Dr Alun Withey
‘Smock-Faced’ and ‘Imperbicke: The Shame of Beardlessness’
This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000...
2 weeks ago
This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000 views, from over 120 countries. When I started the blog more than a decade ago I had no expectation that anyone would read the posts, so thank you to everyone for your support. As you...
Jan Miksovsky’s blog
Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing
2 weeks ago
Odds and Ends of...
The case for Nightingale Datacentres
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
2 weeks ago
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
Stories by Admiral...
Years of Salt and Metal | The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823
3 weeks ago
The Deleted Scenes
Duck And Height
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
3 weeks ago
What Do You Think You're Looking At? #279
Bryan Braun - Blog
Klara and the gift of curiosity
In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun.
This...
3 weeks ago
In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun.
This has happened a lot for me recently (see The Three Body Problem, The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow). I know it’s cliché to say that the book is...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
3 weeks ago
Willem L. Middelkoop
Innovation Is Software
In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was...
3 weeks ago
In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was the opposite of new hardware: the existing gear has stretch, innovation is software. This post is about one brain, the machine in the homelab where my files and my agents live, the...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: Summer 2026
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the...
3 weeks ago
The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps. Time is this sort of weird compressed experience, not dissimilar to the way I felt about COVID and 2020 (wasn't that just yestersday? No indeed...
Jordan Eldredge's...
FaceTime video/audio broken by Private Internet Access VPN client on Mac
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet...
3 weeks ago
I recently diagnosed that the cause of FaceTime being broken on my Mac was the Private Internet Access VPN client
Arnaud Bertrand
The most lied-about place on earth
Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
3 weeks ago
Depth against slogans: what we saw in 6 weeks driving through Xinjiang
Paolo Amoroso's...
The origins of my computing journey
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX...
3 weeks ago
<![CDATA[My journey to using and programming computers started around 1983 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, the very first I owned.
At the time I was clueless. For example, I wondered whether, once I loaded a program from tape, I needed to write it back at the end of the session...
David Gerrells
how to be authentic
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind...
3 weeks ago
Eating fast food is like tasting the spirit of authenticity. This is the analogy that comes to mind when I try to understand why I have such admiration for and disgust with mainstream pop, hip-hop, and rap music.
Hickman's...
The ‘Do or Die’ Days
If the Bell Tolls on the American Hinterlands, Will You Answer It?
3 weeks ago
If the Bell Tolls on the American Hinterlands, Will You Answer It?
Electronics etc…
Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
Introduction
The TDS7104
Common Failures
Make an Image of the Hard Drive
CR2032 Backup Battery...
3 weeks ago
Introduction
The TDS7104
Common Failures
Make an Image of the Hard Drive
CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement and Display Brightness
Do NOT Remove the Front Panel
Scope Disassembly
A Failed Attempt at Switching over to an SSD
Reinstalling from Scratch: Windows 2000 Pro or Windows...
Matt Keeter
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
3 weeks ago
Andrew Fraknoi –...
A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27
How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27
The post A Nice (Almost Total)...
3 weeks ago
How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27
The post A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Internal Tech Emails
Steve Jobs and hiring | Anthropic cofounder's cold email
We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
3 weeks ago
We would have a problem if it is related to cell phone handsets, etc.
Charles Petzold
AI-Supercharged Phishing Emails
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and...
3 weeks ago
It was once possible to detect email scams by misspellings, sloppy grammar, messy formatting, and other blunders. Now that scammers are apparently using AI to aid in their phishing emails, the tells are more subtle. ... more ...
Probably...
Think Java, but interactive
The online version of Think Java now features interactive widgets that run the code examples in the...
3 weeks ago
The online version of Think Java now features interactive widgets that run the code examples in the browser. For readers, it means you can try out the examples, modify them, and test your code. And for us it means we can publish an interactive version of the book without...
Niklas Oberhuber’s...
Prisoner’s Chessboard Puzzle
3 weeks ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing memory use in markdown parser
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which...
3 weeks ago
I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp. By which I mean: my friend Claude does the porting, I’m just directing.
It uses markdown-rs (a CommonMark + GFM parser) markdown parser so I ported it too.
Then I optimized it.
This post...
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything.
Vim’s automatic...
3 weeks ago
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything.
Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event...
skin contact
12 observations of people i know
here are the things I resist saying
3 weeks ago
here are the things I resist saying
Max Prilutskiy
Your Margin Is the AI Labs’ Roadmap
Why “just a GPT wrapper” is the best way to start a company — and the token reseller test that tells...
