from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
2nd Mar 2026
Why supply, demand, and structure lead to very different theories of change.
You can't always fix it
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Mar 2026
AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most people use models. The replacements are weirder - and more useful.
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Mar 2026
The Sound of Music and Tony Bennett might have been eager to sing about their favourite things. I’d like to start Monday by sharing with you two satisfying things.
First, this long black coffee I’m drinking at a coffee shop now is lovely. It was a light roast with just the right...
from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Mar 2026
After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted:
As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old 'Thingamablog'...
A nearly perfect score
After playing 498 days in a row, my score today in Bongo was the second-highest in the world:...
1st Mar 2026
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Mar 2026
After playing 498 days in a row, my score today in Bongo was the second-highest in the world: There’s a difference between casual online games that have a right answer, and those that are open-ended. In crossword puzzles and most of the games from the Times (like Wordle and...
The War
That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there...
1st Mar 2026
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
1st Mar 2026
That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there are limits on what we know, and what we do know suggests circumspection.
War seems to demand some response--opinion, analysis, insight--lest it seem that we're uncaring or...
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers.
The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Mar 2026
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is a recurring motif in many of our films, TV shows, stories, and other media. Every year, thousands of chess players compete for prestige at the international level to secure their...
from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
Ask your questions below.
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Mar 2026
It does not add up to much
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
Ancient Secrets of Success?
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Mar 2026
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Clearly R2D2 is the real catch, so going for 3PO proves you're loyal to the cause.
Today's News:
from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Mar 2026
A few days ago, an idea came to me: why is there no business book covering Pokémon? By one estimate, the company has earned over $147 billion in its existence. It just opened a theme park, and its trading cards business has survived for 30 years and gained tons of momentum. There...
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
1st Mar 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Mar 2026
Your reading list to keep up with AI 03-01-2026
Beyond the Maps
On Developmental Models, Clinging, and What Actually Enables Growth
1st Mar 2026
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Mar 2026
On Developmental Models, Clinging, and What Actually Enables Growth
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Mar 2026
I’ve been learning the piano for about 3 months now. When I first picked it up again I was very skeptical because I have a history of learning things at short intense...
from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable
Where It Comes From
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say...
1st Mar 2026
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Mar 2026
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this new (to me) picture: The buildings were a little isolated from the main downtown skyscraper cluster by being so far southwest, but it’s a five-minute walk to...
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
1st Mar 2026
Ben Thompson, Another Viral AI Doomer Article, The Fundamental Error, DoorDash’s AI Advantages:
What is notable about this assertion is the total denial of any positive reason for DoorDash to exist and to be so successful. There is no awareness that DoorDash provided a massive...
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
1st Mar 2026
A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
<![CDATA[Insphex adds the Hexdump item to the File Browser menu to view the hex dump of the selected files. The initial implementation called the public API for adding commands at the top level of the menu.
To later move the item to the See sumbenu that groups various file...
Bernie Beigne
While walking to the metro station after our visit to Lester's, we noticed a huge lineup for donuts...
1st Mar 2026
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
1st Mar 2026
While walking to the metro station after our visit to Lester's, we noticed a huge lineup for donuts at Bernie Beigne. Not only that, we watched where they took freshly fried donuts and hand-dipped them into glaze. Then they hung them for all to see in the window. Wow, if that...
Look for the Adults
In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information...
1st Mar 2026
from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Mar 2026
In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information age. But in terms of understanding, wisdom, spiritual clarity, and civility, we have entered a darker age.
— David Orr, Verbicide (1999)
You know how Mr. Rogers said that in a...
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
1st Mar 2026
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Wiki, updated knots with a figure-eight follow-through knot, also, Pino has a new headsail!
Pavol, created a volume control tool.
Adelie, made it so images are drawn...
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
1st Mar 2026
This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit coaching app (Nintee) in 2024. It didn’t ultimately work out because an app has marginal influence in a human’s life (v/s that of friends, family, culture and immediate environment)....
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Mar 2026
"It was one of those lightbulb moments."
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Mar 2026
“It is the province of
poems to make some order in the world, but poets can’t afford to forget that
there is a reality of things which survives all orders great and small. Things are.
The cow is there. No poetry can have any strength unless it continually bashes
itself against...
