2025-09-02
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages:
Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages:
Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American)
German
French
Japanese
Chinese
Portuguese
Hopefully it...
from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Sep 2025
A report card for the whole world.
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Sep 2025
I'm making this previously paywalled article available to everybody
from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Sep 2025
Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results, letting you write reliable tests with less effort.
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Sep 2025
Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Sep 2025
Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest one to be unequivocally accepted as a bipedal human ancestor. In 1981, a group of paleontologists who had been working at the fossil site in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia made a...
from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Sep 2025
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?
The post ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine
from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Sep 2025
shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Sep 2025
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some rather negative unforeseen consequences. Significantly lowering the threshold for establishing a communications outlet has democratized...
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Sep 2025
hang, write, and even some office hours?
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Sep 2025
The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest deforestation project and would upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous...
from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Sep 2025
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing with stock market data.
After reading way too many books on the subject, I started building my own tools which led me to creating Itako.
It’s a portfolio tracking and data...
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
2nd Sep 2025
If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Sep 2025
Ralph Roister Doister (written c. 1550, published 1567)
once had the distinction of being the first comedy in English. Please see this 1911 edition of the play
calling it “the first regular English comedy.”
I do not know what 19th century critics meant by “regular” but this...
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Sep 2025
Une vie sans notifications
Переведено на русский Wandering Thinker
Avertissement : Cet article parle de mon expérience avec le Mudita Kompakt, mais, n’étant pas lié à cette firme, je ne répondrai à aucune question concernant cet appareil ni le Hisense A5. Tout ce que j’ai à dire...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Sep 2025
Roden Readers —
Ahoy from Crisptown, population: Everyone in Japan. The summer is done. Thank glorious gods be, the summer is done. (Mostly.) I can feel my brain starting to solidify again, returning to its natural state after three months of relentless broiled liquefaction.
In...
from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Sep 2025
meditations on fantasy school and creativity
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Sep 2025
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in New York City. Were you? If this is you or someone you recognise in these pictures, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. For the rest of us, let’s imagine the stories...
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Sep 2025
Nietzsche’s complex, occasionally baffling sense of humor usually entertains, sometimes enlightens and often perplexes his readers. Scholars are often divided over whether or not Nietzsche is at times joking or serious. His being no stranger to comedy, we would expect Nietzsche...
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Sep 2025
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Sep 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The good news is you touched your butt once, so you wouldn't be going there anyway.
Today's News:
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Sep 2025
You can now own a piece of the Den-en Toshi train line. Akasaki & Vanhuyse, a Japanese-French design studio, have created a limited-edition table lamp born from the upcycling of resin train straps from Japan’s Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line 8500 series, which was withdrawn from service...
from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Making vector search fast, memory-efficient, and natural in SQLite.
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Sep 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Updates to the Bear license
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Sep 2025
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Sep 2025
Paternoster Square will host a microbiome festival.
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Sep 2025
Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to build and manage our A.I. future.
from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Sep 2025
Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential neighborhood of Odesa,...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Sep 2025
The untold story, at last.
Walk away or dance
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets,...
1st Sep 2025
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Sep 2025
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets, freelancers, marketing copywriters and others are voicing reasonable (and unreasonable) objections to the pace and impact of tools like Claude, Kimi and ChatGPT. I think we have two...
from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Sep 2025
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers...
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s character based environment that predated the graphical Interlisp-D system.
I approached this corner when I set out to learn and...
from History Today Magazine Feed [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Sep 2025
‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Sep 2025
A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. — Pablo Picasso In a famous story about Guernica, Pablo...
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Billionaires, am I right?
Immigrants, am I right?
It’s going to be so painful to watch.
Billionaires will go away.
Immigrants will go away.
The problems will continue to get worse.
The problem is the unproductive. The rich unproductive and the poor unproductive. The finance...
Unblogged August
31 unblogged things I did in August
Fri 1: I ummed and ahhed about doing another month-long series...
