One of the first significant things I ever coded in QBasic was a falling snow simulation- I think they're very soothing to watch, fun to customize, and there's lots of possibilities for extra little delight. Here's one I built on idle afternoons over the…

The New York Times (NYT) games have found widespread popularity in recent years and reportedly account for an increasing fraction of the newspaper's readership. In this paper, we bring the...

TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture.

Free EU independence check for websites. Analyzes Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs and more. Score from 0-100 for sovereignty.

A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026

The long-awaited deal comes as both Delhi and Brussels contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.

YourDigitalRights.org will continue supporting email-based requests exclusively. Our mission is to make data rights accessible to as many people as possible. Following our analysis, we believe that online forms introduce significant friction, deterring individuals…

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead…

The e-commerce giant will convert some locations into Whole Foods Market stores.

Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores will close, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday, with some locations converted into Whole Foods Market stores. “While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created…

Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.

A continuously running artificial life simulation where simple organisms emerge, evolve, and sometimes go extinct. No goals, just observation.

Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs affecting app launches and cloud storage

A <cite>Science</cite> analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.

Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and…

In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included…

Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.