On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES
3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!
For existing Asahi Linux users,
upgrade your system with dnf
upgrade (Fedora) or pacman
-Syu...
Eric Bailey
Forbidden noodles
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware...
24th Aug 2021
My obsession with food-based taxonomy continues. Here are all the forbidden noodles I am aware of:
Bucatini
The FDA banning the import of this beloved pasta was one of the many tragedies 2020 visited on us. If there is any consolation, know that the De Cecco pasta factories have...
Home on Erik...
Momentum strategies
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
Nat Eliason's...
The Strange Fruits of Exploration
And maybe a beach bar
13th Feb 2025
Articles - Alex...
Adland is an island
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us
more. We consider our...
24th Feb 2021
We spend eight hours a day thinking about the brands we build. Many of us
more. We consider our clients’ companies and the categories in which they
compete. We visit the sites in which our products are produced and the
stores in which they are sold. We analyse their adverts...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The U.S. Navy’s $100 Million Checkbox
Two years ago a Navy destroyer was ripped open by the nose of a Liberian tanker. Ten sailors were...
29th Sep 2019
Two years ago a Navy destroyer was ripped open by the nose of a Liberian tanker. Ten sailors were crushed or drowned as their sleeping quarters filled with water after the collision. At the heart of the tragedy is a single checkbox on a touchscreen. This is the untold story of...
The Deleted Scenes
Northern Virginia Is a Real Place, Revisited
Feeling at home in a big, anonymous place
2nd Mar 2026
Feeling at home in a big, anonymous place
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Hamster Wheel Upgrades
It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare...
13th Oct 2018
It is either the most beautiful song I have ever heard or something else. It’s one of those rare moments where you shed all the pessimism and your soul fills with peace and clarity until it leaks out of the corner of your eye.
The Works in...
The San Diego infinite housing glitch
How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
2nd Oct 2024
How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
Jeff Geerling
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
I finally upgraded to a mechanical...
3rd Dec 2025
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in.
But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly...
Greater Still by...
Talking to the Protocol
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
5th Dec 2022
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Cooking
In short: Salt, fat, acid, heat
3rd Jan 2024
In short: Salt, fat, acid, heat
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.
The Diff
Routers, Apps, AGI
Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes;...
20th Oct 2025
Plus! Diff Jobs; Peripheral Bets; Fragmentation and Industry Maturity; Deepfakes as Pull Quotes; Benchmarks; Platforms
Probably...
Announcing Think Stats 3e
The third edition of Think Stats is on its way to the printer! You can preorder now from...
6th Apr 2025
The third edition of Think Stats is on its way to the printer! You can preorder now from Bookshop.org and Amazon (those are affiliate links), or if you can’t wait to get a paper copy, you can read the free, online version here. Here’s the new cover, still featuring a...
Unpacked
Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends
YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their...
1st Jul 2023
YCombinator (YC), the renowned Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator, recently announced their Winter 2023 cohort and, unsurprisingly, ~31% of startups have a self-reported AI tag.
Cybercultural:...
Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture?
Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content?
You wrote a blog in the...
14th Aug 2019
Have you ever had any of these issues lately while trying to access content?
You wrote a blog in the early to late 2000s, but it’s long since gone (or changed irrevocably, in my case). Can you still experience that blog in all its noughties HTML glory, via the Wayback Machine?...
Stephen Diehl
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood...
3rd Mar 2016
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood topic but are an extremely
Source for examples code is available
.
Generics are a form of datatype-generic programming, which although the
sum of
.
A sum type, is a data structure used...
Computer Ads from...
Huson Soft HuCAL
Hudson creates business software for everyone.
24th Jan 2024
Hudson creates business software for everyone.
Trying to Understand...
The Missile Will Always Get Through.
But who is prepared to admit it?
4th Dec 2024
But who is prepared to admit it?
Jonas Hietala
2018 in review
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the...
24th Jan 2019
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the year usually makes me feel better.
2018 non-geek achievements
Was on parental leave for about 7 months.
It was great although I’ve been crawling up the walls a little the last...
beep.blog
Twitter subscriptions
I don’t need anything more than human support.