3 weeks ago
Why “just a GPT wrapper” is the best way to start a company — and the token reseller test that tells you if yours will survive.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
3 weeks ago
Josh Collinsworth
In defense of two-state theme toggles
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or...
3 weeks ago
There's a lively debate going on over whether theme toggles should have two options (light/dark) or three, with an added "system" option. I maintain two-state toggles are better in most cases (though not all), and that the case for a third option rests mainly on problems most...
Mazdak
Markets are calmer. The bigger questions aren't.
A quick run through the stories that actually matter today — rates, trade, cancer research, robots,...
3 weeks ago
A quick run through the stories that actually matter today — rates, trade, cancer research, robots, and a few things that could affect how business gets done.
Open for Business
My Half-Anniversary with Starlink
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to...
3 weeks ago
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to the standard-sized Starlink “dish” (it’s a panel) that was flopped down haphazardly in my back yard.
On Test Automation
Should testers write unit tests?
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will...
4 weeks ago
This post was previously published through my newsletter on May 25, 2026. From time to time, I will republish newsletter issues on my blog here if I think people (and search engines) might benefit from it. If you want to read everything I’ve written once it is posted, I recommend...
Anil Dash
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for...
4 weeks ago
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I generally like their keyboards, but my daily driver keyboard these days is a big clicky mechanical beast.) I’d gone down...
Armin Ronacher's...
What Is Reasoning
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that
showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
4 weeks ago
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that
showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together
with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me
investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and
confusion...
The History of the...
A website for everyone
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.
The...
4 weeks ago
In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing.
The post A website for everyone appeared first on The History of the Web.
Push to Prod
Why Do My AI Code Reviews Take So Many Iterations?
Human understanding is still the bottleneck
4 weeks ago
Human understanding is still the bottleneck
Charlie Becker
Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (Part 2: Maybe yes, actually.)
#109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
17th Aug 2026
#109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
Jeffrey Zeldman...
For students who make websites
WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for...
17th Aug 2026
WordPress.com maker Automattic is expanding into education with a new, free product designed for teachers and their classes called WordPress.com Education. The suite for classrooms includes a full WordPress.com domain for each student, plus free domain names (on the .blog or .art...
fast.ai
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
17th Aug 2026
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
Never Met a Science
We Need To Talk
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak...
17th Aug 2026
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness.
Cheese and Biscuits
Kismet, Borough Market
Every new generation of Londoner has to go through the phase of being bewildered and bedazzled by...
17th Aug 2026
Every new generation of Londoner has to go through the phase of being bewildered and bedazzled by the various lavish stalls and speciality producers at Borough Market, shell out a small fortune for a selection of wildly unrelated items they're entirely unable to turn into a...
Ben Borgers
Every student is cheating with AI
17th Aug 2026
Fabien Sanglard
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
Strange Loop Canon
Nobody Knows Anything
on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
Greg Brockman
The Defender's Window
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek...
16th Aug 2026
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they...
Acko.net
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
15th Aug 2026
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Improving on a timeless recipe
The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and...
Quentin Santos
A few spikes in Pico cos()
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x),...
15th Aug 2026
A picture is worth a thousand LLM prompts: Horizontal value is the input value x for cosf(x), ranging from 0 to 2π. The orange line shows the result of evaluating cosf(x), which looks exactly as expected. The blue line shows the time it took to evaluate cosf(x) for each x, in...
Tech and Tea
Seasons, seasons, seasons
On the passage of seasons, in nature, life, and work.
14th Aug 2026
On the passage of seasons, in nature, life, and work.
Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2026 – Some links found verbal form, others remained mere promises, mist, soft...
Soon I will put up a fall schedule for my plunge back into non-Shakespearian
plays, from say 1604 to...
14th Aug 2026
Soon I will put up a fall schedule for my plunge back into non-Shakespearian
plays, from say 1604 to 1614, an exciting stretch. Middleton, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher will
dominate.
SHAKESPEAREAN
The Adventures of Lady Egeria (1585), W. C. – Half
tedious, half confounding,...
MIT News - Civil and...
Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics,...
A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity,...
14th Aug 2026
A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity, and lifelong devotion to his students.
benn.substack
So that's what alignment means
Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
14th Aug 2026
Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
Marco.org
Unforgetful
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework,...
14th Aug 2026
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential.
I’ll be working on the resulting shame...
watchTowr Labs
You’re Back In The Room (Citrix NetScaler Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8452(?))
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your...
14th Aug 2026
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your new job. Yes, it’s Monday, and you’re being onboarded.
