Jonas Hietala
The End of the Tunnel
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
19th Oct 2011
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time.
One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
NeuroLogica Blog
Problems with the Institute Of Noetic Sciences
I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of...
1st May 2023
I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Overall the article is very good, and author Maddie Bender was fair and reasonable in how I was quoted. I can’t always take that as a given. No matter how...
The personal website...
Tiny data visualizations
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube.
Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
Tom MacWright
Recently
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.
For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
Elad Blog
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face
Sign up now - in person space is limited
18th Mar 2023
Sign up now - in person space is limited
Londonist
Princess Anne To Walk Through Giant Inflatable Gut.... And You Can Too!
Paternoster Square will host a microbiome festival.
1st Sep 2025
Paternoster Square will host a microbiome festival.
Sam Altman
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
28th May 2020
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.
But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Liz Denys
Blue spiral V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
9th Oct 2023
Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, satin bright blue glaze
Daniel Marino
JS13K 2018 Retrospective
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a...
15th Oct 2018
In one of my weekly developer emails, I saw a link for JS13KGames. I've always wanted to create a video game. I asked my JavaScript-whiz buddy, Brad, if he was interested in building a game with me. Without hesitation, he said “Yes!”
Concept
A couple of years ago I came up with...
charity.wtf
Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
Applied Cartography
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the...
18th Feb 2020
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the conversations and stories are ones we've had before, but it is still fun to banter and to rehash old arguments and think about the good times.
fast.ai
The real risk of AI is how it concentrates power
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the...
28th Jul 2023
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the release of ChatGPT4, Bard, and Bing Chat. This new generation of large language models has made headlines and sparked widespread debate. To consider the risks posed by new AI...
Scott Jenson
Design can be free
As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche...
15th Jan 2023
As consumer devices get ‘smart’, they tend to sprout a large number push buttons. It’s almost cliche at this point to complain about them. The tiny buttons, hidden modes, and Konami Code interaction encourages mistakes and forces frequent trips to the user manual. Of course, they...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Search like a pro: Google search operators
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
Matt Keeter
Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022
31st May 2022
DYNOMIGHT
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when heritability is redefined to be...
How heritable is hair color? Well, if you’re a redhead and you have an identical twin, they will...
5th Feb 2026
How heritable is hair color? Well, if you’re a redhead and you have an identical twin, they will definitely also be a redhead. But the age at which twins go gray seems to vary a bit based on lifestyle. And there’s some randomness in where melanocytes end up on your skull when...
Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
Freewheeling Apps
2025-05-12
Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or...
12th May 2025
Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or phone:
A tutorial for using it tailored towards programmers
Exercises for learning programming
Lots of example programs you can run right from within it, clone and remix
Reference...
Never Met a Science
Open Science and Its Enemies
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”....
2nd Jun 2025
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean?
The Roots of...
Can we “cure” cancer?
In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes:
Ask most biologists...
1st Feb 2023
In an excellent recent essay on “big visions for biology,” Sam Rodriques writes:
Ask most biologists about the cure for cancer, and they will tell you it doesn’t exist: cancer is many diseases that are mostly unrelated to each other, and that all have to be cured one at a...
Abort Retry Fail
SRI & ARC
The Dawn of the Information Age
27th Sep 2025
The Dawn of the Information Age
Electronics etc…
Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside...
26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside the OCXO107-10
Looking Forward
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market
on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator.
Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
markround.com
Returning To Rails in 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced...
5th Mar 2026
I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in having a playground to...
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
8th Dec 2022
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out!
This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
21st Aug 2025
Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
Applied Cartography
2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
Quanta Magazine
The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory
Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists...
1st Nov 2023
Quadratic reciprocity lurks around many corners in mathematics. By proving it, number theorists reimagined their whole field.
The post The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
18th Sep 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it.
Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
Stephen Diehl
Basic Formal Ontology
Basic Formal Ontology
The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad...
21st Jul 2024
Basic Formal Ontology
The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad swatch of human knowledge. It's a cornerstone for logic programmers and those creating comprehensive knowledge graphs which cover multiple domains.
graph TD;
Q --> Q;
Q[Variable...
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
16th Jan 2023
Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
Three Letter Acronym
I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve...
4th Jan 2025
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know the Dock, it’s been …...
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #191
Cancer Sniffing Dogs, Zuck's Virtual Cell + Space Lasers, Rainmeasurer, De-extincting the Bluebuck,...
1st May 2026
Cancer Sniffing Dogs, Zuck's Virtual Cell + Space Lasers, Rainmeasurer, De-extincting the Bluebuck, Millennial Dads + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses
Eric Migicovsky's...
Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement...
9th Jul 2018
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
tonsky.me
Needy Programs
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older...
13th Nov 2025
If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.
But recently...
Laetitia@Work
4 Reasons why too few of us will work in the future
Laetitia@Work #84
14th Aug 2025
Josh Comeau's blog
Make Beautiful Gradients
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This...
11th Jan 2022
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
4th Jan 2025
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task.
