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...
Londonist
London's Best New Pubs 2026
A dozen new pubs worth visiting.
1st Aug 2026
A dozen new pubs worth visiting.
The Ruffian
The Last Lunch
A Short Story
1st Aug 2026
Maps Mania
The Map of Global Friendship
1st Aug 2026
Koos Looijesteijn
How I repaired our oven with a piece of Lego
1st Aug 2026
diamond geezer
Underblogged July
Slim Summer Saturday
31 underblogged things I did in July
Wed 1: Malted wheats for breakfast.
Thu...
1st Aug 2026
Slim Summer Saturday
31 underblogged things I did in July
Wed 1: Malted wheats for breakfast.
Thu 2: The buzzer wasn't working.
Fri 3: Surrounded by school trip.
Sat 4: Freezer so needed defrosting.
Sun 5: Victoria didn't have any.
Mon 6: Sara Cox pefectly adequate.
Tue 7:...
Flashbak
Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist
TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was 1946 and he...
1st Aug 2026
TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was 1946 and he was compèring a revue called Piccadilly Hayride at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
The post Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist appeared first on...
Matt Mullenweg
Tesla Spyware
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
Anecdotal Evidence
'All He'd Read and Learned'
Eccentricity in books is a
tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take...
1st Aug 2026
Eccentricity in books is a
tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take Robert
Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, a book I discovered in my freshman
year. I redundantly keep three copies on the shelves nearest my desk. Tristram
Shandy is another...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Let's Stay Human
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Aug 2026
Dreams of Space -...
Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys.
Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
Applied Cartography
Best of Enemies
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
matt.sh
Claude Hooker: do you come here often?
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claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has...
1st Aug 2026
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claude-hooker
The mystery of claude code over the past year and a half has been how does a world
leading ‘AI productization lab’ continually generate such shitty amatuer
globally distributed software and services over and over again? It’s
almost like...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st Aug 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I am up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in July Concluded my trip to Japan and posted more photos to the Tsundoku pop-up newsletter. I am having a lot of fun exploring photography as a hobby.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system
In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch.
This machine was a programmable...
31st Jul 2026
In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch.
This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator.
It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard.
This machine read numbers from a punch card,...
Product Identity
Detach from your work to make it work
This is my first essay from a series about the creative process, which will be published in the...
31st Jul 2026
This is my first essay from a series about the creative process, which will be published in the upcoming Niche design issue.
davidyat.es
LLMs are good at inline code formatting
31st Jul 2026
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Daniel Bourke
Male Fertility Protocol
A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
30th Jul 2026
A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
balajis.com
Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore?
Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
28th Jul 2026
Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
Haterade
All Soda Yearns to Be Red
A selective history of the “suicide”
28th Jul 2026
A selective history of the “suicide”
Daniel Marino
Moving from Eleventy to Astro
28th Jul 2026
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond iO
28th Jul 2026
Patrick Kayongo
Software Praxis
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period...
27th Jul 2026
The past few years have been an interesting time in the software developer zeitgeist. Each period carrying its own set of talking points and controversies, which are almost completely forgotten in the next. In 2026, we find ourselves immersed in the tools and talking points of...
Cal Newport
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion...
27th Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more
The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport.
the late review
obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition)
it didn't change my life
27th Jul 2026
Cheese and Biscuits
Khao Bird, Soho
Before I was able to assess the authenticity or otherwise of the food at Khao Bird, I could at least...
27th Jul 2026
Before I was able to assess the authenticity or otherwise of the food at Khao Bird, I could at least appreciate the ambient temperatures in the dining hall were at genuine Thai levels. It's not really their fault that we visited during one of the hottest day's of London's...
Ink & Switch
Convergence Is Not Enough
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
The Pudding
How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
How the words we teach English language learners changed
25th Jul 2026
How the words we teach English language learners changed
Abort Retry Fail
Matrox
Graphics for Professionals
24th Jul 2026
Graphics for Professionals
eieio.games
I'm running a programming contest
I'm running a programming contest
I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest
I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here.
