2023-04-30

link from Nicholas Rougeux

Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants A complete reproduction and restoration of Elizabeth Twining’s celebrated catalog of botanical illustrations from 1868

2023-04-30

link from N/A

Kew Garden Illustraction of plants Beautiful botanical illustrations of plants around the world.

2023-04-21

link from Andy Baio

Employees begged Google not to launch Bard AI a “pathological liar” that’s “worse than useless” #

2023-04-20

link from Tim Kadlec

Creating a bookmarklet This might be a fun thing to combine with a new github file and prepopulate it.

2023-04-20

repo

httpie/httpie 🥧 HTTPie for Terminal — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

2023-04-14

link from Andy Baio

Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar “When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.” #

2023-04-13

link from Jason Kottke

How Solar Energy Got So Cheap

2023-04-11

link from Nick Heer

‘Make Something Wonderful’ From the Steve Jobs Archive, Make Something Wonderful is a remarkable collection of Jobs’ public and private speeches, email exchanges, notes, and other records of note. There are hidden gems in here, like an email exchange with Andy Grove and an engineer at Intel — “I have changed my position 180 degrees” — in addition […]⌥ Permalink

2023-04-07

podcast from Changelog Media

LLMs break the internet This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 18 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle.

2023-04-06

link from Andy Baio

Dan Gillmor on why (and how) journalists should leave Twitter for Mastodon Elon Musk despises journalists, as his recent targeting of the NYT and NPR demonstrates, but the inertia is real #