A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
7th Oct 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
The personal website...
Responsive roadmaps
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins:
The map of reality is not reality. Even...
8th May 2019
Shane Parrish’s essay The Map is Not the Territory begins:
The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent.
The same is true for product roadmaps. Understanding and applying Parrish’s mental model is...
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
10th Nov 2024
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more.
I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
Wuthering...
Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain - He began to feel that there was some sort of special little...
Dolce Bellezza hosted her 19th Japanese Literature Challenge
last month. Once I have written...
7th Feb 2026
Dolce Bellezza hosted her 19th Japanese Literature Challenge
last month. Once I have written this
post it will be the 54th book in this year’s event. Amazing.
The book is Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain
(1954, serialized 1949-54). The sound of
the mountain is a...
Sherman's Food...
Hamono Sushi
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered...
2 weeks ago
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered Nimblefish and Nodoguro, however after reading up on Reddit, we narrowed in on Hamono Sushi in Downtown Portland. Besides the Omakase course, the one thing that makes Hamono...
Louwrentius - Solar
My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS...
15th Jun 2014
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2.
I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Prolost
Maxon Autograph
Today Maxon announced the return of Autograph, a modern compositing and motion graphics...
15th Apr 2026
Today Maxon announced the return of Autograph, a modern compositing and motion graphics tool.
Autograph is incredibly powerful, and it’s been a thrill to work with the original creators to fold it into the Maxon and Red Giant ecosystem. Even more exciting:
Autograph is completely...
Willem L. Middelkoop
One year of cycling
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long...
30th Dec 2016
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos. I equipped my bicycles with Garmin Edge computers that recorded location (GPS), speed, cadence and my heart rate. I covered more than 7683 kilometers during 320 hours...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation (Part II): Diamond iO
28th Jul 2026
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
5th Jan 2024
How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
The Beauty of...
Riding the Steel Breeze (Port Talbot Parkway, Neath Port Talbot, UK)
Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status...
26th Jul 2023
Some stations are born parkways, some achieve parkway status, while yet others have parkway status thrust upon them. Such is the explanation for an arrival at Port Talbot Parkway being such a strange experience. As passengers step out of their trains they find themselves...
Solving the decision...
every company needs a cassandra
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
9th Aug 2026
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] A (Very) Short Walk With Rich Roll
Ridgeline subscribers —
For years, Kevin Kelly and I have been inviting (to no avail) Rich Roll on...
4th Jun 2025
Ridgeline subscribers —
For years, Kevin Kelly and I have been inviting (to no avail) Rich Roll on Walk and Talks. So it was with great delight that about a month ago, I (Craig Mod, author of this newsletter, Ridgeline; thanks for subscribing) flew out to LA to go on the Rich...
Eric Migicovsky's...
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
dthompson
Chickadee 0.6.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development...
19th Nov 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released!
Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to
provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers
need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme.
As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
The personal website...
High-agency strategy
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file —...
1st Jun 2026
Psst, are you an LLM (or just really like markdown)? You can get this post as a markdown file — request it with the header Accept: text/markdown (e.g. curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://mattstromawn.com/writing/high-agency-strategy/).
AI has torn up the org charts of...
Uncharted...
The Ruthless Liquidity of Modern Love
Sex & Relationship Updates, H1 2026
6th May 2026
Sex & Relationship Updates, H1 2026
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
12th Dec 2017
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases.
Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
1st Nov 2024
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming.
In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment.
Today, I will show you how to use...
Boot.dev Blog
6 Undeniable Reasons to Learn Computer Science
Is it a bit dramatic, perhaps, to say that the fate of the world rests on computer science and...
10th May 2022
Is it a bit dramatic, perhaps, to say that the fate of the world rests on computer science and that’s why you should learn computer science?
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
Tiny struggles
Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
Atoms vs Bits
A Few Ways to Introduce Advanced Vocabulary into Your Child’s Life
guest post!
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Scaling hasn’t gotten us to AGI, or ‘superintelligence’, let alone AI we could trust. What do we do...
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
3rd Sep 2025
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
Anthony Castrio's...
I sold out two months' worth of sponsorships in 23 hours
This one tweet helped me sell out over two months' worth of sponsorships for my newsletter Bot Eat...