Read the full post on...
Anil Dash
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
Win Vector LLC
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a...
23rd Jul 2026
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a family of functions had nice properties. In July 2026 Levent Alpöge exhibited a simple counter-example that he said was found by Claude Fable 5. Fields medalist Terence Tao wrote on...
One Useful Thing
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
23rd Jul 2026
joshua stein
On AI
In 2019, I started watching
Andreas Kling's programming videos,
many of which were live-coding...
23rd Jul 2026
In 2019, I started watching
Andreas Kling's programming videos,
many of which were live-coding sessions writing his new operating system
Serenity OS.
He was always pretty fast at writing code, especially since his IDE, Qt
Creator, had knowledge of all his C++ code and...
Old Vintage...
John C. Dvorak has died
Reports coming in of the death of John C. Dvorak, apparently passed away on Monday (July 20th) from...
23rd Jul 2026
Reports coming in of the death of John C. Dvorak, apparently passed away on Monday (July 20th) from complications of heart bypass surgery. Dvorak started in wine and moved to silicon as an early columnist at InfoWorld, one of the pillar references for this particular blog because...
Jonas Hietala
GitOps with ArgoCD
Now we’re getting to the fun stuff: GitOps.
The act of pushing beautifully crafted .yaml files and...
23rd Jul 2026
Now we’re getting to the fun stuff: GitOps.
The act of pushing beautifully crafted .yaml files and seeing your Kubernetes cluster get red and stall out is surely what life’s all about.
Install ArgoCD
We have our Kubernetes cluster and now we’re going to bootstrap ArgoCD so it...
Wuthering...
What I Read in June 2026 – I don’t know, that’s all words, never wake, all words, there’s nothing...
Oh right, I can pretend I am writing something. Some notes on books I read in the distant...
22nd Jul 2026
Oh right, I can pretend I am writing something. Some notes on books I read in the distant past.
NOT SHAKESPEARE
The Dutch Courtesan (1604), John Marston – Discussed long ago.
Poems (1594-1612), George Chapman – A superb,
innovative poet, somehow an Ovidian and an...
Res Obscura
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
22nd Jul 2026
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
Stephen Wolfram...
Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
21st Jul 2026
Simone Salis
For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
Beautiful Public...
The footprints of every building in NYC
The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation...
20th Jul 2026
The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly.
Xena
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of...
20th Jul 2026
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), … Continue reading →
somethingaboutmaps
On Sin
To make maps, we must sin against the landscape. We distort the earth’s roundness, and we simplify...
20th Jul 2026
To make maps, we must sin against the landscape. We distort the earth’s roundness, and we simplify complex realities down to a series of colors and symbols. Ancient trees become a scattering of green pixels on a screen; a horrific battle becomes a labeled dot; and an...
Solving the decision...
one document, two hands
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
Ánh
Product contentment
Joyful consumerism.
19th Jul 2026
FIRE v London
June ’26: Is zero tax worth the hassle?
Monaco I was lucky enough to go to Monaco for the F1 in June. Something I feel quite strongly about...
19th Jul 2026
Monaco I was lucky enough to go to Monaco for the F1 in June. Something I feel quite strongly about and have written about before on this blog is how strong the monkey brain wiring is for us all to peg ourselves off the next rung up on the ladder. No matter how high up… Continue...
Internal Tech Emails
Anthropic and Dario Amodei
I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
19th Jul 2026
I unfortunately don’t see a way forward
A Smart Bear
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it...
19th Jul 2026
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
The Map is Mostly...
Fujifilm X100 vs Leica Q vs Ricoh GR
Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
18th Jul 2026
Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
Stories by Admiral...
Progress Update: New article coming soon, and a teaser
18th Jul 2026
Max Woolf's Blog
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
This Space
"Sometimes God, sometimes nothing"
Once I imagined a novel in which everything seen throughout the day by a single person is reported...
