Hundred Rabbits
Working offgrid efficiently
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the...
13th Oct 2020
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years.
For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
19th Jan 2025
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
Escaping Flatland
Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three...
2nd Apr 2024
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
TokyoDev
Tokyo Ruby Kaigi 05
[Tokyo Ruby Kaigi...
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget
Why do we film concerts?
23rd Oct 2023
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part V: The Courts
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the...
6th Oct 2023
This is the fifth part of our five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries BC, the ‘Middle Republic.’ Last time we looked at the odd but very important role played by the ROman Senate as the central...
👋 Hello, I'm...
How to get (micro) acquired?
15th May 2023
Notes on software...
Thinking about functional programming
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming.
The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming.
The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an
interesting
discussion
with Shriram
Krishnamurthi and other folks.
So here's a slightly more thought out exploration.
And just for backstory sake: I...
Works in Progress...
Reclaiming the roads
Until recently, roads were shared between a messy mix of cyclists, stagecoaches, carts, horses, and...
21st Jul 2022
Until recently, roads were shared between a messy mix of cyclists, stagecoaches, carts, horses, and pedestrians, with no dominant user.
The New Oil
The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
8th Dec 2024
Cybercultural:...
2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox
Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit.
In May...
1st Oct 2025
Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit.
In May 2000, Napster’s poster boy, Shawn Fanning, was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek magazine in a suit and bowtie, alongside four other “most influential people in electronic...
The Quanta Podcast
New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms...
1st Mar 2018
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
The post New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning first appeared on Quanta Magazine
SOS
React.js: The Documentary
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS...
12th Dec 2022
In mid-2022 I had a great time taking part in a documentary about the JavaScript framework ReactJS by the good people at Honeypot, along with many wonderful engineers who also played a part in its success. The film focuses on the early years in the life of ReactJS, including...
News Archives |...
GOFS is ready for its close-up
Meet the open data standard for on-demand transit, taxi and ridehail trip planning
The post GOFS is...
30th Sep 2025
Meet the open data standard for on-demand transit, taxi and ridehail trip planning
The post GOFS is ready for its close-up appeared first on Transit.
Eric Bailey
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
17th Jun 2021
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming
So, my friend said this —
If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
29th Aug 2017
So, my friend said this —
If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts,
Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Vitalik Buterin's...
收入-邪恶曲线：思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
28th Oct 2022
Justin Jackson
Why can't we stream TV in Canada?
1st Dec 2008
Ken Shirriff's blog
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in...
29th Mar 2026
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the
Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky.
Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight.
But the launch, like much...
escape the algorithm
Not your usual subscription confirmation
Or why you shouldn't ignore the back catalog
18th Jul 2023
Or why you shouldn't ignore the back catalog
Token for Token
Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
15th Jun 2026
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
Quanta Magazine
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. ...
24th Mar 2023
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics.
The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jun 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Combinatory Logic, wrote a guide to combinatory logic, using talking...
Inverted Passion
Why you will skim this article
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
23rd Jul 2023
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
Dreams of Space -...
Journey to the Sun (1961)
The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and...
2nd May 2025
The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and Girls’ March of
Comics and the only other one I've found that is about space flight. It was handed to customers of stores that sold Little Yankee Shoes.
Journey to the Sun is a...
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
25th Oct 2015
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
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
SOCKS
From Videogame Landscapes to Embrodery Canvas: La Sentinelle by Marine Beaufils (2022-24)
Marine Beaufils is a French embroidery artist whose meticulous work draws on the analogy between...
17th Nov 2024
Marine Beaufils is a French embroidery artist whose meticulous work draws on the analogy between pixels and needlepoints, as she translates scenes from her favorite video games, movies, or scientific imagery from screen to embroidery canvas. This process freezes a fragment of a...
Paul Cudenec
Dreaming of danger
[Plus audio version]
3rd Aug 2026
Yazin Alirhayim
Hour 9: Categorizing the content
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
Quentin Santos
Arduino’s Automatic Reset
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
1st May 2025
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
The Codist
Why Is Xcode So Antagonistic To Reduced Vision?
