Waiting is risky
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch,...
21st Jun 2025
from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
21st Jun 2025
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch, but most of my lists are for collecting ideas. They include ideas for blog posts, websites, businesses, open-source code, video games, books, and other kinds of projects.
Some of...
from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Jun 2025
Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software.
Not in the traditional way—writing line after line of code, plumbing together brittle libraries, grinding through boilerplate. Instead, I’ve been vibe coding.
Vibe coding is a new way of building software...
from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI
20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
19th Jun 2025
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
19th Jun 2025
One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.
from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI
18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai.
It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging.
The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
18th Jun 2025
The decline of the sitcom: from mainstream television staple to nostalgic relic.
from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Jun 2025
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
17th Jun 2025
Charlotte, North Carolina, is in the middle of a housing crisis. Churches are stepping up to help.
from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Jun 2025
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater. She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture
16th Jun 2025
Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Jun 2025
Working with very large JSON files (20MB+) using online tools tends to be a crashy affair. Whether you’re looking to format or search them, all the tools I found just crash. I found myself having to work with huge JSON files recently, so I built a tool specifically optimized for...
from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Jun 2025
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation.
More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies.
But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
15th Jun 2025
A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments:
The NSF awarded 500 more graduate fellowships this week, bringing the total for this year up to 1500. (Apologies for the X link.) This is still 25% lower than last year's number, and of course far below the original...
Context as the Moat
To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users....
15th Jun 2025
from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th Jun 2025
To build a defensible, enduring business, it is essential to attract, convert, and retain users. Ideally, customer reliance on your product should deepen over time, making the cost of switching to a competitor prohibitively high. Consumer-facing AI companies are now grappling...
from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
15th Jun 2025
I've been working on my indie book, and it's almost ready!
from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
15th Jun 2025
Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a public moment of unambiguously whiffing it.
from Internal Tech Emails [alt+shift+b] in startups
15th Jun 2025
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming
14th Jun 2025
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument
called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator).
This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball.
This ball was nicknamed...
from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature
14th Jun 2025
I recently finished reading Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The book explains the various missteps taken by the U.S. government that led us to where we are today: a bureaucratic sludge of policies and regulations that’s caused ambitious projects to go over budget...
Black Bag
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies...
14th Jun 2025
from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Jun 2025
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th Jun 2025
"Mr. Torres did as instructed."
from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science
13th Jun 2025
What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are?
That was the question at the heart of Kim Carson’s Long Now Talk. In _Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era_, Carson challenged us to avoid the easy narratives of...
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
13th Jun 2025
A history buff friend of mine said that the art of medieval fencing was lost completely. At some point, the last person who really knew how to do it had died. There are old treatises that describe the art, and people have learned a lot from them, starting historical fencing clubs...
from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life
12th Jun 2025
CBL #93 - Some thoughts on thinking/acting, naming/doing, and where this blog is headed
NASA Is Worth Saving
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik...
12th Jun 2025
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
12th Jun 2025
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology development program to safeguard US interests in space. NASA embodies the US ideals of...
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
12th Jun 2025
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
from Anthony Castrio's Official Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in startups
12th Jun 2025
Site visit to the remote team (with pics)
Ramblin’ Rod
Long ago, I was in the studio audience of a local PDX TV kids show called Ramblin’ Rod. “Local kids...
12th Jun 2025
from cabel.com [alt+shift+b] in creative
12th Jun 2025
Long ago, I was in the studio audience of a local PDX TV kids show called Ramblin’ Rod. “Local kids show” is a format that is completely lost to time, which is pretty wild, because it was such a thing. Think Krusty the Clown — kids sitting in a studio, a goofball host, time...
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
12th Jun 2025
Inflation targeting is now standard in central banking. But it began with an offhand comment and a political gamble in New Zealand – long before economists took it seriously.
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
12th Jun 2025
Animal drugs are approved much faster than human drugs. Perhaps we could adopt the same model for humans without compromising on safety.
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Jun 2025
Good evening, hackfolk. A quick note this evening to record a waypoint
in my efforts to improve Guile’s memory manager.
So, I got Guile running on top of the
API. This API can be
implemented by a number of concrete garbage collector implementations.
The implementation backed...
from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Jun 2025
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Jun 2025
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element.
Here’s UI hidden:
Here’s UI visible:
The thinking is: when writing, you want...
