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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
23rd May 2021
The Pudding
Common Threads
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
9th Dec 2025
Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
30th May 2025
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community.
I wrote this in response:
Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
maragu’s blog
I own my LLM chat history, and so should you
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my...
24th Oct 2024
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my professional and personal life. These thoughts-in-writing are important to me, and that’s why I keep a history of them on my own machine. And so should you.
Greg Brockman
Stellar board
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
30th Jul 2015
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board.
Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
The Marginalian
Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian...
2nd Apr 2025
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in his 1964 classic Games People Play. Four centuries earlier, Galileo had both combated and complicated the problem by inventing timekeeping and with it,...
maragu’s blog
TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths
I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing...
5th Sep 2024
I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing github.com/maragudk/example, I can import maragu.dev/example. Turns out it’s pretty easy.
Daniel De Laney
The Fear of Being Right
The best designs often look wrong. They appear unexceptional. They don’t show off. They don’t push...
7th Oct 2015
The best designs often look wrong. They appear unexceptional. They don’t show off. They don’t push our technical skills to the limit. They leave out things we expect. They don’t reflect the latest trends.
“It just doesn’t look right.”
“It almost looks unfinished.”
“Nobody does...
charity.wtf
Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so...
13th Jun 2022
We have been interviewing and hiring a pile of engineering directors at Honeycomb lately. In so doing, I’ve had some fascinating conversations with engineering managers who have been trying unsuccessfully to make the leap to director. Here is a roundup of some of the ideas and...
Conservation...
Climate Week: Money, nature and what really matters
14th May 2024
julian.digital
Media Consumption (Jan 2021)
>_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%)...
1st Feb 2021
>_ Summary Read 11 books (2456 min, +111% MoM) and 26 articles (-46%) Listened to 263 songs (-59%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, -43%) Watched 1 movie (107 min, -54%), 7 soccer games (835 min, -.6%) and 21 TV episodes (1079 min, +40%) Played 0 board games (0 min, -100%) and 1 video...
Sebastian Witowski
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
The personal website...
The service-based design org
Last year, I joined SimpleHealth with the mission of building a design org from scratch. On my first...
23rd Jan 2021
Last year, I joined SimpleHealth with the mission of building a design org from scratch. On my first day, there were no in-house designers — just a rotating cast of freelance designers hired by various departments as they were needed.
A blank slate is a design leader’s dream....
SOS
Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud & Vercel costs
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years.
I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
Musings on Markets
Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy!
I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and...
7th Apr 2025
I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and as is my practice, I was checking the score on the Yankee game, when I read the tariff news announcement. Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its...
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...
Quantum Frontiers
Eight highlights from publishing a science book for the general public
What’s it like to publish a book? I’ve faced the question again and again this year, as my book...
19th Dec 2022
What’s it like to publish a book? I’ve faced the question again and again this year, as my book Quantum Steampunk hit bookshelves in April. Two responses suggest themselves. On the one hand, I channel the Beatles: It’s a hard … Continue reading →
charity.wtf
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The future of blogging
I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post...
10th Nov 2022
I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post with preview images,...
Lefineder’s Substack
The Pacification of War
Battle Massacres may have gone out of fashion
23rd Apr 2024
Battle Massacres may have gone out of fashion
Product Identity
We should seek communities anew
Notes for the aspiring designer
29th Dec 2025
Notes for the aspiring designer
Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
24th Jan 2024
Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
sancho.dev
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
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...
charity.wtf
Career Development For Engineering Managers
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for...
3rd Jun 2021
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for managers’? If you’re like me, it’s one of two things: either obsessively climbing the ladder or those awful mandatory ‘trainings’ that get hastily assembled. (Otherwise known as,...
The Marginalian
States of Possession: Erich Neumann on Creativity, the Unconscious, and the Psychology of...
There are things in life that come over you sudden as a flash flood, total as an eclipse — the great...
2nd May 2025
There are things in life that come over you sudden as a flash flood, total as an eclipse — the great loves, the great creative passions, the great urges to conquer a mountain or a theorem. They can feel like an alien invasion, like the immense hand of some imperative has seized...
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
Fabien Sanglard
Building my childhood dream PC
18th May 2025
Grow With Less
This 20-Minute On-Page SEO Checklist Could Save Your Rankings
What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog?
For many bloggers, the answer is getting...