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light...
17th Sep 2025
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light gray backgrounds. I usually code in 16 or even 18 point fonts, currently Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Every new release of Xcode makes seeing various UI elements harder, as if the...
Buttondown's blog
Send your RSS digest on any day of the month
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a...
1st Aug 2026
Monthly RSS-to-email sends can now land on any day of the month, not just the first, last, or a given weekday.
beep.blog
Writing AWS Lambda functions behind SQS with LambdaQ
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
11th Apr 2024
I got bored of writing the boilerplate. My team got bored of reviewing it. No more!
Don't Worry About...
On GPT-4.5
It’s happening.
3rd Mar 2025
Eric Migicovsky's...
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
1st Dec 2022
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Ian's Blog
Having a Website Used to Be Fun
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
27th Oct 2024
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
15th Aug 2024
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
Light from Space
The Soul of the Heart Nebula
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere...
5th Nov 2022
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere amateury astronomy.
In the gallery below, I've highlighted 3 very different areas of the image:
Left: Planetary Nebula WeBo-1
Middle: Melotte 15 in the... heart of the Heart...
Eric Migicovsky's...
7 best free open source business intelligence tools right now
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to...
9th Sep 2025
Not everyone has money to dish out for an enterprise Tableau contract, and not everyone wants to send their data to Looker (Google) either. Free and…
Solving the decision...
drop that meet link
just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and...
24th Jul 2024
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
6th Nov 2021
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
ntietz.com blog -...
Starting a New Chapter
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last...
21st Aug 2016
At the end of this week, I am starting a new chapter of my life: entrepreneurship. This is my last week at CrossChx, and then I begin splitting my time between contract work and developing some of my own ideas.
I only spent about three quarters of a year at CrossChx, but in that...
Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
17th Dec 2017
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
14th Oct 2024
The Convivial...
The Cat in the Tree: Why AI Content Leaves Us Cold
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
3rd Jan 2025
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
Marcus on AI
OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
1st Feb 2026
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
Both Are True
This really is it
no time to review this cuz the kids are screaming again lol I hope it doesn't suck
2nd Aug 2024
no time to review this cuz the kids are screaming again lol I hope it doesn't suck
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
13th May 2024
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day.
I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
the singularity is...
Where the Bitter Lesson ends
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the...
27th Mar 2024
Humanity only has one engineering project, building better engineers than humans. After that, the thing we built can do the engineering.
Clips have been making the rounds on Twitter from my second Lex about the “bishop guy” in a chess engine, or a “cone guy” in a self driving...
WHAT'S ANU
TREND RADAR #9
Organic Literature & Potent Pleasures
6th Nov 2025
Organic Literature & Potent Pleasures
Naz Hamid • Journal
Latent Co. is Forming
An homage to the Mac
Ryan Carver, Juan Pablo Zambrano, and I have formed Latent Co., a software...
2nd Dec 2025
An homage to the Mac
Ryan Carver, Juan Pablo Zambrano, and I have formed Latent Co., a software company. Driven by the creative tooling we’ve cut our teeth on and drawing on our product and imaging experience, we’re making a product for Mac.
Ryan and I go back a while: Typekit,...
Rest of World -...
Las compañías de autos eléctricos quieren el litio de Argentina. Poco queda para sus ciudadanos.
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de...
1st Apr 2024
A los habitantes de la Isla Paulino se les prometió baterías de litio para reducir el uso de generadores. El proyecto se frenó. Mientras tanto, las exportaciones de litio crecen.
benn.substack
To weigh a watermelon
There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
Greater Still by...
Talking to the Protocol
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
5th Dec 2022
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
Jordan Eldredge's...
Podcasts I like
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
14th Jul 2016
A summary of the podcasts to which I subscribe.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
2nd Nov 2024
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Permanent Style
Our favourite restaurants in London
By Lucas Nicholson. When tailors and other artisans visit us in London, they nearly always ask about...
