π₯ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Learning to code is still worthwhile July 6, 2026 Is there any point to learn to code in the age of vibe coding? Literally no one is uttering what we thought were the immortal lines βlearn to code,β right? I don't think that sentence has been spoken for many months now in Silicon Valley Making Sense with Sam Harris #481 I'm the founder of Val Town, a "Silicon Valley startup" for writing and deploying code, and I still believe everyone should learn to code.…
π₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: David Sedaris,Books,Culture,Essays π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: II will admit that my heart sank a little at the prospect of reading David Sedaris's new volume of essays, some of which had previously been published in The New Yorker and which, compared with his previous output, seem to me increasingly hackneyed and reliant on anecdotes too weak for their weight. (From the essay Little America: βFew things make me crazier than people putting their feet on furniture.β) After nine previous volumes, Sedaris seems to be suffering from a problem…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: Jul 5, 2026 Β· 4 minutes to read It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by $X per 1M tokens. A lower number should mean lower costs, right? Well, not really. $X per 1M tokens is incomparable Each frontier lab has its own tokenizer, which determines how many tokens a body of text is split…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: LGBTQ+ rights,Turkey,Patti LuPone,Europe,World news,Culture,Cruises,US news π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: A cruise ship carrying 2,000 passengers from the LGBTQ+ community and Broadway singer Patti LuPone has been banned from entering Turkey after local authorities said their behavior was "not consistent with the structure of our society and our moral values."Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady set sail from Athens, Greece, on July 5 on what was described as a 10-day "all-gay odyssey" operated by Atlantis, a US company that organizes cruises and vacations for people from the LGBTQ+ community.The…
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**What Youβll Learn**: What in the tarnation is an Atari Jaguar? Released in North America in November of 1993, the Atari Jaguar promised to be the new cool kid in the block thanks to it's (Highly debated) 64 bits of pure power. The Atari Jaguar The console itself ended up being a commercial disaster, even after the release of the CD addon, the Jaguar CD; which managed to sell even less units in a desperate attempt to try and compete with the Sony Playstation and the Sega Saturn.…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Photography,Activism,Short films,Oscars,Art and design,Awards and prizes,Culture,Black Lives Matter movement,Gaza π **What Youβll Learn**: TThis is a documentary portrait of renowned British-Nigerian photographer, filmmaker and activist Misan Harriman, who campaigned on Gaza and Black Lives Matter, which was completed before a row in May over some of his social media posts. These appear to amplify anti-Zionist conspiracy theories about media coverage of the Golders Green attack, and inappropriately quote Susan Sontag's comments about the Holocaust in relation to the electoral successes of the UK Reform Party.…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Pros and Cons of Solo Development β John Jeffers Home Blog 05 Jul, 2026 I created and maintain Luxury Yacht, a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. Think Headlamp, Lens, and k9s. It's that kind of app. Luxury Yacht is a solo project, and it's been quite a challenge to get it to where it is today. I want to talk about some things I've learned over the past six months of doing this. But First, Why?Why do this, when apps like Headlamp, Lens,…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: DEggers, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as a steady stream of children's books and nonfiction, grew up wanting to be an artist. As a child, he took lessons with a Japanese watercolorist, studied drawing in college, worked as a cartoonist and magazine illustrator, and even curated a New York show called βSo Many Things Like Thisβ featuring pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp. He's set to soon open a project in San Francisco that he's been…
π Explore this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: OfficeCLI is the world's first and the best Office suite designed for AI agents. Give any AI agent full control over Word, Excel, and PowerPoint β in one line of code. Open-source. Single binary. No Office installation. No dependencies. Works everywhere. OfficeCLI's built-in HTML rendering engine reproduces documents with high fidelity β and that's what gives AI eyes. It renders .docx / .xlsx / .pptx to HTML or PNG, closing the render β look β fix loop. English | δΈζ | ζ₯ζ¬θͺ | νκ΅μ΄ π…
π Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: The Post,Steven Spielberg,Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Film,Drama films,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: Steven Spielberg was never an extremist. While Francis Ford Coppola directed Apocalypse Now and even George Lucas attacked the Vietnam War with Star Wars, Hollywood's uptight new star was more interested in the games of filmmaking than politics. In Peter Biskind's best-selling book of Tinseltown gossip, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, actor Kit Carson recalls meeting Spielberg at a party when the turmoil of the 1968 presidential campaign was raging. βEveryone was awake,β Carson recalls. βThe revolution…