18th Jul 2026
Once I imagined a novel in which everything seen throughout the day by a single person is reported in detail. I was a teenager in my first job and began by using company paper to describe the scrub on the slopes beside a motorway as seen from a car. I never got any further.
No...
Quantum Frontiers
My friend Mark Wise
Mark Wise, the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, passed away on July 10 at...
18th Jul 2026
Mark Wise, the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at Caltech, passed away on July 10 at age 72. At a recent memorial service, John Preskill made these remarks. I’m John Preskill, Mark’s colleague on the Caltech physics … Continue reading →
John Wiseman
Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to
generate daily aviation briefings....
18th Jul 2026
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to
generate daily aviation briefings. The briefings are supposed to be a
summary of everything interesting that’s happened in the air in the
past several hours, either globally or in a region of interest. The
model...
Maggie Appleton
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
escape the algorithm
Making music from death row
“Every life hinges on poverty, gender and race,” Rrome Alone declares in the 2024 song, “and the pay...
17th Jul 2026
“Every life hinges on poverty, gender and race,” Rrome Alone declares in the 2024 song, “and the pay of the attorney defending your case.”
sibervepunk
learning to swim at 26
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
What To Cook
introducing the what to cook SHOW!!!!
I mentioned earlier this summer that I have been working on something BIG and it’s finally time to...
16th Jul 2026
I mentioned earlier this summer that I have been working on something BIG and it’s finally time to share what that something is:
I’m launching a show here on Substack!!!
What To Cook is (for now!) an eight-episode series that takes you inside our home, right into the dinnertime...
Project Blog on...
RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
Open for Business
Crazy With the Heat
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable.
The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: Drivers, Measures and Investment Implications - The 2026 Edition!
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content...
15th Jul 2026
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content that I post online, there is a ritual that I follow with my data updates. I start the year with my general data update online, and follow up with a series of posts where I examine the...
Raptitude.com
Failing is Common, Trying is Rare
When you die, you appear before a studio audience and they give you a standing ovation. The host...
15th Jul 2026
When you die, you appear before a studio audience and they give you a standing ovation. The host then interviews you about your great successes and misses in life. One thing you realize, when they review the footage, is that you didn’t really try most of the time. You thought you...
Laetitia@Work
Data hubris and the illusion of certainty
Laetitia@Work #102
15th Jul 2026
Marcus on AI
Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI
Good news, for once.
14th Jul 2026
Scope of Work
Scope Creep, 2026-07-14
This causes multiple problems.
14th Jul 2026
This causes multiple problems.
Inverted Passion
Why frontier labs are scaling-pilled
Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better...
14th Jul 2026
Investors underwrite scaling laws because the alternative (having an Einstein discover better algorithms) is high variance What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that might arise in our world? Since our world is big...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
“I Swallowed a Martian” and Water on Mars
The history of water on Mars allows us to wonder if the planet ever had life.
The post “I Swallowed...
14th Jul 2026
The history of water on Mars allows us to wonder if the planet ever had life.
The post “I Swallowed a Martian” and Water on Mars appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
tonsky.me
Logo: Squawkbox
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
Naz Hamid • Journal
Write Like a Human
Collaborative writing is rewarding.
In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much...
13th Jul 2026
Collaborative writing is rewarding.
In the past few months, I’ve been writing a lot. Not as much here, but for Aphera. Between our newsletter, blog, direct email feedback, and social media networks, I might spin up a draft and then bounce it off Ryan and Juan, or we volley it...
Transit Maps
New Official Map: İzmir Metro, Türkiye by Evgeny Katyshev
Submitted by Evgeny, who simply says: The new map of Izmir rapid transit I designed has been adopted...
13th Jul 2026
Submitted by Evgeny, who simply says: The new map of Izmir rapid transit I designed has been adopted as official one. Transit Maps says: Congratulations on this lovely little diagram becoming “official,” Evgeny! There’s a lot to like about it, especially the intelligent use of a...