1st Dec 2025
By Lucas Nicholson. When tailors and other artisans visit us in London, they nearly always ask about the best places to eat. Their hotel is already booked after all, and they know what they’re doing all day. But local restaurant recommendati... > Read more
Rachel Thomas, PhD
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
6th Jan 2025
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Jason Fried
Subjectivity in productivity
Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they...
23rd Jan 2025
Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they want a statistic attached to corroborate it.
But numbers are rarely answers — just as projects are rarely math problems.
Where are we in this process exactly?
How far along in this...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
15th Jan 2023
Map of the Week
The Brattleboro Words Project
Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of...
5th Mar 2025
Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of the Brattleboro Words Project. The project “connects community members to the Brattleboro area’s unique history, the art of audio storytelling - and each other” through audio pieces, maps...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
1st Jun 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Marian's Blog
No Man’s Starfield
This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the...
18th Sep 2016
This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the galactic map that you can see in No Man’s Sky. Here is a link to the project on shadertoy:
No Man’s Starfield
The cool thing about this is that it runs inside a shader. A shader is a...
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
7th Oct 2023
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
charity.wtf
WTF is operations? #serverless
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for...
31st May 2016
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for well-curated single-track conferences, and the organizers did an incredible job. Major kudos to @iamstan and team for pulling together such a high-caliber mix of attendees as well as...
elementary Blog
The System Settings Redesign Has Landed
This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new...
5th Apr 2024
This month the biggest story is System Settings, but we also have some great progress on the new Dock and Wayland. Plus a small change to default keyboard shortcuts that you might appreciate. Read ahead to find out the new developments you have to look forward to in the upcoming...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I'm not a VC (yet)
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
8th Aug 2021
There is too much money chasing too few operators.
Krebs on Security
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
Florian Bellmann |...
Every product needs an architecture vision
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture...
5th Feb 2024
Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.
Posts on Made of...
Three kinds of memory leaks
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
29th Apr 2018
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak.
But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
Mazdak
Markets are calmer. The bigger questions aren't.
A quick run through the stories that actually matter today — rates, trade, cancer research, robots,...
4 weeks ago
A quick run through the stories that actually matter today — rates, trade, cancer research, robots, and a few things that could affect how business gets done.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop multi-track: Cry
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
7th May 2008
I recorded a multi-track of the barbershop tag 'Cry'
Luxagraf:...
Cities of the Red Night
We swing south to Albuquerque, catching I-40 west for a few miles. The earth turns redder, with a...
6th May 2026
We swing south to Albuquerque, catching I-40 west for a few miles. The earth turns redder, with a thin frosting of green -- junipers, snakeweed, and shrubs on the mesa tops. The sky is impossibly blue, littered with tufts of white cloud.
Just before the city the oil pressure...
Alice GG
Create a presskit in 10 minutes with Milou
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s...
3rd Jun 2024
Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software.
To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit.
The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product,
as well as...
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
On Life and Lisp
Clip control on the Apple GPU
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!).
Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
David Rozado...
DEI Statement Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have More Than Halved Between 2024 and 2025
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across...
21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
Jordan Eldredge's...
Play the card game "War" in my avatar
I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
12th Nov 2008
I programed a dynamic avatar that plays the card game war.
Beijing Scroll
Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance...
3rd Jul 2026
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance performance."
Citation Needed
Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation
Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and...
6th Feb 2025
Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks
A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
15th Sep 2018
A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
The Web Witch's Blog
Personal Sprint Retrospectives
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays.
If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s...
31st May 2024
Last month’s ware was a “Z16 AI Voice Translator”. The name doesn’t really tell you much, so here’s some photos that give a better idea of what the device is about. Above are the main parts of the device. The construction is simple and straightforward: big battery, screen with...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Cash is king, or is it?
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a...
14th Jul 2016
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards. Then, some even top it off with stinky paper money and sticky metal coins! It made me wonder if I can free up one pocket by ditching the...
CONTEMPORIST
Black Accents Contrast The Wood And White Material Palette Of This Home
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors...
4th Dec 2023
Design and interior architecture firm EntreQuatreMurs (EQM) has completed the contemporary interiors of a home in Quebec, Canada, that was originally built in 1959. The house had not been renovated for several decades and featured typical enclosed rooms and small, narrow, dark...