11th Dec 2019
What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog?
For many bloggers, the answer is getting blacklisted by Google and seeing all their organic traffic vanish overnight.
And a common way this happens is when Google realizes your blog is infected before you do and simply...
Quantum Frontiers
Astrobiology meets quantum computation?
The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of...
23rd Oct 2023
The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of achieving it and its potential for clickbait. Yet similar notions of complexity have recently garnered attention in both fields. Each topic’s researchers expect only … Continue...
the jsomers.net blog
The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that...
13th Jan 2019
In 1963, the philosopher Edmund Gettier published a three-page paper in the journal Analysis that quickly became a classic in the field. Epistemologists going back to the Greeks had debated what it meant to know something, and in the Enlightenment, a definition was settled upon:...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The most important question in design: who’s gonna pay me?
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry?...
9th Nov 2023
Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry? Or worked...
Tech and Tea
Leaning into joy and community
Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
11th Nov 2024
Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life
Blog - Mac Pierce
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040
How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader
in the form of a...
9th Sep 2022
How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader
in the form of a candle.
cdixon
The decline of the mobile web
People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not...
7th Apr 2014
People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for…
Winnie Lim
thoughts on the suicidal mind
[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of...
6th Aug 2023
[tw: suicide] I watched Roadrunner, a documentary about Anthony Bourdain, and it left me a lot of thoughts as someone who has struggled with my own existence my entire life. Though I am writing...
Trying to Understand...
It's War, Josep, But Not As We Know It
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
23rd Nov 2022
Trying to understand what Ukraine is all about.
Musings on Markets
Trillion Dollar Market Caps: Fairy Tale Pricing or Business Marvels?
Stock markets have always rewarded winners with large capitalizations, and with each new threshold,...
3rd Dec 2025
Stock markets have always rewarded winners with large capitalizations, and with each new threshold, the questions begin anew of whether animal spirits or fundamentals are driving the numbers. A few weeks ago, Nvidia seemed unstoppable as its market capitalization crested $5...
SOS
Quick chicken soup recipe for sick people
Thanks to ChatGPT for this recipe with no stupid SEO in it. Total time to make: 80 minutes if you’re...
17th Feb 2024
Thanks to ChatGPT for this recipe with no stupid SEO in it. Total time to make: 80 minutes if you’re a normal slow chopper of vegetables (like me), 50 minutes if you’re super fast with a knife.
For a simple chicken soup with potatoes, you’ll need the following ingredients:
500g...
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
31st Mar 2022
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Jan 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Wiki, added alternator to engine care.
Thousand Rooms, added a Danish version of the book, thank you Fyr for the translation!
Punk Rabbits, completed 33 new...
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
11th Jan 2021
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Matt Blewitt
Riding the Risk Railway
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
9th Mar 2020
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
Philip I. Thomas
Before and after Almost Perfect
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my resi...
ntietz.com blog -...
Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating...
7th Mar 2016
In 2010, the news broke that Harriton High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, was activating webcams on student laptops1. When they were at home. In their bedrooms. They captured photos while students were in private spaces, where they never expected to be watched.
A few days...
Bryan Braun - Blog
A new job, a new life
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo.
This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo.
This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from.
As I weighed the...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
Mazdak
Apple’s 2025 Product Unveiling: What’s New and What Actually Matters
Apple’s latest keynote delivered a sweeping set of updates across AirPods, iPhones, and the Apple...
9th Sep 2025
Apple’s latest keynote delivered a sweeping set of updates across AirPods, iPhones, and the Apple Watch lineup.
Kevin Chen
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?”
It’s a good question.
Trucking was...
10th Jan 2024
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?”
It’s a good question.
Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
The Forney Flyer
And Here We Go Trying Yet Again...
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
14th Feb 2020
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Shilin typing
things i learned about contracting
Always sign a contract for any job
Charge by project, not by hour
Give a quote properly
Charge 1/2...
20th Sep 2025
Always sign a contract for any job
Charge by project, not by hour
Give a quote properly
Charge 1/2 upfront
Don’t start until the payment goes through or is wired and in transfer
Do your work well. Go the extra mile.
Underpromise but overdeliver
Never complain to the people you...
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link
Bad code
<button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
26th Nov 2024
Bad code
<button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button>
Issues and how to fix them
A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled.
Links disguised as buttons...