Jamesin’s Substack
Some areas we've been investing in -
I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought...
13th Jul 2026
I get asked all the time what we’ve been investing in and areas we’re excited about - so I thought I’d write down some thoughts -
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early simulations with GravityLoops
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on...
13th Jul 2026
<![CDATA[GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS, can finally show something on the screen.
The program now animates a body of mass like the Moon interacting under gravity with a body of mass like the Earth. The dots in the simulation window here are the bodies...
anderegg.ca
An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I...
12th Jul 2026
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use...
Global Inequality...
A self-absorbed giant
Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
12th Jul 2026
Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
seated.ro
You fail to learn if you don't learn to fail
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from?
Letting an...
12th Jul 2026
If all your time is spent watching output tokens, where do your input tokens come from?
Letting an agent rip on full auto is basically doom scrolling. Even worse if you're doom scrolling while the agent runs. We humans love frying our dopamine receptors. This feels great until...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] Kazunori Hamana in Apartamento
Ridgeline subscribers —
Man, it was fun talking with Kazunori Hamana back in January. He’s lived a...
12th Jul 2026
Ridgeline subscribers —
Man, it was fun talking with Kazunori Hamana back in January. He’s lived a bizarre life, seemingly one without a roadmap, though I suspect his laid-back, subtly-goatee’d vibes belie a cunning streak. He was welcoming and rough-edged in a disarming way. He...
Spoon & Tamago
FamilyMart’s New Hipster ‘FAMIMA’ Reimagines What a Conbini Can Be
For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being...
11th Jul 2026
For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being sweetly attuned to utilitarian consumer needs, the ubiquitous 24/7 conbini has spread across Japan, achieving an unparalleled density that is perhaps second only to vending machines....
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “this one’s for you, Ian” edition
One of my favourite people on social media is Darth. Darth takes an annual hibernation, in which...
11th Jul 2026
One of my favourite people on social media is Darth. Darth takes an annual hibernation, in which time they do not post or, presumably, read.
I’d love to say that I have not posted anything for months with the same level of intention, but alas not. It just&
Irrational...
Make no assumptions.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there...
11th Jul 2026
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about the concept of “soil horizons”,
which is the idea that there are many distinct layers of soil, from topsoil all the way down
to bedrock, which all combine into a soil horizon.
Translating this idea into software, the ideal codebase would...
Justin Jackson
The value of software in a Fable world
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
11th Jul 2026
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
the singularity is...
AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard...
11th Jul 2026
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really...
Bryan Braun - Blog
You are not your grand plans
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways.
At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...
11th Jul 2026
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns.
SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...
The Universe of...
Starting to understand epsilon-zero
This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and
about is in particular. I...
10th Jul 2026
This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and
about is in particular. I had a brainwave a while back (18
months now, wow, I have definitely not been blogging enough) and
suddenly understood much better than I did before. I have
several related ideas...
Jorge Arango
After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet
Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence...
10th Jul 2026
Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. As its title implies, the paper argues there are no technological shortcuts to making software radically easier, simpler, or more reliable. You...
Miguel Carranza
The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...
10th Jul 2026
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company.
My goal was simpler: explain...
TokyoDev
Dealing with Pathological Anxiety in Japan
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The...
10th Jul 2026
My honest opinion is that very few things in one’s life can be as fulfilling as living abroad. The opportunity to break away from my comfort zone, brave new horizons, and immerse myself in new cultures has probably been the greatest joy I’ve found during my time on this Earth....
Steve Klabnik
Compilers and AI 'cyber' defense
10th Jul 2026
AI as Normal...
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
9th Jul 2026
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about token pricing
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it?
How and where will...
9th Jul 2026
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it?
How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into
equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end
up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?
Isabel Unraveled
The life-changing magic of asking for help
Strangely feel like I’m just learning this one!
9th Jul 2026
Strangely feel like I’m just learning this one!
Farnam Street
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist...