Justin Jackson
How do you know when to stop designing?
1st Mar 2012
RhysTranter.com
The Letters of Thomas Merton
I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books....
12th Jun 2020
I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books. Now, I am dipping into the multi-volume edition of his letters...
General Robots
Vibe-Cadding
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
6th Jul 2026
It turns out that current models are pretty good at writing code to generate cad (3D objects).
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5th Aug 2024
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
The Intimate Mirror
The Practice of Unconditional Relationship
The Path to Secure Attachment with Reality
22nd Nov 2025
The Path to Secure Attachment with Reality
Willem's Blog
Computer says no
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
The Quanta Podcast
The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
In a virtuoso experiment, physicists have revealed details of a “quantum critical point” that...
3rd Mar 2016
In a virtuoso experiment, physicists have revealed details of a “quantum critical point” that underlies high-temperature superconductivity.
The post The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Eric Bailey
Equifax Data Breach, Credit Freezes, and Beholden Design
Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start?...
11th Sep 2017
Ever been frustrated because a movie theater plays advertisements before the trailers even start? This is a kind of experience I call “Beholden Design.”
Full of Dark Patterns and pain, Beholden Design is the evil, goatee-wearing twin of Universal Design. It forces people to...
The Quanta Podcast
A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But...
18th May 2017
For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But many now argue for a different cosmic quarry.
The post A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
6th Sep 2016
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament.
Game of Thrones
We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
somenice
Whistler High Note Trail
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
1st Sep 2022
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
Naz Hamid • Journal
Different Think
I don't write about Apple. I had to this time.
It started with a magazine ad. A musician I admired...
5th Aug 2025
I don't write about Apple. I had to this time.
It started with a magazine ad. A musician I admired was pictured: Henry Rollins, looking as he does, in black, shorts, tattoos visible and holding a computer. An Apple Powerbook.
He appears with Terry Ellis from Imago Records,...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Clip control on the Apple GPU
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU
with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU
with an open source OpenGL driver
After a year in development, the open source
“Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more
to do, but Neverball is already
playable (and a lot of fun!).
Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
Can We Still Govern?
Trump Shoots the Messenger
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
home automation -...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
25th Oct 2019
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
Steven Scrawls
Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning Not to Know
Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning
Not to Know
When my parents sat me down in the living room the night...
30th Nov 2025
Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning
Not to Know
When my parents sat me down in the living room the night before I was
supposed to leave for college, I thought they were going to tell me they
were getting a divorce. At the time, it was the most terrifying upheaval
I could imagine.
Instead,...
Lighthouse Blog
A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape
7th Oct 2025
Tony Finch's blog
My spaghetti carbonara recipe
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably
been eating it far too...
15th Dec 2023
In recent weeks I have been obsessed with carbonara: I have probably
been eating it far too frequently. Here’s my recipe. It works well for
1 - 3 people but gets unweildy at larger quantities.
ingredients
Rough quantities per person:
100g pasta
Spaghetti is traditional but I’ll...
Computer Ads from...
bitCards
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
2 weeks ago
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
13th Dec 2022
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Long Now
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
### Bot-dominated Reality
[Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk...
9th Aug 2008
### Bot-dominated Reality
[Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk on the themes developed in his (originally self published) book __Daemon__. The book is now scheduled to be released in hard cover in January 02009 by Dutton.]
Forget about...
Joshua Smith
Globe Slicers
Scratchbuilt miniature of the Globe Slicers Building, The Bowery District, NYC. Scratchbuilt...
7th Apr 2019
Scratchbuilt miniature of the Globe Slicers Building, The Bowery District, NYC. Scratchbuilt miniature using MDF, Wood, Cardboard, Paper, Spraypaint, Acrylic Paint, Styrene, Wire, Chain, Weathering pigments. Private Collection Featuring the work of Sory, Staino, Seedr, Sefu,...
Posts on Nikita...
Media Server Journey
I manage my legally obtained content using a media server. Over the years, both hardware and...
