from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
20th Dec 2025
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science
20th Dec 2025
The links digest is back, baby!
I got so busy writing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto this year that after May I stopped doing the links digest and my monthly reading updates. I’m bringing them back now (although we’ll see what frequency I can keep up). This one covers the last two...
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript no threejs. How hard can it be?
how to make a game engine
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure...
20th Dec 2025
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Dec 2025
Let's write a game engine from scratch in javascript without any AI help. That is right, 100% pure manmade code. How hard can it be?
The Gambia, Part 1 of 2
In November I visited The Gambia along with ten travellers from Quest Nature Tours. Why The Gambia,...
19th Dec 2025
from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science
19th Dec 2025
In November I visited The Gambia along with ten travellers from Quest Nature Tours. Why The Gambia, you may ask? This tiny country is not well-known to the international community, but it is an attractive ecotourism destination. The Gambia is a stable, English-speaking democracy...
from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming
19th Dec 2025
Cloud as a coordination layer. Edge as the execution environment.
from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science
19th Dec 2025
Dec. 21 is the winter solstice. We explain what this means and how the seasons come about.
The post Winter Solstice Arrives on Sunday Dec 21 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
11 Best Things of 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
19th Dec 2025
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
19th Dec 2025
My favourite book, film, podcast, live event, song, meme, purchase and more for the year.
from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI
18th Dec 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Dec 2025
A deep dive into Philox and counter-based RNGs
Computer Use Models
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line.
I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
18th Dec 2025
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the bells and whistles, but they are built so well. But what if a Das Keyboard had all the current extras?
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th Dec 2025
I had a dream the other evening, in which I was at a large event full of
hackers—funny, that this is the extent of my dreams at the moment; as a
parent of three young kids, I don’t get out much—and, there, I was to
receive an award and give a speech. (I know, I am a ridiculous...
from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
17th Dec 2025
Some raw thoughts on the part of success nobody ever seems to talk about: what to do once you have it.
The post The Depressing Irony of Success appeared first on Scott DeLong.
from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science
17th Dec 2025
GDP is a reviled metric, but it's highly correlated with everything we care about. I explain one mathematical reason why.
Words Matter
I hate what drugs have done to parts of American society as much as anyone. The purveyors prey on...
17th Dec 2025
from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel
17th Dec 2025
I hate what drugs have done to parts of American society as much as anyone. The purveyors prey on people in a vulnerable state, a state they’ve arrived at for any of a number of reasons. The addictive qualities can be nearly impossible to resist.
While I’m not super-informed...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
17th Dec 2025
Ridgeline subscribers —
I’ll die on my dumb hill, the one where I say: the best time to visit and walk (most) of Japan is the end of November and the start of December. I think a lot of folks have a kind of North Eastern American mentality, where by the time December hits New...
from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design
16th Dec 2025
There are many types of GREAT designers I've had the pleasure of working with over the past two decades and what I learned is that they are all not measured equally. Below are some of my favorites for the various circumstances.
(FYI: very rarely does a designer inherit
from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups
16th Dec 2025
TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and services. This month Congress, with bipartisan support, rapidly made them into law in...
from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history
16th Dec 2025
There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Dec 2025
Like so many other hat knitters, I've knitted the classic WWII watch cap, which is also known as Beanie no. 212, more than a handful of times. (You can find it on Ravelry here and here, respectively.) It's a charming, quick knit that's easy to resize, but I've never really liked...
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
15th Dec 2025
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction with built-in GitHub integration.
from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Dec 2025
It is told that the modern price tag was developed in 1861 by one John Wanamaker, a merchant from Philiadephia, USA. Before this point, every transaction with every merchant one encountered was a negotiation. Someone who was wealthy would end up paying more because the merchant...
from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life
15th Dec 2025
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 3
From JSON to TOON
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same...
15th Dec 2025
from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Dec 2025
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same capability as JSON but uses less space.
It was invented to lower costs of sending data (tokens) to LLM AIs but it has 2 advantages over JSON:
smaller than JSON
more readable than JSON
It...
Statistics made simple
I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe...
15th Dec 2025
from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Dec 2025
I have a weird relationship with statistics: on one hand, I try not to look at it too often. Maybe once or twice a year. It’s because analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand?
I mean, sure, you might try to...
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
14th Dec 2025
Trump dominated the headlines again. This time partly due to some very biased editing by the BBC of a Panorama show about Trump before the US election. There was also the omnipresent UK Budget. Which has had more than enough coverage. I did a ‘damage assessment‘ at the time and...
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
14th Dec 2025
all photos courtesy Onomichi Museum of Art Sadly, Japan has bid farewell to a beloved cat. Ken-chan, the local feline whose epic battle with a security guard at the Onomichi Museum of Art in Hiroshima became a fixture, passed away in September. Ken-chan’s story begins in 2017...
from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative
14th Dec 2025
Post-scarcity, natural disasters, and the state
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
14th Dec 2025
Well, shit. I wrote my first blog post in this space on December 27th, 2015 — almost exactly a decade ago. “Hello, world.” I had just left Facebook, hadn’t yet formally incorporated Honeycomb, and it just felt like it was time, long past time for me to put something up and start...
from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training
In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
2025 Year in Review
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
14th Dec 2025
from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI
14th Dec 2025
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
12th Dec 2025
Love's Response to Its Own Absence
What’s this about?
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective...
12th Dec 2025
from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups
12th Dec 2025
This book is about reframing — changing how you think about something — and choosing a perspective that’s useful to you right now, whether or not it’s universally true.
This narrow definition is important because whatever you consider true is closed.
No questioning.
But when...
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Dec 2025
Opsmas 2025 Day 1: new haproxy config system & mpreg
TOC:
haproxy-translate
mpreg
merry opsmas 2025.
this year i’ve created (somehow) more code than ever before including both new projects and cleaning up existing/abandoned projects.
I’d like to announce/release about 20 new...
Going on maternity leave
tl;dr summary #
I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where...
12th Dec 2025
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th Dec 2025
tl;dr summary #
I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned. I'm not sure where the last eight and a half months have gone but here we are! It's a very weird feeling to be prepping and handing off projects. All of my co-workers have been so lovely and...
from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design
11th Dec 2025
hola 〜 ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა ❄️
hope you’re having a nice december, wherever (and whenever) you’re reading this! hopefully not too cold nor warm 〜
christmas tree · november 2025 · iphone
this year i listened to a lot of music and bought a handful of CDs some of...
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Dec 2025
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of our time: Can classical AI understand all natural phenomena, or are some fundamentally beyond its reach? Many proponents of artificial intelligence argue that any … Continue...
from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative
11th Dec 2025
Post-Reality & A Hierarchy of Humanness
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
11th Dec 2025
Today in 2015 my blog-collection This Space of Writing was published as a book. An ideal Christmas gift. Not a happy memory to be honest; an editor would have made it a better book. However, I can't fault the cover design, and I was lucky to have Flowerville's permission to use...
from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Dec 2025
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a while. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before (see here and here), breaks from which I always returned after a few weeks, in part because...
from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology
10th Dec 2025
Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN exploitation to occur in January (as it did in 2024 and 2025).
Weeeeeeeee. Before then, we want to clear the decks and see how much research we can publish.
This
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
10th Dec 2025
i guess we're talking once again
from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life
9th Dec 2025
Multi-Food Mode, 552 New Foods and Food Share
from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature
9th Dec 2025
One year of my work, printed for collectors.
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Dec 2025
Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers.
But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor, performing
floating-point operations up
to 100 times faster.
This was a huge benefit for IBM PC
applications such as AutoCAD,...
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
9th Dec 2025
It's often very difficult to stand out from the crowd in Restaurant London, especially when - as in Firestarter's case at least - you appear to be serving the same kind of live-fire, internationally-ambiguous, ingredient-led menu that began to pop up all over the place after Acme...
from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Dec 2025
Substack is clearly growing.
from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature
9th Dec 2025
I was out and about by scooter a recent warm january saturday evening.
Earlier in the week a few companies had been operating drilling equipment in the area. I’m not sure what they were doing, but they were scattered all about the neighborhood.
The work was done, but traffic...
Stop Breaking TLS
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an...
9th Dec 2025
from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming
9th Dec 2025
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes...
