Anthony Cowley

Interesting how discussions about how the iPhone Air should/must have at least two cameras to be a compelling product differ so evenly as to whether the second camera should be wider or narrower (zoom).

This raises the question of if the writing can be too good.

YouTube video by Kai Lentit Interview with Dying Company's VP

This skewering of the tech industry day to day is incredibly uncomfortable to watch. Too real. youtu.be/VCivp2qnhr8?...

YouTube video by Switch Angel Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated)

Best ad for computer programming I've seen in quite some time! youtu.be/GWXCCBsOMSg?...

That `const` performance cliff is brutal!

Tested various version in my shader, interesting how it becomes fully pathological when simply adding a `const`: gist.github.com/vassvik/621c...

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

This is a great interview. I really appreciate that despite the superficial bluntness of the term he's now famous for, Doctorow tries to highlight nuance and acknowledge universal human weaknesses.

It often feels like the hole software is digging for itself is inescapable as security concerns keeping offering shovels with which to dig deeper. It's surprising (to me at least) that sandboxing is so hard!

Woof, trying out a tutorial and it has all these nice steps for using hosted notebooks. Here's where we install the dependencies... but the tutorial is several months old and so the dependencies don't actually install properly and I guess that's the end of that.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

Oh, boy: an infotainment software update pushed on a Friday that shuts down a car while it’s driving. Lot of bad things coming together there.

arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

Yeah, I agree. I do sympathize with the desire to have visibility into what’s going on to help with estimates and availability, but I also think ever increasing visibility goes from diminishing returns to bureaucratic quicksand while tricking managers into thinking things are steadily improving.

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics What's in a humanoid hand? | Boston Dynamics

Related, Boston Dynamics released a nice video on their current gripper design. Great to see folks challenging the reign of vacuum grippers! youtu.be/gS4rOqNDTBk?...

A corollary that plays a large role in my life philosophy is that a lot of successful papers are successful because of good engineering. People looking for silver bullets will be disappointed.

Introducing Figure 03 Introducing Figure 03

Figure's new humanoid #robot looks really impressive. It'll be really interesting to see if palm cameras and a little bit of tactile sensing in finger tips is enough for consistent performance in delicate manipulation tasks. www.figure.ai/news/introdu...

Meme image consisting of two frames: the top frame shows a frightened woman on a telephone with the caption, "People in the sixties: I better not say that or the government will wiretap my house;" the bottom frame shows a relaxed woman in a home kitchen with a smart speaker on a nearby surface and the caption, "Hey wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?"

The anti-anti-AI rhetoric in my feeds has reached a pitch that circles back around to demonization and conspiracies. I find memes like this to be a useful touchstone: you often have both banal interactions and insidious trends and influences at the same time.

A question for folks who have felt the weight of the yoke of Jira: is it that you could make a better Jira, or is it that Jira reflects and amplifies certain management ideas to a point of self-injury?

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IG newberlinlibrary

I’m referring to the initial rollout when my impression was that export of passkeys from one manager to another was not complete.

Whenever I bump into Passkeys I'm reminded of how bad an impression that entire technology made by promoting a model that would further lock you into a big tech co’s ecosystem. Not only did the tech itself burn its credibility, but I lost trust in commentators recommending them, too.

Congratulations, what an amazing fit!

They Pump So Much Stuff Into Those Beautiful Little Babies So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think...

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Super Typhoon Ragasa, a T10 (highest possible typhoon warning) is wrecking Hong Kong at the moment. This is video from the Ocean Park Fullerton Hotel.

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Do you link to local copies of the papers or to the web? Way back when I’d do local, but it got impractical and wasn’t trivial to sync, so now I deal with the occasional dead URL.

Jason Mamoa sneaking up on Henry Cavill meme. Cavill is labeled “me, totally in the writing zone”. Mamao is labeled “expiring SSL cert”

ahh, self-hosting

The Switch 2 version of Star Wars Outlaws is amazing I don't know how they did it. It's also a great game if you have not played it.

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats