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This is where my opinion has landed as well. Most of the “typing” is done by LLMs for my own code these days, but I’m still in my IDE, reading, watching the diffs go by, interrupting to tell it to do something differently, refactoring regularly to make sure the code is legible.

07.03.2026 10:55 👍 80 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0
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NEW: The Russian military command likely has laterally redeployed elite airborne (VDV) and naval infantry units from the Pokrovsk direction and the Dobropillya tactical area in eastern Ukraine to the southern frontline, likely in part to respond to recent Ukrainian gains. 🧵(1/4) isw.pub/UkrWar030726

08.03.2026 02:24 👍 55 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0
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Hey guys, I need your opinion: I'm about to start a YouTube channel and I want to begin with a tutorial about Gastly. What do you think? Is this something you would be interested in? 👀

The Godot Shaders Bible book 🔗 jettelly.com/store/the-go...

#godot #indiedev #gamedev

08.03.2026 02:40 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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“War-a-Lago”

By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com

06.03.2026 16:10 👍 6603 🔁 1857 💬 205 📌 105
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🖤❤️ RNR 355 ❤️🖤

This week: React Native Skia for High‑Performance UI with the one and only @wcandillon.bsky.social!

@mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev talk Skia, shaders, WebGPU, and how to make React Native UIs feel as polished as native apps. 🪄

Listen here 👇
infinite.red/react-native...

06.03.2026 20:47 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Automotive Substrate Materials Built entirely on Substrate, Unreal Engine’s next-generation material system, this pack provides a physically accurate, production-ready material foundation for automotive visualization.Automotive Sub...

🆕Epic's Automotive Materials pack is available for free on Fab!

"Built entirely on Substrate, Unreal Engine’s next-generation material system, this pack provides a physically accurate, production-ready material foundation for automotive visualization"~ 🚗💖🎀

www.fab.com/listings/127...

06.03.2026 23:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Let me get this right:

- US attacks Iran.
- Russia helps Iran.
- US helps Russia by easing off sanctions.

What's wrong with this picture?

06.03.2026 23:15 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Promotional graphic for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 featuring the keynote “Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft.” The design includes the POSETTE logo, keynote title, speakers Charles Feddersen and Affan Dar, Microsoft branding, and event dates June 16–18, 2026, with a modern purple and blue background.

Promotional graphic for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 featuring the keynote “Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft.” The design includes the POSETTE logo, keynote title, speakers Charles Feddersen and Affan Dar, Microsoft branding, and event dates June 16–18, 2026, with a modern purple and blue background.

Our first keynote for POSETTE 2026 is “Driving Postgres forward at Microsoft” with Affan Dar & Charles Feddersen. Join us as they share their vision for Postgres in the cloud & as open source contributors in Livestream 1 on Tue Jun 16.

Register now
posetteconf.com/2026/talks/d...

#PosetteConf

05.03.2026 07:30 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

06.03.2026 16:39 👍 567 🔁 281 💬 14 📌 28
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Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026 A revised blog post is firm: the hardware is coming “this year.”

Valve has updated a blog post to say that it is shipping the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in 2026.

06.03.2026 23:51 👍 145 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 4
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He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

06.03.2026 23:13 👍 12185 🔁 3806 💬 1076 📌 280
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Try /delegate in GitHub Copilot CLI if you haven’t already.

Watch @scott.hanselman.com plan a Next.js upgrade, delegate it to Copilot, and keep working locally 🤯

21.01.2026 22:38 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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You told us you’re running multiple AI agents and wanted a better UX. We listened and shipped it!

Here’s what’s new:
🗂️ Unified agent sessions workspace for local, background, and cloud agents
🔀 Parallel subagents
💻 Claude and Codex support for local and cloud agents
🌐 Integrated browser
& more...

04.02.2026 18:45 👍 60 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 3
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04.03.2026 16:30 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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GitHub - tinylibs/tinyclip: A tiny, cross-platform clipboard utility. A tiny, cross-platform clipboard utility. Contribute to tinylibs/tinyclip development by creating an account on GitHub.

a new tinylibs library arrives: tinyclip! 📋

we didn't want to pull in ~2MB to use the system clipboard, so @florian-lefebvre.dev and i paired on making this lighter alternative.

6.7KB, 0 dependencies - supports WSL/macos/linux/windows

04.03.2026 19:44 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
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🚀 Rspress 2.0 just dropped!

✨ A brand-new, readability-first theme
🤖 AI-native: built-in `llms.txt` & SSG-MD generation
⚡ Instant dev startup with lazyCompilation and persistentCache
🎨 Shiki code highlighting with transformers

Read more👉 rspress.rs/blog/rspress-v2

30.01.2026 10:05 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
JSON.parse is parsing some JSON with a number that is larger than max safe integer.

A breakpoint has been hit inside the 'reviver' callback passed to JSON.parse - the debugger shows the values of the arguments that were passed to the function.

The traditional 2nd 'value' argument passed to the callback is `typeof number` and has been rounded down.
However the callback now also receives a 3rd 'context' argument which contains the original source string of the number 🎉

JSON.parse is parsing some JSON with a number that is larger than max safe integer. A breakpoint has been hit inside the 'reviver' callback passed to JSON.parse - the debugger shows the values of the arguments that were passed to the function. The traditional 2nd 'value' argument passed to the callback is `typeof number` and has been rounded down. However the callback now also receives a 3rd 'context' argument which contains the original source string of the number 🎉

One use case for the new `JSON.parse` source API: adding custom handling for floating point rounding (e.g. error or switch to BigInt):

proposal: github.com/tc39/proposa...
mdn: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

06.03.2026 20:32 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up. A new study says it has the answer | CNN Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for years. A new paper says it has the answer, and it’s not good news.

"Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up" via @laurapaddison.bsky.social for @cnn.com. [I'm critical of the study, but we all agree on key point that planet will continue to warm until we stop burning fossil fuels]: www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/c...

06.03.2026 18:30 👍 178 🔁 59 💬 13 📌 7
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This Rig Outpost has a ton of verticality. It's dizzying at the top but also fun to look down over the level and spot anything you might have missed.
#ps5 #indiegames #frogs

07.03.2026 00:51 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The image is a benchmark comparison infographic titled "Qwen3.5-4B vs GPT-4o." It compares the Qwen3.5-4B open-weight model (released March 2026) against OpenAI's GPT-4o (from May 2024).
Summary of Results
 * Total Wins: Qwen3.5-4B wins 5 out of 7 benchmarks; GPT-4o wins 2 out of 7.
 * Average Advantage: Qwen has a +9.6 average advantage over GPT-4o across the categories shown.
Benchmark Performance (Bar Chart)
The bar chart displays percentage scores across seven specific benchmarks, with Qwen represented in light blue and GPT-4o in gold/brown.
| Benchmark | Leader |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Qwen3.5-4B (Significant lead) |
| MMLU-Pro | Qwen3.5-4B |
| MATH-500 | Qwen3.5-4B (Largest lead, nearly 95%) |
| MMMU-Pro | Qwen3.5-4B |
| Video-MME | Qwen3.5-4B |
| MMMLU | GPT-4o (Slight lead) |
| MMLU | GPT-4o (Slight lead) |
Key Takeaway
The graphic highlights that the much smaller 4B parameter Qwen model from 2026 outperforms the older 2024 flagship GPT-4o in specialized reasoning and math tasks, while GPT-4o maintains a narrow edge in general knowledge benchmarks like MMLU and MMMLU.
Would you like me to analyze the specific percentage gaps for any of these individual benchmarks?

The image is a benchmark comparison infographic titled "Qwen3.5-4B vs GPT-4o." It compares the Qwen3.5-4B open-weight model (released March 2026) against OpenAI's GPT-4o (from May 2024). Summary of Results * Total Wins: Qwen3.5-4B wins 5 out of 7 benchmarks; GPT-4o wins 2 out of 7. * Average Advantage: Qwen has a +9.6 average advantage over GPT-4o across the categories shown. Benchmark Performance (Bar Chart) The bar chart displays percentage scores across seven specific benchmarks, with Qwen represented in light blue and GPT-4o in gold/brown. | Benchmark | Leader | |---|---| | GPQA Diamond | Qwen3.5-4B (Significant lead) | | MMLU-Pro | Qwen3.5-4B | | MATH-500 | Qwen3.5-4B (Largest lead, nearly 95%) | | MMMU-Pro | Qwen3.5-4B | | Video-MME | Qwen3.5-4B | | MMMLU | GPT-4o (Slight lead) | | MMLU | GPT-4o (Slight lead) | Key Takeaway The graphic highlights that the much smaller 4B parameter Qwen model from 2026 outperforms the older 2024 flagship GPT-4o in specialized reasoning and math tasks, while GPT-4o maintains a narrow edge in general knowledge benchmarks like MMLU and MMMLU. Would you like me to analyze the specific percentage gaps for any of these individual benchmarks?

at least on benchmarks, Qwen3.5 4B beats GPT-4o

GPTQ 4-bit quant means it fits into 2 GB

06.03.2026 23:51 👍 53 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1
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Trump To Americans: ‘You Won’t Have To Pay Your Son’s Cell Phone Bill When He Dies At War’ WASHINGTON—Striking a note of optimism as the prospects for a protracted conflict with Iran grew likelier, President Trump on Friday urged Americans to bear in mind that they’ll no longer have to pay ...

“You may be grieving at first, but, believe me, you’ll be smiling when you see how much less you’re shelling out every month,” said President Donald Trump

07.03.2026 01:00 👍 2239 🔁 324 💬 32 📌 14
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NEW: Russia is reportedly sharing intelligence with Iran to support Iranian attacks against US forces in the Middle East in contrast to the Kremlin’s recent attempts to frame Russia as a potential US ally and US-Russia relations as increasingly friendly. (1/8)

Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar030626

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 280 🔁 97 💬 8 📌 10
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When Unity started collapsing I made a quick "how do I get going in Unreal" website many folks found helpful. that website has now MOVED and is a DIFFERENT COLOUR. If you want Unreal demystification, tips and scoops, this is a place

www.ughiguessiwanttomovefromunitytounreal.com

07.03.2026 00:49 👍 190 🔁 73 💬 3 📌 1
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buy influx redux... a game people say is good

store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

11.12.2025 05:35 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 12
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Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.

They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲

Check it out (link below)!

06.03.2026 18:01 👍 463 🔁 175 💬 5 📌 3

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

07.03.2026 01:43 👍 2322 🔁 674 💬 27 📌 11

React Native section provided by yours truly!

05.03.2026 21:40 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 3943 🔁 1509 💬 178 📌 104

so the world's energy mix looks like this. around 20%-25% of the world's oil (7%pt of total energy) and a third of the world's gas (another 7%pt) goes thru hormuz.

right now that's been zero'd out, and there's no clear path back. a sixth of the world's energy supply is just... gone.

06.03.2026 20:38 👍 507 🔁 112 💬 29 📌 17
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 1548 🔁 669 💬 74 📌 34