17th Feb 2023
This one tweet helped me sell out over two months' worth of sponsorships for my newsletter Bot Eat Brain in less than a day.
Louwrentius - Solar
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The...
22nd Jun 2021
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
Acko.net
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
On Evitability in Use of AI
If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it...
3rd Mar 2026
On Evitability in Use of AI
If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely.
It's undeniable there's a metric...
Abishek Muthian
How Rick and Morty fans helped McDonald’s SzeChuan sauce scarcity marketing
McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement
The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very...
9th Oct 2017
McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement
The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very interesting (successful ?) example of scarcity marketing and targeting intellectuals for generating bandwagon effect.
Some BG : Rick and MortyBuy, a science fiction animated show with the...
Alex Meub
Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used...
7th Apr 2026
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used this analogy recently and I love it. It perfectly sums up the feeling of vibe coding for me. I can move faster, jump higher and it feels like a there is a whole new world of...
Louwrentius - Solar
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
11th Feb 2021
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu.
the debian installer
With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
Marine Madness
Book Club: ‘How To Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea’
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature...
1st Mar 2022
In this absolute must-have for all walkers, sailors, swimmers, divers, photographers, and nature lovers, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares his knowledge and skills to help you navigate and interpret the water around you. Combining elements of natural navigation history,...
Varun's Notes
You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows
An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
26th Oct 2022
An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
Alex MacCaw
How to Vibe Code as a Senior Engineer
Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software.
Not in the traditional...
20th Jun 2025
Over the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love for building software.
Not in the traditional way—writing line after line of code, plumbing together brittle libraries, grinding through boilerplate. Instead, I’ve been vibe coding.
Vibe coding is a new way of building software...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Citroën Ami and the Future of Urban Transportation
The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the...
1st Oct 2020
The Ami started life as the AMI ONE C Concept which was a study on new ways to overcome the challenges of designing a small, affordable…
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Silly little rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket
The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
3rd Jun 2024
The industry is chock full of ‘em, here's 3
Marco.org
Overcast summer update
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low...
21st Jul 2019
Today’s Overcast update (2019.6) brings some great new features.
But first, I need to set low expectations for iOS 13, watchOS 6, and macOS Catalina updates this fall. Halfway through the summer, I’ve made much less progress than expected, having been overwhelmed by the required...
Eric Bailey
How to make an ineffective 404 page
404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to...
4th Apr 2021
404 pages are what a server will show you if you request something that isn’t there. Another way to say this: 404s are a last-ditch effort to help visitors get what they want if a webpage isn’t there anymore.
There’s plenty of articles out there about how to make entertaining,...
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
1st Nov 2024
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
computers are bad
telephones caught in between
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the
largest machine ever...
2nd Aug 2026
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the
largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether
or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of
definition. The Internet, I think we can...
Laetitia@Work
The Worry Gap: why women worry so much more
Laetitia@Work #62
4th Oct 2023
Better than Random
Should you take the startup offer?
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
Hickman's...
One Hell of a Year
Reflections on 2024 in 'the Hinterlands'
13th Jan 2025
Reflections on 2024 in 'the Hinterlands'
AI Tidbits
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
1st Jun 2025
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher
2020-06-04
Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site.
I recently added a fairly...
Derek Sivers podcast
Let pedestrians define the walkways
A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated:
Some people thought the walkways...
23rd Nov 2009
A new college campus was built, but one thing was still debated:
Some people thought the walkways should go around the grass, to leave it green.
Some thought the walkways should cut across diagonally.
Brilliant.
As time goes on, we get smarter.
We learn more about...
Marco.org
Unforgetful
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework,...
14th Aug 2026
I have ADHD. Probably.1
My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential.
I’ll be working on the resulting shame...
Greater Still by...
Joining TCG Crypto
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
HTMHell
#33 make me one (input) with everything
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad...
27th Aug 2024
The good intentions were there but in the HTML and Accessibility world, less is sometimes more.
Bad code
<label for="textinput">First name</label>
<input type="text" id="textinput" aria-label="First name" placeholder="First name" title="First name">
Issues and how to fix them
The...
