Only a month ago I made my own vibe-coded hack to convert Claude Code sessions to HTML. Now Simon Willison has one-upped the game: Simply run

uvx claude-code-transcripts

and enjoy! Here's an example of how I just asked Claude to tweak the CSS of this site.

A comment on HackerNews that made me smile:

Frameworks abide by the Hollywood Principle and the Greyhound Principle: Don't call us, we'll call you. Leave the driving to us.

It's true! When using a framework one's code gets called by the framework and it usually takes care of how things are run. This is from the discussion about Avoid Mini-Frameworks, an insightful article on unnecessary mid-level abstraction layers.

How uv got so fast has quite a few hallmarks of being (co-)written by AI, but I found it a good read nonetheless. I continue to be impressed by uv and now use nothing else for running Python.

US nuclar missiles secrets leak via soldiers using memorizing apps.

A two-hour conversation about Malthus with @tylercowen.

Classic card magic with Ricky Jay.

Spherical gears!

Batavia's graveyard, the crazy story of the shipwrecked flagship of the Dutch East India Company.

Inside a Ghost Gown of Abandoned Disney Castles.

Fungi and how they set our body temperature.

If you love the absurd:

• LOTR but every time Sam takes a step towards Mordor he says it'll be the farthest he's ever been
• Steve Ramsey MicroJig compilation

• Why did it take so long to invent this?
• A mash-up that never fails to crack me up: DJ Schmolli - In The Mood For Some Killing
• That Time Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded
• Stuart Ritchie reviews Daniel Kahneman's new book
• Myths and tips about cast iron skillets
• Why Civilization is older than we thought. Early human evolution and history is fascinating and Göbekli Tepe would be high on my list, if I ever started travelling again.
• Animated population pyramid of Sweden

• Can you distinguish real paper titles and abstracts from computer-generated ones?
• Watch someone open and taste a 40-year-old Berliner Weisse.
• Remastered pictures of Earth from the Apollo missions.
• How tech companies devolve into zombies, text or video. Similarities to organizations like universities are obvious.
• Hilarious review of Arabian Nights.
• Bluetit live nest cam.

Time for another look at my recent browser history.

• MMAcevedo, a short story dystopia about mind uploading.
• Two Paths to the future with respect to artificial intelligence and human enhancement. This links to IQ shredders, a quite unpleasant concept.
• UV light for HVAC systems.
• Against Nostalgia (Zeynep Tufekci).
• Last time I linked to Monkey Mind Pong. Here is an explainer video by a professor in the field.
• Languishing, the middle-child of mental helath.
• Nuclear energy vs Renewables. It's probably true that there is some naturalistic fallcy going on, but as they say in the latest video by Kurzgesagt: Why not both‽

A few links from my recent browser history that I found worthwhile.

• The climbing gym in Brussels that we used to visit expands outside, under a motorway bridge, because of COVID restrictions.
• @zeynep and @quasimondo
• The intellectual hit-job on Galen of Pergamon
• Videos: Monkey MindPong, Green Beard Altruism
• Grabby Aliens

A random set of internet gems that I enjoyed recently, starting with the Coronavirus COVID19. Three Twitterers that seem to knowledgable, up-to-date and not hyping-up matters are Kai Kupferschmidt, Helen Branswell and Ian M Mackay. Plus, there are good articles coming from down under.

Don't bury the lede, not even in grant applications.

The International Space Station in LEGO. I like that this is an official set, not a custom design or one-off sale. Speaking of which: My Science Tower is still waiting to be built.

Quit the news! (PDF) It's bad for you!

Robin Hanson comapares Parasite and Joker. This made me think less of Parasite and want to watch Joker. I have downloaded it, but not gotten around to it yet.

A few things I just read, watched or listened to, and found well worth the time.

Arsenic and Old Lace, a 1944 dark comedy with Cary Grant.

A Blogging Style Guide, entertaining.

I still recommend you go read Simler & Hanson's Elephant in the Brain. Another review.

Scott Alexander reviews a book about the mind and points toward Global Workspace Theory, which makes quite a bit of intuitive sense to me.

The latest Sam Harris podcast with Deeyah Khan is definitely one of his best conversations to date. On how neo-nazis and jihadists are similar, and how we need to do better in treating them, among other things.

Does money make you mean? Yes, it does.

Gollum Brexit. Brilliant!

• Satellite photos at an angle
• A primer on climate change
• Beautiful real-time interative wind maps (and more)
• Compare headlines between news sites
• Visit Belgian Breweries (scroll down for map)
• Top 5 Clustering Algorithms
• Linguee and DeepL are good dictionary and translation services, respectively.