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
1st Mar 2026
I am almost on my way to London. Some Shakespearian and Not Shakespearian
activities are on the schedule.
My reading, before this trip, was again very British.
THE WAR OF THE POETS
Antonio and Mellida (1599?) &
Antonio's Revenge (1600?), John Marston – A remarkable
pair of...
from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture
1st Mar 2026
During the planning process, the architect's prejudgment of "cost/construction" has become the design guiding ideology for the overall cost saving of the project and the avoidance of repeated construction. Considering the internal functions of the building, the first floor is the...
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
1st Mar 2026
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in February 2026
1) The assignment of stations to zones was implemented some 30 years ago, broadly fitting six concentric zones within the geography of London. Very few changes have since been made - generally only in very specific...
February, 2026
Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write...
1st Mar 2026
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Mar 2026
Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write closer to home temporally and otherwise. I am en route to the office on a very early Friday morning. We are still eight days from being able to return home with a new set of floors and...
Recently
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and...
1st Mar 2026
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee.
Listening
I didn't...
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
1st Mar 2026
An Expert Review of A
Fire Upon The Deep
Over the years I’ve read A
Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I
often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it,
so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is
in...
The two kinds of error
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic everywhere, you define it once and call it whenever you need it. They’re the most important tool for writing DRY code.
from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
1st Mar 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in February - Published Three-ring binder and A fresh coat of paint on Contraption Co. - Launching a proj...
from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
28th Feb 2026
Cannot stress this enough: literally everyone at the writing residency was good at this. Maybe you'll find a new favorite blog among these.
from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
28th Feb 2026
[Misc] Laser-cut dispensers of nuts and bolts
from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative
28th Feb 2026
Hi all. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
It has been a week dominated by AI. Which is fitting because AI dominated the weeks before it and will dominate the weeks ahead. That’s part of the reason I haven’t written for a
Approximation game
The number 22/7 and the pigeon flock of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
28th Feb 2026
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
28th Feb 2026
The number 22/7 and the pigeon flock of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
27th Feb 2026
The Ware for January 2026 is a FNIRSI DPS-150. Tim nailed it almost immediately; congrats, email me for your prize! The DPS-150 is a small, portable DC “benchtop” power supply that converts USB-C into a range of voltages and currents. samchin convinced me to get one of these as...
Embedding the Sky
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic
search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology
27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic
search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data.
Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight
trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
Six Weeks
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am...
27th Feb 2026
from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
27th Feb 2026
Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum. It is now eight weeks postpartum as I am finally able to finish and hit publish.
Six weeks ago I gave birth to my daughter. In some ways it didn't go according to plan.
I had hoped to have a water birth. I imagined arriving...
from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming
26th Feb 2026
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the...
from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Feb 2026
It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time.
Gather round, strap in, and prepare for another depressing journey of “all we wanted to do was reproduce an N-day, and here we are with 0-days”.
Today, friends, we’re
Winter White
Here in the North, winter effectively begins with the first snow that doesn't melt. This year that...
25th Feb 2026
from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life
25th Feb 2026
Here in the North, winter effectively begins with the first snow that doesn't melt. This year that was the day before Thanksgiving, almost exactly a month before the calendar says winter begins. It was heavy snow, over a foot, and just like that the world of color is...
from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science
25th Feb 2026
Information on the total eclipse of the Moon coming the morning of March 3
The post Heads Up: Total Eclipse of the Moon Coming March 3 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Feb 2026
Why are new startups growing so fast?
Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers?
Why do I love infrastructure?
Is open source dead?
I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we build software.
Or...
from ben-mini [alt+shift+b] in literature
25th Feb 2026
It was around January 2020. I became the head coach of a youth basketball team.
I was a few months into my first job out of college, and I was feeling… empty. I couldn’t explain why, so I set out to fill the void. I built side projects, went drinking with coworkers, and got...
from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology
25th Feb 2026
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh
snakes.run is a massively multiplayer snake game that uses the Secure Snake Home (SSH) protocol. It can render 100M pixels a second. ssh snakes.run to play.
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
...
from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Feb 2026
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text console either. However, because the machine is dual boot and also serves another purpose, it’s connected to my main monitor and KVM switch. The monitor has three inputs, and when...
