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Epic Web Dev
Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
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ToughSF
The Laser Revolution Part I: Megawatt beams to the skies There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we ...
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There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we produce electricity, conduct war and even upset the nuclear world order. All they have to do it reach a certain convergence of price and power. And by current projections, it...
Global Inequality...
Nothing (meaningful) to say Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
15 hours ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate... Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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Strange Loop Canon
Betting on AI risk I. If you think the world will end because of AI, how do you bet on that?
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The Rational Walk
Greg Abel Steps into the Spotlight Greg Abel will step into the spotlight at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting with Warren...
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Greg Abel will step into the spotlight at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting with Warren Buffett sitting in the audience.
nanoscale views
A science anecdote palate cleanser Apologies for slow posting.  Real life has been very intense, and I also was rather concerned when...
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Apologies for slow posting.  Real life has been very intense, and I also was rather concerned when one of my readers mentioned last weekend that these days my blog was like concentrated doom-scrolling.  I will have more to say about the present university research crisis later,...
GeoCurrents
Exploring the Urban/Rural Electoral Divide in Canada, and Its Exceptions Although the Canadian electorate is more leftwing than that of the United States, the two counties...
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Although the Canadian electorate is more leftwing than that of the United States, the two counties have similar electoral geographies (see the previous GeoCurrents post). In both the U.S. and Canada, population density figures prominently in the political divide: the more urban...
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
2 days ago
journal – Winnie Lim
do we cherish our selves Human beings are very strange creatures. We often do not make decisions based on what we truly want...
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Human beings are very strange creatures. We often do not make decisions based on what we truly want and need, or what would generate positive outcomes for us. Instead most of us...
The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
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For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
The Ruffian
We're All Viennese Now On a Royal Suicide Pact and Ages of Anxiety
3 days ago
Dreams of Space -...
Make Your Own Space Station (1970) Today I have found some "space crafting" : ) projects for you. Make Your Own Space Station is a...
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Today I have found some "space crafting" : ) projects for you. Make Your Own Space Station is a series of cards that show you how to built some cute little space toys. It seems to have been part of of series of crafting cards of projects you could make from household objects....
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches Codex: The Future of AI-Powered Software Engineering OpenAI has officially launched Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent to date, within ChatGPT....
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OpenAI has officially launched Codex, its most advanced AI coding agent to date, within ChatGPT. Designed for developers, teams, and enterprises, Codex represents a major step forward in agentic AI systems purpose-built for software engineering.
SatPost by Trung...
AI Killed The College Paper. So, What's Next? It's time to grade the workflow (not the output).
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Confessions of a...
Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program We build a minimal X86 assembly program, run it… and hit a crash. But that crash is exactly what...
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Archinect - Features
An Architect's Case for Tariffs Every architect knows there is no project without constraints. Whether it’s a challenging...
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Every architect knows there is no project without constraints. Whether it’s a challenging site, limited budget, or complex program requirements — obstacles are the reality of construction projects. However, with experience, we learn that constraints rarely result in compromised...
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2025 Recap In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to...
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In 2023 I attended RubyKaigi for the first time and also wrote my first recap, which I’m pleased to say was well-received! This was my third time attending RubyKaigi, and I was once again really impressed with the event. I’m eternally grateful to the conference organizers, local...
A Collection of...
Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual) This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel...
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This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel to an invited workshop/talk event later this week and so don’t have quite the time for a more normal ‘full’ post and in part because it is fun to be silly sometimes (and we might …...
Wuthering...
Preface to notes on the first four novels of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time In France, at the Lyon public library, I was surprised to bump into so many romans fleuves, whatever...
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In France, at the Lyon public library, I was surprised to bump into so many romans fleuves, whatever those are.  They were notable on the shelf because these long series of novels are now published in monumental, highly visible, omnibus editions.  The library assumes that...
tonsky.me
Logo: Cyrillic version of Internet Explorer logo. Because it’s iconic.
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Quentin Santos
Talking to Espressif’s Bootloader In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader,...
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In my article about Espressif’s Automatic Reset, I briefly showed UART output from the bootloader, but did not go in more details. In this article, I want to go just a bit further, by showing some two-way interactions. We’ll use the initial basic “real” UART setup. Note that I...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Ian O' Halloran My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the...
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My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the Sussex Weald near Herstmonceux (UK). I am and always have been inspired by the British landscape. I came to art later in life than most, having had a career in civil engineering first...
./techtipsy
Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
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I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
Artificial Ignorance
AI's Missing Multiplayer Mode Going from digital tools to digital teammates.
