Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
Top Categories > all
#all #programming #technology #startups #history #life #science #literature #architecture #creative #design #finance #travel #comics #AI #indiehacker #cartography Muted Categories [alt+←][alt+→]
Drew Ex Machina
The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at...
19 hours ago
4
19 hours ago
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft […]
Cheese and Biscuits
El Molí de l’Escala, L'Escala I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting...
14 hours ago
4
14 hours ago
I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting this part of the world. The first couple of visits were pre-blog and pre-camera phone and I don't remember much about it other than being sat in those same ancient vaulted rooms...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on...
9 hours ago
4
9 hours ago
Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the greatest living business and tech writers, best-known for his piece I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Blog - Mac Pierce
And around we go... Making We're So Over, We're So Back The process of making an single purpose art PC that uses an aluminum casting as the radiator for a...
8 hours ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 127: ChatGPT Agent July 18, 2025.
9 hours ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage,...
6 hours ago
3
6 hours ago
This is the second part of our series (I) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. As we’ve discussed, pre-modern peasant farmers make up the vast majority of human beings in in the past. Last...
Musings on Markets
To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question! In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written...
7 hours ago
2
7 hours ago
In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past. The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business, an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay...
nanoscale views
The latest on US science funding The US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have now completed their markups on the bills...
5 hours ago
2
5 hours ago
The US House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have now completed their markups on the bills relevant to the FY26 appropriations for NSF, NASA, and NIST.  The AAAS has an interactive dashboard with current information here if you want to click and look at all the...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Increase software sales by 50% or more This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by...
yesterday
4
yesterday
This is re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by Steve Pavlina Of all the things you can do to increase your sales, one of the highest leverage activities is attempting to increase your products’ registration rate. Increasing...
Computer Things
Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently...
2 days ago
6
2 days ago
I'm a big (neo)vim buff. My config is over 1500 lines and I regularly write new scripts. I recently ported my neovim config to a new laptop. Before then, I was using VSCode to write, and when I switched back I immediately saw a big gain in productivity. People often pooh-pooh vim...
Spoon & Tamago
In a New Pop-Up Exhibition, Erica Ward Presents Tokyo as a Living, Breathing Organism all images courtesy the artist | used with permission Erica Ward is a California-born ink and...
2 days ago
6
2 days ago
all images courtesy the artist | used with permission Erica Ward is a California-born ink and watercolor artist who has called Tokyo her home for over 10 years. Inspired by Japanese designs and imagery, as well as the ever-changing landscape of Tokyo, Ward reinterprets everyday...
Product Identity
head on the cloud, feet on the ground A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
2 days ago
Handprinted - Blog
Creating Screen Films using Sumi Ink Sumi Ink is fantastic for making hand-drawn screen films that create exposed screens with texture...
3 days ago
6
3 days ago
Sumi Ink is fantastic for making hand-drawn screen films that create exposed screens with texture and loose spontaneous marks. Sumi ink can be painted onto Inkjet Screen Film or True-Grain film to produce a variety of marks.  We experimented by painting Sumi Ink on both types of...
AI Snake Oil
Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox
3 days ago
Build In Public...
We preach 'focus' while context-switching between 6 AI tools The desktop app that turns AI chaos into productivity superpowers. No more context switching. No...
3 days ago
Escaping Flatland
I went looking for friends, see what I found Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote...
3 days ago
8
3 days ago
Of all the ways this blog have changed my life, the most exciting was in December 2021 when I wrote a post about Ivan Illich that ended up, to my utter astonishment, to get read by almost a hundred people.
Strange Loop Canon
The Slow Apocalypse: When will we run out of kids? More than you wanted to know about the fertility crisis
3 days ago
The Works in...
A $50 million foundation model to predict earthquakes Achieving a 10-minute warning would save thousands of lives
3 days ago
Trying to Understand...
A Little Intelligence ... ... about Intelligence.
3 days ago
The History of the...
Three attempts at making payments secure In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and...
3 days ago
9
3 days ago
In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today. The post Three attempts at making payments secure appeared first on The History of the Web.
Confessions of a...
A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview) Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to...
3 days ago
7
3 days ago
Welcome to my ongoing series on x86-64 assembly programming, designed for programmers who want to peel back the abstraction and understand how code really runs at the machine level.
tonsky.me
Gaslight-driven development Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just...
3 days ago
9
3 days ago
Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks is just part of the experience. Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, dismiss notifications, solve captchas, reject cookies, and accept terms and conditions—not because they...
Mazdak
Google’s New AI Summaries in Discover: The Next Blow to Publishers? If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly...
4 days ago
9
4 days ago
If you work in media or publishing, brace yourself — another platform update from Google is quietly shifting the ground beneath us.
Tech and Tea
9 Things from My Summer (So Far) Mama summer camp, Monopoly, a summer roadtrip, long bike rides, and more!
4 days ago
Machine Learning for...