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology
11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital...
10th Jun 2025
from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI
10th Jun 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
10th Jun 2025
Featured: Exclusive interview with Emmanuel (CEO of Bubble) on the 10-year journey and why he's excited about the public beta launch of native mobile app builder
Spotlight and Mei Semones
Last night I was able to experience a rare musical two-fer. First was day one of Minnesota’s annual...
10th Jun 2025
from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel
10th Jun 2025
Last night I was able to experience a rare musical two-fer. First was day one of Minnesota’s annual celebration of high school musicals: Spotlight Showcase. This is a two-night event for the Minnesota theater to community to celebrate tens of schools whose musical productions...
from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Jun 2025
(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups
10th Jun 2025
The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it. This is why we’ve adopted and integrated AI in our Stanford national security...
Partial Keyframes
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial,...
10th Jun 2025
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Jun 2025
CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯
from The Solarchitecture Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture
10th Jun 2025
Local vernacular passive house among the vines
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
10th Jun 2025
Editor’s note (Nicole Yunger Halpern): Jade LeSchack, the Quantum Steampunk Laboratory’s first undergraduate, received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland this spring. Kermit the Frog presented the valedictory address, but Jade gave the following speech at the...
from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Jun 2025
I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++
program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a
long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if
it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Jun 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already.
I want my fucking tech industry back.
Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that
from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Jun 2025
For the past 10 years, I’ve had the same work routine.
from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life
9th Jun 2025
Announcing a journaling course in collaboration with Buster Benson at 750 Words — designed to help you step back, breathe, and reconnect with what truly matters. Join us!
from Token for Token [alt+shift+b] in AI
9th Jun 2025
why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less
from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming
9th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll expose my current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are...
AI’s metrics question
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused
about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups
9th Jun 2025
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused
about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but
it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
9th Jun 2025
The premise of this multi-volume novel is simple: a modern-day French woman called Tara finds herself stuck inside the eighteenth day of a November. The nineteenth never appears. On the 121st iteration of the same day she begins to write by describing the sounds made by her...
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
9th Jun 2025
The Foundation That Makes Healing Possible
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
8th Jun 2025
I’ve had quite a busy May. It’s been a lovely month, featuring a wedding in the country, a trip to the Isle of Wight, my first visit to a dairy farm in 40+ years, a lovely trip to the Cotswolds, and more. If you can identify any of the locations above feel free to shout… Continue...
from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
from Grant Slatton's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
The cleansing fire of rebirth
This site has buttons!
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it:
Click me!
I added buttons that act as a simple...
8th Jun 2025
from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it:
Click me!
I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too!
Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay
Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
2025-06-08 Omnimax
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part
of a huge team of...
8th Jun 2025
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Jun 2025
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part
of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was
COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more
than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention...
from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
What do we do now that chatgpt keeps eating our work? Do we just...give up?
How I program with Agents
How I program with Agents
2025-06-08
This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to...
8th Jun 2025
from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Jun 2025
How I program with Agents
2025-06-08
This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how...
from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life
7th Jun 2025
A pancake in the morning feels indulgent... but every day?
My desk setup in 2025.
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally
have it mostly pulled together...
7th Jun 2025
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th Jun 2025
Since 2020, I’ve been working on my desk setup, and I think I finally
have it mostly pulled together at this point. I don’t really think
my desk setup is very novel, and I’m sure there are better ways to pull
it together, but I will say that it finally works the way I want
since...
from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Jun 2025
It is your Weekly Reader for this week of November 6, 1961. Here is the space flight news of this week.
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
6th Jun 2025
PLUS: Elon vs. Trump, Taylor Swift, Moncler's $17B Secret Sauce and Ukraine Drone Tech.
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
6th Jun 2025
Several recent GeoCurrents posts have emphasized similarities in the electoral geographies of the United States and Canada. But there are also some major differences, particularly regarding state/province voting patterns and levels of economic development. In the U.S., the...
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Jun 2025
This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman battle sequence in film: the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). Despite being a relatively short sequence (about ten minutes), there’s actually enough to talk about here that...
from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Jun 2025
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema documentation) was largely written with the help of Claude, the AI model by Anthropic. Claude’s...
from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Jun 2025
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin
noise, which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU
optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used
virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural...
from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Jun 2025
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own
a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny.
It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it.
It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
Recently
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I...
