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  • #285 — Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers

    VASA-1, Voyager 1 resumes updates, Map of the Web, Ghost building ActivityPub, killed Google Search, cryptocurrency mixing arrested.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 0:50 — Featured
    • 3:43 — Notable
    • 11:30 — Journal
    • 16:14 — Briefly
    • 17:30 — Fortune
    19 min
  • #284 — Playdate, Tetris, Calvin

    UX of UUIDs, Peloton media company problems, half-billion GPT tokens, great technical blog, Playdate handheld hardware, Calvin and Hobbes.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 0:43 — Notable
    • 8:35 — Journal
    • 11:54 — Briefly
    • 13:38 — Fortune
    15 min
  • #283 — Betula, Blocky, Tables

    IRC client in motherboard, go players after AI, Digital Equipment Corp saved Ethernet, Twitter pivot to X.com phishers, follow the CAPEX.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:31 — Currently
    • 2:02 — Notable
    • 8:19 — Journal
    • 13:31 — Briefly
    • 15:36 — Fortune
    17 min
  • #282 — Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

    MrBeast changing game, Vision Pro devkit, Ethereum blobs, xz Utils backdoor, Wyoming DUNA Act, credit card rewards anatomy.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:32 — Notable
    • 8:34 — Journal
    • 12:17 — Briefly
    • 14:11 — Fortune
    15 min
  • #281 — Fediverse, Odyssey, Echo Chess

    ActivityPub at SFO Museum, Starbucks Odyssey NFT shutdown, AlphaGo reflections, NVIDIA Blackwell chip, DOJ antitrust complaint against Apple.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:07 — Notable
    • 16:53 — Journal
    • 24:34 — Briefly
    • 27:13 — Fortune
    29 min
  • #280 — Canvas, Undersea, Documents

    S3 not a filesystem, autogenerating book from iMessages, district heating data centers, Web's 35th birthday, 40 years of programming, better documents.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:03 — Notable
    • 6:09 — Journal
    • 13:18 — Briefly
    • 15:47 — Fortune
    17 min
  • #279 — Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons

    Endatabas, writing Unix daemons, Nushell, BlackCat ransomware implosion, missing data type, REST meaning, privacy and competition.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 0:38 — Notable
    • 5:36 — Journal
    • 12:46 — Briefly
    • 13:51 — Fortune
    15 min
  • #278 — Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless

    Case against caffeine, U.S. Internet email leak, Vision Pro sharing, building billing systems, Groq, MLS Season Pass, Leap Day bugs, Gasless DNSSEC.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 0:55 — Featured
    • 2:30 — Currently
    • 3:04 — Notable
    • 10:02 — Journal
    • 19:54 — Briefly
    • 24:34 — Fortune
    26 min
  • #277 — Privacy, Scammed, OmniFocus

    Podcast distribution, local news paywalls, connect() slowness, Meta platforms, scam stories, GiveDirectly, OmniFocus 4, privacy rights.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:20 — Currently
    • 2:06 — Notable
    • 8:51 — Journal
    • 11:05 — Briefly
    • 12:13 — Fortune
    14 min
  • #276 — Contextual, Copilot, Collections

    End of social networks, Farcaster on Ethereum, Starlink laser system, Now/Next/Later roadmap, Vision Pro teardown, OKRs are bullshit.

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    In this episode

    • 0:00 — Welcome
    • 1:08 — Featured
    • 3:15 — Currently
    • 4:26 — Notable
    • 12:19 — Journal
    • 14:55 — Briefly
    • 17:44 — Fortune
    19 min

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A weekly collection of interesting links, ideas, and observations from across the internet, curated by Jamie Thingelstad.