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Quoting John Gruber
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Quoting John Gruber

The real goldmine isn’t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It’s that Apple’s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but because third-party software on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is regressing to the mean, to some extent, because fewer developers feel motivated — artistically, financially, or both — to create well-crafted…

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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts. It's presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview as the model ID, but can only output audio files. The prompting guide is surprising, to say the least. Here's their example prompt to generate just a few short sentences of audio: # AUDIO PROFILE: Jaz R. ## "The Morning Hype" ## THE SCENE: The London Studio It is 10:00 PM in a glass-walled…

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Quoting Kyle Kingsbury
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Quoting Kyle Kingsbury

I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as meat shields: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the decisions of automated moderation systems. It may be external, as when lawyers are penalized for submitting LLM lies to the court. It may involve formalized responsibility, like a Data Protection Officer. It may be convenient for a company to have…

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datasette-ports 0.3
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datasette-ports 0.3

Release: datasette-ports 0.3 A small update for my tool for helping me figure out what all of the Datasette instances on my laptop are up to. Show working directory derived from each PID Show the full path to each database file Output now looks like this: http://127.0.0.1:8007/ - v1.0a26 Directory: /Users/simon/dev/blog Databases: simonwillisonblog: /Users/simon/dev/blog/simonwillisonblog.db Plugins: datasette-llm datasette-secrets http://127.0.0.1:8001/ - v1.0a26 Directory:…

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Zig 0.16.0 release notes: "Juicy Main"
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Zig 0.16.0 release notes: "Juicy Main"

Zig 0.16.0 release notes: "Juicy Main" Zig has really good release notes - comprehensive, detailed, and with relevant usage examples for each of the new features. Of particular note in the newly released Zig 0.16.0 is what they are calling "Juicy Main" - a dependency injection feature for your program's main() function where accepting a process.Init parameter grants access to a struct of useful properties: const std = @import("std"); pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void { ///…

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datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection
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datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection

datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection Datasette has long protected against CSRF attacks using CSRF tokens, implemented using my asgi-csrf Python library. These are something of a pain to work with - you need to scatter forms in templates with <input type="hidden" name="csrftoken" value="{{ csrftoken() }}"> lines and then selectively disable CSRF protection for APIs that are intended to be called from outside the browser. I've been following…

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