9th Jul 2026
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in. Atlas Shrugged: The Simple Version The world depends on a relatively small number of people who build, invent, and...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Sam Marshall
I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire....
9th Jul 2026
I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire. My work centres around drawing and printmaking, particularly linocut and etching, and alongside my own practice I teach workshops both from my studio and online to students around...
./techtipsy
The 'free' server build
Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
9th Jul 2026
Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
Ollama
Ollama: all aboard open models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and...
9th Jul 2026
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and many incredible angel investors.
Balancing Act
Sanitized Slop
Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box...
8th Jul 2026
Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box office proves, and what actually earns attention.
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Build In Public...
AI Is Single-Player. Your Work Isn't.
Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.
8th Jul 2026
Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX)
This post is the capstone of
the most long-running series on my blog.
In December 2024 (!), I...
8th Jul 2026
This post is the capstone of
the most long-running series on my blog.
In December 2024 (!), I started
reading Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)",
and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...
Damn Interesting
A Possible Future
A Possible Future:
Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty...
8th Jul 2026
A Possible Future:
Alan Bellows here, founder of Damn Interesting. For the better part of twenty years, I kept this project afloat by working part-time engineering jobs to pay the bills, and spending the other halves of my work days researching, writing, editing, and podcasting....
AI for Software...
Striving for Greatness in All You Do
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
8th Jul 2026
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
MIT News - Civil and...
MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
8th Jul 2026
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
WHAT'S ANU
🟢 TREND RADAR #19 :: NATURE DRIVERS
Adaptation under pressure
8th Jul 2026
Adaptation under pressure
Blog System/5
Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
8th Jul 2026
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect
Escaping Flatland
How can we rejuvenate the social fabric?
ask_another_guest
8th Jul 2026
The Convivial...
Feeding on Illusions
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 7
8th Jul 2026
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 7
CrimethInc.
Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the...
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention...
7th Jul 2026
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Charleston Waterfront Dining: The Cooper Hotel Guide
7th Jul 2026
Christian Selig
I have thoughts on the iPhone Air
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
Passing Time
Alaska Range 2026
Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun
7th Jul 2026
Running the three-man in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Hidden History
The First Trip Around the World
Ferdinand Magellan is usually given credit for making the first circumnavigation of the globe, but...
7th Jul 2026
Ferdinand Magellan is usually given credit for making the first circumnavigation of the globe, but in fact he was killed halfway through the trip and never made it. . Juan Sebastian Elcano, photo from Wiki Commons When the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set sail for the...
The Elysian
Another step toward becoming reader-owned media
A bunch of business updates and a request for your feedback.
7th Jul 2026
A bunch of business updates and a request for your feedback.
Stratechery by Ben...
A Script for Mark Zuckerberg
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
7th Jul 2026
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
The Quanta Podcast
Will We Ever Be Able To Forecast Volcanic Eruptions Like Weather?
Volcano forecasting can save countless lives. But most of the time warnings are more like educated...
7th Jul 2026
Volcano forecasting can save countless lives. But most of the time warnings are more like educated guesses. How close are we to forecasting volcano behavior the way we forecast the weather? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Hannah Waters speaks with writer and volcano...
Butler's Log
Agentic Version Control Benchmarks
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...
7th Jul 2026
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death
Willem L. Middelkoop
Counting Agentic Traffic
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch...
6th Jul 2026
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch without AWStats and without a database. Its party piece is the dimension every other analytics tool throws away: the bots. In the agentic era the question "what did AI agents read...
Conservation...
'My son's son will see this elephant'
6th Jul 2026
Scarlet Ink
If You Can't Be Replaced You Can't Be Promoted. Career Growth Through Succession Planning.
Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.
6th Jul 2026
Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To SoftBank
Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley
A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the...
6th Jul 2026
Soundtrack: Ozzy Osbourne — Mr. Crowley
A lot of people have been making a lot of fun of the SoftBank 46th annual shareholder meeting and Masayoshi Son’s (to quote Bryce Elder of the Financial Times) Untethered Goose Game, specifically referring to slides that, well, looked like...
