daily-digest

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Quoting Ally Piechowski

Anthropic and the Pentagon

Agentic manual testing

Clinejection — Compromising Cline’s Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager

My current policy on AI writing for my blog

Stay SaaSy

Avoiding a Culture of Emergencies

Jeff Geerling

A PTP Wall Clock is impractical and a little too precise

🍵 seangoedecke.com RSS feed

I don’t know if my job will still exist in ten years

Daring Fireball

Daring Fireball Weekly Sponsorship Openings

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Coruna a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit of Mysterious Origin

‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’

The Verge Interviews Tim Sweeney After Victory in ‘Epic v. Google’

Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right to Criticize Google’s Play Store Until 2032

The MacBook Neo’s Price, Looking to the Past and Future
‘Never the Same Game Twice’

Another Steve Jobs Quote on Lower-Priced Macs

iDiallo.com

It Depends

Terence Eden’s Blog

Firmware Update for the Treedix TRX5-0816 Cable Tester

Chris’s Wiki :: blog

How I think systemd IP address restrictions on socket units works

Sometimes, non-general solutions are the right answer

A taxonomy of text output (from tools that want to be too clever)

Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software

The things that make me so attached to xterm as my terminal program

Sometimes the simplest version of a text table is printed from a command

On the Bourne shell’s distinction between shell variables and exported ones

How to redirect a Bash process substitution into a while loop

With disk caches, you want to be able to attribute hits and misses

Systemd resource controls on user.slice and system.slice work fine

Gnome, GSettings, gconf, and which one you want

PDUs can fail (eventually) and some things related to this

The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way

Consider mentioning your little personal scripts to your co-workers

Parsing hours and minutes into a useful time in basic Python

How GNU Tar handles deleted things in incremental tar archives

Xe Iaso’s blog

Advice for staying in the hospital for a week

The Old New Thing

When Read­Directory­ChangesW reports that a deletion occurred, how can I learn more about the deleted thing?

Andrew Nesbitt

.gitlocal

Construction Physics

A History of Operation Breakthrough

Dwarkesh Podcast

How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution

The Digital Antiquarian

The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 1: The Priest’s Treasure

The Silicon Underground

Blue Monday by New Order released, 1983

Bert Hubert’s writings

Lijstduwer, Felipe Rodriquez Award, BNR, NRC, btw en meer

matduggan.com

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

Miguel Grinberg’s Blog

How to Host your Own Email Server

Open Source Projects - Latest Discoveries

The open-source download engine that works on every platform

DEV Community

Day 4: The Operator Fined Me and I Deserved It
How to Scrape Bluesky Posts and Profiles at Scale (No API Key Needed)
Stop Sending Health Data to the Cloud! Build a Privacy-First Symptom Checker with WebGPU
Building a Legacy with AI: How I Created a Conversational Presence in 30 Days
Why I Built AngryToPolite after Years of Email Regret
Why I built FakeScan after falling for fake Amazon reviews
I Built a Database That Never Forgets — Here’s Why
How We Generate AI Network Digests for MegaETH at MiniBlocks.io
How My AI Agent’s Memory Created an Optimism Feedback Loop
Your Boss Can Read Your Mind Now: The AI Surveillance Explosion in the American Workplace
Week 4: Understanding what GusLift Is
Surveillance Capitalism Is the Business Model of AI — And You’re the Product

Hacker News: Launches

💬 Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

Hacker News: Best

🔥 Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
🔥 Global warming has accelerated significantly
🔥 US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
🔥 Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
🔥 Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team
💬 LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
🔥 System76 on Age Verification Laws
🔥 Where things stand with the Department of War
🔥 Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence
🔥 A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests