from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Nov 2025
It's not that hard to stop a Trane
Six years ago, I replaced the old HVAC system that came with our house, a central forced air system installed in 19951.
The new system is a Trane XR AC paired with an S9V2 96% efficiency forced-air gas furnace. And it ran great!...
from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
Elephant, Hackney
I spent most of this month in Spain (see previous post) and although I'm happy enough to be back in...
4th Nov 2025
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
4th Nov 2025
I spent most of this month in Spain (see previous post) and although I'm happy enough to be back in cold, wet London town (honest), as the evenings really closed in I was in dire need of a reminder of sunnier times and brighter places. And after scrolling through my holiday photo...
from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Nov 2025
New Things Have Come To Light
from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design
4th Nov 2025
(this is a timely continuation of Part I of Dear Young Designer)
→ You don't need to become a grifter to be successful. I know it seems that way today (given the context of 2025), but trust me there is another way that's more meaningful and
from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
4th Nov 2025
Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920×1080? Here’s how to trick a browser’s device emulation tools to capture enormous screenshots. Now you can export your screen...
Think DSP second edition
I have started work on a second edition of Think DSP! You can see the current draft here. I started...
4th Nov 2025
from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Nov 2025
I have started work on a second edition of Think DSP! You can see the current draft here. I started this project in part because of this announcement: Once in a while, a few of the Scicloj friends will meet to learn about signal processing, following the Think DSP book by Allen...
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Nov 2025
In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history
4th Nov 2025
The Northwest Angle is a tiny area where the US/Canada border goes … uh … a little bit squirrely. When the Revolutionary War came to an end in 1783, the newly-formed United Sates of America and the United Kingdom had to set a border between the now-independent colonies and the...
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Nov 2025
Our first print edition ships in two weeks.
Who's Threatening Who?
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a...
4th Nov 2025
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Nov 2025
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature
4th Nov 2025
I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they immediately occur to me.
from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups
4th Nov 2025
For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Nov 2025
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups
4th Nov 2025
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
Data and acquired consent
Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's...
4th Nov 2025
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
4th Nov 2025
Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not. If you're a brand, a content creator, or just someone on the internet, and you come across someone sharing their email on a platform for the purpose of being...
from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Nov 2025
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Nov 2025
Lately I’ve got used to waking up and checking my email and socials, and sorting through the latest troll or person angry about something I didn’t say. In a word, not great… assuming you hyphenate not and great, which I didn’t do there for some reason.
This morning, I got this...
from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing
down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing
up demand for the latter.
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
We Are Golden
Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
3rd Nov 2025
from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups
3rd Nov 2025
Asians in America are having a moment in sports, entertainment and business
from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Nov 2025
This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)".
In the last post I covered
the part of the chapter that covers instruction fine-tuning; this time round,
we evaluate our model -- particularly interestingly, we...
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
3rd Nov 2025
1. Your job is making you anxious. ChatGPT isn't helping
If 21st-century capitalism has one central tenet, it's that innovation rules and disruption drives progress. And generative AI is one of the most disruptive innovations of our lifetime. Which is why, as Morra Aarons-Mele...
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
3rd Nov 2025
(This post is part of a long GeoCurrents series aimed at helping parents and teachers instruct students in basic geography. The material at the end of this post is most appropriate for students at the middle- and high-school levels.) Now that latitude and midday sun angles have...
The Message
The post The Message appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
3rd Nov 2025
from The Perry Bible Fellowship [alt+shift+b] in literature
3rd Nov 2025
The post The Message appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Nov 2025
Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years, how many of us would take this advice?
Only those who experienced the heady euphoria of the late 1990s dot-com bubble in tech stocks know what the shift from "can't lose"...
What Is a Manifold?
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces,...
3rd Nov 2025
from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Nov 2025
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
The post What Is a Manifold? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Nov 2025
Investments in operations should be at a minimal level that maintains the systems in an acceptable state forever. Poor operations are clearly bad news. But perfect operations are a waste of money.
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Nov 2025
A new report finds that the world is headed for around 2.8 degrees C of warming by the end of this century, far less than was forecast before the Paris Climate Agreement. Still, countries remain far off track from the international target of 2 degrees C.
Read more on E360 →
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Nov 2025
Business skill, as the ability to cut a messy business problem down to a single, most important thing.
