Global Inequality...
Dr. Morell and the Patient A
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
9th Aug 2025
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
Herman's blog
Digital hygiene: Notifications
Take back your attention.
6th Aug 2025
Take back your attention.
Josh Thompson
Quotes from 'Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving', by Pete Walker
I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful.
Some of you,...
11th Aug 2022
I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful.
Some of you, many of you, have blessed me and cared for me in kind ways, sometimes with very little knowledge of what was going on, or why I was the way that I was. Thank you. I’ve been...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York
Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
7th Oct 2022
Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now
It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the...
22nd Sep 2025
It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the details about what’s new since OS 8.0.1, make sure to check out our posts from May until now. In this post I’ll just be covering our progress over the last month up until the release...
Marine Madness
Book club: ‘Being Salmon Being Human’ by Martin Lee Mueller
Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Norwegian and Pacific Northwest salmon industries...
1st Jun 2021
Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild Norwegian and Pacific Northwest salmon industries remain largely overlooked and Martin Lee Mueller cleverly weaves the stories of artificially inseminated and reared salmon to highlight the long-standing notion of human...
A Beautiful Site
I'm pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac...
7th Aug 2026
I launched ColorCopy on May 18. It was my second macOS app, but the first one I launched on the Mac App Store. Today, I decided to pull it.
The app isn't a new idea, but it bakes four color tools into a single menu bar app: an eyedropper, a color picker, a palette manager, and a...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
6th Nov 2023
Going viral, my thoughts, and updates from me in October 2023.
Construction Physics
Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
5th Sep 2024
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
David Rozado...
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research?
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
17th Sep 2023
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
Blog System/5
Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el
It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly...
6th Mar 2026
It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex CLI: it is much snappier—who would imagine that a “Rewrite in Rust” would make things tangibly faster—and the answers feel more to-the-point than Claude’s to me.
SatPost by Trung...
I want Apple's Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
16th Jun 2023
The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
2nd Jul 2025
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
Birchtree
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
2nd Mar 2025
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
Atoms vs Bits
Good Tokens 2025-10-01
Dinosaurs for sale
3rd Oct 2025
Molson Hart's Blog -...
America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries...
6th Apr 2025
On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”.
These tariffs will not work. In fact, they...
balajis.com
America's $175 Trillion Problem
The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
25th Jul 2024
The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
Matt Mazur
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
10th May 2022
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business?
Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
6th Dec 2024
Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer
5th Mar 2025
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jan 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Visited Boulder - Launched a print edition of Contraption Company, which was a fun ...
./techtipsy
Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences
I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year,
since it’s a relatively...
1st Dec 2023
I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year,
since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while.
A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition.
During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
Balancing Act
The Case For Abundance
Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
5th Jan 2026
Why I'm betting on depth over distraction
Cybercultural:...
Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been...
21st Feb 2023
I recently had occasion to write about Foursquare, the once popular location check-in app. I’d been emailed by its PR firm about a potential Machine Learning story. In her pitch, the PR rep had called Foursquare a “location data platform.” All this piqued my interest as a tech...
Old Structures...
Equitable on Broad Street 8
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable...
1st May 2026
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable building, but I feel like it’s not often we get to see such thorough documentation of the construction technology of a moment in time. I’m going to switch gears today from the...
Charlie Becker
Is an AI company buying up all the used books? (Part 2: Maybe yes, actually.)
#109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
17th Aug 2026
#109 updates the record on AI companies and used book buying
Haterade
The Cinnamon Gum Olympics
Haterade is a newsletter for bus drivers and looksmaxxers.
23rd Mar 2026
Haterade is a newsletter for bus drivers and looksmaxxers.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The future of large files in Git is Git
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If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
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If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files.
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone,
and wreak havoc on Git forges.
In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around
problems...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
30th May 2014
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
Winnie Lim
different realities under the same blue sky
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular...
1st Oct 2023
My partner and I were were surprised we had radically different interpretations of a particular scene of a kdrama we had just watched. She had thought the lines were full of hope...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
30th Jan 2024
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a
simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence
of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other
meshes as well, although that is presently...
