Here’s a small demo game built with Phaser, used to test how Phaser games can be embedded directly in blog posts.
In this simple game, you click the cirlce and it shows how fast your response time is. No bells and whistles — just a quick test to prove the concept.
Go ahead and give it a try! It opens in a new tab for a cleaner, full-page experience.
Here’s a small demo game built with Phaser, used to test how Phaser games can be embedded directly in blog posts.
In this simple game, you control a car using only the left and right arrow keys. The goal? Navigate to the end of the road without crashing. No bells and whistles — just a quick test to prove the concept.
Go ahead and give it a try! It opens in a new tab for a cleaner, full-page experience.
Interviewer: With Mozilla announcing the shutdown of Pocket, many users are left wondering where to turn. Are there any competitors stepping in to fill the gap?
ChatGPT: Yes, absolutely. A number of tools are emerging or growing in popularity as Pocket winds down. Notable alternatives include Instapaper, Raindrop.io, Omnivore, Matter, and Readwise Reader. Each of these services offers slightly different takes on the "read-it-later" model—some focusing on minimalism, others on tagging, highlighting, or integration with reading workflows.
Interviewer: Does Pinboard still play a role in this ecosystem?
ChatGPT: Pinboard is more of an archival bookmarking service than a full-fledged reader, but it certainly still serves a dedicated audience. It's known for its simplicity, speed, and long-term data retention, but lacks a modern interface and advanced parsing features. You won’t get the same kind of clean reading experience that Pocket or Instapaper users expect.
Interviewer: Are there any services that combine features like saving bookmarks, full-article parsing, and providing an RSS feed of saved content?
ChatGPT: Yes. Omnivore, Raindrop.io, and Readwise Reader stand out in this area. Many of them allow you to save content via browser extensions or email, and then expose that saved content via RSS so you can read it in clients like NetNewsWire. Readwise Reader goes a step further by integrating highlighting, annotation, and syncing to Readwise's spaced repetition system.
Interviewer: How does the reading experience compare across services?
ChatGPT: Services like Readwise Reader, Instapaper, and Matter shine when it comes to readability. They don’t just bookmark a link; they scrape the content, extract the main article body, and present it in a clean, distraction-free format. NetNewsWire, as a traditional RSS reader, does a good job with full-text feeds, but doesn’t parse or clean articles itself.
Interviewer: So these platforms essentially bypass the ads and junk of most websites?
ChatGPT: Exactly. They pull just the main content and ignore ads, pop-ups, sidebars, and other clutter. This is a massive win for readers, though obviously not so great for publishers who rely on ad revenue or subscriptions.
Interviewer: Speaking of subscriptions, how do these tools work with paywalled sites like the New York Times?
ChatGPT: It varies. Some services can fetch content behind soft paywalls, but hard paywalls—like those requiring logins—are tougher. Readwise Reader, for example, won’t access subscriber-only content unless it’s publicly available or lightly restricted. Some tools allow you to paste in article text manually if needed.
Interviewer: Are any readers trying to log in on behalf of the user to fetch restricted content?
ChatGPT: Not widely, at least not yet. Logging in on behalf of a user and scraping subscription content introduces legal and ethical complexities. But we might see more sophisticated options in the future that offer secure credential management for premium content access.
Interviewer: Do you think this will change with the rise of agentic AI?
ChatGPT: Absolutely. The future points toward agentic AI systems that act on behalf of users—fetching, parsing, and even summarizing or annotating reading material proactively. Imagine a system that knows your interests, monitors your preferred sites or feeds, logs in when necessary, and delivers relevant, cleaned content to you daily. That's where we're heading, and it’s going to fundamentally reshape how we consume written information.
As tools like Pocket fade into history, a new era of intelligent, agent-driven readers is emerging. These systems don’t just store links; they work on the user’s behalf—retrieving, formatting, and delivering the written word in the cleanest, most accessible way possible. The read-it-later experience is rapidly evolving from a simple bookmarking function into a sophisticated, AI-enhanced reading concierge. And as agentic AI becomes more capable, the future of information consumption looks more streamlined.