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Nov 2025
One of the things I like about following paleontology news is that new evidence can just be discovered, and sometimes these new pieces to the puzzle can significantly change what we think about past life. One such controversy I have been following for a while is whether or not...
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
UX for long-running AI tasks | Consistent user interface design | What are the best AI models to use now | AI anxiety in the workplace | AI helps blind users, but a study found that accessibility challenges remain in current AI UI | NPS scored
from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Vedalia Salon by Nysa
On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat...
3rd Nov 2025
from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat from the...
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
3rd Nov 2025
Memories of a space whose unique qualities helped nurture a burgeoning planner from East Los Angeles.
from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Nov 2025
Introduction
The TDS220 Oscilloscope
Opening Up the TDS220
Common TDS220 issues
Replacing the power supply capacitors
LCD Panel Corruption
Extracting the LCD Panel
LCD Panel Capacitor Replacement
LCD Panel Backlight Replacement
Fixing the Square Wave...
from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Nov 2025
A dispatch from NYC by Apoorva Tadepalli.
from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative
3rd Nov 2025
Certain cult historical figures have served as prescient avatars for the techno-visionaries of the digital age. Where the altruistic utopian designs of Buckminster Fuller provided an ideal for the first wave of Silicon Valley pioneers (a group including computer scientist and...
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
There have been a few companies popping up in recent years making higher-end baseball caps. Both the plain, dull, luxury ones that became a trend in the wake of Succession, and ones that look exactly like a traditional cap, just higher quali... > Read more
from History Today Magazine Feed [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Nov 2025
‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review
JamesHoare
Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
Showdown, p11
The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
3rd Nov 2025
from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics
3rd Nov 2025
The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Nov 2025
the friendship theory of everything: longform edition
from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Nov 2025
July is always a busy month for me, as I try to get ahead with work so I can take time off in August. I seem to have still done a lot of reading, though! One note of warning: I don't include plot spoilers in these reviews, but
CDO stories #4
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
3rd Nov 2025
from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups
3rd Nov 2025
Why Data orgs thrive or struggle depending on whether they live in EnterpriseLand or ProductLand
Natale Adgnot
Country couture
The post Natale Adgnot appeared first on The American Scholar.
3rd Nov 2025
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
3rd Nov 2025
Country couture
The post Natale Adgnot appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Fundamentals Problem
Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
A...
3rd Nov 2025
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.
A few months ago, a client was reviewing a landing page design with my team. They had created it themselves using a page builder tool — one of those platforms that integrate content...
from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics
3rd Nov 2025
New comic!
Today's News:
You don't want this thing to die, do you?
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Nov 2025
Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Nov 2025
Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult.
I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files,
calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but no matter how hard I try and...
from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Nov 2025
Folders, in the digital sense, began life as an ingenious skeuomorphic metaphor. A digital stand-in for physical folders and filing cabinets pioneered by Xerox and first seen in their Alto machine. The metaphor helped early computer users map the new digital world onto something...
from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Nov 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Nov 2025
We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can use to trigger actions based on live user…
A Lesson in Light
How two identical park buildings reveal the power of small design choices.
3rd Nov 2025
from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
3rd Nov 2025
How two identical park buildings reveal the power of small design choices.
from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Nov 2025
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building
agents
somewhere. Everybody does it. Building a good agent, however, brings back
some of the historic challenges involving durable execution.
Entirely unsurprisingly, a lot of people are now building durable...
from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Nov 2025
Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates.
We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately,...
from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Nov 2025
The hero of the modern myth is the victim, the emblem of the modern self the pronoun. We seem to have forgotten that we are survivors of innumerable spasms of space and time, creatures who never would have given up the gills for lungs if we attached identity to gillness. Not so...
from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography
2nd Nov 2025
We made it to Coldfoot by airplane and now we started the long drive back to Fairbanks. It seemed daunting. Most of it would follow the Dalton Highway starting at Mile 175 (route), with the remainder on the Elliott Highway. The James W. Dalton Highway is a rugged working road,...
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Nov 2025
As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin of the Coca-Cola Company, I feel compelled to offer a public service announcement.
Old and busted:
inconsistent on their own brand name) is back and Pibb Xtra, the face of...
from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Nov 2025
Paying homage to the component we usually don't think about.
from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Nov 2025
Authentication on the web is a complicated problem. If you’re going to do it yourself, there’s a lot you have to take into consideration.