You know the drill - it’s the typical enterprise “please don’t be
Tom MacWright
Technology optimism hour
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool...
14th Aug 2026
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again.
It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is...
Xena
The Annals Challenge
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
alexwlchan
How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug →
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how...
13th Aug 2026
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career.
I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post.
Before Tailscale, I was...
Raptitude.com
How to Look the Sky in the Face
Last week I had a friend for dinner, and she convinced me to do one of her favorite activities...
13th Aug 2026
Last week I had a friend for dinner, and she convinced me to do one of her favorite activities afterward: lie on the grass in the park and look at the sky. I was hesitant because I don’t like to lie down until nighttime, when the only goal is to end the day by losing...
matduggan.com
OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor...
12th Aug 2026
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?"
Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put
CrimethInc.
The Border is an Open Wound : A Tree Sit in Lochiel, Arizona Halts Border Wall Construction
At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the...
12th Aug 2026
At the border with Mexico in Arizona, for the first time in history, a tree sit is blocking the construction of the border wall that Trump promised his voters. This wall is cutting a ragged wound across the precious and diverse ecosystems that defy the myth that the border...
Mind Prison
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach
An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
An analysis of the X social media algorithm
The Rational Walk
Minimal Impact to Insurers from Icelandic Volcano Eruption
At least for now, most air travel restrictions caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull...
11th Aug 2026
At least for now, most air travel restrictions caused by the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano have been lifted throughout Europe.
Beijing Scroll
Taiwan Strait Tensions and the KMT's Case for Dialogue and Exchange
Taiwan’s largest opposition party cannot set official cross-Strait policy. But its efforts to deepen...
11th Aug 2026
Taiwan’s largest opposition party cannot set official cross-Strait policy. But its efforts to deepen high-level exchanges and dialogue with the Chinese mainland offer another possibility.
Escaping Flatland
On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2
Cutlery designed by Salvador Dalí
11th Aug 2026
Cutlery designed by Salvador Dalí
Commoncog
1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices
Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old...
11th Aug 2026
Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old prices, you should probably sign up before then.
Musings on Markets
The Situational Awareness Blow-up: The Collateral Damage from Investing Conviction!
Earlier this year, I was asked what I thought about Leopold Aschenbrenner and I admitted that I knew...
11th Aug 2026
Earlier this year, I was asked what I thought about Leopold Aschenbrenner and I admitted that I knew little about him other than what I had read about him, more in social media, than in the press - that he was a 25-year-old wunderkind who had started at OpenAI but had left to...
Balancing Act
Everything is downstream of ambition
Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to...
10th Aug 2026
Everyone wants to build the one person billion dollar company. But how many people you need used to be a decision you made last, not first.
Ferd.ca
Control and complexity: tension in systems design
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their...
10th Aug 2026
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their practices and structures. Old methods are questioned, replaced, and repurposed as the economics around creating new code get shaken up. Because humans and LLMs aren’t...
GeoCurrents
Does Colombia Have an Urban/Rural Electoral Divide? Despite Bogotá, Not Really
A recent GeoCurrents post suggested that the electoral geography of the United States has strikingly...
10th Aug 2026
A recent GeoCurrents post suggested that the electoral geography of the United States has strikingly deviated from that of Latin America during the 21st century. In the U.S., population density has become one of the main influences on voting patterns, with cities favoring...
Beautiful Public...
50,000 boat names
From SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names...
10th Aug 2026
From SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names packed with nautical puns, dirty jokes, and Tolkien deep cuts.
Cal Newport
On AI Coding and Its Discontents
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described...
10th Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more
The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport.
Quantum Frontiers
Interacting collaborators reveal noninteracting fermions
By day, I work as an experimentalist on laser-cooling molecules, but I’ve never fully surrendered my...
10th Aug 2026
By day, I work as an experimentalist on laser-cooling molecules, but I’ve never fully surrendered my theoretical-physics license. I started as an undergraduate in Lincoln Carr’s group at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. I learned from his … Continue reading →
Ollama
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available....
10th Aug 2026
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and...
anderegg.ca
Bubbles.town
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but...
9th Aug 2026
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town.
At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
I am BARRY HESS
Parking for a Concert at Gillette Stadium
Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a...
9th Aug 2026
Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a challenge. Before heading to the BTS concerts this past week I did some research, even asking Chat GPT about how to handle parking. To its credit, with my hints about what I wanted, it...
Confessions of a...
x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
Anarchy Unfolds
Poetry in People
Hi readers, these poems are based on people I knew before and after college.
9th Aug 2026
Hi readers, these poems are based on people I knew before and after college.