9th Feb 2021
I don’t need anything more than human support.
cdixon
The computing deployment phase
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment...
9th Feb 2013
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent…
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
11th Oct 2024
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
5th Oct 2020
Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
The Quanta Podcast
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity...
1st Feb 2023
A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod.
CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
1st Jan 2025
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
David Gerrells
never give up
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Mind Prison
Intelligence Is Not Pattern-Matching | LLM AI Is Probabilistic Pattern Recognition | How to Perceive...
Perceiving The Difference: LLMs And Intelligence
5th May 2025
Perceiving The Difference: LLMs And Intelligence
Strong Towns
The Reflector That Started a Conversation
A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
1st Jul 2026
A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
Paul Cudenec
Remembering the fires of revolt
A book review
1st May 2026
Construction Physics
How the Gas Turbine Conquered the Electric Power Industry
A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated...
17th Nov 2023
A prophecy expressed frequently in engineering circles at the present day is that turbines actuated by hot gases, other than steam, will eventually come to the front as prime movers. — A Scientific Investigation Into the Possibilities of Gas-Turbines,
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day...
12th Sep 2024
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I
thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some
reasons.
This came up today because I was trying to...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Real Risk of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been...
7th Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been steadily infiltrating the technology we use every day, whether you realize it or not. I remain somewhat in the middle in terms of the hype-to-technological-miracle spectrum. I don’t...
Writing
Content debt
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
Maggie Appleton
A History of Cyborgs
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
1st Nov 2020
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Butler's Log
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
13th Jan 2025
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
Steve Klabnik
Using buck to build Rust projects
13th Apr 2023
AFAR Media - Travel...
Virginia Beach Travel Tips From Fishing Pro Jim Root
13th Feb 2025
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
19th Feb 2024
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
The Honest Broker
Can You Really Treat Cancer with Sound?
And other updates on recent articles.
1st Nov 2025
And other updates on recent articles.
The Turn Signal RSS...
Swiping vs Tapping, What is Less Distracting to Drivers?
I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like...
1st Feb 2022
I typically split in-car interactions into two groups. There are quick and frequent actions like changing the volume or skipping a song…
Remains of the Day
My Favorite Movies of 2021
A second year of the pandemic passed in which I didn’t attend any film festivals in person. I miss...
1st Mar 2022
A second year of the pandemic passed in which I didn’t attend any film festivals in person. I miss it. My viewing output of is lower than usual but still much much higher than that of the median filmgoer.
Film is one category of media in which human recommendations still feel...
Beautiful Public...
Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar...
2nd May 2023
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
Naz Hamid • Journal
It’s Time
Gains without measurement.
The weight fell off. Literally and figuratively, the device that now...
10th Jan 2026
Gains without measurement.
The weight fell off. Literally and figuratively, the device that now occupies my wrist is simple. It’s much smaller, tells the time, and the date. It requires no battery and is powered by my own kinetic movement, like riding a bicycle.
For the past few...
Long Now
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality
### Quantum Computer Reality
The 15th-century Renaissance was triggered, Lloyd began, by a flood of...
10th Aug 2016
### Quantum Computer Reality
The 15th-century Renaissance was triggered, Lloyd began, by a flood of new information which changed how people thought about everything, and the same thing is happening now. All of us have had to shift, just in the last couple decades, from hungry...
charity.wtf
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
Long Now
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
### Asteroid threat report
Schweickart filled the hall with some 240 at the Presidio Officers Club...
13th Mar 2004
### Asteroid threat report
Schweickart filled the hall with some 240 at the Presidio Officers Club and gave a dazzling lecture. He left the next day for Washington DC to lobby Congress to apply its will to making the Earth safe for the very long term.
"For life to survive in...
Blog - Guerrilla...
How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
26th Mar 2024
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
Computer Things
Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content...
10th Oct 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content release. The next few months are going to be technical review, copyediting and polishing, with a hopeful 1.0 release in March. Full release notes here.
Three ways formally...
Blog -...
Book Review - Owning Your Own Shadow
The shadow of the human psyche cannot be overlooked in a thorough
exploration of personal...
16th Jan 2020
The shadow of the human psyche cannot be overlooked in a thorough
exploration of personal development. According to the classic resource
Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, “The
shadow is that which has not entered adequately into...
Alex MacCaw
Pain
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
17th Sep 2024
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is:
We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
Justin Jackson
Product traction is like waiting in line at the grocery store
15th Jan 2016
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2024
Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much...
3rd Apr 2024
Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
Eugene Yan
Bootstrapping Labels via ___ Supervision & Human-In-The-Loop
How to generate labels from scratch with semi, active, and weakly supervised learning.
1st Aug 2021
How to generate labels from scratch with semi, active, and weakly supervised learning.
Tiny struggles
I prefer boring technologies
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try...
30th Dec 2021
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum.
This is because I want to build actual products and not to do projects for the sake of learning exciting...
Project: LAKE.app -...
LAKE.app
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake...
31st Aug 2021
Following a recent weekend trip, I wrote a simple little app that plays a recording of waves on Lake Michigan crashing at the shore. It’s around 14~15 minutes long, and it loops perfectly. The app’s “artwork,” such as it is, consists of two
Passing Time
Spinning significance out of a senseless slog
Contributing to a chosen culture via running
9th May 2025
Contributing to a chosen culture via running
The Quanta Podcast
Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks
A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science. ...
11th Oct 2018
A new study challenges one of the most celebrated and controversial ideas in network science.
The post Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Derek Sivers
Reading the Bible start to finish
I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too....
27th Jan 2023
I like going to the source. Like finding musicians’ influences, and getting to know that music too. Same with film, art, philosophy, and technology.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalissimo 6.0
A new design, a new version, a new era, a new chapter, a new wave, a new vibe. Call it what you...
6th Apr 2022
A new design, a new version, a new era, a new chapter, a new wave, a new vibe. Call it what you like. The sixth iteration of Minimalissimo is here and it's probably the strongest one to date yet probably the most raw and uncompromising. But before I break down what is new, I want...
Daniel Bourke
Male Fertility Protocol
A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
30th Jul 2026
A bet on general health principles leading to favourable male fertility outcomes.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Lunch by plane
This week I was invited to fly along over the Netherlands in a small aircraft, from Hilversum to...
8th May 2018
This week I was invited to fly along over the Netherlands in a small aircraft, from Hilversum to Texel. A good buddy of mine is a pilot and planned to fly to the Texel island for lunch (and good fun!). The weather was excellent, so packed with my photo camera, I didn't hesitate...
Derek Sivers podcast
The public you is not you
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did.
a blog post sharing what I had learned...
25th Sep 2007
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did.
a blog post sharing what I had learned while switching between the PHP programming language and Ruby on Rails framework.
At the time, my blog had no readers, so I didn’t think anyone would see it.
I just wrote it for...
Paolo Amoroso's...
How Lisp helped my RetroChallenge 2024 project
<![CDATA[RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the...
2nd Nov 2025
<![CDATA[RetroChallenge announced the results of RC2024/10 and I'm honored to be among the winners.
Written in Interlisp, the WebCard project I entered the competition with extends the NoteCards hypermedia system to visit web sites. It defines a new type of hypertext node, the...
WHAT'S ANU
WHO KILLED COOL? AND WHAT DO WE CHASE NOW...
Sincerely, isn't it ironic?
16th Oct 2025
Sincerely, isn't it ironic?
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT-5
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
7th Aug 2025
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI officially released GPT-5, its latest flagship model, to the world.
The Tao Of Wealth
The Japa Of Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra
Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra Japa – 12 times Sri Aurobindo Gayatri...
5th Sep 2017
Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra Japa – 12 times Sri Aurobindo Gayatri Mantra Japa – 108 times
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...
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…
Max Woolf's Blog
AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again.
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
13th Aug 2024
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
The Quanta Podcast
Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution
New studies reveal the ancient, shared genetic “grammar” underpinning the diverse evolution of fish...
3rd Mar 2022
New studies reveal the ancient, shared genetic “grammar” underpinning the diverse evolution of fish fins and tetrapod limbs.
The post Flying Fish and Aquarium Pets Yield Secrets of Evolution first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Elysian
Let Cities Build Utopia—new drop!
My deep dive on the future of cities is now available as a print pamphlet, digital pamphlet, and...
10th Feb 2026
My deep dive on the future of cities is now available as a print pamphlet, digital pamphlet, and audio essay.
Atoms vs Bits
Modern Noble Lies
The high price asked for harmony
1st Jan 2025
The high price asked for harmony
The Honest Broker
The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself
3rd Mar 2026
How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several...
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
Eric Migicovsky's...
inPulse tumblr - ah memories
19th Sep 2010
General Robots
Why Build a Robot Company?
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
6th Feb 2023
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
1st Mar 2019
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Works in Progress...
Watch men
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the...
2nd Dec 2025
Quartz helped Japan’s watchmakers nearly drive Switzerland’s watch industry out of business. But the Swiss fought back.
Steve Klabnik
Memory Safety is a Red Herring
21st Dec 2023
Seldo.com
Crypto: the good, the bad and the ugly
6th Jan 2022
Long Now
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
### Bot-dominated Reality
[Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk...
9th Aug 2008
### Bot-dominated Reality
[Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk on the themes developed in his (originally self published) book __Daemon__. The book is now scheduled to be released in hard cover in January 02009 by Dutton.]
Forget about...
swyx's site RSS Feed
5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Weighty Thoughts
Software Engineering is Doomed
Or is it?
1st Jul 2024
Quantum Frontiers
The Noncommuting-Charges World Tour (Part 1 of 4)
Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many...
1st Feb 2024
Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many similarities with fairy tales. For example, most of them begin with a familiar opening. In thermodynamics, the phrase “Consider an isolated box of particles” serves a similar purpose …...
Farnam Street
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist...
9th Jul 2026
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in. Atlas Shrugged: The Simple Version The world depends on a relatively small number of people who build, invent, and...
Louwrentius - Solar
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
8th Sep 2016
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person.
Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
Confessions of a...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef
The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
11th Feb 2013
The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with! In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program. The paper was...
CrimethInc.
Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building
On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs...
5th Mar 2026
On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation of the Twin Cities, protesters converged on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At least four hundred people marched on the...
Scarlet Ink
How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element...
29th Jul 2024
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
The Changelog
Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console
I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI. In fact, I rarely use the text...
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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
29th Dec 2022
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
Seth's Blog
Market insulation
It’s possible that your day will be more enjoyable if you are insulated from the market. If you have...
1st Jun 2024
It’s possible that your day will be more enjoyable if you are insulated from the market. If you have a boss who has a boss… If you don’t have to review the sales numbers for the products you created or edited… If you have raised a ton of venture investment… If you are embracing...
Boot.dev Blog
Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker - Angela Hall
My name is Angela Hall, I’m an artist and silkscreen printer based in North Yorkshire, and I have...
3rd Apr 2024
My name is Angela Hall, I’m an artist and silkscreen printer based in North Yorkshire, and I have been making and selling my limited-edition prints for the last 5 years from my studio, specialised print events and regional galleries.
My creative journey started with a degree in...
Probably...
Bayesian Decision Analysis
At PyData Global 2025 I presented a workshop on Bayesian Decision Analysis with PyMC. The video is...
9th Jan 2026
At PyData Global 2025 I presented a workshop on Bayesian Decision Analysis with PyMC. The video is available now. This workshop is based on the first session of the Applied Bayesian Modeling Workshop I teach along with my colleagues at PyMC Labs. If you would like to learn more,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
Simply Explained
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
2nd Dec 2024
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Oct 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
TinyBASIC, implemented TinyBASIC in Uxntal.
Left, added a...
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about AGI
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the
experts agree only...
4th May 2024
How do we think about a fundamentally unknown and unknowable risk, when the
experts agree only that they have no idea?
Lennart Koopmann...
Close Access Denial
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
1st Oct 2023
I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Offline command line translation with TranslateGemma + Ollama
I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an...