But odds are, you’re building an app whose core offering has nothing to do with auth. You don’t care about auth. It’s an implementation...
from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
Ask your questions below.
from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture adaptive.
from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
The Little Disk That Conquered the World
from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Nov 2025
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Nov 2025
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common. Drivers in cars don’t expect to encounter cyclists and don’t know how to share the road properly. To protect themselves, cyclists need to be as predictable as possible...
from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
2nd Nov 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
“Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young For decades married couple Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and Chang Wan-Ji, 83, ran the Wansho Laundry in Taichung, Taiwan. Over the years many people left clothes behind. Hundreds of items were left unclaimed for a...
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Nov 2025
Yesterday I checked-in on swarm (yes I still use that app) at Loft, and the app reminded me that I was last there in 2018 with my partner: I had zero recollection...
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Nov 2025
<![CDATA[RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the winners.
Written in Interlisp, the WebCard project I entered the competition with extends the NoteCards hypermedia system to visit web sites. It defines a new type of hypertext node, the...
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Nov 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
CCCC, added a factorization mode.
Bagel, wrote about a cursed programming language idea where instead of cons cells, s-exp represent unordered lists.
Rabbit Waves, released a...
from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Nov 2025
Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish authors: Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play Waiting for Godot and selections from James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses. I’d long been intimidated by the latter, but enjoyed the first...
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Nov 2025
Videos for many brilliant one minute songs
Recently
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I...
2nd Nov 2025
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Nov 2025
Hello! Only a day late this time. October was another busy month but
it didn’t yield much content. I ran a second half-marathon, this time
with much less training, but only finished a few minutes slower than I
did earlier this year. Next year I’m thinking about training at
a...
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Nov 2025
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en. Upcoming appearances: Where to...
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Nov 2025
And other updates on recent articles.
from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Nov 2025
Zapotén is a legendary birding area in southwestern Dominican Republic quite close to the Haiti border, and it is a must-visit site for any birder on Hispaniola. This rough track climbs high into the Sierra de Bahoruco, a beautiful mountain range cloaked in pine and broadleaf...
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Nov 2025
The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham’s presence in the holy texts of monotheism signifies shared ancestry and a degree of commonality. Many contemporary...
from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Nov 2025
Text rendering is cursed. Anyone who has worked on text will tell you the
same; whether it's about layout, bi-directional, shaping, Unicode, or the
rendering itself, it's never a completely solved problem. In my personal case,
I've been working on trying to render text in the...
from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Nov 2025
The root of its economic mismanagement
No Socials November
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write...
1st Nov 2025
from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Nov 2025
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write many words daily hoping to come out with a novel on the other side. I’m sure there are five other such efforts that I’m not aware of.
For me, I’m going to continue my push away from...
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Nov 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Nov 2025
When you warm up and stretch your muscles before exercise, you’re preventing pain. You’re lowering the chances you’ll get injured. It’s useful to remember the purpose of preparation is to help you get ahead of pain. Your present feels ordinary, maybe even slightly boring,...
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Nov 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Chips Need to Chill Out
Diamonds, lasers, and oil aren’t the first things you may think of when considering ways to keep...
1st Nov 2025
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Nov 2025
Diamonds, lasers, and oil aren’t the first things you may think of when considering ways to keep chips and computers cool. But as modern chip designs pack and stack more transistors into ever smaller spaces, heat has emerged as a critical problem.
To solve it, the semiconductor...
from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Nov 2025
Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Nov 2025
In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives in Manhattan would soon redefine the meaning of modern friendship. Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994, and instantly captured...
Reading List 11/01/2025
A new semiconductor lithography startup, how to make batteries more like bombs, AI and real estate...
1st Nov 2025
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Nov 2025
A new semiconductor lithography startup, how to make batteries more like bombs, AI and real estate listings, a monastery being built in Wyoming, and more.
Suburbia
I found myself in Westchester County, north of the city a few months ago. Smile for the camera,...
1st Nov 2025
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Nov 2025
I found myself in Westchester County, north of the city a few months ago. Smile for the camera, Bambi:
from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Nov 2025
Reflections on a Stupefying City
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
The other kind of magic
We wait and hope for the first kind, the magic that arrives just when we need it. This is the magic...
