from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2026
I watched the webcast of the NAS State of Science address by outgoing NAS president Dr. Marcia McNutt. (I did not watch the panel discussion afterward, so sorry if I missed critical pieces.) A few thoughts on this:
The intro music was a very classy baroque string quartet. ...
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Jun 2026
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2026
Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and 4.
from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2026
Through getting better immigrants, rejecting coutnerproductive ones, and managing the existing ones better.
from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2026
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI
2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2026
The night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and seal the rest in a bag and put it in the freezer. A week later, when you get home unexpectedly late, wiped out and ravenous, you’ll open your fridge to find only eggs, pickles, and...
from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative
2nd Jun 2026
Building the Electric Stack by making motors and actuators next to drones and robots
from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2026
The Apple Watch is one of the most fascinating pieces of modern technology for me. A gorgeous screen, an abundance of sensors, and a bonkers amount of computational power in a tiny little package that fits on your wrist. It reminds me of the Vision Pro in that a good amount of...
AI Doesn't Have ROI
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2nd Jun 2026
from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jun 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
2nd Jun 2026
Without big tech distribution, how do you get traffic? Let's take a look.
The post Websites Are Not Dead: Part 2 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Museum Ship USS Croaker
The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most...
2nd Jun 2026
from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jun 2026
The submarine USS Croaker was constructed during the Second World War, but some of its most interesting work came during the Cold War. USS Croaker in 1944 The Gato-class was a very successful design, especially in the Pacific. During the Second World War, the Navy submarine...
from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Jun 2026
What tomorrow's city builders are learning about equity, loyalty, and community.
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
2nd Jun 2026
a large part of the human experience is growing numb to the experiences that had once made us ridiculously happy…we just tend to take the things we have for granted, like they are a piece of furniture we are entitled to have. i knew this effect intimately, so i sought to live and...
from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature
2nd Jun 2026
Notes on relationships, conversation, Dostoevsky, and Bakhtin
from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2026
Thunderstorms have captivated humanity for millennia, and yet their inner workings remain deeply mysterious. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, guest host and Quanta senior editor Hannah Waters speaks with staff writer Charlie Wood about the new technologies that are helping...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jun 2026
Probably a lot, but not necessarily the kinds people have made money on so far.
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2026
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in technology
2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups
2nd Jun 2026
Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success. For a business to win, you need to check multiple boxes.
An Old, Restless Wish
We do not know what is going to happen. This is a hard truth; we desperately want to believe the...
2nd Jun 2026
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
2nd Jun 2026
We do not know what is going to happen. This is a hard truth; we desperately want to believe the opposite. And so the most successful corners of the modern internet have been organized, very deliberately, around that desire to convince you that someone, somewhere, knows what is...
Samurai city
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its...
2nd Jun 2026
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
2nd Jun 2026
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in history
2nd Jun 2026
It was 3 PM on a Friday.
A doctor at an NHS hospital in the UK tries to check his email. Instead, one of the PCs in the room reboots into a scary red screen demanding $300 in Bitcoin [23].
from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2026
Oyler Wu Collaborative, in partnership with SU mao ping Architecture Studio and JN Architects, has won the international competition to design The National Taiwan Museum of Comics in Taichung. As a centerpiece of a long-awaited national vision initiated in 2017, the new museum is...
from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
As a long time smoker who isn’t allowed to smoke in my home, I spend a fair amount of each day sitting on my front porch […]
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
Warning: strange soul-stirring sounds ahead!
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
Which Ancient Philosophy Can Help Us Live Better Today?
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers and it was before AI took over everything.
Instead of "how do I write a...
Separated at Birth
AS CHAIR OF CNU NYC, I was part of the Empire Station Coalition’s long opposition to the efforts of...
1st Jun 2026
from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2026
AS CHAIR OF CNU NYC, I was part of the Empire Station Coalition’s long opposition to the efforts of Governor Cuomo and then Governor Hochul to turn the area around Penn Station into a towering Vornadoville (Vornado calls it “The … Continue reading →
The post Separated at Birth...