FIRE v London
July ’26: An IPO, and France
It feels as if the World Cup was ages ago, already. Yet only a few weeks ago, I was gripped. And for...
9th Aug 2026
It feels as if the World Cup was ages ago, already. Yet only a few weeks ago, I was gripped. And for once I thought England had a world-class side…. but hey ho, football hasn’t come home for another four years. I had a road trip through France in July, which was lovely. I am…...
Tony Finch's blog
Counting the days, revisited
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian
Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian
Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used
in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of
C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time
into linear time_t.
I recently...
Solving the decision...
every company needs a cassandra
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
9th Aug 2026
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
Spoon & Tamago
Sou Fujimoto’s Meiji Park Brings a Three-Dimensional Landscape to Hakata Station
Is it a park? A building? A pathway? A Landscape? It’s one of our most-anticipated architecture...
8th Aug 2026
Is it a park? A building? A pathway? A Landscape? It’s one of our most-anticipated architecture project of 2026, and it just opened yesterday (August 7) in Fukuoka, just steps away from Hakata Station. Meiji Park is a new 3,572-square-meter urban park designed by Sou Fujimoto....
Drew Ex Machina
Critical Forecasts from Space: “Tech & Space Leaders Show” with Lisa Dreher
While my Gentle Readers are well aware of my decades of writing on space-related topics, I also have...
8th Aug 2026
While my Gentle Readers are well aware of my decades of writing on space-related topics, I also have a day job as the Chief Scientist of […]
nanoscale views
Reproducibility in materials research, and an anecdote
Yesterday I attended the 40th annual summer research colloquium of the Smalley-Curl Institute at...
8th Aug 2026
Yesterday I attended the 40th annual summer research colloquium of the Smalley-Curl Institute at Rice, a fun internal conference that provides a great opportunity for undergrads (including visitors), graduate students, and a few postdocs to present their work. The keynote...
Irrational...
Middle management roles are also a trap.
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles...
8th Aug 2026
Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap.
My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into
a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineering and engineering management
aspects of the role made being...
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
8th Aug 2026
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
A Collection of...
Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Va: Putting It Together
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently...
8th Aug 2026
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian...
Lee A Johnson
The Caretakers
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to...
8th Aug 2026
If you haven’t been paying attention, which is likely given the small corner of the web I’m going to cover, you may have missed that BINGOS just hit 247 consecutive monthly uploads to CPAN1. This is noteworthy as it surpasses DROLSKY’s record set a while back.
That’s an upload to...
Giles' blog
A quick(ish) Chinchilla check
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models,
training them both on 40 tokens per parameter...
7th Aug 2026
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models,
training them both on 40 tokens per parameter rather than the 20 per parameter
that is generally regarded as "Chinchilla-optimal".
The normal heuristic is that instead of doing that, you should scale up the number
of tokens...
High Signal
$100k for job board directory💰
Well done to Rodrigo for making $100k in life-time revenue from his project, JobBoardSearch. It's a...
7th Aug 2026
Well done to Rodrigo for making $100k in life-time revenue from his project, JobBoardSearch. It's a very simple directory of job boards
AI for Software...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #205
Terraform, Billion-Dollar Rounds, Oklo Goes Critical, Astra Math, Terafab + Extra Doses
7th Aug 2026
Terraform, Billion-Dollar Rounds, Oklo Goes Critical, Astra Math, Terafab + Extra Doses
davidyat.es
Static websites and right-sizing software
7th Aug 2026
Jorge Arango
What’s the Purpose of Information Architecture?
It’s been fifty years since information architecture’s coming out party in Philadelphia. Alas, the...
7th Aug 2026
It’s been fifty years since information architecture’s coming out party in Philadelphia. Alas, the discipline is still widely misunderstood. The main obstacle? The very thing that brought it to many people’s attention: the World Wide Web.
I’d venture most people who’ve heard the...
Cremieux Recueil
Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else
The U.S. is the place to be if you're ambitious, but not necessarily if you're poor
7th Aug 2026
The U.S. is the place to be if you're ambitious, but not necessarily if you're poor
Ink & Switch
The Object Model in Livelymerge
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
7th Aug 2026
A look under the hood of Livelymerge.
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
Krebs on Security
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors...
6th Aug 2026
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka,...
The Works in...
Why horses have stopped becoming faster
The limits of breeding for speed
6th Aug 2026
The limits of breeding for speed
Arduino Blog
Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most...
6th Aug 2026
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most of them are impressive, and most of them require at least some custom hardware – a purpose-designed PCB, a specialized connector, a part you can only get from one supplier. They’re...
