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Changelog Podcast: Agentic infra changes everything - 'What’s the bleeding edge and the future of insane agentic software development? Listen to this episode.' changelog.com #

OpenAI can see over a million people talking to chat bots about suicide each week. techcrunch.com #

Elon Musk rolls his own version of Wikipedia called Grokpedia, written by Grok, aims to be less woke. www.washingtonpost.com #

Threads release new disapearing ephemeral posts feature. Interested to see how popular this ends up being. 9to5mac.com #

Australia ban under 16s from social media, deplatforming to begin soon. www.france24.com #

New Post: Overhaul of my dotfiles markjgsmith.com #

Sam Altman getting into brain chips. sources.news #

Experts layout how the internet could go offline - the big one. www.theguardian.com #

Collection of movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. hrc.contentdm.oclc.org #

Several old school Japanese tech supplier companies have been doing very very well the past few months. www.reuters.com #

BA remove their sponsorship of Louis Theroux podcast over Bob Vylan interview. This feels bizare to me. www.theguardian.com #

New Post: Who are the suppliers? markjgsmith.com #

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has put together a very comprehensive guide to CSS layout (flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries). 2ality.com #

Great and very practical article from Dan Abramov about how to fix any bug, with help from Claude. overreacted.io #

How to rebuild a project from scratch. markjgsmith.com #

New Post: New blogging scripts markjgsmith.com #

React vs. Backbone in 2025 - Personally I never really got into Backbone, I like React though. backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com #

New Post: Beauty in journalism markjgsmith.com #

Journalist Madeleine Aggeler spent a week waering an AI chatbot pendant. www.theguardian.com #

Meta lays off 600 people from it’s AI division. tech.slashdot.org #

Web developer Evan Hahn shares the scripts he uses most day to day. Some really useful scripts and workflows. evanhahn.com #

New Post: Is it simple yet? markjgsmith.com #

Amazon AR glases for delivery drivers. www.geekwire.com #

2023: "Perhaps the opportunity with the Vision Pro isn’t with consumer apps, but with industrial apps." markjgsmith.com #

General Motors to introduce Google Gemini into it’s in-car entertainment system. www.cnbc.com #

Madhavi Sewak: "Everyone is working all the time, it’s extremely intense, and there doesn’t seem to be any kind of natural stopping point." www.wsj.com #

Reddit goes after Data Scraper companies. decrypt.co #

Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware ajxs.me #

Turns out readers prefer fanfic written by ChatGPT www.theregister.com #

Apple’s Vision Pro seems like a miss, but Samsung is about to unveil their competitor product www.macrumors.com #

ZCash the zkproof based privacy focussed "encrypted bitcoin" has been ripping bigtime as everything else has been crashing www.benzinga.com #

US and Australia sign a rare earth’s mineral deal www.bbc.com #

This guy built a message queue using only Unix signals leandronsp.com #

Alibaba Cloud show lots of AI optimisations possible, reducing GPU loads by 82% with a new pooling system www.tomshardware.com #

Self-hosted URL Shorteners awesome-selfhosted.net #

New Post: Building a social media auto-poster markjgsmith.com #

ChatGPT launches Atlas, a web browser with an AI chatbot inside it www.theguardian.com #

Many reckon the OpenAI web browser is a shot at Google techcrunch.com #

Glow is cli tool for reading markdown in the terminal www.howtogeek.com #

Australians are buying gold en-masse www.theguardian.com #

AI researchers want to get LLMs to use audio directly rather than rely on transcribing to text and back again kyutai.org #

ChatGPT Atlas - "Now with GPT-5, the smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet, with thinking built in. Available for everyone." chatgpt.com #

What Do We Do If SETI Is Successful? www.universetoday.com #

Big move at Google to move everything to ARM www.theregister.com #

Napoleon III‘s wife’s jewels stolen from the Louvre in Paris www.theguardian.com #