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
9th Dec 2025
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI
9th Dec 2025
Elon Musk is not
happy
with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage
complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be
abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their
opinions on European politics lately. I’m...
from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Dec 2025
Are Two Heads Better Than One?
You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob.
Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails.
Your best...
from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative
8th Dec 2025
Log your nog with Drinking Buddy.
I made an app! A real, native iPhone app coded in Swift and SwiftUI.
It’s a thing of beauty. I love it and use it every day. But I can’t share it with you, because Apple rejected it from the App Store due to “Physical Harm.”
Don’t worry, I...
from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Dec 2025
You know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two
Which is very similar to my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and coffee cups.
hand carved wooden spoon
It’s hard to find a finish...
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
8th Dec 2025
let this season of slowness return you home to yourself
from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
8th Dec 2025
Submitted by Justin, who says: Hi, I’m a big fan of this blog! I’ve been working on a fantasy diagram for the Honolulu rapid transit system, Skyline, and wanted to submit it for you to review. As of this year, the system has one line that runs from East Kapolei (Kualakaʻi...
2025 Riders Choice Awards
We asked riders what they think of public transit. Here's which systems came out on top.
The post...
8th Dec 2025
from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel
8th Dec 2025
We asked riders what they think of public transit. Here's which systems came out on top.
The post 2025 Riders Choice Awards appeared first on Transit.
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
8th Dec 2025
What it looks like when an Asian tycoon gets good at the game of business.
from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life
8th Dec 2025
A few hard-earned lessons about people, politics, consistency, and the parts of work we pretend aren’t part of the job. But really are.
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
8th Dec 2025
In Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus the great
scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for twenty-four years of power
and knowledge. After learning and doing
everything he wants he spends Acts III and IV playing an increasingly stupid
series of pranks on anyone and...
from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Dec 2025
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became
a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams
often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that
start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture
7th Dec 2025
On a peaceful stretch of rural Australia, a simple idea has reshaped the way one property connects with its sweeping countryside. With a modest timber addition, Solomon Troup Architects have taken an existing home and helped it finally turn to face the views that were always...
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
In the past two months or so, I spent some time making tiny GLSL demos. I wrote
an article about the first one, Red Alp. There, I went into details about the
whole process, so I recommend to check it out first if you're not familiar with
the field.
We will look at 4 demos:...
Fame & Misfortune
Or, the ins and outs of building and losing a large social media follower account. First, the...
7th Dec 2025
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
7th Dec 2025
Or, the ins and outs of building and losing a large social media follower account. First, the data:
Follower counts are accurate as of 7 December, 2025.
Twitter – 285.3K followers.
(350K before Elon.)
N.B. I no longer post there.
LinkedIn – 70.5K followers.
Instagram – 21.2K...
from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history
7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption,
for the past 18 months or so.
This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.
Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
Sunday Scrawl #2: Mimicry
Sunday Scrawl #2: Mimicry
The knock comes at 3:31 AM, the metal bunker door reverberating with
two...
7th Dec 2025
from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature
7th Dec 2025
Sunday Scrawl #2: Mimicry
The knock comes at 3:31 AM, the metal bunker door reverberating with
two sharp raps, and I shake myself from slumber and check the
monitor.
Tammi’s face. But then, it’s always Tammi’s face. I unmute the
connection.
“The summer after graduation,” I say....
The Long Run
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever...
7th Dec 2025
from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever finish a marathon.
If you had asked my mother, though, she would have told you it was a thousand times more likely I’d build a billion-dollar tech company than finish a marathon....
How To Podcast
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them to the end - the following advice is what I strongly...
How To Podcast
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years....
7th Dec 2025
from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental model of them in a separate post - basically the McClusky Curve...
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
Delegation doesn't scale your business. What does: Creating a team that is better than the current team. Including you.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Dec 2025
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we’re gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in...
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Dec 2025
wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and try to blow up all the mines, which...
from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
6th Dec 2025
Some general science news:
The New York Times ran an interactive article this week that shows what we all know. This past year was a very bizarre funding environment. The article focuses on NIH and NSF, but the major points are generalizable. The combination of circumstances...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
6th Dec 2025
Some of you saw this on socials but sharing the story for the newsletter audience
Reading List 12/06/2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life
6th Dec 2025
What Makes a Rivalry Productive?