5 days ago
Classical Wisdom
The Greco-Roman-Indian Exchange Podcast with Professor Roberto Morales
5 days ago
Construction Physics
Fixing Naval Ship Acquisition This is a policy proposal written by Austin Vernon and myself for improving US naval shipbuilding.
5 days ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Must-Visit Lakes and Rivers in Appalachia
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Charles Chen
Beware the Complexity Merchants When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not...
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When smart people get their high from building complex systems to solve simple problems, you're not going to have a good time
Farza's Newsletter
woke up and found a beanie in my freezer fml now my head is cold pasta and sauce
6 days ago
The Elysian
CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance Here's the recording from our literary salon discussion.
6 days ago
Throwable
What's Next For Software The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
6 days ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Alexander Petros’ “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service” I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows...
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I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by...
The Marginalian
Isotopes, Vikings, Mars We are perishable matter yearning for meaning, and time is both the matter and the meaning of our...
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We are perishable matter yearning for meaning, and time is both the matter and the meaning of our lives. “Time is a river that sweeps me along but I am the river,” Borges wrote in 1940. “Time is the substance I am made of.” Around the same time, the chemist Willard Libby had a...
Computer Things
Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step...
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You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step left, but they're thinking the same thing and take a step to their right, aka your left. You're still blocking each other. Then you take a step to the right, and they take a step to...
Flashbak
An Interview with Andrew Loog Oldham “I didn’t think. I had no reference point. I had no fear. It was all really simple. Peter Jones of...
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“I didn’t think. I had no reference point. I had no fear. It was all really simple. Peter Jones of the Record Mirror told me to go and see them. I did. It was good for everybody… I was quite happy doing PR and I became happier managing the Rolling Stones.” – Andrew Loog Oldham …...
Trying to Understand...
What We Have. The new is dying, but the old cannot be reborn. What do we do?
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Common Edge
Notes From the Venice Biennale, Past and Present Have architects become too enamored of cosplaying as artists?
6 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
Teething Babies and Rainy Days Once Cut Calls Short Humans are messy. We spill drinks, smudge screens, and bring our electronic devices into countless...
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Humans are messy. We spill drinks, smudge screens, and bring our electronic devices into countless sticky situations. As anyone who has accidentally dropped their phone into a toilet or pool knows, moisture poses a particular problem. And it’s not a new one: From early...
Noahpinion
Why has American pop culture stagnated? Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.
6 days ago
Atoms vs Bits
Believing Things Your Friends Don't It used to be hard. And now it's easy.
6 days ago
diamond geezer
Jurassic Coast 3 Jurassic Coast (part 3) Hive Beach (50.70°N, 2.72°W) Hive Beach just down the coast is much...
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Jurassic Coast (part 3) Hive Beach (50.70°N, 2.72°W) Hive Beach just down the coast is much quieter. It's accessed down the beach road from Burton Bradstock, another picture postcard Dorset village, where a National Trust car park nestles in the sandy gap between two sets of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Different Faces, Formats All the Same' In Osip Mandelstam: A Biography, Ralph Dutli describes a chance meeting in March 1934 on...
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In Osip Mandelstam: A Biography, Ralph Dutli describes a chance meeting in March 1934 on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow between Boris Pasternak and Mandelstam, who recited to his friend the now-famous poem known as the “Stalin Epigram.” Mandelstam never wrote down the poem but...
The American Scholar
White Easter The post White Easter appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
Christopher Butler
Order is Always More Important than Action in Design Before users can meaningfully act, they must understand — a principle our metrics-obsessed design...
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Before users can meaningfully act, they must understand — a principle our metrics-obsessed design culture has forgotten. Today’s metrics-obsessed design culture is too fixated on action. Clicks, conversions, and other easily quantified metrics have become our purpose. We’re...
xkcd.com
Modern
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.14 - Robobert New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
6 days ago
somethingaboutmaps
Map of the Month: An Experiment Friends, you might remember that, last year, I wrote to you about how I was finally able to see a...
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Friends, you might remember that, last year, I wrote to you about how I was finally able to see a dream I’d had for many years come true: bringing together a bunch of map creators onto a single website. I had hoped that this would only be the beginning of our cooperation with...
GeoCurrents
A Major Win for the Left in Canada’s 2025 Election – But Not in Alberta or Saskatchewan The Conservative Party was widely expected to win Canada’s April 28 federal election. As recently as...
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The Conservative Party was widely expected to win Canada’s April 28 federal election. As recently as January 2025, the party was polling well ahead of the governing Liberals (see the graph posted below). But after U.S. President Donald Trump began calling Canada the “fifty-first...
Tony Finch's blog
the penultimate conditional syntax About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”....