1st Sep 2025
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Sep 2025
31 unblogged things I did in August
Fri 1: I ummed and ahhed about doing another month-long series about the River Fleet, because maybe it's best to only do things once, but once I was stalking through the woods at the top of Hampstead Heath hunting for muddy rivulets it all...
32
Today I turn 32 years old.
Every year I write an article with stories, ideas, rules of thumb,...
1st Sep 2025
from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Sep 2025
Today I turn 32 years old.
Every year I write an article with stories, ideas, rules of thumb, anecdotes and ponderous items from the last year.
This is number 10 of those articles.
See: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.
Before I get into it, a few
from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Sep 2025
It's a shield for loud conviction and quiet backpedaling if needed.
At the Bookstore
I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and
indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age,...
1st Sep 2025
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Sep 2025
I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and
indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age, and at the same time an
angry, unforgiving age. One strain of sentimentality especially prevalent among
the aging is a rueful, self-pitying lament for what no longer exists....
The Stolen Lines
The post The Stolen Lines appeared first on The American Scholar.
1st Sep 2025
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Sep 2025
The post The Stolen Lines appeared first on The American Scholar.
from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Sep 2025
New comic!
Today's News:
INFRA is a game about being an engineer and doing the things that engineers do, such as saying "that doesn't look safe" and falling down elevator shafts. Come for the municipal intrigue; stay for the charming way the protagonist pronounces...
An Honest Conversation
There’s no easy way to say this, to admit this to you, the public, but with a renewed interest in...
1st Sep 2025
from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Sep 2025
There’s no easy way to say this, to admit this to you, the public, but with a renewed interest in blogging comes the need for real transparency. So here’s the thing- I got fat. Like, not TLC Special fat, but […]
The post An Honest Conversation appeared first on Least I Could Do.
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Sasha uses Buttondown to publish his writings on music and other topics that spark his interest.
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Sep 2025
I recently bought a couple of Hue Tap Dial switches for our house to enhance our smart home.
We have quite a few smart lights and I figured the tap dial—with it’s multiple buttons and rotary dial—would be a good fit.
Since I’ve been moving away from standard Home Assistant...
The Demons of Non-Denoms
Religion in America was once the domain of institutions. How did it grow to be dominated by cults of...
1st Sep 2025
from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Sep 2025
Religion in America was once the domain of institutions. How did it grow to be dominated by cults of personality — and what can the process tell us about the rest of American culture?
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
Building Something Big
When I talk about building Forestwalk, people who’ve long known me are sometimes surprised that I’ve...
31st Aug 2025
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
31st Aug 2025
When I talk about building Forestwalk, people who’ve long known me are sometimes surprised that I’ve been using terms like “runway”, “venture-scale”, and other jargon more associated with the VC world than indie or lifestyle businesses. And indeed, I do have a secret to come...
you can never go back
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming
31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system.
I like the Retro Game...
Notes from August 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far.
Things I published this month
Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology
29th Aug 2025
It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
Recently
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy
this weekend too, so...
29th Aug 2025
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
29th Aug 2025
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy
this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to
make up for it.
Listening
It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands
I’ve followed, and finding...
Why Amateur Radio?
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once...
29th Aug 2025
from Lennart Koopmann (KJ5KRF) [alt+shift+b] in programming
29th Aug 2025
I always had a diffuse idea of why people are spending so much time and money on amateur radio. Once I got my license and started to amass radios myself, it became more clear to me.
It always seemed like amateur radio was an extremely practical endeavor. The goal appeared to be...
Reading, detachment
In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of...
28th Aug 2025
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
28th Aug 2025
In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession, and a third in which I had never read a key section. The first was...
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
Calvin Wankhede
We’re in a dark time period right now.
Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe.
Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science
27th Aug 2025
Previously: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1.
Is there really that much more progress to be made in the future? How many problems are left to solve? How much better could life really get?