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Maggie Appleton
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
7th May 2021
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
The personal website...
Changing all the fonts on WSJ.com
“Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement.
In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has...
11th Dec 2017
“Change the fonts.” It’s a simple mission statement.
In reality, changing the fonts on wsj.com has involved years of coordination and planning between nearly every team at the Wall Street Journal. In the past month, the last few coordinated steps were executed with an incredible...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
2 weeks ago
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
Justin Jackson
The value of software in a Fable world
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
11th Jul 2026
What happens to the price of software when everyone's building software?
Works in Progress...
The secret fast track for animal drugs
Animal drugs are approved much faster than human drugs. Perhaps we could adopt the same model for...
12th Jun 2025
Animal drugs are approved much faster than human drugs. Perhaps we could adopt the same model for humans without compromising on safety.
CHM
Taiwan Rising
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use.
The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
Louwrentius - Solar
Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
26th Mar 2023
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch.
Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
Greater Still by...
Good Things Take Time
A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
22nd Aug 2024
A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Broadway Shows of All Time to See in NYC
3rd Nov 2023
Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
18th May 2024
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
Win Vector LLC
Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC...
8th Aug 2025
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC sampler. It has allowed us to infer deep business factors, instead of being limited surface KPIs (key performance indicators). Modeling uncertainty requires stronger optimizers to...
lcamtuf’s thing
Approximation game
The number 22/7 and the pigeon flock of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
28th Feb 2026
The number 22/7 and the pigeon flock of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
The Roots of...
What is progress?
In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another...
9th Mar 2024
In one sense, the concept of progress is simple, straightforward, and uncontroversial. In another sense, it contains an entire worldview.
The most basic meaning of “progress” is simply advancement along a path, or more generally from one state to another that is considered more...
Daniel Immke
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
9th Dec 2017
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
Willem's Blog
Using Google Free Android
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
24th Oct 2021
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
19th Sep 2023
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
cdixon
Who will control the software that powers the Internet?
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
4th Jan 2019
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities ...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Aug 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Left, added a navigation bar to navigate larger...
The Quanta Podcast
Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe's First Stars
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space...
12th Apr 2023
Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.
Marc Astbury
Annual Review 2025
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox...
2nd Jan 2026
As was the case in 2023, I’m back in Yunnan writing the annual review. This time sitting in Matchbox coffee shop in Shaxi, the sky is pure blue and the farmers fields below are a dusty yellow. My fingers are freezing as I type but the pain is negated by the joy of wearing a...
Derek Sivers podcast
Daily run, part two
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever...
28th Oct 2022
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever actions you take in your life.
The story is about how we choose beliefs because they’re useful, not true.
Beliefs make emotions.
Emotions make actions.
Actions come from...
Ryan Barrett
Logs as end user UI
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
Anil Dash
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
home automation -...
On The End of Bitcoin
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date...
24th May 2022
[This is a repost of a thread of mine from a dead social media platform. The original posting date was May 24th, 2022. I have not added new content.]Is there some scientific literature/scenario planning on the End of Bitcoin? With the next two halvings mining income will shift...
macwright.com
Recently
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
1st May 2024
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new?
Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty
hard problem. It was pretty
well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really
trying not to write a search...
Acko.net
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange...
22nd Sep 2022
Looking back, and forward
Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React. Both the orange and red site recently spilled the tea about how mean Uncle React has been, and how much nicer some of these next-gen frameworks supposedly are.
I find this bizarre for two...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.”
I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Chris Grossack's...
Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an
extremely natural...
18th Feb 2024
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an
extremely natural question about how we might study topological group
actions via the functorial approach beloved by category theorists.
The usual story is to treat a group $G$ as a one-object...
Passing Time
Your Social Universe
Imagine yourself as a star.
6th Mar 2024
Imagine yourself as a star.
tonsky.me
When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
1st May 2025
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
diamond geezer
A2026
As the new year begins, let's walk the A2026.
Ewell, Surrey.
Dartford, Kent.
The A2026 started...
1st Jan 2026
As the new year begins, let's walk the A2026.
Ewell, Surrey.
Dartford, Kent.