28th Dec 2025
I manage my legally obtained content using a media server. Over the years, both hardware and software on the server went through a bunch of transformations which I find interesting.
In order to not look at ads on my Samsung TV, I view all of my content through NVIDIA Shield. It...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Our Rulers Are Psychopaths And They're Making Everything Awful
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Feb 2026
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...
Ink & Switch
00 · Beehive Background
Contextualizing Beehive
1st Aug 2024
Ben Borgers
Thursday, January 13, 2022
13th Jan 2022
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
1st Dec 2024
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Electronics etc…
Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
12th May 2024
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information
Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly
Switch of the Breaker!!!
Glass Canopy Removal
Duct Cover Removal
Swapping the Control...
SOS
Super Bubbly: React Native kids game
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad!
In the...
21st Sep 2025
TLDR: I built a simple & fun game using React Native, try it out on iPhone and iPad!
In the Beginning….
My kids are 7 & 9 as I write this in 2025, but 6 years ago in 2019 they loved a simple little bubble popping app on my phone, and I thought it’d be fun to make the best...
Justin Jackson
Stop by for coffee
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here....
14th Aug 2017
I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here. If you make the trip, I'll try to meet with you.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Let a thousand societies bloom
17th Dec 2025
Nadia Asparouhova
Idea machines
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished?
One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
5th Mar 2024
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
James Cheshire
The era of the megalopolis: how the world’s cities are merging
James Cheshire, UCL and Michael Batty, UCL On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag,...
24th Nov 2022
James Cheshire, UCL and Michael Batty, UCL On November 15 2022, a baby girl named Vinice Mabansag, born at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines, became – symbolically – the eight billionth person in the world. Of those 8 billion people, 60% live in a town or...
Asterisk
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides
For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
3rd Jun 2026
For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
AI Doesn't Have ROI
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a...
2nd Jun 2026
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and
CONTEMPORIST
Stairs With Built-In Planters Lead To The Back Garden At This Home
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in...
1st May 2023
Lior Brosh of Brosh Architects has shared photos of a recently completed renovation project in Greater London, England, that included new outdoor stairs with built-in planters. The client contacted the architects to renovate the lower ground floor of the house due to severe damp...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
14th Dec 2017
Global Inequality...
Should poor countries remain poor?
Stock vs flow approach.
30th Mar 2024
Kagi Blog
An update on Kagi Translate
Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it...
5th Jun 2026
Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you're signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate.
Boot.dev Blog
Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
31st Mar 2022
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release
v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
Cybercultural:...
1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge
The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another...
15th Sep 2021
The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another few years, but all the pieces were in place by the end of 1995 — albeit at varying stages of maturity and adoption. Version 1.0 of Linux had been released in 1994 and commercial...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Mary Had a Little Lamb - Parallel Fifths
My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a...
13th Dec 2009
My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a fifth above.
Jonas Hietala
Christmas break
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
18th Dec 2010
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
14th Aug 2020
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Boox Go 10.3, two months in
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you
have to provide a copy of the...
5th Mar 2025
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you
have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once
someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so
🙂
– Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com
Boox in split screen, typewriter
mode
In...
Product Identity
#5 Kubera: What's my net worth?
Respect master spreadsheet
8th Feb 2024
Respect master spreadsheet
sancho.dev
React.cache in server-reason-react
How React.cache works in Server components
13th Feb 2026
How React.cache works in Server components
Steve Blank
Nowhere Is Safe
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The...
9th Apr 2026
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batteries) designed to counter tens or hundreds of aircraft and missiles is insufficient...
Fabien Sanglard
Prince Of Persia Code Review
On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at...
14th Jun 2013
On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at look at it!
David Crawshaw
2015-08-04
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
4th Aug 2015
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
David Gerrells
chatgpt ate my homework
What do we do now that chatgpt keeps eating our work? Do we just...give up?
8th Jun 2025
What do we do now that chatgpt keeps eating our work? Do we just...give up?
Confessions of a...