After all, we are pretty comfortable today. We have electricity, clean running water, heating...
from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life
26th Aug 2025
This guide is kept up-to-date with Darktable releases. It is currently written for Darktable 5.2, released June 2025. Be sure to read part 1 before you read this.
There are several tools out there to develop camera RAW files into printable images, some of them are shockingly...
from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work
reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run
Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working:
wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.
Our story begins in...
from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work
reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run
Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working:
wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.
Our story begins in...
from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work
reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run
Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working:
wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.
Our story begins in...
Titles matter
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the...
26th Aug 2025
from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th Aug 2025
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th Aug 2025
fREW once said “As time goes by I have less and less patience for ecosystems that demand my time” and I think about this now and then. However, in my case I replace the word “ecosystems” for “anything”. There are exceptions, of course, but I’m not going to list them here as those...
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
26th Aug 2025
Pas de médaille pour les résistants
Si vous voulez changer le monde, il faut entrer en résistance. Il faut accepter d’agir et de se taire. Il faut accepter de perdre du confort, des opportunités, des relations. Et il ne faut espérer aucune récompense, aucune reconnaissance.
Un...
from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel
25th Aug 2025
With Transit 6.0, our designers have dreamed big, and packed in plenty of surprises for our biggest update EVER. We think you're going to love it.
The post Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful appeared first on Transit.
from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science
25th Aug 2025
Comparing LiDAR data from before and after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles reveals the scale of devastation in ways satellite imagery can’t match.
from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that!
The short version up front:
Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley.
I've founded a startup.
After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit,
and a nice...
from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that!
The short version up front:
Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley.
I've founded a startup.
After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit,
and a nice...
from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Aug 2025
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
Over-Engineering Sleep
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my...
24th Aug 2025
from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology
24th Aug 2025
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my eye, and I wanted to see what it would take to re-implement sleep from the ground up, while trying to be as cross-platform as possible.
Arc of Columbus, Part 1
The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the...
23rd Aug 2025
from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography
23rd Aug 2025
The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the kid from college after the end of the spring semester. It was a great trip and I managed to collect eight previously unvisited counties in Ohio along the way. But now I was doing...
from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Aug 2025
Today is the 20th anniversary of this blog. I posted my first entry 20 years ago as I was finishing my book Programming Microsoft Windows Forms. Since then, I’ve posted over 900 entries, all of which are still online. ... more ...
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
22nd Aug 2025
One cheesy progress update at a time.
from ramsés cabello [alt+shift+b] in design
22nd Aug 2025
hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ )
it’s been a few months since i sat down to write an update on the journal.
we’re almost at the end of august and all my memories of the last few months include really high temperatures. most days i escaped the heat by going to a cafe and ordering a...
from tomcritchlow.com [alt+shift+b] in startups
22nd Aug 2025
Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life
21st Aug 2025
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
21st Aug 2025
AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery.
from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative
21st Aug 2025
Social media is dead. Long live social media?
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
20th Aug 2025
How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.
from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history
19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair. Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history
18th Aug 2025
CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s.
The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
Tap Tap
Is this thing still on? Do I even remember how to do this? Hi. As I started work last week on...
18th Aug 2025
from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics
18th Aug 2025
Is this thing still on? Do I even remember how to do this? Hi. As I started work last week on re-building the LICD site, I unintentionally began reading a few of my old blog posts. One question kept popping […]
The post Tap Tap appeared first on Least I Could Do.
from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life
18th Aug 2025
YouTube Video Producer – Daily Stoic Daily Stoic is a leading philosophy and self-improvement brand, reaching millions of people each month across our newsletter, YouTube, podcasts, and books. We’re looking for a YouTube Video Producer to help us continue growing our channel....
from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
18th Aug 2025
Submitted by Nicholas, who says: Northern Rail’s new map is well worth a look – I find it exemplary for making such a previously nebulous network entirely understandable. Graphics pretty well impeccable. I understand this network may not survive the transition to Great British...
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Aug 2025
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the
element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can...
from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Aug 2025
“Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Aug 2025
There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza.
I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way.
They're not uniform at all.
The toppings are random, but not the way I want.
The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly...
from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Aug 2025
Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native, in case you arrived here looking for the gem of the former name. More details here.
We’ve open-sourced Action Push Native, a Rails gem for sending push notifications to mobile...
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Aug 2025
I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around. While I've enjoyed the Grey's Anatomy binge I started during this pregnancy, it feels like a work week ritual -- something to put on in the background or pay half...
from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
17th Aug 2025
You *can* just build things.
from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Aug 2025
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
17th Aug 2025
We are absolutely in love with this T.K.G. (tamago kake gohan) handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace. It’s part of their 2025 Autumn & Winter collection that’s slowly releasing right now. The handkerchief, which will become available in September, features a bowl and chopsticks...
from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture
17th Aug 2025
An essay on the interconnectedness of Everything.
The McPhee method
When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting”...
17th Aug 2025
from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th Aug 2025
When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read....
from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science
16th Aug 2025
Commercial forestry was never a good option for the wet peatlands of northeast Scotland, with planting financed by tax subsidies and sold on the mantra of ‘rural jobs’. The trees did not grow well and, thirty years on, more government money started to be spent to restore the same...
from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative
16th Aug 2025
There’s some fun computational geometry in my latest artwork, and in this article I’ll walk through how I take a scramble of disconnected paths and turn them into closed shapes, using half-edges and a planar graph.
Work in progress output
Work in progress output
Work in progress...
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
16th Aug 2025
There wasn’t a huge amount to report from July. Politically/economically I fear the most important event in the UK was the Labour government’s failure to enact its intended welfare reforms. This leaves the government a) unable to control spending b) unable to nudge the economy...
from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Aug 2025
Most people solve their subscription fatigue by canceling Netflix. I solved it by vibe-coding my own workout app instead of paying another SaaS.
Two weeks ago, I decided to get serious about my workouts again and start logging them.
I looked for an existing solution that has the...
from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Aug 2025
Clarifying how React will sometimes apply state updates out of order when using concurrent features, and a best practice which can help you avoid it.
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
16th Aug 2025
One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications
technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of
radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave
telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T...
from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Aug 2025
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If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files.
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone,
and wreak havoc on Git forges.
In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around
problems...
Sierras Projects
A short post where I collate some info related to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, various...
15th Aug 2025
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
15th Aug 2025
A short post where I collate some info related to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, various aspirational objectives and questions. Table Mountain Traverse Table Mountain is at the north west edge of the Kern River basin. It has numerous third and fourth class routes. I...
Weird SEGA facts
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from...
15th Aug 2025
from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology
15th Aug 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog.
Gerstmann’s post shows off MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head for the Game Gear. I’d never seen it before and...
from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology
15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week.
Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
How to fold a mini-zine
Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment!
Fold...
15th Aug 2025
from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Aug 2025
Here's how to fold a mini-zine, featuring my mini-zine So you want to make a public comment!
Fold the printed mini-zine page in half, then half in again, and then in half again as shown.
When you open the piece of paper, each of the pages should fit fully within a set of...
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
15th Aug 2025
Every great design has one organizing detail that unlocks everything else, and the best design leaders never stop looking for it.
Every good piece of design has at least one detail that is the “key” to unlocking an understanding of how it works. Good designers will notice that...
from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology
15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
14th Aug 2025
Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics
14th Aug 2025
This couple is horrible.
View on my website
from Articles - Alex Murrell [alt+shift+b] in startups
14th Aug 2025
Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them,
can be found on every continent, in every time, and in every industry. And
marketing is no different. This article argues that a malevolent metric
sits at the heart of many marketing discussions and...
from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature
14th Aug 2025
Sometimes I’ve told people “I ride with Asian scooter norms.” or “I ride with Taiwanese and Balinese scooter norms”. Here’s what I mean by this statement.
a ‘norm’ is ‘something common, accepted, sometimes codified in law, but certainly accepted as ‘right’ or ‘acceptable’ or...
