mtlynch.io
Automatically Deploying ClipBucket with Ansible
Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or...
6th Sep 2016
Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or Vimeo. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to deploy ClipBucket to a server using the configuration management tool, Ansible.
tl; dr - Just Install ClipBucket I don’t care about...
Obsolete Sony’s...
Introducing PSPMAN
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
a week ago
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
23rd May 2021
cdixon
Three levels of enthusiasm for technology
Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But...
2nd Aug 2014
Most businesses today believe that technology can dramatically improve the way they operate. But they embrace technology with varying levels…
A Weekly Dose of...
Three Lessons from Three Monographs
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not...
6th Feb 2023
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph...
The DESK Magazine
Beautiful mistakes
I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles...
27th May 2026
I recently saw a short video about how the red wax seals on the famous Maker's Mark whiskey bottles get applied. They're still dipped and sealed by hand which makes it special because no two bottles are exactly alike.
But what I didn't know
The Rational Walk
Interesting Reading – November 7, 2016
In this series, we suggest worthwhile reading material on a variety of topics, not all of which are...
19th Jun 2026
In this series, we suggest worthwhile reading material on a variety of topics, not all of which are directly related to investing.
Founder's blog
Will AI kill SaaS helpdesks?
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ...
12th Jan 2026
Do we even need helpdesk software? I mean, just give an AI agent a markdown skill file with your FAQ and canned responses and let it answer tickets - right? I (obviously) gave it a lot of thought recently and here's my take:
If your entire support operation is one person...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Can't Quite Recall Your Name'
My first high-school
reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for...
1st Feb 2025
My first high-school
reunion was postponed for a year by the COVID-19 lockdown. We met in 2021 for the
fifty-first at a supper club on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. Lake Erie was
a hundred yards to the north and when conversation lagged, I could watch the ore boats moving down...
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
20th Jan 2023
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Trying to Understand...
After "Victory."
How much is enough?
4th Jun 2025
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Nicole Revy
I am a linocut printmaker trained in illustration. Working as Prints by the Bay I create...
1st Apr 2026
I am a linocut printmaker trained in illustration. Working as Prints by the Bay I create narrative-driven prints about femininity and women’s connection to nature. Using one-colour and reduction linoprint, my illustrative work blends story, symbolism, and soul to evoke intuition...
Noahpinion
Vibes vs. data
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
3rd Dec 2023
It's asymmetric warfare out there.
Coding Horror
Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
Writing
It's All Smiles
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
Matt Keeter
From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
11th Aug 2022
Matt Blewitt
Over-Engineering Sleep
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my...
24th Aug 2025
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my eye, and I wanted to see what it would take to re-implement sleep from the ground up, while trying to be as cross-platform as possible.
Open Culture
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key...
1st Nov 2024
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse? Can we use words like “fascism,” for...
macwright.com
Recently
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element...
1st Aug 2024
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element and browser abstractions
I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html
(at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org
link). The post is about a...
Home on Erik...
Language pitch
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
1st Feb 2017
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
DYNOMIGHT
Car trouble
Some time ago—I’m not sure when exactly—my car started rattling. It would only rattle:
When the...
6th Feb 2025
Some time ago—I’m not sure when exactly—my car started rattling. It would only rattle:
When the engine was on, sitting idle, or
When accelerating with just the right amount of throttle.
This rattle, I did not like it. It sounded like a tiny spoon in a garbage disposal. Which...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: September 2024
September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to...
18th Oct 2024
September was incredibly busy across work and personal life. I am out of a routine and trying to find my way back to writing regularly (among creating in general) while also making sure I spend time doing things I enjoy. As soon as I publish this I'm off to decide what to bake...
Long Now
Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All
Jason Tester asks us to see the powerful potential of "queering the future" - how looking at the...
3rd Feb 2021
Jason Tester asks us to see the powerful potential of "queering the future" - how looking at the future through a lens of difference and openness can reveal unexpected solutions to wicked problems, and new angles on innovation. Might a queer perspective hold some of the keys to...
