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📰 @geoffgraham.me is now in charge of @css-tricks.com

You'll be able to use Obsidian as a Markdown WYSIWYG editor for files outside your vault. Coming in 1.14.2.

At my upcoming Masterclass on Wednesday, September 16, I'll diagnose why most SLO implementations fail and how to design good SLIs. Register now, and catch up on the previous sessions. Register: go.hny.co/3TY4Imq

🚀 The latest VS Code release brings new capabilities for agent workflows. The workbench gets a fresh look with the experimental Modern UI preview. You can now run terminal commands directly from chat. For more complex tasks, agents can create sessions and delegate work across conversations.

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Interesting new open-weights model family for agentic coding: Ornith-1.0. Check benchmark claims, and the “self-scaffolding” idea: training the model to improve the harness/orchestration it uses to solve coding tasks. Simon article: simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/29/...

🆕 Introducing the MDN MCP server! Bring MDN's docs and browser compat data straight into your AI agent or IDE for accurate, up-to-date answers about the web platform. No more outdated guesses from training data. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introducing-mdn-mcp-server/

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

Bluesky is getting ‘communities’

I created a simple @obsidian.md plugin for some text manipulation I do. Simple commands that run locally in your vault, providing ~80 text manipulation commands accessible from the Command Palette. Case / Format, Line sorting, filtering, encoding, etc. community.obsidian.md/plugins/text...

new shiny thing for Windows bros: Microsoft Winget Config store your winget config in yaml then let DSC do it's idempotent sorcery developer.microsoft.com/blog/winget-... learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... #microsoft #powershell #winget #msbuild #Windows

Important Clarification: Notepad++ Security Incident (Indicators of Compromise provided by our former hosting provider is included): notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarifi...

“what we make with a tool does not belong to the tool. A manuscript doesn’t stay inside the typewriter, a photo doesn’t stay inside the camera, and a song doesn’t stay in the microphone” 🌄

One of the most underrated extensions in @vscode.dev is "Text Power Tools" by Dániel Tar. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet browsers are vulnerable to AI sidebar spoofing attacks that mislead users into following fake AI-generated instructions.

Corpus of public statistics available to AI agents and tools with Google Data Commons MCP Server developers.googleblog.com/en/datacommo...

Vibe Coding with 3x workspaces medium.com/@elliotgraeb...

My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

PNG is back! After over two decades, we released a new PNG spec. www.programmax.net/articles/png...

✨@firefox.com multi-account containers now sync between computers. 👌

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up else." —Yogi Bera

Chromebook deal $80: shop.pcworld.com/sales/lenovo...

@svrooij.io Hi! your bsky profile link on your website is broken, just need to remove first part. Thanks for all your writing.

Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion

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You can be verified by an organization at @bsky.app bsky.social/about/blog/0...

G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. nerdy.dev/ex-googler

Hear from the bear: "If the Largest Contentful Paint element on your website is an image then it's important to load this image quickly – not lazily"

Free DB masterclasses March 18: Fundamentals of Query Tuning April 1: Fundamentals of TempDB April 8: Fundamentals of Columnstore May 6: Mastering Index Tuning May 13: Mastering Query Tuning May 20: Mastering Parameter Sniffing May 27: Mastering Server Tuning

Electronic Arts released the source for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games. github.com/electronicarts

@bsky.app if you get to private groups, please use the same posts technology, as goos for discussions as for threads; instead of a separate simple anti accessible plain chat like everyone else and you in the private chats. 🙏 Looking forward to it.

Good new features getting in. I hope bookmarks and private groups don't take too long.

Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals

Mongo2Go is a managed wrapper around MongoDB binaries. It targets .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Standard 2.1. and works with Windows, Linux and macOS. github.com/Mongo2Go/Mon...

www.perplexity.ai/page/what-di... shared by @kentbeck.com

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Open source has the potential to transform how we access and use information. Learn how we worked with the United Nations to build a more efficient system for searching through their library of documents. 🗂️ github.blog/open-source/...

"It's too hard" is a canard. We do lots of things that are hard. This is a choice.

You can follow curated lists and feeds in Feedly. Very nice one! 👏

.Any() vs .Count() > 0? in C# by @groogs.bsky.social stackoverflow.com/a/63569609/2...