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• What my apps look like on the iPhone Duo with zero code changes

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• NTP, an atomic clock, and having a great time at the world's largest VCF

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• Sherline Tools is Going Out of Business

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.

• Britain should be a country that makes things. It's how we create good jobs, give more opportunities to young people, and build pride in our communities. That's why today’s announcement from McLaren matters. They’re backing Britain, keeping design, engineering and manufacturing here at home - with plans to build their engines in-house for the first time. Their £500m investment will drive growth far beyond their factory gates, creating a thousand jobs, supporting thousands more in the supply chain, and providing apprenticeships to young people. This is what reindustrialising Britain looks like.

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• The Washington Nationals are hiring!

  Des McGowan writes: I left the Mets last year to take a job as the Amateur Scouting Director with the Washington Nationals. Now that we’ve gotten through our first draft and trade deadline, we’re looking for two Senior…

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Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.

• Has webkit ever kept CSS features under wraps until after an Apple product announcement? I can't find a single trace of anything related to viewport-segments or the device posture API coming to safari - aside from the failing WPT Could we see these APIs in the new xcode sim, or am I dreaming?

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• If you're at VCF Midwest, come all the way to the back corner and check out my NTP Time demo on a bunch of old Macs! (Starring an Xserve G5 with an acrylic cover). Also check out Mr. Macintosh's rack full 'o Xserves across the pod! #vcfmw

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Major Life Announcement

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• iPhone duo built in Three.js with running apps I fed the apple announcement video and all press photos into Astra and had it build the model The apps are rendered with HTML-in-Canvas Built this on Copilot day stream - Pierce and Burke are adding more apps now
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• I'm outta time! I'm packing for VCF Midwest today, but did finish up the last three projects for my NTP Time demo on old Macs: Xserve G5, Mac SE/30, and iBook G3 Clamshell (over AirPort Wi-Fi!). #vcfmw Also a bonus look at AppleTalk-based time transfer:

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

• A Modest Proposal

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Canadian software developer and writer, co-editor of the XML and Atom specifications and formerly of Sun Microsystems, Google and AWS. Has written the blog ongoing since 2003.

• Vancouver’s progressive anti-Ken-Sim municipal parties have coalesced behind Pete Fry as Bill Azaroff gracefully steps aside: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/william-azaroff-vancouver-election-mayoral-announcement-sept-8 I’ve met both gents and either would be a vastly better mayor than Sim. I do prefer Fry though, first of all I’m a Green, second, he’s been on council for years and knows how things work. Ken Sim is toast. #Vancouver #election #election2026

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• Terence Tao just posted this really insightful thread which seems to have been written in reaction to the Navier Stokes announcement. Please give it a read.

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• I've added @sapinker's Sense of Style to all my notebooks with writing projects, asking for a Pinker edit with each draft. I don't always agree with every suggestion but it's invariably productive and stimulating advice. Plus if you're in the US, you can get a free copy of the book, which you can both read and use as an on-demand editor in @Gemini_Notebook. There are twenty other great titles in the promotion as well, though it's a limited time offer, and you can only choose one book. (And yes, Google is paying for the books so authors/publishers will be compensated!) Full list and details he…

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• Astra one-shotted the first draft of its own vibe check for @every 🤯 we learned Astra was launching at 3 am yesterday morning. by 7 am we had a 3,000 word vibe check written. i can't tell you how impressive it is that i woke up to a google doc with a well-written, well formatted article with all of the usual sections, a good headline, and even appropriate screenshots. written in @kplikethebird's i didn't realize Katie hadn't written it herself, she just prompted Astra and it did the rest totally new world!

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• vision — Agent skill that mines your repo's history to draft a VISION.md, stress-tests it with hard hypotheticals, and iterates with you on an interactive review board.

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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

• curl 8.22.0

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• The power of Expert Intelligence in @Gemini_Notebook: Add The Sense of Style by @sapinker to a notebook with a draft you're writing. Ask for feedback based on Pinker's ideas. It's the opposite of AI slop: personalized advice based on human expertise, facilitated by AI. And what I love about this is that I'm getting actionable suggestions here AND Notebook is serving as a guide to Pinker's underlying philosophy of writing. So I'm learning deeper principles as I improve my draft. And of course everything in the Notebook response points directly back to specific passages in Pinker (and my own dr…

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• Just shipped a new feature called Spotlights that makes it easy to bring stuff that's deep inside a project right to the surface. Important PDFs people access frequently, key dates or events that are coming up, a specific task, an announcement, whatever. Here's how it works.

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• Before NTP there were Time and Daytime

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• Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on

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• i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.) even better than being a repository of all receipts, it helps me maintain a spreadsheet that i can download and send to accountants, draft emails for correspondence with service providers, and proactively flag issues that i wouldn’t have realized otherwise.
  Quoting@money_cruncherOpen a new gmail as soon as you buy a house (123house@gmailcom) Then save/forward every single receipt, invoice, quote etc to this email for all your home improvements: - replacing an entire roof - new flooring - new hvac system - building a new deck - etc These improvements raise your cost basis,…

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• One thing that is increasingly driving me crazy: AI made workplace writing cheap, but reading is still expensive! Again and again I see posts that are now twice as long as need be, and more meandering than a walk in the woods. The problem is simply this: the writer thought about what they wanted to say and asked a model to draft it. They did they stop to think: "What do I really want the reader to take away?" Before you ask AI to draft your next email, memo, or Slack update, answer these five questions: 1. Who exactly needs to read this? Is this for your manager? The leadership team? Your who…

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• Vim Classic 8.3.0 released

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• Sorry for Ghosting: Where I’ve Been (Pssst New Book!)

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• Life update: I cofounded a VC firm. God help me! Please see our announcement (QTed) — but allow me to contextualize 🧵
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• I am building a cloud

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• Build yourself flowers

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• I was so pleased to be part of a great team writing a commentary on the draft FDA guidelines on Bayesian clinical trial designs. Should have been done 30 years ago, but better late than never
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• MastodonI want 2026 to be a year where I start blogging on my own site again. I've finally published a blog post after it sitting in draft for 4 months. Only a year after my last blog post. 🙈

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• Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.

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• Slutcon, or the attractiveness of embodied authenticity

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• Did a quick announcement about Bosca Ceoil Blue on github:

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