Asterisk
When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most...
1st Jun 2024
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.3 released
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the...
5th Dec 2024
D’oh, I lost track of a bug report that should have been fixed in
nsnotifyd-2.2. Thus, hot on the heels of [the previous release][prev],
here’s nsnotifyd-2.3. Sorry for causing extra work to
my uncountably many users!
The nsnotifyd daemon monitors a set of DNS zones and runs a...
The Elysian
The third annual Elysian print volume is here
One year of my work, printed for collectors.
9th Dec 2025
One year of my work, printed for collectors.
The Turn Signal RSS...
Is Voice Interaction a Solution to Driver Distraction?
Diving into the research behind in-car voice interaction
1st Aug 2022
Diving into the research behind in-car voice interaction
Josh Collinsworth
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought...
16th Jan 2026
My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.
Josh Thompson
Array divergence in Ruby
Lets say you have a list of valid items, and you want to run another array against it, and pull out...
2nd Feb 2018
Lets say you have a list of valid items, and you want to run another array against it, and pull out the items that don’t match.
You don’t want to iterate through all of the items in one array, calling other_array.include?(item). (That’s computationally expensive)
valid_people =...
Miguel Carranza
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Scott Jenson
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started...
29th Dec 2021
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended...
devonzuegel.com
Situated Software
Written by Clay Shirky
First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and...
14th Mar 2020
Written by Clay Shirky
First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture"
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I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between...
Prolost
Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a...
9th May 2024
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a pre-recorded video titled “Let Loose.” As with the previous “Scary Fast” MacBook Pro launch video, “Let Loose” ends with a tag proclaiming “Shot on iPhone” — this time adding “Edited on...
Eugene Yan
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
The Roots of...
Links and short notes, 2025-12-19
The links digest is back, baby!
I got so busy writing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto this year that...
20th Dec 2025
The links digest is back, baby!
I got so busy writing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto this year that after May I stopped doing the links digest and my monthly reading updates. I’m bringing them back now (although we’ll see what frequency I can keep up). This one covers the last two...
Tony Dinh's...
I made a game with AI
Sharing a fun experiment I created recently: a top-down shooter game built with AI!
2 weeks ago
Sharing a fun experiment I created recently: a top-down shooter game built with AI!
swyx's site RSS Feed
Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
2nd Jun 2020
AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
Louwrentius - Solar
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent,
powerfull yet energy...
1st Nov 2009
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent,
powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using
one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6
Ghz.
I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
Home on Erik...
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
13th Jan 2020
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'My Mind Was Not Free From Perturbation'
Dr. Johnson writes in his
diary on January 1, 1774: “This year has past with so little improvement,...
1st Jan 2026
Dr. Johnson writes in his
diary on January 1, 1774: “This year has past with so little improvement, that
I doubt whether I have not [rather] impaired than encreased my Learning.”
It’s customary, of course,
to make resolutions this time of year -- to lose weight or stop drinking...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Toward a More Useful X Keyboard
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary...
23rd Jan 2015
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary perfecting my keyboard configuration. It’s one
of those things that you know you can make absolutely
perfect—given enough time and energy. On Linux, when you spend enough
time bashing...
Irrational...
Revised rules of engineering leadership.
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments,
which are challenging,...
15th Jun 2026
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments,
which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that
your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for April
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st May 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of April. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
Construction Physics
Reading List 08/02/2025
European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's...
2nd Aug 2025
European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's paradox”, and more.
SOS
Using Dall-E/AI to create kids colouring pages in KidzFun.art
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young...
9th Apr 2024
Over the past couple of years I’ve been building KidzFun.art, an art & education app for my young kids and hopefully yours. The first feature I ever added was simple colouring pages, hand drawn by my lovely and talented wife. However that was a slow and laborious process, and...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now?
What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
Citation Needed
Issue 53 – Choose rich
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
13th Mar 2024
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
Long Now
Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension
### What long life means
Ken Dychtwald gave a terrific talk Friday evening to a standing-room...
4th Dec 2004
### What long life means
Ken Dychtwald gave a terrific talk Friday evening to a standing-room audience on "The Consequences of Human Life Extension."
The growing--and soon overwhelming--prevalence of the old in developed nations is leading to a "new old." Ken described meeting...
Krebs on Security
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package...
4th Dec 2025
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert...
Casey Handmer's blog
Potentially undervalued companies
I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies...
30th Aug 2024
I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies developing them. 90% of the time, my answer is “I don’t know” but it continues to concern me that aspects of technical feasibility are evidently not legible to financial types (and...
Liz Denys
Puffed millet and qui'nola
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
11th Mar 2020
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
matduggan.com
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
a week ago
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
SOCKS
Architectural Narrative: “New York City: The Edge of Enigma” by Francisco Javier Rencoret (1991)
In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell...
23rd Apr 2023
In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, published New York City: The Edge of Enigma, (Princeton Architectural Press), a visual essay that retraces the myth of the foundation and development of New York City....
Derek Sivers podcast
Not happy with existing venues? Make a new one
Gary Jules is a singer/songwriter from California.
When he lived in Los Angeles he wished there was...
7th Oct 2009
Gary Jules is a singer/songwriter from California.
When he lived in Los Angeles he wished there was a venue more friendly to musicians.
A place where people would come to listen, not talk over the music.
A place to play, not showcase for labels.
He noticed a little coffee...
Ryan Barrett
Blockchain’s real world problem
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised...
30th Oct 2022
A while back, early in the blockchain hype cycle, a startup called Verisart popped up and promised to “fix” fine art. Not sure if that painting is real? Can’t find out who owns it, or where they got it? Worried that the gallery you’re emailing is a scammer? Worry no more!...
The Forney Flyer
Northern Scenery, Way Back When...
Today I'm returning to the "Way Back When..." series, highlighting some of the surreal beauty we...
9th Nov 2020
Today I'm returning to the "Way Back When..." series, highlighting some of the surreal beauty we enjoyed in the boreal forests of the far north.
Obviously most of these photos feature frigid beauty. That's because it was cold and snowy/icy much of the year. Also, there were...
Cartogrammar
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
17th Aug 2016
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
Max Woolf's Blog
Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
23rd Oct 2024
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
Nelson's Weblog
Liftmaster 87504-267
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door!
Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
Notes on software...
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
1st Jan 2023
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
videah's blog
Credits
Credits / Attribution
Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of...
21st Apr 2025
Credits / Attribution
Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of them:
Smug Videah by Kelevtov
Rantsona Sidebar Videah by ScruffKerfluff
Callout Pixel Art Videah by lockedsdcard
Videah Mutant Standard Emoji by Caius Nocturne
Bits about Money
Requiem for a bank loan
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse...
16th Jun 2023
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
Raptitude.com
Why You’re Always Right
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see...
9th Feb 2026
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see that having bitter liquid squirted into her mouth will prevent her from getting intestinal worms. So I have to force the matter by wrapping her in a towel like a burrito, so that she...
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
11th Mar 2025
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
3rd Nov 2023
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Eric Bailey
Focus Management and Inert
19th Oct 2020
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Ian O' Halloran
My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the...
15th May 2025
My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the Sussex Weald near Herstmonceux (UK). I am and always have been inspired by the British landscape. I came to art later in life than most, having had a career in civil engineering first...
Artificial Ignorance
Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
Fabien Sanglard
All about the fillrate
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both...
11th Dec 2010
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both people looking for instant fun and people wishing for a long game while collecting powerful items. At $5.99 it is a bargain, a must have not only for the gameplay but also for its...