Algorithmic Modernism
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
24th Feb 2026
from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology
24th Feb 2026
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
24th Feb 2026
People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience this limit as day to day, the decision volume is pretty low. The day to day of an executive? It is generally a non-stop firewall of decisions.
from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Feb 2026
I keep noticing that the way AI SREs and coding agents are sold is fairly different: coding assistants are framed as augmenting engineers and are given names, and AI SREs are named “AI SRE” and generally marketed as a good way to make sure nobody is distracted by unproductive...
from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Feb 2026
Where do we go when the internet dies?
Sprites on the Web
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as...
23rd Feb 2026
from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
23rd Feb 2026
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this...
Bistro Sablé, Islington
Sablé occupies the handsome 1930s public house that, most recently at least, was home to Neil...
23rd Feb 2026
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
23rd Feb 2026
Sablé occupies the handsome 1930s public house that, most recently at least, was home to Neil Rankin's Smokehouse. I spent many happy times in Smokehouse back in the day but such are the fickle whims and fashions of London food that, in 2026, low-n-slow American BBQ seems...
Notes on Deng Xiaoping
When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With...
22nd Feb 2026
from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming
22nd Feb 2026
When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler the answer is clear. More often it is not. World leaders must make decisions where there are severe costs regardless of which path they choose....
from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming
22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one.
Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
from Ánh [alt+shift+b] in creative
20th Feb 2026
Someone is someone’s friend.
from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative
20th Feb 2026
After almost 2 decades of using their products, I’m deleting my Meta
account because - quite simply - they fucking suck.
from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology
20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
20th Feb 2026
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming
20th Feb 2026
The motivation and design of our input processing system
from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
20th Feb 2026
Today Yesterday in the Representation Theory Seminar at UCR I gave a talk about
Factorization Homology and how it lets us compute a “Quantum Character Stack”.
This is all based on a great paper,
Integrating Quantum Groups Over Surfaces by Ben-Zvi, Brochier, and
Jordan, which...
How will OpenAI compete?
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big
user base, but with...
19th Feb 2026
from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups
19th Feb 2026
OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big
user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network
effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their
product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage...
from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI
18th Feb 2026
Preface
This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions,...
Type Safety (workshop)
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch...
18th Feb 2026
from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Feb 2026
TypeScript's type system: learn type aliases, unions, generics, intersections, and more to catch bugs at compile time instead of in production.
from Res Obscura [alt+shift+b] in history
18th Feb 2026
"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
Sizing Chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
18th Feb 2026
from The Pudding [alt+shift+b] in design
18th Feb 2026
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
18th Feb 2026
It's not just chatbots anymore
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
18th Feb 2026
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done.
from haseeb qureshi [alt+shift+b] in startups
18th Feb 2026
We’re a crypto fund. If anyone should believe in crypto, it’s us.
And yet, when we sign a deal to invest into a startup, we don’t sign a smart contract. We sign a legal contract. The startup does the same. Neither of us are comfortable doing the deal without a legal...
One page of async Rust
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this
blog post is the result of me...
17th Feb 2026
from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
17th Feb 2026
I’m writing a simulation, or rather, I’m procrastinating, and this
blog post is the result of me going off on a side-track from the main
quest.
The simulation involves a bunch of tasks that go through a series of
steps with delays in between, and each step can affect some...
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
17th Feb 2026
become an ai wizard without losing your soul
from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI
17th Feb 2026
What analog and AI education both get wrong
from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Feb 2026
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI
16th Feb 2026
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
250 lbs
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work.
Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
16th Feb 2026
If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve probably heard some of these claims involving international residents in Japan:
Nobody stays more than a few years
Permanent residency is impossible to get
Citizenship is easy to...
from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups
16th Feb 2026
Can Opus 4.6 do Category Theory in Lean?
I have a little category theory library I've been dragging around for about a decade now. It started life in Haskell, got ported to Agda, briefly lived in Idris, spent some time in Coq, and has now landed in Lean 4. I call it Kitty Cats....
The AI Panic Attack
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
16th Feb 2026
from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI
16th Feb 2026
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
Everybody Needs a Rock
A new homepage and site improvements.
Looking at the Colophon from it’s last update, I mentioned...
14th Feb 2026
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
14th Feb 2026
A new homepage and site improvements.
Looking at the Colophon from it’s last update, I mentioned that a refresh had happened in February 2025. A year later, another refresh has landed
I wouldn’t normally write about a site update like this, but the goal of the new homepage design...
