Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…
Hummingbirds / in the summer rain at dusk / fighting.
[OK, it’s mostly just aggressive cheeping.]
The ESPN-NFL megadeal looks and feels like a big trade. So we’re grading the participants. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6540718/2025/08/08/espn-nfl-deal-redzone-trade-grades/
I'm a huge believer in having a hobby that forces you to focus on one thing. This summer I'm learning how to draw and paint wildflowers. It's absorbing and relaxing and even if the results are a bit rough, it forces you to really *look* at small details.
https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/114815896842271008
reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art - It's @ajroach42 's recent threads about addictive behavior in (mostly) kids (but he talks about adults and elders as well) that prompted me to evaluate my own online behavior, again. The line "… they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else" hit hard. More and more these past few months, that's been me, unless I make a very deliberate effort not to go down that path.
The fact that a tech summit's primary communications platform is LinkedIn should tell you everything you need to know about its tech credibility: negligible.
Seems to me there's a whole lot of spruiking of bigtech or bigtech-dependent tech. These things are always mostly marketing, making them insufferably yucky to tech folk like me.
Byron Allen's Allen Media Group agrees to sell 10 local TV stations, mostly in the South and Midwest, to Gray Media in a $171M deal expected to close in Q4 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match (David Waldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/trump-us-open-tennis-boos-delays.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250907/p61#a250907p61
The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including "malicious cyber actor" Song Kum Hyok (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20