I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts.
Each...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Toward a More Useful X Keyboard
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary...
23rd Jan 2015
I’m not sure when, exactly, it became clear that I was going to spend
as much time as necessary perfecting my keyboard configuration. It’s one
of those things that you know you can make absolutely
perfect—given enough time and energy. On Linux, when you spend enough
time bashing...
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
15th Sep 2024
Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading →
The post My...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June....
10th Jul 2024
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
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.
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ This Is What We Have To Lose
Yesterday felt defeating with the damning report that our climate has indeed moved unfortunately...
10th Aug 2021
Yesterday felt defeating with the damning report that our climate has indeed moved unfortunately forward into severity and decline. It’s too late for some aspects but not too late to avoid some of the worst aspects.
The fires, the smoke, and the record-high temperatures that...
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
5th Jul 2024
It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
Isabel Unraveled
how good will you let it get?
loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
1st Apr 2025
loosen your grip to let abundance flow in
Old Vintage...
More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family...
16th Mar 2025
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that...
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...
devonzuegel.com
To rent or to sell, that is the question
As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or...
10th Sep 2023
As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or sell the buildings you've built.
Income from rentals flows in steadily over years, while income from sales hits all at once. This essential difference is simple but has many...
Works in Progress...
Buyers of first resort
How do technologies get off the ground? As well as seed funding, many of the best technologies...
14th Sep 2021
How do technologies get off the ground? As well as seed funding, many of the best technologies require Buyers of First Resort, which buy products until they improve enough to get to efficient scale.
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
3rd Feb 2012
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward. It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page. Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
ntietz.com blog -...
You can't always fix it
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
The Web Witch's Blog
Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work....
19th Nov 2019
There isn't a day that goes by that I feel extremely privileged to do what I get to do for work. Last week, I flew out to Berlin for a few days to attend Beyond Tellerrand. My co-worker Aaron was speaking and running a workshop and I emceed the community focused session we've...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] Happy New Year With a Side of Fries
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Denny’s. Happy new year. You can tell it’s January first, because...
1st Jan 2026
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Denny’s. Happy new year. You can tell it’s January first, because I’m at Denny’s. I woke up and made a nice coffee and did some accounting (as one does) and went to my local shrine in Tokyo and bowbowclapclapbow’d and then I was off! Tramping...
Sherman's Food...
Song Huong Eatery
Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly,...
1st Jun 2026
Many years ago, I would visit Song Huong out on Nanaimo for their Vietnamese fare, in particularly, their Bò 7 Món. For those who are not familiar, this is seven courses of beef that is usually served during celebrations. So when they opened a second location near me, I knew I...
African History...
The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE)
At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most...
7th Sep 2025
At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most urbanized places in Africa.
Butler's Log
DevDays in Vilnius
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and...
1st Jun 2023
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and future of version control tools and we had a blast meeting new friends and talking version control.
Eric Migicovsky's...
The YC Interview
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
1st Jan 2020
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
Works in Progress...
Every grain of rice
As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is...
22nd May 2023
As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering.
Adventures In...
Esri User Conference 2026
I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are...
15th Jun 2026
I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are attending, and have nothing better to do, consider catching one of these sessions I get to be a part of with some fantastic colleagues and Ken! Basemaps Are Not Just the Background...
Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
5th Mar 2024
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Internal Tech Emails
ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
15th Jun 2025
ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Rot-Com Bubble
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
3rd Jun 2024
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday.
The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I'
sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
29th Dec 2024
Eric Bailey
Sandcastles
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
Paul Cudenec
For one people's resistance!
by Paul Cudenec
1st Jan 2025
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace.
<sl-button>Click me</sl-button>
Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
Cybercultural:...
The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse
This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26...
26th Jul 2021
This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26 July, 2020. English was Doug Engelbart’s right-hand man in the Mother of All Demos in 1968 and a key developer of the oN-Line System (NLS). The post below was initially part of a book...
Blog System/5
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as...
7th Oct 2024
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. It's time to see how any of that carried over through the 16-bit to 64-bit evolution.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September.
Summary Of Changes
100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook.
M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs.
Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
Machine Learning for...
Coding with AI is getting even better
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
28th Feb 2025
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mafia, zdradziecka parzystość oraz pi
6th Jul 2010
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
The personal website...
Agile & anxiety
Managing anxiety is a big part of my life.
I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that...
14th May 2018
Managing anxiety is a big part of my life.
I have generalized anxiety:1 I constantly feel that something will go wrong at any moment. Often, I can’t even identify what I’m anxious about.
Work is a significant contributor to my anxiety. When I’m at work (and often when I’m not), I...
A Day In The Life...
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
22nd Sep 2023
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
Justin Jackson
Your idea needs a passionate believer
4th Jan 2012
Posts on Made of...
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
9th Mar 2025
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
Eukaryote Writes...
Who invented knitting? The plot thickens
Last time on Eukaryote Writes Blog: You learned about knitting history. You thought you were done...