FIRE v London
Apr ’26: A record month, house purchase underway
It’s been a beautiful month. I’ve been about a bit, taking in Lincoln, the New Forest, and Oxford as...
4th May 2026
It’s been a beautiful month. I’ve been about a bit, taking in Lincoln, the New Forest, and Oxford as well as enjoying London town itself. The Iran conflict rumbles on, with the USA and Israel having effectively finished the military engagement. Markets have had a very strong...
balajis.com
The Network State Conference
Come to Singapore on September 22, 2024 to build technodemocracy.
15th Oct 2023
Come to Singapore on September 22, 2024 to build technodemocracy.
Scott DeLong
Weeks 35-39: A $526 Day and a Breakthrough
Domination through iteration. Be sure to continue adapting and maximize your current audience rather...
30th Jun 2023
Domination through iteration. Be sure to continue adapting and maximize your current audience rather than chase more pageviews.
The post Weeks 35-39: A $526 Day and a Breakthrough appeared first on Scott DeLong.
csvbase blog
Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools
Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
11th Jan 2023
Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
Josh Thompson
2023 Annual Review
It’s that time of the year. I often enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I’ve always...
27th Jan 2024
It’s that time of the year. I often enjoy reading other people’s annual reviews, and I’ve always found value in writing my own, even as there is a few years I’ve missed, since I started the habit way back in 2015.
for a long time, I did annual reviews. 2020 was late, and then for...
bt RSS Feed
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
2024-02-16
My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
16th Feb 2024
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
2024-02-16
My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Essays - Benedict...
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire...
6th Mar 2023
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more
profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something
else? And what does that mean for Google?
Xena
Formalization of Erdős problems
[This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various...
5th Dec 2025
[This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various exciting developments centering on Erdős problems, especially involving the formalization of old and new mathematics using artificial intelligence. Background As is … Continue reading →
Common Edge
Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California
Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized...
3rd Apr 2023
Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized commercial strips, the number of potential units expands by orders of magnitude.
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
19th Mar 2024
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
Data Boutique
AI Depends Massively on Web Scraping
And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
7th Jul 2023
And web data sourcing is now a critical problem
Evan Jones -...
Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of...
29th Aug 2023
This is a reminder that random load balancing is unevenly distributed. If we distribute a set of items randomly across a set of servers (e.g. by hashing, or by randomly selecting a server), the average number of items on each server is num_items / num_servers. It is easy to...
Electronics etc…
The Scenic Route to Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator
Introduction
The Stanford Research Systems DG535
Who Uses a Pulse Delay Generator?
Inside the...
24th Dec 2025
Introduction
The Stanford Research Systems DG535
Who Uses a Pulse Delay Generator?
Inside the DG535
The Annoying Mechanical Design of the DG535
It’s Always the Power Supply
Power Architecture of the DG535
The How, Why, and Please Don’t of Current Boost Resistor Circuits
Root...
Blog - Practical...
Why Are There No Short Arch Dams?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Flaming Gorge Dam rises from...
5th Aug 2025
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Flaming Gorge Dam rises from the Green River in northern Utah like a concrete wedge driven into the canyon, anchored against the sheer rock walls that flank it. It’s quintessential, in a way. It’s what we...
IEEE Spectrum
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the...
9th Jun 2023
Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the earliest known animated film. The 90-second movie was created using stop-motion techniques, as flat characters, props, and backgrounds were drawn on an easel or made from...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place...
1st Jun 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter (a couple of weeks late!) about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Summer weather has hit NYC - it's great to be back outside - Pu...
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2025 recap
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the...
24th Nov 2025
It has been just over two years since I started Blog System/5, and that means it’s time for the now-usual(?) BazelCon 2025 trip report!
Home on Erik...
I'm featured in Mashable
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with:
Erik...
6th Feb 2013
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with:
Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
1st Oct 2011
AI Snake Oil
AGI is not a milestone
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Eric Bailey
The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button
11th Nov 2021
The Quanta Podcast
Deep Learning Poised to 'Blow Up' Famed Fluid Equations
For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce...
3rd Aug 2022
For centuries, mathematicians have tried to prove that Euler’s fluid equations can produce nonsensical answers. A new approach to machine learning has researchers betting that “blowup” is near. Read more at quantamagazine.org. Music is “Pulse” by Geographer.
Haterade
All Soda Yearns to Be Red
A selective history of the “suicide”
28th Jul 2026
A selective history of the “suicide”
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
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
7th May 2024
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
Escaping Flatland
How I read
Reading well is an endurance sport. I sometimes talk to people who want to become serious readers...
1st Oct 2025
Reading well is an endurance sport. I sometimes talk to people who want to become serious readers and so pick up Kafka’s The Trial or something like that—it is about as pleasant as running a marathon untrained.
TheCollector
7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness
The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous...
1st Oct 2025
The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous scenes of Vermeer to the powerful portraits of Rembrandt and the bold colors of Van Gogh. Here are seven Dutch artists whose work has achieved global acclaim and continues to captivate...
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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It is easy to...
28th Aug 2011
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It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people
who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
Transit Maps
Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is...
16th Dec 2024
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
Derek Sivers podcast
Where to find the hours to make it happen
When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could...
1st Oct 2019
When you experience someone else’s genius work, a little part of you feels, “That’s what I could have, would have, and should have done!”
They fought the resistance.
You gave in to distractions.
They took the time.
You meant to.
You could let that part of you give...
Irrational...
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized.
For a brief...
12th Apr 2026
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized.
For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate,
but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Host Jumping, thinking about viruses and how they’re changing.
Thinking about the concepts and reasons behind the making of my work ‘Host
Jump’.
16th Dec 2021
Thinking about the concepts and reasons behind the making of my work ‘Host
Jump’.
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see
what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of
course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
24th Feb 2019
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote:
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m...
Blog of Simple...
Sweden declares Google Analytics illegal
3rd Jul 2023
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Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
8th Nov 2021
A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since - Get Good at Events.
Old Vintage...
The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer
Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by...
8th Feb 2026
Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by monoscopes, modified cathode ray tubes that fired their electron guns at embedded plates marked with a metallized image. These units then assimilated the reflected particles into a...
Justin Jackson
How do I build something people want?
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and...
2nd May 2019
As a founder, you want to build something people want. But how do we go beyond platitudes and actually do that? Here's some actionable advice.
Common Edge
Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy
Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to...
1st Sep 2025
Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to build and manage our A.I. future.
TokyoDev
LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow...
2nd Sep 2024
TokyoDev is a job board and community that helps international software developers begin and grow their careers in Japan. Given our focus, it’s not surprising that LinkedIn is the social network that delivers us the most traffic. Typically, about 4% of our total visitors arrive...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
1st Dec 2018
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
Laetitia@Work
Make Work Seasonal Again
Laetitia@Work #79
27th Mar 2025
Ryan Barrett
Tech pace layers
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The time before YC
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
1st Sep 2019
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
Charlie Becker
Get into Character
Characters drive the story
8th Mar 2023
Characters drive the story
Jason Crawford
Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars
Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of...
19th May 2020
Excited to announce that I’m launching an online high school summer program in the history of technology: Progress Studies for Young Scholars.
Daily online content, plus a speaker series featuring Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Joel Mokyr, Deirdre McCloskey, and more....
Daniel Bourke
32
Today I turn 32 years old.
Every year I write an article with stories, ideas, rules of thumb,...
1st Sep 2025
Today I turn 32 years old.
Every year I write an article with stories, ideas, rules of thumb, anecdotes and ponderous items from the last year.
This is number 10 of those articles.
See: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.
Before I get into it, a few
Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
7th Aug 2024
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here.
Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
Three Letter Acronym
State (of Mind) Machine
Reprinted from issue 28 of The Loop magazine from March 2014, with thanks to Jim Dalrymple. It...
13th Mar 2014
Reprinted from issue 28 of The Loop magazine from March 2014, with thanks to Jim Dalrymple. It seems ironic, that despite our invention of near-instantaneous global communication, we are still not the best species on the planet at actually telling each other how we’re feeling....
Oxide Computer...
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a...
3rd Feb 2020
We were deeply saddened to learn that
Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide’s
angel investors,
died in a car
accident in Cairo on Friday night.
Those of us who have known Khaled for years have known him to be a bold investor
who appreciated hard technical problems – and also a profoundly...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates September 9: Feed finding
9th Sep 2024
Christian Selig
The Fitbit Air is interesting
The Apple Watch is one of the most fascinating pieces of modern technology for me. A gorgeous...
2nd Jun 2026
The Apple Watch is one of the most fascinating pieces of modern technology for me. A gorgeous screen, an abundance of sensors, and a bonkers amount of computational power in a tiny little package that fits on your wrist. It reminds me of the Vision Pro in that a good amount of...
Open for Business
DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the...
18th Dec 2025
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the bells and whistles, but they are built so well. But what if a Das Keyboard had all the current extras?
The personal website...
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design
Has design become boring?
A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been...
21st Sep 2022
Has design become boring?
A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing just that. Quirke describes the many shortcomings of modern design: architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and interior design have all been...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
17th Sep 2022
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Founder's blog
Most Demanded Helpdesk Features, According to IT Pros
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals...
11th Aug 2025
We've analyzed professional reviews, user testimonials, and forum discussions from IT professionals to identify their common pain points and what they value most in existing helpdesk solutions.
We've also investigated current trends in helpdesk and IT service management...
IEEE Spectrum
What Exoskeletons Learned From One Relentless User
It’s easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to...
1st Apr 2026
It’s easy to assume that Robert Woo was defined by the accident that took away his ability to walk.
Certainly, the day of his accident—14 December 2007—was a turning point. Woo, an architect working on the new Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City, hadn’t attended his...
Ian's Blog
Securing My Web Infrastructure
Securing My Web Infrastructure
A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
17th Apr 2025
Securing My Web Infrastructure
A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this...
7th Jul 2020
I follow you on Twitter and read your blog. I particularly enjoy this post: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exactly-like-murdering-puppies/ I’m reaching out looking for some guidance. I work as an engineering manager for a company whose non-technology...
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
On Test Automation
My LinkedIn break - six weeks in
About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons...
1st Feb 2026
About six weeks ago, I decided to take some time away from LinkedIn. I won’t go into the reasons behind this decision again, you can read all about that in the post I just linked to, but I do want to take some time and look back on the past six weeks and the things that not...
Matt Blewitt
Control Loops and Rice Cookers
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
8th Dec 2021
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
Wrong Side of...
Europe on fire
UK News Report #7: July 2026
2nd Aug 2026
UK News Report #7: July 2026
Quanta Magazine
How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles
In this article adapted from his new book, "Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler...
3rd Sep 2024
In this article adapted from his new book, "Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler explains that the origin of mass in the universe has a lot to do with music.
The post How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles first appeared on...
Eric Bailey
Insulin dump
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type...
12th Oct 2021
My partner is a teacher. One of their students, a sixth grade girl, was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.
The student is allowed to keep a small purse with her at all times, as it contains a smartphone that runs an app that talks to, and controls her insulin pump. The...
Jonas Hietala
Automating the Hue Tap Dial Switch in Elixir via MQTT
I recently bought a couple of Hue Tap Dial switches for our house to enhance our smart home.
We have...
1st Sep 2025
I recently bought a couple of Hue Tap Dial switches for our house to enhance our smart home.
We have quite a few smart lights and I figured the tap dial—with it’s multiple buttons and rotary dial—would be a good fit.
Since I’ve been moving away from standard Home Assistant...
Jakob Nielsen on UX
UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI |...
