From the computer of Peter Clark

An unfortunate bug with GitHub is that when creating a personal access token you can specify granular permissions for just about anything except the ability to create and manage GitHub Projects.

The only way to create a Personal Access Token for GitHub projects is to move the repo into its own organisation, and then you have the ability to specify these permissions.

I find this a truly bizarre omission to the point that I assume its a bug: I can create a PAT for issues but not projects?

Hopefully this gets resolved, although I have been asking for this for all of 2026.

First, consider words. The vocabulary that bots overuse has changed: they no longer “delve” and there are not as many “tapestries”. Instead they offer a significant number of polysyllables like “significant”, “increasingly” and “consequences”. They use more rare words (“interdependence”, “reindustrialisation”) and scientific lingo (“parameter”, “methodology”) than humans, and are fond of nominalisations (making nouns from verbs, such as “expansion” from “expand”). All the llms in our study use such words, but particularly Gemini and Claude.

Launched in 2004, Oink’s Pink Palace was created by a 21-year-old computer science student in England in response to legal action being taken against users of public file sharing services like Napster and The Pirate Bay. In a few short years, Oink grew into a massive community of like-minded music enthusiasts, offering high-quality downloads of virtually every album in existence. “It was like opening a secret door to this incredible world,” Sheridan reflects. “File sharing was everywhere, but you'd never seen this level of care and detail. You see those videos now where they bring film people into the Criterion Collection—it felt like that—being invited to the ultimate music collector’s den, the private club where they show you all these records you never thought you'd have. Most people didn't have the same kind of experience, they got the LimeWire version which was the equivalent of wading through a dollar store that’s just been ransacked and shit’s all over the floor.”