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I walk by a lovely local toy store every day. https://www.playtoysandbooks.com I live in the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago, and it’s a small bit of joy to have a thriving b…

Hey, long-time Flickr user who migrated to Google Photos for a somewhat specific use case. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi ) I do a lot of event photography as a creative o…

I don’t know if I would go so far as to say “monk-like”. He’s a college football die-hard. But he is a very chill dude. I wish more tech execs were in Cook’s mold. Reserved. Contro…

It’s a total cliché rite of passage to buy one of these when you move to Chicago. And I am typing that as I look at the Edgewater poster hanging right there over my desk.

> Edit : Sorry I'm asking specifically about paywalled stuff Ah, you mean, like the NYTimes RSS feed. The NYTimes (and other paywall sites) only render the headline and one-sentenc…

Office has been ARM/Apple Silicon-native for a while. It’s just pig slow, even on my M3 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM.

You are not the only one. I have an ASUS ProArt Display 27” 5K. And I somewhat regret it. I love the pixel density. But I don’t love the matte finish. Which is apparently a controv…

I still do a double-take when I see Pokémon trading card game vending machines at the grocery store. I am an elder Millennial with no kids…I knew it was still a popular game, but s…

Oh, totally, it’s my head canon as well.

Ha, I’d argue it starts right at Pekin.

According to Reddit…so, grain of salt…that is an urban legend, related to a Neil Gaiman short story that appeared on the Matrix promo website. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comme…

Also, that should have been the backstory of the Matrix, and not the whole “living power source” nonsense.

I have a real soft spot for Summer of Night. It obviously owes a lot to Stephen King’s IT. But it stands on its own merits…and I give it extra credit because it was set in my home …

I am 42. I came out when I was 19. I’ve worked in tech for 15 years, though no in the Valley. I have a snarky response, then a real response. Snark: Oh like a bunch of gays are cap…

Nope. It is still Electron, and it is not snappy. And I am on an M3 Max MacBook Pro. I have transitioned off ChatGPT for home use (Google provides me slightly better value in my pe…

I dare you to find any analytics, anywhere, that show any IE 11 usage. It would be utterly negligent to still be running IE in a corporate environment. It’s a huge security risk.

OK, everyone is (rightly) bringing up that relatively small but really glaringly prominent AI boyfriend subreddit. But I think a lot more people are using LLMs for relationship sur…

Have you tried the relatively recent Personalities feature? I wonder if that makes a difference. (I have no idea. LLMs are infinite code monkeys on infinite typewriters for me, wit…

And in Musk’s case, “longer” means “abandoned”. Like the cheap model 3. Or the Hyperloop. Or swappable batteries. Or X as an everything app that includes banking.

Oh, well let me get in my sub-$30,000 Model S, with a swappable battery and full-self-driving capabilities, and take a fully automated trip to the Hyperloop downtown so I can catch…

Yes, there is a sandbox. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/ That’s the point of this gist, and the related blog post. Also, it’s a bit of a stretch to call Claude…

5 anti-AI posts on the home page of Hacker News…yeah, plenty of insecure evangelism amongst the skeptics, too.

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Even with search mode, I’ve had some hilarious hallucinations. This was during the Gemini 2.5 era, but I got some just bonkers results looking for Tears of the Kingdom recipes. Hal…

Strongly disagree. Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft all have a very confusing product naming strategy where it’s all lumped under Gemini/ChatGPT/Copilot, and the individual product na…