Winnie Lim
scenes from tsukiji & asakusa
Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at...
1st Dec 2023
Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at...
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How to Manifest a Meetup
> 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now...
15th Jul 2022
> 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips
Idle Words
Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa
Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake)....
8th Aug 2020
Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake). A longtime community organizer and three-term city council member, she was the first Latina elected to a city council in the state of Iowa, and would be the first Latina to serve...
Marco Bambini
Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser APIs: The Web’s Free SaaS
Authentication on the web is a complicated problem. If you’re going to do it yourself, there’s a lot...
2nd Nov 2025
Authentication on the web is a complicated problem. If you’re going to do it yourself, there’s a lot you have to take into consideration.
But odds are, you’re building an app whose core offering has nothing to do with auth. You don’t care about auth. It’s an implementation...
Noahpinion
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
Balancing Act
Sanitized Slop
Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box...
8th Jul 2026
Startup launch videos have become sanitized slop. A VC on why polish stopped working, what the box office proves, and what actually earns attention.
Caitlin’s Newsletter
The UK Is Getting Even Crazier In Defense Of Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Jun 2026
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader 1958-1959
March 3, 1958
Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958
Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork...
11th Nov 2022
I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
Take a picture
Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D...
There are two types...
Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings
A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
1st Jun 2022
A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading →
The post Car...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Regent Resorts: Culinary Travel Experiences
5th Aug 2026
RhysTranter.com
A New Role at St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over...
14th Dec 2019
I have just started a new role as a pastoral tutor at St David's Catholic College in Cardiff. Over the last two years I have been looking for a secure full-time job that would allow me to draw on my teaching skills and experience, while also offering an opportunity to serve my...
Old Vintage...
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple...
2nd Aug 2026
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux.
sui generis IBM...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts...
11th Feb 2024
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one.
I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories.
I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
somethingaboutmaps
Independent Study: A Reflection
Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version...
30th Jul 2023
Earlier this summer, I decided to embark on an educational experiment: I wanted to create a version of the independent study groups that I used to co-teach when I was at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in which students would work on a mapping project, and meet weekly for...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Offline Music
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to...
16th Jul 2022
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to enjoy music very personally. Music is very close to my heart and I don't like anything to get in between. Therefore I don't rely on streaming music services, but manage my own...
The Quanta Podcast
How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry
Only 170 million years ago, new plankton evolved. Their demand for carbon and calcium permanently...
10th Sep 2020
Only 170 million years ago, new plankton evolved. Their demand for carbon and calcium permanently transformed the seas as homes for life.
The post How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Musings on Markets
Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!
If the title of this post sounds familiar, it is because is one of Disney’s most iconic rides, one...
6th Feb 2025
If the title of this post sounds familiar, it is because is one of Disney’s most iconic rides, one that I have taken hundreds of times, first with my own children and more recently, with my grandchildren. It is a mainstay of every Disney theme park, from the original Disneyland...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in...
1st Jul 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Made in Webflow, a project I've lead to redesign and rebuild a popular social site for Webflow creators - Seein...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Threshold
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I like to think the robot apocalypse won't feel so...
1st Sep 2023
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I like to think the robot apocalypse won't feel so bad if we really do our best to earn it.
Today's News:
PSSST. Hey NYC, it's gonna get pretty dorky.
Irrational...
Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity...
8th Dec 2024
Back in 2020, I wrote a piece called
My skepticism towards current developer meta-productivity tools,
which laid out my three core problems with developer productivity measurement tools of the time:
Using productivity measures to evaluate rather than learn
Instrumenting metrics...
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
4th Nov 2024
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
Seth's Blog
The paradox of brittle
Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the...
1st Oct 2024
Optimizing a device or system means squeezing every drop of productivity out of it. In the short-run, optimization works as long as the world stays the same. We can optimize a device to work at capacity. However, something working at capacity blows up if you step on the gas when...
Winnie Lim
the answer I must seek
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
1st Sep 2024
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Transperth Rail Diagram, 2026
Submitted by Noah, who says: I would appreciate a review of the updated system map for Transperth....
