Josh Collinsworth
Titles matter
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the...
26th Aug 2025
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
16th Dec 2014
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Notes from August 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far.
Things I published this month
Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2026
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
2 weeks ago
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
Thu Le
Things worth spending on
Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
9th Nov 2024
Worthwhile investments, in my experience, and occasional treats that make my day more delightful.
The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack?
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
Justin Jackson
Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
23rd Nov 2024
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The future of large files in Git is Git
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If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
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If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files.
Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone,
and wreak havoc on Git forges.
In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around
problems...
Handprinted - Blog
How to Design and Print a Half Drop Repeating Pattern
A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It...
5th Jan 2023
A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It can make for a less gridded-looking structure and add complexity to your design. Here's a simple, analogue way to make one.
Start by drawing around your block. We are...
Beautiful Public...
14,000 Photos of Army Uniforms and Rations from the 70s and 80s
An incredible archive of 14,000 photos of Army uniforms, military gear and rations from the 70s and...
20th Nov 2024
An incredible archive of 14,000 photos of Army uniforms, military gear and rations from the 70s and 80s.
Can We Still Govern?
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
1st Oct 2025
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: October 2024
Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
8th Oct 2024
Book sales, next projects, and a blog update
Louwrentius - Solar
Buying a new computer
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
3rd Apr 2011
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
Hidden History
NASA’s Ocean Mission
As part of its Apollo Moon program, NASA carried out an ambitious experiment in the depths of the...
7th Apr 2026
As part of its Apollo Moon program, NASA carried out an ambitious experiment in the depths of the ocean. The PX-15 submarine on display in Vancouver photo from Wiki Commons In the early 1960s, explorer Jacques Piccard was looking for funding. He had designed the research...
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...
Commoncog
Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice
Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
9th Jul 2025
Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
Willem's Blog
Collecting health data with Biostrap
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
14th Nov 2017
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
The Tao Of Wealth
How To Develop Extreme Resilience
1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher...
18th Nov 2020
1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher salary, then I would be happy”or “I’ll be satisfied when I get this promotion”? Many people don’t find out in time that “when” never comes. Stress appears in our life when we let...
The Convivial...
Eye to Eye
"Is This Anything?"
5th Jun 2023
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
25th Oct 2023
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
Willem's Blog
Rolex DateJust 36
Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like?...
21st Dec 2022
Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like? Keep reading!
The Tao Of Wealth
How To Live Slowly and Simply In A Frantic World
This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel...
25th Dec 2020
This post is about how you can choose to slow down, how you can step off the ever-revolving carousel of want-buy-want upgrade, opt out of the comparison games, stop cramming a month’s worth of engagements into a weekend, refuse to live your life according to trends, tread lighter...
HTMHell
#27 <a6>
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6...
21st Nov 2021
Context: Visually a list of links.
Bad code
<h6>Popular Cities</h6>
<div>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6>
<h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6>
<h6...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 1: Introduction, Phoenix to Miller Canyon
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini...
22nd Sep 2024
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini vacations. Due to the variations in her work schedule, Laura had two blocks of time - a five-day chunk in early August, and six days in early September - and we wanted to make the...
AI Tidbits
DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
17th Aug 2025
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
Jakob Nielsen on UX
UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent...
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business...
6th Oct 2025
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of just replacing old jobs | Most of AI’s economic value is consumer surplus | Latent affordances for AI feature discovery | Simple ambient AI scribes help...
Xena
Lean in 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
20th Jan 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Escaping Flatland
Socratic dialogue with kids
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my...
7th Dec 2023
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my understanding—that is interesting to me.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Arc of Columbus, Part 1
The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the...
23rd Aug 2025
The summer flew by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I drove to Michigan to pick up the kid from college after the end of the spring semester. It was a great trip and I managed to collect eight previously unvisited counties in Ohio along the way. But now I was doing...
sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
Winnie Lim
our memories belong together
Yesterday I checked-in on swarm (yes I still use that app) at Loft, and the app reminded me that I...
2nd Nov 2025
Yesterday I checked-in on swarm (yes I still use that app) at Loft, and the app reminded me that I was last there in 2018 with my partner: I had zero recollection...
./techtipsy
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for
gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at
1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good.
I don’t have...
