The bicycle frame is the correct shape. There are clouds in the sky. The pelican has a dorky looking pouch. A caption on the ground reads Pelican on a Bicycle!

The bicycle frame is entirely the wrong shape. No clouds, a yellow sun. The pelican is looking behind itself, and has a less pronounced pouch than I would like.

Shocking result on my pelican benchmark this morning, I got a better pelican from a 21GB local Qwen3.6-35B-A3B running on my laptop than I did from the new Opus 4.7!

simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/...

Qwen on the left, Opus on the right

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.

Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

I've sold out I've sold out

BIG NEWS. I've sold out. Let me know how you feel about this in the comments below.

mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

US and Israel bombed a public research university in Iran which was free for Iranian students. War crimes upon war crimes and no opposition party in site 😡

How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech Bellingcat found 31 posts by the BJP that appeared to feature AI-generated images, along with either anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim hate speech, in Assam and West Bengal within a month.

Bellingcat found 31 posts with AI-generated imagery shared on social media by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam and West Bengal in December that appeared to meet the United Nations’ definition of hate speech. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The President of the United States is a war criminal.

Fact, not opinion.

We're working lots with Arrow these days.
I needed a tool to do some debug/filtering.

So I've built a thing!

If that helps you as much as it helps me, use it, feedbacks and PRs are welcome. 🥳

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*

Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.

GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH

github.com/settings/cop...

Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting cleared to compete after sex eligibility review Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to return to international competition after World Boxing completed a review of her sex-eligibility status, ​opening the door for her to fight at the Asia...

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again.

www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

I have availability for Rust coaching, or consulting on Rust strategy from early April; from a single call to ongoing 2 days/week. I can help your team get things done, adopt Rust and use it more effectively, or to accurately evaluate Rust as a new technology.

A violent, communal mob confronts an old man. One man stands up against the mob. And the Court berates that man. And asks him to "trust" the very same police force that let the mob roam freely, terrorizing people with impunity in the first place. Thank you BJP for turning Indian into this.

Obsidian Web Clipper Highlight and capture web pages in your favorite browser. Save anything and everything with just one click.

It's part of Obsidian Web Clipper and doesn't require Obsidian.

It runs on all browsers that support extensions, including mobile (Safari and Firefox).
obsidian.md/clipper

just plainly evil.

There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

it just feels so horrible we feel powerless we've tried fighting, we've tried surrendering we've tried ignoring we've tried building israel doesn't let you exist that's it, our choice is fast death or faster death

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

blunder.clinic realistic daily chess puzzles, dont blunder

Today I launched blunder.clinic, a realistic daily #chess puzzle app!

Short 🧵

We're setting aside 20 free TokioConf tickets for contributors and open source maintainers. If you've submitted a PR to any tokio-rs, hyperium, or tower-rs repo, that's you. Know someone who qualifies? Send them our way! tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

I'll be at the first TokioConf next month! If you want 15% off a ticket, DM me, I've got codes to share 👀

More details about it in general here: tokio.rs/blog/2026-03...

Small announcement: April 1st (no fooling) I'll be joining the @oxide.computer team!

I'll still be building embedded systems in Rust, but excited to be working on slightly larger computers than I have in the past :)

congratulations :-)

1.3.0 - Release Notes Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

stop the presses!!! ghostty 1.3.0 has search! (and a ton of other cool things)

ghostty.org/docs/install...

worked with the tcpdump folks on an updated set of examples for the tcpdump man page www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcp...

the idea is that if you've forgotten how tcpdump's basic flags work, you can find a quick reference in the man page!

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill YouTube video by Ryan Peterman

@bcantrill.bsky.social always offers great insights, and this episode with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social (The Peterman Pod) is no different with some awesome stories from the industry trenches 🤠

Worth a listen 🤘
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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