Challengers
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
Challengers
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Dec 2025
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Dec 2025
Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che” Guevara. His image, reproduced on posters, album covers, and banners around the world, became an emblem of rebellion long after the man himself was gone. Yet behind the familiar icon...
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Dec 2025
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked at how the equipment which defined the hoplite – hoplite (ὁπλίτης), after all,...
from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance
5th Dec 2025
Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
5th Dec 2025
Last week I wrote an exploration of Ben Thompson’s recent question, “Why is the ChatGPT Mac app so good?” A lot of people on the internet, it turns out, do not agree with this premise!
Many folks have been having problems with ⌘C not copying text. Hacker News sees the app as “not...
Pixar’s True Story
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve...
5th Dec 2025
from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Dec 2025
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project.
The post Pixar’s True Story appeared first on CHM.
from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Dec 2025
Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.
The war over wine
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon...
5th Dec 2025
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
5th Dec 2025
Tariffs have crushed California vineyards dependent on exports to Canada. But they’ve been a boon for once-overlooked Ontario wineries.
from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
5th Dec 2025
I've been struggling to think about what to write this week, if only because I've written so much recently and because, if I'm honest, things aren't really making a lot of sense.
NVIDIA claims to have shipped six million Blackwell GPUs in
from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Dec 2025
[This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various exciting developments centering on Erdős problems, especially involving the formalization of old and new mathematics using artificial intelligence. Background As is … Continue reading →
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
5th Dec 2025
DME coordination, assessing AI vendors using AI, physician recruiting tools, and more
from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative
5th Dec 2025
Childhood nutrition, Dell Invests America, Amazon Leo, NASA finds life's building blocks, Levin on Lex Round 2 + The Thinking Game + Dose Fuel + Hearing Aids
Bye Bye Alan Dye
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and...
5th Dec 2025
from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Dec 2025
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job.
I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
Chatting about Shadow DOM
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer,...
5th Dec 2025
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Dec 2025
I had a chance to go on Igalia Chats and walk through the history of Shadow DOM with Eric Meyer, Brian Kardell, and Jeremy Keith. It was a fun, and pretty light discussion, but I learned a ton.
The post Chatting about Shadow DOM appeared first on The History of the Web.
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Dec 2025
During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that won’t change anytime soon.
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Dec 2025
I'm back from my vacation to Japan, slowly adjusting to California time. It was a fun and inspiring trip – I'm thinking about it now while listening to the Eric Dolphy album Out There on vinyl, which I bought after hearing it at the Eigakin jazz kissa
from Mark Manson [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Dec 2025
This year has been one of the most important, yet challenging years of my life. And as we’ll see, that might not be a coincidence.
As you probably know, I’ve been calling out some of the shady dealings and worst practices of the self-help industry for my entire career. Whether...
from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups
5th Dec 2025
As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her to understand, I concluded that this post was long overdue. While I had ninety-nine other chances to complain about my difficult relationship with parents, I kept postponing it,...
Code reviews
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
Code reviews
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Dec 2025
How I found a large network of fake support groups spreading crypto stealers and drainers.
from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Dec 2025
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert...
from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
4th Dec 2025
Ah the winter season is a time when we can slow down and appreciate the things that really matter. A chance to take stock of lasting joy. Clearly I’m talking about the opportunity to print out this paper craft ornament template, cut out the component globe gore panels, and...
from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Dec 2025
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag.
It replaces the CR2032 coin cell for two uses AAA batteries for 5.5x more capacity. And does so in a small, lightweight form factor.
Discrete,...
from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history
4th Dec 2025
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
Reconsidering "Self-Made"
I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone...
4th Dec 2025
from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups
4th Dec 2025
I have a strong memory arguing with a friend at 2am in SF, close to 10 years ago now, that someone could be “self-made.”
from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
The Lost Chapter
I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a...
4th Dec 2025
from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Dec 2025
I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a copy, you can order from Bookshop.org and Amazon (affiliate links). To celebrate, I’m publishing The Lost Chapter — that is, the chapter I cut from the published book. It’s about...