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
7th Jun 2023
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
Boot.dev Blog
The Two Classes of Software Engineer
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or...
5th Mar 2021
“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code. In reality, I think there are two classes of “software engineers”; those who understand computer science well enough to do challenging, innovative work,...
Beijing Scroll
China ramps up South Asia trade ties
From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri...
2nd Jun 2025
From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Quanta Magazine
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives...
1st Oct 2025
“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.
The post A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
1st Feb 2023
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
Notes on software...
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve
durability. A database can write its...
1st Jul 2024
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve
durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably
to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And
granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most
databases. But I...
escape the algorithm
ETA's Best links of 2024
Relinking some Links links
22nd Dec 2024
Relinking some Links links
Jordan Eldredge's...
SFSU Chamber Singers sing for ACDA
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
2nd Mar 2008
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
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 →
cdixon
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they…
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they...
30th Jul 2016
“If you asked people in 1989 what they needed to make their life better, it was unlikely that they would have said a decentralized network of information nodes that are ...
Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual
available as a PDF, but the...
22nd Feb 2024
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual
available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes
them hard to follow.
I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting
them together...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 14-20 August 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
14th Aug 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
Prolost
My App Will Harm You Physically, Using Math
Log your nog with Drinking Buddy.
I made an app! A real, native iPhone app coded in Swift and...
8th Dec 2025
Log your nog with Drinking Buddy.
I made an app! A real, native iPhone app coded in Swift and SwiftUI.
It’s a thing of beauty. I love it and use it every day. But I can’t share it with you, because Apple rejected it from the App Store due to “Physical Harm.”
Don’t worry, I...
benn.substack
How to find insights
Excel, still invincible!
a week ago
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
15th Nov 2023
Historical origins of the malaise
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Is the wholesale marketplace Faire right for your e-commerce business or brand?
My company has sold $2.6 million on Faire over the past 4.5 years.
As selling on Amazon has become...
6th Feb 2026
My company has sold $2.6 million on Faire over the past 4.5 years.
As selling on Amazon has become tougher and tougher, we are thankful for the growing sales Faire has brought us.
That said, it's a difficult, counterintuitive marketplace to operate on, and one that is getting,...
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
1st Sep 2020
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Winnie Lim
learning to take care of my self
For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the...
1st Feb 2026
For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the judgement of people upon me: lazy, fickle, impulsive, over-sensitive, emotional, bad-tempered, etc....
Passing Time
A Wednesday at Arapahoe Lakes
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
6th Apr 2023
Not because it's there, but, instead, to feel something
Confessions of a...
Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
3rd Aug 2025
Why Your O(log n) Algorithm Might Lose to O(n)
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers.
I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0.
As an operating system it gets so many things right.
No doubt I will get a chance to be a user.
For the...
Justin Jackson
Why are people looking at your website?
9th Jan 2011
Julia Evans
A list of programming playgrounds
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking
the other day about...
17th Apr 2023
I really like using (and making!) programming playgrounds, and I got thinking
the other day about how I didn’t have a great list of playgrounds to refer to. So I
asked on Mastodon
for links to cool playgrounds.
Here’s what I came up with. I’d love to know what I...
A small freedom area...
The current technology is not ready for proper blending
The idea that we must always linearize sRGB gradients or work in a perceptually
uniform colorspace...
18th Jul 2025
The idea that we must always linearize sRGB gradients or work in a perceptually
uniform colorspace is starting to be accepted universally. But is it that
simple?
When I learned about the subject, it felt like being handed a hammer and using
it everywhere. The reality is a bit...
Eukaryote Writes...
23 lessons you will learn living in a very snowy place
6. Snow is heavier than you think.
You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things,...
22nd Jan 2026
6. Snow is heavier than you think.
You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.) But actually, the main thing physical strength is useful for is letting you...
Product Identity
Mountains of work
This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche...
a week ago
This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche design.
TokyoDev
Working Out, Gaining Weight, and Building Muscle in Japan—For Cheap
When I arrived in Japan in September 2023, I was a skinny 23-year-old guy, measuring 178 centimeters...
7th May 2026
When I arrived in Japan in September 2023, I was a skinny 23-year-old guy, measuring 178 centimeters tall and weighing around 55 kilograms. I had been a stick man all my life, and after a couple of months in Tokyo, I even lost a couple more kilos—probably due to the...