NeuroLogica Blog
Back From Down Under
I am back from an almost three week trip to LA, Sydney and Christchurch. Sorry I did not have time...
6th Aug 2026
I am back from an almost three week trip to LA, Sydney and Christchurch. Sorry I did not have time to keep up with my blog over that period – in which we recorded four live SGU shows, produced three days of conference content, put on two stage shows, and hosted several other...
Butler's Log
GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
Global Inequality...
Ukraine, Lenin and Sultan-Galiev
Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
6th Aug 2026
Re-reading Richard Pipes’ "The Formation of the Soviet Union"
Open for Business
Ecclesiology, Doctrine, Ecumenism: A Few Difficult Questions
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something...
6th Aug 2026
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something young man holding theologically conservative views, and similar views on Christian ethics, who is Reformed.
Jonas Hietala
Domains, certificates, and DNS
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up...
6th Aug 2026
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up subdomains for my hietala.xyz domain for internal use.
We’ll use the Gateway API to set up routes, cert-manager to give us https without self-signed browser warnings, and ExternalDNS to...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Megan Hall
I'm Megan Hall, a reduction linocut printmaker based in Plymouth, Devon. My work is inspired by...
5th Aug 2026
I'm Megan Hall, a reduction linocut printmaker based in Plymouth, Devon. My work is inspired by water and the time I spend outdoors, particularly swimming, paddleboarding and exploring the Devon coastline. I create original linocuts that try to capture those moments when the...
What To Cook
publishing a book and starting kindergarten
Hi! Woah. I leave for the East Coast to start my Make It Fast (please for the love of ME, pre-order...
5th Aug 2026
Hi! Woah. I leave for the East Coast to start my Make It Fast (please for the love of ME, pre-order it!!!) book tour in less than 48 hours. My literary agent just called to check in on my mental state and I’ll tell you what I told her— I’m honestly feeling great. I haven’t...
Conservation...
Newly protected habitat offers hope for the Siamese crocodile
5th Aug 2026
AFAR Media - Travel...
Regent Resorts: Culinary Travel Experiences
5th Aug 2026
Jeff Geerling
Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM.
I tested...
5th Aug 2026
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM.
I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64...
Res Obscura
The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
5th Aug 2026
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
AI as Normal...
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
Trying to Understand...
The Limits Of Our World.
And the prisons we make for ourselves.
5th Aug 2026
And the prisons we make for ourselves.
Map of the Week
U.S. Map Mislabels Every African Country
At a global AIDS conference the U.S. State Department showed this map of Africa.
-map...
5th Aug 2026
At a global AIDS conference the U.S. State Department showed this map of Africa.
-map via Reuters, reformatted to better fit the page.
Every country is incorrectly located and indicated with ridiculous shapes. Nigeria, where the US has troops deployed is shown in the middle...
Herman's blog
Committing to creativity
The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy
In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending...
5th Aug 2026
In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
Inverted Passion
Why AI agents aren’t adopted widely
Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI...
5th Aug 2026
Hint: managing someone is actually hard, and most times not worth it. Most people don’t use AI agents daily because delegation (to another human) is a learned skill. Using AI agents is actually a lot like doing natural language programming: specifying requirements, verifying...
oftwominds-Charles...
The Joys and Tragedies of Naivete
Our naivete is being exploited so ruthlessly and with such abandon that the golden age of the Big...
5th Aug 2026
Our naivete is being exploited so ruthlessly and with such abandon that the golden age of the Big Con is consuming itself.
Naivete is interesting because it's so easily confused with confidence, native optimism, youthful enthusiasm, and a host of delusions, including...
Works in Progress...
The ultimate horse
Selective breeding has pushed horses to the limits of biology. But at what cost?
5th Aug 2026
Selective breeding has pushed horses to the limits of biology. But at what cost?
Eric Migicovsky's...
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget...
5th Aug 2026
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life…
Good Enough
Album Listening in Album Whale
Back in March we added Album Search in Album Whale. This was a very nice update because it meant you...
4th Aug 2026
Back in March we added Album Search in Album Whale. This was a very nice update because it meant you no longer had to first grab an album share link from a music service (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, etc) in order to save an album to a list. You can just head straight to...
lcamtuf’s thing
Meta: 7,000
Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has...
4th Aug 2026
Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has crossed 7,000 email subscribers (plus an unknown number of RSS weirdos).
lcamtuf’s thing
Meta: 7,000
Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has...
4th Aug 2026
Although I try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum, I’m happy to report that this publication has crossed 7,000 email subscribers (plus an unknown number of RSS weirdos).