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About half a year ago I encountered a paper bombastically titled “the ultimate conditional syntax”. It has the attractive goal of unifying pattern match with boolean if tests, and its solution is in some ways very nice. But it seems over-complicated to me, especially for...
99% Invisible
Fishing In The Night The Divided Dial is a podcast series about the history of radio from WNYC’s On the Media and...
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The Divided Dial is a podcast series about the history of radio from WNYC’s On the Media and longtime 99PI contributor, Katie Thornton. In season 1, Katie explored the rise of right wing talk radio in the United States. The newest season of The Divided Dial is all about...
The Honest Broker
The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 Here's the second installment of my three-part survey
a week ago
Contemporist...
How A Wood Screen Turned This Home Extension Into A Design Showpiece Austin Maynard Architects has unveiled a thoughtful renovation and extension of an Australian home,...
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Austin Maynard Architects has unveiled a thoughtful renovation and extension of an Australian home, transforming it into a warm, modern space that blends lightness, function, and character.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cup Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: More of the relatable humor you've come to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: More of the relatable humor you've come to appreciate from SMBC. Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
Introducing The Quanta Podcast Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of...
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Exploring the distant universe, the insides of cells, the abstractions of math, the complexity of information itself and much more, The Quanta Podcast will be a tour of the frontier between the known and the unknown. The post Introducing The Quanta Podcast first...
Both Are True
my first acting role in LA was playing a hamster Also on set - Kevin Spacey, Sir Ben Kingsley, Mandy Patinkin, and Gary Oldman
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The Works in...
How ships escaped the great stagnation Agglomeration unmoored
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Arduino Blog
Optimize maintenance with the Arduino Rileva ME Opta Bundle When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a...
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When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a “nice to have” – is quickly becoming a must in maintenance strategies across industrial settings. But most dedicated systems can be complex to set up or difficult to scale. To make...
Steve Blank
How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a...
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This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from...
NeuroLogica Blog
The AI Conundrum What the true impact of artificial intelligence (AI) is and soon will be remains a point of...
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What the true impact of artificial intelligence (AI) is and soon will be remains a point of contention. Even among scientifically literate skeptics people tend to fall into decidedly different narratives. Also, when being interviewed I can almost guarantee now that I will be...
Cheese and Biscuits
Whole Beast, Blackhorse Road and The Friendly, San Diego Earlier this month I was lucky enough to eat probably the best burger I've ever had in my life. It...
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Earlier this month I was lucky enough to eat probably the best burger I've ever had in my life. It was a smash burger, cooked quickly on a flat-top to a good crust, placed inside a toasted sweet bun and dressed with little more than deli cheese. And before I get accused of being...
Nat Eliason's...
Only 1 Week Left for the Husk Preorder Bundle And preorders end next week!
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Rest of World -...
Why Apple can’t just quit China Patrick McGee, author of the new book Apple in China, on the too-close-to-break relationship between...
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Patrick McGee, author of the new book Apple in China, on the too-close-to-break relationship between the world’s second-most valuable company and its biggest geopolitical rival.
Yale e360
Foreign Trawlers Plunder Senegalese Waters, Driving Small Fishers to Migrate to Spain A foreign fleet of industrial trawlers is exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving artisanal...
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A foreign fleet of industrial trawlers is exhausting fish stocks in Senegal, driving artisanal fishers to undertake a difficult, and sometimes deadly, migration to Spain. Read more on E360 →
Seth's Blog
Energy and systems complexity Wild animals forage. They spend calories and take risks to acquire food. If the required work and...
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Wild animals forage. They spend calories and take risks to acquire food. If the required work and risk expended are more than the food they acquire, they go extinct. The goal is to get as many calories as possible for as little effort as possible. If there’s a surplus, their...
Open Culture
David Bowie/Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold The World” Played on the Gayageum, a Korean Instrument from... East meets West, and the Ancient, the Modern. That’s what happens every time Luna Lee plays one of...
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East meets West, and the Ancient, the Modern. That’s what happens every time Luna Lee plays one of your favorites on the Gayageum, a Korean instrument that dates back to the 6th century. We’ve featured her work in years past (see the Relateds below). Above, watch one of her...
Maps Mania
Mapping Your Future Climate Risks
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David Heinemeier...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
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The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
Retail Design Blog
Portlantis by Kossmanndejong A striking new landmark has emerged on Rotterdam’s Tweede Maasvlakte: Portlantis. This...
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A striking new landmark has emerged on Rotterdam’s Tweede Maasvlakte: Portlantis. This state-of-the-art visitor centre brings the Port of Rotterdam...