Long Now
Annalee Newitz: Science Needs Fiction
Science fiction does more than predict future inventions. Stories are a testbed for exploring the...
14th Jul 2020
Science fiction does more than predict future inventions. Stories are a testbed for exploring the unexpected ways people could incorporate technology into their cultures. Science journalist and novelist [Annalee Newitz](http://techsploitation.com) discusses how scientists,...
The Perry Bible...
Big Fish
The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
3rd Jul 2026
The post Big Fish appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
22nd Jun 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the ulisp
compiler's LLVM backend to
support printing integers to...
Computer Things
Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content...
10th Oct 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content release. The next few months are going to be technical review, copyediting and polishing, with a hopeful 1.0 release in March. Full release notes here.
Three ways formally...
Daily Stoic
What Does It Mean To Be Wealthy?
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.”...
31st Jul 2023
“These individuals have riches just as we say that we ‘have a fever,’ when really the fever has us.” — Seneca We all know those people who have lots of money, and yet, they are miserable. On the flip side, we all know people who live happy and fulfilled lives despite not having...
Style over Substance
Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps
My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
18th Mar 2021
My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
Andrej Karpathy blog
(started posting on Medium instead)
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
20th Jan 2018
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but
whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting
to doing it on Medium because...
AI as Normal...
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
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 →
Eric Migicovsky's...
Moving to San Francisco
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
24th Feb 2020
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 4: Arrays, Hashes, and Nested Collections
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
9th Jun 2019
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
12th Jan 2022
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
Joel Gascoigne
11 cities in 3 months: The highs and lows of digital nomad lifestyle
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to...
6th May 2015
In December, my friend and co-worker Brian [https://twitter.com/brian_lovin]
casually mentioned to me that he would love to go traveling and explore Asia. I
love Asia. I lived in Japan as a kid for 3.5 years, and I lived in Hong Kong for
6 months in
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
5th Jul 2024
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
GitButler
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Quanta Magazine
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems....
3rd Jun 2024
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems.
The post Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Nat Eliason's...
Maybe Your Sleep Tracking is Killing You?
The Lure of the Measurable
6th Feb 2023
The Lure of the Measurable
Long Now
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
### Community-built content rules
Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking....
15th Apr 2006
### Community-built content rules
Vision is one of the most powerful forms of long-term thinking. Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy-- and how it fits into...
oftwominds-Charles...
The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild
There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome....
2nd Apr 2025
There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome.
Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins.
Welcome to the Trade War Poker...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars?
Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the...
1st Dec 2021
Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the dashboard. For example, adjusting the…
Tony Dinh's...
July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue
small updates from me in July 2023
7th Aug 2023
small updates from me in July 2023
The Works in...
From MANUALS to YOUTUBE
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
14th Aug 2023
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
Charles Petzold
Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice....
29th Sep 2024
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice. Dice are cubes and would be most convincingly rendered with 3D graphics. But because these dice are only a tiny part of this project, I was reluctant to call out the big guns. I...
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 23
Attempting attempts
1st Dec 2025
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets
A working prototype
18th Apr 2017
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Supercompute: Launching Wolfram Compute Services
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems,...
2nd Dec 2025
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems, run
RemoteBatchSubmissionEnvironment["WolframBatch"].
(The functionality is automatically available in the Wolfram Cloud.)
Scaling Up Your Computations
Let’s say you’ve done a computation in...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some Common Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Angels | Out-Of-Pocket
With some real decks and emails!
21st Feb 2024
With some real decks and emails!
TokyoDev
8 Proven Strategies for Making Every Candidate Fall in Love with Your Company
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan...
5th Sep 2023
Hi there! I am Luke Wilson, a veteran Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in the Japan market. My recruitment career has taken me across both agency and in-house roles, with the most recent one being at [Indeed](https://www.tokyodev.com/companies/indeed) (a proud...
Varun's Notes
Why Open Source AI Will Win
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
15th Sep 2023
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
Stories by Admiral...
The Spiral of Wrath: The crash of Armavia flight 967
5th Nov 2024
Sherman's Food...
Selene Aegean Bistro
Here we go with another restaurant on my "to eat at" list but it has taken me until now to actually...
2nd May 2026
Here we go with another restaurant on my "to eat at" list but it has taken me until now to actually pay them a visit. When Bluebeard and Nikita wanted to meet up for dinner, it was as good as any time to suggest Selene Aegean Bistro out on Pentiction at Hastings. Not be...