12th Jan 2026
Submitted by Noah, who says: I would appreciate a review of the updated system map for Transperth. Transit Maps says: This dates from October 2025, when the Armadale line was extended one station to Byford. Again, this is one of those diagrams that gets the job done, but...
ntietz.com blog -...
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
5th Jun 2023
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular.
If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?"
Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things.
How we...
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
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.
Probably...
Don’t Bet on the Super Bowl
If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the...
8th Feb 2026
If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the ratio of the probability something happens to the probability it doesn’t. For example, if the Seahawks have a 75% chance of winning the Super Bowl, they have a 25% chance of losing,...
Niklas Oberhuber’s...
How to be Right without being Sure
9th Jun 2025
Willem's Blog
Updating Snake '97
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
20th Feb 2018
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97 game. Read about the design challenges in this blog post.
videah.net
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Posted on May 12, 2025
This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Posted on May 12, 2025
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird.
Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
1st Oct 2023
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers.
The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
alexwlchan
Redecorating my bedroom
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
11th May 2023
Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years.
My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
Writing
The Aces
Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
1st Feb 2021
Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
Engineer’s Codex
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
9th Mar 2025
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
Balancing Act
Tab Tab Tab
How humans became training data with paychecks
4th Nov 2025
How humans became training data with paychecks
Coding Horror
Hacker, Hack Thyself
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to...
2nd Jun 2017
We've read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default,...
Society's Backend:...
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024
The top 5 articles and resources
1st Jan 2025
The top 5 articles and resources
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
13th Oct 2024
A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
Boot.dev Blog
Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a...
1st Jul 2020
If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser. Want to show someone a code snippet? Want to quickly test some syntax? Browser-based code pads are helpful. On that note, I created a new playground....
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Common Edge
Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
3rd Dec 2024
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
Weighty Thoughts
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
mtlynch.io
Building a Homelab VM Server
Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017.
For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM...
7th May 2017
Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017.
For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition).”
Overview I do the bulk of my home development work in virtual machines (VMs). My main desktop PC is a Windows 10 machine, so I had always run my VMs from...
Dr Alun Withey
Beard Fashions and Class
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid...
24th Feb 2021
Over the past few centuries, fashions in facial hair have changed substantially. In the mid seventeenth century many men wore the ‘Van Dyke’ style of a small, pointy beard and moustaches. By the end of the 1600s, beards were in decline, leaving many men with just moustaches. The...
Nat Eliason's...
You're Not Struggling Alone
If you're worried you don't have to worry
14th Nov 2022
If you're worried you don't have to worry
Fatih Arslan
Plotter Notebook System
Taking notes, in my opinion, is the best thing one can do for themselves. Writing is a form of...
24th Feb 2025
Taking notes, in my opinion, is the best thing one can do for themselves. Writing is a form of thinking, and writing manually, in an analog manner, elevates the process. It has a positive impact on your well-being. It’s akin to working out for hours and then returning
Long Now
Jason Scott: The Web In An Eye Blink
Jason Scott is an activist archiver who preserves artifacts of digital culture for the future. Users...
1st Nov 2017
Jason Scott is an activist archiver who preserves artifacts of digital culture for the future. Users today have many ways to create content online, but they often lack the skills, tools or guidance to preserve the media they make. As startups fail, platforms disappear, and...
Stephen Diehl
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume
Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a planned...
20th May 2026
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume
Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume is a planned septology about a Danish antiquarian book dealer who falls out of time, and the first five volumes are one of the most original and brilliant literary projects I've read in years....
Stephen Diehl
Process Reward Models
Process Reward Models
Reasoning models are all the rage with the kids these days, and in particular...
1st Dec 2024
Process Reward Models
Reasoning models are all the rage with the kids these days, and in particular the training data behind them is a hot topic. One particular case of this is the process reward models which are a type of reward model used in complex reasoning and...
Krebs on Security
Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass...
23rd Feb 2025
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of...
1st Dec 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Launched Postcard. Had \>15k visitors on the first day and hundreds of signups, which was more than I expected. Overall, a great start! - Did a smaller launch for The Cont...
Jonas Hietala
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
Calvin...
28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
Calvin Wankhede
We’re in a dark time period right now.
Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe.
Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Vision Pro
Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance...