General Robots
Vibe-Cadding
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
6th Jul 2026
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
Josh Comeau's blog
Getting Started with Anchor Positioning
For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one...
6th Jul 2026
For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a first-class solution to this problem, and it’s pretty friggin’ cool! In this...
nanoscale views
OMB proposed rule changes - act now
For non-US folks, feel free to skip.
For US folks: The Office of Management and Budget, which for...
6th Jul 2026
For non-US folks, feel free to skip.
For US folks: The Office of Management and Budget, which for much of its history has been a comparatively uncontroversial element of the executive branch, has set rules and guidelines for how many executive-branch agencies conduct business...
UX Collective
Figma just made your design system debt everyone’s problem
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
6th Jul 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Software and Tech...
Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing.
A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
Better than Random
An empty dance floor
Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making
6th Jul 2026
Awkwardness kills data-driven decision making
Awkward Zombie
Awkward Zombie - Pour Over
New comic!
Today's News:
I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by...
6th Jul 2026
New comic!
Today's News:
I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by rotating a 3D model of a clue, but there are some objects that I should not be permitted to rotate.
DYNOMIGHT
Life with hazard ratios
If you read anything about health or longevity, you’ll soon find yourself in a world of hazard...
6th Jul 2026
If you read anything about health or longevity, you’ll soon find yourself in a world of hazard ratios. Some study might say that eating more fiber might change your risk of dying by a factor of HR = 0.90. Another might say that occasional smoking might change it by HR = 1.30.
But...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
lcamtuf’s thing
Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier
Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other...
5th Jul 2026
Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other components
Obsolete Sony’s...
The End of PlayStation Discs
Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the...
5th Jul 2026
Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the backlash suggests.
Liz Denys
Lilypad mini quilt
While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a...
5th Jul 2026
While on a short road trip and then recovering from surgery, I hand quilted and hand embroidered a linen lilypad quilt.
And yes, I did make this little quilt for my Frinos plush from Hades II to have a nice place to rest.
African History...
A History of Agadez: The Desert city of Aïr (1400-1900)
Journal of African Cities: chapter 21
5th Jul 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 21
Benny Kuriakose
Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2026
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
5th Jul 2026
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more times, sometimes even more. With so many colleges, this will be the case with most of the firms. Many aspirants are keen on joining the...
Anarchy Unfolds
Poetry in Pieces
Hi readers, this post is something a bit different.
5th Jul 2026
Hi readers, this post is something a bit different.
Matt Mullenweg
USA 250
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What America has meant to me
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What America has meant to me
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
The end of the indie hacker playbook
At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it feels like the end of an era. Or at least the end of the...
4th Jul 2026
At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it feels like the end of an era. Or at least the end of the familiar formula that indie businesses relied on to build, launch, and grow over the past decade. Something has quietly changed. It’s probably been happening for a couple of years,...
GeoCurrents
The Misleading Concept of the “Global South”
Dividing the terrestrial world into the “Global North” and the “Global South” is becoming...
4th Jul 2026
Dividing the terrestrial world into the “Global North” and the “Global South” is becoming increasingly common. Simple versions of this “two worlds” model have a relatively clean north/south division, with only Australia and New Zealand falling out of place as southern outliers of...
Seldo.com
AI has torched the market for junior programmers
4th Jul 2026
Hall of Impossible...
Time's Running Out for the Challengers of the Unknown!
4th Jul 2026
weird medieval guys
Ranking medieval plague cures
Number 4 may surprise you!
4th Jul 2026
Number 4 may surprise you!
Both Are True
The worst country in the world
Besides all the other ones
4th Jul 2026
Besides all the other ones
The Ruffian
Notes on Acquired Taste
Why Do We Make an Effort To Like Things?
4th Jul 2026
Why Do We Make an Effort To Like Things?
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Declaration of Independence
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to...
4th Jul 2026
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021, 2022, 2023, … Continue...
Armin Ronacher's...