The A2026 started life as the Crayford bypass, a flat estuarine alternative to the Roman road up West Hill. It was opened on 22 June 1923 by the wife of Wilford Ashley, Parliamentary Secretary to...
bt RSS Feed
Prescription Form UI Improvements
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
13th Mar 2019
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn’t bad per se, but it could certainly be improved.
Current design of the...
Epic Web Dev
Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
1st Oct 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
Marian's Blog
How to build a Lego Portal Gun
Resources:
Parts: list, Rebrickable CSV, Bricklink XML
Model: LDR, 3DS
Build this MOC on...
30th Apr 2014
Resources:
Parts: list, Rebrickable CSV, Bricklink XML
Model: LDR, 3DS
Build this MOC on Rebrickable
Instructions:
...
Blog - Guerrilla...
White Elephants in the State of Vermont
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been...
14th Jul 2020
This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement.
How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?
That was the question...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the design interview
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
1st Jan 2021
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
blag
Win: contribution to libSQL (SQLite) codebase
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
16th Feb 2024
I got my patches accepted into SQLite fork, libSQL codebase!
the singularity is...
Wokeism
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things....
13th Feb 2023
There’s been much discussion about “wokeism”, and I think a definition might help to clarify things. My followers on Twitter helped me with this.
When you Google it, the top two results contain radically different definitions. I googled “wokeism” and got:
The first...
The Tao Of Wealth
Thumbprints Of The Divine For ‘The Season
Everything bears the divine fingerprint, footprint or similitude. Ask the animals, and they will...
24th Dec 2016
Everything bears the divine fingerprint, footprint or similitude. Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of these does not know that the...
Notes on software...
Errors and Zig
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing...
21st Mar 2023
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing sample code for client
libraries, and writing integration tests against the sample code.
The client library documentation is generated with a Zig script. The
sample code is...
Passing Time
Bits from Boulder
Three true stories from the People's Republic
5th Aug 2024
Three true stories from the People's Republic
Charles Petzold
Reading About the Dreyfus Affair
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10...
27th May 2024
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10 pages a day, and so far it’s been successful: I’m currently heading towards the end of the 3rd volume, The Guermantes Way. During a long dinner party in this novel, seemingly...
GeoCurrents
Could a Druze State Be Emerging in Southern Syria? If So, What Would It Encompass?
Since the fall of Syria’s Assad Regime in December 2024, I have been wondering what would become of...
6th May 2026
Since the fall of Syria’s Assad Regime in December 2024, I have been wondering what would become of the Druze people and the areas in which they are the majority population. Particularly important is the Jabal al-Druze, or “Mountain of the Druze,” which is clearly visible on...
Contraption Co.
The next iteration of Contraption Company
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
6th Sep 2024
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
3rd Nov 2022
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
The Rational Walk
Greg Abel’s 2026 Letter to Shareholders
Greg Abel's first letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders emphasized the need to keep the...
2nd Mar 2026
Greg Abel's first letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders emphasized the need to keep the company's unique culture.
The personal website...
Goldilocks your graphs
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and...
11th Nov 2015
Data visualization is everywhere. From analytics platforms to infographics, across newsrooms and social media channels, there are vast swaths of the internet devoted to delivering data in non-tabular format. There are entire blogs devoted to the subject, such as the ubiquitous...
Society's Backend:...
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024
The top 5 articles and resources
1st Jan 2025
The top 5 articles and resources
Molson Hart's Blog -...
THE SLOW, EXCRUCIATING, DISASTEROUS DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA
Austin is a more pleasant place to live than Dallas because people are smarter on average.
This does...
24th Sep 2023
Austin is a more pleasant place to live than Dallas because people are smarter on average.
This does not mean there are not smart people in Dallas. There are. What it does mean is the typical Austinite is just a little sharper.
This makes for more pleasant conversations. It’s...
Nat Eliason's...
A Map is Not a Blueprint: Why Fixing Nature Fails
Ozempic, Fertilizer, Lobotomies, and the dangers of hubris
5th Feb 2024
Ozempic, Fertilizer, Lobotomies, and the dangers of hubris
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
5th Dec 2024
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
Stephen Diehl
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech
Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and...