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
14th Feb 2026
pre {border:none;}
In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy
the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip.
With this chip, CAD software, spreadsheets, flight simulators, and other programs
were much speedier.
The 8087 chip could add, subtract,...
from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups
13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
from SatPost by Trung Phan [alt+shift+b] in startups
13th Feb 2026
And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.
from Allen Pike [alt+shift+b] in startups
13th Feb 2026
Maggie was already perhaps the best writer on the intersection of engineering and design, but now that she’s joined Github Next, she’s also extremely keyed in to where tools for coding are going. Her piece on Gas Town and orchestrating coding agents is sharp and worth reading in...
from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
13th Feb 2026
How React.cache works in Server components
from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
12th Feb 2026
Less prompting. More delegating. Meet Lindy.
from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Feb 2026
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
I Told You So
My quote from 2019
“I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very...
12th Feb 2026
from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Feb 2026
My quote from 2019
“I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz
How is everyone...
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Feb 2026
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
microgpt
.post-header h1 {
font-size: 35px;
}
.post pre,
.post code {
background-color: #fcfcfc;
...
12th Feb 2026
from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
12th Feb 2026
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This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies...
from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI
11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Read Me
Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a...
11th Feb 2026
from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history
11th Feb 2026
Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a variety of books about computing.
The post Read Me appeared first on CHM.
from cabel.com [alt+shift+b] in creative
11th Feb 2026
This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me. Ten years after giving my first talk at XOXO, Andy (Baio) and Andy (McMillan) asked if...
from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Feb 2026
Permalinks are commonplace on the web. But it took the rise of blogging to codify them, and bring them out into the world. And it all started with a single exchange of blogs.
The post Did you want that link to be permanent? appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Few Notes on Moats
Some non-obvious, even surprising things about building competitive moats, including when they might...
11th Feb 2026
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
11th Feb 2026
Some non-obvious, even surprising things about building competitive moats, including when they might not be necessary.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life
10th Feb 2026
Read six classic novels as part of a group in 2026
from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
10th Feb 2026
Short version: every AI feature we ship on the hosted helpdesk now runs on the self-hosted edition too. It's a separately licensed Docker add-on, perpetual license, one-time payment. Customer data stays on your network. Requires Jitbit Helpdesk v11.22 or newer.
Why this took a...
from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups
10th Feb 2026
On the sequel economics of ideas.
from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative
10th Feb 2026
Cassette Cafes & Spiritual Raves
from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history
10th Feb 2026
Netscape's browser project was codenamed Mozilla during 1994; via Macintosh Garden.
If web design is not yet a profession in 1993 because of the technical limitations of HTML and early browsers, then 1994 is the year web authors start asking the question: why can't we control...
from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature
10th Feb 2026
My deep dive on the future of cities is now available as a print pamphlet, digital pamphlet, and audio essay.
from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science
10th Feb 2026
A quick note collating a list of blogs I’ve written on the topic. I’ll update it with good third party write ups as I become aware of them. Context: SpaceX announced a refocus on lunar development. My best explanation for this is that SpaceX wants to accelerate human occupation...
Leadership at the Peak
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology
10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance
9th Feb 2026
Public software companies just had one of their worst weeks in years—and the market reaction was swift, brutal, and emotional.
from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming
9th Feb 2026
Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article
from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Feb 2026
After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have the Model 3 as a second vehicle, but it’s been really cool experiencing a new electric vehicle from a very passionate new company.
2026 is a really exciting time for Rivian, as in...
Accelerating mathematics
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI
9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
9th Feb 2026
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the git CLI, then I add them with
Why You’re Always Right
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see...
9th Feb 2026
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
9th Feb 2026
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see that having bitter liquid squirted into her mouth will prevent her from getting intestinal worms. So I have to force the matter by wrapping her in a towel like a burrito, so that she...
A Language For Agents
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like...
9th Feb 2026
from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI
9th Feb 2026
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing.
Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement
existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think...
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
9th Feb 2026
Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release
For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just released version 3.0. It is probably not for everyone, but I use it every single day. I...
from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science
8th Feb 2026
If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the ratio of the probability something happens to the probability it doesn’t. For example, if the Seahawks have a 75% chance of winning the Super Bowl, they have a 25% chance of losing,...
