Ethan

Finally got round to sorting out a dark mode to my personal site as well as a few other bits I have wanted to sort out for a while. 🎉

an outdated system in a salmon farm using PHP was found to have been breached, allowing the attackers to perform remote cod execution

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

🙋‍♂️ what if one client worked on every forge? 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰 is a new TypeScript library for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges ✨ forges.link

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meet Polyphony, a real, native Apple Music player for GNOME with lossless playback. bring your entire Apple Music library over and enjoy listening to it with a beautiful, adaptive interface. available now at marchfields.app/polyphony/ (Flathub soon) #linux #foss #applemusic #gnome

I hate that there still is no better mobile browser for iPhone than Arc Search — which was effectively abandoned two years ago.

linus dropping truth bombs lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=w...

Epic is bringing Fortnite to Linux. There’s no timeline on when, but Epic is rebuilding its anti-cheat software so that Fortnite will be playable on Linux www.theverge.com/games/101080...

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

get the fun book ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun guaranteed to smell better than your phone

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the element of <surprise>.

shall we stretch some goals? 🔥 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

17 days until launch!! Watch the *alternative* trailer, voiced by Not Just Bikes. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...

Top 5 fails from my first book, “Failure.” My latest book, "Fun," hits Kickstarter Sept 22! Go to ✨ mrlovensteinpresents.com ✨ and I'll let you know when it drops and hook you up with a FREE enamel pin.

See ya!

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/14/memory-hole

david's latest nature doc

Secret Panel HERE 😱 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/09/09/quiet

exclusive: hands-on with the Duo

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mind-body-84972760

Made my “not now, I’m computering” shirt available as colored tees now too instead of just on white! Cool heyheymomo.com/products/not...

Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective. quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2...

survival of the fittest

notes.jordanscales.com/coffee

Hello id like to spend all at once please

This is 1000% accurate. We’ve failed at this.

The Iron Man movies did a weirdly good job describing Jarvis as a language model which then only reached AGI when it became Vision. It also portrayed Tony working with Jarvis in a way that closely resembles agentic coding. Which leads me to this question: Was the Iron Man suit vibecoded

I grow ever weary of people telling me that the Facebook app is listening to them via the microphone. It doesn't need to. vale.rocks/micros/20260...

Valve's new Steam Machine was 14 years (and one big failure) in the making. Here's the twisty story behind the Steam maker's decade-long quest to bring PCs to the living room: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"Mommy, how long was the N64 account creation, multi-factor enrollment, update process, and new user experience when you got it on Christmas?" Matilda is distracted and scoots away, so missing your hand over the saucepan, wooden spatula shaking like a wet dog. Oh god. What world did we build?

Too real dbushell.com/2026/07/02/t...

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

I’m on the puter

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

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Society if mobile operating systems prioritized PWAs

Midjourney looked at Allbirds and said, “your pivot isn't extreme enough.” Holy shit, this is sci-fi. www.midjourney.com/medical/blog...