Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
The Athletic
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city. Over 19 minutes, he showed it off to the world
The former Steelers coach went deep sharing his passion project on YouTube, and teased more to come.
Apple Pass Designer https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
Apple Developer
Pass Designer - Apple Developer
Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview passes that reflect your business.
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
YouTube
Kernel Recipes 2026 - Security in the LLM age
Greg KH
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
Bluesky Social
Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.com)
This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA
The Atlantic
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
Phoronix
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
Substack
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
sjg.io
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Why don't more developers “use the platform”? https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Read the Tea Leaves
Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
GitHub
GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference…
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
What is going on with ceiling fans https://mcmansionhell.com/post/829127919552151552/what-is-going-on-with-ceiling-fans
Tumblr
what is going on with ceiling fans
Sometimes new design phenomena slip past even those of us who are most in tune with the happenings of the built environment. Such is the case with whatever the hell is going on with commercial ceiling...
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
GitHub
GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-electricity-usage/
1011 NOW
UPDATE: Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Nebraska data centers are required to turn in an annual report to Nebraska’s Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, but some state statutes are preventing the public from seeing just how much electricity and water data centers are using.
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
Shan Hannadige
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
Infidel goes wild https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
Zarf Updates
Infidel goes wild
Planetfall was yesterday's public release, but of course I've spent the past few weeks concentrating on Infidel. A couple of days I came across the most egregious bug I've yet seen in an Infocom game. This bug is extremely difficult to detect ...
Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horrible-totally-unacceptable-powerless-f1-drivers-frustrated-by-bahrain-f1-software-glitch/10861968/
motorsport.com
"Horrible, totally unacceptable" - Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Formula 1 drivers have weighed in on Bahrain GP's unprecedented software glitch that left them powerless on the formation lap
In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-animated-materials-appears-online/
Film Stories
Tippett Studios | In the wake of its closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online
The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive.
We ported the original Doom to SQL https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
Cedardb
We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/02/benchmarking-ai-decision-models-against-traditional-guardrails
Red Hat Developer
Benchmarking AI decision models against traditional guardrails | Red Hat Developer
As enterprise generative AI applications move to production, platform engineers face a key challenge: balancing the flexibility of LLM-as-a-judge guardrails with the reliability and portability of