1st May 2026
I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer:
echo '¿Cómo estás?' | translate
# => How are you?
It combines a few tools:
TranslateGemma, a special-purpose language model for...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Celebrate Pride in Washington, D.C.
2nd Jun 2023
Willem L. Middelkoop
Escaping the flat tires
You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the...
18th Nov 2021
You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the answer when I installed Schwalbe Durano Plus tires on my bike. It was inevitable for me to find the answer to the question: How many kilometers can you ride without flats using...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Michel
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
For reasons related to current research projects,...
1st Apr 2024
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
For reasons related to current research projects, SMBC will be slowly switching over to obscure literary references for the foreseeable future. It's been nice knowing you.
Today's News:
Himanshu Mishra |...
Threads
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
devonzuegel.com
Markets in everything at the Duomo
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I...
11th Aug 2019
You're not allowed inside the Duomo with your shoulders uncovered. We learned this the hard way. I was wearing a spaghetti strap dress (it's 92℉/33℃ and humid here in Milan), so they stopped my little group at the entrance, after we'd already purchased 3 tickets.
Luckily, we...
Marian's Blog
What I learned from building autonomous model race cars for a year
I was part of a university project group that develops autonomous model race cars.
We are a group of...
3rd Jan 2020
I was part of a university project group that develops autonomous model race cars.
We are a group of twelve students working on the project in part time for year.
We were provided with a car that meets the requirements for the F1/10th competition.
Even though competing in F1/10th...
tomcritchlow.com
Notes on my Remarkable Tablet
I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day...
9th Feb 2024
I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day companion device. Here’s some notes and ideas.
mtlynch.io
Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later
In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer...
8th Sep 2023
In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The film is called Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks, and it follows four college interns as they design, implement, and launch a completely new software product.
That’s...
The Codist
Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had....
16th Mar 2026
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected.
I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned after being denied...
David Rozado...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
19th Oct 2022
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
The New Oil
A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)
1st Nov 2025
Willem L. Middelkoop
When the Going Gets Tough
Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the...
11th May 2025
Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the temperature. Sunny with a clear sky, temperatures climbed to 25°C. Several runners collapsed from heat exhaustion, and one even required resuscitation. When you push your limits,...
Greater Still by...
Stop Calling it a Wallet
How language shapes our view of the world
23rd May 2022
How language shapes our view of the world
Seth's Blog
On to the next thing
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all...
1st May 2023
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we...
Jeffrey Zeldman...
Handwritten notes in the time of AI note takers
“Here is the thing people get wrong about AI in meetings. The transcript captures what was said. It...
9th Apr 2026
“Here is the thing people get wrong about AI in meetings. The transcript captures what was said. It does not capture what mattered.”—Lucas Radke
The best project management tool is still a pen, plus the discipline to notice what the machine cannot.
The post Handwritten notes in...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI for coding is still playing Go, not StarCraft
14th Oct 2025
Bryan Braun - Blog
You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
17th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors.
I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
IEEE Spectrum
Taking the Measure of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo
At 11:58 am on Saturday, 1 September 1923, the Kanto region of Japan started to shake. The...
1st Sep 2023
At 11:58 am on Saturday, 1 September 1923, the Kanto region of Japan started to shake. The earthquake began with a violent horizontal back-and-forth motion, followed by two vertical jolts, and then another horizontal shock even stronger than the first. The intensity of the tremor...
Global Inequality...
The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
13th Sep 2025
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
Derek Sivers podcast
Naïve Quitting
My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music.
After 2½ years, though, I...
24th May 2010
My first real job was as the librarian at Warner/Chappell Music.
After 2½ years, though, I decided to quit to be a full-time musician.
(Partially because I was too happy there!
I was scared that if I didn’t force myself to quit, I’d never leave.
Too comfortable.)
(It...
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard!
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to...
4th Aug 2023
Another keyboard!
HHKbeeb
A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup
to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb:
The HHKBeeb is made from:
keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD
Yiancar HS60 PCB
generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Conservation...
3 things our experts loved in May
26th Jun 2024
Blog | Sam Curry
How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request
3rd Aug 2017
Josh Thompson
December Review, January Goals
This is a follow-up from last month’s goals
1. Deepen Knowledge of Back-end Development
I finished...