STAR LINE
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
14th Aug 2025
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Aug 2025
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance
13th Aug 2025
Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.
from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history
13th Aug 2025
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life
13th Aug 2025
On Speed-Running the Circle of Life
Issue 90 – Crime szn bro
The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while...
13th Aug 2025
from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance
13th Aug 2025
The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors
from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture
13th Aug 2025
Thanet Parkway station opened on 31 July 2023, and promptly broke quite a few people’s brains. I can remember my Twitter feed (as was) being awash with commentators deriding its appearance. Even now, a simple web search will quickly turn up adjectives like “ugly”, “hideous”,...
from Leteyski's blog [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
13th Aug 2025
or why it's important to fight for independent agentic commerce ⚔️
from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history
13th Aug 2025
How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life
13th Aug 2025
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
13th Aug 2025
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...
from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation
As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th Aug 2025
TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your pre-order from P2D to PT2… Like what you…
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
12th Aug 2025
What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?
from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Aug 2025
The previous series of articles about UART was initially motivated by an error I was getting when using the ESP-Prog. I could have jumped straight to the conclusion, but I took the time to really understand what was going on, and we are finally reaching the end of this...
from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history
11th Aug 2025
Probably more than you think...
from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Aug 2025
TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview.
YouTube videos are expensive to load on a web page. This compounds if you want your page to display many videos at the same time for the user to choose from. Before the user even plays the...
from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative
11th Aug 2025
Plans, files, and BOM to build your own 10” mini rack using T-slot
extrusion and 3D prints.
from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Aug 2025
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals to identify their common pain points and what they value most in existing helpdesk solutions.
We've also investigated current trends in helpdesk and IT service management...
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
11th Aug 2025
Sunflowers are blooming, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, and professors are scrambling to chart out the courses they planned to develop in July. If you’re applying for an academic job this fall, now is the time to get your application … Continue reading →
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
11th Aug 2025
addiction, but make it socially acceptable
from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Aug 2025
Your monthly updates post is here! This month we have a couple of releases for our developer tools, plus plenty of improvements to Bluetooth, as well as a hardware enablement boost from Ubuntu and plenty to talk about in Early Access. Let’s dive in!
System Settings
The previously...
RIP AOL Dialup
America's most popular dial-up ISP is shutting down dial-up service
10th Aug 2025
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Aug 2025
America's most popular dial-up ISP is shutting down dial-up service
from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups
10th Aug 2025
The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.
from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history
10th Aug 2025
The upcoming negotiations in Alaska between Trump and Putin tells you all you ought to know about the nature of the Ukraine war, and Europe's current geopolitical status.
from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology
10th Aug 2025
MathJax.Hub.Config({
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tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life
10th Aug 2025
Your money isn't going to the bands you love, it's going to the ones everyone else listens to.
AI Story
AI Story: The Song of Broken Wings
Claude did this a while ago in one session. It’s not entirely...
10th Aug 2025
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
10th Aug 2025
AI Story: The Song of Broken Wings
Claude did this a while ago in one session. It’s not entirely bad.
The Song of Broken Wings
Part One: Autumn Harmonics
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Fell
The first time Eliot Waugh saw him, the boy was bleeding music.
Not blood—though there was that...
On quitting
I've spoken about quitting a few times before.
Quitting is an amazing tool in our arsenal that we...
9th Aug 2025
from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
9th Aug 2025
I've spoken about quitting a few times before.
Quitting is an amazing tool in our arsenal that we should be more comfortable in using.
We're taught to never quit, but the truth is that learning when to quit is a superpower.
