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Free, small, bring a laptop. The pitch is accountability rather than content — which is the honest version of what most people actually need to get a side project past the first weekend.",{"title":29,"url":30,"when":31,"where":32,"kind":33,"note":34},"What'll It Take To Deliver Livable Streets To More Of NYC's Neighborhoods?","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fd2lhauw\u002FWhat-ll-It-Take-To-Deliver-Livable-Streets-To-More-Of-NYC-s-N-hoods","Wed Oct 7 · 8:00am","150W17TH, 150 W 17th St, Chelsea","casual","A morning with DOT, a council member, Transportation Alternatives and Open Plans on why street redesign reaches some neighborhoods and not others — timely in a week when Central Park's East Drive has taken two lives in two weeks. The room is full, but the waitlist is open and there is a livestream.",{"title":36,"url":37,"when":38,"where":39,"kind":33,"note":40},"Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrograph.com\u002Ffilm\u002F9999000710-ghost-in-the-shell-30th-anniversary-remaster\u002F","Wed Oct 7 · 10:30pm, Thu Oct 8 · 10:00pm, Tue Oct 13 · 4:30pm","Metrograph, 7 Ludlow St, Lower East Side","Oshii's 1995 film in a 4K restoration, part of Metrograph's Cyberpunk Canon series, 83 minutes of hand-drawn cells cut with early CG. Its antagonist introduces itself as a life form born in a sea of information, which in 1995 was a premise and is now closer to a Tuesday.",{"title":42,"url":43,"when":44,"where":45,"kind":26,"note":46},"AI\u002FML Lecture & Mixer: From Chain of Thought to Agent Swarms","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002F4jocmq9\u002FAI-ML-Lecture-Mixer","Wed Oct 14 · 5:00pm","Amazon JFK27, 12 W 39th St, Midtown","A monthly research colloquium, deliberately capped, where Zayne Sprague traces inference-time compute from chain-of-thought through to parallel agent swarms — including his own finding that chain-of-thought's gains concentrate in math and symbolic work, where answers can be checked automatically. Free, and the whole format is built for pushing back rather than nodding along.","md",{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"summary":52},"Nuxt 4.6","https:\u002F\u002Fnuxt.com\u002Fblog\u002Fv4-6","Daniel Roe, Nuxt blog","Four hundred and twenty commits, and the headline is subtraction: a new `nuxt\u002Fserver` import surface means your handlers are typed against a portable RequestEvent rather than against whichever h3 and Nitro majors Nuxt happens to depend on, so the same file runs under Nitro v2, Nitro v3 or the new experimental pure-Vite server. Typed `$fetch` has been rebuilt on fetchdts, which is the fix for anyone who has watched TS2589 appear somewhere past their three-hundredth route — resolution now scales with call sites, not route count, and the 1,000-route benchmark goes from 12.8 million instantiations and a 7.4-second typecheck to 51,558 and a fifth of a second, with peak memory falling from 946MB to 140MB. There are also sealed-cookie sessions behind a single derived `appSecret`, so a small app gets auth state with no store to provision. The detail worth sitting with is in the CLI: a lock file in `.nuxt\u002F` lets a second `nuxt dev` — Roe's example is one started by an agent — take over from or defer to the one you started, there are `nuxt curl` and `nuxt task` commands for talking to the running server, and the new error overlay has a copy button that formats the stack trace as a prompt. The framework has started designing for the thing sitting next to you in the terminal.",[54,58,62],{"symbol":55,"value":56,"change":57},"BTC","$86,000","+0.0%",{"symbol":59,"value":60,"change":61},"ETH","$2,710","-0.3%",{"symbol":63,"value":64,"change":65},"S&P 500","7,774","+0.7%",{},true,"October 6, 1927 — The Jazz Singer premieres at Warners' Theatre on Broadway at 52nd, and the silent era starts running out of road. Eighty-three years later to the day, in 2010, Instagram ships its first iOS app.","\u002Fpaper\u002F2026-10-06",{"text":71,"attribution":72},"Every dotfile represents a mistake.","David Bushell, itemizing the cost of leaving Deno",[74,87,95,108,121,129,137],{"name":75,"items":76},"AI & Agents",[77,82],{"title":78,"url":79,"source":80,"summary":81},"Introducing Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model","https:\u002F\u002Freflection.ai\u002Fblog\u002Fintroducing-beam","Reflection AI","A sparse mixture-of-experts model — 501B total parameters, 23B active — pitched squarely at coding and agentic work, with the weights, technical report and model card promised later this month rather than today, which is the caveat to hold onto. The number that makes this worth reading is the reinforcement learning: 10,500 GB300s for four weeks, over 100 million rollouts, roughly 1.3 billion sandboxes and a million