5th Jan 2017
This is a follow-up from last month’s goals
1. Deepen Knowledge of Back-end Development
I finished OverTheWire’s Bandit series, except the last lesson, which didn’t make sense. (It does now! Turns out login shells and “regular” shells are different. I’ll take another spin at it...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES
3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!
For existing Asahi Linux users,
upgrade your system with dnf
upgrade (Fedora) or pacman
-Syu...
Oxide Computer...
dtrace.conf(24)
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference.
Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
5th Dec 2024
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference.
Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent:
The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a
face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by
porting...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to Get and Set Cookies (2023)
Read the post here.
11th Jul 2023
Writing
Digital Minimalism
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
1st Jul 2023
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
Home on Erik...
The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old...
5th Dec 2016
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
Ferd.ca
Control and complexity: tension in systems design
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their...
10th Aug 2026
The adoption of LLMs in software development has led countless organizations to rapidly change their practices and structures. Old methods are questioned, replaced, and repurposed as the economics around creating new code get shaken up. Because humans and LLMs aren’t...
Daniel Bourke
30 years old
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and...
9th Sep 2023
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten.
Double digits!
I feel the same way about 29 to 30.
I hardly even got used to saying I’
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
19th Jan 2021
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
Classical Wisdom
Weekly Wisdom Quiz
Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides
2nd Mar 2025
Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating...
2nd Sep 2024
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
cdixon
Gadgets and Computers
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you...
16th Jan 2017
From Benedict Evans’ Cars as Feature Phones: This is a common theme in many classes of device: you start with a product that has a few electronic functions added, and ...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
4th Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cheetos
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Fortunately it later finds some ants engaging in a...
1st May 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Fortunately it later finds some ants engaging in a simple form of market exchanges.
Today's News:
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ On Racism
On May 31, 2020, I wrote these words (on Instagram) days after George Floyd was killed:
I am a brown...
18th Mar 2021
On May 31, 2020, I wrote these words (on Instagram) days after George Floyd was killed:
I am a brown person. I am an immigrant. I am Southeast Asian. I am Malaysian. And I am an American.
I’m a third culture kid. I came to the States at 19, alone. I’ve lived here for 22+ years,...
Blog - Guerrilla...
TRANSitar Lima
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t?
Map of...
15th May 2023
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t?
Map of Lima, Peru
About the project
TRANSitar Lima is a project that seeks to create a visual record of transphobic violence, based on collective mapping sessions. Trans, transvestites, and...
Old Vintage...
Hedley Davis has died
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential...
17th Mar 2026
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500....
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, July–August 2023
A quasi-monthly feature (I skipped it last month, so this is a double portion).
This is a longish...
7th Aug 2023
A quasi-monthly feature (I skipped it last month, so this is a double portion).
This is a longish post covering many topics; feel free to skim and skip around. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests.
These updates are less...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
1st Mar 2024
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
30th May 2024
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
Works in Progress...
The decline and fall of the British economy
When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world order. How it happened...
21st Jul 2022
When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world order. How it happened is still debated.
Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around.
Learning it isn’t easy, and...
1st Jul 2025
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around.
Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder.
Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
lcamtuf’s thing
The marvelous disappearing capacitor
The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
7th Dec 2024
The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine!
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
5th Sep 2018
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps:
Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett on Berkshire’s Valuation
Warren Buffett has typically avoided commenting on Berkshire's stock price, but he has provided some...
3rd Mar 2025
Warren Buffett has typically avoided commenting on Berkshire's stock price, but he has provided some clues that are worth considering.
Writing
Challengers
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
Willem's Blog
One year of cycling
GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
30th Dec 2016
GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
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
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD
Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie...
30th Sep 2022
Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
Writing
Goodwill
Read essay: Goodwill
1st Sep 2025
Willem's Blog
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
20th Nov 2016
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
Not Boring by Packy...
welcome to not boring world
introducing not boring's first paid product
6th Jan 2026
introducing not boring's first paid product
Coding Horror
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it...