6th Jun 2025
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Jun 2025
A little late on this one, but I got around to it!
Reading
I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get
any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light
year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century
by Ross Barkan,...
from Musings on Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
5th Jun 2025
Donald Trump has so skillfully adopted terms and coopted concepts by slapping his name on them to rebrand them as his own, in ways we may do well to question if this is entirely impulsively done. From CPAC to the … Continue reading →
from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Jun 2025
Across New York's North Country by Rural Transit Bus
Silly pumpkin face
A comic about a pumpkin that gets carved into a silly face.
View on my website
5th Jun 2025
from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics
5th Jun 2025
A comic about a pumpkin that gets carved into a silly face.
View on my website
from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture
5th Jun 2025
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2025
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Jun 2025
Tea is a little-known beverage, consumed for flavor or sometimes for conjectured effects as a stimulant. It’s made by submerging the leaves of C. Sinensis in hot water. But how hot should the water be?
To resolve this, I brewed the same tea at four different temperatures, brought...
You look tired
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent...
5th Jun 2025
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Jun 2025
"You look tired."
Well, I'm pregnant and in the first trimester. I'm currently trying to prevent myself from throwing up, while needing to force myself eat every 2 hours despite not really exercising and needing to sleep for what seems like 12 hours a day all totaled up, and then...
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
4th Jun 2025
Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you to carve just one block to print a multi-coloured design. By cutting our carved block into jigsaw pieces we can ink them up separately and print onto the fabric, knowing they'll...
from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2025
Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design
4th Jun 2025
Welcome back to DESK!
New York threw us another perfect weekend so I took the Escape Machine down to Balthazar in SoHo for some overpriced eggs benedict (a Tobias favorite, although I prefer it at PASTIS in Meatpacking District, same owner, better food).
While enjoying my brunch...
from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2025
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI
4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
Norbert's, East Dulwich
They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast...
4th Jun 2025
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
4th Jun 2025
They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast chicken in the capital, and then two come along at once.
one in Holborn closed (where I would go at least once every couple of weeks back in the day), then Kentish Town, then...
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Jun 2025
It’s always hard to define life. Everyone has their favorite definition – some describe it as a struggle against entropy, while others describe it as an emergent property of chemicals. Countless books have been written on the topic, yet we’re far from a consensus. Against the...
Random Italy Maps
I will finish off my series of posts from my recent trip to Italy with a few random maps I saw in my...
4th Jun 2025
from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography
4th Jun 2025
I will finish off my series of posts from my recent trip to Italy with a few random maps I saw in my travels. Hopefully these are interesting beyond my personal whims.
I will start with this raised relief map of the Valpolicella wine region hanging on the wall of the Tenuta Santa...
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
4th Jun 2025
<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like.
Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp.
In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
4th Jun 2025
Highlights
The writing techniques I planned last month helped me publish faster and focus better.
I need to find more ways to talk to readers about my book.
Goal grades
At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Jun 2025
A few days ago I saw a cute question on mse asking about a particularly
non-intuitive failing of the axiom of choice. I remember when I was an
undergrad talking to a friend of mine about various statements equivalent
to choice, and being particularly hung up on the same...
from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history
4th Jun 2025
Decaf or Java — which version of MTV's website should you choose?
Part of the reason it was so difficult for both digital music and video webcasts to gain traction on the web over 1997 was the fickleness of the underlying software: the web browser. Throughout the year, a host of...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
4th Jun 2025
Ridgeline subscribers —
For years, Kevin Kelly and I have been inviting (to no avail) Rich Roll on Walk and Talks. So it was with great delight that about a month ago, I (Craig Mod, author of this newsletter, Ridgeline; thanks for subscribing) flew out to LA to go on the Rich...
Breaking Changes
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email...
3rd Jun 2025
from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Jun 2025
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email infrastructure. Processing thousands of emails each day, we use Dovecot to give our clients access to their messages. That all came to a grinding halt when I updated to version...
from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Jun 2025
It’s important to instrument your AI applications! I hope this can more or less be taken as given just as you’d expect a non-AI-infused app to capture logs. When you’re evaluating your LLM-powered system, you need to have capture the inputs and outputs both at an end-to-end level...
from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Jun 2025
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm. Since this is sort of a priority for being able to follow along with the Hamel / Shreya evals course with my practical application, I’ll take another stab using a tool with which I’m...
from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature
3rd Jun 2025
A Guest Lecture featuring Sondre Rasch, co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing.
from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Jun 2025
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
3rd Jun 2025
the life-changing magic of the failure bow
from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history
3rd Jun 2025
Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Jun 2025
Previously: The Flywheel, part 1 and part 2.
