Shared links
Things I read and found worth passing on — shared via NewsBlur, plus repositories I starred on GitHub.
July 2026
- Does creatine make you smarter?
- The Men That Don't Fit In
- The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
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July 2026 Security Release
Update time
- Beyond the Prompt: The Social Costs of Generative Artificial Intelligence
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turbostarter/loading-ui
Spinners, loaders and loading animations for modern web apps ⏳
- Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially
- Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
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ajnisbet/opentopodata
Open alternative to the Google Elevation API!
- What will be left for us to work on?
- (comic) Premature optimization
- A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking
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duongductrong/Snapzy
An open-source native macOS screenshot and screen recording app. A CleanShot X alternative.
- What's new in ECMAScript 2026
- Different hydration and rendering strategies (Next.js)
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agarrharr/awesome-macos-screensavers
🍎 🖥 🎆 A curated list of screensavers for Mac OS X
- Announcing TypeScript 7.0
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charmbracelet/crush
Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
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steipete/CodexBar
Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.
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kyutai-labs/pocket-tts
A TTS that fits in your CPU (and pocket)
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odysseus-dev/odysseus
Self-hosted AI workspace.
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(comic) Range of emotions
Feels like this is the exact feeling which I miss in my today work life since AI got into my work
- Regression to the Mean — On LLMs and the Quiet Death of the New
- Safe human-friendly multi-agent setup
- Holes
- Expensive Stuff
June 2026
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stablyai/orca
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS.
- (comic) Lowering attrition
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dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
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Happy Place
that's me in this comic!
- The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
- Making A Difference
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Jeffallan/claude-skills
66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.
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mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
- window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
- Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC
- Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
- (comic) Adding more people to a project
- (comic) How to save the project
- Mechanical Watch
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DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
- Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
- “Don’t You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?”
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steinbergmedia/vstgui
A user interface toolkit mainly for audio plug-ins
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software-mansion/argent
An agentic toolkit to control, debug, and profile iOS and Android apps. Made by Software Mansion.
- UI Skills for Design Engineers | Curated Skill Directory
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AllThingsSmitty/typescript-tips-everyone-should-know
✅ A collection of practical TypeScript patterns that improve safety, readability, maintainability, and developer experience. 🧠
May 2026
- Voxel Space
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HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL
A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal
- Component Architecture for React Server Components
- Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code
- CSS vs. JavaScript
- From Rust to Ruby
- tomhayes/BEMoji
- BEMoji — The Emoji-First CSS Framework
- Agentic Patterns — Veso Research
- Jira IS Turing-Complete
- Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?
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nkzw-tech/fate
fate is a modern data client for React.
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haydenbleasel/files-sdk
A unified storage SDK for object and blob backends. One small, honest API. Web-standards I/O.
- Abuse of Notation - writings on math, logic, philosophy and art
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anl331/goey-toast
A gooey, morphing toast component built on Sonner with Framer Motion animations
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joseph/mud
Mud. A perfect markdown viewer for macOS.
- The Noisy Room
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componade/calendarjs
Lightweight date picker, event scheduler, and timeline components for JavaScript. Works with React, Vue, and Angular. Free and open source.
- Three-Em Dash
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stonerl/Thaw
Menu bar manager for macOS 26
- You’re probably taking the wrong painkiller
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dadamachines/ctag-tbd
A Fork of CTAG TBD (ESP32 audio DSP platform) with many changes and lots of UI/UX + docs changes for the dadamachines TBD‑16.
- (comic) The OKR Trap
- Cognitive Surrender
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ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms almost all commercial alternatives, supporting Mac, AMD, Intel, and CUDA devices.
- Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? - Anil Dash
- Top 20 Fiction to Inspire Climate Action - The Books List
- Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
April 2026
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felipefdl/warm-burnout
Mostly warm, WCAG-audited color theme suite with one cool type accent. For developers who are already burned out but still have deadlines.
- (comic) The estimate game
- AI & Alignment
- Notepad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor
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AndrewVos/endless-toil
Hear your agent suffer through your code
- The end of responsive images
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yjs/yjs
Shared data types for building collaborative software
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Anurella/reset-css
A collection of styles that reset the styles of certain elements in the browser
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chenglou/pretext
Fast, accurate & comprehensive text measurement & layout
- The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic
- Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
- Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
- The Bag of Tricks for View Transitions
- Fructose: metabolic signal and modern hazard
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mui/base-ui
Unstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. From the creators of Radix, Floating UI, and Material UI.
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quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins
Automated collection of Claude Code plugin adoption metrics across GitHub repositories using n8n workflows
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nilbuild/slim
Give your localhost a local or public URL
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addyosmani/agent-skills
Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
- The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
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jaywcjlove/awesome-mac
This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.
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zhw2590582/ArtPlayer
:art: ArtPlayer.js is a modern and full featured HTML5 video player
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luongnv89/claude-howto
A visual, example-driven guide to Claude Code — from basic concepts to advanced agents, with copy-paste templates that bring immediate value.
March 2026
- Morale
- Announcing TypeScript 6.0 - TypeScript
- Comprehension Debt — the hidden cost of AI generated code.
- Pikimov, free motion and video app, now $6 standalone for Mac and Windows
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rzru/nightingale
Machine learning powered Karaoke app (with scores!)
- The best demos of 2025 from the demoscene
- The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer
- I Have 30 Years of Career Left. AI Made Me Rethink All of Them.
- (comic) Work on Your Emotional Intelligence
- Announcing TypeScript 6.0 RC
- Laws of UX
- Getting Started With The Popover API
- Nerdy Design Details
February 2026
- una.im | border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web
- Patience
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cloudflare/vinext
Vite plugin that reimplements the Next.js API surface — deploy anywhere
- Sprites on the Web
- The Best Free Plugins For 2026
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fmhy/edit
Make changes to FMHY
- sandbox-exec: macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
January 2026
- macOS Tidbits
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corbindavenport/just-the-browser
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
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tw93/Mole
🐹 Clean, uninstall, analyze, optimize, and monitor your Mac from the terminal.
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schedule-x/schedule-x
JavaScript event calendar. Modern alternative to fullcalendar and react-big-calendar.
- So Confident
- Forget channel closures: watch every decade of MTV music videos online
- Databases in 2025: A Year in Review