decided to adopt the AT Protocol.

As web designers, we concern ourselves with how users move from page to page, but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Learn the design techniques that create a mental space for …

Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Today, we're launching a world-class research lab dedicated to Open Source sustainability with a team of some of the most experienced people in the world. https://stewardshiplab.org/ideas/a-research-lab-for-open-source/

Your digital UI can come from the physical world.

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

Personal websites as an atproto onboarding strategy

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

Very excited about Interface Studies by @mskayyali.com—videos explicating and discussing ideas and problems in user interface design. buff.ly/laz8yko (via @kevinlynagh.com—thanks!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjyb4_4Rlg&t=1s

I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.

Why do we still call it "social media"?

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

xrpcs are cool i think

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Collaborators grow tired of my magic hacks.

I'm really happy yet another way to enjoy The Index is available for people: 1. RSS https://piccalil.li/the-index/feed.xml 2. Web piccalil.li/the-index/ 3. Email 4. Standard.site via @standard-reader.app Build your newsletter web-first and anything is possible.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory. https://www.the-independent.com/tech/internet-archive-ai-wayback-machine-b2998319.html?fbclid=IwdGRleASjcpNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEexMhN2aFFoZ9r6BV8sb-LeuKw6_SWpWmYtoQ_kDmSqrSeVhxZ__cs0mkxtuo_aem_oniJDVJjHtj1jdVh64dERg

AT Protocol (atproto) is the right mix of useful, practical, personal, and fun. I think it could save the internet.

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

What’s up with this? The spirit, of course, is “I want my Google Reader back.” I should be careful though: I imagine if we really did have it back exactly as it was, it would prob…

Myke talks to Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian, about building tools for thought, working without meetings, managing knowledge with markdown and links, and how a seven-person team builds software used by millions. relay.fm/cortex/179

AI is empowering a generation of vibe coders to build exactly what they want. The personal software revolution is here.

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time). So they […]

"We've been describing it as tech journalism for humans who like fun."

Tangled could become GitHub for agents Software agents need a place to work. Not just a chat box. Not just a filesystem on a rented VM. They need durable...

Posted on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026. 1,087 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1

Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.

We launched a complete archive of all eight years of the festival, along with a limited-edition merch collection to mark the occasion.

How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!

If you wanted to host a website, you could use any one of a number of online services, or spin up a server on a spare computer at home. If you’re a bit more daring, you could also do what [Te…

What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.

Comparing Leaflet to Radio Userland

https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/

"If you want a Twitter-like experience, you can join Bluesky or Blacksky or Northsky or Eurosky and interact with 43 million other users who have already made the switch. Most of those users are on Bluesky, but accounts on Blacksky and other services work seamlessly with Bluesky accounts."

I built my dream Markdown editor for Mac. → Introducing Cogito (pronounced koh-gee-toh). It started out of frustration: Obsidian is powerful but overwhelming. iA Writer is beautiful but feels built for a different era.

this is a great CSS read. https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-css-expansion not to mention syntax improvements; nested CSS, CSS vars and mixing colors, et al.

There's something quite exciting happening with AVIF and progressive rendering. Some recent patches let you provide custom 'frames' as progressive passes, so you can provide e.g. smaller blurry versions of the full image to use as a progressive pass.

As we head into 2026, we're entering a new phase for the Bluesky app. Last year was about scaling through rapid growth and getting the fundamentals in place. This year is about leaning into what's working and investing more intentionally in the things that make Bluesky different.

https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/25/kind-software

This is the year I stop tech getting me down.

Two days ago I published a simple survey asking how you read the content I put out on this site. Here's the results of that survey.

https://oxal.org/blog/this-blog-is-mine-now/

Firstly, I think it's important to distinguish between the indie web and the IndieWeb. The IndieWeb is, as far as I can tell, a community of people who advocate certain digital principles and support each other in working towards those. The most famous principle is Publish (on your) Own Site,…

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the UI is starting to feel right. early access feels close now. roadmap: – figma named variables (plugin) – adobe illustrator & photoshop (plugin) – css & tailwind export – .pal export – procreate export – sketch export – affinity designer export

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ESP32-P4 + C5, AMOLED touchscreen, wireless, sensors and real I/O in your pocket. You write the code — it becomes whatever you need. For makers, pentesters and geeks.

why the bots will never win and just hanging out online

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

Interactive visualizations for large-scale embeddings. Effortlessly explore, filter, and search through rich metadata.

A brief exploration with many maps and many models

Lade „Jamboree: Game Maker“ von Eike Drescher im App Store herunter. Sieh dir Bildschirmfotos, Bewertungen und Rezensionen, Benutzertipps und weitere Apps wie „…

http://www.planet.dk/fonts/

Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that feeds HTML through an LLM before serving it as markdown in the terminal.

A growing collection of 10000+ icons, generated with AI. Perfect for designers and creative projects.

How network science can help us understand who will be the next Pope. The study by Soda, Iorio, and Rizzo reveals how status, information and alliances influence the papal election.

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

Open-sourcing and releasing fullmoon

This post briefly summarizes part of a talk I gave in 2018. All information in this post has been accessible on YouTube since then. There is no new information or news in this post. On Mastodon recently, jsveningsson@mastodon.social asked me: Having an annoying argument on Threads about Apple generated passwords. Every iOS Password (like hupvEw-fodne1-qabjyg) [...]

An analysis of the user journey

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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.