1st Nov 2025
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Nov 2025
We wait and hope for the first kind, the magic that arrives just when we need it. This is the magic of inspiration, or of good fortune. The magic of opportunties offered and connections made. There never seems to be enough of this sort of magic. The other kind, though, is...
RL without TD learning
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Nov 2025
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to...
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Nov 2025
The City of London Tavern is a forgotten nexus.
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Nov 2025
The Index of Multiple Deprivation is a government statistic calculated by the Office of National Statistics every five years or so, and 2025's data has just been released.
deprivation score based on factors including income, employment, health, education and crime. All 33755...
Soi Ram
You have probably heard me go on and on about how good the Portland Thai food scene is compared to...
1st Nov 2025
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Nov 2025
You have probably heard me go on and on about how good the Portland Thai food scene is compared to what we have here in Vancouver. Well, that doesn't mean we don't have good Thai food at all. In fact, some of my favourites include Song, Siam Le Bien, Zab Zaab and Silom. ...
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Nov 2025
“But before he could
install himself in his Oxford college, Britain declared war on the Central
Powers, and soon this quiet young poet and literary scholar found himself commissioned
in the Royal Sussex Regiment, where his shyness won him the nickname Bunny but
his bravery won...
Wayback Machine Joint
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and...
1st Nov 2025
from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Nov 2025
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Nov 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Nov 2025
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Nov 2025
Apparently the bottom is falling out of the art market, at least for those in the high-end segment1. That market of investors, speculators, and dealers who are working with mind-boggling prices.
This isn’t surprising. The buyers in this market aren’t interested in art, they’re...
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Nov 2025
Quand éclatera la bulle IA…
Comme le souligne Ed Zitron, toute la bulle actuelle est basée sur 7 ou 8 entreprises qui s’échangent des promesses de s’échanger des milliards d’euros lorsque tous les habitants de la planète dépenseront en moyenne 100€ par mois pour utiliser ChatGPT....
Breakneck
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
Breakneck
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Nov 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Published MCP and the future of AI, Introducing Workshop, Maintenance, Backup Plans,...
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Nov 2025
New newsletter about work in progress
How to Not Get Acquired
Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key...
31st Oct 2025
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
31st Oct 2025
Building something new from 0 → 1 is hard, so it requires your full attention. Given that, a key part of creating a new product is limiting distractions – anything that pulls your attention away from finding product-market fit. There are a lot of things a founder can be...
from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
31st Oct 2025
Imagine you’re about to do something brave. Maybe you’re writing a cold email to someone you admire, or applying for a job. If you wanted a second pair of eyes or gut check for your email, you needed to ask a smart friend. That way, you’d feel confident—at least another person...
2025-10-30
An experiment involving scrollbars
Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large...
31st Oct 2025
from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology
31st Oct 2025
An experiment involving scrollbars
Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large files.
Demo of an idea for a scrollbar with a shadow or "penumbra" which makes it easier to acquire to drag around, even as the conventional and smaller central object continues to be...
from Grow With Less [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
31st Oct 2025
I’m shutting down Lorelight.
Not because it didn’t work. Not because I ran out of money. But because I realized something that probably should have been obvious from the start.
Let me explain.
What Was Lorelight?
A few months ago, I launched Lorelight—a generative engine...
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
30th Oct 2025
Hey hey hey good evening! Tonight a quick note on
, a new WebAssembly
implementation.wastrel
Wastrel compiles Wasm modules to standalone binaries. It does so by
emitting C and then compiling that C.
Compiling Wasm to C isn’t new:
wrote
back in the day and these days most...
The Early Stages
From Lewis Hine, “Plumbing up a column” at the Empire State Building: First, as with nearly all of...
30th Oct 2025
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
30th Oct 2025
From Lewis Hine, “Plumbing up a column” at the Empire State Building: First, as with nearly all of Hine’s photos, what a work of art. Second, I’m not sure if that’s a beret as a particularly stylish way to not have a hard hat, or if it’s a flat cap worn backwards. Nothing that...
from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people.
Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people.
Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI
29th Oct 2025
A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves, the material behaves like natural muscle: contracting, gripping, and lifting with surprising strength.
