The lovingly crafted Bluesky app designed and built just for the Mac.

Dan Shapiro proposes a five level model of AI-assisted programming, inspired by the five (or rather six, it's zero-indexed) levels of driving automation. Spicy autocomplete, aka original GitHub Copilot or …

Local Area Network discovery tool with a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪

Managing 10 engineers, shipping code, and operating at the C-level simultaneously, with superhuman focus and power.
About three weeks ago I started as full-time CTO at ZAR (@zardotapp) . I opened a fresh directory and gave Claude Code a simple prompt:
Create me a markdown-based system where I can regularly run you, Claude Code, that lets me be the best world-class CTO possible. I'm planning to use you as my personal executive assistant and CTO expert. Document everything in a series of folders as you see fit.
I didn't design a folder structure. I didn't create templates. I just asked Claude to figure it out.
I'm here to tell you what living in the future looks like.

Graffiti-Klassiker in der Brunnenstrasse „Warum muss der Sohn betteln?“

[#photography](https://aleph.land/tags/photography) [#urbanphotography](https://aleph.land/tags/urbanphotography) [#berlin](https://aleph.land/tags/berlin) [#graffiti](https://aleph.land/tags/graffiti)

Create and download professional invoices instantly with EasyInvoicePDF.com. Free and open-source. No signup required.

This Week's Project Spotlight 🦀

Tylax
Tylax is a high-performance tool that converts mathematical formulas, tables, full documents, and TikZ graphics between LaTeX and Typst formats.

[#rust](https://mastodon.social/tags/rust) [#rustlang](https://mastodon.social/tags/rustlang) [#programming](https://mastodon.social/tags/programming)

Run Claude Code CLI in an isolated Docker container to protect your Mac's filesystem while using yolo mode.

Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

Give the macOS share menu superpowers

Shareful makes the system share menu even more useful by providing some commonly needed share services like copy and save.

This is just a fork of Helix. All claims rest with Helix maintainers and its copyright holders. I am just maintaining a fork. For more information, please see Helix's readme file.

My laptop is on macOS Tahoe (so I can support our customers), but my main Mac remains on Sequoia, because I don’t like Liquid Glass and some of the functional changes in macOS Tahoe. But I was tired of the constant "UPDATE TO TAHOE NOW YOU SLACKER!" dialogs that Apple sends my way.

You *can* block this stuff, but it requires installing a device management profile. It’s not as scary as it may sound, and the end result is Tahoe-free Mac usage, at least in 90 day chunks.

<https:robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/>

I had some reactions to Simon's most recent post, LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends.

Meme

Whether you're planning a spontaneous uprising, open-endec jihad or a brutal insurrection, the Toyota Hilux is the number one choice of madcap technical for self-respecting insurgents across
the globe. Compatible with all major lines of looted weaponry and with decades of proud service behind it, make sure your roving gangs
of armed banditry ride to battle in style.

Leash wraps AI coding agents in containers and monitors their activity. You define policies in Cedar; Leash enforces them instantly.

[@gla](https://mastodon.social/@gla) A couple of months ago, someone told me they allow the LLM to create its own file and use a diff tool to jump quickly from typo to typo. I think if I switch to a new system, that’s what I’ll go with.

But I would like to see your system if you have it posted somewhere.

the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:

Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.

Guide to exposing [#SilverBullet](https://fosstodon.org/tags/SilverBullet) to the Internet securely using [#Cloudflare](https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cloudflare) [#ZeroTrust](https://fosstodon.org/tags/ZeroTrust). A pretty nice setup giving you access to [#SilverBullet](https://fosstodon.org/tags/SilverBullet) from anywhere.

<https:community.silverbullet.md/t/use-silverbullet-with-cloudflare-zero-trust/3618>

Introducing Slop Detective!

An interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.

Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips:

https://slopdetective.kagi.com/

Available as apps as well!

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/slop-detective/id6752807487
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.slopdetective

#Kagi #AISlop #AI #Apps

The Uncertainty Calculator enables users to perform calculations using precise numbers and ranges (e.g., 4 or 4 ± 6) to express uncertainty. It simplifies statistical reasoning for everyday decisions, helping users gauge potential financial outcomes in uncertain situations.