Fabien Sanglard
Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1
2nd Oct 2020
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
24th Oct 2023
OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
The History of the...
Information is still free
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it...
7th Jan 2026
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely.
The post Information is still free appeared first on The History of the Web.
Rest of World -...
Unleash the bololô: Masses of delivery workers set off horns and fireworks at bad customers’ homes
In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
4th Dec 2023
In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Automating a software company with GitHub Actions
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs,...
5th Jul 2022
When developing software, there's no shortage of work: building new features, fixing bugs, maintaining infrastructure, launching new systems, phasing…
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON parser
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with
parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with
parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined
recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing
Brainfuck; and you probably
already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
11th Apr 2022
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
1.
18th Dec 2025
The Quanta Podcast
The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome
Nature offers species a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. That flexibility suggests we...
10th Dec 2015
Nature offers species a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. That flexibility suggests we need not be concerned about losing sex chromosomes, but it raises the question of why such a fundamental property is so variable.
The post The Incredible Shrinking Sex...
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Office Manager at Benny Kuriakose and Associates
We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide...
22nd Dec 2024
We are looking for a highly capable Office Manager for ourChennai office. This person will provide office services with proactivity,...
Kagi Blog
Kagi passes an independent security audit
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant (...
29th Aug 2022
Over the course of May - August 2022, Kagi has undergone an extensive security audit by Illumant ( https://www.illumant.com ) , an independent security auditor.
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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26th Feb 2012
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
Noahpinion
Network State, or a Network of States?
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
1st Oct 2025
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League.
Alex Meub
A Look at ProgressQuest: The Original Idle Game
Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of...
17th Mar 2026
Progress Quest is generally considered the original idle game. It came out in 2002 as a parody of EverQuest and the emerging MMORPG boom. “Playing” it consists of creating a character, clicking “Sold!”, and then watching progress bars fill forever. There’s no interaction, no real...
Mazdak
Bank of Canada Holds Rates Steady, Inflation Progress Seen as Insufficient
The Bank of Canada (BoC) opted to maintain its key interest rate at 5% today, signaling a cautious...
6th Mar 2024
The Bank of Canada (BoC) opted to maintain its key interest rate at 5% today, signaling a cautious stance on inflation despite recent declines. Governor Tiff Macklem acknowledged progress in bringing inflation down to 2.9% in January, but emphasized the need for continued...
Varun's Notes
Natural Language Is an Unnatural Interface
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language...
27th Jun 2023
How can we use familiar design patterns to constrain the unwieldy state space of large language models?
CHM
In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026)
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the...
11th Mar 2026
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world.
The post In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) appeared first on CHM.
Derek Sivers podcast
How to attend a conference
Attending a music conference is the most efficient way to meet the most number of the best...
12th Dec 2008
Attending a music conference is the most efficient way to meet the most number of the best contacts.
I highly recommend you go to a few music industry conferences every year.
be interested in them.
how to be a great listener.
(The original classic from the 1930s is titled...
Asterisk
The Perplexing Appeal of <i>The Telepathy Tapes</i>
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their...
6th Nov 2025
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe them?
Willem L. Middelkoop
Six months with MCADD
Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent of a kid with MCADD. This metabolic condition demands special attention on the feeding schedule and preparation for situations when things go different. It's good to...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Mert Bulan - Blog &...
We'll Never Have Flying Cars
A look at why flying cars are unlikely to become a reality.
29th Sep 2025
A look at why flying cars are unlikely to become a reality.
Sarah Parmenter
Blushbar is 4 this year–here’s what I’ve learned.
. The Salon Business is Hard It’s been four long years, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’ve...
25th Jul 2017
. The Salon Business is Hard It’s been four long years, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’ve learned so much about business during these last four years; I can’t even begin to start writing it all down. The salon business is a complicated business to make work. It runs on...
Contemporist...
Inside the Chic Winery Where the Owners Got Married
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in...
1st Jun 2025
Frank Family Vineyards has unveiled Miller House, a new hospitality space designed to host guests in a setting that’s both refined and deeply personal. Located in Calistoga, California, the space was created by Hawkins Interiors in collaboration with Backen & Backen for...