15th Feb 2024
Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance and see the lake calm, with subtle waves and some mist in the distance. Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging to a family...
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,...
Dreams of Space -...
Captain Ray-O-Vac’s Adventure and Game Book (1952)
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly...
19th Jun 2026
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly there will be comic book premiums and punch out books.
To start how about "Flashlights in Space...!" This was a comic premium from Ray-O-Vac batteries company. There was not much...
There are two types...
With Rhetoric: The New York Apartment House
WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.”...
1st Dec 2024
WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading →
The post With Rhetoric: The New...
Spoon & Tamago
The T.K.G. Handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace
We are absolutely in love with this T.K.G. (tamago kake gohan) handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace....
17th Aug 2025
We are absolutely in love with this T.K.G. (tamago kake gohan) handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace. It’s part of their 2025 Autumn & Winter collection that’s slowly releasing right now. The handkerchief, which will become available in September, features a bowl and chopsticks...
The Ruffian
Why Did I Start The Ruffian and Has Paul McCartney Read My Book?
Answering Reader Questions. Plus a Ton of Optimism For 2026.
3rd Jan 2026
Answering Reader Questions. Plus a Ton of Optimism For 2026.
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...
Justin Jackson
Not all products make good businesses
You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
1st Mar 2019
You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
Software and Tech...
Why should I accept all cookies?
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
The Ruffian
'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult
Not If You're On The Left Anyway
3rd Aug 2024
Not If You're On The Left Anyway
Matt Blewitt
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
4th Dec 2024
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
One Useful Thing
Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
12th Nov 2025
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
17th Jul 2020
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
11th Apr 2012
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
12th Sep 2020
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
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.
Res Obscura
Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
3rd Oct 2023
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 15: More From Explorama Lodge (February 20 - 21, 2024)
February 20, 2024
A Great Potoo was the first bird I heard this morning shortly after my alarm went...
1st Feb 2025
February 20, 2024
A Great Potoo was the first bird I heard this morning shortly after my alarm went off at 5:00 AM. It was going to be a good day.
At dinner the previous night Luis, Laura and I had come up with a plan for our full day at Explorama Lodge. We would begin by taking...
Eliran Turgeman
Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that...
1st May 2025
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that causes endless headaches, it’s this: a single cache cluster shared across services.
I recently shortly wrote about my lessons from building and maintaining distributed systems at...
A Beautiful Site
Dynamic Slots
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with...
19th Jul 2023
Web Component authors already know how powerful slots are, but what if you could do even more with them? Here's an interesting technique to use (or abuse) slots in your custom elements. I've been calling the pattern dynamic slots.
Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at how...
Permanent Style
Ralph Lauren cap: How great things age
There have been a few companies popping up in recent years making higher-end baseball caps. Both the...
3rd Nov 2025
There have been a few companies popping up in recent years making higher-end baseball caps. Both the plain, dull, luxury ones that became a trend in the wake of Succession, and ones that look exactly like a traditional cap, just higher quali... > Read more
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack:...
21st May 2025
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.
Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
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Choose Boring Technology Culture
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
3rd Dec 2012
wadertales
Four eggs or five?
There is something pleasing about four wader eggs in a nest. They seem to fit so neatly, with their...
6th Mar 2026
There is something pleasing about four wader eggs in a nest. They seem to fit so neatly, with their pointed ends in the middle, as illiustrated in the Ringed Plover nest alongside. There has been an assumption that this is an optimum arrangement for incubation, with strong...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs...
1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake.
I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
Bryan Braun - Blog
250 lbs
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work.
Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
Nat Eliason's...
Softening Our Inner Critic
Find nourishment in the weeds
4th Dec 2023
Find nourishment in the weeds
mtlynch.io
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea.
I...
1st Aug 2019
A quick, practical guide to interviewing customers during the early stages of a new product idea.
I expected basic advice about how you shouldn’t ask customers leading questions, but Fitzpatrick goes much more in-depth. The book made me recognize weaknesses in my approach to...
The Wandering...
Cartographic palettes and colour harmonies
This story begins one day when I was assembling a map of the city of Edmonton, Alberta from...