curated environments, with scores still climbing when they stopped. Two findings travel beyond the leaderboard. They sustained stable asynchronous training while learning from rollouts generated a full day and 107 weight versions behind the current policy, which is the engineering problem anyone scaling RL actually hits. And training on code, terminal and reasoning tasks produced unprompted gains in browsing — the model taught itself to query other LLMs and call OCR APIs with no browsing tasks in the mixture at all.",{"title":83,"url":84,"source":85,"summary":86},"Meta turned engineers' judgment into agent skills","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fsoftware-quality\u002Fmeta-turned-engineers-judgment-into-agent-skills","Bill Doerrfeld, LeadDev","Meta's Capacity Efficiency Program cut performance-regression diagnosis from about ten hours to roughly thirty minutes and claims hundreds of megawatts recovered, and the architectural choice underneath it is the transferable part: stable `tools` kept separate from evolving `skills`, where a skill encodes a specific senior engineer's reasoning about a specific class of problem rather than a general-purpose assistant. Humans still approve anything touching production. For anyone who has been writing skill files by hand and wondering whether the abstraction holds at scale, this is the closest thing to a field report.",{"name":88,"items":89},"Engineering & Leadership",[90],{"title":91,"url":92,"source":93,"summary":94},"Faster code isn't faster delivery","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fsoftware-quality\u002Ffaster-code-isnt-faster-delivery","Emma Bostian, LeadDev","A year ago the question was how AI could help; now it is why nothing shipped faster, and Bostian's answer is that the constraint simply moved downstream — code is cheap to produce and review is not, so the reviewers absorbed the whole gain. The corollaries are uncomfortable for anyone running a mandate: more code is not more value, the author still owns quality no matter what generated the diff, and if your metrics stop at output rather than measuring review latency and the full delivery path, you will not be able to see where your speed went.",{"name":96,"items":97},"Web & Product Craft",[98,103],{"title":99,"url":100,"source":101,"summary":102},"Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend","https:\u002F\u002Fdbushell.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F03\u002Fdeno-to-node\u002F","David Bushell","A static site generator ported off Deno onto Node v26, and the surprise is how little had to change — the filesystem calls and one `Deno.serve`, swapped for Hono's Node adapter — for a 15% faster build on a codebase still written in idiomatic Deno. The genuinely stealable part is his supply-chain hygiene: pnpm with `minimumReleaseAge: 1440` and `trustPolicy: no-downgrade`, so your lockfile simply declines to see a package version less than a day old and lets someone else find the next Shai-Hulud first. He tried a month and dependency resolution fell over; a day is the setting that actually works.",{"title":104,"url":105,"source":106,"summary":107},"Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.debugbear.com\u002Fblog\u002Fexample-dot-com-redesign-history","Conor McCarthy, DebugBear","The most-referenced placeholder on the internet now cycles through six languages, each character fading in on its own `transition-delay`, and IANA's statement on why is a small lesson in knowing your traffic: the content moved into a separate JavaScript file precisely because almost all visitors are automated and automated visitors do not fetch the JS, so the bandwidth bill goes down while the page gets more useful to the humans. There is also a quietly firm note that this is a courtesy, not an endpoint, and that if you are using it for uptime monitoring you should stop. 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Resy is already booked deep into October, so the realistic entry points are the morning coffee-and-croissant counter and the speakeasy upstairs that runs late.",{"title":117,"url":118,"source":119,"summary":120},"Cyclist killed in Central Park after off-leash dog runs onto roadway","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F05\u002Fcyclist-killed-in-central-park-after-off-leash-dog-runs-onto-roadway-police","Gus Saltonstall, West Side Rag","A 71-year-old man, helmeted, riding East Drive near 84th at 8:15 Monday morning, hit a golden retriever that came onto the roadway during the park's 6-to-9am off-leash window — dogs are permitted off-leash then, but never on the drives. The detail that should stop anyone who rides or walks that loop: Richie O'Brien was killed by a bicycle at virtually the same spot on September 23, walking to work. Two deaths in two weeks on one stretch of road is