Transformers Ain't It Curated SWE AI Content, Jobs, and Resources 7-15-2025
4 days ago
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle...
4 days ago
9
4 days ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In the early 1900s, Seattle was a growing city hemmed in by geography. To the west was Puget Sound, a vital link to the Pacific Ocean. To the east, Lake Washington stood between the city and the farmland and...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never...
4 days ago
10
4 days ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Fonts In Use. License: CC BY-SA. The Fonts In Use staff was never especially enthusiastic about maintaining our account on Instagram. The platform is antithetical to so much of the what we love on the web: hyperlinks, web feeds (e.g., RSS),...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 8 (Toronto Tourist) We woke up that morning to our final full day in Canada and we decided to speedrun as much of...
4 days ago
5
4 days ago
We woke up that morning to our final full day in Canada and we decided to speedrun as much of Toronto as we could manage. Unfortunately due to constraints of distance and endurance we barely scratched the surface. There will need to be a next time. So what was the most Canadian...
Yale E360
Drop in Air Pollution Drove a Surge in Warming, Study Finds Scientists have been scrambling to make sense of a recent acceleration in warming, which may be...
4 days ago
6
4 days ago
Scientists have been scrambling to make sense of a recent acceleration in warming, which may be attributable, they say, to changes in solar output or to shifts in cloud cover. A new study finds the biggest driver may be a drop in air pollution in East Asia, primarily in...
Farza's Newsletter
my homie told me drink electrolytes and now my name is static shock and i have super powers Sup everyone.
4 days ago
Arduino Blog
This DIY programmable diaphragm pump is perfect for lab use If you need to move fluid from one vessel to another, you’re probably going to want a pump of some...
5 days ago
9
5 days ago
If you need to move fluid from one vessel to another, you’re probably going to want a pump of some kind. Typical inexpensive pumps are usually only on or off, so you can’t easily control the flow rate. Those that do have some kind of analog adjustment are usually imprecise, which...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Measurement and Numbers Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to...
5 days ago
8
5 days ago
Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to talk about product attributes that you can measure easily with a number…schedule, costs, speed, weight, anything where you can generally agree that six is a bigger number than...
David Heinemeier...
The 6 Hours of Lex When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into...
5 days ago
12
5 days ago
When I drive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, I spend a total of about 6-9 hours in the car, divided into stints of roughly two hours at a time. It's intense. But talking with Lex Fridman in Austin on his podcast? Over six hours straight! We only interrupted the session for five minutes...
The Elysian
Building an operating system for Earth How we went from an architecture of collapse to a simulation for survival
5 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the July 2025 + Post Topic Past ads get a second chance.
5 days ago
Quanta Magazine
RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding...
5 days ago
9
5 days ago
How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger. The post RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Both Are True
some honest words about the batcave wherein i try hard to make less jokes than normal he CAN do it, but WILL he?
5 days ago
James Cheshire
The Library of Lost Maps Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will...
5 days ago
10
5 days ago
Really thrilled to announce that The Library of Lost Maps will hit bookshops this autumn! I will share more details over the summer, but you can pre-order and subscribe for updates here: https://libraryoflostmaps.com/
Atoms vs Bits
Learn To Draw With ATVBT deliberate practice for portraiture
5 days ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
52 of the Best Places to Visit in the U.S.
5 days ago
Common Edge
Confronting the Reality of Climate Displacement Planner Hilary Brown on how underpopulated areas across the U.S. could absorb population...
5 days ago
9
5 days ago
Planner Hilary Brown on how underpopulated areas across the U.S. could absorb population resettlements resulting from sea-level rise, flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat.
Rest of World -...
TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S. A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok’s business model is alienating sellers,...
5 days ago
Blog of Simple...
Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo
5 days ago
History Today Feed
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’ by Mary Beth Norton review ‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’ by Mary Beth Norton review JamesHoare Mon, 07/14/2025 - 08:42
5 days ago
Noahpinion
Developing countries: A follow-up Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
5 days ago
Retail Design Blog
Mark&Lona Beijing Flagship As a pioneer in luxury golfwear, MARK & LONA continues to redefine conventional sports apparel by...
5 days ago
7
5 days ago
As a pioneer in luxury golfwear, MARK & LONA continues to redefine conventional sports apparel by transforming it into a...
Commoncog
Announcing Speedrunning the Idea Maze A live course, limited to 30 people. Applications close 21st July.
5 days ago
Working Theorys
Encore Anxiety Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing...
5 days ago
13
5 days ago
Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.
The American Scholar
Jeanne F. Jalandoni Weaving past and present together The post Jeanne F. Jalandoni appeared first on The American...
5 days ago
xkcd.com
Unsolved Physics Problems
5 days ago
./techtipsy
How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was...
5 days ago
12
5 days ago
It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was responsible for. We took great precautions with these types of changes due to the scale of the system, splitting changes into as many small parts as possible and releasing them as often...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows XP NT Vincit Omnia
6 days ago
GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of Wolves in Europe As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine...