27th Jul 2022
This story begins one day when I was assembling a map of the city of Edmonton, Alberta from OpenStreetMap data. It was going to be a big map, a 42″ (106 cm) wide poster for a wall. The data was good, but the standard OSM colours were not. They would work fine for a street …...
High Signal
Making $12k from podcasts - James McKinven interview
James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He...
5th Jul 2023
James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He earns money by editing podcasts for companies
Rest of World -...
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s policy chief
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI...
3rd Jun 2024
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity, consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
Common Edge
The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis
A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of...
2nd Oct 2024
A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history.
The Works in...
Issue 12: Houston, we have a solution
Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria...
7th Sep 2023
Plus: How Mexico built its state, the causes of the Baby Boom, and the 141-year quest for a malaria vaccine.
Scope of Work
Five Rides for 2025
Some lists are just worth making
5th Jan 2026
Some lists are just worth making
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
3rd Sep 2021
Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator journey.
Applied Cartography
Winners Take All
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett’s Final Brushstrokes
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway but he may still make a few final...
5th May 2025
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway but he may still make a few final brushstrokes on his canvas as Chairman.
Philip I. 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...
Josh Thompson
How to complete a project
Most of us have goals. And we usually don’t reach any of them.
The
Minimum Viable Product “concept”...
1st Jan 2014
Most of us have goals. And we usually don’t reach any of them.
The
Minimum Viable Product “concept” has helped me with some goals, and it could be helpful to you.
It’s a simple concept: When starting something new, figure out what the minimum investment would get you the...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Introduction to javascript iterables, iterators, and generators
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work...
9th Aug 2016
A quick intro to javascript newly introduced generators and iterators concepts and how they work with other javascript features.
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
9th Oct 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
Fatih Arslan
Braun Börse 2024
The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on Braun products. Braun might not be...
5th May 2024
The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on Braun products. Braun might not be the design icon it was 40 years ago, but starting in 1955, it profoundly impacted the design world, starting with its cooperation with the Ulm School of Design.
With Dieter
Founder's blog
Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4: A Major Update for Power Users
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release...
23rd Oct 2025
We're excited to announce Jitbit Helpdesk Mobile v10.4, one of our biggest updates yet! This release brings powerful new features that make managing support tickets on the go faster and more efficient than ever.
Edit Tickets Without Leaving the App
One of our most requested...
Cartogrammar
Beyond the Sea, flowing and exploding edition
Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from...
1st Jun 2017
Last year I took a whack at mapping what you’d “see” if you looked straight across the ocean from coastlines around the world. Since then, an interactive version of that has been a back-burner idea. Well, finally, here we go. To recap, these arcs represent straight-line paths out...
Working Theorys
Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15
a heretical take on "total compensation"
6th Sep 2023
a heretical take on "total compensation"
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024)
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear...
27th Nov 2024
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent
display of fascism. (Don’t
call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be
chaotic and disruptive to many...
Commoncog
Data and the Capital Cycle: How Koch Became an Empire
How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and...
11th Dec 2023
How Koch Industries became an empire. We draw on ideas from both the Becoming Data Driven series and the Capital Expertise series.
Some Bits: Nelson's...
World66.ai
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides...
2nd Jul 2026
Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated
IEEE Spectrum
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
1st Apr 2025
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
Trying to Understand...
My Temporary Enemy's Temporary Enemy...
Can be my temporary friend.
6th May 2026
Can be my temporary friend.
Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress
Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
25th Jun 2018
Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros.
This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #8: GT-I5800
Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
14th Jan 2022
Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
High Signal
The best SaaS boilerplates for founders
If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS...
5th Aug 2024
If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS boilerplates have exploded in popularity in the last couple of years. They are basically starter kits for creating Software as a Service web apps and reduce the time
balajis.com
The Bitcoin ETF is the spiritual reversal of Executive Order 6102
Back in 1935, they seized the gold. But now, digital gold is back.
11th Jan 2024
Back in 1935, they seized the gold. But now, digital gold is back.
Derek Sivers podcast
I love being wrong
Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out.
But last...
9th Sep 2014
Most of the time, I feel smart, successful, and driven — like I’ve got it all figured out.
But last month a bunch of stuff knocked me on my ass.
