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Datasette Apps sandbox untrusted HTML inside your database tool

Simon Willison has released datasette-apps, a plugin that lets self-contained HTML and JavaScript applications run directly inside a Datasette instance. The app

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open-sourcetech-culture

Gribouille 0.3.0 adds one-argument guide control to Typst's ggplot-style plotting

Gribouille, a spare-time, unfunded port of the grammar-of-graphics idea to the Typst typesetting system, has shipped version 0.3.0. The release is smaller in sc

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tech-cultureprivacy

How Always-On Earbuds Are Quietly Eroding Everyday Conversation

Ubiquitous wireless earbuds have crept far beyond the gym and the commute into offices, checkout lines, and even social settings like a round of golf, turning a

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tech-culturepolicy

How seven rival rail companies kept one logo when Japan broke up JNR

Japan's JR mark looks like the badge of a single national railway, but it actually fronts seven legally separate companies — six regional passenger operators an

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cybersecurityidentity

Let's Encrypt renewals fail as ACME API hits multi-day incident

Let's Encrypt's certificate authority experienced renewal failures tied to its production ACME endpoint (acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org) and the operator portal.

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REJECTED — off-topic medical case report, no content supplied

This item is a JACC cardiology case report on surviving cold-water drowning, not a cybersecurity or technology story. No article body was provided — only the he

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Temperament Beats Talent: A Zen Field Guide to Doing AI Research

You become an AI researcher by pairing reading with building—neither alone is enough—and then showing up with the discipline to keep working when insight refuse

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tech-culturepolicy

The value markets can't price: why unpaid social goods keep disappearing

Using a grant-funded gaming clubhouse in Stockholm as a starting point, this essay argues that some of the most valuable things in society are precisely the one

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tech-cultureopen-source

When a /.well-known/ URI Is the Wrong Tool — Advice from the Spec's Author

Mark Nottingham, co-author of the Well-Known URI specification and the registry's Designated Expert, lays out his working guidance for protocol designers eyeing

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open-sourcedevops

Why DuckDB Is Fast, Part 1: Living In-Process and Reading Columns

DuckDB has grown from a 2019 CWI Amsterdam research project into one of the most widely deployed analytical databases around, turning up in notebooks, ETL jobs,

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cybersecurityopen-source

Apple rewrites TrueType hinting engine in Swift, gains memory safety and 13% speed

Apple has replaced the C implementation of TrueType's hinting interpreter with a memory-safe Swift version, shipping in its Fall 2025 OS releases. The hinting e

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Gemma 4 + llama.cpp MTP turns a Mac into a usable offline coding agent at 72 tok/s

Repeated internet outages pushed one developer to build a fully local coding agent on an M1 Max with 64 GB of unified memory, and the resulting walkthrough show

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