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
1st Sep 2025
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
tomcritchlow.com
Becoming Creative
I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few...
5th Oct 2023
I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few links that I deeply love about starting, finishing and promoting creative acts…
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/1 keyboard layout
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this...
15th Dec 2021
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this particular version without any major changes for almost 3 months, so I’d say it’s a good improvement over the last revision.
There are two large changes from T-34/0: swapping o and...
Ollama
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored...
1st Aug 2023
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
On Life and Lisp
Growing up Alyssa
When I was 10, I came out as transgender. I was a girl and I knew it.
I was one of the lucky...
21st May 2023
When I was 10, I came out as transgender. I was a girl and I knew it.
I was one of the lucky ones.
After four painful years, I was fortunate enough to access gender-affirming health care. First testosterone blockers. Later estrogen, the stuff my peers soaked in for years while I...
Permanent Style
Dress codes: The meaningful tailoring of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good...
2nd Mar 2026
By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good taste means trying to dress like a spy from a film. There’s James Bond of course – and goodness knows there’s enough advice out there for anyo... > Read more
The Marginalian
William James on the Most Vital Understanding for Successful Relationships
"Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer."
2nd Jun 2023
"Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer."
Jeffrey Zeldman...
A morning’s tale
Editor’s Note || Our New York apartment is home to three humans and three cats: Snow White, Mango,...
10th May 2025
Editor’s Note || Our New York apartment is home to three humans and three cats: Snow White, Mango, and young Jasper.
Woke to pee 2:00 am. Entered bathroom. Narrowly avoided slipping on a small lake of Snow White’s urine. Beheld a giant fat shit she’d left on the stone bath...
Louwrentius - Solar
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives
Introduction
Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
28th Jan 2020
Introduction
Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs.
The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
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Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jun 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
The Berkeley...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
20th Jul 2024
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7 Available Now
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and...
31st Jan 2023
It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware. So far, OS 6.1 has been downloaded from our...
Cartogrammar
Ohio is still a piano
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital,...
8th Mar 2016
In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I’ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly...
Gwern.net Newsletter
February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
Rest of World -...
Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal...
2nd Oct 2023
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a...
1st Apr 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. I'm a little late on the April edition, but better late than never. What I did in March - Spent some time...
The Works in...
Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism
Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
1st Jul 2026
Works in Progress Issue 24 is out today.
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
15th May 2023
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
Sometimes It Works...
Slow Tech is Good Tech
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The...
29th May 2024
Avoid the shiny
Avoid comparison
Some examples
Laravel
Build tools
Typescript and JS frameworks
The Web Platform
What I keep up with
This morning, I watched a video advertising a course aimed at developers. One of the first sentiments proclaimed is that of feeling left behind,...
Nadia Asparouhova
Cultivating agency
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
23rd Aug 2022
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
Dan Slimmon
Is ops a bullshit job?
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum computing vs. Grubhub
pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my...
3rd Apr 2023
pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my eyebrows. I’d be participating in a panel discussion with Mike Evans, the founder of Grubhub? But I hadn’t created an app that’s a household name. I … Continue reading →
Justin Jackson
Stop by for coffee
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here....
14th Aug 2017
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here. If you make the trip, I'll try to meet with you.
Joel Gascoigne's...
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media
I'm delighted to share that we have...
30th Jul 2024
The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media
I'm delighted to share that we have introduced support for Bluesky in Buffer. This is an important moment for us as a company, and there are a number of reasons that adding Bluesky is personally meaningful for me. With...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Israel Bans Aid Groups For The Same Reason It Bans Journalists, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Jan 2026
Anarchy Unfolds
Pride, noise, and fear
Sleep deprivation is a social justice and public health issue
7th Sep 2024
Sleep deprivation is a social justice and public health issue
Daniel Bourke
Introducing Nutrify 2.0
Multi-Food Mode, 552 New Foods and Food Share
9th Dec 2025
Multi-Food Mode, 552 New Foods and Food Share
David Gerrells
how to use web workers with typescript
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and...