Key Features

• Input both exact numbers and ranges with a tilde (~) to denote uncertainty.

• Operates on basic mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and supports functions like exponentiation, square roots, and trigonometric functions.

• Utilizes a Monte Carlo method for computations, providing a probabilistic range of results.

• Design is basic and intentionally user-friendly, aiming to empower those without deep statistical knowledge.

Limitations

• Calculation speed is slower due to Monte Carlo simulations, and the formula parser may show errors.

• Only normal distributions are assumed for ranges, providing a simplified model for uncertainty.

Practical Applications

• Estimate financial viability of business ideas, calculate potential investment returns, assess risks, and more, all accounting for uncertainty in key variables.

New InStock!

ElChibre: <https://keeb.supply/products/el-chibre>

There's a piece of monologue in a Czech theatrical comedy that I'm quite fond of, and it goes something like this: “According to our carbon dating analysis, this letter was written on January 21, 1842, plus-minus two thousand years.”

Took me a second but by god that's good

<https:filiph.github.io/unsure/>

[@filiph](https://mastodon.social/@filiph)

h/t [#TheCrux](https://eigenmagic.net/tags/TheCrux)

[#Helix](https://mastodon.social/tags/Helix) users, this is by far the best workaround for missing autoreload in helix. <https://crates.io/crates/fs_watcher_lsp>

one in four animals on the planet earth is a beetle. think of your three closest friends. if none of them are beetles, statistically speaking you are probably a beetle.

Karts. Nitro. Action! SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play. Our aim is to create a game that is more fun than realistic, and provide an enjoyable experience for all ages.

pdfly is a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. It can:

- display PDF metadata using pdfly meta and pdfly pagemeta commands
- combine files into new PDF documents: it can extract specific pages & merge documents (pdfly cat); selectively remove pages (pdfly rm); convert images to PDF documents (pdfly x2pdf); and even compress documents (pdfly compress) or build booklets (pdfly 2-up & pdfly booklet).
- pull out specific content from PDF files: pdfly extract-images & pdfly extract-annotated-text.
- fix manually-edited PDF documents, so that they can be opened in a PDF viewer again!

I don't like the phrase "Technical Debt". It's effectively lost all meaning.

I always need to ask, "what about it is technical debt?"

I've gotten a variety of responses:
- the abstractions are wrong
- the performance is bad
- the technology is out of date
- it's undocumented
- I don't know the tech

That last one in particular when someone told me, "It's technical debt because I don't know the tech," is when I knew the phrase had lost all meaning.

This tool lets you drag (or paste) an image onto the page and then shows a comparison of different sizes and quality settings, each of which can be downloaded

A useful image tool. Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn etc all benefit from a 2x1 aspect ratio "card" image. I built this custom tool for creating those - you can paste in an image and crop and zoom it to the right dimensions.

The iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review is here! <https://www.lux.camera/iphone-17-pro-camera-review-rule-of-three/>

I'm up to 124 little mostly-vibe-coded apps on my tools.simonwillison.net site and most of them are trivial but some of them aren't, so I wrote up this guide to the ones I think are most worth checking out <https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/highlighted-tools/>

Kando is an open-source cross-platform pie menu. You can use it to launch applications, execute keyboard macros, open files, and much more!

Multitouch lets you execute a custom action when you perform a specific trackpad or magic mouse gesture. Easily execute keyboard shortcuts, control your browser's tabs, perform a middle mouse click, and more.

- A powerful gesture engine
- First class window management included
- Keys & Mouse Buttons, too

Everyone’s into AI feeds in 2025. Meanwhile, I’m here polishing my RSS feed with XSLT. 😂
(Also because I’m a reader of Jamie Zawinski’s blog.)

<https:www.cedricbonhomme.org/2025/08/18/rss-xslt-styling/>

[#rss](https://fosstodon.org/tags/rss) [#atom](https://fosstodon.org/tags/atom) [#newsreader](https://fosstodon.org/tags/newsreader) [#web](https://fosstodon.org/tags/web) [#xslt](https://fosstodon.org/tags/xslt) [#indieweb](https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb)