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I wanted to celebrate that in the last 24 hours, we have had 3 corporate member applications. I don't know if there will be time to get them into this year's fundraising drive, but funding is long term. If your company is able, please apply: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/corporate-membership/join/
Appreciation for Montreal's can collectors comes in a large green bag https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/appreciation-for-montreals-can-collectors-comes-in-a-large-green-bag?utm_source=Mastodon
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Link: https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548
NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nist-was-5-μs-utc-after-last-weeks-power-cut
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355949
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/us-government-finds-new-excuse-to-stop-construction-of-offshore-wind/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357881
覚え書き更新 Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-12-23 https://kidachi.kazuhi.to/blog/archives/043245.html
Come join the Holiday hangout stream!
Ask question about Hacking, Cybersecurity, Tech, or go completely off topic if you like :)
Going live at 12:15 PST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIoiI8_1cw
“Flock's ambitions go far beyond license-plate surveillance,” EFF’s 
@cooperqExploit code not people told 
@404mediaco404 Media. “Flock's goal isn't to catch stolen cars, their goal is to have total surveillance of everyone all the time." https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
Styling by Language: Using the lang Attribute for Multilingual Design - HTMHell https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/21/
Optimizing CLS for Infinite Scroll and Load More https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/optimizing-cls-for-infinite-scroll-and-load-more/
Simon Willison on delivering AI generated code https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/simon-willison-on-delivering-ai-generated-code/
Just released the 0.15 version of the Rust askama crate (which handles jinja templates at compile-time).
The full changelog is here: https://github.com/askama-rs/askama/releases/tag/v0.15.0
It comes with a crazy amount of new stuff, like support for templating on enum variants, or the beginning or better compilation errors (in some cases it actually shows you in the template where the bug is!).
We also extended what Rust expressions you can use in the templates and made a lot of performance improvements (to reduce compile-time).
Enjoy!
うわっ…私の心拍数、高すぎ…？と思ったけどむかあし走ったマラソンの時の心拍数は記録されてないね。
ソフトウェアエンジニアのおっさんが長距離走る (2026年はどうしよう)
https://sizu.me/zundan/posts/a97sxu2nutrz
Doing an overdue round of issue/pull requests on courses. Just a friendly bump that I have two completely free Python courses:
https://github.com/dabeaz-course/practical-python
https://github.com/dabeaz-course/python-mastery
A few notable features:
- Previously taught hundreds of times to groups of real people in-person.
- Creative Commons.
- No ads, subscriptions, or dark patterns.
- No AI.
Early signs of EAA enforcement across Europe - Deque https://www.deque.com/blog/early-signs-of-eaa-enforcement-across-europe/
Japan’s H3 suffers second-stage anomaly, QZS-5 satellite lost https://spacenews.com/japans-h3-suffers-second-stage-anomaly-qzs-5-satellite-lost/
Let's write a toy UI library
Link: https://nakst.gitlab.io/tutorial/ui-part-1.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286935
What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?
Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers x9
Twix x7
The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!)
Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse!
Ich war heute in Augsburg bei der Veganen Fleischerei, deren vegane Leberkässemmeln mir auf der Weihnachtsinsel bereits große Freude bereitet haben. Ich hab eine Seitan-Fenchelsalami und gefüllte Kirschpaprika zum Probieren mitgenommen, die mich auch glücklich gemacht haben.
Im letzten Bild seht ihr einen veganen Rostbratwurst & Kraut Bagel, den ich mir bei Waltraud am Moritzplatz gegönnt habe.
US 'demolishing its scientific leadership with a wrecking ball'
Link: https://sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon-europe/us-demolishing-its-scientific-leadership-wrecking-ball-says-chief-eu-research
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357887
ダビンチさんもビンチ村だっけ
へええ!!
하 진짜 번아웃인가 번아웃이라기엔 한게 없는데
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 15,1958
If, by some chance, you find yourself playing Tomb Raider Remastered, RT gets you out of the pool. You're welcome. #videogames #jic
Seven Coding Games to Help You Build Your Programming Chops https://lobste.rs/s/iqyvdt #education
https://www.maketecheasier.com/coding-games-build-programming-chops/
Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.
#Thynnidae #Hymenoptera #Diamma #Insects #australianwildlife
Calibrating a Printer with Computer Vision and Precise Timing
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/22/calibrating-a-printer-with-computer-vision-and-precise-timing/
"The policies are based on the anti-science obsessions of the administration and will almost certainly result in harm to untold numbers of children… [but] Instead of vaccines, grant funding, or autism, this ideologically motivated anti-science push is targeting trans children—and therefore nobody is telling Americans the straight truth about it…"
The Neglected Front in RFK Jr.’s War on Science — Assigned
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/rfk-jr-war-on-science
There's no such thing as a fake feather [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5yV1Q9O6r4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315581
new pfp who dis
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 15,1958
it's a travesty that this isn't codeberg's logo or mascot
౿(꘠ޟ꘠)-▩
ready for raclette
Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript
Link: https://www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flocking-quadtrees
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286906
😐🫸 "is it free software?"
😎👉 "does it free people?"
起きますかー
What's "new" in Miri (and also, there's a Miri paper!) via 
@fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/fjlwli #rust
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/12/22/miri.html
The CSS is Awesome Game show was a blast and I am so thankful for our contestants and all who helped make it happen: 
@castastrophe, 
@argyleinkAdam Argyle, 
@davatron5000Dave Rupert, 
@miaMia (web luddite), 
@chriscoyier and 
@OddBird
If you missed it, here's the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcEnjGPm1Fo
I'd been 0 days since I had to look up whether the constructor for a std::string made up of x number of a given character is count first or character first
Dirkjan Ochtman
Rafaelito 🦤
Paul Cantrell
ploum