Better Models: Worse Tools
A very strange Pi issue
sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is...
4th Jul 2026
A very strange Pi issue
sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that
newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in
the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The
edit itself is...
computers are bad
megawatts by microwave
In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation,
investigated the...
4th Jul 2026
In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation,
investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River. Thousands of
arid but potentially fertile acres needed only water to become the Imperial
Valley of the Northwest. Locked in the mountain...
matt.sh
BlazeIt (macOS + iOS B2 Client)
4th Jul 2026
Dreams of Space -...
Buster Brown Goes to Mars (1958)
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried...
3rd Jul 2026
This comic is a promotional comic from Buster Brown shoes. If you went into a shoe store and tried on Buster Brown shoes you would get a comic book with the name of the store stamped/printed on it. Buster Brown (and his dog Tag) were a feature of 1950s and 1960s shoe store. In...
benn.substack
To weigh a watermelon
There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
The Perry Bible...
Big Fish
The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
3rd Jul 2026
The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
High Signal
Postiz startup tips💰
Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.
3rd Jul 2026
Some cool build in public thoughts from the founder of Postiz here who is doing $145k MRR right now.
I am BARRY HESS
We have collectively been recovering from a physically...
We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of...
3rd Jul 2026
We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of marching band. We all were caught napping at some point throughout the early days of this week! It’s been nice to have activities wind down this week, and we’ll have a bit of relaxation...
Letters of Note
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines
On this day in letters
3rd Jul 2026
alexwlchan
I don’t want to repeat repeat myself
Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale...
3rd Jul 2026
Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”.
After the typo was fixed, I wanted to find other cases of accidentally repeated words or phrases.
I used two regular expressions to search every codebase for unnecessary...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hydrogen Tech
I often get questions like the one below:
“I live part time in Japan. Everyone sees hydrogen powered...
3rd Jul 2026
I often get questions like the one below:
“I live part time in Japan. Everyone sees hydrogen powered generators, trains, trucks, etc regularly. High density population means it’s easy to get enough synergy to justify the infrastructure. So sad we aren’t doing more to utilize this...
Weighty Thoughts
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
Construction Physics
The Fall and Rise of Screwworm
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual...
3rd Jul 2026
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.
Can We Still Govern?
One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill:
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
3rd Jul 2026
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
Commoncog
Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption
Also: the quartz crisis isn’t really about quartz at all. A sensemaking exercise for those who want...
3rd Jul 2026
Also: the quartz crisis isn’t really about quartz at all. A sensemaking exercise for those who want to get better at making sense of possible AI disruption.
Charlie Becker
Nothing shifted. | #106
Dispatches from vacation Summer 2026
3rd Jul 2026
Dispatches from vacation Summer 2026
Beijing Scroll
Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance...
3rd Jul 2026
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance performance."
Paul Cudenec
When knowledge is stupidity
[Plus audio version]
3rd Jul 2026
Arnaud Bertrand
Musk built a monopoly on space. Can China break it?
There is an argument being made that what Tesla did to boost the Chinese EV industry, SpaceX will do...
3rd Jul 2026
There is an argument being made that what Tesla did to boost the Chinese EV industry, SpaceX will do to boost China’s commercial space industry.
Matt Keeter
Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea
3rd Jul 2026
charity.wtf
In defense of AI mandates
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most...
2nd Jul 2026
When you need to execute a coordinated change on a tight timeline, a mandate is the best and most honest way to fund it.
Krebs on Security
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize...
2nd Jul 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes...
Words and Buttons...
Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive.
As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing
Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right...
2nd Jul 2026
Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options.
watchTowr Labs
It’s 37oC, And All We Can Think About Is ColdFusion (Adobe ColdFusion Security Bulletin APSB26-68...
We’re back, melting - we’ve tried shouting, screaming, and throwing things at the Sun, and it is...
2nd Jul 2026
We’re back, melting - we’ve tried shouting, screaming, and throwing things at the Sun, and it is just not working.