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
1st Jun 2026
The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative consequences and costs.
The idea that the current bubble in AI data centers is an echo of the railroad-construction bubble of...
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jun 2026
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren’t designed with them in mind. One‑third of the world’s Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF, yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for...
from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant”...
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
Greg Girard photographed Hong Kong at night between 1974 and 1989. The Canadian photographer’s pictures show us a city full of promise alive after dark, much as Gerry Cranham did with his night shots. He returned to the city many times after his first visit as a teenager in 1974....
NixOS generators
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
1st Jun 2026
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2026
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2026
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
SMBC will be at Davos this year, if someone at Davos looks at it on their phone.
Today's News:
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
Nao Victoria sails into St Katharine Docks.
from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
Some businesses—not all, and not even most!—don’t trust you. They design their products and marketing to lock you in and make you feel reliant on them. The incentive for them is to have lots of steady customers; if you can come and go at any point, then that business isn’t as...
from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2026
Antler is a British travel brand with over 110 years of design and travel expertise behind it. In collaboration with...
from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
On football’s extreme commercialization
from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2026
Can you figure out who murdered the therapist?
View on my website
from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
The gap between mid-level and senior engineers usually isn’t technical skill. It’s behavior, judgment, communication, and the ability to make everyone around them better.
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Jun 2026
A small company in Southern California popularized tandems in the US and outlasted Trek, Specialized, and other giants. But can bicycles built for two survive an anti-social age?
She’s the Boss.
SNOW WHITE is my jailer. She reclines near me while I work, watching closely for the moment I stand...
1st Jun 2026
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2026
SNOW WHITE is my jailer. She reclines near me while I work, watching closely for the moment I stand up. The instant I leave my desk, she directs me to her feeding area so I can open another can of cat food and arrange its contents neatly on a plate. She’ll eat a few bites, then...
from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
The Real Point of Blair's Essay
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political identity. But that does not mean that Egypt was never impacted by external threats. The Egyptians were conquered several times by foreign powers, who brought their own culture and...
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
Daniel Dennett, who recently passed away, is an inspiration for people like me who love grand ideas that connect many different fields at a deep level (and be rigorous about that; well as rigorous as grand theories can be). His thinking is difficult to categorize: part...
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
In Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel he imagines a future in which most of humanity lives in gigantic cities, extending many levels underground. This leaves the majority of the Earth’s surface for industrial farming, necessary to feed all those densely populated cities. If you...
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2026
The new Trump-backed proposal produces more questions than it answers.
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2026
Summary: The two most conversion-killing ecommerce usability fails | Social media use remains strong but the platforms are becoming less about connecting with other people | The usability of overseeing AI agents | Team-building image idea: design video game characters | Professor...
from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
if no-one is around you, etc
AMA | June 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded...
1st Jun 2026
from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2026
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
Ken Paxton is a terrible candidate, but don’t take anything for granted.
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Jun 2026
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every pirate wants to be an admiral; Painful...
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
Even if you’re not applying, this thought experiment gives a glimpse into how the world is about to be rewired. The top 10 most selective colleges in the US admit about 5% of those who apply. They’re not selling education as much as a label, a rare chance for someone to slot...
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
Global heating has “fundamentally altered” the climate of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is exposing millions of hajj pilgrims to extreme and dangerous heat even in months outside summer, a new analysis has found.
Read more on E360 →
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
I recently had this tuxedo made by the German tailoring brand Maximilian Mogg, while Max was visiting London for the appointments he runs at Richard Gelding on North Audley Street. I was interested in having something from Max both because ... > Read more
Breaking Up, p16
The post Breaking Up, p16 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
1st Jun 2026
from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2026
The post Breaking Up, p16 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
Song Huong Eatery
Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly,...