30th May 2019
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30.
Websites have gotten a lot
Armin Ronacher's...
AI And The Ship of Theseus
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes
re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes
re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my
libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different
design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the...
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
2nd Jan 2023
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
Strong Towns
Three Ways of Understanding the Housing Crisis
Why supply, demand, and structure lead to very different theories of change.
2nd Mar 2026
Why supply, demand, and structure lead to very different theories of change.
Melissa Penfold
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST
You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
30th Jan 2024
You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days.
Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
Never Met a Science
Attention is All You Need
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
7th Jul 2025
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
14th Mar 2023
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Sean Carroll
AMA | June 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded...
1st Jun 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
mtlynch.io
WanderJest: Month 2
Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly....
3rd Mar 2020
Highlights I’m betting big on a publicity campaign that’s at risk of failing spectacularly. WanderJest finally earned its first dollar of revenue, but in a way that is definitely unsustainable. Poor work habits have left me with the most stress I’ve felt in a year. Goal Grades At...
Liz Denys
Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website,...
7th Jul 2015
If you look up the registration details for my personal (and currently non-commercial) website, you'll see
Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED
Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC.
Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411
Registrant City: PANAMA
Registrant State/Province:...
dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released!
Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket
protocol, both the
client and server sides, for Guile Scheme.
Highlights for this release are:
New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
anderegg.ca
AI and software security: the slop is now signal
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was...
10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest
M1/M2-series drivers.
Already installed? Just dnf –refresh
upgrade.
Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
12th Jan 2022
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
42!
Basecamp's house of cards...
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash
Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure...
4th May 2021
Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash
Character is like toothpaste - it really only comes out under pressure (unknown)
I don’t know where I first heard the above quote, but the events of the last week have really shown how true this saying is.
I will start by saying that I have been an...
Stephen Diehl
The Y-Combinator in Python
The Y-Combinator in Python
Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in...
10th Aug 2017
The Y-Combinator in Python
Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in computation theory, influencing programming languages and paradigms. One fascinating application of lambda calculus is Church encoding, which allows representing data and operators using...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
18th Sep 2015
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
8th Mar 2012
Benny Kuriakose
Abdul Rahman Sahib Museum: The Freedom Fighter’s Home
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in...
11th May 2023
The Muziris Heritage Project narrates the stories from different timelines. From the first mosque in India to the Study Centre for the...
Steve Blank
You’re Invited: Hacking for Defense and Lean LaunchPad Final Presentations
Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday...
3rd Jun 2024
Join us for the final presentations of our two Stanford classes this Tuesday June 4th and Wednesday June 5th. Tuesday = Hacking for Defense Wednesday = Lean Launchpad The presentations just get better every year. Attend in person or via Zoom. This year AI seems to be part of...
Butler's Log
Git Merge 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
Conservation...
Meet the South African startup putting cattle to work for conservation
8th Jul 2024
Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
31st Mar 2014
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
Blog of Simple...
Sweden declares Google Analytics illegal
3rd Jul 2023
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Maggie Appleton
The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
22nd Dec 2021
Narrative essays that I consider ideal models of the medium
Willem L. Middelkoop
Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
Quantum Frontiers
Watch out for geese! My summer in Waterloo
It’s the beginning of another summer, and I’m looking forward to outdoor barbecues, swimming in...
6th Jun 2024
It’s the beginning of another summer, and I’m looking forward to outdoor barbecues, swimming in lakes and pools, and sharing my home-made ice cream with friends and family. One thing that I won’t encounter this summer, but I did last … Continue reading →
AI as Normal...
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time
That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
Uncharted...
Why Is Argentina Poor?
The root of its economic mismanagement
1st Nov 2025
The root of its economic mismanagement
Wrong Side of...
The Bards of the Second Reformation
'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
3rd May 2025
'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
Marian's Blog
Designing a Lego orrery
I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and...
1st Jun 2024
I've always been a fan of the Lego Technic series, especially those models that have gears and cranks and moving parts.
But it seems that Lego is shifting the focus of the Technic series away from functional models, so I had to take matters into my own hands.
I think an orrery is...
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