Huh weird.

Juana Molina is cool.

Loom (DOS EGA)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@colincornaby/117069185435215102

Holy shit, so the "Claude plagiarised an app" story is actually "Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers" 😅

git blame, or as they say in france, g'accuse

Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise

A large bird of foothill forests on the southeast islands. Both sexes have a yellow head and yellow eye. Male has a gray chest and red plumes which he raises over his back during the display, in which he flaps his yellow wings and hops. Females have yellow upperparts, barred underparts and a black face. Doesn’t overlap with any other similar birds-of-paradise. Male gives a typical, repeated, nasal squawk.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/gbopar1
Photo Location: Papua New Guinea

‘The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T’ (Full Movie), screenplay by Dr. Seuss 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch

Guianan Streaked-Antwren

Tiny bird of riverside vine tangles and seasonally flooded forest. Distinctive male is black-and-white while female has burnt orange head and breast; both easily recognized in riverside habitat. Usually found in pairs away from mixed-species flocks. Forages actively, climbing through vines and gleaning insects from leaves. Frequently detected by contact call: a nasal doubled note. The more complex song is heard less often.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/guista1
Photo Location: Venezuela

I should resubscribe to the East Village Inky

Spot-tailed Nightjar

Small nightjar of savanna and grassland with scattered bushes and palmettos. Spends the day roosting cryptically on the ground, but at night may be found beside quiet roads and tracks. Like all nightjars, eyes reflect amber-red in lights. Plumage similar to other nightjars, but note the pale buffy eyebrow, buffy V-shaped stripe on the back, and bold wing spotting. Male has small white tail tip, lacking in female. White spots on male’s tail usually only visible in the hand. Song is high and insectlike, unlikely to draw attention.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/sptnig1
Photo Location: Brazil

One critical purpose of vibecoding, it seems to me, is to manufacture consent for what comes next. Because, for now, developers are using LLMs to create purpose-built scripts and apps, but the business model of cloud-based AI provision is to replace all of that with a pay-per-use AI that can, in principle, do anything by summoning the right bit of code to match any prompt. Getting devs to internalize that vision as better than collaborative software provision eases the way toward that goal.

This writeup demonstrating a bunch of ways to use CSS in email to exfiltrate data from webmail clients was a really good read.

This is a fragment of weaving from Peru, 900-1430 AD.

"Hey I'm doing some weaving, I'm just gunna put a little guy on it"

It's not embroidered on, it's part of the weave. They took the time to decorate the cloth just because they could and I love that.

Here's a vivid demonstration of one hazard of using AI for app development: "the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed…" https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

ROFL. I just ran a "detect AI generated code" tool on iocaine, and it's hilarious.

Scores:
  Claude     ████████████████████ 67.5%
  Gemini     ███████ 25.4%
  GPT        ██ 7.0%
  Copilot     0.0%
  Human       0.0%

The signals it uses for scoring is hilarious. Follow along in the next few toots for some mind bogglingly bad takes!

This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.

#privacy

I didn't set a cookie. https://kuber.studio/cookie/

Honestly, my favorite game is probably Installing Things I Might Use, closely followed by Uninstalling Things Taking Up Too Much Space

Sadly, I don’t think that a program that assigns you arbitrary reasons to get out of the house would be very effective