Derek Sivers podcast
The mirror: It’s about you, not them.
If you see a gorgeous painting that fascinates you, does it matter if you find out the artist didn’t...
7th Jul 2009
If you see a gorgeous painting that fascinates you, does it matter if you find out the artist didn’t pay her taxes?
Would you stop enjoying the painting?
When I buy a book that has a picture of the author on the cover, I rip off and trash the cover before I even leave the...
Eugene Yan
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25th Sep 2017
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
The Modern House
Box Fresh: five homes under five years old
As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early...
24th Jan 2025
As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early 20th century. This week however, we’ve decided to look to the more recent past and marvel at how architects and developers are translating the requirements […]
Eugene Yan
GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not?
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
28th Oct 2018
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
1st Jun 2021
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Sebastian Witowski
Automatically Reload Modules with %autoreload
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was...
1st Oct 2019
Writing my first module in Python was a confusing experience. As it usually happens, when I was testing it in the interactive Python REPL, the first version turned out to have some bugs (the second and third ones also did 😉).
That's fine - I thought - I will just fix the module...
Damn Interesting
Pushing the Envelope
As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life...
15th Apr 2021
As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies were prohibitively expensive. Rather than pay the exorbitant insurance fees, the astronauts devised a system to ensure their wives and children would be financially...
Haterade
It's Okay to Be a Mediocre Cook
The Mitt Romney salmon is good, actually.
30th Sep 2023
The Mitt Romney salmon is good, actually.
The Pragmatic...
CircleCI’s unnoticed holiday security breach
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets,...
5th Jan 2023
CircleCI customers returned from the holiday break to be told to urgently rotate their secrets, which were probably leaked. What does this leak mean for companies using a CI provider and how can you prepare for a CI vendor being compromised?
Software and Tech...
The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
My Free Introductory Astronomy Textbook Hits a Milestone
This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of...
5th May 2024
This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of a nonprofit experiment to help students with the costs of college. Here is the news from our publisher: OpenStax, the open textbook publisher based at Rice University, is pleased...
Blog | Sam Curry
Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
23rd Jan 2025
cdixon
Bedrock programming
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
6th Feb 2012
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
The Honest Broker
In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 2 of 2)
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early...
3rd Apr 2024
I conclude the story of my quest to find a legendary jazz musician who disappeared in the early 1960s
Old Structures...
Where It Comes From
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say...
1st Mar 2026
I’ve written about the Whitehall Building and its extension enough that there’s not much to say about it for this new (to me) picture: The buildings were a little isolated from the main downtown skyscraper cluster by being so far southwest, but it’s a five-minute walk to...
This Space
Reading, forgetting
When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation,...
10th Sep 2025
When John Updike read À la recherche du temps perdu after having read Scott-Moncrieff's translation, he was surprised to find Proust less Proustian, the epithet we associate with flowery prose blossoming over prodigious sentences proliferating clause within clause. While I cannot...
Bits about Money
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes
How consumer protection in payments works, why it was designed that way, and why it’s being...
7th Jan 2026
How consumer protection in payments works, why it was designed that way, and why it’s being contested today.
The New Oil
The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
5th Jul 2025
Hidden History
WW1’s Togoland Campaign
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
2 weeks ago
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
somenice
Winter at the Beach
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
Classical Wisdom
On the Making of the Modern State
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
2nd Jul 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
Dominik Sobe's...
Stagnant MRR but experimenting in the background
1st Jun 2021
The Web Witch's Blog
Back from maternity leave
Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process...
31st May 2026
Today is my last day of maternity leave. Chloe is down for her morning nap and I'm trying to process the last 5 months and where it has all gone and all these complicated feelings.
I want to go back to work and I don't. I am only going back part-time for a few months but it still...
Londonist
MOTH Club: Beloved Hackney Venue Saved
Planning permission for neighbouring development refused.
1st Apr 2026
Planning permission for neighbouring development refused.
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.
Liz Denys
Peach tree
I got an embroidery kit for an old Nordiska apple tree by Ingegerd Hyltén-Cavallius from Studio Flax...
27th Jul 2023
I got an embroidery kit for an old Nordiska apple tree by Ingegerd Hyltén-Cavallius from Studio Flax and ended up modifying it to make it a peach tree because I decided to put the finished project up in my powder room and can't resist a terrible pun:
Quentin Santos
Fixing the RP2350-USB-A not working as USB host
tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the...