Don't ever stop dreaming
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet...
8th Feb 2026
from Shilin typing [alt+shift+b] in startups
8th Feb 2026
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet shoes. I still can't believe I did it. The constant winter overcast was reason enough to leave Canada and never look back. When I finally left, I had bought a ticket to a never-ending...
Jan ’26
January media seemed dominated by Greenland and Davos. As part of my efforts to avoid amplifying...
8th Feb 2026
from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance
8th Feb 2026
January media seemed dominated by Greenland and Davos. As part of my efforts to avoid amplifying unstable narcissistic media-whore leaders, I haven’t got much to comment about. London has been pretty wet and miserable, as is January’s reputation. Meanwhile, markets were up quite...
The Edge
Thinking with Machines was such a joyful read that I finished it in a single sitting during a...
8th Feb 2026
from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance
8th Feb 2026
Thinking with Machines was such a joyful read that I finished it in a single sitting during a seven-hour flight. Do read it if you want to understand how AI will change the way we live and work. Vasant has lived through every major shift in AI, from expert systems to today’s push...
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Feb 2026
Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by monoscopes, modified cathode ray tubes that fired their electron guns at embedded plates marked with a metallized image. These units then assimilated the reflected particles into a...
from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming
8th Feb 2026
Eight more months of agents
2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs , and updated it for the world of agents . A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.a bit over a year agoeight months ago
We were prototyping our first agent, Sketch, when Claude Code...
forecourt networking
The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American
as buying gas. We love...
8th Feb 2026
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
8th Feb 2026
The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American
as buying gas. We love our cars, we love our oil, and an industry about as old
as automobiles themselves has developed a highly consistent, fully automated,
and fairly user friendly system for filling...
from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life
7th Feb 2026
The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 2
Left on the Shelf
My old and very good friend Mark Thwaite has taken over at the Left on the Shelf bookshop, so if...
7th Feb 2026
from This Space [alt+shift+b] in literature
7th Feb 2026
My old and very good friend Mark Thwaite has taken over at the Left on the Shelf bookshop, so if you're at all interested in any of the subjects listed in the poster below, please consider subscribing to his newsletter, checking out the listings on Abebooks, and the offers on...
from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology
7th Feb 2026
Introduction
Some Common DSP Notations
Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal
Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way
Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue
Filtering Away the Old Negative Image
Decimation
Final Block Diagram
Conclusion
Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
7th Feb 2026
Dolce Bellezza hosted her 19th Japanese Literature Challenge
last month. Once I have written this
post it will be the 54th book in this year’s event. Amazing.
The book is Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain
(1954, serialized 1949-54). The sound of
the mountain is a...
from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI
6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Feb 2026
Are we expected to be keeping up?
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
6th Feb 2026
Even the participants at the Westminster Dog Show, the best pups in the world, are unlikely to make a fortune for their owners.
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Feb 2026
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I have ended up a bit behind in my work and as always it is the blog that much suffer first. In this case, we have in two weeks twice managed to have snow which only increased my workload (it didn’t cancel any of my classes, but did require me …...
from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
6th Feb 2026
Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has anybody actually looked at a company this much in a way that wasn’t some sort of obsequious profile of a person who worked there? I don’t mean
from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance
6th Feb 2026
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life
6th Feb 2026
AI, Right Action, and the Liberation of Human Purpose
from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel
The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel
itself:
Then run a quick check with :hello, world
Now give a check...
from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Feb 2026
Ever since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 was introduced, I wondered why nobody built a decent laptop chassis around it.
You could swap out a low spec CM5 for a higher spec, and get an instant computer upgrade. Or, assuming a CM6 comes out someday in the same form factor,...
from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture
6th Feb 2026
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have unveiled the seven finalists for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award. A total of five projects were selected as finalists in the Architecture category, with another...
Reading List 02/06/2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and...
6th Feb 2026
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology
6th Feb 2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and building things.
Why I joined OpenAI
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no...
6th Feb 2026
from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
6th Feb 2026
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly, with an initial focus on ChatGPT...
from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life
6th Feb 2026
An Important Announcement from the US President
from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance
6th Feb 2026
My company has sold $2.6 million on Faire over the past 4.5 years.
