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Claude Code On-The-Go

CLAUDE CODE ON-THE-GO Author: mgranda Date: January 2026 I run six Claude Code agents in parallel from my phone. No laptop, no desktop—just Termius on iOS and a cloud VM.The Setupflowchart LR

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The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in A Café

Essay It’s contradictory to sit alone in a café. It’s against the reason cafés exist. They are designed as meeting spaces. There is no table with a single chair. Even the ones placed right by the win

candost
Notes from "On Writing Well"

I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “T

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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessa

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Helping people write code again

Something I like about our weird new LLM-assisted world is the number of people I know who are coding again, having mostly stopped as they moved into management roles or lost their personal side proje

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Unsure app
filiph.github.io

Unsure app

Welcome to the Unsure app! This text is a tutorial that you can play with. Every Unsure app document ("napkin") is a plain text file like this one. But when you write an assignment like the follow

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The November 2025 inflection point

It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point - one of those moments where the models get incrementally better in a way that tips across an invisible cap

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POSSE
indieweb.org

POSSE

Toggle the table of contents POSSE icon POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then p

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The Kids Stay in the Picture
NK Leadership Watch

The Kids Stay in the Picture

KJU Events Director and WPK Propaganda and Agitation Department Deputy Director Hyon Song Wol arrives with her daughter for the New Year’s celebration. Looks like mama had to work (Photo: KCTV-Yonhap)

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AI VENDOR VETTING – AN OK PRACTICE GUIDE

Happy New Year! Many have made plans, goals, and resolutions for 2026 – diet, exercise, business, and finance are just some of the determinations to make personal and professional changes.While the ca

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The year in charts
restofworld.org

The year in charts

We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into our articles. In 2025, we used them to help vis

restofworld
Introducing gisthost.github.io

I am a huge fan of gistpreview.github.io, the site by Leon Huang that lets you append ?GIST_id to see a browser-rendered version of an HTML page that you have saved to a Gist. The last commit was ten

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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

Original Article: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT DISLIKED POSITIVES Some users appreci

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Marius Bălaj
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Marius Bălaj

This post went unexpectedly viral on Hacker News. There's an interesting discussion there if you want to take a look. I own more books than I can read. Not in a charming, aspirational way, but in th

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Tonight
Spotify

Tonight

by Ken Laszlo • Ken Laszlo

Ken Laszlo Ken Laszlo
Don't Cry
Spotify

Don't Cry

by Ken Laszlo • Greatest Hits & Remixes

Greatest Hits & Remixes Ken Laszlo
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

by Ploum on 2025-12-15 All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected. A few days ago, I did a controver

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GlobalBuildingAtlas LoD1
tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de

GlobalBuildingAtlas LoD1

Welcome to the GlobalBuildingAtlas web viewer! This is a machine-learning–derived product. Errors may occur. Please refer to the publication for details. Over the past few days, our web viewer ha

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Fahrplan – 39C3
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Fahrplan – 39C3

Original Article: Fahrplan – 39C3 Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES Many commenters appreciated the events a

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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes. This makes a cleaning to playtime ratio: 2 minute play vs 10 minute clean upSucking away my

joannabregan
Is La La Land's Ending Hopeful or Despairing?

If you think La La Land's ending is despairing, you are not alone. I watched the first half of the movie thinking that it is another too-good-to-be-true kind of movie, until the movie finale slappe

visualrambling
Flock and Urban Surveillance

Some years ago, I had a frustrating and largely fruitless encounter with the politics of policing. As a member of an oversight commission, I was particularly interested in the regulation of urban su

tech
How uv got so fast
Simon Willison LLM

How uv got so fast

How uv got so fast Andrew Nesbitt provides an insightful teardown of why uv is so much faster than pip. It's not nearly as simple as just "they rewrote it in Rust" - uv gets to skip a huge amount of

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Books I Read in 2025

I’ve read quite a few books in 2025, and this time, instead of using Goodreads, I decided to keep a list in my personal notebook. I also wrote down the date I finished them.Books are a big part of my

design
2025 Retrospective

Well, here we are at the end of another year. Time to reflect on what went well, what didn’t, what I will do different next time. Creation Yes, I created some stuff… Twenty-six posts on this blog

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Break Processing With Strudel.cc (Beginners)

I split these two video’s up just to make it a little less dense than one 40 min strudle.cc video. 😅 This part focuses more on break processing and some cool tricks with .sometimesBy() and .lastOf(

