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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 22/09/2026

I've never seen this before

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 08/09/2026

Mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction proved that the Navier-Stokes equations can “blow up,” thus solving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems. The result is not without controversy. www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...

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AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 07/09/2026

@budgetcommitteepod.bsky.social hi there! I found your pod from the guest episode on Have You Heard. I went to your LinkTree to find the submission form you mentioned but only found one for the Chicago event. Anyway, I'd love for you to look into Portland Public School's "Rightsizing" effort.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 11/08/2026

Even though I'm a big fan of Postgres, its lack of loose index scan is frustrating.. The workaround is a recursive query that effectively acts as a loop, which is even more bizarre. Check out this new blog post about the performance issue with Postgres SELECT DISTINCT: www.dbos.dev/blog/postgre...

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Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale | DBOS

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 07/08/2026

I wonder how Erdős would feel about this. Would he care that a human didn't write the proof? Would he think any of these machine-generated proofs are from "The Book?"

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 04/08/2026

Eventually consistent open PR count

Screenshot of GitHub where the tab for pull requests shows a count of 1 but the actual open count is 0.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 04/08/2026

@durumcrustulum.com have you heard of keri.one? It's the backbone of sedi.utah.gov and we're seeing it as a requirement in new systems.

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Keri.one | The First Truly Decentralized Identity System

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 09/07/2026

Why does every Muse song sound like they're riding a horse?

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 25/06/2026

A new proof deals an answer: www.quantamagazine.org/seven-perfec...

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 15/06/2026

Anybody have a 5th or 6th gen iPod they'd be willing to sell to a dad to give to his daughter for her 10th birthday? 😀

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 10/06/2026

Not sure if @felimwhiteley.bsky.social has mentioned this on LNL, but if not, I suspect he's gonna love it.

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johanna @jola.dev · 09/06/2026

In my continuing struggle to find a way to use LLMs while staying firmly engaged in the design of the code, here's a blog post about using LLMs like dynamic programming books. It suggests code, you type it out jola.dev/posts/treati...

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Treating LLMs as programming books | jola.dev

Thoughts on an approach for using LLMs effectively for coding without losing engagement and cognitive effort.

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Parker & Shannon @oban.pro · 09/06/2026

This is an excellent suggestion (and something we've been doing for any deep changes). Typing out changes loads context into your mind in a way you'll never get from reading in a code review.

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 08/06/2026

📭 New Blog Post 📬 I wrote a tiny piece about how to store your SSH keys more securely. In times of distribution attacks like Shai-Hulud, it's easy to install malware on your computer that extracts your private SSH keys. Don't let them. peterullrich.com/store-ssh-ke...

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Store your SSH keys in a Password Manager

Your SSH keys are sitting in ~/.ssh as plain text exactly where malware looks first. Move them to a password manager instead.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 16/05/2026

Oooooooh look at that! 😍 This update to @firefox.com's PDF reader is going to be super handy. No more dropping to the CLI or reading Finder help docs.

Screenshot of the new Firefox feature to manage pages in a PDF. You can now copy, cut, delete and export selected pages.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 13/03/2026

@nikillinit.bsky.social ah yes, the DOGE-iest of data drops

Screenshot of DOGE's new open data product for Medicaid provider spending, which, funny enough, is unavailable. Classic DOGE!

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 26/02/2026

I can hear a calculus tutor outside of my office at the coffee shop and I so want to join.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 25/02/2026

The mathematician and podcaster Demian Goos has been obsessed with the story of set theory’s birth for years. Last March, he found a letter from 1873 that was thought to have been destroyed during the Second World War. It rewrites the story he thought he knew. www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 23/02/2026

I've always loved this stuff! Great visuals, as always. 👏

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Phil Kast @philkast.com · 20/02/2026

Certainly a lot of handwaving, but it's easy to imagine the coding model improvement trend line colliding with the run it on an ASIC trend line and really changing what software is.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 18/02/2026

My coauthor Dave Perkinson made this diagram to explain the binomial theorem and I think it's the perfect distillation. Here's our draft book, Discrete Structures, if you want more: kyleormsby.github.io/files/113spr... 🧮

A color-coded binary tree displaying how to expand (x+y)^3. There are 8=2^3 terms on the bottom, and by putting them in "alphabetical order" and grouping like terms, you see that (x+y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 15/02/2026

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 14/02/2026

Anybody use Google Chat for work, through Workspace? Tt's about the same as Slack for our needs and bundled in. Would love to hear pros and cons from anyone who's actually used it in anger. 🙏

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 03/02/2026

Still seeing this even though I've turned off all "Smart" features in Gmail

The Gemini button in Gmail that sais "Summarize this email"

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 02/02/2026

JFC AWS, all I needed to do was change my fucking password and an hour later, after fixing your permissions fuck-up, I have a new password.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 28/01/2026

This was the first thing I looked to change in Claude Code.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 26/01/2026

In the first of our new series of curiosity-driven essays, Qualia, @nattyover.bsky.social asks particle physicists whether the field is facing a profound crisis. www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-...