The Colby Echo -...
Paw Pals helps local animals find permanent homes
9th May 2019
The Pudding
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
4th May 2026
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
Commoncog
The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do...
12th May 2025
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
9th Dec 2024
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
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...
Seth's Blog
“Won’t get fooled again”
Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be...
1st Nov 2024
Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we’re eager to be fooled by them. Vaporware, false deadlines, fake budgets, unrealistic promises and straight out con jobs persist because at some level, we demand them. Divisive arguments, mob...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
AVC
My Year-End Playlist
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and...
20th Dec 2023
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Most of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
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...
Notes on software...
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
1st Jan 2023
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
eieio.games
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million...
24th Jun 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million Chessboards. It's a realtime chess MMO played over a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Pieces can move between boards and there are no turns. I ran the game out of a single process and...
Rest of World -...
This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans
Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip...
1st Apr 2025
Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip restrictions
Fabien Sanglard
How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone
21st Jan 2024
Xena
Accelerating mathematics
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
Rest of World -...
Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepoint
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces...
4th Mar 2024
Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.
The History of the...
Exploring the web in 1995
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web...
3rd Jun 2025
By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.
The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
Steve Blank
The Department of War Directory
TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the...
16th Dec 2025
TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and services. This month Congress, with bipartisan support, rapidly made them into law in...
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
haseeb qureshi
How to Break Into VC
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
mtlynch.io
WanderJest: Month 1
Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog...
5th Feb 2020
Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. Is It Keto earned its all-time-highest monthly revenue, doubling its previous record. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 15
All art is a copy of something.
Hello from the art room.
My older kiddo and I watched a short...
2nd Feb 2024
All art is a copy of something.
Hello from the art room.
My older kiddo and I watched a short documentary about artist and engineer Peter Vogel this morning. I learned about him from flipping through an old issue of OMNI from the early 80s which reviewed a gallery showing...
Commoncog
Business Ecosystem Change Takes Time
The birth of Sony, and the possibility that private corporations and private individuals can change...
11th Jun 2024
The birth of Sony, and the possibility that private corporations and private individuals can change broader business ecosystems.
Paul Cudenec
An A-Z of the modern mega-racket
[Plus audio version]
a week ago
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that...
2nd Sep 2024
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly
predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people
will start misusing it"). When...
Home on Erik...
We're hiring at Better
Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the...
9th Dec 2019
Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.
Writing
Gosling’s Old Rum
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
The Works in...
Fixing retail with land value capture
How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
5th Jun 2024
How to create beautiful shopping streets everywhere
Making software...
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and...
8th Sep 2021
Create a Performance-Focused WordPress Blog
2021-09-08
With my recent switch back to WordPress, and having read Kev Quirk’s latest post about Core Web Vitals, I wanted to make sure my blog still prioritized speed and performance above all else. I’m happy to say that I have...
Beautiful Public...
Government Comic Books
Government comics have taught Americans how to prevent forest fires, survive a nuclear blast, and...
27th Nov 2023
Government comics have taught Americans how to prevent forest fires, survive a nuclear blast, and how soldiers should handle homosexuality in the military.
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
6th Feb 2023
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
Inverted Passion
How to be a messy thinker
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
12th May 2024
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
Derek Sivers podcast
Small actions change your self-identity
When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things.
Approaching a...
10th Sep 2008
When we think about what’s worth doing, we usually think of big things.
Approaching a celebrity
Having taken that one step, you start to think of yourself as brave, or an achiever, or a bit of an expert on a subject.
You do just one thing that makes you feel like a...
Irrational...
How to filter out old email from inbox
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my
personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with,
and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email.
Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
Lefineder’s Substack
The Finite Faculties of Man
What is the extent of human cultural variation?
16th Jul 2023
What is the extent of human cultural variation?
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara....
31st Jan 2024
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times....
Butler's Log
Building Virtual Branches
GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What...
6th Jul 2023
GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What are virtual branches?
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
3rd Mar 2021
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
Willem's Blog
Commuting by bike
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal...
1st Dec 2017
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal bike.
Jibran’s Perspective
State machines - Why and how to use them in web development.
What is a state machine?
I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine.
A...