As selling on Amazon has become tougher and tougher, we are thankful for the growing sales Faire has brought us.
That said, it's a difficult, counterintuitive marketplace to operate on, and one that is getting,...
from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history
6th Feb 2026
What Qiushi and Peking University’s NSD say about China's micro-drama industry’s scale, jobs, and global reach
It's all a blur
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring...
6th Feb 2026
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
6th Feb 2026
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents.
from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Feb 2026
Why You Can't Do Winter Alone
from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Feb 2026
Buy
Artificial Intelligence
from Bookshop.org
(with kickback)
(without kickback)
One of the better books I read in college was Artifical Intelligence:
The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher
John Haugeland. One of the sections I found
most striking and memorable was about...
from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design
5th Feb 2026
I believe our aesthetic taste is incredibly important, maybe even more important than we admit because it reveals our deepest values inside of us.
If you like plastic versus wood, if you're drawn to chrome or brass, to minimalism or maximalism, to sharp edges or soft curves.......
from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Feb 2026
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation
was the area with the second most comments.
This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much
progress one person could make on improving the organization’s
documentation while holding myself to a high...
from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history
5th Feb 2026
Studies from the east and west
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
5th Feb 2026
Otherwise prices will keep going up?
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
5th Feb 2026
I’m currently restructuring my site, and I’m going to change some of the URLs.
I don’t want to break inbound links to the old URLs, so I’m creating redirects between old and new.
My current web server is Caddy, so I define redirects in my Caddyfile with the redir...
from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science
5th Feb 2026
A 2026 paper in Animal Behaviour examines how quickly juvenile Black-tailed Godwits(right, with juvenile Redshanks) acquire the feeding skills they will need to get them through their first winter. Josh Nightingale followed the same migration route taken by young birds, as they...
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
5th Feb 2026
GitButler 0.19 is out, now shipping with a CLI, improved diffing, improved agentic help and more!
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
5th Feb 2026
I am a full-time printmaker and artist based in Edinburgh. For ten years, I co-ran a gallery café with my partner and sold my paintings there, after which we both went freelance in search of a more satisfying work/life balance. I now make limited edition lino prints from my home...
from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life
5th Feb 2026
How heritable is hair color? Well, if you’re a redhead and you have an identical twin, they will definitely also be a redhead. But the age at which twins go gray seems to vary a bit based on lifestyle. And there’s some randomness in where melanocytes end up on your skull when...
from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life
4th Feb 2026
The strangely healing medicine of tending to what is needed
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Feb 2026
The Wolfram Institute recently received a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation for “Computational Metaphysics”. I wrote this piece in part as a launching point for discussions with experts in traditional philosophy.
Moving Metaphysics from Philosophy to...
1, 7, 30, 11, 12
Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through...
4th Feb 2026
from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups
4th Feb 2026
Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through it. It’s what I’ve learned as fact since my father died eleven months ago.
There’s a central tension to it. A constant fault line that our customs straddle. It’s the constant...
$10k from directories
Thanks for signing up to the High Signal newsletter. I went to a painting class last night. It was a...
4th Feb 2026
from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
4th Feb 2026
Thanks for signing up to the High Signal newsletter. I went to a painting class last night. It was a really great way to switch off
Making The Most Of Winter
The winter of 2025-2026 is shaping up to be a proper one. Since basically the start of December we...
4th Feb 2026
from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Feb 2026
The winter of 2025-2026 is shaping up to be a proper one. Since basically the start of December we have experienced below average temperatures and an abundance of snow. We haven't had much respite from the cold, other than a brief warm spell in January quickly followed by an...
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
4th Feb 2026
Posted today for no particular reason:
“A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” is the slogan that replaces “A free press means a free people” in Frank Capra and Robert Riskin’s 1941 classic film, “Meet John Doe.”
The threat in the film is incipient fascism led by a...
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Feb 2026
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
4th Feb 2026
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography
4th Feb 2026
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, real estate developer Jared Kushner unveiled the administration’s plans for Gaza.
This map is from Al Jazeera though it’s unclear if they’re showing a direct copy of it. It’s a little hard to take seriously a brightly...
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
4th Feb 2026
How romance novels are reshaping the book business—and Hollywood.
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
4th Feb 2026
When content matters more than the truth
from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming
4th Feb 2026
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:
1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.
2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications
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