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 24/01/2026

Not sure I think there should be SMS/email 2FA if I sign in with a passkey...

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 22/01/2026

HAHA NO I DIDN"T TAKE DOWN PRODUCTION TONIGHT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

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Shane Becker @veganstraightedge.com · 02/01/2026

Better Futures Club is a new idea that we're starting in Portland, Oregon 📆 First meetup: Thursday, January 15, 2026 Ruby hack night, programming languages design theory and practice, and an imagination of STEM and liberal arts building together Join us! #PDX betterfutures.club

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Better Futures Club

Imagining and making better futures

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 27/12/2025

@eudoxia.bsky.social thanks for the syntax hightlighting issue writeup! borretti.me/article/1pas... I left some screenshots and a screenrec on the support ticket page, but now I'm not seeing my post. Hopefully it's addressed soon.

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1Password Dependency Breaks Syntax Highlighting

Why does a password manager need a syntax highlighter?

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 25/12/2025

I think the thing that gets me about the Just In Time Software article commaok.xyz/ai/just-in-t... is that... he just recreated Google Keep. Odds are he had access to exactly the functionality he wanted, and more; you can share a note with others. We've used it as a shared grocery list for years.

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Just in time software

I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them. Ide...

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 18/12/2025

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. This is on full display in Quanta’s Year in Review math round-up: www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-...

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The Year in Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

Explore a shape that can’t pass through itself, a teenage prodigy, and two new kinds of infinity.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 17/12/2025

For technical things I've been happy with Claude, but for personal things I've been trying out Gemini and if anything, I've been impressed by the speed, which really does help to make a better UX.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 16/12/2025

@thinkingelixir.com if you end up talking to anyone from the early open-source Erlang days, ask them about Erlang's response to and plan for Y2K! That was maybe the biggest Nothing Burger I've ever experienced.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 07/12/2025

In the late 1830s, Karl Weierstrass dropped out of university. He is said to have spent his school years drinking and fencing. Decades later, he published a function that threatened everything mathematicians thought they understood about calculus. www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-m...

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 03/12/2025

@michristofides.com what's the largest instance of Postgres you've seen? I'm doing some initial research on moving a data warehouse from Vertica to something else. We'd def need an analytical extension for a >150TB database, very much a read-heavy workload.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 03/12/2025

@brainlid.bsky.social on a recent @thinkingelixir.com episode you talked about your prompts for planning and then implementing (I forget exactly which episode), do you have those anywhere you could share? I'd be curious to see them. Thanks!

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 03/12/2025

I'm working with Python for the first time in my career and I can't imagine getting all of these projects set up without mise.jdx.dev Everyone seems to do things differently, even indentation! 😱

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Home | mise-en-place

mise-en-place documentation

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 01/12/2025

I have an LG DualUp monitor and I'd like to split it into 2 displays (which it supports) www.lg.com/us/monitors/... but I can only do 1 DisplayPort and 1 HDMI, and the color profile when on HDMI is terrible.

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28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor - 28MQ780-B | LG USA

Discover the 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor that features USB Type-C™ and SDQHD Nano IPS Display. Find reviews, specs, and more for 28MQ780-B.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 30/11/2025

@firefox.com add all the AI you want, just give us a global off switch. I want a single setting that will disable all AI features. Thanks!

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/11/2025

Some of the most important problems in network science, it turns out, are equivalent to problems in descriptive set theory, a field dedicated to sorting through infinity. Joseph Howlett reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-bridge...

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A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science | Quanta Magazine

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

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Jesse Cooke @jc00ke.com · 20/11/2025

Nice to see Google takes color schemes seriously #solarized @ethanschoonover.com

A screenshot of Google's new Antigravity I D E promo video. The initial step is to choose a theme/color scheme, and I was happy to see my favorite, Solarized, both light and dark variants.

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