17th Dec 2022
What is a state machine?
I think Wikipedia does a very good job of defining a state machine.
A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract...
Don Melton
Sorry, we’re closed
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will...
19th Jun 2023
For reasons that will soon become obvious, I’m shutting the doors on this website. Everything will remain online for now, but I don’t plan on returning to write anything new here. Not that I’ve added any content in almost two years anyway.
I still have a passion for making...
latest projects -...
POV Candle
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
1st Dec 2023
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
Essays - Benedict...
AI’s metrics question
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused
about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused
about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but
it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
Machine Learning for...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Dreams of Space -...
To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940)
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they...
8th Nov 2025
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 1: Django + NextJS Boilerplate
Links:
Gumroad page
Build Log
My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that...
14th Feb 2024
Links:
Gumroad page
Build Log
My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to set up.
eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to
spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines
of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
XO Capital - Field...
Feb 2023
What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on...
3rd Mar 2023
What up XO fam. I've had plenty of caffeine this morning so I'm going to be firing from the hip on this one. Example:
Guys (and gals). Listen. buying MRR is lovely. Here's proof (and 13 people agreed). If you haven't tried
Explained from First...
Email explained from first principles
7th May 2021
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
16th Jun 2025
Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater. She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
Passing Time
Your Social Universe
Imagine yourself as a star.
6th Mar 2024
Imagine yourself as a star.
Justin Jackson
Why most product ideas aren't that good
11th Feb 2017
Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost)
It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
1st Aug 2023
It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
Max Rozen
Guidelines for Deploying React
These days there are a heck of a lot of options for deploying React. It can be a bit overwhelming....
1st Dec 2020
These days there are a heck of a lot of options for deploying React. It can be a bit overwhelming. This article simplifies your choices.
Prolost
Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020
You May Have Seen This Image Before.
In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example...
31st Jul 2020
You May Have Seen This Image Before.
In The DV Rebel’s Guide, I used this still frame as an example of guerrilla filmmaking taken too far. Which may also be an apt description of the entire film from which it was taken.
In the summer of 1992, while I was home in Minnesota between...
mtlynch.io
goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers
I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard...
2nd Jul 2025
I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about thousands of their customers, including their full names, mailing addresses, email...
This Space
A mighty contagious absence, part two
On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature
To great writers, finished works weigh...
26th May 2025
On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature
To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives. For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in conclusions, feeling themselves...
bt RSS Feed
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than...
2nd Jan 2024
My Text Edtior is Not Open Source
2024-01-02
I’ve been using Sublime Text on and off for longer than I can remember. I think Sublime has been around since the start of my “real” career over 10 years ago, but I could be mistaken1. It certainly feels that long. And in that time I...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.
The post Perseid Meteor...
5th Aug 2023
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.
The post Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Sedimental
Managing Python Ecosystems
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise...
24th May 2016
You know that old quote:
The wider the net you cast, the wider the variety you catch.
Was it a wise old fisherman? Or a dogged Python programmer? Either
way, words don't come much truer than those.
Few, if any, programming languages have embodied the description
"general-purpose"...
Blog of Simple...
The EU-US data deal may be dead in the water
11th Mar 2025
Home on Erik...
What is your motivation?
I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure,...
24th May 2016
I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure, but still every night I can't get myself to spend time with it. It's unclear if I really want to learn Clojure or just want to have learned Clojure?
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, July–August 2023
A quasi-monthly feature (I skipped it last month, so this is a double portion).
This is a longish...
7th Aug 2023
A quasi-monthly feature (I skipped it last month, so this is a double portion).
This is a longish post covering many topics; feel free to skim and skip around. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests.
These updates are less...
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty.
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
13th Mar 2024
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Trying to Understand...
The Machine Stops.
And fiddling won't fix it.
4th Sep 2024
And fiddling won't fix it.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Be Aware of the Quiet Ones like Keanu Reeves — They Are the Ones That Actually Make You Think
The smarter you become, the less you speak.
5th Nov 2024
The smarter you become, the less you speak.
Arguing with...
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
Mazdak
Twitter vs. Instagram Threads: The Battle for the Short-Form Social Media Crown
Twitter and Instagram are two of the most popular social media platforms in the world. They both...