20th Nov 2025
tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the red arrow in the cover picture of this article Context I am currently toying around with emulating a USB device. However, I also wanted to be able to plug a keyboard in, so I needed...
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail?
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
Notes on software...
btest: a language agnostic test runner
btest is a minimal,
language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing
compilers. Brian,...
4th Aug 2018
btest is a minimal,
language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing
compilers. Brian, an ex- co-worker from Linode, wrote the first
implementation in Crystal (a compiled
language clone of Ruby) for testing
bshift, a compiler
project. The tool accomplished exactly...
Derek Sivers
Wealth = Have ÷ Want
Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder.
27th Sep 2024
Not a new idea, but just another visualization and reminder.
Working Theorys
Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business | Theory No. 7
In 2023, we’ll see more Silicon Valley startups that operate like small businesses. And some of them...
12th Jan 2023
In 2023, we’ll see more Silicon Valley startups that operate like small businesses. And some of them will have big outcomes. Perhaps even billion-dollar ones. I call this phenomenon the Silicon Valley small business (an SV-SB for short).
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete...
21st Oct 2020
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete brain dump.
Julia Evans
Some blogging myths
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
5th Jun 2023
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend
about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a
blog post.
here are the myths:
myth: you need to be original
myth: you need to...
Three Letter Acronym
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better!
“So”, I hear you thinking, “I remember James being very anti-software bundle earlier this year. He...
9th Dec 2009
“So”, I hear you thinking, “I remember James being very anti-software bundle earlier this year. He had that spat with John Casasanta and everything. Imagine my surprise when I saw this offer in my inbox this morning – both DragThing and PCalc are part of the new MacUpdate Promo...
Freewheeling Apps
2025-09-02
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages:
Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages:
Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American)
German
French
Japanese
Chinese
Portuguese
Hopefully it...
MIT News - Civil and...
Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage...
1st Oct 2025
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
8th Jan 2025
Atoms vs Bits
A Few Ways to Introduce Advanced Vocabulary into Your Child’s Life
guest post!
2 weeks ago
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum
14th Feb 2025
lcamtuf’s thing
A nicer voltmeter clock
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
16th May 2026
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
On the Arts
Generative AI and the Falling Costs of Art Creation
For individual creators on a budget, the future is bright.
11th Jan 2024
For individual creators on a budget, the future is bright.
Noahpinion
Biden should run on a message of abundance
Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
1st Feb 2024
Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
Dustin Curtis
Contribution and abundance
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:...
4th May 2021
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent:
In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and abundance.
Contribution is basically...
fast.ai
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
Electronics etc…
Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server
Introduction
What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For?
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS...
14th Jul 2024
Introduction
What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For?
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna!
The SyncServer S200 Outside and Inside
Installing the Missing BNC Connectors
Setting Up a SyncServer S200 from Scratch
Opening up the SyncServer S200
The SyncServer File...
Sometimes It Works...
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
“Nope! Composer is safe!”
Adventure Time
An...
15th Dec 2018
You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
“Nope! Composer is safe!”
Adventure Time
An Acceptable Risk
What else can you do?
Enter Ensemble
¶You Shouldn’t Trust Your Composer Dependencies
I’ve got a little present for you: you’re enjoying a well-earned break from work!...
bt RSS Feed
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I’m a big...
3rd Oct 2022
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
2022-10-03
This article was updated on October 11, 2022
I’m a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of “brutalist” or minimalist design, so I’m always inspired...
IEEE Spectrum
What Is an Electronic Sackbut?
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you,...
1st Feb 2024
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades
In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research...
Retail Design Blog
Coor Seongsu Flagship Store by ATELIER KHJ
When planning a commercial space, it is not easy to sacrifice usable space. This is especially true...
2nd Dec 2025
When planning a commercial space, it is not easy to sacrifice usable space. This is especially true in areas with...
Leteyski's blog
Want to save your nation? Get rid of poor people!
Introduction
12th Sep 2023
Butler's Log
Opening Up GitButler
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
Posts on Nikita...
I switched from GMail and nobody died
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
8th May 2025
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
Quentin Santos
IndexedDB is Weird
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
3rd Mar 2025
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.
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 →
Long Now
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Governance moves slow.