I feel sorry for the Rev. Thomas Malthus. He was doomed to be misremembered by history.
His Essay on the Principle of Population is remembered as a prophecy of scarcity. But Malthus’s focus was how to deal with scarcity, which he took...
from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance
3rd Jun 2025
New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin
from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
3rd Jun 2025
Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of 2025.
from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology
3rd Jun 2025
Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
Exploring the web in 1995
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web...
3rd Jun 2025
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
3rd Jun 2025
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups
3rd Jun 2025
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
3rd Jun 2025
I’m not saying that “Agentic AI” will “never” replicate all tasks that workers are currently paid to complete, but I strongly suspect that current agents have an extremely limited task scope.
As exhibit A, I submit this podcast episode, in which Agentic AI is sold on the basis...
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
3rd Jun 2025
A conversation about EHRs, who their customers actually are, and building apps
from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI
3rd Jun 2025
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
Audio Guestbook
The little creative lab I run with Manu, FormFeelingFunction®, is starting to take shape — albeit...
2nd Jun 2025
from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2025
The little creative lab I run with Manu, FormFeelingFunction®, is starting to take shape — albeit slowly. We’ve been mulling over all sorts of concepts. Some might be realised, some probably won’t, and a few definitely will. One that’s just gone live is our most experimental idea...
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2025
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
Is It JavaScript?
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript.
My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
2nd Jun 2025
from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2025
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript.
My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue
— @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky
“It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times.
It...
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
2nd Jun 2025
I was on a family vacation in August 2011 when I received an email from a journalist asking me what I thought about the S&P ratings downgrade for the US. Since I stay blissfully unaware of most news stories and things related to markets when I am on the beach, I had to look up...
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2025
The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face intimidation and risk arrest as they patrol their forests to document the losses and try to push the government to stop the cutting.
Read...
from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2025
Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up with a full tank. Quite often, I don't exactly know where we're going or even why we're going, but it's repeatedly taken me to just the right place at just the right time, so now I...
from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2025
By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified theory” of math.
The post The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered first appeared on Quanta Magazine
from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2025
We might be better off this way
The world of tomorrow
When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?
2nd Jun 2025
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2025
When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?
from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2025
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean?
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2025
I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact, I hope to be a little more consistent starting this summer because (if you follow me on the SGU you already know this) I am retiring from my day job at Yale at the […]
The post...
from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative
2nd Jun 2025
World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945. It followed, by less than three weeks, an equally momentous event, at least in the eyes of cinephiles: the birth of Wim Wenders. Though soon to turn 80 years old, Wenders has remained both productive and capable of drawing great...
from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design
2nd Jun 2025
Casbro Spa designed the ISA ENERGIA offices in Santiago to embody sustainability and employee well-being through flexible spaces that maximize...
from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jun 2025
From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2025
Over the last three weeks, I’ve been writing about how I manage my bookmarks.
how I use a static site to store them, how I built a personal web archive by hand, and what I learnt about web development along the way.
I wanted to end this series on a lighter note, so here’s a...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jun 2025
Sunny visions of the future are great. But if you want to lead the Democrats, you need to fight.
from History Today Magazine Feed [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jun 2025
‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review
JamesHoare
Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Jun 2025
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
Sticking With It
A sobering chronicle of our toxic times
The post Sticking With It appeared first on The American...
2nd Jun 2025
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Jun 2025
A sobering chronicle of our toxic times
The post Sticking With It appeared first on The American Scholar.
from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Jun 2025
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there is a limit to how much reality we can bear — evolution gave us consciousness so that we may sieve the...
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Jun 2025
First, my poor email subscribers missed some of the installments
of my newsletter about Anthony Powell.
If this keeps happening I will have to think of something or even do
something. Here they are:
A skippable piece of throat-clearing about the roman
fleuve.
What I think...
from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2025
View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News As you may know, I have been writing science-fiction stories based on good astronomy as my retirement project. After a good number of rejections from the finest sci-fi magazines the world over, I am now...
from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2025
What we obtain too cheaply
from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jun 2025
Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers
Lately I've been working on using MCP beyond just using it for symbolic algebra manipulations, I've been thinking about how to interface large language models with a suite of dedicated solvers for scientific computing...
from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2025
Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2025
Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2025
I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago.