Connecting CPython's GC Internals to Real-World Performance
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
2nd Oct 2024
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
Founder's blog
Jitbit Helpdesk Bot is now in the Microsoft Teams Store
Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store:...
8th May 2026
Our new Microsoft Teams app just passed Microsoft's certification and is live in the Teams Store: Jitbit Helpdesk Bot. Search "Jitbit" in the Teams app store and it's right there - no custom app uploads, no admin-center gymnastics.
Unlike our old webhook integration (one-way...
Both Are True
hello depression my old friend
i guess we're talking once again
10th Dec 2025
i guess we're talking once again
bt RSS Feed
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
charity.wtf
Martin Fowler told me the second edition should be shorter (it's twice as long)
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of...
18th Feb 2026
90% new material, a clearer mission, and a rogues gallery of contributors. The second edition of Observability Engineering is almost done.
Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
19th Mar 2024
2024/03/19
A Commentary on Defining Observability
Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Road Trip Along Mississippi's Blues Trail
7th Jan 2025
SatPost by Trung...
How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
1st Aug 2024
PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Last call for software engineers + announcing…KNOWLEDGEFEST! | Out-Of-Pocket
we got some good events cookin' up
1st Jul 2026
we got some good events cookin' up
Christian Selig
The Fitbit Air is interesting
The Apple Watch is one of the most fascinating pieces of modern technology for me. A gorgeous...
2nd Jun 2026
The Apple Watch is one of the most fascinating pieces of modern technology for me. A gorgeous screen, an abundance of sensors, and a bonkers amount of computational power in a tiny little package that fits on your wrist. It reminds me of the Vision Pro in that a good amount of...
Shilin typing
the myth of the grateful child
As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her...
5th Dec 2025
As I fought with my mother for the hundredth time over a reason that was silly yet too hard for her to understand, I concluded that this post was long overdue. While I had ninety-nine other chances to complain about my difficult relationship with parents, I kept postponing it,...
Charlie Becker
Chelsea is not a metaphor.
CITS #92 | May 22, 2025
22nd May 2025
brr
The Beer Can
Connecting old and new.
18th Mar 2023
macwright.com
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Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
1st Oct 2024
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you.
Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
Passing Time
Bits from Boulder
Three true stories from the People's Republic
5th Aug 2024
Three true stories from the People's Republic
sancho.dev
OCaml documentation as markdown
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
3rd Mar 2026
Turn your OCaml API documentation into publishable Markdown
Daily Stoic
Stoicism and The Law of Attraction: The Ancient Truth About Manifestation and Magical Thinking
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...
4th Nov 2021
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote. “Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Does that mean Marcus Aurelius and the ancient Stoics believed in the Law of Attraction, as popularized by Rhonda Byrne? It’s...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Chris Long
I am Chris Long, an artist, printmaker, composer and game designer. My academic journey includes a...
5th Mar 2026
I am Chris Long, an artist, printmaker, composer and game designer. My academic journey includes a first-class degree in fine art and music from the University of Liverpool, a Master’s degree in music composition from Newcastle University, and the completion of a PhD at the Royal...
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!
Blog of Simple...
Web analytics for publishers
7th Aug 2024
Awkward Zombie
Awkward Zombie - Pour Over
New comic!
Today's News:
I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by...
6th Jul 2026
New comic!
Today's News:
I do love an investigation-type game where secrets are revealed by rotating a 3D model of a clue, but there are some objects that I should not be permitted to rotate.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Taste
We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in...
31st Jul 2024
We need good taste to make good things, but we must first qualify and understand what good means in the sense of design.
Taste is the ability to identify quality. To understand quality we need to look critically at: materials that are fit for purpose, ergonomics that considers...
joshua stein
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 Released
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory
1.3 has been released:
wifi_da-1.3.sit
(StuffIt 3...
13th Jan 2025
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory
1.3 has been released:
wifi_da-1.3.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive)
40b49ef83b6512bde571171aa42e90419a8577efa895cfaeb19bf18a0c82d4de
SHA1: b8fa941eb104c0f925436cc8fbc3018a3ded5b96
This update brings internationalization support for Macs running...