Win Vector LLC
Choose by Probability, not by Expectation
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of...
4th Aug 2026
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of claimed returns or in terms of expected values. For example: An ultra greedy gambler may pick the highest claimed winning payoff, independent of win or success probabilities. A greedy...
Stephen Wolfram...
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
4th Aug 2026
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The AI Demand Bubble
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
4th Aug 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
Product Identity
Annoucning Niche design: The Creative Practice
Inside the next issue + patronage
4th Aug 2026
Inside the next issue + patronage
Hidden History
A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus...
4th Aug 2026
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had...
Jamesin’s Substack
Some things I've been thinking about -
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -”...
4th Aug 2026
This is the second week I’ve experimented with writing a “Some Things I’ve been thinking about -” post on Twitter & LinkedIn.
The AI Underwriter
Open Source, uh, Finds a Way
Who Can Deploy the Most Intelligence per Dollar of Compute?
4th Aug 2026
Who Can Deploy the Most Intelligence per Dollar of Compute?
Both Are True
i tried making a game with ai and then this happened
ALEX NO
4th Aug 2026
The Elysian
Even Christopher Nolan prefers 70mm film
With all the technology in the world, sometimes the more beautiful thing is less of it.
4th Aug 2026
With all the technology in the world, sometimes the more beautiful thing is less of it.
The Quanta Podcast
Why Am I Left-Handed?
Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Geneticists, developmental biologists, neuroscientists, and...
4th Aug 2026
Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Geneticists, developmental biologists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists have all sought explanations, resulting in an astronomical amount of research into the mystery of handedness. No one has put all the pieces together yet,...
Retail Design Blog
CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor...
4th Aug 2026
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor administrative complex on...
The Pudding
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
4th Aug 2026
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
Platformer
Notes on the third era of slop
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
4th Aug 2026
Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?
somethingaboutmaps
A Few Minor Niceties
I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try...
4th Aug 2026
I recently finished up a first draft of a piece for a client, a map that gave me a chance to try some new things and also exercise some cartographic muscles that I haven’t for a while. So, today, I wanted to just highlight a few interesting odds and ends that came up during the …...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RODEN] Oooohhh Summer, How Much Risk Is a Useful Amount of Risk?
Roden Readers —
There is sweat and then there is s-w-e-a-t and the out-of-doorsness in Japan is...
4th Aug 2026
Roden Readers —
There is sweat and then there is s-w-e-a-t and the out-of-doorsness in Japan is presently a natural machine that produces nothing but sweat and sweat and sweat and swelter. Dryness has been eradicated. Fire is impossible to start. Blowtorch any single thing and it...
Eric Bailey
Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill.
For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
Asterisk
How Diplomats See the World
Inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine.
4th Aug 2026
Inside the boring-by-design U.S. fact-checking machine.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Pregnancy taught me a lot about healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket
A personal story and a patient journey
3rd Aug 2026
A personal story and a patient journey
Uncharted...
Where Will AI Stocks Go from Here?
Summer 2026 Dispatch
3rd Aug 2026
WHAT'S ANU
🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS
Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
3rd Aug 2026
Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
The Changelog
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a...
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was...
3rd Aug 2026
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill...
Scarlet Ink
Every Relationship Is Win-Win or Lose-Lose.
Relationships can only be win-win, or lose-lose, because they're a connection between two people.
3rd Aug 2026
Relationships can only be win-win, or lose-lose, because they're a connection between two people.
Yale E360
In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat
El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe,...
3rd Aug 2026
El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.
Read more on E360 →
Stat Significant
6 Culture Trends Worth Watching: Madonna, Avengers Doomsday, Million-Dollar Jackets, and More
A data-driven look at the Emmys’ cultural relevance, Hollywood’s latest layoffs, country music’s...
3rd Aug 2026
A data-driven look at the Emmys’ cultural relevance, Hollywood’s latest layoffs, country music’s mainstream rise, and an overpriced leather jacket—through data. Plus recommended reads and datasets.
Jakob Nielsen on UX
UX Roundup: Design Guidelines Changing for AI | AI Anxiety | Toggle Switches | Hedonic Adaptation |...
Design guidelines held steady for 30 years but are shifting with AI | Users who are anxious about AI...
3rd Aug 2026
Design guidelines held steady for 30 years but are shifting with AI | Users who are anxious about AI use it more, not less | A toggle is a light switch, not a form field | The same design scores lower every year | What are the Erdős problems and why are they relevant for AI? | An...
