“There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that exercise later in the day may offer additional health benefits.” washingtonpost.com

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. lifehacker.com

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine. wired.com

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs. anthropic.com

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages. techcrunch.com

Danny Sullivan in 1996: The Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories. dannysullivan.com

Seeing the Hormuz Breakthrough in Its Full Light. talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump administration again takes aim at Jan. 6, in court and beyond. wapo.st

Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique. therepository.email

Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns. apnews.com

These days when I read an editorial in the Washington Post, I try to imagine Jeff Bezos saying the thing and sadly very often it works. wapo.st

RSS Club for WordPress. Very cute and coooool. 😎 shkspr.mobi

Another great AI video, who can say this isn't art? x.com

BYD's Sealion 05 EV is an electric SUV that's cheaper than it looks. electrek.co

Remkus de Vries: It’s Time to Level Up in WordPress. remkusdevries.com

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By. talkingpointsmemo.com

Bluesky appears to be off the air. bsky.app

Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app. thenewstack.io

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service. wordandway.org

Britain preparing for food shortages as Iran war bites. thetimes.com

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought. theguardian.com

Isn't it funny how when people use AI tools to do cartoons and parodies it's called slop, but when the same people do something much more complex, like making software, it's cool — we didn't need developers anyway. thenewstack.io

.ai in 2026 is the road to richness, like .com in past lives. om.co

NBA fans cry foul as Prime Video cuts out during overtime, fails to sync audio. arstechnica.com

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers. techcrunch.com

Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media. politico.eu

Trump’s Corruption Is What’s Tanking the Economy. talkingpointsmemo.com

US Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting. apnews.com

For an easy salad dressing, look no further than lemon juice and olive oil. wapo.st

Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents. claude.com

WordCamp Asia 2026 keynote video. youtube.com

How I made my skills update themselves. joost.blog

Brilliant ad. x.com

“Introducing OpenAI Frontier.” They took our name. I wonder if their Frontier is as good as ours. openai.com

Rock Hall of Fame 2026 Inductees: Oasis, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, More. variety.com

Why opinion on AI is so divided. technologyreview.com

“The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.” goodreads.com

AI's Future Looks Nothing Like Stanley Kubrick Imagined. bloomberg.com

Decision to Build EmDash Came from Cloudflare CEO, Engineer Reveals. therepository.email

What John Palfrey looks for in a short essay. jpalfrey.blog

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable. theatlantic.com

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It "Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was." openculture.com

History’s Most Powerful Idiot. #badcombination thedailybeast.com

What happens when you don't die on time? ottawacitizen.com

The Dollar’s Special Status: Sources and Threats. I bet most Americans have no idea of the wealth and power that the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency gives us. With Trump whether he knows it or not we seem to be trying to break it. substack.com

Trump Is Turning America Into a Psychotic State. nytimes.com

After years of controversy surrounding lethal injections, idaho looks to automate the process of shooting people sentenced to death. prisonjournalismproject.org

Trump’s Staggering Humiliation in Iran. newrepublic.com

EFF quits X eff.org

One of Texas' oldest newspapers just lost its entire newsroom. chron.com

We are all Good Germans now. scripting.com

AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way. quippd.com

What is agentic engineering? simonwillison.net

Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning. sixcolors.com

Mercy Review: Guilty of Being Stupid. austinchronicle.com

Trump’s Sound and Fury. theatlantic.com

[General Kaine] also flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it. Mr. Trump had dismissed that possibility on the assumption that the regime would capitulate before it came to that. nytimes.com

The Hacker News tarpit. joanwestenberg.com

Rich Tabor compares WordPress and EmDash. rich.blog

Gas prices aren't the only factor fueling used EV sales. techcrunch.com

Hyundai discounts IONIQ 5 EV by $8,750 as sales heat up. electrek.co

NY Times once again caught sanewashing Trump’s unhinged rhetoric. dailykos.com

Robot Mowers Are Actually Good Now. wired.com

NASA’s Artemis II crew readies for Monday’s lunar flyby. mprnews.org

Krugman on terrorism. substack.com

 I started a vibecoding project last night and the damn AI couldn’t even get JavaScript syntax right. I asked what would’ve happened if I wasn’t a programmer and didn’t realize that you put declarations in a place they didn’t belong. how would that have worked out? fast.ai

Why OpenAI bought TBPN. om.co

Social media is turning into a freak show by Nate Silver. natesilver.net

There’s Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf. talkingpointsmemo.com

I love all the discourse about WordPress. x.com

Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default. thenewstack.io

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets. theguardian.com

Shield of the Americas sounds ominous. wikipedia.org

I want a new social network that doesn’t strip essential writing features from the web. x.com

