Linkblog - 2026-04-05

Week of Mar 30 - Apr 5, 2026

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

Tags: AI, thinking, vibecoding, person:Michael Taggart

Added: 2026-04-05 09:41

The Machine That Stops You From Thinking

How AI is quietly outsourcing your cognition — and why you won’t notice until it’s too late

Tags: AI, thinking, vibecoding, person:Alexander Rink

Added: 2026-04-05 09:40

The passive income trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won’t use his real name - who told me he was “building a business.” I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers.

I made him say it twice.

Jade face rollers.

He’d found them on Alibaba for $1.20

Tags: via:Tom Woodward, entrepreneurship, person:Joan Westenberg

Added: 2026-04-05 09:39

Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control

Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA’s Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.

Tags: space, Artemis

Added: 2026-04-03 21:23

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

Tags: eBooks, public domain, via:Alessandro Corazza

Added: 2026-04-03 15:04

UC60 Mosaic | University of Calgary

Submit your photos today to become a part of UCalgary history

Tags: UCalgary, anniversary, photos

Added: 2026-04-02 15:09

Artemis Mission Tracker – Live Orion Spacecraft Position | ISSINFO

realtime visualization of where Artemis II is located

Tags: Artemis, space, visualization

Added: 2026-04-02 10:50

Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape

Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.

Tags: software, open source, vector, graphics

Added: 2026-04-01 15:50

DATAFREE — MANIFEST AUDIO | Creative Tools for Ableton Live

Datafree is a Max for Live MIDI Tool Generator that converts numerical data into MIDI note patterns directly inside your clips. Paste any data set - from climate records to stock prices to sports statistics - and Datafree maps those values to pitch, velocity, and note length within your clip’s current grid rate, key and scale. An accessible entry point to data-driven composition, no prior sonification experience required

Tags: sonification, via:Grant Potter, MIDI, data

Added: 2026-04-01 11:43

What is Code?

A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two. Tick, operate (an operation might be addition or subtraction) on those two numbers and put the resulting number in box one. Tick, check if the result is zero, and if it is, go to some other box and follow a new set of instructions.

Tags: person:Paul Ford, Bloomberg, code, article, via:Patrick Finn

Added: 2026-04-01 11:18

Yakut Gazi appointed as vice-provost of teaching and learning | News | University of Calgary

A message from the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Sandra Davidson

Tags: person:Yakut Gazi, UCalgary, announcement

Added: 2026-04-01 09:32

jonny (good kind): “- Claude code source “leaks” in a mapfile- peopl…” - neurospace.live

• Claude code source “leaks” in a mapfile
• people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
• now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What’s anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

Tags: Claude, Claude Code, vibecoding, Mastodon

Added: 2026-04-01 09:10