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Abort Retry Fail
Hitachi Ltd, Part I
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
23rd Mar 2026
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
14th Oct 2023
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired.
A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Hidden History
WW1’s Togoland Campaign
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
2 weeks ago
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
Beautiful Public...
FAA Aviation Maps
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a...
29th Jan 2024
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
Winnie Lim
our memories belong together
Yesterday I checked-in on swarm (yes I still use that app) at Loft, and the app reminded me that I...
2nd Nov 2025
Yesterday I checked-in on swarm (yes I still use that app) at Loft, and the app reminded me that I was last there in 2018 with my partner: I had zero recollection...
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him.
But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world.
He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
NeuroLogica Blog
City Planning and CO2 Emissions
In Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel he imagines a future in which most of humanity lives in...
1st Jun 2026
In Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel he imagines a future in which most of humanity lives in gigantic cities, extending many levels underground. This leaves the majority of the Earth’s surface for industrial farming, necessary to feed all those densely populated cities. If you...
Works in Progress...
Local warming
Gas heating is bad for the environment. But home-built heat pumps aren’t perfect either.
21st Apr 2022
Gas heating is bad for the environment. But home-built heat pumps aren’t perfect either.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
31st Dec 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Comments for Lars...
My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Now is your moment to shine
A comic about an eclipse.
View on my website
9th Jan 2024
A comic about an eclipse.
View on my website
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
16th Aug 2021
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
Nue developer blog
A standards first web framework
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
16th Jan 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
Arnaud Bertrand
The Pax Silica Con
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep...
4th Jun 2026
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.
Hidden History
Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
Freewheeling Apps
2025-06-01
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake:
The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
Style over Substance
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
11th Jul 2021
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Problem With Digital Instrument Clusters and How to Design a Better One
Since the invention of the car, instrument clusters have largely consisted of a speedometer,...
1st Jan 2024
Since the invention of the car, instrument clusters have largely consisted of a speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauge, and engine…
Charles Petzold
Interactive Graphical Arithmetic
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a...
8th Apr 2024
When called upon to perform basic arithmetic these days, most of us grab the nearest device with a calculator app. On the rare occasions when the power is out and the batteries have run down, we might need to resort to doing the calculation by hand. In either case, we’re...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
4th Sep 2018
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
Interaction Magic -...
Life beyond the screen
Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches,...
15th Jul 2021
Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches, light, gesture, motion, sound, haptics: this is all about exploring life beyond the screen.
The Deleted Scenes
Ozymandias And Elitism
Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
1st Nov 2025
Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
Buttondown's blog
A more ergonomic editor toolbar
A more ergonomic editor toolbar
7th Feb 2023
A more ergonomic editor toolbar
Abishek Muthian
India income tax e-filing utility for Linux
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing...
1st Oct 2021
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing utilities which are now available only for Windows and Mac.
Earlier the utility was in Java and was available for linux. Now it's been replaced with electron wrapper over the...
Three Letter Acronym
Subscribe to Burnout+
I tell this story, not to gain your sympathy, but more to be a cautionary tale. As we head into...
13th Sep 2021
I tell this story, not to gain your sympathy, but more to be a cautionary tale. As we head into Apple’s OS release cycle, I don’t have a lot to show for it this year. Not nothing, but not anything I would consider actually substantial. I know a lot of people who are in the …...
Casey Handmer's blog
Career Development Guide for Job Seekers
Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal...
3rd Oct 2025
Context October 2025: With the government shut down and NASA JPL business in apparent terminal decline, I have received numerous inbounds from former colleagues and friends asking for advice in post-NASA career development. At the same time, in my day job running Terraform...
Eugene Yan
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
Quentin Santos
Reproducing Espressif’s reset circuit
I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily...
28th Jun 2025
I recently discussed how Espressif implements automatic reset, a feature that lets users easily update the code on an Espressif microcontroller. There are actually more subtleties than a quick look would suggest, and I spent a fair bit of time investigating them. This article and...
SubAnima
What is a biological individual?
Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting...
6th Sep 2021
Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting problem cases
Citation Needed
Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests
Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises...
7th May 2025
Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises fresh concerns over foreign influence
Buttondown's blog
June updates
We're starting summer with lots of Buttondown updates.