Artemis II Flight Day 4: Deep-Space Flying, Lunar Flyby Prep. nasa.gov

Anthropic blocks OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions. techbuzz.ai

WordPress needs to refactor, not redecorate. joost.blog

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish. propublica.org

Matt Mullenweg on EmDash, the supposed ‘spiritual successor’ of WordPress. ma.tt

Cloudflare Launches EmDash: CMS Built Using AI Agents, Dubbed As The Spiritual Successor To WordPress. wp-content.co

EmDash: First thoughts and takeaways for WordPress – Brian Coords. briancoords.com

6 Reasons Why Cloudflare's EmDash Can't Compete With WordPress. searchenginejournal.com

Following WordPress news via FeedLand. Should be interesting to see how EmDash is received there. feedland.org

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. cloudflare.com

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range. gizmodo.com

The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know It. bitsplitting.org

Inside Claude Code's leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags. thenewstack.io

Does your feed reader show you feeds other users are subscribed to? feedland.com

The 2026 issue of the HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made for the web.” kottke.org

Every once in a while Doc hits it out of the park. Here's the story of being famous for 15, people. I like that. 15 people is enough to have love and share ideas, and get support, and have friends you can count on when you need one. I think that's where we're going. searls.com

They've been missing Google Reader for years — this new RSS app finally came close. msn.com

Google Flips Its Fiber To PE. om.co

Iran has now finally carried through on a longstanding threat and in effect closed the Strait of Hormuz. politicalwire.com

How to Choose the Right Blogging Platform in 2026. techbullion.com

Our world is far more interdependent than it was in the 1970s energy crisis. liberalcurrents.com

Craig Newmark: "Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think." nytimes.com

Trump told the Financial Times that while his "favorite thing" would be to take the oil, some "stupid people" would ask, "Why are you doing that?" nbcnews.com

Brent crude hits $116 a barrel after Trump says he wants to ‘take the oil in Iran.’ theguardian.com

UConn’s Braylon Mullins stuns Duke with 35-foot buzzer-beater in March Madness Elite 8 classic. sbnation.com

UConn’s Braylon Mullins stuns Duke with 35-foot buzzer-beater in March Madness Elite 8 classic. sbnation.com

How I follow the news in FeedLand. feedland.com

Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest. theatlantic.com

For NASA’s Artemis II Crew, Journey to the Moon ‘Starting to Feel Real.’ nytimes.com

The U.S. Now Has Over 50,000 Troops in the Middle East. nytimes.com

Trump is contemplating the sheer folly of boots on the ground in Iran. How did it come to this? theguardian.com

The Manosphere Turns on Trump. (I don't think any other gender would like being portrayed this way, but for some reason this is allowed for men. Try another way of saying it so it doesn't alienate, please.) theatlantic.com

Voicemail to NakedJen on AI, RSS, and Creative Possibility. It took me a while to get Claude to give me something I could run, and now all the doors are open. I want everyone with some gumption, like Jen, to try it. Could be some crazy stuff coming. scripting.com

A beautiful example of something working the first time. Other than that there's nothing notable about this freaking post. wordpress.com

Escalate on the Trump Admin’s ‘ICE at the Polls’ Plans Now. talkingpointsmemo.com

"Users don't want to have to copy/paste everything they write into five different editors because none of the silos can connect, much like the Apple TV series of the same name. Each silo is a world unto itself." daveverse.org

Trump considers renaming Strait of Hormuz after either America or himself — once he evicts Iran. Obviously this was the point of the war. nypost.com

No Kings rallies around NY State tomorrow. nyclu.org

Trump’s first term as president has been so utterly eclipsed by the savagery of his second one that many people may have forgotten his deadly, abysmal mismanagement of the Covid pandemic. presswatchers.org

Claude Code can now dream. reddit.com

Podcasting’s Missing Link. nathangathright.com

Trump’s Signature Set to Be Added to America’s Currency. nytimes.com

Manila’s streets empty as fuel prices surge amid Strait of Hormuz crisis. aljazeera.com

Now Trump Officials Are Choosing to Talk About ICE At the Polls. talkingpointsmemo.com

All airports are depressing and scary; some go above and beyond. theatlantic.com

Iran says Trump negotiating with himself. theguardian.com

I don't trust the predictions that software developers will be obsolete. The culture of Silicon Valley encourages this kind of chest thumping. daveverse.org

"Collaboration" is bullshit. joanwestenberg.com

NBA expansion: Naming the potential new Las Vegas team cbssports.com

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80. nytimes.com

Car owners turn to EVs as 30-40% of Gulf energy capacity is destroyed. electrek.co