Atoms vs Bits
The Cult Will Tell You You're Living Life Wrong
if your friends won't, they will
3rd Aug 2026
if your friends won't, they will
Common Edge
Local Economies, Fiscal Imagination and Economic Justice in New York City
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and...
3rd Aug 2026
History shows that a city’s economy is strongest when it’s locally rooted, ownership is shared, and growth is generated from the bottom up.
UX Collective
The algorithmic atelier
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Aug 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Stratechery by Ben...
Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
3rd Aug 2026
Meta's earnings were a bit disappointing; future promises about AI products were more disconcerting.
Permanent Style
Introducing: The PS Guayabera
We love a guayabera shirt at Permanent Style. On my 2022 trip to Mexico I picked up two lovely...
3rd Aug 2026
We love a guayabera shirt at Permanent Style. On my 2022 trip to Mexico I picked up two lovely shirts which sadly, like the Cadbury’s Freddo , appear to have suffered from some form of sartorial shrinkflation. It can’t possibly be me that’s ... > Read more
Software and Tech...
Invisible Problems
During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we...
3rd Aug 2026
During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we couldn't meet in person, we all ordered food on DoorDash and played an online escape room game together. We were on a Zoom call, helping each other out and having fun. The first...
Paul Cudenec
Dreaming of danger
[Plus audio version]
3rd Aug 2026
Mihnea's Context
opinion: in-office is good, remote is great, hybrid is hell (8min read)
Most knowledge workers are in hybrid teams—the setup most likely to desync. Notes from the remote...
3rd Aug 2026
Most knowledge workers are in hybrid teams—the setup most likely to desync. Notes from the remote trenches.
Better than Random
Should you take the startup offer?
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
TokyoDev
Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of...
3rd Aug 2026
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of advice people give when you’re wondering how to meet new people, and I decided to take it.
I had just moved to Fukuoka after my job hunt as a post-graduate and a friend introduced me...
The American Scholar
“A Bed for Your Voice to Sleep In”
The post “A Bed for Your Voice to Sleep In” appeared first on The American Scholar.
3rd Aug 2026
The post “A Bed for Your Voice to Sleep In” appeared first on The American Scholar.
Awkward Zombie
Awkward Zombie - Picking Up Speed
New comic!
Today's News:
Maybe these people shouldn't be trusted to define their own order...
3rd Aug 2026
New comic!
Today's News:
Maybe these people shouldn't be trusted to define their own order parameters. Some of these feel like a "none pizza with left beef" situation.
The Universe of...
Seven books I keep close because I love them
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting
up, has seven books on it, not...
3rd Aug 2026
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting
up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the
most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I
write.
Roget's Thesaurus (4th edition)
The one I actually refer to most often...
Ploum.net
Un manifeste Offpunk
Un manifeste Offpunk
Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon...
3rd Aug 2026
Un manifeste Offpunk
Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et que j’ai co-signé
An Offpunk Manifesto (English version)
Versão em português
La révolution ne sera pas numérique
Alors que l’hyperconnexion apparait comme le...
Strong Towns
Policy Debt: The Missing Massive
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not...
3rd Aug 2026
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not a victory.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
On running
Never did I imagine myself getting into running, especially as a middle-aged man. It always seemed a...
2nd Aug 2026
Never did I imagine myself getting into running, especially as a middle-aged man. It always seemed a bit boring to me. Cycling is what I thought I‘d inevitably venture into, especially because I love watching that sport. But here I am, roped in by a couple of friends, fully...
Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
2nd Aug 2026
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
African History...
The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in...
2nd Aug 2026
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
The Honest Broker
How I Became the Honest Broker
I share my origin story
2nd Aug 2026
bookbear express
safe and alive
both at once!
2nd Aug 2026
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.08.02 - It’s My Birthday
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
2nd Aug 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Overcoming Bias
Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and...
2nd Aug 2026
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas.
Classical Wisdom
Do YOU Know the Trojan War?
Weekly Wisdom Quiz
2nd Aug 2026
Don't Worry About...
Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought...
2nd Aug 2026
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.
The Intimate Mirror
I'm Married
It Takes a Village to Raise a Marriage
2nd Aug 2026
It Takes a Village to Raise a Marriage
Can We Still Govern?
Is MAGA Melting Down?
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
Winnie Lim
[instagram]
123 months: everything is perimenopause
as we're both women in our mid 40s we're inevitably entering the dreaded phase in our lives when our...
2nd Aug 2026
as we're both women in our mid 40s we're inevitably entering the dreaded phase in our lives when our hormones go out of whack and we start experiencing disturbing symptoms...these days one can search any medical symptom on google and it is definitely a possible perimenopause...