History Today Feed
‘Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain’ by Sam Wetherell review ‘Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain’ by Sam Wetherell review JamesHoare Tue, 05/13/2025 - 07:58
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TheCollector
Who Were the Notorious Barbary Pirates? (History & Wars) Upon the mention of pirates, most people envision the swashbuckling brigands who terrorized the seas...
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Upon the mention of pirates, most people envision the swashbuckling brigands who terrorized the seas of the Caribbean. However, the calmer waters of the Mediterranean would also suffer the scourge of piracy. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, pirates from the Barbary States of...
Posts on Nikita...
Tempest Rising is a great game I really like RTS games. I pretty much grew up on them, starting with Command&Conquer 3: Kane’s...
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I really like RTS games. I pretty much grew up on them, starting with Command&Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath, moving on to StarCraft 2 trilogy and witnessing the downfall of Command&Conquer 4. I never had the disks for any other RTS games during my teenage years. Yes, the disks, the...
Computer Ads from...
Dr. Dobb's Journal Interviews Jef Raskin (1986) They discuss interface design and Raskin's hatred of the mouse.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Paying for friends, Gaming Insurance Via Marriage, and hacking CPAP machines | Out-Of-Pocket What are some more fringe healthcare behaviors?
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Citation Needed
Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and...
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Society's Backend:...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
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Escaping Flatland
What problem should you be working on now? How to filter problems worth solving from problems worth quitting?
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output <![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
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<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
Commoncog
The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do...
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Internal Tech Emails
Facebook's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly" there’s also a chance that Elon unlocks product iteration velocity and that Twitter could grow a lot...
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Irrational...
systems-mcp: generate systems models via LLM Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems...
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Back in 2018, I wrote lethain/systems as a domain-specific language for writing runnable systems models, and introduced it with this blog post modeling a hiring funnel. While it’s far from a perfect system, I’ve gotten a lot of value out of it over the last seven years, because...
Irrational...
How to provide feedback on documents. At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture by Andrew...
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At Carta, we recently ran a reading group for Facilitating Software Architecture by Andrew Harmel-Law. We already loosely followed the ideas of an architectural advice process (from this 2021 article by the same Andrew Harmel-Law), but in practice we found that internal tech spec...
computers are bad
2025-05-11 air traffic control Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do...
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Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of...
Marcus on AI
The Pope gets it In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.
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lcamtuf’s thing
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Current State of the Housing Market At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Part 1:...
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-May 2025 ICE Mortgage Monitor: Home Prices Continue to Cool 1st Look at Local Housing Markets in April Asking Rents Mostly...
Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast Merkle Trees in the real world
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The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Data, Invisible Software, The Post, AI, Cheating, Control, Star Wars
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Marcus on AI
The secret to AGI, in 4 pages A couple days ago I learned on X that getting to AGI was much easier than I had long thought.
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Rubenerd
#Japan2025 Sydney, JAL, and the Sneaky Shortcut This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about...
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This is the last installment in our Japan2025 blog post series, at least as told as a post about recent events. Last we spoke, we’d boarded from Haneda for our flight back to Sydney. It was late in the afternoon, which did give us half a day in Japan to explore a few more places...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of May 11, 2025 The key reports this week are April CPI, Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, May 12th...
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The key reports this week are April CPI, Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, May 12th ----- 2:00 PM: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices for April. ----- Tuesday, May 13th ----- 6:00 AM ET: NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for...
Thu Le
Ten pointless facts about me Maybe the first of who knows how many.
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Wrong Side of...
Reflections on the Turquoise Revolution in England Wrong Side of History Newsletter #62
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
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In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The importance of character in software engineering Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become...
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Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become a better software engineer often center around learning more facts: programming language syntax, design patterns, details of how particular technologies work, and so on. It’s also...
Calculated Risk
May 2nd COVID Update: COVID Deaths Continue to Decline Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Matt Mullenweg
Code Matters It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are...
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It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.
wingolog
a whippet waypoint Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language...
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Hey peoples! Tonight, some meta-words. As you know I am fascinated by compilers and language implementations, and I just want to know all the things and implement all the fun stuff: intermediate representations, flow-sensitive source-to-source optimization passes,...
Birchtree
What got you here… John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in...
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John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in my head whenever I think about Apple. It’s the most succinct explanation of what pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s to its astronomical success today. Don’
Calculated Risk
Q2 GDP Tracking: Around 2% Plenty of data next week!  Note that the Blue Chip consensus is wide - and currently around 1%. The...
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Plenty of data next week!  Note that the Blue Chip consensus is wide - and currently around 1%. The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2025 is 2.3 percent on May 8, up from 2.2 percent on May 6. After this...
The Codist
Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...