When the Supreme Court let a president get away with redefining birthright citizenship. scotusblog.com

California Regulator Says Tesla's 'Robotaxis' Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law. gizmodo.com

Iran dismisses US ceasefire plan, as attacks persist across Mideast. apnews.com

OpenAI’s shock move with Sora should make you very nervous about the economy. slate.com

Trump Owes Mueller. theatlantic.com

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an international crisis. aljazeera.com

“Too complicated for people to understand” is often bullshit. seths.blog

Kornacki! nbcnews.com

BTW, as long as Bluesky has a 300 char limit and no style or links, I'm going to have to hand-translate posts there to become posts on my blog where no such limits exist. At some point either they give up on the limits or I give up on them. scripting.com

7 Design Rules That Take 10 Minutes to Learn and Fix Your UI Forever. medium.com

Iran Is Setting the Pace; Trump Is Reacting. talkingpointsmemo.com

RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto. zeldman.com

WordPress, the new HyperCard? johnjohnston.info

War in Iran Reveals Strait of Hormuz’s Weakness as an Oil Bottleneck. nytimes.com

Reminder that Mastodon supports outbound RSS. mastodon.social

Robert Mueller, ex-FBI director at center of political tempest, dies at 81. wapo.st

Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker. nytimes.com

The Removal of Kingston’s Sidewalk Canopies Reveals a Time Capsule. nytimes.com

Welcome to Paris, the City That Said No to Cars. bloomberg.com

I’ve been waiting for the moment when Krugman is left speechless. It appears to have arrived. substack.com

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more. techcrunch.com

Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude. youtube.com

White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress. politico.com

Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky. This was a mistake, they bought the hype from the company, it is not a friend to the web, to the extent that it works, it undermines the web. I like Bluesky as a product, but I liked Twitter too, even though they hurt the web. knightfoundation.org

Someone Needs to Tell Trump the Truth About the War. thebulwark.com

Trump might end the war by resigning. washingtonpost.com

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition. techcrunch.com

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done. theatlantic.com

The Outcast podcatcher now supports transcripts. reddit.com

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax. theguardian.com

Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon. theregister.com

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science. bertrandmeyer.com

Why Driftya Uses Drift Circles Instead of Followers. driftya.com

Podcast about the suspension of disbelief in software. Since a lot of people are trying out software development for the first time with the advent of AI, we're part of a broader community now. scripting.com

Added Westenberg to my blogroll. feedland.com

Marc Andreessen is doing what works for him, but is wrong that introspection was new to Freud. joanwestenberg.com

Venezuela beats US 3-2 on Suárez’s 9th-inning double to win first World Baseball Classic title. wapo.st

The world must be, by now, fed up with being dumped on by Trump. politico.com

Added Jon Udell to my blogroll. feedland.com

Identity of Banksy, Oscar-nominated graffiti artist, proven 'beyond dispute.' ew.com

Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war. apnews.com

Phoenicia Playhouse Presents: Catskills Energy Future: Film Screening + Discussion. onthestage.tickets

My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed. theatlantic.com

Warming Oceans and Waterways Threaten a Key Human Protein Source. motherjones.com

Don’t ‘blackmail’ us: Europe rejects Trump’s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess. politico.eu

Cuba’s national energy grid collapses, causing island-wide blackout. wapo.st

‘No Kings Day’ events on March 28 in Berkeley. berkeleyside.org

Andrew Shell is testing out WordLand. "It just works." I like to hear that. andrewshell.org

Dan Slevin has spent "about six weeks learning how to overcome all the obstacles they put in the way of leaving and would love to help." Then we should set about creating a great Substack alternative for people who want to manage a great mail list without the hassle. mastodon.social

Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers to Help Farm Labor Shortage. nytimes.com

The best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in Mar 2026. electrek.co

Five Takeaways From WSJ’s Reporting on Trump’s Decision to Launch a War in Iran. wsj.com

Toni is the new interim CEO of Bluesky. It's good to see him blogging, and helpful to get ideas of where they might be headed. toni.org

A fresh look at blogrolls. blogroll.social

ap, the ActivityPub API command-line client. socialwebfoundation.org

Joe Gebbia, a billionaire on Musk’s team, reveals his role. nytimes.com

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas. theguardian.com

Multiple Republicans in Congress post openly anti-Muslim statements. nbcnews.com

'We don't need Ukraine's help' — Trump rebuffs Zelensky's drone defense offer. kyivindependent.com

Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress. werd.io

Pentagon and National Security Council underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz. cnn.com