1st Jun 2026
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly, their Bò 7 Món. For those who are not familiar, this is seven courses of beef that is usually served during celebrations. So when they opened a second location near me, I knew I...
from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake.
I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
from Paul Cudenec [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
I introduce my latest book
from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Jun 2026
When the install base outvotes the parliament
Unblogged May
31 unblogged things I did in May
Fri 1: To celebrate May Day, and to make the most of the glorious...
1st Jun 2026
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
31 unblogged things I did in May
Fri 1: To celebrate May Day, and to make the most of the glorious weather, I went for a 10 mile walk up the Chess Valley from Rickmansworth to Chesham. Along the way I passed 16 dogs, 19 horses, 2 cows, 68 butterflies, 8 birds of prey, 5 bluebell...
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jun 2026
Certain writers lay claim
to a piece of geography. Think of Cavafy’s Alexandria and William Kennedy’s Albany. Outsiders may visit but the deed is ironclad. When I hear something in
the news about the Caucasus, that often-contested band of mountains between the
Black Sea and the...
from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
Does it work? I'm doubtful
Inside Man
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
The post Inside Man appeared first on The...
1st Jun 2026
from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jun 2026
A young reporter’s devastating exposé of the amoral elite
The post Inside Man appeared first on The American Scholar.
from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Jun 2026
New comic!
Today's News:
Being able to see other players' vehicles and structures provides some very interesting data regarding statistically likely behavior. It is somehow comforting to drive my truck into a ditch and find evidence that other humans also couldn't resist taking...
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
The underappreciated gem of /proc/
/mem
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Jun 2026
The underappreciated gem of /proc/
/mem
from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
Rockets, calculators, and personal computers at MITS
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jun 2026
Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?
J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un esprit incroyable aux idées fulgurantes avec qui j’ai eu de longues et passionnantes discussions.
Philippe Samyn - Wikipédia (fr.wikipedia.org)
Car l’architecture était pour lui une...
The Tuba Mindset
What Sam Quinones taught me about addiction, community, and the slow work of building strong towns.
1st Jun 2026
from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Jun 2026
What Sam Quinones taught me about addiction, community, and the slow work of building strong towns.
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Jun 2026
Ridgeline subscribers —
Thanks for all the “Yo!“s last week. It looks like transmissions from mailbot2k are getting through. (Let me know if you see any “rendering errors” in your email clients; I think we fixed the Proton Mail issues.) FYI, because the last issue of Roden ended...
High-agency strategy
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file —...
1st Jun 2026
from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design
1st Jun 2026
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file — request it with the header Accept: text/markdown (e.g. curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://mattstromawn.com/writing/high-agency-strategy/).
AI has torn up the org charts of...
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2026
A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow queries from production, and let it run overnight…
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2026
I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source consultancy. My husband started his paternity leave today. I'm only going back part-time for the moment so my rough plan is to work 3 days a week with the exception of this week, as I...
May, 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I...
1st Jun 2026
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Jun 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I have loved and outgrown:
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
31st May 2026
Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in, visuals out:
Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to...
from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
31st May 2026
Seems like I overestimated people’s interest in looking at silicon images! Congrats to k8 for attempting the challenge, I appreciate the participation. email me for your prize! Recall that the list of possible memory dimensions is limited to a list of 28 possible types of...
from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
31st May 2026
The new AI-driven slop Internet is going to give rise to new formats, concepts, and ways to discover humanity.
The post Websites Are Not Dead: Part 1 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
31st May 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on GravityLoops, a software that simulates a collection of bodies interacting under the mutual gravity. I develop it on Medley in Interlisp and its object extension LOOPS, the Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System.
GravityLoops will show an animation...
from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
31st May 2026
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building applications where agents act as users.
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
31st May 2026
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of May.
Wiki, documented the installation of Pino's water tank, added thermostat to engine care, and updated woodstove installation.
Grimgrains, added a solar-roasted kinako recipe.
Uxn,...
Back from maternity leave
Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process...