I’ve never felt so wrong.
Whenever something has gone wrong in my life, I’ve asked myself, “What’s great about...
Handprinted - Blog
Staining a Block with Sumi Ink
When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can...
6th Nov 2025
When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can enable you to have more visibility, and therefore a more accurate design. Sumi Ink is a great option for block staining, and it's simple and quick.
Brush some Sumi ink onto your...
Derek Sivers podcast
The art of selfishness
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters.
But his mother was on...
18th Nov 2018
David grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with five brothers and sisters.
But his mother was on her death bed.
An undiagnosable illness seemed like it was going to take her at any time.
All of her children were visiting her every day.
He was very conflicted and felt...
Solving the decision...
Odeon Plus
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
5th Sep 2023
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
Long Now
Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
### Ecological wildfire
“We are uniquely fire creatures,” Pyne began, “on a uniquely fire planet.”...
10th Feb 2016
### Ecological wildfire
“We are uniquely fire creatures,” Pyne began, “on a uniquely fire planet.” Life itself is a form of slow metabolic combustion—which eventually created oxygen and burnable vegetation that allowed fast combustion, ignited by lightning. Humans came along and...
./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
22nd Jul 2020
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them.
The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output.
It’s actually quite OK for many...
Works in Progress...
The story of Viktor Zhdanov
Although Viktor Zhdanov’s name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in...
20th Aug 2020
Although Viktor Zhdanov’s name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do?
Flashbak
William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945
“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common...
1st Feb 2026
“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families, statesmen and philosophers....
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates.
I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates.
I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive.
Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Eugene Yan
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
bookbear express
notes on the brothers karamazov
Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I...
2 weeks ago
Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can’t solve or tolerate.
Passing Time
Losing My Edge
But I was there!
18th Mar 2025
Conservation...
3 ways to prevent the next pandemic with nature, according to science
18th Oct 2024
Daniel De Laney
Free software scares normal people
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people.
Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
Sarah Parmenter
British Summertime
Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning...
3rd Aug 2017
Aha, the great British Summer. You really never know what you’re going to get and it makes planning weekends so darn difficult. Us Brits really do love to talk about the weather; as I write this post I started the day in shorts and a t-shirt and I’m about to go and fetch a...
Long Now
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale
### Green Plans
Green Plans, said Johnson, are government-run environmental programs that rise to...
4th Oct 2008
### Green Plans
Green Plans, said Johnson, are government-run environmental programs that rise to the scale and longevity of environmental problems. Instead of acting piecemeal, they are comprehensive, systemic, integrated, and accountable. Instead of pursuing an energy policy,...
Long Now
Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade
### Imminent fusion power
All the light we see from the sky, Moses pointed out, comes from fusion...
17th Jun 2010
### Imminent fusion power
All the light we see from the sky, Moses pointed out, comes from fusion power burning hydrogen, the commonest element in the universe---3/4 of all mass. A byproduct of the cosmic fusion is the star-stuff that we and the Earth are made of.
On Earth, 4...
Cybercultural:...
Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't
The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the...
25th May 2023
The first wave of people to join Twitter was in March 2007, when it became the trendy app at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. I hadn’t gone to SXSW that year, but I arrived in San Francisco the month after for Web 2.0 Expo. I don’t recall who told me about Twitter (it...
Abishek Muthian
Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...
1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks.
By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
The Web Witch's Blog
Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode,...
3rd May 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode, conserving energy for what will be a busy few months. I started to write a log about what happened in March, the first March that did not drag on this year, at least for me, but now...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Launching the Coding Career Handbook!
I'm launching my career advice book today!
1st Jul 2020
I'm launching my career advice book today!
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 29 Entry
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again!
I am totally...
25th Apr 2014
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again!
I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something.
Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Alex MacCaw
The Great CEO Within
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very...
18th Mar 2021
It's been a long time coming, but Matt Mochary's book The Great CEO Within is out. I feel very fortunate to be involved in this project. This is the best book I've read on making the journey from founder to CEO.
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
6th Feb 2024
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
Krebs on Security
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from...
7th Oct 2025
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also...
Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips
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code {font-size: 100%;...
13th Apr 2025
.cite { font-size: 70%;}
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code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;}
In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor,
a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Eukaryote Writes...
Speciesquest 2026
A multiplayer distributed game where you find as many species in a year as you can.
31st Dec 2025
A multiplayer distributed game where you find as many species in a year as you can.
The Tao Of Wealth
Sri Aurobindo On The Buddha
The Non-Being permits the Being, even as the Silence permits the Activity. Thus it was possible for...
30th Sep 2018
The Non-Being permits the Being, even as the Silence permits the Activity. Thus it was possible for the Buddha to attain the state of Nirvana, and yet act puissantly in the world, impersonal in his inner consciousness, in his action the most powerful personality that we know of...
Internal Tech Emails
Musk v. Altman begins
This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
TheCollector
6 Empires That Conquered Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political...
1st Jun 2026
Ancient Egypt flourished for over three millennia, maintaining its unique culture and political identity. But that does not mean that Egypt was never impacted by external threats. The Egyptians were conquered several times by foreign powers, who brought their own culture and...
Sedimental
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100
Originally published on the Hatnote blog.
Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog.
Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around
knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's
important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run
encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Jan-Feb '26: How PlayBook Processes User Input
The motivation and design of our input processing system
20th Feb 2026
The motivation and design of our input processing system
Tom Blomfield
What is “founder mode”?
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk...
7th Oct 2024
We held a YC event a couple of months ago where Brian Chesky from Airbnb gave a passionate talk about his experience running Airbnb over the last 17 years. He believed that as Airbnb hired more professional managers, he lost a close connection with the details of the end product...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I
This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman...
6th Jun 2025
This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman battle sequence in film: the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). Despite being a relatively short sequence (about ten minutes), there’s actually enough to talk about here that...
Justin Jackson
Twenty dollars in an envelope
4th Mar 2013
Handprinted - Blog
Using a Mylar Mask to Reduce Chatter in a Linocut
One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away...
2nd Jul 2025
One of the problems to overcome when printing a linocut is ink being picked up by the carved away areas of the block. These lines print onto the paper causing 'chatter' or 'noise'. Sometimes chatter on a print can add character or interest to a piece but other times it can just...
Koos Looijesteijn
New design pattern: Drag To Tag
10th Sep 2013
Acko.net
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
On Evitability in Use of AI
If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it...
3rd Mar 2026
On Evitability in Use of AI
If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely.
It's undeniable there's a metric...
Res Obscura
AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
7th May 2025
Historians are finally having their AI debate
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
7th Nov 2022
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
Software and Tech...
Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that...
1st Jul 2025
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that you can't remember anything, but rather that you're constantly distracted while trying to remember.
Just a few years ago, I had a nightly ritual. Before drifting off to sleep, I'd...
Abort Retry Fail
The Birth of Windows Gaming
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
2nd Sep 2023
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
Stephen Diehl
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
After reading Simon's
I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have...
21st Jun 2016
Dive into GHC: Pipeline
After reading Simon's
I'm by no means an expert on GHC internals, but I have worked with them a fair
So begins a multipart writeup on the structure of GHC structured around several
Official Commentary
GHC core developers have actually spent a great deal of...
Chris Grossack's...
Is a Random Perfect Group Nontrivial?
So it’s finals season, and earlier today
some of the younger grad students were asking me for...
20th Mar 2026
So it’s finals season, and earlier today
some of the younger grad students were asking me for help
studying for their topology finals. One of their practice
problems was to build a cell complex with one 0-cell,
two 1-cells, and two 2-cells which has nontrivial $\pi_1$
but...
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to SVG
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class...
21st Jul 2025
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2025 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
6th Aug 2025
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Louwrentius - Solar
Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please
note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please
note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes
with a segmentation fault like this:
Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5
and height...
Varun's Notes
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
23rd Nov 2022
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
Allen Pike
We Can Do Hard Things
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business.
You see,...
30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business.
You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested...
25th Nov 2025
Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new...
Token for Token
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
9th Apr 2025
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
orlp.net - Blog...
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes
to AI: skeptic or...
2nd Feb 2025
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes
to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it
only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks
general human-level intelligence is just...
African History...
The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the...
1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
Rest of World -...
The Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream has a water problem
Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital...
4th Aug 2025
Tech giants are pouring oil riches into Middle East data centers as water scarcity threatens digital ambitions.
Making software...
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I've recently been playing around with using Windows...
2nd Sep 2022
Setting Up Jekyll on Windows
2022-09-02
I've recently been playing around with using Windows 10 as my daily operating system. So far, it has been going fairly well. Nothing will probably ever feel as "optimized" as running a Linux-based system but it works well for my...
AI for Software...
Understanding Open Model Licenses
And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Four Versions: This Is How Penn Station, NY, Might Look if Rebuilt
You may have heard about ReThinkNYC, a movement and not-for-profit corporation dedicated to...
13th Jun 2024
You may have heard about ReThinkNYC, a movement and not-for-profit corporation dedicated to rebuilding the original Pennsylvania Station in New York through ReThinkPennStationNYC. Collaborating with classical architect Richard Cameron, they have developed three new variations on...
The Forney Flyer
From the Flight Line
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking...
10th Aug 2021
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking off from our home airstrip in Kajjansi, Uganda. This aircraft is now serving in Liberia.
I've always loved watching the sky and the weather. Last week I was out of the city and...
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
10th Sep 2017
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites.
AWS Certficate Manager
I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
the late review
the hairshirt doldrums
on having a brain injury
6th Mar 2025
Laetitia@Work
Mind the Exponential Gap
Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
28th Sep 2021
Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
GitButler
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7th May 2024
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Retail Design Blog
Kaymana Earth Villa by Pablo Luna Studio
Earth Villa is part of Kaymana, a hospitality complex in Uluwatu, Bali, conceived around the ideas...
2 weeks ago
Earth Villa is part of Kaymana, a hospitality complex in Uluwatu, Bali, conceived around the ideas of solid flow, transition,...
Steve Blank
National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up
This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and...
13th Sep 2022
This article previously appeared in The National Interest. Last month the U.S. passed the CHIPS and Science Act, one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for...
Buttondown's blog
Granular tracking settings
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
6th Feb 2022
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
Julia Evans
Writing Javascript without a build system
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start
a new frontend...
16th Feb 2023
Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start
a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build
system?
I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I
(usually) still don’t use them, and why I find...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ 2023 in the Rearview
End-of-year recaps and reviews haven't been something I do. Generally, my mindset is about embracing...
3rd Mar 2024
End-of-year recaps and reviews haven't been something I do. Generally, my mindset is about embracing the present, with a gentle forward momentum towards what comes next. Years ago, I heard an Imam once speak about not having regrets. I took that to heart at the time and have...
Boot.dev Blog
How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
David Gerrells
A Cavalcade of the Olfactory Dimension
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its...
2 weeks ago
We have all been there, at least once in life. The door opens and a special kind of odor slinks its way up your nose. The gym.
Adventures In...
Throwing Shade In Wild Color
I once heard someone say that standard hillshade (one-direction light source) ignores half of the...
2nd Mar 2023
I once heard someone say that standard hillshade (one-direction light source) ignores half of the terrain. While this is an exaggeration, it makes a good point. Earth has an atmosphere and light diffuses, bounces, and wraps around a terrain in a manner that a single light...
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy's Minor Flaw
In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained...
2nd Oct 2025
In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained how decision-conditional market estimates could be used to advise decisions, a concept I soon called “
Justin Jackson
Forget about your heroes
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
29th Jul 2020
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
25th Nov 2020
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
I've...
Writing
The MANIAC
One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more...
2nd Nov 2024
One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more popular: it seemed to be a perfect storm of formalism and postmodernism (it being told in a fugue-like oral history), scientistic reckoning (suddenly in vogue thanks to oppenheimer),...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
1st Sep 2023
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author.
Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing.
The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
Buck on Software
The Software Slog
As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.
20th Mar 2023
As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" on Eleuke electric ukulele
I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
21st Sep 2010
I arranged and recorded Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies' on my new Eleuke electric ukulele.
Astral Codex Ten
Model City Monday 2/3/25
Things fall apart
3rd Feb 2025
SOCKS
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale...
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
16th Jun 2024
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
Max Woolf's Blog
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
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