I bet people complained it was unnatural for a video game to teach languages and what about all the human teachers. This is a pattern. They should try to present both sides. theglobeandmail.com

Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles. arstechnica.com

Not everyone pleased about Bam Adebayo's 83-point night. npr.org

Trump and Netanyahu Are No Longer on the Same Page. nytimes.com

Trump says Democrats cheat to win. His supporters disagree. npr.org

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work. theguardian.com

John Cornyn voices support for abolishing Senate filibuster. texastribune.org

1995: We Make Shitty Software. With bugs! 🙂 scripting.com

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator. youtube.com

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. amazon.com

Simon Carstensen: Rebuilding Jottit. jottit.org

Did you love 'The Secret Agent'? Here's what to watch next. npr.org

The White House isn’t worried about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks. politico.com

“…the administration had no plan for the Strait of Hormuz and did ‘not know how to get it safely back open.’l nytimes.com

RFK Jr. is right about medical school and preventive care. He is. Shame he’s so wrong about vaccination. statnews.com

Trump was hoping for an Iranian Delcy Rodríguez. Instead he may have produced an Iranian Kim Jong Un. theatlantic.com

Shop President Donald Trump's favorite Florsheim Oxford shoes. usatoday.com

Gracenote, metadata company, sues OpenAI for copyright infringement. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com

The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centric pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subscriptions. theguardian.com

Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident.’ theguardian.com

Richard Gingras: Understanding and addressing a broken democracy and a shattered press. substack.com

Most Voters Are Wary of AI. politicalwire.com

My friend Manton has a new feed reader called Inkwell. The thing that's great about Manton is he tries out new ideas. This is a feed reader of experimentation. Let's see if this works, Manton asks. We'll find out. I love that creative people are using RSS in new ways! manton.org

My version of the history of RSS is different from what's reported as conventional wisdom. daveverse.org

Inside The DHS Campaign Against U.S. Citizens. talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump to Times of Israel: It'll be a 'mutual' decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends. (I miss the days when the American people had a say.) timesofisrael.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed. this.how

When the boss is AI. machinesociety.ai

I’m not afraid women will laugh at me. quoteinvestigator.com

Trump Looks Increasingly Desperate to Restrict Voting Rights. motherjones.com

Timothy Snyder: “A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or ‘federalize’ the coming Congressional elections.” substack.com

Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guard Googled Him RIght Before His Body Was Found in Cell. people.com

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. nytimes.com

Apple Just Flipped the Budget-Laptop Script. pcmag.com

Iran’s top national security official, speaking on national television as the war entered a second week, said Tehran would not surrender or let up on retaliatory strikes and vowed to hold President Trump responsible for killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. nytimes.com

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay. npr.org

The web is bearable with RSS. That's what I've been sayin. 😉 pluralistic.net

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses." futurism.com

The Native-Born Employment Boom Was a Mirage. bloomberg.com

U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rises to 4.4%. cnbc.com

Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts. reuters.com

Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Olympic Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body.’ nytimes.com

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die.' people.com

These is the “river” of news from the feeds in my blogroll. feedland.social

My notes submitted  for FediForum meetup, but it wasn’t selected. If this were a real developer and user community, imho, this is what would’ve been covered. daveverse.org

Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?  joemoreno.com

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus. substack.com

I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. Amazing. Why have I not tried this before. It made me a little spreadsheet in two minutes. this.how

I thought that Ro Khanna supporting the billionaire tax would enrage the billionaires of Silicon Valley, and so it has. It's a great referendum. If I still lived in Calif, I would vote for Khanna just on this one issue. techcrunch.com

The FBI Staffers Kash Patel Ousted Because They Worked on Mar-a-Lago Probe Had Iran Expertise. yahoo.com

AWS says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain. cnbc.com

I don’t understand why mastodon needs a special share button? If I can post something with a link included then post it, haven’t I just shared it? joinmastodon.org

The Colorado River’s Native Predator. flylordsmag.com

Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude. Here’s how to make the switch. techcrunch.com

Could conflict with Iran raise security risks in the U.S.? wbur.org

The Public Opposes But Mostly Doesn’t See the Point of This War. talkingpointsmemo.com

A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom. talkingpointsmemo.com

Current Launches River-Style RSS Reader App. findarticles.com

John Palfrey of MacArthur Foundation was at the AI Action Summit in India last month, wrote a blog post about his experience. We’re longtime friends and former colleagues at Harvard where we bootstrapped podcasting. It feels very right to have him blogcasting on the www again. jpalfrey.blog

Best alternatives to Discord. techcrunch.com

Mainers detained by ICE are coming home by the dozens. pressherald.com

Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list. cnbc.com

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