The Turn Signal RSS...
The Rise of Touch Screens in Cars Explained
Are touch screens in cars really that bad?
1st Mar 2021
Are touch screens in cars really that bad?
Coffee with an...
GENERAL NOTES:
*feel free to add these to your construction documents
11th Apr 2023
*feel free to add these to your construction documents
Escaping Flatland
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound...
4th Sep 2025
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
18th Apr 2023
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
Blog posts of...
#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management
Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be...
17th Mar 2019
Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Don't Worry About...
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
7th Sep 2023
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative.
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What is Kagi Small Web?
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To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
cdixon
Who will control the software that powers the Internet?
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over...
4th Jan 2019
Originally published by Wired. As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities ...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The Power of One
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point,...
22nd Jul 2025
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point, but a deliberate choice about the best way to do great work and build a sustainable business. In this post, let me explain why.
Focus Over Growth
In a world that often celebrates...
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Algebraic Geometry and Why Should You Care?
So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the
undergraduate math club...
1st May 2023
So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the
undergraduate math club titled
“What is Algebraic Geometry, and Why Should You Care?”. I think it went quite
well, and the audience seemed like they had a good time. I really wanted to
have the talk...
Melissa Penfold
YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO SHOPPING ANTIQUES
Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an...
8th Aug 2023
Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an explosion of interest as online auction shopping gives all the convenience of mass-produced decor without the environmental impact. The benefits of decorating with antiques are almost...
Raw Thought (from...
Look at yourself objectively
29th Oct 2022
Louwrentius - Solar
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage
Introduction
In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
19th Aug 2018
Introduction
In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph.
I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
Stories by Admiral...
How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
Works in Progress...
The perks of being a mole rat
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for...
4th Feb 2026
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
Ryan Hoover's...
Why I’m excited about profit-sharing startups
9th Jan 2024
Jonas Hietala
A Christmas Game
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
26th Dec 2014
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist!
This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
Liz Denys
So you want to make a public comment! mini-zine
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable...
28th Jun 2025
I've been testifying at local public meetings for safer streets and more housing and affordable housing, and sometimes people ask me how they can do the same and what to expect. I decided to make a mini-zine that tries to demystify speaking up at public meetings:
All text in the...
ramsés cabello
web iterations @ sketch
hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪
just wanted to share a few bits of work i’ve been recently doing at Sketch 〜...
24th Apr 2025
hi everyone 〜 ♪(๑ᴖ◡ᴖ๑)♪
just wanted to share a few bits of work i’ve been recently doing at Sketch 〜 together with the team we updated the typeface on the web app and adjusted all the icons to match the look & feel of the mac app.
i wrote a little bit more about icons...
Made by Ollin
Emojin
An infinite kaomoji generator
14th Jan 2017
An infinite kaomoji generator
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
1st Mar 2024
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
Paul Cudenec
Hate, supremacism and the satanic world order
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
5th Jan 2026
The word “hate” is bandied about a lot by our global overlords.
Marc Astbury
Retaining an MVP mindset
A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements...
3rd May 2024
A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements Team plans are a way to increase retention Team plans move upmarket toward users with more purchasing power Team plans are targeted at full-time researchers who have an ongoing...
Rest of World -...
Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers
The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in...
3rd Mar 2025
The government hopes the 19% tax will push Asian e-commerce giants to grow their operations in Mexico, and make up for 79,000 textile jobs lost to fast fashion.
watchTowr Labs
XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748)
We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures...
1st Apr 2025
We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures in Kentico’s Xperience CMS. Due to it’s wide usage, the type of solution, and the types of enterprises using this solution
Tony Finch's blog
An update on leap seconds
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly
frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an
index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick
around, so I’ll aim to...
Old Structures...
Possibly A Bad Idea
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
1st Jul 2024
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
2nd Jul 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Adelie, added image maps, animation controls, and wrote a guide....
Peder M. Isager
Why experiments are considered gold standard for answering causal questions
In this blog post, I will briefly explain why experimental designs are considered so valuable by...
7th Aug 2025
In this blog post, I will briefly explain why experimental designs are considered so valuable by scientists and why we often insist that randomized experiments are necessary for answering causal questions. I will use a practical example to illustrate this point. If you’re new to...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver
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border-left: 3px solid #a03;
...
18th Oct 2025
pre {
background: #f4f4f4;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
border-left: 3px solid #a03;
border-radius: 2px;
color: #666;
display: block;
font-family: monospace;
line-height: 1.3;
margin-bottom: 1.6em;
max-width: 60em;
overflow: auto;
padding: 1em 1.5em;
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A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has...
24th Jan 2023
It's been three years since I broke ground on Shoelace 2.0. Between then and now, the project has amassed over 300 million monthly hits on jsDelivr and, as of today, it is jsDelivr's 73rd most popular project.
And that was just the beta version.
Today, I'm happy to announce that...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How to help us build open source Pebble software!
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big...
6th Feb 2025
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
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...
./techtipsy
How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it
Background
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main...
28th Jun 2021
Background
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main laptop and a server as well.
A couple of years ago I messed around with flashing alternative BIOS implementations on the X230, such
as the skulls project, which made installing...
Citation Needed
Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by...
3rd Nov 2025
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
AI for Software...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
IEEE Spectrum
Tiny Exploding Houses Promoted 18th-Century Lightning Rods
Imagine if engineers were required to build a working model to demonstrate every new technological...
1st Apr 2023
Imagine if engineers were required to build a working model to demonstrate every new technological concept to the general public. Done right, tech literacy might soar! A compelling visual example can really help people understand the applications and implications of new...
Max Woolf's Blog
The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
Why Hy3?
26th May 2026
Anarchy Unfolds
The rich don't have authority
On the myth of power and money
1st Feb 2025
On the myth of power and money
Chris Nicholas
A reactive framework in 40 lines
In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines...
9th Jul 2021
In this article I'll be explaining one method to create a basic reactive framework (in just 40 lines of code).
Hyphen Nation
Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
2 weeks ago
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
alexwlchan
What is psephology?
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news.
As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine):
Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
2nd Feb 2024
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec?
John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown
I recently...
CrimethInc.
Manufactured Betrayal : A Statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense on Solidarity and Betrayal in the...
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention...
7th Jul 2026
On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a...
Sedimental
Intentional Creation
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create.
This is one of...
4th Jan 2023
Reliably tap into your creativity with the 4 Cs: Consume, critique, curate, create.
This is one of my oldest ideas, finally published on the GitHub ReadME Project blog, along with a profile, in June 2022. For more like this, follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. (You can also read it...
Derek Sivers podcast
Some will always say you’re wrong
Some people are into money. Some aren’t.
Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some...
3rd Jun 2013
Some people are into money. Some aren’t.
Some people are inspired by helping the needy. Some aren’t.
Some people are into fame, power, and prestige.
Others are into anonymity and freedom from responsibility.
You have to know your preferences well because no matter what you...
Jonas Hietala
Customizing Neovim
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting.
TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
2nd May 2024
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting.
TJ DeVries A different take on editing code
I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that.
I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by...
4th Nov 2023
I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan.
You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides.
The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another ....
We're going to get you.
7th Jun 2023
The Prism
25 Useful Ideas for 2025
Mental models to kickstart the new year
2nd Jan 2025
Mental models to kickstart the new year
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
17th Jul 2024
Matt Keeter
Representation and JITting of math trees
21st Feb 2016
Long Now
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom
### Consilience defeats miasma
Steven Johnson began his long zoom survey with the "prior art" of...
12th May 2007
### Consilience defeats miasma
Steven Johnson began his long zoom survey with the "prior art" of Joyce's Stephen Daedalus locating himself in himself, his neighborhood, Dublin, on out to the universe. The value of a long zoom is in identifying and employing every scale between...
Eric Bailey
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
I think about evolved antennas a lot.
If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot.
If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
Notes on software...
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve
durability. A database can write its...
1st Jul 2024
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve
durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably
to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And
granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most
databases. But I...