31st May 2026
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
31st May 2026
Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process the last 5 months and where it has all gone and all these complicated feelings.
I want to go back to work and I don't. I am only going back part-time for a few months but it still...
from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
Do the hardest thing
Most small business ideas are a hard job attached to an easy idea. Instead, you should do your...
28th May 2026
from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups
28th May 2026
Most small business ideas are a hard job attached to an easy idea. Instead, you should do your hardest idea.
from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
28th May 2026
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Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi...
from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI
28th May 2026
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run on your own hardware, with Ollama support built-in.
Beautiful mistakes
I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles...
27th May 2026
from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design
27th May 2026
I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles get applied. They're still dipped and sealed by hand which makes it special because no two bottles are exactly alike.
But what I didn't know
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
27th May 2026
I've been a Stratechery subscriber since it started and one thing I have noticed about Ben is that he occasionally gets a little overexcited about stuff that is probably not totally close to his wheelhouse. This is one of those times.
In his opening about Tesla's
from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life
27th May 2026
When it's almost too hot to stay in touch
from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
27th May 2026
Some posts you may have missed
RIP Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology
27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
Elfstedentocht on Feel
Last Monday I rode the Fietselfstedentocht, the hottest edition ever, on my fixed gear bike. No bike...
26th May 2026
from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology
26th May 2026
Last Monday I rode the Fietselfstedentocht, the hottest edition ever, on my fixed gear bike. No bike computer, no GPS, no heart rate on my wrist. Just a mechanical watch, a stamp card and my WHOOP quietly recording in the background. Eighteen months ago I wondered whether I could...
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
26th May 2026
Christian and his co-founders watched founders ship great products and then go quiet. They built the thing that comes next.
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
CSS vs. JavaScript
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether...
26th May 2026
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th May 2026
There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
from Grant Slatton's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
25th May 2026
Algorithmic and optimization playtime
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
25th May 2026
Signals
Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn between things I have encountered…
Something strange happens when we put a name to things. The moment “cassette futurism” or “Corporate Memphis” enters circulation, it stops being...
Craft Is Not Culture
A time, a place, and humans.
Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by...
24th May 2026
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
24th May 2026
A time, a place, and humans.
Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by the Portland-based design agency Instrument for their own use — along with Instrument Sans — they open-sourced it on GitHub, where it made its way to Google Fonts, in a generous...
from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups
24th May 2026
Many people would like to analyse which jobs, companies and industries are
most exposed to AI, and assign scores, build charts, and map that against
the progress of LLMs. I think this is mostly impossible: you don’t know how
the jobs will change, you don’t know what else...
2026-05-24
What is text?
This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with...
24th May 2026
from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology
24th May 2026
What is text?
This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with Linux's desktop environment because it seemed overly complex and hard to wrap my head around. I had a lot of trouble running wifi without the desktop environment, and it left me quite...
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
24th May 2026
Cameron Cummins-Smith’s grand unifying theory connects the far right’s seemingly disparate obsessions—from trans panic and great replacement theory to anti-feminism and white birth-rate anxiety—into a single ideological system fueled by pornographic narratives:
In physics there...
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th May 2026
Among the world's rich countries, Americans are the most likely to say their healthcare system needs fundamental change. They are right. They are also wrong about why.
The standard diagnosis runs roughly: too much capitalism, too much profit, too many private companies, too...
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
23rd May 2026
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts
and experiments.
Spacelab was controlled by a French-built minicomputer, called the Mitra 125 MS.
Unlike modern computers, this computer didn't...
from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology
23rd May 2026
Last year I wrote about how I had written an ESPHome configuration for the Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 device to work as a small, color, digital art frame. This year, I wrote about how I had been using Claude Code to help me write Home Assistant code for myself. Those efforts...
from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology
22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups
22nd May 2026
We built daycares for adults
from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life
21st May 2026
On Apocalypse, Schism, and "Trad" Religion
from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI
21st May 2026
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data. It is a technical demonstration on how what one observes (outcomes, frequencies, and so on) differ from what we want to know...
from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI
21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
21st May 2026
It’s happening. Your inbox registers an email from the chair of a faculty-hiring committee. With trembling fingers, you click on the message. “We’ve been grateful for the opportunity to learn about your work…The decision was very difficult…many highly qualified candidates…” …...
from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups
20th May 2026
A story of survival, success and advocacy
Nháp
Notebook, fountain pen friendly, Vietnam.