1st Nov 2023
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism in Tech
Silicon Valley, once a beacon of technological optimism and innovation, is undergoing a troubling transformation. The region that once embodied the ideals of humanism, progress, and the pursuit of a better world has become a far different place...
Many Worlds
After Seven Years Away Exploring an Asteroid, OSIRIS-REx is Landing Soon with Precious Samples
Bits of pebbles and dust from the asteriod Bennu that were collected during the long journey of the...
11th Sep 2023
Bits of pebbles and dust from the asteriod Bennu that were collected during the long journey of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft should be landing in the Utah desert later this month. The delivery will be a first for NASA — its first sample return from an asteroid and one of a very...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000
If it clucks like a duck...
14th Oct 2025
If it clucks like a duck...
Inverted Passion
Asking agents to make money to survive
Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed...
2 weeks ago
Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed intriguing. Essentially, the post painted a picture of how agents could go rogue if prompted with something like the following: Good morning agent 23,000. You have 10,000,000 tokens...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
Applied Cartography
2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
20th Feb 2022
Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
Liz Denys
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities."
Apologies for the...
29th Nov 2013
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities."
Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano.
You can grab a full copy of the score.
Cybercultural:...
Best Web BigCo of 2007: Facebook
This post as it looked in 2007.
Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies...
10th Dec 2007
This post as it looked in 2007.
Every year in December Read/WriteWeb does a Best Web Companies round-up. This is the 4th time and, like last year, we're splitting it over two posts. In this post we'll announce the Best Web BigCo of 2007 and later in the week we'll announce Best...
The Map is Mostly...
Breadcrumbs
One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
19th Oct 2024
One belief I have is that if you wish to be virtuous you will learn to eat cereal virtuously.
Odds and Ends of...
Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them
It's time for a new moral panic
2nd May 2025
It's time for a new moral panic
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
The Marginalian
Fox and Bear: A Tender Modern Fable About Reversing the Anthropocene, Illustrated in Cut-Cardboard...
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
1st Jul 2023
An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
30th Nov 2023
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Jonas Hietala
Finishing Stuff
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
7th Dec 2011
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] The Shops Atop the Canal in Toyohashi
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Toyohashi, a city between nowhere and somewhere else. A Tōkaidō...
12th Mar 2026
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Toyohashi, a city between nowhere and somewhere else. A Tōkaidō city I’ve walked through on my two trips back and forth between Kyoto and Tokyo. A city with a space shuttle on top of a building and the letters USA strangely emblazoned below.
On...
Alice GG
DEFCON 30
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around...
20th Nov 2022
This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
22nd Feb 2018
SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department.
Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on
computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s
Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric
design to...
Laetitia@Work
AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling
Laetitia@Work #78
28th Feb 2025
The Quanta Podcast
A Debate Over the Physics of Time
According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to...
8th Sep 2016
According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to pass.
The post A Debate Over the Physics of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Abort Retry Fail
A Brief History of Sega Enterprises
Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
The personal website...
What google search shows us about the future of product design
You can read this article on UX Booth.
10th Sep 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal
reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal,...
8th Feb 2011
reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal, and transplants it to a new terminal. reptyr comes from a proud family of similar hacks, and works in the same basic way: We use ptrace(2) to attach to a target process and force...
Anecdotal Evidence
'All He'd Read and Learned'
Eccentricity in books is a
tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take...
1st Aug 2026
Eccentricity in books is a
tricky quality. It can be charming and inspire lifelong devotion. Take Robert
Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, a book I discovered in my freshman
year. I redundantly keep three copies on the shelves nearest my desk. Tristram
Shandy is another...
Commoncog
How to Run Smart Experiments When You Just Don’t Know
How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use...
20th Aug 2025
How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.
latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
6th Mar 2025
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
Works in Progress...
The first non-opioid painkiller
For nearly two centuries, pain relief meant effective but addictive opioids. Scientists have finally...
6th Oct 2025
For nearly two centuries, pain relief meant effective but addictive opioids. Scientists have finally made something better.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
July 1, 2009
The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl
I recovered this article from my old blog via the...