The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
NeuroLogica Blog
Detecting Online Predatory Journals
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right...
2nd Sep 2025
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some rather negative unforeseen consequences. Significantly lowering the threshold for establishing a communications outlet has democratized...
Conservation...
It’s about TIME: Conservationist recognized as climate leader
16th Nov 2023
Electronics etc…
Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The...
27th Dec 2024
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow
An Image Downscaler as Example Design
The Reference Model
The Micro-Architecture Model
Comparing the results
Conversion to Hardware
Combining symbolic models with random input generation
Specification changes
Things to...
Coffee with an...
Notes on being an Architect
15th May 2023
Melissa Penfold
WHERE TO FIND EXCEPTIONAL FLOWERS IN FIVE DIFFERENT CITIES
Not only do fresh flowers bring joy and delight into a home, they’re also a symbol of important...
3rd Oct 2025
Not only do fresh flowers bring joy and delight into a home, they’re also a symbol of important moments in life: they are the decoration of choice at weddings and funerals, and also the ultimate gift of love on Valentine’s Day. Their delicate nature, however, can make it tricky...
The Solarchitecture...
The Solar Manifesto - Part 1.
for even after the deepest night, the sun always rises.
26th Dec 2021
for even after the deepest night, the sun always rises.
Ryan Barrett
Sleep is so weird
Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full...
5th Feb 2024
Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full third of every day. This is evidently necessary for some kind of regular brain maintenance, maybe forming long term memories, who knows what else. If we don’t sleep, we quickly become...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Acer
A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
7th Jul 2025
A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
DYNOMIGHT
Fancy math doesn’t make simple math stop being true
What are you supposed to do when someone disagrees with you using a bunch of math you can’t...
11th Jan 2024
What are you supposed to do when someone disagrees with you using a bunch of math you can’t understand?
I’ve been thinking about that recently because of the NordICC colonoscopy trial. It took 85k Europeans aged 55-64, invited a third of them for a free one-time screening...
Justin Jackson
Publish your ebook as PDF, MOBI, and ePub all at the same time
3rd Aug 2016
Uncharted...
Canada vs the 51st State
How can Canada fight against an aggressive US?
7th May 2025
How can Canada fight against an aggressive US?
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
23rd Jul 2013
The Pragmatic...
How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA)
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What...
19th Sep 2023
The Redmond Big Tech giant pioneered the SDET role in the 90s. It then retired it in 2014. What happened and why?
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Asterisk
The Ruin of Mumbai
Mumbai’s land use regulations are designed to keep population density low. Instead, they force...
1st Mar 2024
Mumbai’s land use regulations are designed to keep population density low. Instead, they force Mumbaikars into slums, while all of India pays the price.
Mind Prison
2026 Important Updated Perspectives on AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
1st Feb 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
23rd Mar 2025
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in...
3rd Mar 2021
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated
domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are
clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Drew Ex Machina
The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at...
18th Jul 2025
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft […]
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pointed my tv remote at my microwave and then i met the Beatles, wild.
What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to...
7th Mar 2021
What’s going well: talking to users. I used to think that talking to users meant, like, talking to them on the phone. And, well, it does! That’s one way to talk to users. But, when I started Zip I wanted “talking to users” to be literally built into
Blog | Sam Curry
Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking the Largest Airline and Hotel Rewards Platform
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3rd Aug 2023
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I switched from GMail and nobody died
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as...
8th May 2025
Whether we like it or not, email is widely used to identify a person. Code sent to email is used as authentication and sometimes as authorisation for certain actions. I’m not comfortable with Google having such power over me, especially given the fact that they practically don’t...
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
21st Aug 2025
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
lcamtuf’s thing
It's all a blur
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring...
6th Feb 2026
If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents.
Applied Cartography
Mob Psycho 100 (Season 1)
It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I...
1st Oct 2022
It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I did I really did. It's very much a shonen, but a shonen in a way that feels more committed to deconstructing stereotypes than Ousama Ranking and with characters that are at least...
Res Obscura
The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
5th Aug 2026
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
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