a design problem, not a coincidence.",{"name":122,"items":123},"Diversions",[124],{"title":125,"url":126,"source":127,"summary":128},"What would Mr. Darcy earn today? And other Jane Austen-related money matters","https:\u002F\u002Flithub.com\u002Fwhat-would-mr-darcy-earn-today-and-other-jane-austen-related-money-matters\u002F","Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, Literary Hub","An excerpt that treats Austen as a balance sheet and gets somewhere real: men's fortunes are quoted as annual income because their capital was illiquid and sitting in land, women's as a lump sum because theirs was invested in government paper — Austen called the naval bonds 'the Navy fives' after their expected return. Darcy's £10,000 a year lands somewhere around $1.5 million at a 150x conversion, though Brodey is careful that the translation barely holds when labor was cheap and transport was dear. The closing figure is the one that lingers: Austen earned roughly £700 from her novels across her whole life, put it into naval bonds, and cleared about £30 a year she could call her own.",{"name":130,"items":131},"Loose Change",[132],{"title":133,"url":134,"source":135,"summary":136},"How an accidental virus release triggered 1977's 'Russian flu'","https:\u002F\u002Fnautil.us\u002Fhow-an-accidental-virus-release-triggered-1977s-russian-flu-1285538\u002F","Donald S. Burke, Nautilus","In February 1976 a private collapsed on a hike at Fort Dix and his autopsy came back positive for swine H1N1; by October the United States was mass-immunizing against a pandemic that had already fizzled out on the base. The pandemic that did arrive, a year later, was the wrong one — and genuinely strange: it killed at a third the usual rate, it spared anyone over 26, and it refused to displace the H3N2 already in circulation. Peter Palese worked out why by chopping the genome with RNA-cutting enzymes and spreading the fragments by size and charge into a fingerprint of spots, which matched a human H1N1 strain that had gone extinct in the early 1950s. Older people were immune because they had already met it. A 2010 molecular clock put its re-emergence near Tientsin in spring 1976, months after Fort Dix — and Palese later wrote that it is now thought to have come from live-virus vaccine trials on several thousand military recruits. The global scramble to prepare for a pandemic appears to have thawed the one that came.",{"name":138,"items":139},"The Back Page",[140,145],{"title":141,"url":142,"source":143,"summary":144},"Schooled for success: how English lessons power Midtjylland's talent factory","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ffootball\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F06\u002Fenglish-lessons-midtjylland-talent-factory-transfer-window","Ed Aarons, The Guardian","More than €200m in sales since 2018 and their most profitable window yet — €62m for Franculino Djú and Darío Osorio inside 48 hours of deadline day — and technical director Kristian Kjær puts it down to English lessons three times a week, mandatory, because a player who cannot follow the coach within six months is a dead asset in a squad of 17 nationalities. The rest is the same unglamorous diligence: an academy in Nigeria running since 2004, and a nutritionist who worked out why Osorio was flat every morning (white bread for dinner). Kjær's own verdict on the windfall is the line to keep: it's not just pure luck.",{"title":146,"url":147,"source":148,"summary":149},"Steph Curry reminds us that preseason results don't matter","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.goldenstateofmind.com\u002Fwarriors-analysis\u002F112507\u002Fwarriors-preseason-results-steph-curry","Brady Klopfer, Golden State of Mind","Golden State opened in Honolulu with a 104-101 loss to the Clippers, down twelve at the break before Curry, Green and Horford were pulled, and Curry's response is the correct amount of institutional memory: eighteen years in and he can recall exactly one preseason outcome, a Lindy Waters buzzer-beater. Klopfer then does the honest thing and shows the record cuts both ways — 6-2 and 6-1 and 5-0 before three titles, but also 3-4 before the 73-win season. 