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A Windows 3.11 emulator recreates a retro PC with dial-up internet, created by Pieter with help from Levelsio and bai0. The page highlights fullscreen mode, loading and downloading indicators, and a keyboard-like interface showing common keys and navigation controls.
The piece envisions 'Write-Only Code'—a future where AI writes production software that humans rarely read or review. As AI gains planning and long-horizon self-correction, the software development lifecycle will shrink the need for line-by-line human review, creating unread code in production. To manage risk, teams will track code-reading coverage and manage the Slop Radius; accountability remains with humans who own outcomes. The engineer's role becomes systems design and constraint writing, focusing on interfaces, invariants, and risk reduction rather than crafting every line. History shows bottlenecks shift; the next wave requires new primitives for trust and control.
Loops by Pixelfed is an open-source, federated short-video platform that prioritizes privacy, ad-free sharing, and community governance. Built on ActivityPub, it enables cross-instance federation with Mastodon and Pixelfed. Key features include a creator-first vertical camera, Following and For You feeds, threaded comments, engaging interactions that travel across the fediverse, hashtag-based discovery, and customizable notifications. The project emphasizes user control and ethical design, funded by sponsorships, to reclaim short-video sharing from corporate platforms.
DataStudio is a local, browser-based Python/SQL notebook for exploring, transforming, and visualizing data using WebAssembly (Pyodide + DuckDB). It runs entirely on your machine—no server, no upload—storing files in the browser's storage. Supports multi-cell notebooks with Python, SQL, and Markdown; in-browser execution; built-in charts with ECharts; file management for CSV, Parquet, JSON, and Excel; data validation and Excel editing via SQL. Features optional external storage (S3) and AI UDFs. Tech stack: Next.js, React, Pyodide, DuckDB; MIT license.
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Jimmy Wales dismissed Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a “cartoon imitation of an encyclopedia,” arguing Wikipedia’s human-vetted, expert-driven approach outperforms AI-written content that hallucinates. He pointed to OpenAI research showing AI models hallucinating up to 79% in some tasks and said deep, niche topics require human experts to provide accurate, context-rich information. Wales emphasized “obsessives”—subject-matter experts—as essential guards against errors and warned Grokipedia risks creating a separate reality, pulling users away from a shared truth.
Agent Semantic Protocol (Symplex Protocol v0.1) is a semantic interoperability layer for AI agents, extending MCP. It replaces rigid JSON tool calls with embedding-based intent vectors (float32) that encode goals in a shared latent space, enabling agents to negotiate, delegate, and collaborate without pre-registered APIs. Core features include spontaneous negotiation via cosine similarity, dynamic TTL-based capability discovery, Ed25519 DIDs for federated trust, and distributed workflows across a libp2p mesh. Implemented in Go with core, p2p, and examples; includes docs, tests, and a roadmap toward v0.2 and v1.0.
Worg is the Org-Mode community site with tutorials, manuals, and configuration tips to help users learn and customize Org-mode, a powerful Emacs-based system that organizes notes, tasks, calendars, and projects in plain text, with search, encryption, backup, and mobile access. It bundles introductions, resources, guides (tutorials, manual, glossary, reference cards), and ways to get help (FAQ, mailing list, IRC, Mastodon); with practical uses (task management, blogs/wikis, git syncing, Mac integration) and deeper topics (syntax, Babel, plugins, development docs). It also covers volunteer maintenance, donations, and community events like Org Camps and Git'r done.
Green lumber fallacy is mistaking irrelevant knowledge for essential. In software engineering, interview focus on data structures and algorithms often obscures the real task of building software. Great developers aren’t defined by solving puzzles but by practical skills like naming, reading code, and system integration. Max Howell’s Google rejection for not solving a binary-tree problem illustrates the mismatch. MAANG firms rely on algorithm questions, but true skill lies in actual work. The fix: use job-like assessments—take-homes, pair programming, and trial periods—to evaluate candidates.
Joel Hawksley chronicles a decade-long build of Timeframe, a family dashboard combining calendar, weather, and smart-home data on e-paper. Starting with a DIY Magic Mirror, then Kindle prototypes, he pivoted to Visionect displays (6”, 10”, 13”, 32”) and a Rails backend using IMGKit. Market pilots failed due to price and Visionect/docker costs. After a 2021 Marshall Fire and Boox Mira Pro 25.3” with real-time updates, he rebuilt the backend, migrated data sources to Home Assistant, and moved logic into HA. Now real-time status indicators for house state are shown; future work: deployment hardening, HA-only data sources, cheaper hardware.
shuru is a local-first microVM sandbox for AI agents on macOS, delivering lightweight Linux VMs via Apple Virtualization.framework. It runs ephemerally by default (no persistence unless saved), with checkpoints to save disk state as named snapshots for branching and reuse. It is Apple Silicon native with no Docker, offline by default with optional NAT networking, and configurable CPU, memory, and disk. Features include port forwarding, checkpoint/restore, and from-a-checkpoint runs. Use cases: code execution, tool use, evaluations, and development in disposable environments. Install in one command and run in seconds; built with Rust.
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Author shows how Linux binaries run on FreeBSD via the Linuxulator, enabling seamless remote development with VS Code. After struggling with NFS/SSHFS on embedded and FreeBSD boxes, they enable VS Code Remote SSH on FreeBSD using a community workaround (vscode-server-freebsd) and Linuxulator with a Linux base (linux_base-rl9). They configure SSH to feed BASH_ENV and map Linux paths, then connect from macOS. All extensions mostly work; Rollup needed a WASM override. Result is a fast, full-featured remote development setup on FreeBSD that feels like magic, highlighting Linux ABI stability and FreeBSD's Linuxulator effectiveness.
Fresh File Explorer is a VS Code extension that shows only recently modified files by combining Git history with pending changes. It presents a time-windowed, smart file tree with deleted-file support, heatmap coloring, and a pinned section. It offers filters by author or commit, various grouping modes (by file path, author, commit, or moon-phase groups), and quick-open to access only fresh files. It includes multi-repo support, search tools (within fresh files or found files, diff/line history), and 'Resurrect' for deleted files. It is not a GitLens replacement.
GitHub repository page for younes-io/agent-skills, tlaplus-workbench. Public project with 0 forks, 0 stars, 1 issue, and 0 pull requests; shows typical GitHub navigation and footer.
Git’s magic files are committed, repo-scoped configs that travel with the code and influence Git’s behavior. Key examples: .gitignore (per-dir and global ignores), .gitattributes (diff/merge behavior, line endings, language overrides), .lfsconfig (Git LFS settings), .gitmodules (submodules), .mailmap (author identity), .git-blame-ignore-revs (ignore commits in blame), .gitmessage (commit template), forge-specific folders (.github/.gitlab/.gitea, etc), .gitkeep, .jj/ (JJ VCS), and editor/version files (.editorconfig, .ruby-version, .node-version, .tool-versions), plus .dockerignore. The article highlights that tools should respect these files and notes their role in forges, vendoring, and language stats.
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ASF (Advanced Scripting Framework) is a JavaScript‑like scripting language implemented in VBA for Office apps (Excel, Access, etc.). It brings modern features to VBA: JS‑style syntax, object‑oriented and functional programming, rich array methods (map, filter, reduce), template literals, regex, and a COM object prototype extension. It adds an ES‑style module system (.vas) with import/export and module caching, plus VBA integration and optional Office object access (AppAccess). It covers error handling, Office integration, and security/best‑practice guidance, while noting limitations (no async/await, no const/var, etc.).
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