20th May 2026
from Ánh [alt+shift+b] in creative
20th May 2026
Notebook, fountain pen friendly, Vietnam.
from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups
20th May 2026
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume
Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a planned septology about a Danish antiquarian book dealer who falls out of time, and the first five volumes are one of the most original and brilliant literary projects I've read in years....
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
20th May 2026
hyperdjango
Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning
2026. Welcome!
To kick off spring cleaning, the first project I’d like to release
is: hyperdjango.
What is hyperdjango you may
ask?
You could jump ahead into all docs at the hyperdjango hyperdocs hypersite and
find...
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
19th May 2026
At first, you can't quite believe what you're seeing. Right in the middle of a cluster of modern high-rises, behind a large neon-lit casino and steps away from a giant ugly motorway junction, is a beautiful little brick-built pub that seemingly has no business being there. How...
from Mert Bulan - Blog & Portfolio [alt+shift+b] in life
19th May 2026
A personal look at Germany’s slow citizenship process and why it matters for the skilled immigrants the country says it needs.
from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
18th May 2026
In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary
temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T SFP+ module I have plugged
into nigel, the 10Gb/s switch I have in my study.
As I mentioned then, the plan was to try using some of the mini-heatsinks that
people use on Raspberry...
Joining a16z
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team,...
18th May 2026
from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology
18th May 2026
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing.
from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th May 2026
I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats in testing methodology, workloads, etc., it'd be nice to see what the performance penalty is for using Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi. Googling for answers results in some ancient...
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
16th May 2026
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
16th May 2026
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th May 2026
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.
A couple years ago, my house was heated by a . It was awful
from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective:
environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2
equivalent per year to heat...
from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI
15th May 2026
I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my EPSRC-funded project formalizing Fermat’s Last theorem in Lean. The initial aim of the project was to reduce FLT to theorems known … Continue reading →
The RP2350 is too fast
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the...
15th May 2026
from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th May 2026
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame correctly, and then glitch. Depending on the...
from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming
15th May 2026
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine.
It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language.
To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka.
Kage Shaders
For those who...
How to Just Do a Thing
I keep reading books from the 19th century and earlier, fiction and nonfiction, because I envy...
14th May 2026
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
14th May 2026
I keep reading books from the 19th century and earlier, fiction and nonfiction, because I envy something about the lives of the people in them. I don’t think I’d want to trade places. I’m too accustomed to hot showers and modern dentistry. But people back then seemed to live with...
from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history
14th May 2026
On survivorship bias in history
Invasion of the Universe
I wonder how many of those of us who write exclusively on literature and read only novels, poetry,...
14th May 2026
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
14th May 2026
I wonder how many of those of us who write exclusively on literature and read only novels, poetry, literary criticism and occasionally into related subjects, have an otherwise unaccountable curiosity with another beyond the literary horizon. Many, I imagine. I'm not talking about...
Introducing TongueType
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on...
14th May 2026
from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming
14th May 2026
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release, and your words appear wherever your cursor happens to be.
I build small, simple, stable software. TongueType fits that description, and it...
Meet the Maker: Mari Hunt
Mari is an artist and printmaker who lives with her family at the foot of the South Downs in West...
13th May 2026
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
13th May 2026
Mari is an artist and printmaker who lives with her family at the foot of the South Downs in West Sussex. She has no formal art training but has always loved to draw - anything and everything! Her work is bold and distinctive with a vibrant use of colour.
For Mari, everything...