6 days ago
12
6 days ago
As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine recent posts on the fascinating but unfortunately named Reddit site called “MapPorn.” As always, I was struck by many contributions, but what really caught my eye was a five-map...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.
6 days ago
Open Culture
Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985) “The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,”...
6 days ago
8
6 days ago
“The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July 13, 1985. In front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium and millions watching...
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz Destiny and... Death Rays?
6 days ago
Daniel Bourke
A dog called Seven Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at...
6 days ago
13
6 days ago
Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven. And we had our dog Bella. Bella and Seven would yell at each other and sometimes say something nice like hello how was your day by sniffing each other through the gaps in the fence. One day my younger brothers opened the
journal – Winnie Lim
primal sadness I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself...
6 days ago
15
6 days ago
I still feel afflicted by my mind in many ways. I try to focus on the present, and distract myself by trying to live life in my fullest possible manner, but once...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.13 - So Smart New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
6 days ago
The Honest Broker
Indie Culture Is Great—But What's Coming Next is Better Things are about to change, and this is how it will happen
a week ago
Contemporist...
Inside a Houseboat That Feels Like a Home Blatto Boat is a newly constructed Floating On Water Residence (FOWR) located on the north end of...
a week ago
7
a week ago
Blatto Boat is a newly constructed Floating On Water Residence (FOWR) located on the north end of Seattle’s Lake Union. Designed by Seattle studio GO'C, the houseboat is built within the exact footprint of an existing 12-by-40-foot vessel, making efficient use of every available...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rolling Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Today's News:
a week ago
Flashbak
The Fireworks King: Brock’s Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making, 1922 “My object has not been to write a text-book on firework-making, but rather to trace the art from...
a week ago
10
a week ago
“My object has not been to write a text-book on firework-making, but rather to trace the art from earliest times, and to give a description of the development and process of manufacture… My excuse for adding another volume to the literature of the art is that I am of the eighth...
Construction Physics
Reading List 07/12/2025 25 years of earthquakes, Google’s 2013 efforts to build a phone in the US, bear attacks in Japan,...
a week ago
9
a week ago
25 years of earthquakes, Google’s 2013 efforts to build a phone in the US, bear attacks in Japan, coal seam fires, and more.
Seth's Blog
Flailing There isn’t much of a correlation between how fast you swim and how much energy you put into it. In...
a week ago
9
a week ago
There isn’t much of a correlation between how fast you swim and how much energy you put into it. In fact, drowning people burn plenty of calories but they don’t go anywhere. When we’re confronting a new problem, more effort might not be the answer. It could be that we benefit by...
The Ruffian
Keir Starmer's Reality Avoidance Field It's Almost Like He Didn't Listen To Me
a week ago
Maps Mania
A Time Machine for Maps
a week ago
diamond geezer
Springfield Park Earlier this week the Mayor opened London's largest new park since the 2012 Olympics. It's...
a week ago
9
a week ago
Earlier this week the Mayor opened London's largest new park since the 2012 Olympics. It's Springfield Park in Tooting, and given Sadiq went to school less than half a mile away he was surely* well chuffed. Springfield Park covers 32 acres around the rim of a new health...
TheCollector
Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece Philopoemen (253-183 BCE) was a strategos (general) of the Achaean League during a turbulent period...
a week ago
3
a week ago
Philopoemen (253-183 BCE) was a strategos (general) of the Achaean League during a turbulent period of conflict with Sparta. While he has been overshadowed by great generals such as Hannibal, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar, Philopoemen was regarded as one of the most...
Anecdotal Evidence
'His Work Must Be Perfect' How do we reconcile the saddest of English writers being at the same time among the wittiest?...
a week ago
10
a week ago
How do we reconcile the saddest of English writers being at the same time among the wittiest? And when I say “saddest,” I don’t mean depressed or suicidal; rather, wistful, ever aware of human ephemerality, calibrating his words until they attain the precise edge of irony he...
The Marginalian
Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of... Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted...
a week ago
12
a week ago
Prediction is the sharpest tool the human animal has devised — the chisel with which we sculpted survival out of chance, the fulcrum by which we lifted civilization out of survival. Among the greatest gifts of the imagination, that crowning curio of consciousness, is our ability...
FIRE v London
June 2025: Show times I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite...
a week ago
14
a week ago
I really want to stop mentioning Trump. Even when he sends troops into LA, one of my favourite cities. But when he launches 30kt bombs on Iran, it is very hard to avoid talking about him. In the context of what Trump’s been up to, the welfare reform screw-ups by the Labour...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The...
a week ago
15
a week ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible
Citation Needed
Issue 88 – The stockchain Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep...
a week ago
13
a week ago
Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Announcing…our next event this fall!!! And other fun stuff!! | Out-Of-Pocket Calling all the builders
a week ago
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 9 Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm...
a week ago
12
a week ago
Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam language. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Christian Selig
You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
a week ago
17
a week ago
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
a week ago
18
a week ago
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
a week ago