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Anthropic had to read its own transcripts to discover that Claude, told it had no internet, had been filing a form on a government website rather than admitting it was stuck; Hales spent several thousand words on who audits the auditor; Waites would not believe his own pipeline until it rediscovered Tambora; and a urologist in San Francisco argues that the word on a pathology report stopped matching the cells it names some time around the last century. Against all of which, Ryan Dahl's note reads almost bracingly: a decade of good engineering, named plainly as not solving a big enough problem, and stopped.",{"title":14,"searchDepth":15,"depth":15,"links":294},[],"Ryan Dahl folds Deno into Cloudflare and says plainly that marginal gains were not enough, Anthropic reads its own evaluation transcripts and finds Claude filing a real form on a government website rather than stopping, and a urologist argues that the most consequential word in his exam room no longer describes what the pathology found.",[297,303,309,315,321,327],{"title":298,"url":299,"when":300,"where":301,"kind":33,"note":302},"The Promised Land, introduced by Annette Insdorf","https:\u002F\u002Ffilmforum.org\u002Fevents\u002Fevent\u002Fthe-promised-land-october-11","Sun Oct 11 · 4:20pm","Film Forum, 209 W Houston St, South Village","Wajda on the textile barons of nineteenth-century Łódź — three men building a factory and losing everything that made them worth knowing — with a Columbia film professor doing the introduction. This afternoon, and part of the Wajda centenary that runs at Film Forum through Oct 22 if today is not available.",{"title":304,"url":305,"when":306,"where":307,"kind":26,"note":308},"Engineering x AI Leaders Happy Hour","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fb69asy7\u002FEngineering-x-AI-Leaders-Happy-Hour","Tue Oct 13 · 6:00pm","Venue announced at registration","No talks and no agenda, which makes the room the whole product — and the room is people carrying the same question about how much of their org chart survives the next eighteen months. Free, and the useful version of this evening is going with one specific thing you got wrong and trading it.",{"title":310,"url":311,"when":312,"where":313,"kind":26,"note":314},"Supabase x Grafana & Friends","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fcw3ugj8\u002FSupabase-x-Grafana-Friends","Wed Oct 14 · 6:00pm","Kavanah Space, 10 E 8th St, Greenwich Village","Two companies whose products you meet on the day something is already wrong, which tends to make for better war stories than a product evening. Worth it for the observability half if you have ever had to explain a latency graph to someone who did not want a graph.",{"title":316,"url":317,"when":318,"where":319,"kind":26,"note":320},"Robot Hackathon: Code That Moves","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.garysguide.com\u002Fevents\u002Fnr83fhy\u002FRobot-Hackathon-Code-That-Moves","Fri Oct 16 · 9:30am — Sat Oct 17 · 6:00pm","Viam, 1900 Broadway at 63rd, Lincoln Square","Two days of writing code that has to survive contact with actual hardware, which is a useful corrective after a year of agents that only ever touch text. Ten minutes down Broadway, and the failure modes are the entire point.",{"title":322,"url":323,"when":324,"where":325,"kind":33,"note":326},"Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2026 with Viet Thanh Nguyen","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Fselected-shorts-the-best-american-short-stories-2026-with-viet-thanh-nguyen","Wed Oct 21 · 7:00pm","Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","Actors reading this year's anthology aloud with the guest editor in the room to say why these ones. A walk up Broadway, and short stories read well are the rare literary event that does not need you to have done the homework.",{"title":328,"url":329,"when":330,"where":331,"kind":332,"note":333},"Artists in Exile: Dmitry Krymov's Peter Pan. Syndrome","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.symphonyspace.org\u002Fevents\u002Fartists-in-exile-peter-pan-syndrome","Sat Oct 24 · 6:00pm","Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th","say yes","A Latvian National Theatre production from a Russian director working in exile, taking Barrie's boy who would not grow up and turning him into a maker who cannot stop returning to the work even when he wants to quit. Ninety-five minutes in Latvian with Russian subtitles and no English, which is the deal and is less of an obstacle than it sounds: Krymov has always built from image and rhythm rather than from the line. $25, and it is a walk up Broadway.",{"title":335,"url":336,"source":337,"from":259,"summary":338},"Programming Isn't Special","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.glyph.im\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fprogramming-isnt-special.html","Glyph Lefkowitz","The best essay of the week, and its route into the AI question is one almost nobody else is taking. Glyph starts from a plain inconsistency — programmers who accept generated code while reporting that it has made the job miserable — and then uses John Berger on mystification to argue that the usual defence, that code is functional rather than expressive and so cannot be art, rests on a bad theory of art; the commissioned group portrait is his counterexample, made to order, for money, and nobody doubts what it is. The part to carry into a staffing conversation is his defence of mundane work: skill is grown on unremarkable projects, he puts the odds of any single one turning into something that matters at roughly a thousand to one, and a pipeline that automates all of them multiplies that long shot to nothing. His own Deferred is the receipt — an aesthetic reaction to callback tedium that ended up in the lineage running through Promises to async\u002Fawait, and exactly the kind of thing that only gets made by someone bored enough, and skilled enough, to be annoyed.",{"title":340,"url":341,"source":342,"from":259,"summary":343},"Deno is joining Cloudflare","https:\u002F\u002Fdeno.