8th Jul 2023
Twitter and Instagram are two of the most popular social media platforms in the world. They both offer users a way to share short-form content, but they have different approaches to how that content is displayed and consumed. Twitter is a more public platform, where anyone can...
The Solarchitecture...
Create homes that are havens for health and vitality
Life is too short to spend it in bad buildings.
18th Feb 2023
Life is too short to spend it in bad buildings.
Marco Bambini
The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
The Roots of...
Do we get better or worse at adapting to change?
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...
6th Apr 2023
Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.”
The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...
The Last...
The Maintenance Of Certification Exam As Fetish
no need to wait for the receipt
(I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I...
29th Apr 2014
no need to wait for the receipt
(I had reworked an old post for a psychiatry trade journal, which I would happily have linked you to, except that page 2 is behind a login wall. So here is the version I submitted before the editors edited it, slightly longer with more typos. I am...
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
6th Jan 2012
Overcoming Bias
Futarchy For Fundraising
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of...
2nd Apr 2025
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - February 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Feb 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in January - Hello from Tokyo! I'm here doing a creative residence at Almost Perfect. If you're in...
sbensu
Language thought-orientation
You can tell a lot from somebody based on their speech patterns
27th Jan 2025
You can tell a lot from somebody based on their speech patterns
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
3rd Aug 2013
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations.
Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Tiny struggles
Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up...
16th Aug 2024
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem.
Introduction
I joined Google...
Not Boring by Packy...
America's Next 250
An Essay with Scott Nolan, General Matter CEO and Founders Fund Partner
2nd Jul 2026
An Essay with Scott Nolan, General Matter CEO and Founders Fund Partner
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in...
1st May 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media: What I did in April - Visited NYC briefly. Discovered a new cafe I like called WatchHouse - they even happened to be...
Butler's Log
GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
Asterisk
We Can, Must, and Will Simulate Nematode Brains
Scientists have spent over 25 years trying — and failing — to build computer simulations of the...
5th Mar 2025
Scientists have spent over 25 years trying — and failing — to build computer simulations of the smallest brain we know. Today, we finally have the tools to pull it off.
This Space
Reading, detachment
In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of...
28th Aug 2025
In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession, and a third in which I had never read a key section. The first was...
elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
3rd Jul 2024
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news.
Disability Pride Month
It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
Flashbak
Edmund Dulac’s American Weekly Covers – 1924-1951
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration,...
1st Jul 2024
Edmund Dulac is remembered today as one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from 1875-1925, writes Albert Seligman. His luxurious Gift Books of the early 20th century were covered in vellum and issued in signed limited editions with tipped-in color...
Justin Jackson
Business lesson: less research, launch small
17th Oct 2010
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.
tim.sh
Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively...
27th Feb 2025
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me.
People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop.
As...
The Gradient
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Better Laptop
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous...
9th Feb 2025
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous e-waste. Framework challenges that norm by making laptops you can service, upgrade, and customise, which extends their lifespan and cuts down on unnecessary e-waste. My Framework 13...
Home on Erik...
The hardest challenge about becoming a manager
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff!
I...
5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff!
I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
4th May 2024
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
ntietz.com blog -...
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or...
6th Nov 2023
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users
1
."
It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry:
That accessibility...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The most popular Heap alternatives and competitors, compared
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines...
1st Nov 2023
The most popular Heap alternatives in 2023 are: PostHog: All-in-one platform that combines comprehensive analytics with session replay, A/B testing…
Basta’s Notes
Apologies and forgiveness
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
5th Sep 2025
The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way
This Space
No safe landing
A review of A Winter in Zürau and Partita by Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel Josipovici has said that...
5th Oct 2024
A review of A Winter in Zürau and Partita by Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel Josipovici has said that as a critic he is conservative but as a novelist he is radical. The second claim may not be controversial but the first will come as a surprise to those who remember what he said...
Common Edge
Want Some Bad Food and Poor Design to Go With Your Tesla Charge?
Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
1st Apr 2026
Elon Musk’s attempt at an urban restaurant strives to be cool but fails utterly.
Herbert Lui
Choose to trust yourself
Some businesses—not all, and not even most!—don’t trust you. They design their products and...
1st Jun 2026
Some businesses—not all, and not even most!—don’t trust you. They design their products and marketing to lock you in and make you feel reliant on them. The incentive for them is to have lots of steady customers; if you can come and go at any point, then that business isn’t as...
