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The Chinese food we ordered tonight wasn’t great.

It was General Tso Tso

Jasmine Crockett is a class act. 💙

60 years of 'Star Trek': The colorful origins of the rainbow warp effect 'Starfleet Academy' sports a cool 60th anniversary intro honoring this colorful optical effect.

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Happy Holi 🟥🟩🟪🟨🟦🟧

This is by design.

X users consider this a feature, not a bug.

In WhatsApp threads with friends in the middle east talking about missiles and drones flying overhead. Surreal...

It’s turbulent times for all of us man :/ Good luck

Deported student refuses flight back to US following threat of second deportation The Trump administration scheduled a Friday flight to bring a deported college student back from Honduras after a judge ordered her return, but she declined to board the plane after U.S. authorities s...

New: The Trump administration scheduled a Friday flight to bring a deported college student back from Honduras after a judge ordered her return, but she declined to board the plane after U.S. authorities indicated they would detain and deport her again. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Waiting for a haircut, flipping through my first IRL Sears catalog :)

See GDG Philly Monthly Event at Google Developer Groups GDG Philadelphia Virtual Event - Monthly GDG virtual event

The next Philly Google Devs Group meetup is tomorrow at 7. Not as big as the ones we used to run when we were meeting in person (though we hope to do those again soon too) but it’s become a good place to hang out and discuss all things AI.

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Wow!

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/mary...

Washington “Tech Corps” volunteers to globally promote American AI - Rest of World Washington to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI models as Chinese open-weight models are proving popular.

🤔

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Amazon's cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says Amazon's cloud unit suffered at least two outages in December stemming from errors involving its own AI tools, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

> According to the FT report, the agentic tool, which is capable of taking autonomous actions for users, decided to "delete and recreate the environment."

😅

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Yeah. Still processing that

From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner - The GitHub Blog Learn how GitHub built an ASCII animation for the Copilot CLI using custom tooling, ANSI color roles, and advanced terminal engineering.

I am a relunctant terminal user, just happier in GUIs and IDEs, but it’s been cool to see some design in terminal UIs

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Striking Photos by Peter Li Capture the Soaring Majesty of Sacred Spaces Photographer Peter Li captures the stupefying architecture of some of Europe's most striking churches and cathedrals.

Wow!

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/pete...

Introducing Markdown for Agents The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

You can now deliver your web content as markdown for AI agents via Cloudflare - pretty neat!

blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for...

Sneak peek of an app I have been working on - an RSS reader meets StumbleUpon (if people still remember that).

Add your feeds and then keep swiping to discover articles across your collection

Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding - Google Developers Blog Accelerate code understanding with Code Wiki's automated, intelligent, and integrated wiki platform for code repositories.

This seems useful

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Threads' new 'Dear Algo' AI feature lets you personalize your feed | TechCrunch The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed.

I didn’t realize this actually worked (beyond just social signaling)

techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/t...

Misread a notification as "Your sandwich as finished charging" - and my only thought was "ok, sounds about right"

Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change

"What was your role at TikTok?"
"Well, I helped reduce app engagement by x%"

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

CursorPhilly, CodexIDE, Saasapocalpyse and the Death and Life of Adobe Animate It’s been really cold the last couple of weeks here in Philly, in stark contrast to how hot the AI landscape seems to be.

Published this week's newsletter - thoughts on CursorPhilly, Codex and a few other things

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AI slop for laws? What could go wrong? 😅

What Is Policy-as-Code? - Palo Alto Networks Automate security with Policy as Code. Learn how coding policies enhance compliance, enforce access controls, and improve cloud security at scale.

One of the ideas I learned for the first time at the recent CursorPhilly meetup was Policy as Code approach to software development. Pretty interesting 🤔

www.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/w...

Adobe Animate - Back From The Dead!

20 years after I started my career in Flash, its still around and hard to kill 😂

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Heh, kinda not surprised that even the rationale for a 5 day work week in the US was driven by Capitalism

Good conversations and great crowd at last night’s CursorPhilly event