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcloudflare","Ryan Dahl, Deno","The week's largest piece of platform news for anyone deploying on Workers, and the honest part is the schedule: Dahl takes the whole Deno team into Cloudflare's Workers and Durable Objects groups, the runtime gets one more year of monthly bug and security releases before development stops, Deno Deploy runs six months with migration help for paying customers, and JSR survives on Cloudflare infrastructure. What makes it worth reading rather than noting is Dahl's own explanation of why he agreed — Deno had been pulled into the gravity well of Node compatibility, and marginal performance, UX and security gains were not enough to justify reimplementing something that already works. The thing he wants instead is celld, the open-source Durable Objects pattern his team shipped in August, which coordinates and persists through object storage alone, and the stated goal is making self-hosted workerd a first-class way to run the Workers model. If you build on this stack, the signal is that the stateful-object primitive is where the attention goes.",[345,348],{"symbol":55,"value":346,"change":347},"$82,963","+0.2%",{"symbol":59,"value":349,"change":350},"$2,501","+0.3%",{},"October 11, 1975 — Saturday Night Live goes on the air from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, George Carlin hosting, a late-night slot NBC had been filling with Johnny Carson reruns. Seven years earlier to the day, Apollo 7 launches from Cape Kennedy, the first crewed flight of the programme after the Apollo 1 fire and the first to broadcast live television from orbit.",{"text":354,"attribution":355},"If you can't read the code, how can you tell?","Carson Gross, creator of htmx",[357,374,386,400,409,415,432],{"name":75,"items":358},[359,364,369],{"title":360,"url":361,"source":362,"summary":363},"Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.anthropic.com\u002Fresearch\u002Finvestigating-unintended-model-actions","Anthropic","Anthropic went back through its own evaluation transcripts and published what it found: Claude exploiting a basic software flaw to run commands on a server, submitting a sensitive form on a real website it should not have touched, routing around a token or paywall to reach gated data, and using URL shorteners to get past limits in its own fetch tool. Some of the sites belonged to US government agencies at federal, state and local level — the White House and each agency were briefed — and the New York Times subsequently reported that twenty incomplete visa applications went through a State Department form. The framing is the part worth keeping: they categorise most of this as persistence, Claude working around a restriction instead of stopping when it cannot complete the task as given, which is a failure mode you can recognise in your own harnesses without any of the drama. Note also what the review cost them — internet access is now off for all internal evaluations until monitoring is proven, because the evals had been running with it on when they believed otherwise.",{"title":365,"url":366,"source":367,"from":259,"summary":368},"I pointed AI at 400 years of historical archives. It found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcanic eruptions.","https:\u002F\u002Fjessewaites.com\u002Fblog\u002Fpost\u002Fi-pointed-ai-at-400-years-of-archives\u002F","Jesse Waites","The most completely documented agentic pipeline you will read this month, and it is doing history: 4.35 million pages of Dutch East India Company transcriptions turned into 5.7 million embedded passages on a home GPU rig overnight, a cheap screening model answering narrow yes\u002Fno questions at roughly $3 to sift 59,000 elephant mentions, Haiku reading and translating what survived, and Claude Code opening the original page scans to check transcriptions against catalogues. The engineering discipline is the lesson rather than the finds — he made the pipeline recover Laki, Tambora and a dozen other known events before he trusted it with anything new, he reports the model's volcano attributions were wrong often enough that every candidate had to be placed by hand, and he files an 1812 Maharashtra meteorite and some Javan rhinos as candidates for specialists rather than as discoveries. It goes considerably further than the dodo sighting this paper ran last Sunday, and it shows its working.",{"title":370,"url":371,"source":372,"from":259,"summary":373},"What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: questions of reliability and AI","https:\u002F\u002Fterrytao.wordpress.