Britain and Europe have become colonies of US big tech who operate toll roads all across the lands. theguardian.com #

timgit/pg-boss - Message queue library for background jobs backed by postgres. Reminds me of mongodb-queue. github.com #

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js - "A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces". This looks like it could be super useful for creating CLI tools. github.com #

Stefan Judis looks at built in tools nodejs has for depracating methods in your public repos. Good to know. stefanjudis.com #

Simon Willison lays out how he automates his substack newsletter from his blog posts. Kind of hacky but could save a lot of time. simonwillison.net #

Personal blogs are back. disassociated.com #

New Post: Strategy still popular markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Things to look forward to markjgsmith.com #

Apple is pushing mini-apps, which are apps built in HTML5 inside other apps. techcrunch.com #

Bezos' Blue Origin launches twin Nasa spacecraft heading to Mars. theguardian.com #

@daverupert: Could IndexedDB be sync'd by the browser like bookmarks? mastodon.social #

Justin Drake on Etherium Beast Mode - scaling the L1 to 10k transactions per second using zk proofs. podcastindex.org #

HTTP+HTML cartoonist OG Hugh MacLeod on Culture vs. Command. gapingvoid.com #

@elonmusk: Congratulations @JeffBezos and the @BlueOrigin team! x.com #

Winklevoss invest into Zcash. The privacy focused coin tripled in value since I last mentioned it 3 weeks ago. Zero knowledge (zk) proof tech and snarks, a particular type of zk proof, appear to be getting hot. coincentral.com #

Wow Mozilla users are really really not into AI. connect.mozilla.org #

A suite of Bitcoin onchain charts to help you navigate the volatility and market cycles. charts.checkonchain.com #

macieklamberski/feedsmith - Looks like a pretty solid RSS feed library, with custom namespace support. github.com #

Zod + Typescript - Basically the foundation for what I’ve been call end-to-end data integrity. telerik.com #

Matt Smith breaks down the Error.clause property introduced in 2022. Very useful for seing exactly what’s been going on in your code. allthingssmitty.com #

privatenumber/tasuku - Create CLIs with awesome and simple task based visualisations. github.com #

sindresorhus/fkill - Cross platform process killer. The f is for fabulous. github.com #

anders94/render.js - Raytracing in pure javascript, with RenderMan RIB format support. github.com #

Tons of interesting articles in Node.js Weekly this week, so linking to it here. nodeweekly.com #

New Post: Static websites + git every time markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Social media auto-poster progress markjgsmith.com #

My hour vibe civilization engineering with Gem: The Peace Bomb is coming. This geopolitical "Singularity Shock" forces an emergency 100bps rate cut, vaporizing bond yield. It’s the only event big enough to restart the TINA 2.0 boom. OMG. gemini.google.com #

New Post: Improved RSS feeds markjgsmith.com #

The hot new role that AI companies are hireing for: Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs). interviewquery.com #

There are benefits to bubbles, infrastructure gets built out that lasts, in the case of AI that's mostly, but not only, energy infrastructure. stratechery.com #

Intel CTO Sachin Katti to join OpenAI to help build out their compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence. crn.com #

Trump threatens BBC with 1 billion dollar law suite over doctored documentary. theguardian.com #

New Post: Not much fun with Gem markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Google’s new coding agent called Jules markjgsmith.com #

You Britons go to the pub, we go to the swimming pool! theguardian.com #

Seems like it could be a challenge getting this working on a laptop, but it’s a new open source model that looks a bit impressive. minimax-m2.org #

Beets: media library management system for obsessive music geeks. Looks very cool. hn thread. beets.io #

Elon Musk $1 trillion pay package approved by board. wsj.com #

New Post: It’s 1997s era of making agents markjgsmith.com #

Apple to pay Google $1 billion to power Siri with Gemini backend. techcrunch.com #

Vibe coding is the Collin’s dictionary’s word of the year, beating biohacking, clanker, glaze, aura farming, boat kid, broligarchy, Henry, coolcation, taskmasking and micro-retirement. It’s kind of cool that the art of looking cool is not actually the coolest this year IMHO. theguardian.com #

New Post: Emoji fixes everything markjgsmith.com #

Perplexity won't identify it's user's shoping bots and Amazon is not happy about that. techcrunch.com #

Radiohead first gig in 7 years, rare 5 star review, set list looks kinda awesome imo. theguardian.com #

Apple to release a Chromebook competitor. bloomberg.com #

Bitcoin briefly drops below $100k. cnbc.com #

There are a ton of awesome things big and small happening around the world. The week in pictures. theguardian.com #

Kevin Jivani on using git bisect to find exactly when a bug got introduced. kevin3010.github.io #

21 facts about throwing good parties. atvbt.com #

Ahmad Alfy on how to elegantly craft URLs to solve a huge variety of situations requiring state. alfy.blog #

Royal Mail now owned by a Czech billionaire rolling out solar powered post boxes across the UK. bbc.com #

New Post: Peak plumber markjgsmith.com #

New Post: Platform generated AI slop at scale markjgsmith.com #

An ode to creating simplified versions of complicated open source software. danieldelaney.net #

French socialists love gourmet food. I imagine this article might cause rightists a confusing kind of mild anguish. But actually maybe some leftists would have a similar but different unease? bbc.com #

Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop. news.ycombinator.com #

Coinbase CEO games prediction market at the end of quarterly earnings call. bloomberg.com #

Elon was also on Rogan. Another pretty great interview. youtube.com #