Some things I found interesting from 2025-12-28 to 2026-01-04

Internet Discoveries between 28 December and 4 January

The 2026 Grammys…Proof Music is Getting Worse
Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
www.friskyradio.com
Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt
www.geeky-gadgets.com
www.abc.net.au
Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf]
Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics
IUseLinux: Access iMessage from your Linux (or windows) computer
Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
Gpg.fail
Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize
Pre-commit hooks are broken
Clock synchronization is a nightmare
How we lost communication to entertainment

Interesting details

The 2026 Grammys…Proof Music is Getting Worse

In this episode, I compare this year’s Grammy nominees for Song of the Year to the 1984 Song of the Year nominees.My Beato Club supporters:Justin ScottTerenc…

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on - A senior Google engineer publicly praises Anthropic’s Claude Code: the tool built in one hour what her team spent a year developing. The quality and efficiency gains exceed anything anyone could have imagined, she says. Plus: Claude Code’s creator shares his best workflow tips.

www.friskyradio.com - FRISKY is a groundbreaking electronic music internet radio and DJ mix subscription service. Listen now for free!

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal - UNIX v4 (1973) live in your browser. Original binaries recently recovered from archival sources once thought lost. PDP-11/45 emulator with Thompson shell and early C compiler.

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere - POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? - Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature -

Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt - Enroll inspects Debian-like and RedHat-like Linux hosts and generates Ansible roles/playbooks from what it finds. Harvest → Manifest → Manage.

www.geeky-gadgets.com -

www.abc.net.au - We may have the best understanding of the Easter Island Moai yet

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust -

Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf] -

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. - The most powerful semantic search over alignment-adjacent documents. Fully embedded. Fully explorable.

Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics - TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics. - tixl3d/tixl

IUseLinux: Access iMessage from your Linux (or windows) computer - Access iMessage from any device. iUseLinux runs on your Mac and serves iMessage through a web interface accessible over your VPN or Tailnet.

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy - Kubernetes Egress Control with Squid proxy (interlaye.red)

What an unprocessed photo looks like -

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML - A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Gpg.fail -

Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize - AI coding dream team of agents for VS Code. Claude Code + openai Codex collaborate in brainstorm mode, debate solutions, and synthesize the best approach for your code. - DeepMyst/Mysti

Pre-commit hooks are broken - use pre-push hooks instead

Clock synchronization is a nightmare - Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…

How we lost communication to entertainment - How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

All this was saved to my Link Ace over the week