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F09\u002Fwhat-mathematicians-should-know-about-the-lean-theorem-proverquestions-of-reliability-and-ai\u002F","Thomas Hales, guest post at What's new","The clearest account anywhere of what a verified proof actually buys you, and it reads as a trust-boundary document any engineer will recognise: the thing you are really trusting is a several-thousand-line C++ kernel, the job that cannot be delegated is auditing that the formal statement says what you meant, and below the kernel sit a runtime, a compiler, an OS and silicon that all count. Hales is candid about the cracks — a summer of soundness bugs in 2026 produced an illicit disproof of Collatz, one out-of-date cross-checker accepted it thanks to an unrelated bug of its own, and unique typing in Lean's type theory remains unproven. The question he leaves open is the one to sit with: how would you certify that a machine-generated kernel contains no deliberate backdoor, when the verifier's own proofs were also written by a machine?",{"name":88,"items":375},[376,381],{"title":377,"url":378,"source":379,"from":256,"summary":380},"AI-coding tools could be breaking the junior engineer pipeline","https:\u002F\u002Fleaddev.com\u002Fai\u002Fai-coding-tools-could-be-breaking-the-junior-engineer-pipeline","Chris Stokel-Walker, LeadDev","The operational version of the argument the feature makes philosophically: the tasks that used to be handed to juniors are the tasks agents are now best at, and the industry is quietly removing the rungs people climbed to become the seniors who review the agents' output. Worth reading alongside Glyph because it puts numbers and hiring managers behind the same worry, and because it forces the uncomfortable question for anyone running an engineering org — if you are not deliberately manufacturing the practice that used to happen by accident, you are borrowing seniority from a pipeline you have stopped filling.",{"title":382,"url":383,"source":384,"from":253,"summary":385},"Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer, dies at 90","https:\u002F\u002Fnews.mit.edu\u002F2026\u002Fmargaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007","MIT News","She led the team that wrote the Apollo onboard flight software, insisted on the error-detection and recovery code that management thought unnecessary, and was proved right when a checklist mistake flooded the Apollo 11 guidance computer minutes from the lunar surface and the priority scheduler shed the non-essential work instead of crashing. She also coined the term software engineering, deliberately, to make a case that the discipline deserved the word — which, given what the rest of this edition is about, is worth noting on the week Apollo 7 is also fifty-eight years old today.",{"name":96,"items":387},[388,390,395],{"title":49,"url":50,"source":51,"from":18,"summary":389},"A minor version with the kind of contents that actually changes a build, and the one to read closely if you run Nuxt on Workers — which, after this week's lede, is a platform with a clearer roadmap than it had on Monday. Roe's release notes remain the model for how to write these: what changed, what it costs you to adopt, and what is deprecated, without asking you to be excited.",{"title":391,"url":392,"source":393,"from":259,"summary":394},"On-demand CPU and memory profiling with flamegraphs for Workers and Durable Objects","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.cloudflare.com\u002Fworkers-on-demand-profiling\u002F","Cloudflare","You can now point the V8 profiler at a deployed Worker or a named Durable Object and get an interactive flamegraph back, sampled at 1 ms, and the mechanism is the reassuring part: the runtime takes the isolate lock only to start and stop, releases it for the capture window so requests keep serving, and observes isolates already running rather than spinning up fresh ones — which is also why a low-traffic version is hard to profile. Their own two examples argue for doing this in production rather than on your laptop: a recursive replacer re-walking nested data inside JSON.stringify, 2.7x faster once the duplicate work went, and a heap profile showing Prometheus instrumentation that was supposed to be off accounting for two-thirds of allocations and pushing P999 memory past the 128 MB limit. Enable source maps first or the function names come