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th May 2026
[Software] Pacify that pining for precision
from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative
13th May 2026
The creator of Song Exploder on releasing an album into the attention economy
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
13th May 2026
News from the world of real jobs: Apparently, sometime between 10 and 20 years ago, it became standard for people to communicate by sending slide decks around. These slides are never presented. They aren’t intended to be presented. They’re born, they’re sent around, and they die....
Ideal failures
The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no...
13th May 2026
from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology
13th May 2026
The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no back end. Imagine every failure mode. Design beautiful flows for each.
I slipped into this mistake while working on LanWhisper, a voice dictation app. I designed for the failure...
from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design
12th May 2026
On scale: against the pursuit of unicorns
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th May 2026
After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing.
The post The lasting influence of Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming
12th May 2026
Composing sound-generating tools
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
11th May 2026
Also, I’m going to Paris.
from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot.
If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th May 2026
Just a quick update to let those of you who bookmarked this blog or who have subscribed to my RSS feed know that I have (re-)started a newsletter.
Why a newsletter?
As you might know (or not), while I’ve been pretty active on LinkedIn over the years, I do have a love-hate (or...
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th May 2026
In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, stood in front of the press and said, “We promise not to screw it up”.
from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology
10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th May 2026
From page faults to NUMA topology: how the Linux kernel manages memory, and what that means for the performance of data-intensive systems.
from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history
10th May 2026
Why "We Are All One Humanity" Is the Most Dangerous Idea on Earth
from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life
10th May 2026
But no matter what, the Library of Alexandria is still burning.
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
9th May 2026
Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake has opened a striking new flagship store in Manhattan, marking a major new chapter for the brand in New York City. Located at 45 Madison Avenue inside the historic New York Life Building overlooking Madison Square Park, the two-level,...
Genuine Poetry
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, shares this on art,...
9th May 2026
from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life
9th May 2026
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, shares this on art, the true and the beautiful…
extremely low frequencies
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea...
9th May 2026
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th May 2026
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea is quite simple, that a well-enough-sealed boat ought
to be able to submerge and resurface. It's the practicalities that make the
whole thing difficult. It is generally considered...
from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative
8th May 2026
Ben Shapiro's downfall, Salary Fights, and a fascinating movie trend
from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th May 2026
Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store: Jitbit Helpdesk Bot. Search "Jitbit" in the Teams app store and it's right there - no custom app uploads, no admin-center gymnastics.
Unlike our old webhook integration (one-way...
Git Merge 2026
Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of...
8th May 2026
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th May 2026
Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of Git talks, community, and deep technical nerdery.
from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life
8th May 2026
It may seem difficult at first
from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
8th May 2026
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.apr-fig--wide img { display: inline-block; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; }
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from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th May 2026
An overview of the cool technical building blocks behind EndBASIC and what they could turn into if they evolved on their own
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
8th May 2026
Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching some components from Moon factories with a mass driver. This is an old idea, enabled by …
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
8th May 2026
‘Artificial’ didn’t scare Americans in the 19th century. Why does it scare them now?
from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th May 2026
Those were the early days.
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th May 2026
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
7th May 2026
Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th May 2026
Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th May 2026
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and a compass in your car on the side of the road in the middle of the
Prolost Watches
After my experience being rejected from the App Store, I was left with an unscratched itch to ship a...
7th May 2026
from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative
7th May 2026
After my experience being rejected from the App Store, I was left with an unscratched itch to ship a native iPhone app. Staying well away from my day-job turf of tools for motion artists, I created an app to support a hobby I fell into.
Prolost Watches is an iPhone app for...
Film in the Fridge
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too...
7th May 2026
from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th May 2026
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
7th May 2026
When I arrived in Japan in September 2023, I was a skinny 23-year-old guy, measuring 178 centimeters tall and weighing around 55 kilograms. I had been a stick man all my life, and after a couple of months in Tokyo, I even lost a couple more kilos—probably due to the...
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