The work of the politician and the public servant ought to inherently be...
16th Aug 2022
Governance moves slow.
The work of the politician and the public servant ought to inherently be one of long-term thinking — of taking in concerns both urgent and longstanding and crafting solutions to them that will live on beyond any official’s term of office.
As Mayor of...
Alex Strick van...
How to think about evals
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice.
I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
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...
Abishek Muthian
Auto suspend and resume KVM Virtual Machine with the host
When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display...
13th Sep 2021
When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display unable to wake up when resuming suspend.
Suspending and resuming the Virtual Machine when the host machine is suspended using hooks in systemd and resumed fixes this...
Ryan Hoover's...
Why I’m excited about profit-sharing startups
9th Jan 2024
Jonas Hietala
Recent experiences with Netrunner tournaments
After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three...
31st Mar 2016
After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three tournaments during February - March. After each of these tournaments I started a writeup of them but they fell off my mind a bit but consider this my break with my blogging...
Eric Migicovsky's...
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Seth's Blog
What does reality look like?
Not what we see when we’re present, but what do we see when we imagine we’re present? In the early...
1st May 2024
Not what we see when we’re present, but what do we see when we imagine we’re present? In the early days of photography, the world was black and white, and sort of flat. It’s worth noting that no one who saw these pictures complained about the fact that they didn’t exactly match...
Josh Thompson
Sidekiq and Background Jobs for Beginners
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I...
30th Jul 2018
I’ve recently had to learn more about background jobs (using Sidekiq, specifically) for some bugs I was working on.
I learned a lot. Much of it was extremely basic. Anyone who knows much at all about Sidekiq will say “oh, duh, of course that’s true”, but at the time, it wasn’t...
CrimethInc.
To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender
Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan...
2nd Jan 2026
Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb entered the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta with their guns drawn. They shot and killed Manuel Teran, known to fellow...
Luxagraf:...
Family
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St....
8th Feb 2023
After a few weeks in the Pensacola area we headed back east, across the Florida panhandle to St. Andrews state park, a little postage stamp of protected land off the coast of Panama City Beach.
Apparently this was once a gem in the Florida State Park system, but the universal...
csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
The American Scholar
Dottie Lo Bue
House and home
The post Dottie Lo Bue appeared first on The American Scholar.
4th Nov 2024
House and home
The post Dottie Lo Bue appeared first on The American Scholar.
Josh Thompson
Pry Tips and Tricks
the following is cross-posted from development.wombatsecurity.com. I wrote about some handy extra...
7th May 2018
the following is cross-posted from development.wombatsecurity.com. I wrote about some handy extra features I’ve found using Pry much of my day.
I joined the Wombat team a few months ago, and have been working on the threatsim product. We had a bit of a bug backlog, and myself and...
Paul Cudenec
Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
5th Jan 2026
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
MIT News - Civil and...
Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling...
7th Jul 2025
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth.
Quentin Santos
My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the...
a week ago
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the (TLV320)DAC3100 audio chip. “DAC” stands for “Digital-to-Analog Conversion”; that is, it takes some audio signal (here, I²S) and converts it to the analog equivalent (differential for speakers,...
I am BARRY HESS
Florence: Davide, Le Chiese e i Dottori
Not much writing tonight as I need to get to sleep.
Ava had class all day, so we were on our own to...
1st Apr 2025
Not much writing tonight as I need to get to sleep.
Ava had class all day, so we were on our own to run around town. The big event was seeing David at La Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze. We did a guided tour. It was well worth the information and the line-skipping advantage....
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,...
Buttondown's blog
How to build a culture of shipping
The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
3rd Jun 2024
The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
Willem's Blog
Using a budget Android as main smartphone
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive...
8th Oct 2018
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive iPhone.
The American Scholar
We Are the Borg
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?
The post We Are the Borg appeared first on...
3rd Jun 2024
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?
The post We Are the Borg appeared first on The American Scholar.
Daniel Immke
Hacktoberfest 2020: Government edition
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
15th Oct 2020
Focusing entirely on government contributions this year.
Long Now
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
### Globalizing Green
Brand built his case for rethinking environmental goals and methods on two...
10th Oct 2009
### Globalizing Green
Brand built his case for rethinking environmental goals and methods on two major changes going on in the world. The one that most people still don't take into consideration is that power is shifting to the developing world, where 5 out of 6 people live,...