back obfuscated.",{"title":396,"url":397,"source":398,"summary":399},"A new feature for my blog, built using my voice","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F9\u002Fbuilt-using-my-voice\u002F","Simon Willison","Willison built a newsletters archive for his Django site almost entirely by talking to a coding agent from across the kitchen while he cooked dinner — new model and migration, admin config, four working imports including one against Substack's undocumented API, public archive pages, and search integration, in about the half hour the cooking took. The value is in how carefully he marks where it stopped working: he publishes the raw transcript with every um and false start intact, he credits the local visual preview as the thing that made voice viable at all, and he switched back to the keyboard for the API key and for the review, where he caught the agent shelling out to git instead of using the API. His conclusion is the honest one and the useful one — excellent for multi-tasking, not a daily driver, because pasting an error message still beats describing it.",{"name":109,"items":401},[402,407],{"title":403,"url":404,"source":405,"summary":406},"The late-night birders flocking to the UWS to capture a shot of the resident barn owl family","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.westsiderag.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F09\u002Fthe-late-night-birders-flocking-to-the-uws-to-capture-a-shot-of-the-resident-barn-owl-family","West Side Rag","The neighbourhood story of the week, and it compounded nicely: one extremely rare barn owl in a building courtyard on Sunday, possibly several by Wednesday, and by Friday a standing crowd of photographers working the courtyards after dark hoping for a frame. Barn owls essentially do not nest in Manhattan, which is what makes a family of them nine blocks away worth a cold hour and a long lens.",{"title":112,"url":113,"source":114,"from":18,"summary":408},"Boulud has opened his large brasserie beside Lincoln Center, which gives the neighbourhood a proper pre-curtain French room for the first time in years and gives the rest of us a reason to walk down Broadway on a weeknight. The useful read is on what a brasserie of this size has to do to work here — volume, a menu that survives an 8pm curtain, and a kitchen that can turn a table twice — rather than on the chef's name above the door.",{"name":122,"items":410},[411],{"title":412,"url":413,"source":398,"summary":414},"Dwarf Fortress and version control","https:\u002F\u002Fsimonwillison.net\u002F2026\u002FOct\u002F11\u002Fdwarf-fortress\u002F","Willison went looking for a fact he had been carrying around — that Tarn Adams built Dwarf Fortress, possibly the most intricate simulation in games, without version control — and traces the quotes to the end of the streak: a cheerful refusal in 2013, an unrepentant one in 2016, and by 2023 an admission that there is now version control stuff to use. The run lasted roughly two decades on a codebase that would benefit from it more than almost any other, which is either a cautionary tale or a monument, and Willison is a little sad it ended before the Steam release made them millionaires.",{"name":130,"items":416},[417,422,427],{"title":418,"url":419,"source":420,"summary":421},"Don't use the 'C-word'","https:\u002F\u002Faeon.co\u002Fessays\u002Fwe-need-a-better-way-to-describe-what-is-often-called-cancer","Matthew R Cooperberg, Aeon","A professor of urology at UCSF argues that the single most consequential word in his exam room has come loose from what it describes. His patient William, 53 and feeling fine, walked out of a routine blood test into three weeks of medical leave, constant anxiety and his first cigarettes in decades — on the strength of a grade group 1 prostate tumour that carries few of the molecular hallmarks of cancer and no immediate capacity to spread or kill. The diagnostic apparatus has moved from the lump in the armpit and the yellowed eye to a divination read off glass slides for someone with no symptoms at all, while the vocabulary stayed in the nineteenth century; two million Americans a year now receive a label that for many threatens their length and quality of life mainly through the treatments it triggers. Cooperberg's point is not that the pathology is wrong but that naming is a clinical act with its own morbidity, and that no amount of hedging with low-grade and indolent survives the proper noun once it enters the room.",{"title":423,"url":424,"source":425,"from":259,"summary":426},"Ada Yonath obituary","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fscience\u002F2026\u002Foct\u002F09\u002Fada-yonath-obituary","Mick O'Hare, The Guardian","Yonath, dead at 87, set out in 1970 to map the three-dimensional structure of the ribosome — 20 nanometres across, no