I was partly dissatisfied with my Garmin watch as a fitness and health tracker and I also wanted a new tech device to tinker with.
The plan was to write a short post about what I like and don’t...
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jun 2025
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2025
The state of aesthetics in the 21st century is very, very strange
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2025
remember: we're playing the long game, folks
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Jun 2025
See the World Without Ever Leaving Japan There are several remote corners of Japan that have been comparing themselves to world-famous tourist destinations. Whether it’s out of pride, a bid to attract tourists, or just a good sense of humor, their reasons vary. But that’s not to...
2025-06-01
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake:
The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
This is not autobiographical because in the real version there is no strawberry.
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moka pot notes
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti...
1st Jun 2025
from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2025
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I
got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of
attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a
reminder to my...
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2025
Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Jun 2025
1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art
Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This is a set of instructions written by the creators of the LLM designed to give it personality, a starting point for response, and to build in “fences”
from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jun 2025
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2025
Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different technological and social landscape—Google had just filed a patent application on the transformer architecture, a momentous...
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2025
Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious appetite for sex and food. The elegant American jazz pianist, composer, master of instrumental colour and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra wrote thousands of songs and performed...
from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2025
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2025
Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they sound, rather than how logical they are. As a result, we may accept believable yet logically invalid claims, and reject unbelievable yet logically valid ones. As one of the earliest...
Scripts and casting
In the theatre, the play is written before casting begins. This gives the playwright freedom and...
1st Jun 2025
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Jun 2025
In the theatre, the play is written before casting begins. This gives the playwright freedom and responsibility, and it puts the text first. Writing for a sitcom is different. The 50th episode of Seinfeld was a lot easier to write because the cast and the tropes were already set....
from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2025
A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find happiness.
V&A East Storehouse
This is Blythe House, a monumental Edwardian office block round the back of the Olympia exhibition...
1st Jun 2025
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Jun 2025
This is Blythe House, a monumental Edwardian office block round the back of the Olympia exhibition centre.
Swindon, the British Museum are off to Reading and the V&A shifted their repository to the Olympic Park... opening yesterday.
New in E20: V&A East Storehouse
Location:...
0.9999... ≊ 1
What is infinity, and why it's not trivial to show that 0.9999... is equal to 1.
1st Jun 2025
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2025
What is infinity, and why it's not trivial to show that 0.9999... is equal to 1.
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jun 2025
R.L. Barth, our finest living
epigrammist (admittedly, not a vast job description), has sent me
his translation of a well-known epigram by Martial, the Roman master of the pithy
form. Bob found it among his papers and doesn’t remember making it. “[T]ranslating
something [Ben]...
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2025
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2025
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected.
Like many people, I've avoided looking at my 401k these past few weeks. Well, I peeked, and it's all in the red.
There are so many interpretations of what's going on....
on inner expectations
I am not sure when it started, but I tend to feel like I am wasting my life if I am not doing...
1st Jun 2025
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2025
I am not sure when it started, but I tend to feel like I am wasting my life if I am not doing something creative or enriching. Hence it has been difficult...
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now.
Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2025
The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot 208. The i-Cockpit's main innovation is…
More or less
You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
1st Jun 2025
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2025
You must select between three pricing strategies, and fully commit to their implications.
Spring, 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2025
Does Peugeot's software match the excellent hardware?
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
31st May 2025
Featured: Exclusive interview with CEO of Zown who is turning hidden real estate fees into buyer cash
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
31st May 2025
By the time you’re three or four years old, you’ve already learned the tremendous value of dishonesty. Even if you were the one who unrolled all the toilet paper onto the floor, you know it’s possible for your parents to believe it was someone else, and that’s a better outcome...
from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology
31st May 2025
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
31st May 2025
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
Retreating to Safety
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
30th May 2025
from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming
30th May 2025
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community.
I wrote this in response:
Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
from pcloadletter [alt+shift+b] in science
30th May 2025
Generative AI will probably make blogs better.
Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense? That's because these blog posts have been optimized not for human consumption, but rather to entertain the search...
Beginning 3D printing
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
28th May 2025
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
28th May 2025
A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
28th May 2025
Keeping warm in the winter
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