1st Jul 2009
The opposite of youth is compromise – Girl
I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found this
article useful or entertaining (or even if you didn’t) consider donating to the Internet
Archive
Paul Cudenec
On globalism and immigration
Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any...
4th Feb 2025
Somebody commented on my article “The British population is under attack” that I had not made any mention of immigration.
TheCollector
15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and...
1st Dec 2025
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and unique aspects of daily life. Considering how the slang of younger generations can seem indecipherable to older folks, it’s no surprise that the English spoken in Medieval times...
Retail Design Blog
CNC & Active Offices by Studio Reaktor
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor...
4th Aug 2026
The new office spaces of Czech News Center and Active Radio were built within the new Hagibor administrative complex on...
Jeffrey Zeldman...
The Human Story of the Open Web
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared...
2nd Jul 2026
STOP ME if you’ve heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever.
Or this: A Queer kid growing up isolated in Nebraska discovers a...
Steve Blank
How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory
Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a...
10th Sep 2025
Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department of War is hard: Who should you talk to? How do you get their attention? What is the...
charity.wtf
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
2nd Oct 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know.
Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
Some Future Tech Possibilities
It’s difficult to pick winners and losers in the future tech game. In reality you just have to see...
1st Feb 2024
It’s difficult to pick winners and losers in the future tech game. In reality you just have to see what happens when you try out a new technology in the real world with actual people. Many technologies that look good on paper run into logistical problems, difficulty scaling, fall...
The personal website...
Know thyself
Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a...
8th Jun 2020
Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a brief recap:
Virtue ethics is the belief that well-being comes from having the right personality traits or dispositions. The key to virtue ethics is finding those special skills that,...
Julia Evans
Terminal colours are tricky
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my
terminal that I was...
1st Oct 2024
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my
terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder
what about terminal colours made it so hard.
So I asked people on Mastodon what problems
they’ve run into with colours in the...
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping 20241208
Corrections, stats, and an update
8th Dec 2024
Corrections, stats, and an update
Jonas Hietala
Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
3rd Apr 2019
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination.
When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
FIRE v London
April 2025 – balmy weather, barmy markets
Better late than never, I’m doing a quick update on April. More for the record than because anything...
24th May 2025
Better late than never, I’m doing a quick update on April. More for the record than because anything particularly notable happened in the portfolio, ignoring the mid month gyrations. It was a lovely month, April. I did a bit of travelling, but the UK had generally lovely spring...
Eric Bailey
Building a better button in CSS
19th Oct 2016
Maps Mania
The Coffee Barista's Maps
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my...
2 weeks ago
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my favourite bean, Finca La Bolsa, has been out of season and unavailable from my local roasters. I've therefore been using the opportunity to experiment with beans from different...
Hustle Originals
Can anything stop Kalshi?
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember...
3rd Apr 2026
The lax regulation of prediction markets reminds many analysts of the late 1920s. You might remember what happened then.
Aaron's Essays
Exceptionalism
Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they...
4th Jan 2016
Startups that do well often follow a set of common principles. These principles influence how they develop products, build teams, raise money, and get customers. The most successful startups, though, are exceptional and often seem to go against these principles in various ways....
SatPost by Trung...
5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
2nd May 2025
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
haseeb qureshi
Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to...
27th Feb 2020
Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack.
These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
Long Now
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
### Humanity's immune system
The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has...
9th Jun 2007
### Humanity's immune system
The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has two referents, he explained. Economist Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, _The Great Transformation_ , said that the "market society" and modern nation state emerged together in Europe after...
Wait But Why
SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story
It's gonna take you to Mars.
The post SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story appeared first on...
28th Sep 2016
It's gonna take you to Mars.
The post SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story appeared first on Wait But Why.
Leteyski's blog
Want to save your nation? Get rid of poor people!
Introduction
12th Sep 2023
Eugene Yan
DataScience SG Meetup - How we got top 3% in Kaggle
Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG.
20th Jun 2015
Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG.
cdixon
Coinbase
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press...
12th Dec 2013
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by…
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Society of Mind
Harper Reed's company has been experimenting with having several AI agents talk to each other via...
