If I do say so myself, I do love expressive I can be with Kitten.
This is me injecting raw HTML markup into a Markdown code block in a Kitten Markdown page to highlight specific lines in a code block¹.
(The string interpolation of the HTML as an array is a hack that bypasses Kitten’s default sanitisation and should only be used with trusted content.)
PS. I’m going through all the tutorials on the site to update them to reflect the current state of Kitten after the three-mon…
'I spent the night coughing': Wildfire smoke leaves Bordeaux residents struggling to breathe
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-i-spent-the-night-coughing-wildfire-smoke-leaves-bordeaux-resi…
The FBI in recent weeks has interviewed current and former election officials about the 2020 election in Milwaukee,
ramping up wide-ranging reviews of voting in the swing states that Donald Trump lost that year.
Election officials are watching the developments in Milwaukee to see if agents try to seize ballots,
as they did in January in Fulton County, Georgia.
The confiscation of tens of thousands of absentee ballots from Wisconsin’s largest city would set off alarms…
Visually impaired Waymo users in CA say riding in a Waymo gives them a feeling of independence and spares them the discrimination they face from human drivers (Sonia A. Rao/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/waym
Before somebody says it: Yes, a sufficiently experienced engineer, with sufficient domain expertise, can probably suss out some/most of these pain points even *without* touching the code by hand.
You might just have that gut feeling that “cost” and “price” aren’t the same concept in a finance application.
But that’s a lot of hope to put in your gut, and likely robs juniors from ever building that sixth sense to begin with.
alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…
Code that was working and passing all tests, untouched for weeks, now failing tests on the exact same computer, exact same checkout, exact same commit.
This is the bane of my existence. And no, Grand Theft Autocomplete will not fix this. (It will probably make it worse.)
#Programming #AI
A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…