Part of Chinese space rocket crashes into Australia www.theguardian.com #

New Post: Upgrading my social medias markjgsmith.com #

China really not happy about big delay to the London Mega Embassy. www.theguardian.com #

Forget MCP, Skills are the new hotness. Great. Here we go again. simonwillison.net #

The No Kings protests do look like a lot of fun. www.theguardian.com #

Conspiracy Cookie Monster and Giant Banana at the No Kings protests. www.theguardian.com #

No Kings protests across the US: in pictures www.theguardian.com #

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New Post: AI agents vs AI models markjgsmith.com #

Some movement on Ollama Vulkan support - However initially will require building from source - "Initially Vulkan support in Ollama will require building from source. Once it is more thoroughly tested and we have fixed any critical bugs, then we can bundle Vulkan into the official binary releases". This is great news. It’s almost like my compiling and blogging efforts made a difference. github.com #

New Post: Are my GPUs being used? markjgsmith.com #

Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them - Some interesting context about environment variables, what they are, how the operating system implements them, and a comparison of how they are accessed in Bash, Python and C. They do feel a bit antiquated, but central to everything. allvpv.org #

AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui - "A web interface for Stable Diffusion, implemented using Gradio library." - It’s one of the UIs supported by Open WebUI to do image generation. Totally not obvious how you would get this working in Docker with vulkan, or if it’s even possible. github.com #

comfyanonymous/ComfyUI - The other image gen app supported in Open WebUI. I watched a tutorial on this which was pretty interesting, but ultimately seems like it wouldn’t work in containers with vulkan. github.com #

FluidInference/fluidtop - Installed this today, works great to view your realtime CPU and GPU utilization. github.com #

Apple unveils new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip, delivering the next big leap in AI for the Mac - Given that Apple never stops banging on about how incredibly super awesome their machines are at all things AI/LLM, it’s really very disapointing to discover that actually it only really is super awesome if you install the AI/LLMs super dangerously. www.apple.com #

Why did containers happen? - Some interesting background info about how we got to this crazy new world where everything is in containers, and where everyone is constantly blogging about pressing buttons. buttondown.com #

Crypto suffers record 5 billion crash as investors rush to hedge against another free fall - Altcoins particularly badly hit apparently. www.straitstimes.com #

New Post: Why do the AI/LLM folks hate people that run Macs so much? markjgsmith.com #

Bhutan migrates its national ID system to Ethereum - Everyone is talking about id cards at the minute. Apparently this is the 3rd blockchain they have implemented on. They were previously on Polygon and before that on Hyperledger Indy. Sound like they are the world experts at blockchain id system migrations. The old implement and move twice strategy, actually quite a smart way to go about it if you think about it. cointelegraph.com #

McSpaghetti to McAloo Tikki: Inside the world's local McDonald's - I tried the McPoutine in Vancouver, and it was pretty good. The Maharaja Mac sounds very exotic. www.bbc.com #

Tom Gauld on where writers really get their ideas – cartoon - Nice to see some light hearted humour. www.theguardian.com #

Modern Linux Tools - I've heard about quite a few of these the past several years. Thinking to try out a few, including bat, lsd, exa, ripgrep, fzf. ikrima.dev #

Vite: The Documentary - Definitely want to find some time to watch this. I have been using Vite a lot the past few months. So far no issues whatsoever. www.youtube.com #

1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free - I've been thinking a lot recently that I haven’t been consuming much long form content. Lots of classics on this list. www.openculture.com #

The turbulent history of the union jack - Flags are so weird. But fascinating. www.bbc.com #

New Post: GPUs, module upgrades and more site fixes markjgsmith.com #

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New Post: The new container based project structure markjgsmith.com #

Evolution of english interrogatives - I thought this conversation I had with Grok about the origins of who, what, where, why, when and how was fascinating. grok.com #

New Post: Rebuilding a project from scratch markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Containers, Typescript, React and AI/LLMs markjgsmith.com #