Daniel Bourke
Imagination misused
You gotta have a level of conviction that it’ll happen. That whatever you’re trying to do will...
2nd Aug 2026
You gotta have a level of conviction that it’ll happen. That whatever you’re trying to do will happen. That it’ll all work out.
And it will.
I mean hell the same energy that turns seeds into forests is within you.
I am continually amazed
Looking Through the...
A Narrow Gate
The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
2nd Aug 2026
The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
Noahpinion
Slopulism is taking over America
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological...
2nd Aug 2026
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
Wrong Side of...
Europe on fire
UK News Report #7: July 2026
2nd Aug 2026
UK News Report #7: July 2026
Sherman's Food...
Utopia Bagels
On our last day in NYC before an evening flight, we made the trek out into midtown searching for...
2nd Aug 2026
On our last day in NYC before an evening flight, we made the trek out into midtown searching for some bagels. The first stop was at Utopia Bagels out on East 34th Street. Founded in 1980 at its original Queens location, Utopia is known for its hand-made bagels. We made it...
Mert Bulan - Blog &...
More German than many Germans
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation....
2nd Aug 2026
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
Old Vintage...
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple...
2nd Aug 2026
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux.
sui generis IBM...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving and taking credit in big tech companies
2nd Aug 2026
computers are bad
telephones caught in between
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the
largest machine ever...
2nd Aug 2026
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the
largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether
or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of
definition. The Internet, I think we can...
DYNOMIGHT
Indirect lessons from human alignment
(Inspired by a post from Eli Tyre.)
Many people make some variant of the following...
2nd Aug 2026
(Inspired by a post from Eli Tyre.)
Many people make some variant of the following argument:
Evolution is an “outer optimizer”. It is trying to make us maximize reproductive fitness.
We are “inner optimizers”. We just do what feels good.
But what feels good has been set by...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Caldera Music
A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp
1st Aug 2026
A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp
Rubenerd
The myth of Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard was a version of Mac OS X released in 2010. It was billed by Apple as having “0 new...
1st Aug 2026
Snow Leopard was a version of Mac OS X released in 2010. It was billed by Apple as having “0 new features”, with a focus on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Those of us using Macs at the time welcomed the news after living with updates that seemingly...
ByteofDev
Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A
Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
Rare Historical...
Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to...
1st Aug 2026
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to define one of the most stylish decades in beach history. The 1930s transformed swimming from a rare luxury into a beloved national pastime, and with that shift came a wave of...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Funds, Slop, Schools, Lookism, Automation, Bots, Efficiency, Magnitogorsk
1st Aug 2026
Funds, Slop, Schools, Lookism, Automation, Bots, Efficiency, Magnitogorsk
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Doc
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The weird part is that they're in a Burger...
1st Aug 2026
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The weird part is that they're in a Burger King.
Today's News:
Herbert Lui
Creative slack
It’s much easier to be creative when you’re not constantly worried about tradeoffs. In order to...
1st Aug 2026
It’s much easier to be creative when you’re not constantly worried about tradeoffs. In order to relax, and actually create, you need to be able to experiment. And not every experiment will turn out successfully. Many will fail. You need to be able to make mistakes. Let’s call...
Birchtree
No more new apps (in August)
It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to...
1st Aug 2026
It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to have more side projects than most people can imagine keeping up with, I guess it shouldn't be a surprise.
I've got 8 apps on the
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
Construction Physics
Reading List 08/01/26
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
Archinect
10 living room designs we enjoyed this week
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten...
1st Aug 2026
In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.
Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Living Spaces.
↑ Cummings...
IEEE Spectrum
Fridays With Bob
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which...
1st Aug 2026
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions.
I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report,...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Promotion
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view...
1st Aug 2026
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view of the Regency Spire, which houses the World Parliament: From Carol Highsmith, a view of the south facade of the Empire State Building:
TheCollector
Commodus’ Last Night in the Bath and the Chaos it Sparked
Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively...
1st Aug 2026
Over the course of the late 2nd century AD, the emperor Commodus was accused of progressively slipping into megalomania. Masquerading as a gladiator in the arena and presenting himself as the hero Hercules, he even had plans to rename the city of Rome after himself. Patience was...
Seth's Blog
“Welcome back”
What if they meant it? What if your return felt special to the people behind the counter? What if...
1st Aug 2026
What if they meant it? What if your return felt special to the people behind the counter? What if they knew, without looking it up, or being told–what if they knew that you were here, again, a vote of trust and confidence. Returning home is one of the oldest human desires. It’s a...
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