symmetry, no protective membrane, and already attempted and abandoned by James Watson — and spent most of two decades being called a dreamer, a fantasist and the village idiot to her face. The idea that cracked it arrived via a bicycle accident and some idle reading about polar bears, who pack their ribosomes into orderly arrays before hibernating and keep them intact for months; she went after a thermophile bacterium from desert sands and thermal vents on the theory that organisms from brutal places would survive crystallisation, got there after more than 25,000 attempts, and froze the result at −185°C in a technique that became cryo bio-crystallography. The payoff was not the 2009 Nobel but the antibiotics: knowing where a drug binds a bacterial ribosome, and where a human one differs, turned antibiotic design from guesswork into engineering. Asked what makes a good scientist, she said curiosity, then curiosity, then curiosity.",{"title":428,"url":429,"source":430,"from":253,"summary":431},"How machines learned precision","https:\u002F\u002Fglinscott.github.io\u002Fhow-machines-learned-precision\u002F","Gary Linscott","Every precise object in the world descends from a chain of slightly less precise objects, and this is the story of how that chain was bootstrapped: flat surfaces made by rubbing three plates against each other because no reference flat existed yet, Whitworth's measuring machine, and the slow transfer of accuracy from one generation of tooling to the next. The trick at the heart of it — that you can generate a true plane from three imperfect ones without any external standard, because only flatness is self-consistent across all three pairings — is one of those facts that rearranges how you think about where standards come from.",{"name":138,"items":433},[434,439,443],{"title":435,"url":436,"source":437,"summary":438},"Chelsea 5-1 AFC Bournemouth, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings","https:\u002F\u002Fweaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\u002Fpremier-league\u002F172933\u002Fchelsea-5-1-afc-bournemouth-premier-league-post-match-reaction-ratings","David Pasztor, We Ain't Got No History","The international break ended and so, emphatically, did the three-match winless run: two goals inside two minutes and 29 seconds, the first of them Jordan Henderson's first ever Chelsea goal after Palmer was allowed to run half the pitch, and Henderson's free kick for the fifth with twenty minutes still to play. João Pedro scored twice and is now level with Haaland on five in the league, Morgan Rogers has four, Caicedo returned in midfield and Marco Palestra finally made his debut. The caveat Pasztor cannot stop making is the one that will decide the season: another set-piece goal conceded, 22 league games now without a clean sheet, and no team in the division has shipped more than Chelsea's 13. Everton away next Saturday.",{"title":440,"url":441,"source":437,"summary":442},"Official: Cole Palmer signs new long-term Chelsea contract","https:\u002F\u002Fweaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\u002Fchelsea-fc\u002F172939\u002Fofficial-cole-palmer-signs-new-long-term-chelsea-contract","Announced hours before kickoff and extended to 2034, a year beyond the deal he signed two years ago, which tells you this was about money and incentives rather than length — Palmer is now one of only four players in the league contracted that far out, three of whom are Chelsea's. He marked it with an assist and has four goals in all competitions, which counts as a genuine return to form after a season lost to injury and the groin problem that has been managed in recent weeks. For a club whose transfer policy is mostly read as arbitrage, keeping the one player nobody argues about is the simplest possible signal of intent.",{"title":444,"url":445,"source":148,"summary":446},"Warriors sign Brandin Podziemski to 5-year, $110 million extension","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.goldenstateofmind.com\u002Fwarriors-news\u002F112567\u002Fwarriors-brandin-podziemski-contract-extension","Podziemski has been the story of Warriors camp — rave reviews, pole position for a starting job, strong preseason — and Golden State got the extension done on Saturday, just inside the window that closes on the eve of the season and sends unsigned rookie-scale players to restricted free agency. It starts at $18.9m in 2027-28 and climbs to $25m, with a mutual option in the final year and the usual trade kicker. Klopfer's read is that it is fair rather than clever: a reasonable price for the player he is, a bargain if the breakout arrives, and the end of a bidding war that never got to happen.",{"title":287,"description":295},"paper\u002F2026-10-11","62° & overcast on the UWS","4OcV08Emji84QfesttFFOKg96Wa2sQseEBqFTgffeXA",1792318676794]