All four assembled. Now for some sanding and stain.

Weekend project underway.

@hub @timbray seriously! Those lyrics are awesome.

My project this weekend was to build two patio side tables. However, I wanted to use only wood left over from previous projects, the plans were important, which meant I needed CAD. But uh… I literally forgot all the CAD stuff I learned 2 years ago. Hey, FreeCAD has an MCP server, let’s get AI to do it. I spent all day Saturday prompting qwen3.8 and did get a plan… with no dimensions. I would not recommend this path. Tables are built, btw.

@foone @owen also see rfc7464 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7464

Meet the first cohort of the #SovereignTechStandards network! Antoine d’Aligny, @dansup, @minipgp6, @job, Kacper Dalach, @lolaodelola, Marten Seemann, @miri64, @jugglinmike, and Stephen Curran bring hands-on expertise from critical, open source infrastructure into standards development. Their work will help shape more secure and more interoperable technology.

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@johntimaeus @disclose @jtk there have been recent discussions in the REGEXT working group and the RIPE DB list about pointing to info directly under the control of resource holders. Maybe that will work for this. Generally getting data into the “authoritative” server requires policy.

Putting contact data in DNS is not a new idea. The biggest issue is that very few people care to do it, and they don’t tend to be the people we really need to do it.

I'd somehow never seen this old video before but in the year 2026 it is needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

1/ You can think that Tridge made some mistakes (I do, and he acknowledges them) and disagree with his take on GenAI (I do) but the pitchfork-wielding burn-the-witch mob being led by @davidgerard should show some humility and humanity. I acknowledge I'm a bit prejudiced based on having for a few decades used Tridge's work to save my ass and achieve results that seem miraculous.

@nickheer
Thou shall not vibecode.
Thou shall not cover thy neighbors AI pull request.
Thou shall not run an agent without a sandbox lest your production database be vanquished.

When Internet exchange points (#IXPs) keep traffic local, costs fall while speed and reliability increase.

In 40 out of 50 countries we analyzed, the share of income needed to afford basic mobile broadband fell by more than 10% after receiving a grant from the Internet Society Foundation for IXP development or local peering ecosystem support. In several countries, the improvement is far larger, suggesting substantial shifts in affordability over time.

Read more: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05/local-infrastructure-lower-costs-how-peering-is-moving-the-needle-on-internet-affordability/

@Jdm2 @mo8it this is almost my exact setup

@timbray @sayrer where do multi-document formats such as CBOR, YAML and JSONL (json lines) fall in this?

On that hour taxi line, you know that guy on Clarkson’s Farm who drives the tractor, has one of those English-style mullets, and is unintelligible? A young version of him was behind me… a little more intelligible but not by much. He talked the whole time, except when he was smoking and drinking. He had one of those massive bottles of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other…. constantly. When he finished one he’d immediately light up another. Pleasant fellow otherwise.

@partim Also, and perhaps I can’t stress this enough, they suck. Along with LHR.

@partim a good question. I kept using their app and it kept saying no hotels available. Weather related cancellation ultimately because they were about to put us back on the plane.

Travel hell. Got deboarded in LHR due to mechanical. They called us all back an hour later. As we were all milling around and chatting, I tried to be Mr Calm by saying “it could be worse”. Well, I was right. Storm rolled through, 20 flights cancelled. British Air hustled us out of the airport without letting us know what was going on. Two hours later I learn I am flying to Copenhagen tomorrow to get back to the US. Nothing can be done about it. It takes 2 more hours to find a hotel. 1 hour taxi queue. Get to the hotel only to learn the travel agent never hit “save” or whatever. Fortunately got another hotel 20 min walk away for 50% more. Got checked in at 23:30. Sky bar closes at 24:00. Ordered two gin and tonics, doubles.

@paulehoffman I can think of no better person to get this done. Thanks for stepping forward.

The documents people have referenced for years as JSON Schema are labeled "work in-progress". They are drafts, literally "Internet-Draft".

Today, the IETF decided to start the process to fix that... to make JSON Schema a standard.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jsonschema/about/

Anthropic is testing only making Claude Code available in their $100/month or higher plans.

Another sign that we’re hitting the Uber moment for AI tools and everyone’s stopping subsidizing tokens.

With data center capacity at a premium, they don’t need to attract more users. It’s monetization time