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Creating 3D Line Drawings

This is an experiment examing how to create a 3D line drawing of a scene. In this post, I will describe how this can be done by augmenting the process of generating 3D Gaussian Splats 3D Gaussian S

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Fre Naz, DJ Tiz : Deori-Deollong

I will always be a fan of combining Korean traditional music with modern genres. There are many opportunities to create something that’s inspired by both worlds. Fre Naz and DJ Tiz accomplish this o

korea
Attacks on Excellence: The 2025 Year-End Roundup

Join the Center for Educational Progress and receive all our content — and thanks to all our amazing paid subscribers for their support.Disarray in the Department of EducationDOGE-be-gone. When 90% o

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Presidential Office to Return to the Blue House

Photo: The Blue House, c. 2020. Credit: Office of the President.On November 11, the Office of the President 대통령실 said it would move back to the Blue House 청와대 before Christmas, returning to the compo

korea
The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local

LinkedIn job scams have become a borderless epidemic, preying on the hopes of desperate job seekers and costing victims across the globe anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000....

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Alpaca Festival recap

Here’s a lovely video by Eva Yap, as a three-minute journey through Alpaca Festival 2025. It was a ride!

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Alpaca Festival – Alpaca 2025
2025.algorithmicpattern.org

Alpaca Festival – Alpaca 2025

Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts.12-14th September 2025, Sheffield UKOver 40 artists explored pattern-based music, arts and crafts through three days of concert + club performances, talks a

2025
The TouchDesigner Python Environment Manager

Whether you are a professional coder or a beginner, every patch can benefit from a few life-saving components, and this is where the new TouchDesigner Python Environment Manager comes into play.

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OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat

Designing a simple battery holder in OpenSCAD. Earlier this year I designed a very basic box/organizer for AA and AAA batteries in Autodesk Fusion, making it parameterized so that by changing a f

nuxx
Go ahead, self-host Postgres

Self-hosting a database sounds terrifying. That narrative has certainly been pushed over the last 10 years by the big cloud providers: Hosting your own database is dangerous How are you going to g

pierce
The F1 'differentiator' tipped to return in 2026

Unreliability always adds a frisson of excitement to a race. It’s a feeling that’s become increasingly uncommon in Formula 1 in the 21st century, to the point where mechanical failures are vanishingly

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Backing up Spotify
annas-archive.li

Backing up Spotify

annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20, Discuss on Hacker News We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes

annas-archive
Student Newspaper Strikes a Defiant Tone

Image: Tokipul publishes an empty sheet to protest confiscation. Credit: Tokipul.Since April 2024, 32 middle school students in the Eunpyeong-gu District of Seoul 서울 은평구 have been publishing Tokipul

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New F1 2026 mode names and car images revealed

Formula 1 has moved to simplify the names of core elements of the new 2026 rules in a bid to help avoid fan confusion.As first reported by The Race, the FIA and F1 management had been concerned that t

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Chopping Audio in Strudel Pt. 2! (DNB Edition)

Creative audio chopping and mangling with Livecode My music/socials/contacts: https://linktr.ee/switchangel pt. 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcmwqqzJubA #drumandbass #electronicmusic

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ZIN CHOI : handlewithcare

From the album teaser to album cover, handlewithcare is everything you envisioned an indie soul/R&B album to sound and look like. It has the childlike aesthetics, the amateur textures and creati

korea
Lessons learned in starting a central data team

I came to the MTA in 2014 to help lead an internal strategy team. Over the years, a couple other groups were consolidated into mine, including one that reported several key performance metrics such as

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The new ChatGPT Images is here

The new ChatGPT Images is here OpenAI shipped an update to their ChatGPT Images feature - the feature that gained them 100 million new users in a week when they first launched it back in March, but h

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GPT Image 1.5
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GPT Image 1.5

Original Article: GPT Image 1.5 Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES Commenters appreciated the gpt-image 1.5 m

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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

We spent fifteen years watching software eat the world. Entire industries got swallowed by software - retail, media, finance - you name it, there has been incredible disruption over the past couple o

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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

Original Article: AI agents are starting to eat SaaS Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES Many commenters appre

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This is not the future
blog.mathieui.net

This is not the future

by mathieui on Sat 08 November 2025 I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" po

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Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry Brian Merchant has been collecting personal stories for his series AI Killed My Job - previously covering tech workers, translators, and artists

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Lightning Man

by Nitzer Ebb • Showtime

Showtime Nitzer Ebb
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