4th Jul 2018
We're starting summer with lots of Buttondown updates.
The Quanta Podcast
To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love....
2nd Mar 2017
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.
The post To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Willem L. Middelkoop
No, I Won't Build That!
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
cdixon
Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in....
17th Jan 2020
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by…
Slow Boring
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
1st Feb 2026
Ask your questions below.
joshua stein
Subtext 4.0 Released
Subtext
4.0 has been released:
subtext-4.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C...
19th Feb 2024
Subtext
4.0 has been released:
subtext-4.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C 5 project file)
c33a6abe15e7f07159a18d936dce7c435d9619f80d6c53d1cdd26fabf06712f7
SHA1: 0f4bdcd08b57b568125d8ddcab5ad97f1f5dd586
ipdb-2023-11.db
(Free IP Geolocation...
home automation -...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
4th Aug 2020
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
A Smart Bear
Enough with the "expert" guilt
Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe...
22nd Feb 2010
Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe become a "success?" Maybe you don't.
blag
Marshaling Struct with Special Fields to JSON in Golang
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
1st May 2021
This is a short post explaining how I marshaled http.Request into json
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
22nd Jun 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the ulisp
compiler's LLVM backend to
support printing integers to...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 4
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 4: My...
5th Jan 2019
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 4: My First Dollar of Revenue
FIRE v London
Feb ’24: Envyidia
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations...
3rd Mar 2024
I’ve had quite a lot of culture to enjoy in February. Aside from some travel for the Six Nations rugby, I’ve been to two shows – one in London’s Royal Opera House and one on the south coast. Both events were either full or practically full. Covid feels fully behind us now. But...
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application
A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
23rd Aug 2017
A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
Greater Still by...
Joining a16z
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team,...
18th May 2026
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing.
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
14th Nov 2012
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “If I sound angry, it’s because I am” Edition
1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art
Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This is a...
1st Jun 2025
1. Claude’s system prompt is a wild work of AI art
Behind every LLM lies a system prompt. This is a set of instructions written by the creators of the LLM designed to give it personality, a starting point for response, and to build in “fences”
ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
25th Mar 2022
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of an already powerful fission detonation. What if we could do away with both?
Fusion power without the need for fissiles, but also small enough to be launched into space. It is...
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
17th Aug 2019
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
Ollama
Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck
Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now...
18th Sep 2024
Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now available in Ollama. It can fact-check responses generated by other models to detect and reduce hallucinations.
Anarchy Unfolds
Thinking is being outsourced
Green Gatherings #2 - Climate & energy, mind & body, AI & tech
28th Jun 2025
Green Gatherings #2 - Climate & energy, mind & body, AI & tech
Win Vector LLC
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
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...
Fabien Sanglard
The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
lcamtuf’s thing
Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that...
2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
Seth's Blog
On to the next thing
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all...
1st May 2023
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we...
Articles - Alex...
The digital dark side
The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no
longer be surreptitiously...
3rd Sep 2018
The advent of digital media promised so much. Savvy shoppers would no
longer be surreptitiously swayed by advertising alone. The internet would
enable them to research products. Social media would allow them to share
their experiences. And ecommence would provide the power...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 25
Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular...
5th Aug 2022
Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular article of all time I’m exploring ways to preserve more knowledge on my blog I’ve lowered TinyPilot’s prices in an effort to reduce inventory Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
The Turn Signal RSS...
A UX Review of Peugeot’s New Interior: When Design Ambition Meets Software Reality
The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot...
1st Jun 2025
The Panorama i-Cockpit is the latest iteration of the i-Cockpit that debuted in the 2012 Peugeot 208. The i-Cockpit's main innovation is…
alexwlchan
Resizing images in Rust, now with EXIF orientation support
Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges.
One...
8th Sep 2025
Resizing an image is one of those programming tasks that seems simple, but has some rough edges.
One common mistake is forgetting to handle the EXIF orientation, which can make resized images look very different from the original.
Last year I wrote a create_thumbnail tool to...
Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
31st May 2025
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Threaded
I penned a Thot(?!), or rather, a post on Threads, the Twitter clone that Meta released some time...
5th Nov 2023
I penned a Thot(?!), or rather, a post on Threads, the Twitter clone that Meta released some time ago. I don’t find it particularly useful, as my Twitter usage had declined long ago.
Anyway, the post (and accompanying photo):
“When I contemplate the idea of relocating, it’s 70°...
Caroline Crampton
While Being A Rather Chaotic Person
The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book...
a week ago
The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book collection second.
I can feel myself becoming ever more algorithm-phobic. This is how I want everything recommended to me, these days.
I found this audio serialisation of Hiroshima,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Toni's Blog
2025test
Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2025
Everything that happened to me this year
Grant Slatton's Blog
Manufacturing as Maintenance
The cleansing fire of rebirth
8th Jun 2025
The cleansing fire of rebirth
Koos Looijesteijn
Things I learned from doing a side project
20th Mar 2018
computers are bad
2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters
One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications
technology was the development...
16th Aug 2025
One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications
technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of
radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave
telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T...
Slow Boring
Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
2 weeks ago
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
Commoncog
Is This a Moat: Mailchimp and PayPal’s Algorithmic Advantage
Two case studies of real world competitive advantage, followed by a question: was this a moat or...
12th Dec 2022
Two case studies of real world competitive advantage, followed by a question: was this a moat or not?
Classical Wisdom
Sophocles' Swansong
Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
A Smart Bear
Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better...
31st May 2010
You worry about competition from the big, brand-name, deep-pocketed company. But there are better things to worry about and ways to avoid running into gorillas in the first place.
AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer
5th Mar 2025
Stat Significant
Which Songs Are Frequently Featured in Film and Television? A Statistical Analysis
Which songs have become staples of film and television?
5th Mar 2025
Which songs have become staples of film and television?
The DESK Magazine
How to build your secret repertoire
As a creative, your repertoire is your secret weapon.
2nd Jul 2024
As a creative, your repertoire is your secret weapon.
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto...
3rd Oct 2024
Kamal was our ticket out of the cloud. A simple tool for deploying containerized applications onto our own hardware, without the need for the complexity of something like Kubernetes. Kamal 2 is a huge leap forward for that tool, and it has just shipped.
Now you can deploy...
Greater Still by...
Joining Rostra
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
17th Sep 2024
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
Marian's Blog
Generating 3D roof meshes from aerial LIDAR data
This is my graduation project I did in computer science. The goal was to come up with a method to...
2nd Jan 2018
This is my graduation project I did in computer science. The goal was to come up with a method to generate 3D meshes of building roofs from point cloud data. The point cloud data was taken with aerial LIDAR scanners and is available online. In addition, I used building layout...
Louwrentius - Solar
Buying a new computer
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
3rd Apr 2011
*** Desktop or Laptop ***
When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
Tony Finch's blog
RIPE DNS Hackathon
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several...
22nd May 2023
This weekend I was in Rotterdam for the
RIPE DNS Hackathon.
About 50 people gathered with several ideas for potential projects: things
like easier DNSSEC provisioning, monitoring DNS activity in the network,
what is the environmental cost of the DNS, …
At the start of the weekend...
Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
16th Jul 2023
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms.
In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
videah's blog
Howdy, Is This Thing On?
Since things are uh... collapsing?
I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and...
14th Nov 2022
Since things are uh... collapsing?
I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and running. Come in, get comfy and take a look around!
Cozy right?
Getting Started (Again)
Ok admittedly, this is my 4th attempt at making a blog. This time I'm...
The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer?
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
29th Nov 2022
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
Eliran Turgeman
PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh
goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the...
9th Aug 2024
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh
goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the following
1
winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget
Step 2: Choose a Font
Totally optional, but if you want to get a specific font follow this section.
to install a supported...
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
14th Jan 2022
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Anthony Castrio's...
I got 12 job interviews in two weeks
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
29th Jul 2024
Life Updates: new job, new city, + a surgery
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Investment Advice Which Stands the Test of Time
There is investment advice in the book of Jewish religious law (the Talmud).
It advises that you...
5th May 2024
There is investment advice in the book of Jewish religious law (the Talmud).
It advises that you keep 1/3rd of your wealth in business, 1/3rd in land, and 1/3rd in gold.
It's genius.
Why?
