Because being a geek is a good thing

A developer coined the term meat proxy to name an increasingly common habit: copying and pasting an AI’s full answer into Slack, a pull request, or a WhatsApp group, without reading or understanding it. The original post appeared on gruhn.me on August 3, 2026, and sparked a discussion about what it really means to use an AI to communicate with another person.

Isopolis is an interactive map of San Francisco’s neighborhoods that combines CARTO tiles, OpenStreetMap data, and open DataSF boundaries, all without a backend of its own. The project also reveals a curious detail in its code: a note about the load order of JavaScript modules.

A 13th-century magical treatise promised to transmit all university knowledge through diagrams and prayers, without years of study. An essay from The Public Domain Review reconstructs its history, its condemnation by Thomas Aquinas, and its unexpected parallel with today’s promise of artificial intelligence.

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new video-with-audio generation model that doubles the maximum shot length to 30 seconds and adds multi-round extension, expanded multimodal referencing, and more precise editing. It’s already available on Jimeng AI and Doubao Pro, with API access announced for release soon through BytePlus ModelArk.