Making software...
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
12th Mar 2022
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It's pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
SatPost by Trung...
I want Apple's Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
16th Jun 2023
The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
Construction Physics
The Fall and Rise of Screwworm
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual...
3rd Jul 2026
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.
David Heinemeier...
Servers can last a long time
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
MIT News - Civil and...
Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
2nd Jun 2026
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
Works in Progress...
The bad science behind expensive nuclear
How a dubious theory of radiation damage based on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing...
27th May 2025
How a dubious theory of radiation damage based on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing program came to be – and why its time may now be up.
Jeffrey Zeldman...
My Glamorous Life: Bots, Books, and Betrayal
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the...
18th Oct 2025
My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he,...
mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
2nd Dec 2024
I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates.
There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered...
11th Mar 2024
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual
The Oatmeal - Comics...
A toddler tells a joke
A comic about a toddler telling his first joke.
View on my website
10th Apr 2025
A comic about a toddler telling his first joke.
View on my website
Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
3rd Dec 2021
Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in
Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing.
I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
Works in Progress...
The road from serfdom
Unwinding Russian serfdom took half a century. To eventually do it in the face of powerful...
16th Feb 2024
Unwinding Russian serfdom took half a century. To eventually do it in the face of powerful opposition took a remarkable approach that let peasants vote themselves into freedom.
ntietz.com blog -...
[Talk] Scaling Graphs
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
5th Apr 2016
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube:
If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
Winnie Lim
9 years together
To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it...
2nd May 2025
To me, being in a relationship is like choosing to engage in a continuous power battle. I know it sounds unromantic but age has taught me that the way to truly sustain...
Long Now
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery
### Stone Ink Gallery
Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art...
24th Jul 2008
### Stone Ink Gallery
Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year Clock in its Nevada mountain. The gallery would consist of art in materials as durable as the alloy steel and jade of the Clock...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up...
9th Jul 2025
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
Mind Prison: Notes...
AI Creativity: 2 Types, One Possible, One Impossible
Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09
9th Apr 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09
The Intimate Mirror
Become the Blade
AI, Right Action, and the Liberation of Human Purpose
6th Feb 2026
AI, Right Action, and the Liberation of Human Purpose
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.03.01 - Wandering The Desert
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Mar 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Electronics etc…
Complex Heterodynes Explained
Introduction
Some Common DSP Notations
Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal
Heterodyning the...
7th Feb 2026
Introduction
Some Common DSP Notations
Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal
Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way
Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue
Filtering Away the Old Negative Image
Decimation
Final Block Diagram
Conclusion
Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
Engineer’s Codex
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast
Merkle Trees in the real world
10th May 2025
Merkle Trees in the real world
Anil Dash
Five for 50
Today I’m 50 years old! That feels absurd, because it’s a big number, the kind of round number that...
5th Sep 2025
Today I’m 50 years old! That feels absurd, because it’s a big number, the kind of round number that people usually obscure by saying “I’m celebrating a big birthday” or something vague like that. But, since you only get so many of these to celebrate, I’m using this chance to ask...
African History...
Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism.
The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little...
22nd Jun 2025
The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little basis in the historical geographies and political relationships of the pre-colonial period.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The...
3rd Dec 2014
One way to narrow down a problem when debugging a test is to add logging with e.g. fmt.Printf().
The problem with this approach is lack of selectivity: imagine you have 100 tests and only 1 test fails. For debugging the issue you only need to see logs when executing that 1 test...
Conservation...
It’s about TIME: Conservationist recognized as climate leader
16th Nov 2023
Koos Looijesteijn
What I learned from my second Astro-Jekyll migration
10th May 2026
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...
The Web Witch's Blog
My first two weeks at Igalia
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home...
22nd Mar 2024
After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home after 2 years away from the web platform space.
There is so much new information about web platform projects to digest and I've been slowly figuring out how things work around...
Josh Thompson
Quotes from 'Spare the Child'
Introduction
Here’s quotes from Spare the Child: The Religeous Roots of Punishment and the...
1st Feb 2025
Introduction
Here’s quotes from Spare the Child: The Religeous Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse, by Philip Greven. It was written in 1989, same year I was born, 35 years ago as of 2025.
It’s sometimes nice to be able to share quotes with people....
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
7th Jan 2025
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
3rd Feb 2023
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
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