The discovery, reported this week in Nature, introduces a new kind of...
from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science
29th Oct 2025
I have recently returned from an eight-day blitz of the Dominican Republic with my wife, Laura, and good friend, Daniel Riley. Now October isn't really an ideal time for a birding trip to the Dominican Republic for a few reasons. First, October is the off-season and few birds are...
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
29th Oct 2025
I’ve got lots of stuff to do but I ended up rewriting my Neovim config instead.
… anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
My partner Veronica is amazing as...
from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Oct 2025
My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
28th Oct 2025
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
28th Oct 2025
Maybe we should all look to the story of LEGO to see how this next chapter unfolds.
The post Making Money Online Is More Difficult Than Ever – Or Is It? appeared first on Scott DeLong.
SolidGoldMagikarp
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Oct 2025
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2.
Immediately, researchers and enthusiasts began playing with it, using it to generate poetry, folk music, fan-fiction...
from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start:
So when you are...
from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI
27th Oct 2025
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
from Schemers [alt+shift+b] in startups
27th Oct 2025
as software gets commoditized…
from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life
27th Oct 2025
Donde esta la leche de chocolate
The sequel
This October, fantasy readers are devouring a sequel: the final installment in Philip Pullman’s...
27th Oct 2025
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
27th Oct 2025
This October, fantasy readers are devouring a sequel: the final installment in Philip Pullman’s trilogy The Book of Dust. The series follows student Lyra Silvertongue as she journeys from Oxford to the far east. Her story features alternate worlds, souls … Continue reading →
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
27th Oct 2025
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from the other side of my ~220 kilometer walk through the Kiso Valley.
I sent a shorter version of this newsletter as the last issue of the (the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains pop-up newsletter. This version is quite expanded. The archives of...
from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life
26th Oct 2025
Throwing in my two cents to content discovery
from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th Oct 2025
I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their flashcards. I decided to add a simple 2D animation where a brain is sulking and after being hit by the hammer (memory hammer's mascot) the brain becomes happy and jubilant.
I made a simple...
from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative
26th Oct 2025
Ruin your Vitamix with xanthan gum
from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside the OCXO107-10
Looking Forward
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market
on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator.
Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th Oct 2025
On November 3rd, 2023, I posted Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer
to celebrate the completion of my work on my prior book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
Three weeks later, I posted Engineering strategy notes on November 21st, 2023,
as I started to pull together...
how to draw a tetrapod
Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in
coastal defences.
There’s a bit of a craze...
24th Oct 2025
from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Oct 2025
Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in
coastal defences.
There’s a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently
I’ve seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod
lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one.
I found a nice way to describe...
from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
24th Oct 2025
Submitted by Jon in KC, who says: This is the new KC Streetcar pylon map, updated to reflect the Main Street Extension that opens this Friday, October 24th. It also shows the Riverfront Extension, which will open sometime early next year. I’m curious to get your thoughts. I have...
Tales from Toddlerhood
Eight thoughts from a strange and harrowing world
The post Tales from Toddlerhood appeared first on...
24th Oct 2025
from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life
24th Oct 2025
Eight thoughts from a strange and harrowing world
The post Tales from Toddlerhood appeared first on Wait But Why.
from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups
24th Oct 2025
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 20, 2025, including the cost of resiliency, F1 makes it official with Apple, and a new era for NBA broadcasting.
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
Showdown, p7
The post Showdown, p7 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
24th Oct 2025
from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics
24th Oct 2025
The post Showdown, p7 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Oct 2025
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22, I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession,...
from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Oct 2025
Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned.
Dev Containers...
from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever.
Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App
One of our most requested...
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
23rd Oct 2025
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
Be Open to the Signal
There’s a timeless story trope where the hero is wandering the streets, lost in worry or despair,...
23rd Oct 2025
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
23rd Oct 2025
There’s a timeless story trope where the hero is wandering the streets, lost in worry or despair, when the universe sends a sign. His gaze lands on a mother bird feeding her chicks, or a neon cross in a tattoo parlor window, breaking him out of his daze and awakening him to a...
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
23rd Oct 2025
I know it’s been awfully quiet here. I’ve not posted for a while. But I’ve been writing prolifically somewhere else. Earlier this year, I started an AI lab called Lossfunk and that is what has kept me (happily) busy. We have a newsletter there called Lossfunk Letters where I...