Before we begin our analysis, we want to be clear - given the number of vulnerabilities fixed (and some not mentioned..), we’ve struggled to have confidence
The Diff
In the Future, Every AI Lab is a Neocloud for Fifteen Minutes
Plus! FDE Crunch; Fable!; Egg Futures?; Becoming IBM; Surtaxes
2nd Jul 2026
Plus! FDE Crunch; Fable!; Egg Futures?; Becoming IBM; Surtaxes
Not Boring by Packy...
America's Next 250
An Essay with Scott Nolan, General Matter CEO and Founders Fund Partner
2nd Jul 2026
An Essay with Scott Nolan, General Matter CEO and Founders Fund Partner
Hickman's...
Heaven's Featureless Plain
A Thesis on Liminality
2nd Jul 2026
Arduino Blog
How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts...
2nd Jul 2026
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts out of balance. A bearing develops a new mechanical signature. A cooling fan starts producing frequencies that were not present during normal operation. These changes can appear...
Some Bits: Nelson's...
World66.ai
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides...
2nd Jul 2026
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated
Common Edge
New Orleans, Like Every City, Is Mortal
For those of us concerned with the Crescent City’s survival, we must finally acknowledge a startling...
2nd Jul 2026
For those of us concerned with the Crescent City’s survival, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can be saved only if it first accepts that it might not be.
Jeffrey Zeldman...
The Human Story of the Open Web
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared...
2nd Jul 2026
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever.
Or this: A Queer kid growing up isolated in Nebraska discovers a...
Neil Madden
Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse?
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography...
2nd Jul 2026
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...
Jakob Nielsen on UX
2026 AI and UX Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality Check
Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to...
2nd Jul 2026
Summary: Halfway through 2026, AI is evolving faster than expected, but usability is struggling to keep pace.
Atoms vs Bits
11 Universal And Objective Truths About Making Friends
the reason we are here
2nd Jul 2026
Birchtree
A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads
In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years...
2nd Jul 2026
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads
In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years trying to make iPadOS catch up to macOS on the surface, only for macOS’ underlying nature to unlock a new generation of apps that are rewriting the rules of modern software. No amount
SOS
Huge under-the-hood upgrade to Animations in Kidz Fun Art
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This...
2nd Jul 2026
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...
Map of the Week
Maps for the U.S. Semiquincentennial
Semiquincentennial is a mouthful. So much that my spell check doesn’t believe it’s a word. The...
2nd Jul 2026
Semiquincentennial is a mouthful. So much that my spell check doesn’t believe it’s a word. The Bicentennial, which I’m old enough to remember well was easier to pronounce, and celebrate. I won’t make any grand statements, instead here are some fun, interesting or alternative maps...
Retail Design Blog
Roche Diagnostic Center Interior by Studio Alexander Fehre
The Roche Diagnostic Innovation Center in Penzberg, Bavaria, is a 35,500 m² research and workplace...
2nd Jul 2026
The Roche Diagnostic Innovation Center in Penzberg, Bavaria, is a 35,500 m² research and workplace complex realized for Roche Diagnostics...
Alice GG
GodotCon Amsterdam 2026
In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon...
2nd Jul 2026
In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon Amsterdam.
It was a good occasion for us to showcase Paradox Tower and get some beta feedback from other developers.
Most importantly it was two entire days of talks about game development in...
Flashbak
Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978
‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey...
2nd Jul 2026
‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris John Lydon still knows how to piss people...
Rare Historical...
Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the...
2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
They Fearmonger About "Communism" Because They Can't Oppose Real Problems
And Other Notes
2nd Jul 2026
Platformer
Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
2nd Jul 2026
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
2nd Jul 2026
Don't Worry About...
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions....
1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
Open for Business
Caitlin Clark Is Back In A Big Way
The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10...
1st Jul 2026
The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10 assist games with 14, over all-time WNBA assist leader Courtney Vandersloot.
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