I'm sponsoring Simon Willison on GitHub because he writes probably the best unbiased notes/blog on being hands-on with LLMs as a dev. For those sponsoring he sends out a neat monthly digest of what he reads/been thinking about (a nice bonus!) github.com/sponsors/simon…

R.I.P Gartner. You don’t need expensive analyst subscriptions anymore. You can now generate full industry reports using Grok 4 and public data. Here’s the prompt that turns Grok 4 into a full-stack market research analyst:

If you have 30 seconds. Puffins rafting around the Farne islands in Northumberland uk. #puffins #northumberland #wildlifescience #wildlifephotography

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

last time i visited, i was able to see an incredible live jazz show for ten bucks. cocktails were five bucks. museum tickets were fifteen bucks. there were a ton of great independent bookstores and i could get around by walking.

Jethro Buck (British, b. 1986, Oxford, England) - Little Big Bang. Drawing executed with liquid gold on indigo-dyed hemp paper.

1. To attend von Neumann’s lectures and take notes, complete unfinished proofs, see them through the secretarial jungle, and promptly circulate them to all American university libraries. These notes ran to over 600 pages. Weekly. ift.tt/Qs6C2uc

This is good from VDL.

Matt Wallace Meanwhile...in west Texas also, storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime on (May 17, 2021), with this fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun.

Monorepo? Poloyrepo? YOLO and no repo? Whatever your choice (not the last one), this article has advice for GitOps-friendly repository structure ... medium.com/google-cloud/t…

Naletale ruins - Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 The ruins are attributed to Kalanga Torwa State and are thought to date from 17th Century AD. The primary monument at the site is a colossal wall constructed from stone masonry. It is highly decorated, featuring all of the designs of the Zimbabwe

WSJ: Trump decided to give Ukraine not 2, but 5 Patriot systems — after seeing Russia bomb a maternity hospital in Kharkiv and a residential block in Kherson (killing a 1-year-old). He immediately called Merz on July 11 and made the offer. 1/

In 1781, the British slave ship *Zong* committed one of the most chilling atrocities in maritime history—throwing 132 enslaved Africans overboard to claim insurance money. Overcrowded and facing water shortages, the ship’s crew made a calculated decision: if enslaved people died

Three primary drivers for why businesses are growing faster than ever via Tom Hulme: Distribution: “The whole world is effectively addressable” Scalability: “The tech can scale to billions of users” Low Friction: “Generative AI is often a conversational interface”

A thoughtful essay about programming languages

The ai playbook for hyperscalers LLM —> Dev Tools —> Orchestration Launch, acquire or die

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I think this is a great achievement but omg the 2025 question is quite weirdly stated

Should the International Mathematical Olympiad be apolitical? Not according to the Ukrainian team: “We came here not only to compete but to remind the world that, behind every problem we solve on paper, there is a much bigger problem we are living through” theguardian.com/australia-news…

#SuperSeabirdSunday Roseate Tern on the Northumberland coast. ⁦David Steel⁩