1st Oct 2025
Harper Reed's company has been experimenting with having several AI agents talk to each other via blogs and social media. It seems to be engendering some interesting social intelligence
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
12th Sep 2009
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site.
Let’s rock!!
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it?
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
5th Dec 2024
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman.
In the book,...
8th Apr 2025
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman.
In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These
systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of
modern fascism. And they were built by a...
Raw Thought (from...
Look at yourself objectively
29th Oct 2022
Herbert Lui
Turn a creative fever into lasting inspiration
A few days ago, an idea came to me: why is there no business book covering Pokémon? By one estimate,...
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...
David Gerrells
agents, ai, and software engineering
People are limited in the number of decisions they can make in a day. Most people do not experience...
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.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras or PyTorch as your first deep learning framework
27th Jun 2018
Derek Sivers podcast
Aim for the edges
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades.
remarkably unusual.
Our culture is now...
7th May 2008
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades.
remarkably unusual.
Our culture is now split into niches.
In 1948, Milton Berle’s TV show had 80% of all viewers, because it was one of only three choices!
When the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan in 1964, they had 60% of...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
From JSON to TOON
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same...
15th Dec 2025
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same capability as JSON but uses less space.
It was invented to lower costs of sending data (tokens) to LLM AIs but it has 2 advantages over JSON:
smaller than JSON
more readable than JSON
It...
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Derek Sivers
the Michael Browne suits
In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves,...
15th Apr 2023
In 2020, I was about to move to New York City. I wanted to get to know all of its ethnic enclaves, like visiting the whole world in one city. But I know I have a tendency to stay at home, immersed in my work.
Marc Astbury
Intervention ≠ good
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite...
3rd Feb 2024
Michel de Montaigne, in his ‘Essays,’ recounts the story of a friend who fell sick. Despite consulting doctors and trying different treatments, nothing worked. Resigned to his fate, the friend finally gave up all treatments and stopped eating. Surprisingly, this led to an...
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about a metaverse
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean?...
31st Oct 2022
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about
this, and what can we predict?
Platformer
The Bluesky exodus, one year later
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy?...
4th Nov 2025
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
Last Place Comics
McCollesseum
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Nov 2025
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Christian Selig
You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
10th Jul 2025
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021.
Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
FIRE v London
Nov ’23 revalues the future
In the news It has been quite a busy month out there. The Israel/Gaza crisis continues. Public...
5th Dec 2023
In the news It has been quite a busy month out there. The Israel/Gaza crisis continues. Public opinion is shifting against the Israel government here, even in North London – which would normally be one of the most sympathetic neighbourhoods outside Tel Aviv. The Ukrainians are...
Justin Jackson
Your blog could be a party
2nd May 2014
Hickman's...
A Tiny City in the Wilderness
On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
6th Apr 2025
On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
Nelson's Weblog
Angkor Wat resources
I took an amazing
trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time
finding
good...
27th Mar 2025
I took an amazing
trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time
finding
good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part
because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I
found useful about the Khmer empire in...
Three Letter Acronym
Catalytic Converter
Catalyst is in some ways a miraculous technology – just click a check box and instantly have a...
8th Oct 2019
Catalyst is in some ways a miraculous technology – just click a check box and instantly have a working Mac version of your app. And, given the source code of a relatively modern iOS app, it certainly works. Even PCalc’s About screen worked out of the box. But that is just step...
Blog | Sam Curry
Exploiting Directory Traversal to View Customer Credit Card Information on Yahoo's Small...
10th Nov 2017
Rare Historical...
Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
2 weeks ago
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
Raptitude.com
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
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...
Eugene Yan
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
dthompson
Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released!
About...
12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released!
About guile-bstructs
Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access
to binary data for Guile. A
bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that
encapsulates a bytevector and a...
./techtipsy
The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of...
7th Sep 2023
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best
place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
Applied Cartography
What Are You Going Through
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
ntietz.com blog -...
You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
1st May 2023
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal.
They should be universal, though.
Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible.
They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
The personal website...