Tony Finch's blog
constantly divisionless random numbers
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s
algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s
algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random
numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots
of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow
paths. However a simple...
David Gerrells
too many birthdays
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Willem L. Middelkoop
Realtime service uptime monitoring
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
1st Feb 2021
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! You can use realtime uptime monitoring to automatically keep an eye on your servers and services. Read along to find out how.
Uptime, downtime...
weird medieval guys
My favourite etymologies: OK
It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
13th Jan 2026
It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
Londonist
How London Underground Became The Coolest Brand In The World
From the first roundel to moquette trainers.
1st Dec 2023
From the first roundel to moquette trainers.
Scott DeLong
Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea
The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into...
31st Jul 2023
The second to the last update is focused and short. I have just one goal: convert subscribers into paying customers.
The post Weeks 40-43: A $5k Month and Billion Dollar Idea appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background
Contextualizing Beehive
1st Aug 2024
A Day In The Life...
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
TheCollector
How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is...
1st Mar 2026
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is a recurring motif in many of our films, TV shows, stories, and other media. Every year, thousands of chess players compete for prestige at the international level to secure their...
Daniel Bourke
The subtle shade of the clouds
Garlic takes six to seven months to grow.
I’m still working it out.
I planted my garlic too...
27th Nov 2023
Garlic takes six to seven months to grow.
I’m still working it out.
I planted my garlic too late.
Not the farm garlic though.
They’ve had practice.
Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more.
Tens of thousands of cloves.
Garlic is the biggest harvest of
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...
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
5th May 2023
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements.
Mail
The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...
1st Jun 2021
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
Evan Jones -...
The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
6th Jun 2023
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
Jibran’s Perspective
I have not failed enough
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast...
30th Dec 2023
I was recently listening through the How to succeed at failing series on the Freakonomics podcast and started to think about how often I had failed in the past few years. The first answer was - not too much. I couldn’t think of too many instances of where I had “failed”.
This was...
Ink & Switch
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
5th Jun 2025
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
The personal website...
The Role of Doubt in Design
At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
17th Jul 2019
At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
A Smart Bear
How to hire people who are better than you
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
Cybercultural:...
Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010
Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.
It was another late...
2nd Oct 2024
Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.
It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute walk from the Metropolitan Pavilion, our...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2025
Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
28th Feb 2025
Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
Jakob Nielsen on UX
UX Roundup: User Research Game | AI Photo Recommendations | AI Helps TA | Teaching Metacognition |...
User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90...
4th May 2026
User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90 phones | AI helps teaching assistants provide better feedback to students | AI as a metacognitive coach | Recommending an entertaining short AI film | SpaceX’s plan for 100 TW...
Anecdotal Evidence
At the Bookstore
I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and
indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age,...
1st Sep 2025
I work hard to resist sentimental impulses and
indulgence in nostalgia. Ours is a sentimental age, and at the same time an
angry, unforgiving age. One strain of sentimentality especially prevalent among
the aging is a rueful, self-pitying lament for what no longer exists....
Wuthering...
What I Read in September 2025 – A hand that taught what might be said in rhyme
My writing on Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great
plays has been hampered by an apparent...
7th Oct 2025
My writing on Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great
plays has been hampered by an apparent post-France short circuit in my ability
to write. So I will put up some easier
posts to remind myself how to write.
I had two major projects this month, one ongoing, one returned
to...
Works in Progress...
A look at Britain’s new DARPA
ARIA is the UK’s visionary new scientific funding body. It has £800m and the freedom to make big...
10th Feb 2023
ARIA is the UK’s visionary new scientific funding body. It has £800m and the freedom to make big bold bets on the scientific trajectories it thinks will benefit Britain – and change the future. We interviewed chief executive Ilan Gur and chairman Matt Clifford, to better...
One Useful Thing
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
PHD Comics
12/14/21 PHD comic: 'To Touch The Sun'
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
...
14th Dec 2021
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"To Touch The Sun" - originally published
12/14/2021
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Tony Dinh's...
Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job
Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other...
7th Sep 2022
Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other updates in Aug 2022...
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
15th Feb 2023
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things.
2022 Non-Geek Achievements
We got our third child!
This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Simone Salis
For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
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