Leaving Intel
InnovatiON 2022
AI Flame Graphs
GPU Flame Scope
Harshad Sane
SREcon APAC
Cloud strategy
Last...
4th Dec 2025
from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
4th Dec 2025
InnovatiON 2022
AI Flame Graphs
GPU Flame Scope
Harshad Sane
SREcon APAC
Cloud strategy
Last day
I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much...
from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life
4th Dec 2025
The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece wondering if you are Actually Trying second.
Somehow, the most insightful thing I have read/seen about contemporary social media usage is this Google Slides presentation. It's
Healthy Holidays
It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a...
4th Dec 2025
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Dec 2025
It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a couple of hours.
I suppose there is a psychological essay to be written about it, on the order of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. In both, the first stage is denial. “No,...
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
4th Dec 2025
Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?
In January 2025, I became aware that there was a real problem with Pixelfed, the "Instagram inspired Fediverse client". The problem is threatening the whole Fediverse. As Pixelfed received a lot of media...
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
4th Dec 2025
When I started this blog, I promised myself that I would always steer into weirdness. (As they say, “Get busy being weird, or get busy dying.”) While time has shown there are limits to what y’all will tolerate [1 2 3 4], I still sometimes feel an uncontrollable need to publish...
from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Dec 2025
Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Dec 2025
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in.
But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly...
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Dec 2025
Originally posted on November 29, 2025 by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran When asked on The Cheeky Pint podcast how we educate our children, my husband Casey Handmer replied “benign neglect.” It’s a cheeky answer that captures something real: we’re neither tiger nor helicopter...
from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Dec 2025
Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start?
We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt...
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Dec 2025
Stock markets have always rewarded winners with large capitalizations, and with each new threshold, the questions begin anew of whether animal spirits or fundamentals are driving the numbers. A few weeks ago, Nvidia seemed unstoppable as its market capitalization crested $5...
from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture
3rd Dec 2025
I have been thinking *a lot* about heritage artefacts at mainline railway stations over the last few years. They are so important in telling the story of the railway station at which they are located (and quite often the history of the wider railway industry), yet frequently go...
from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Dec 2025
How to successfully on board Claude as a new engineer on your team
from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Dec 2025
Neural Implants with Actual Neurons, Drone Delivery, Freedom of Speech and AI, Fact-Checking Tech, When AI Will Manage Entire Companies, Ecoterrorists Could Stop Global Warming, and more
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
3rd Dec 2025
Which songs do we listen to on repeat? And how does binge-listening behavior change with age?
from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Dec 2025
The history of the most important (or least essential?) meal of the day
Nature’s laboratory
Millions of years of evolution have given us genomes that are like giant datasets for drug...
3rd Dec 2025
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Dec 2025
Millions of years of evolution have given us genomes that are like giant datasets for drug development. Finally, we are learning how to use them.
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Dec 2025
A more sustainable way to do business
from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Dec 2025
Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Dec 2025
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Dec 2025
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering discipline accessible to everyone. Such software rarely lives up to the developer’s claims, because the claims are far too ambitious. But what if the scope is more reasonable? 3Duino...
from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Dec 2025
Along the vast divide between AI optimists and pessimists, the main factor in determining which side you fall on may be where you see yourself in the future: above the effects of AI, or beneath them.
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Dec 2025
I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d save if I listened to it on 1.5× speed.
This math is easy enough; divide 8 hours and 51 minutes by 1.5 to get the new duration: 5 hours and 54 minutes. But I also wanted to:
See...
from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Dec 2025
A story of how static analysis helped improve performance in html_of_jsx
Latent Co. is Forming
An homage to the Mac
Ryan Carver, Juan Pablo Zambrano, and I have formed Latent Co., a software...
2nd Dec 2025
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Dec 2025
An homage to the Mac
Ryan Carver, Juan Pablo Zambrano, and I have formed Latent Co., a software company. Driven by the creative tooling we’ve cut our teeth on and drawing on our product and imaging experience, we’re making a product for Mac.
Ryan and I go back a while: Typekit,...
Friction by Design
What gets lost when everything is effortless?
For years, good digital design has been framed as the...