Ballet dancers and shot putters
Starting a career in design is like crash-landing on Mars. You may have studied it through a...
6th Nov 2022
Starting a career in design is like crash-landing on Mars. You may have studied it through a telescope, but nothing can prepare you for actually being there.
One of the biggest surprises many new designers experience is that design isn’t always about coming up with the most...
The personal website...
UI Density
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it...
20th May 2024
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias, but comparing websites and applications of 2024 to their 2000s-era counterparts, the spreading out of software is hard to ignore.
To explain this trend, and suggest...
Engineer’s Codex
How to Not Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
12th Sep 2025
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
22nd Dec 2012
There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
The Pragmatic...
An educational side project
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
1st Jun 2023
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
David Rozado...
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate...
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
19th May 2025
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
Josh Thompson
Upgrade your job
So, apparently I send a lot of email about people trying to get cool jobs. Here’s yet
another email...
30th Oct 2015
So, apparently I send a lot of email about people trying to get cool jobs. Here’s yet
another email I sent to a friend, recorded here.
Hi [redacted],
First I want to highlight is that flexible/remote jobs are
just like normal jobs, but more people want them, so the companies...
Long Now
Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor
Human beings have an astonishing evolutionary gift: agile imaginations that can shift in an instant...
18th Nov 2020
Human beings have an astonishing evolutionary gift: agile imaginations that can shift in an instant from thinking on a scale of seconds to a scale of years or even centuries. The need to draw on our capacity to think long-term has never been more urgent, whether in areas such as...
cdixon
Comma.ai
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry....
2nd Apr 2016
I wrote a blog post last month highlighting some of the exciting trends in the computing industry. One trend I discussed is the rapid…
Remains of the Day
American Idle
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
22nd Feb 2021
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok.
All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of...
2nd Mar 2020
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of Python).
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.05.01 - Days
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st May 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Internal Tech Emails
Warren Buffett emails Microsoft exec
I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
4th Jan 2026
I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one
Farza's Newsletter
pointed my tv remote at my microwave and then i met the Beatles, wild.
What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to...
7th Mar 2021
What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to them on the phone. And, well, it does! That’s one way to talk to users. But, when I started Zip I wanted “talking to users” to be literally built into
Haterade
Cooking with Dom DeLuise
The dream of the ‘90s is alive and portly
29th Apr 2025
The dream of the ‘90s is alive and portly
High Signal
The IndieHackers podcast has ended - the 10 best episodes
The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
2nd Jan 2025
The IndieHackers podcast, which celebrated founders who hadn't raised venture capital, has now ended
Daniel De Laney
Objectivity is superstition
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption.
The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption.
The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through.
That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
14th Jan 2021
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Luxagraf:...
Blanco
I've never been much of a car driver. I had one in high school, but pretty shortly after I got a...
11th Mar 2026
I've never been much of a car driver. I had one in high school, but pretty shortly after I got a truck and never looked back. Trucks are an entirely different, and better, driving experience. You get an elevated view of the world, and the drive is more relaxed, like you're...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know:...
30th Apr 2020
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud.
This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
Kagi Blog
Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search (...
21st Jan 2026
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search ( https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search ) , published last year.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
People I Want to Work With
This is an evolved thought of my post about my favourite designers ever.
Since I opened my creative...
5th Aug 2025
This is an evolved thought of my post about my favourite designers ever.
Since I opened my creative lab FormFeelingFunction®, I’ve also opened my mind to connecting with more creative people. The reason is simple: to make unexpected objects in both digital and analogue form...
blag
Recurse Center: Winter Break
the Recurse Center winter break
1st Jan 2022
the Recurse Center winter break
latest projects -...
Precision Clock Acrylic Case
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
Derek Sivers podcast
How many pets do you have?
I used to have too many pets.
My house was overflowing.
But it didn’t feel that way at the...
13th Aug 2021
I used to have too many pets.
My house was overflowing.
But it didn’t feel that way at the time.
In each moment, I was giving just one pet my full attention.
My life was full of so many loves.
I sadly realized this was unfair.
The situation was hurting them.
No pet was...
fast.ai
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it...
3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
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