We can never quit our ultimate goal, our destiny. That...
from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Aug 2025
We could call this the Open Al Institute (Open AI-I!), but call it Open in everyday conversation.
from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI
9th Aug 2025
And also a reaction to OpenAI's GPT-5 release
from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history
9th Aug 2025
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI
8th Aug 2025
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC sampler. It has allowed us to infer deep business factors, instead of being limited surface KPIs (key performance indicators). Modeling uncertainty requires stronger optimizers to...
from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science
8th Aug 2025
For those of you with a deeper interest in astronomy and how we learn about the universe, this may be of interest. There is a good discount if you register before Aug. 10. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific Presents: Eyes on the Cosmos: Cutting Edge Instruments and Ideas in...
from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life
8th Aug 2025
Charlie Becker Letter #97
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
8th Aug 2025
In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts
instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for
books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan
Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
8th Aug 2025
It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks.
Physics Today has a cover article this past issue about what is colloquially known as static electricity, but what is more technically described as...
affinity
how to know if you actually really like something
7th Aug 2025
from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life
7th Aug 2025
how to know if you actually really like something
OpenAI Launches GPT-5
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
7th Aug 2025
from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance
7th Aug 2025
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage
collector
My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the .
Its name comes from its historical...
Summer Hack
There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a...
7th Aug 2025
from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups
7th Aug 2025
There is nothing I love more than when a moment or inside joke lands so perfectly that it unites a group of people.
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th Aug 2025
New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.
Heritability puzzlers
The heritability wars have been a-raging. Watching these, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s...
7th Aug 2025
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
7th Aug 2025
The heritability wars have been a-raging. Watching these, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s near-universal confusion about what “heritable” means. Partly, that’s because it’s a subtle concept. But it also seems relevant that almost all explanations of heritability are very,...
from Peder M. Isager [alt+shift+b] in science
7th Aug 2025
In this blog post, I will briefly explain why experimental designs are considered so valuable by scientists and why we often insist that randomized experiments are necessary for answering causal questions. I will use a practical example to illustrate this point. If you’re new to...
from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
6th Aug 2025
In my mental model of a walkability map it’s not enough to know how far away something is, but also how long it takes me to get there. My perceptions of the same distances, but with different walk times, are much different. There are realities that slow me down like...
My 2025 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
6th Aug 2025
from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Hype is a Business Tool
Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started...
6th Aug 2025
from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design
6th Aug 2025
Remember WAAAY back in late 2022 (what feels like ancient history now) when you first started playing with ChatGPT? Like everyone else, you probably created a poem in a pirate’s voice. “Pirate Poetry” was fun, exciting, and even playful. Today, EVERYONE is talking about AI, and...
from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Aug 2025
This time, there will be consequences.
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
6th Aug 2025
How did Creed become "The World's Most Hated Band"?
from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.11 is now available! This is over 20% longer than v0.10, with a new chapter on code proofs, three chapter overhauls, and more! Full release notes here.
Software books I wish I could read
I'm writing Logic for Programmers because it's a book...
from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.1 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
This small patch release contains the following changes:
Greatly improved validation of initial...
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
Take back your attention.
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
6th Aug 2025
Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our blog, but this time we have created a process with a three-layered print.
For a layered print like this, it's helpful to start with a drawing. Map out the colours to plan their...
from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Aug 2025
Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa.
You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3, and add it to your dependencies:
"libpupa": "1.2.3"
In turn, the developer of libpupa, when writing its version 1.2.3, needed another library: liblupa.
So...
from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI
5th Aug 2025
How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Aug 2025
Rethinking DOM from first principles
Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago.
Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM is a solved...
from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Aug 2025
This is an evolved thought of my post about my favourite designers ever.
Since I opened my creative lab FormFeelingFunction®, I’ve also opened my mind to connecting with more creative people. The reason is simple: to make unexpected objects in both digital and analogue form...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
5th Aug 2025
The 2 AM job hunt is officially over thanks to Indy AI 🚀
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
5th Aug 2025
A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was allegedly starring in, where after offering my views on Palantir's valuation, I was soliciting investors to invest with me (or with an investment entity that had ties to me). I was not...
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