13th Mar 2022
A practical example of where web workers can improve performance and UX but there are gotchas and limits
Artificial Ignorance
Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI
I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
3rd Jul 2025
I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
23rd Mar 2021
Beijing Scroll
Macron in China: Trade, Trust and a Shared Vision for Multilateralism
Good evening.
7th Dec 2025
Artificial Ignorance
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means
I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
1st Nov 2023
I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping out the tribes of climate
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
Aaron's Essays
20 Years Later
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the...
12th Sep 2021
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the news with my mom, Judah, and Mimi as the anchors casually mentioned that a small plane seemed to have hit a tower. We were on I-95 - or maybe the Garden State - headed south to...
davidyat.es
Death to the sparkle: how to remove the Gemini watermark
29th May 2026
Derek Sivers
We don’t need to use what we make
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like...
11th Nov 2024
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this...
Blog of Simple...
Google loses key antitrust case
9th Sep 2024
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Stephen Wolfram...
What Is Ruliology?
Ruliology is taking off! And more and more people are talking about it. But what is ruliology? Since...
12th Jan 2026
Ruliology is taking off! And more and more people are talking about it. But what is ruliology? Since I invented the term, I decided I should write something to explain it. But then I realized: I actually already wrote something back in 2021 when I first invented the term. What I...
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: Drivers, Measures and Investment Implications - The 2026 Edition!
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content...
15th Jul 2026
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content that I post online, there is a ritual that I follow with my data updates. I start the year with my general data update online, and follow up with a series of posts where I examine the...
37signals Dev
My adventures hunting down a Ruby memory leak 🎢
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use...
7th Mar 2024
In this article, I tell the story of a memory leak we had in our HEY app, the cool tools I could use to investigate and how I finally figured out the root cause.
Memory leaks can be tricky to diagnose and having the right set of tools makes a huge difference.
I hope my adventures...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Learning incident response with problem sets
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
3rd Sep 2021
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Eric Migicovsky's...
Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal
TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your...
13th Aug 2025
TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your pre-order from P2D to PT2… Like what you…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Some personal user experiences
28th Feb 2023
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...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 37
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
15th Aug 2023
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 7 (Hodgepodge)
The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into...
4th May 2024
The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into any of the earlier articles. Naturally I’ve collected them all together within this final compilation to serve as a wrap-up. Then we can call this one done and move onto the next...
Greg Brockman
#define CTO OpenAI
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much?
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
25th Aug 2024
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful,
it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy.
When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that
your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
SubAnima
What is a biological individual?
Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting...
6th Sep 2021
Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting problem cases
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Costa Rica, Part 1 (Intentions and Observations)
This was supposed to be the younger kid’s trip. It was his turn to select a destination — anywhere...
8th Jul 2023
This was supposed to be the younger kid’s trip. It was his turn to select a destination — anywhere in the world — as a present for his upcoming high school graduation next year. The older one chose Australia back in 2018 and we expanded it to include New Zealand too. England...
Tiny struggles
Fun indie projects
I wrote in November that I’m taking a break from indie hacking, well, the break didn’t take long...
27th Feb 2023
I wrote in November that I’m taking a break from indie hacking, well, the break didn’t take long (2-3 months).
A break made sense at that time, because my project watchlimits.com wasn’t getting traction and I just changed jobs. New job presented a lot of new learning...
Willem L. Middelkoop
iPad Pro as primary computer
The lack of physical clutter, distracting branding, or blinking LED's makes the iPad Pro a textbook...
14th Aug 2016
The lack of physical clutter, distracting branding, or blinking LED's makes the iPad Pro a textbook example of minimal design. My despiction of distraction explains my interest in using the iPad Pro as only computer to test if it is up to the task. Is Apple's latest effort on iOS...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
23rd Jan 2011
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends
in
Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all)
made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three
Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
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