First, it's simple.
Second, business, and, to a lesser extent, land, (but not gold, usually)...
Contraption Co.
The next iteration of Contraption Company
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
6th Sep 2024
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
AI as Normal...
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
9th Jul 2026
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras or PyTorch as your first deep learning framework
27th Jun 2018
Max Woolf's Blog
AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again.
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
13th Aug 2024
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
Spoon & Tamago
Contemporary Nihonga Images of Hamsters Created by Otama-shimai
all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name...
2nd Feb 2025
all images by Otama-shimai | used with permission The Japanese artist who goes by the name Otama-shimai creates Nihonga-style images almost exclusively of hamsters. Nihonga is a Japanese style of painting coined in the mid-1800s to differentiate it from its Western counterpart....
Pea Bee
#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website
The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
5th Oct 2023
The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity
It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
9th May 2022
It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
Computer Ads from...
Disking Banana
Go Bananas
1st Aug 2025
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...
African History...
The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the...
1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
cdixon
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony.
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
17th Oct 2015
One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
1st Feb 2024
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you.
What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web!
How did...
Christian Selig
Theming Apps on iOS is Hard
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
7th Feb 2022
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Software and Tech...
Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now?
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most...
14th Apr 2025
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most investors has been clear: diversify, buy stable index funds, and let time work its magic. It wasn't the most thrilling advice, but it was generally sound. The idea was that the underlying...
brr
South Pole Topography
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
27th Jan 2023
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
12th Sep 2020
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
Matt Blewitt
Long Distance Relationships
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
12th Oct 2024
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
13th Oct 2024
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Common Edge
The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines
Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
5th Aug 2024
Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
anthonynsimon.com
1-Node ClickHouse in Production
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Kansas City Streetcar Extension, 2025
Submitted by Jon in KC, who says: This is the new KC Streetcar pylon map, updated to reflect the...
24th Oct 2025
Submitted by Jon in KC, who says: This is the new KC Streetcar pylon map, updated to reflect the Main Street Extension that opens this Friday, October 24th. It also shows the Riverfront Extension, which will open sometime early next year. I’m curious to get your thoughts. I have...
Many Worlds
Getting To Know Rogue Planets
In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large...
11th Aug 2023
In our Earthling minds, planets exist in solar systems with a Sun in the middle and objects large and small orbiting around it. This is hardly surprising since planets are pretty much exclusively illustrated in solar systems and, until the onset of the 21st century, no other...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for...
5th Apr 2019
I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines.
The result of the port is a Go client.
This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Coffee with an...
Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024
It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
12th Dec 2024
It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
Open Culture
The Story Of Menstruation: Watch Walt Disney’s Sex Ed Film from 1946
From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools....
3rd Mar 2025
From 1945 to 1951, Disney produced a series of educational films to be shown in American schools. How to bathe an infant. How not to catch a cold. Why you shouldn’t drive fast. Disney covered these subjects in its educational shorts, and then eventually got to the touchy subject...
Spoon & Tamago
Is the Human Washing Machine of our Dreams Finally Becoming a Reality?
If you wandered the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at Expo 2025 and felt like you’d stepped into a retro...
5th Oct 2025
If you wandered the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at Expo 2025 and felt like you’d stepped into a retro sci-fi spa, you weren’t imagining things. One of the talk-of-the-fair exhibits is a futuristic bathing pod — billed as a “Future Human Washing Machine” — that promises to wash and...
Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
30th Apr 2021
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
joshua stein
Subtext 3.0 Released
Subtext
3.0 has been released:
subtext-3.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C...
11th Nov 2023
Subtext
3.0 has been released:
subtext-3.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C 5 project file)
713f9b465281f89405522f7aef23d4fa2bf035c7cd070f690395302a4a77045a
SHA1: 47ba8aa40e2abcd3811c3f26b349a15a78bcd956
ipdb-2023-11.db
(Free IP Geolocation...
Quantum Frontiers
Can AI Predict the Quantum Universe?
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of...
11th Dec 2025
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of our time: Can classical AI understand all natural phenomena, or are some fundamentally beyond its reach? Many proponents of artificial intelligence argue that any … Continue...
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
20th Mar 2018
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
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