2nd Dec 2025
from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Dec 2025
What gets lost when everything is effortless?
For years, good digital design has been framed as the removal of friction. Faster flows. Fewer steps. Instant feedback. Smooth, seamless interactions that disappear into the background. If something slows a user down, it’s treated as...
The Llama Book
There are certain books within technical communities where even an indirect reference (a pointer,...
2nd Dec 2025
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Dec 2025
There are certain books within technical communities where even an indirect reference (a pointer, you could say) will conjure wonderful memories of first learning to program in anyone who hears it (these are distinct from Clojure memories).
The Pickaxe Book. K&R. Chunky...
from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Dec 2025
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems, run
RemoteBatchSubmissionEnvironment["WolframBatch"].
(The functionality is automatically available in the Wolfram Cloud.)
Scaling Up Your Computations
Let’s say you’ve done a computation in...
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.
from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Dec 2025
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)",
I wanted to try an experiment: is it possible to train a base model of my
own, on my own hardware?
The book shows you how to train your LLM, does a basic training run
on...
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
2nd Dec 2025
As earlier GeoCurrents posts in the current series on educational geography have noted, sun angles, which are determined by latitude, play a huge role in shaping the geography of climate. Simply put, the lower the latitude of any given location, the more solar radiation it will...
from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative
2nd Dec 2025
Platforming terrorists and promoting authoritarianism should have no place in a liberal Democratic party
from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Dec 2025
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Dec 2025
Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Dec 2025
Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search for information about childhood boredom and you’ll find the opposite message:...
Watch men
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the...
2nd Dec 2025
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Dec 2025
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the Swiss fought back.
Watch men
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the...
2nd Dec 2025
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Dec 2025
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the Swiss fought back.
from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative
2nd Dec 2025
"People just want you to talk about yourself"
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Dec 2025
we have both somewhat become more and more ourselves as we got older, and hence also more eccentric and particular - it is not easy to adjust to each other because the other keeps changing. do we have the confidence to keep up with each other's changes, especially without knowing...
Pardon the Corruption
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is...
2nd Dec 2025
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons
from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Dec 2025
Every summer since 1983, scientists at Crater Lake National Park have gathered data about the lake’s famous clarity. This past summer, Quanta contributing writer Rachel Nuwer journeyed with them as they conducted their annual tests. On this week’s episode, Nuwer and host Samir...
Making RSS More Fun
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
2nd Dec 2025
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Dec 2025
The lowlands of Iceland are changing. Low-intensity farming is becoming economically challenging and marginal grazing land is increasingly being used for forestry, to provide summer cottages for city-dwelling Icelanders, for electricity generation and to expand tourist...
from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design
2nd Dec 2025
When planning a commercial space, it is not easy to sacrifice usable space. This is especially true in areas with...
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Dec 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Thousand Rooms, added an English version with one type of dyslexia-friendly typeface. A Danish version is also on the way.
Orca, improved the interface, released an Orca...
SoTW Eve
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source...
2nd Dec 2025
from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We’re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we’ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and...
from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Dec 2025
I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion piece such as this note. Such writings make up much of our society and form a “marketplace of ideas.” Texts are now very cheap to produce using large language models (LLMs). […]
from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Dec 2025
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours.
Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it.
Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up.
As...
from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
2nd Dec 2025
Statewide zoning reform isn't producing the wins everyone expected. An architect reveals why: the permissions may have changed, but the reflexes never adapted.
from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002.
In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Dec 2025
In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that vibe coding — using LLM tools to assist with writing code — can help enable many people to create apps or software that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. This has led to an...
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Dec 2025
Contentsquare is a beast, and we mean that in a good way – it's one of the most comprehensive digital experience platforms out there. They've doubled…
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have.
Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I wasn’t pausing to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending the right amount of...
from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Dec 2025
Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer.
I am not really one for inspirational quotes. I don't particularly like them. I don't particularly find them inspiring, but I really do like this one from Steve Jobs:
“Life
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
1st Dec 2025
If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system,...
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Dec 2025
“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Dec 2025
Music discovery without boundaries—all genres, all styles, all regions
From under the rubble
A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
1st Dec 2025
from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Dec 2025
A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Dec 2025
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