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My interest in file systems started when I discovered how type and creator codes1 and resource forks contributed to the fantastic user interface on my original Macintosh in 1984. In the late 1990s, when it looked like Apple might buy Be Inc. to solve its operating system problems, the Be File System was the part I was most excited about. When Apple bought NeXT instead and (eventually) created Mac OS X, I was extremely enthusiastic about the possibility of ZFS becoming the new file system for the Mac. But that didn’t happen either.
Finally, at WWDC 2017, Apple announced Apple File System (APFS) for macOS (after secretly test-converting everyone’s iPhones to APFS and then reverting them back to HFS+ as part of an earlier iOS 10.x update in one of the most audacious technological gambits in history).
APFS wasn’t ZFS, but it was still a huge leap over HFS+. Two of its most important features are point-in-time snapshots and copy-on-write clones. Snapshots allow for more reliable and efficient Time Machine backups. Copy-on-write clones are based on the same underlying architectural features that enable snapshots: a flexible arrangement between directory entries and their corresponding file contents.
Today, most Mac users don’t even notice that using the “Duplicate” command in the Finder to make a copy of a file doesn’t actually copy the file’s contents. Instead, it makes a “clone” file that shares its data with the original file. That’s why duplicating a file in the Finder is nearly instant, no matter how large the file is.
The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its I/O keynote — a roughly two-hour event with copious references to AI — with its vision for Android XR glasses. That included flashy partnerships with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, as well as the first hands-on opportunity with its prototype glasses for the developers and the majority of tech media alike. On the ground, it was among the buzziest things to come out of Google I/O — a glimpse of what Big Tech thinks is the winning AI hardware formula.
A day later, Jony Ive and Sam Altman kicked down the door and told Google, “Hold my beer.”
If you’ve somehow missed the headlines, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company was buying Ive’s AI hardware startup for $6.5 billion. That alone was enough to set the tech media sphere ablaze. After all, Ive is the legendary figure behind the iPhone and Apple Watch’s iconic design, revered for his relationship to Steve Jobs. Altman is not only the most recognizable figure in this new AI era, he’s also frequently compared to Jobs himself. It’s a narrative that writes itself. But for gadget nerds, the real nugget was the tidbit that Altman had seen an actual prototype from Ive. They coyly dropped hints that this mystery gadget would be to AI what the iPhone was to mobile computing. It was, they implied, unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. That in turn set everyone hunting for clues and leaks about what this device could possibly be.
Buy-now-pay-later company Klarna featured the AI version of CEO and co-founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski in an 83-second video about its Q1 2025 results, as reported by TechCrunch. The video’s description says that his “AI avatar” is presenting the results, and the AI avatar kicks off the video by saying that “it’s me, or rather, my AI avatar.”
In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They made a high-stakes bet to outpace IBM, Intel, andother competitors in chip performance by combining cutting-edge 3.5-micron CMOS fabrication with a novel 32-bit processor architecture.
Although their creation—the Bellmac-32 microprocessor—never achieved the commercial fame of earlier ones such as Intel’s 4004 (released in 1971), its influence has proven far more enduring. Virtually every chip in smartphones, laptops, and tablets today relies on the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor principles that the Bellmac-32 pioneered.
As the 1980s approached, AT&T was grappling with transformation. For decades, the telecom giant—nicknamed “Ma Bell”—had dominated American voice communications, with its Western Electric subsidiary manufacturing nearly every telephone found in U.S. homes and offices. The U.S. federal government was pressing for antitrust-driven divestiture, but AT&T was granted an opening to expand into computing.
With computing firms already entrenched in the market, AT&T couldn’t afford to play catch-up; its strategy was to leap ahead, and the Bellmac-32 was its springboard.
The Bellmac-32 chip series has now been honored with an IEEE Milestone. Dedication ceremonies are slated to be held this year at the Nokia Bell Labs’ campus in Murray Hill, N.J., and at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
One aspect of this vision of the agentic web was Microsoft’s commitment to the Model Context Protocol created by Anthropic; Scott told Nilay Patel in an excellent interview in The Verge that while MCP wasn’t exactly what he would have designed from scratch, ubiquity is more important than semantic differences, particularly when you’re trying to create HTTP for AI agents. The second part of Scott’s vision was something Microsoft created called NLWeb, a natural language interface for websites that makes them more directly accessible for agents:
Mac apps typically include an About window that displays basic app information such as the version number and other details. Every macOS app project comes with a default About window accessible from the main app menu. This built-in panel shows the app icon, name, version, and build number.
Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console
Most software tutorials are tragically flawed.
Tutorials often forget to mention some key detail, preventing readers from replicating the author’s process. Other times, the author brings in hidden assumptions that don’t match their readers’ expectations.
The good news is that it’s easier than you think to write an exceptional software tutorial. You can stand out in a sea of mediocre guides by following a few simple rules.
I’m a long-time Home Assistant user, and have found it an incredible way to control and monitor a wide variety of devices. Home Assistant just keeps getting better at displaying information in a friendly format, and I’ve been using it to show dashboards for everything from office lighting to server stats. The latter is the focus for this blog post: Monitoring Linux servers over MQTT using Home Assistant dashboards!
A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.
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But having 5,316,911,983,139,663,491,615,228,241,121,378,304 2 possible values made it way harder than it needed to be to write them all down. I’m not sure why the authors of the UUID spec wanted to include so many bits!
In 1980 IBM, under pressure from its customers to provide computers for personal use, not just mainframes, set out to create the IBM PC; given the project’s low internal priority but high external demand they decided to outsource two critical components: Microsoft would provide the DOS operating system, which would run on the Intel 8088 processor.
A reference design is exactly that: a design that can be used as a reference for building your own. Not mandatory design, nor for that matter a suggested design. The amateur radio station components listed here will provide you with a working station. I am purchasing these too, so that my tutorial and demonstration videos will use the reference station.
I’ve been asked many times, “What HF rig should I buy.” I used to answer, “Well, it depends.” No more. Now I say, “Buy what’s in the reference station: an Icom IC-7300.” I will try in every case to make a recommendation for something you can purchase, and minimize the number of things you must build.
Your circumstances will be different from mine. Perhaps you already have a radio in your station, and don’t want to change. No problem! Adapt the reference station to your needs. Note that my own station has capabilities, like a hex beam, that won’t be in the reference design. But the reference design can be a useful guide as you build out your station from the ground up, or if you’re upgrading it.
Welcome! Here you'll find a sampling of tools for connecting online including delightful musical collaboration sites, collaborative drawing sites, online galleries, weird experiments, corporate video-meeting tools, and office tools repurposed as spaces for gathering together.
What these tools have in common
Invite people to reach each other over the internet through typing, voice, video, drawing, music, or any expression that feels meaningful Priority to tools accessed for free through a browser Priority to the experimental, weird, home-made, simple, or barely working (anything with any interesting features is welcome)
The standard trope when talking about timezones is to rattle off falsehoods programmers believe about them. These lists are only somewhat enlightening – it’s really hard to figure out what truth is just from the contours of falsehood.
So here’s an alternative approach. I’m gonna show you some weird timezones. In fact, the weirdest timezones. They’re each about as weird as timezones are allowed to get in some way.
Asia/Kathmandu has a weird offset from UTC Africa/Casablanca doesn’t fit into the timezone model cleanly, so it’s hard-coded America/Nuuk does daylight savings at -01:00 (yes, with a negative) and Africa/Cairo and America/Santiago do it at 24 o’clock (not 0 o’clock) Australia/Lord_Howe, population 382 and some notable stick bugs, has the weirdest daylight savings rule To learn how their weirdness is represented in software, we’ll look at the raw timezone files that all software ultimately relies on. From there, two things will become clear:
Yeah, this stuff is weird But only finitely so, because ultimately a computer’s gotta implement them But first, an aside on the calendar.
Hi, I’m Cabel. I was driving to Seattle and got hungry, so I stopped at a McDonalds in Centralia, WA. And when I went inside, I saw something incredible.
Always great to get another Julia Evans * wizard zines * comic. This one is on the Linux Path command.
Pitt and Clooney—they are used to living like this. Surrounded by beauty. In majestic isolation. They have been friends for nearly a quarter-century, in part because of what they share: an understanding of where the road that every young actor dreams of walking—that road that represents some intoxicating combination of money and attention and success—ends up. It ends up here. In a place a regular human could barely describe (trust me, I’m trying), let alone relate to. What else can you do but laugh?