Last Place Comics
Local Voltron
The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Jun 2025
The post Local Voltron appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
1st Nov 2022
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Expanding the Mediterranean's busiest port
Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
5th Nov 2024
Plus: New tunnels, monorails, canals, small modular reactors, and horseless carriages
Applied Cartography
WandaVision
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
Long Now
Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective
Coming to the fore in this century is Asian perspective on everything. A thrilling place to watch...
21st Oct 2019
Coming to the fore in this century is Asian perspective on everything. A thrilling place to watch the shift is in art.
Extraordinary contemporary art from all over the world, especially Asia, has been collected for the new world-class museum in Hong Kong called M+. The massive...
Quantum Frontiers
The Noncommuting-Charges World Tour (Part 1 of 4)
Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many...
1st Feb 2024
Introduction: “Once Upon a Time”…with a twist Thermodynamics problems have surprisingly many similarities with fairy tales. For example, most of them begin with a familiar opening. In thermodynamics, the phrase “Consider an isolated box of particles” serves a similar purpose …...
devonzuegel.com
Israel's water miracle
The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years....
1st Jul 2023
The saga of Israeli water management is one of the most inspiring stories of the last 75 years. Israel went from having a serious water problem to being a net water exporter to neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the population grew from ~1 million to well over 9 million.
With...
A Beautiful Site
Using JavaScript to prevent comment spam
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam...
5th May 2007
Comment spam (also known as 'link spam', 'blog spam', and 'wikispam') occurs when people or spam bots post comments on someones blog, guestbook, or wiki for the sole purpose of boosting traffic and promoting better search engine rankings for their site. Like email spam, it can be...
David Heinemeier...
You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
1st Sep 2023
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
Coding Horror
Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show...
22nd Jun 2026
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow, but we quickly landed on Off By One with
Commoncog
The Two Types of Data Analysis
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to data analysis in business. The two approaches have...
3rd Nov 2023
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to data analysis in business. The two approaches have different worldviews, and express different tradeoffs. Here's why that matters.
cdixon
Pricing to the demand curve
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
4th Jul 2012
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
Home on Erik...
Annoying blog post
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
11th Nov 2014
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search.
I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
Archinect
10 must-see architecture & design events to see this May in NYC, Venice, Montreal, Bilbao,...
If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May,...
1st May 2026
If you're in search of exciting architecture and design events to add to your calendar this May, check out our curated selection of exhibitions, festivals, and conferences taking place across the U.S. and abroad.
From the roster of ongoing and upcoming events listed on Bustler,...
Thu Le
The journey and the destination
When is it about the journey, and can it also be the destination?
20th Dec 2024
When is it about the journey, and can it also be the destination?
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Memory > Blog
I’ve always appreciated the word blog. It feels honest and informal; a small, functional word from...
3rd Oct 2025
I’ve always appreciated the word blog. It feels honest and informal; a small, functional word from the early web. Blogs were, and still are, places to share links, notes, ideas, and to find others doing the same. That spirit of exchange still matters. [See blogroll.org]
Lately...
TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
Eugene Yan
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
Applied Cartography
Designing for People
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955
and...
1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955
and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed
at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
Joel Gascoigne
Coaching and feedback within startups
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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I’ve written in...
14th Jul 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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I’ve written in the past about the evolution of our culture at Buffer
[https://joel.is/post/37639846554/the-evolution-of-culture-at-a-startup]. One of
the things we started to do at around 6-7...
Eugene Yan
DataKind Singapore’s Latest Project Accelerator
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
17th Sep 2015
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
Software and Tech...
13th Year of Blogging
Of all the days to start a blog, I chose April Fools' Day. It wasn't intentional, maybe more of a...
1st Apr 2026
Of all the days to start a blog, I chose April Fools' Day. It wasn't intentional, maybe more of a reflection of my mindset. When I decide to do something, I shut off my brain and just do it. This was a commitment I made without thinking about the long-term effects.
I knew writing...
Max Woolf's Blog
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
Notes on software...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since
December. I've successfully done my job and...
28th Apr 2018
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since
December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a
lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues
with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it
with Arch Linux...
Eugene Yan
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
The Honest Broker
When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago
Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract...
5th Feb 2025
Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract from his new book
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The most profound message in the history of junk literature
I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books...
1st Jul 2017
I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books thicker than the width of my thumb.
The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business?
Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
6th Dec 2024
Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
26th Oct 2022
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
31st May 2024
brr
South Pole Topography
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
27th Jan 2023
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
Mark Manson
A Practical Guide to Modern Dating
So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul.
Look, I know...
1st Jan 2023
So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul.
Look, I know meeting new people, going on dates, figuring out if you even like the person sitting across from you—it can all be confusing, frustrating, and just exhausting at times.
But before you...
A Smart Bear
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
Better than Random
Imposter syndrome is a stick in your bike wheels
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
7th Jul 2025
But low self-awareness is a rocket to nowhere
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
29th May 2024
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system.
Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to
examine one up close.
In an era when most computers were large...
Matt Mullenweg
SoTW Eve
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source...
2nd Dec 2025
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We’re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we’ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2025 Updates: Code, Money, and Travel
A quick update on my indie journey!
9th Oct 2025
A quick update on my indie journey!
Classical Wisdom
Cicero and Leadership
Philosophy in Action?
3rd Jan 2025
Cybercultural:...
What the Internet Was Like in 2002
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002.
In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002.
In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
IEEE Spectrum
What Is an Electronic Sackbut?
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you,...
1st Feb 2024
If you, like me, think of musical synthesizers as an artifact of 1970s rock and disco, then you, like me, will be surprised to learn that the first electronic synthesizer predates those genres by several decades
In 1945, Hugh Le Caine, a physicist at Canada’s National Research...
Josh Thompson
Practicing with Polylines
This is a first pass at trying to do something interesting (repeatedly) with the same base...
10th Sep 2024
This is a first pass at trying to do something interesting (repeatedly) with the same base primative, in this case, a “polyline”. Read the rest of this post, understand what we’re going for, then go to part 2: get your own polyline from strava. It’s not trivial to get, but its...
bunnie's blog
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Pseudo Sacrifice vs. Speculation
Observers are stunned when they witness a queen sacrifice. For a chess player to abandon their most...
1st Apr 2017
Observers are stunned when they witness a queen sacrifice. For a chess player to abandon their most powerful piece seems like a daring risk. The sacrifice is followed by a decisive combo resulting in checkmate. Bravo, the crowd goes wild.
Apoorva Srinivasan
an experiment in navigating the knowledge frontier beyond search
Lately, I've been experimenting with interfaces for large language models (LLMs) in my free time....
21st Nov 2023
Lately, I've been experimenting with interfaces for large language models (LLMs) in my free time. The fruit of this labor is something I'm calling "curie," an exploratory and sense-making tool designed to navigate complex topics.
0:00
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Justin Jackson
Forget about your heroes
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
29th Jul 2020
We spend way too much time trying to deconstruct our heroes' journey.
Neil Madden
A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently...
6th Jun 2025
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema documentation) was largely written with the help of Claude, the AI model by Anthropic. Claude’s...
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
2nd Jan 2024
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
the singularity is...
Replacing my MacBook
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7)...
28th Nov 2025
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7) which went well, so I’ve been trying to do the same with my laptop.
For phones, this was easier because the Samsung hardware is already better. Sadly, there’s no better laptop...
Cremieux Recueil
Fertility Policy For Rich Countries
A brief proposal to fix Social Security and grow the population
1st Apr 2025
A brief proposal to fix Social Security and grow the population
Jordan Eldredge's...
Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele]
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
12th Sep 2012
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
The Codist
Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I...
4th Apr 2024
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I will describe my experience of being interviewed.
Interviews are part of being a programmer; every time you find a new job, you will go through interviews, which allow a prospective
Both Are True
The meet-cute (rom com, Act One)
a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury,...
5th Mar 2024
a tale of two idiots who fell in love as told by one of those idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying everything
Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Ploum.net
Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?
Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?
J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un...
1st Jun 2026
Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?
J’apprends avec tristesse le décès de l’architecte Philippe Samyn, un esprit incroyable aux idées fulgurantes avec qui j’ai eu de longues et passionnantes discussions.
Philippe Samyn - Wikipédia (fr.wikipedia.org)
Car l’architecture était pour lui une...
Liz Denys
xoxo
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces...
16th Sep 2014
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces into
moments and memories and
bonds to hold onto
beyond those polygons,
yellow, orange, and red.
ntietz.com blog -...
Testing a WebSocket that could hang open for hours
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in...
1st Jul 2024
I recently ran into a bug in some Go code that no one had touched in a few years.
The code in question was not particularly complicated, and had been reviewed by multiple people.
It included a timeout, and is straightforward: allow a Websocket connection to test that the client...
Cremieux Recueil
Your Allergies Are Probably Fake
You might be avoiding medications that don't do anything to you
4th Feb 2026
You might be avoiding medications that don't do anything to you
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is
abusing its monopoly in...
19th Aug 2024
A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is
abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and
whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine?
Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Scarlet Ink
Relying on Your Manager Isn’t a Career Plan
The steps to take to grow your skills and career without your manager helping.
6th Apr 2026
The steps to take to grow your skills and career without your manager helping.
The Solarchitecture...
Solarchitect's book recommendations I.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
14th Aug 2022
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
Retail Design Blog
Acacia Coffee & Wine Bar by A-Malysheva Studio
Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential...
1st Sep 2025
Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential neighborhood of Odesa,...
Computer Things
Write the most clever code you possibly can
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the...
8th May 2025
I started writing this early last week but Real Life Stuff happened and now you're getting the first-draft late this week. Warning, unedited thoughts ahead!
New Logic for Programmers release!
v0.9 is out! This is a big release, with a new cover design, several rewritten chapters,...
Quanta Magazine
Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
2nd Oct 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against COVID-19.
The post Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 first appeared on...
SOCKS
The Permanence of Form from Vernacular to Rationalism: Giuseppe Pagano’s “Architettura Rurale...
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century....
16th Jun 2024
Giuseppe Pagano was a central figure in Italian architecture of the first part of the 20th century. Along with his practice as a rationalist architect and his political engagement, which led him to leave the Fascist Party, join the Resistance, and later be deported to Mauthausen,...
The Quanta Podcast
Visions of Future Physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as...
1st Oct 2015
Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.
The post Visions of Future Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Eric Bailey
Keeping track of letter-spacing, some guidelines
4th Oct 2017
Society's Backend:...
An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Oct 2023
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
bt RSS Feed
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing
2022-01-06
FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please…
Google has created one of the best operating systems designed...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank...
4th Dec 2023
#1 💡 Athletic Greens used to be a sketchy looking affiliate offer in 2011. Ranked #1 on Clickbank and was promoted by every direct response marketer. Always inspiring to see humble beginnings like this and a good reminder that most businesses are not sexy from day 1.
Chris Grossack's...
A Quick Application of Model Categories
Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about
model categories in...
22nd Mar 2023
Almost exactly a year ago (time flies!) I was thinking really hard about
model categories in preparation for the HoTTEST summer school. I learned
a TON doing this, but I’ve just today seen a really nice (and somewhat concrete)
reason to care about the whole endeavor! I’d love...
MIT News - Civil and...
New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots...
2nd Dec 2025
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What America has meant to me
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given...
5th Jul 2026
Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake. And yet, America has never, ever given up on me.
Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It?
The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
4th Apr 2024
The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
Irrational...
Friction isn't velocity.
When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide
to roll your windows...
15th Mar 2024
When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide
to roll your windows down. The air will flow in, the wind will get louder,
and the sensation of moving will intensify. Your engine will start working a bit
harder–and louder–to maintain the same...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
25th May 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or...
25th Aug 2024
Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being
read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or
be useful at a fundamental level.
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
7th Apr 2025
Rest of World -...
Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme
With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is...
1st May 2024
With inflation and unemployment gripping the nation, a burgeoning network of intermediaries is convincing people to have their irises scanned at Worldcoin Orb centers.
Londonist
Open House Festival 2025: Which Buildings Are Open? Which Need Booking?
First details of this year's architecture fest.
16th Jul 2025
First details of this year's architecture fest.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have...
11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
lcamtuf’s thing
See it with your lying ears
This blog has a history of answering questions that no one should be asking. Today, we continue that...
10th Jan 2026
This blog has a history of answering questions that no one should be asking. Today, we continue that proud legacy.
mtlynch.io
My First Year as a Solo Developer
On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person...
1st Feb 2019
On February 1st, 2018, I quit my job as a software engineer at Google to start my own single-person software company. It’s exactly one year later, so it feels like an apt time to reflect on how that decision affected my finances, lifestyle, and happiness.
How I made and spent...
AI as Normal...
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The...
31st Dec 2017
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The Settlers of Catan. This game has brought me and my friends many an hour of good entertainment. The game is played on a hexagon field with 19 hexagon tiles (3 + 4 + 5 + 4 […]
The post...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
1st Oct 2023
Happy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
Seldo.com
AI has torched the market for junior programmers
4th Jul 2026
Diaries of Note
More of London’s madness!
Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his...
1st Jul 2023
Born in South Africa in 1934, Gordon Forbes was a seasoned tennis professional who clinched his first junior title at the tender age of twelve, initiating a stellar career among the tennis elite. Forbes and his doubles partner, Abe Segal, formed an unstoppable force in the...
Stephen Diehl
Crypto is Financial Asbestos
Crypto is Financial Asbestos
Cryptocurrency is financial asbestos a toxic material that's poisoning...
23rd Dec 2022
Crypto is Financial Asbestos
Cryptocurrency is financial asbestos a toxic material that's poisoning our financial system.
Like its fibrous, fire-retardant namesake, crypto was initially hailed for seemingly miraculous properties: decentralization, censorship resistance,...
Mark Manson
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all?
In...
9th May 2024
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all?
In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afraid of. Heights, spiders, small spaces, strangely-shaped...
Blog - Guerrilla...
From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the...
6th Apr 2022
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the environment, geopolitical issues, water, animal and human rights, I look for how I might highlight particular issues, and then draw a word picture to go with the visual message of the...
High Signal
Making money from local newsletters
Michael MacLeod has successfully monetized his interest in local news with two newsletters for...
26th Jun 2025
Michael MacLeod has successfully monetized his interest in local news with two newsletters for Edinburgh and London in the UK.
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
The Tao Of Wealth
Nuggets from “Opening The Door Of Your Heart by Ajahn Brahm
We all commit mistakes and have our shortcomings but at at the same time we have so much that is...
1st Nov 2019
We all commit mistakes and have our shortcomings but at at the same time we have so much that is good and right about us. If we remember this, we can live with peace with ourselves and others. Chaos and disorder can sometimes be perfect, like leaves strewn on the floor of the...
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑
This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in...
18th Aug 2023
I am on a continual quest for organization.
After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in our home.
My wife and I work here, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Our children play and create in here just as often. It’s where we maintain several workspaces, store supplies,...
Musings on Markets
AI Scenarios: From Doomsday Destruction to Do-Nothing Bots!
When Chat GPT made its debut on November 30, 2022, it unleashed the hype of AI, and in the three...
4th Mar 2026
When Chat GPT made its debut on November 30, 2022, it unleashed the hype of AI, and in the three years since, AI has taken on an outsized role not just in markets, but also in our lives. For much of the time, the AI story has been told by its advocates and its salespeople, and...
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift
To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
19th Sep 2022
To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
2nd Jul 2024
The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange:
Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
One Useful Thing
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
Small improvements can lead to big changes
4th Jul 2024
Small improvements can lead to big changes
cdixon
Ten million users is the new one million users
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few...
3rd Aug 2012
Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending…
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map.
I don’t need an interactive or...
7th Mar 2025
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map.
I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate.
I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.8.0
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If...
3rd Jun 2020
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features - update…
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
29th May 2024
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
4th Jan 2023
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
99% Invisible
The Great American Pyramid
Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of...
1st Apr 2025
Memphis, Tennessee is home to many historic landmarks. Like Graceland, and Beale Street. But one of their biggest tourist magnets is their Bass Pro Shops. Usually, Bass Pro is the place to buy hunting and fishing gear. But the one in Memphis, it’s less of a store, and more of a...
Laetitia@Work
Why midlife women walk out of corporate jobs
Laetitia@Work #67
23rd Feb 2024
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
21st Apr 2014
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option.
Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Cherry by Nico Walker (Alfred A. Knopf)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights...
6th Jun 2019
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.janet-hansen.com Janet Hansen. License: All Rights Reserved.
The cover for Nico Walker’s debut novel Cherry was designed by Janet Hansen, senior designer at Alfred A. Knopf, with creative direction from Carol Devine Carson. It was...
Trying to Understand...
Macron is Safe for the Moment
But the future worries me.
5th Apr 2023
But the future worries me.
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
29th Feb 2024
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
Interaction Magic -...
Interaction20 Round-up
Summary of all the amazing, curious and challenging ideas from last week's IXDA Interaction 20...
13th Feb 2020
Summary of all the amazing, curious and challenging ideas from last week's IXDA Interaction 20 conference.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Nov 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of October. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
donsol, ported our Famicom(6502) code to Varvara(uxn).
uxn,...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
1st Oct 2023
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
Moneyness
"I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did."
Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev
As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases...
11th Jun 2024
Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev
As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases wend their way through courts in the Netherlands and the U.S., we continue to learn how society's money laundering laws will be applied to some of the more unique financial...
Common Edge
Minoru Yamasaki: The Fragility of Architecture
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown...
1st Jul 2024
He designed two of the most famous landmarks of the late-20th-century. Why is he virtually unknown today?
Writing
Net Gains
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
The Honest Broker
The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over...
And the tech bros won
2nd Oct 2025
Jonas Hietala
Why I still blog after 15 years
Time flies when you’re having fun.
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you...
25th Sep 2024
Time flies when you’re having fun.
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
15 years is a long time; longer than I’ve been waiting for Winds...
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
Justin Jackson
Not all products make good businesses
You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
1st Mar 2019
You might fix a problem, but that doesn't mean people will pay for it.
Looking Through the...
What If Museums Were Full of Copies?
Victorians once tried to make it happen
1st Jul 2026
Victorians once tried to make it happen
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup
What is OpenAI?
I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT,"...
3rd Oct 2025
What is OpenAI?
I realize you might say "a foundation model lab" or "the company that runs ChatGPT," but that doesn't really give the full picture of everything it’s promised, or claimed, or leaked that it was or would be.
No, really,
cdixon
Coinbase
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press...
12th Dec 2013
One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by…
Sam Altman
Greg
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks
like. I now have an answer: Greg...
7th Mar 2017
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks
like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman.
Every successful startup I know has at least one person who
provides the force of will to make the startup happen. I’d thought a lot
about this in the abstract while advising YC...
African History...
A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD
Journal of African cities chapter 6
5th Mar 2023
Journal of African cities chapter 6
Matt Mullenweg
Leadership at the Peak
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Pregnancy taught me a lot about healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket
A personal story and a patient journey
3rd Aug 2026
A personal story and a patient journey
julian.digital
Media Consumption (Feb 2021)
>_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and...
4th Mar 2021
>_ Summary Read 3 books (2202 min, -10% MoM) and 22 articles (-15%) Listened to 364 songs (+38%) and 15 podcasts (749 min, same) Watched 8 movies (885 min, +727%), 7 soccer games (965 min, +16%) and 7 TV episodes (405 min, -62%) Played 0 board games (0 min, same) and 1 video game...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering
3rd Mar 2026
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
28th May 2024
'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
Renegade Otter
Getting our focus back
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology...
24th Aug 2023
“We was robbed…”
Attention is arguably the most precious resource of the 21st century. Technology companies have expended incredible efforts to
improve the ways in which they capture our attention and convert it into revenue. That fight for the
nine unmonetized glances.
An...
Louwrentius - Solar
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
6th Jul 2011
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions.
If you read the quote below from the...
Sam Altman
PG and Jessica
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
25th Sep 2020
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Cognitive...
From Zero to Fineturning with Axolotl on ROCm
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried...
11th Mar 2024
Gratitude to https://tensorwave.com/ for giving me access to their excellent servers!
Few have tried this and fewer have succeeded. I've been marginally successful after a significant amount of effort, so it deserves a blog post.
Know that you are in for rough waters. And even...
mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap"
Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
10th Nov 2024
Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it.
The...
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