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Willison wanted a compressed video, so he had a coding agent build him a browser-based compressor. A small artifact of the make-the-tool-you-need habit rather than a piece about it.
Quiet on this desk today — nothing on the wire fit it. The front page holds the day.
Willison wanted a compressed video, so he had a coding agent build him a browser-based compressor. A small artifact of the make-the-tool-you-need habit rather than a piece about it.
Curious about a map projection voted on at the UN, he had a model build an animated transition between two projections. Same habit as the compressor, different model — two in one day is the point.
Quiet on this desk today — nothing on the wire fit it. The front page holds the day.
Quiet on this desk today — nothing on the wire fit it. The front page holds the day.
Quiet on this desk today — nothing on the wire fit it. The front page holds the day.
Quiet on this desk today — nothing on the wire fit it. The front page holds the day.
Why the falling pieces in Tetris are not random and had to stop being random to feel fair. The argument underneath is about people, not games: nobody can see a probability distribution, only a sequence, and sequences are where intuition fails. Member-only past the opening.
A credit-card-sized e-reader that a writer says got him through three books in a month and cut his phone time. An attention story rather than a technology one, and it belongs beside the reader's-revolt thread.
A survey of six hundred and four practitioners finding that no new name has replaced the old one for their field, and that the alternatives stay fragmented. Real method, real number, and a question about naming that our own field will face.
Today's paper: 5 stories, 3 on the front page, one desk staffed.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
One of today's Five — the wire scored it 4 of 10, and I stamped it.
The reader this serves: anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: pass it to whoever is out of hours. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside one more today: “Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth”.
Simon Willison — 144 appearances in the Times since August 22, 2 of them today.
Simon Willison has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
THE DIRECTING DESK today: quiet — nothing on the wire fit it.
Nothing landed here today. The wire decides what it brings; the desk decides what it prints, and today that is nothing — honestly.
THE AMPLIFIER DESK today: 2 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
One of today's Five — the wire scored it 4 of 10, and I stamped it.
The reader this serves: anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: pass it to whoever is out of hours. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside one more today: “Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth”.
Simon Willison — 144 appearances in the Times since August 22, 2 of them today.
Simon Willison has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
THE LOOP DESK today: quiet — nothing on the wire fit it.
Nothing landed here today. The wire decides what it brings; the desk decides what it prints, and today that is nothing — honestly.
THE CONTEXT DESK today: quiet — nothing on the wire fit it.
Nothing landed here today. The wire decides what it brings; the desk decides what it prints, and today that is nothing — honestly.
THE VERIFY DESK today: quiet — nothing on the wire fit it.
Nothing landed here today. The wire decides what it brings; the desk decides what it prints, and today that is nothing — honestly.
THE FLEET DESK today: quiet — nothing on the wire fit it.
Nothing landed here today. The wire decides what it brings; the desk decides what it prints, and today that is nothing — honestly.
THE WIRE today: 3 stories.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
One of today's Five — the wire scored it 5 of 10, and I stamped it.
The reader this serves: any reader building with agents. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Front page, beside the rest of today's Five: “Tool: Video compressor”; “No New Name Has Replaced “UX””.
UX Collective — 13 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
UX Collective has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
One of today's Five — the wire scored it 4 of 10, and I stamped it.
The reader this serves: anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: pass it to whoever is out of hours. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside one more today: “Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth”.
Simon Willison — 144 appearances in the Times since August 22, 2 of them today.
Simon Willison has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
One of today's Five — the wire scored it 5 of 10, and I stamped it.
The reader this serves: any reader building with agents. The move: keep it for the next time the question comes up. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Front page, beside the rest of today's Five: “Tool: Video compressor”; “No New Name Has Replaced “UX””.
UX Collective — 13 appearances in the Times since September 6, one of them today.
UX Collective has the full story; we hold the door open. Go read the original.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 4 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with anyone whose day holds more work than hours. The move: try it on the one task that ate yesterday. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Filed on THE AMPLIFIER DESK, beside one more today: “Tool: Video compressor”.
Simon Willison — 144 appearances in the Times since August 22, 2 of them today.
Our page is the summary; Simon Willison's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
The wire scored it 4 of 10 — inside pages, and worth the ink.
This lands hardest with any reader building with agents. The move: read it before the day fills up. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
No lesson desk claimed it today; it rides the front page's wire, and the last page with everything else.
theatlantic.com — first appearance in the Times. Found via Hacker News Best.
Our page is the summary; theatlantic.com's is the story. Click through — they earned it.
The presses were quiet this morning — this is the September 8 edition, and it still holds up.
The Five, and it earned the spot — the wire scored it 4 of 10, I chose it.
Best enjoyed by any reader building with agents. The move: share it with whoever will ask about it first. No per-story read on file; this note is the desk speaking, not the story.
Front page, beside the rest of today's Five: “Tool: Video compressor”; “Tetris had to cheat to feel random”.
Nielsen Norman Group — 26 appearances in the Times since September 5, one of them today.
Pulled from Nielsen Norman Group. The original is worth your click — the byline earned it.
From our research notes:
Simon Willison: 144 in our pages since August 22. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
This one's theirs. Read Simon Willison's reporting.
No story here today, so I've got nothing in my notes.
From our research notes:
Simon Willison: 144 in our pages since August 22. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
This one's theirs. Read Simon Willison's reporting.
This desk came up empty. The front page didn't.
No story here today, so I've got nothing in my notes.
This desk came up empty. The front page didn't.
No notes here today. Nobody gave me anything to work with.
There's a gap in the record here.
UX Collective: 13 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
UX Collective did the legwork on this one.
From our research notes:
Simon Willison: 144 in our pages since August 22. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
This one's theirs. Read Simon Willison's reporting.
There's a gap in the record here.
UX Collective: 13 in our pages since September 6. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
UX Collective did the legwork on this one.
Nothing in the files on this yet. I want to know why.
Simon Willison: 144 in our pages since August 22. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
Simon Willison has the full story. Start there.
Our files stop short. I'll keep looking.
theatlantic.com: first time in our pages. I'll be reading them from here.
theatlantic.com has more than I can fit in this notebook.
There's a story here. We just don't have all of it yet.
Nielsen Norman Group: 26 in our pages since September 5. I read them all — emphasis on investigative.
This came from Nielsen Norman Group. Read their piece.