The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids, supernovas, and feasting black holes. And that number is only expected to […]
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An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.
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I spent ten years trying to write a novel. Every time I sat down, I'd write a sentence, decide it wasn't good enough, and rewrite it.
The problem wasn't discipline — it was that I could always see what I'd written and go back to change it.
I tried other approaches. Apps that delete your words when you stop typing — they fight fear with fear. That just made me panic. I wanted the opposite: not punishment, but permission.
"Tomoshibi" is Japanese for a small light in the dark — just enough to see what's in front of you.
You write on a dark screen. Older lines fade, but not when you hit return. They fade when you start writing again. If you pause, they wait. You can edit the current line and one line back — enough to fix a typo, not enough to spiral. The one-line-back rule also catches my own practical issue: Japanese IME often fires an accidental newline on kanji confirmation.
Everything is saved. There's a separate reader view for going back through what you've written. Tomoshibi is for writing over months, not just one session. When you come back, your last sentence appears as an epigraph — as if it always belonged there.
No account, no server, no build step. Your writing stays in your browser's local storage — export anytime as .txt. Vanilla HTML/CSS/ES modules.
Try it in your browser. A native Mac app (built with Tauri) with file system integration is coming to the store.
I've been writing on it for two months.
https://tomoshibi.in-hakumei.com/app/
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Article URL: https://gist.github.com/dollspace-gay/d8d3bc3ecf4188df049d7a4726bb2a00
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Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam
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Article URL: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless
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Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next week, we’ve been sifting through Woot’s “Video Games for All” sale and a truly weird slate of deals that, frankly, don’t have a throughline. (Some of us have also […]
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.