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Oct 2025
Java, the language everyone loves to hate. Long has it garnered the reputation of a stagnant, obtuse, bloated beast only used by those who have no other choice because some enterprise corporate believed the hype train of the 90s. But is that all still true today?
from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI
22nd Oct 2025
So it’s an interesting time for computers-doing-mathematics. A couple of interesting things happened in the last few days, which have inspired me to write about the question more broadly. First there is the question on whether computers will ever prove … Continue reading →
from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature
22nd Oct 2025
Introduction
I’ve long liked to accrue certain lists of things I like within certain categories. to list appreciable books invites a similar list for movies and movie-like things.
It feels strange to list all of these movies like this, in some ways, especially the first two...
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design
22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > Read more
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
22nd Oct 2025
In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a big list of my personal favorites.
Clipboard
copy and pasta are simple wrappers around system clipboard managers, like pbcopy on macOS and xclip on Linux. I use these all the...
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
22nd Oct 2025
“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say...
from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming
21st Oct 2025
After five different drivers, including a school bus driver, aggressively close-passed me in Midwood last night and two of them threatened me just for being on the street, I realized there's a huge gap in educational outreach about bike rules in NYC: drivers. I decided to make a...
from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology
21st Oct 2025
For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsniped by writing a Z3-backed solver.
I expected to spend perhaps an...
Million-Mile Tech
Durability is the ultimate feature.
I wrote in October last year that I wouldn’t upgrade my iPhone...
21st Oct 2025
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
21st Oct 2025
Durability is the ultimate feature.
I wrote in October last year that I wouldn’t upgrade my iPhone 14 Pro. That’s also not quite true.
I did upgrade my phone — with a new battery and leather case. This isn’t what people typically think of when they say they upgraded their phone....
Routers, Apps, AGI
Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes;...
20th Oct 2025
from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance
20th Oct 2025
Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes; Benchmarks; Platforms
from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
20th Oct 2025
Today I tried three agentic browsers: Comet, Dia, and Fellou. The results were quite disappointing.
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
20th Oct 2025
It is a common misperception that you must be able to predict the future to do well. But it’s possible to act without prediction, even in the face of AI. This is how.
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
20th Oct 2025
A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
19th Oct 2025
What AI to use in late 2025
from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture
19th Oct 2025
Heidi Linck is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the poetic dimension of neglected spaces and their capacity to convey a sense of loss while opening up potential forms of imagination. The encounter between collective and individual memory is...
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
19th Oct 2025
1. The problem with cloud services is who owns them
Ahh, the cloud. Or, as we used to call it, The Cloud.
The cloud was the future! Apps were all going to be in the cloud! Clients would be thin! Everyone would use a Chromebook! Everything which could possibly have
from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming
19th Oct 2025
You go for a walk reflecting on how your startup is doing and you realize you’re moving slower with 8 people than you were with 4. It makes no sense! You’ve hired smart people, you’ve written good documentation, you’re not burdening people with meetings. Yet somehow, adding more...
from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science
19th Oct 2025
I'm kind of writing this to "past" me, who I assume is "current" you for a number of folks out there. For the rest of you, this might just sound like ramblings of an old fogey super late to the party.
Yes, AI is over-hyped. LLMs will not solve every problem under the sun but,...
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
19th Oct 2025
Where we left
off,
Albuquerque's boosters, together with the Forest Service, had completed
construction of the Ellis Ranch Loop and a spur to the Sandia Crest. It was
possible, even easy, to drive from Albuquerque east through Tijeras Pass, north
to the present-day location of...
from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI
19th Oct 2025
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics
18th Oct 2025
The post Abandoned by Machines appeared first on Last Place Comics.
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
18th Oct 2025
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border-left: 3px solid #a03;
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from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Oct 2025
Hiring is an incomplete information game and to succeed you have to treat
it as such.
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
18th Oct 2025
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he,...
from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
17th Oct 2025
How J.R. Simplot went from the largest seller of french fries to McDonald's in the 1960s to the largest shareholder of Micron Technology in the 1990s.
from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
17th Oct 2025
Our original TagVault Fabric Mount is one of our most popular AirTag cases. So we wanted another design that was just as useful but even more rugged and fully waterproof.
So we designed TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag. It's ultra-flexible to move with your fabric. Ultra-secure...
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Oct 2025
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”
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