4th Feb 2023
Last time on Eukaryote Writes Blog: You learned about knitting history. You thought you were done learning about knitting history? You fool. You buffoon. I wanted to double check some things in the last post and found out that the origins of knitting are even weirder than I...
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
27th Dec 2024
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
Better than Random
Either micromanage your people or lean on them
Something in between is the worst
5th Jan 2026
Something in between is the worst
blag
About
Some Stuff About Me
1st Jan 2001
Eliran Turgeman
Escaping the local maxima
when i was a student, everything was simpler.
grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer.
i knew...
5th Apr 2025
when i was a student, everything was simpler.
grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer.
i knew the salaries. i knew what “winning” looked like.
it was a somewhat straight line from broke student to backend engineer at a top company.
and i did it, i 10x my life in the span of...
Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed
Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
27th Jan 2025
Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
cdixon
Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of...
2nd Apr 2012
A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of new seed funds caused many big VCs to…
GeoCurrents
Exploring the Urban/Rural Electoral Divide in Canada, and Its Exceptions
Although the Canadian electorate is more leftwing than that of the United States, the two counties...
18th May 2025
Although the Canadian electorate is more leftwing than that of the United States, the two counties have similar electoral geographies (see the previous GeoCurrents post). In both the U.S. and Canada, population density figures prominently in the political divide: the more urban...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 26
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer, and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
14th Sep 2022
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer, and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Project Blog on...
Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 2
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, and to tie it all together as...
4th Jan 2024
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, and to tie it all together as robustly as possible, I am use CAN. This protocol is designed to rapidly share small updates around a network in an electrically noise environment, and in a previous post, I detailed...
Passing Time
On For Grantedness
Finding secular thankfulness
17th May 2022
Finding secular thankfulness
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Networking Essentials: Software Defined Networking
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
4th Nov 2018
Why Software Defined Networking is taking the networking world by storm
Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
6th Jan 2025
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
14th Jan 2019
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is
the first conformant
Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the
full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Cognitive...
Uncensored Models
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
15th May 2023
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
6th Oct 2024
Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
Long Now
Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power
“This time is different.”
Historians: “Ha.”
“The Net is net beneficial.”
Historian Niall...
13th Dec 2018
“This time is different.”
Historians: “Ha.”
“The Net is net beneficial.”
Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings...
Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
Ruud van Asseldonk
Exceptional results: error handling with C# and Rust
17th Jun 2015
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
1st May 2024
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
Project Blog on...
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
This Space
Blood Knowledge by Kirsty Gunn
"A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem"...
29th Nov 2024
"A novel is a kind of lazy way of writing a short story, a short story a lazy way of writing a poem" said Muriel Spark, adding by explanation: "The longer they become, the more they seem to lose value". We might wonder then if the most value is to be found in the shortest novels,...
Escaping Flatland
Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens
If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
6 days ago
If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Reasons to Stay at The Cooper in Charleston
a week ago
The Quanta Podcast
A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild
Near an Australian desert mining camp, wild dingoes are losing their fear of humans. Their genetic...
9th Aug 2018
Near an Australian desert mining camp, wild dingoes are losing their fear of humans. Their genetic and behavioral changes may echo those from the domestication of dogs.
The post A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
24th Jul 2021
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a “uses” page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Willem's Blog
MUSE in Carré
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
Classical Wisdom
Tolkien and the Classics
Plato, Cicero... Bilbo?
8th Sep 2023
RhysTranter.com
The Meaning of Logos
Taken from Fr John Nepil‘s To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail: “Creation...
11th Apr 2026
Taken from Fr John Nepil‘s To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail: “Creation felt symphonic Everything from the wildflowers below to the stratus clouds above spoke of order and design. The ancients had a word for this-one that would in time become intensely...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
8th May 2017
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
Articles - Chris...
Moved to tears
20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was
the payoff.
It was...
3rd Feb 2024
20 years ago, on January 15 2004, a little before 2 AM Pacific time, was
the payoff.
It was cause for celebration. But first, I wept.
Long Now
Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
### Public Funding for Public Elections
Larry Lessig gave a rousing performance for the 100th...
18th Jan 2012
### Public Funding for Public Elections
Larry Lessig gave a rousing performance for the 100th Seminar About Long-Term Thinking. In a lawyerly fashion he laid out evidence of a new type of corruption that is disrupting the American republic, and he offered a remedy for that...
The Intimate Mirror
I'm Married
It Takes a Village to Raise a Marriage
2nd Aug 2026
It Takes a Village to Raise a Marriage
Conservation...
Landmark debt swap to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs
15th Jan 2025
Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti...
1st Jun 2025
In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it,
I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I
got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of
attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a
reminder to my...
Neil Panchal
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI.
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of...
3rd Jun 2022
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals.
Announcement:
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/
New Jet Brains interface
We're professionals. We can...
Louwrentius - Solar
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;...
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
5th Feb 2011
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
Josh Thompson
Typing for Programmers
If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”.
I...
11th Dec 2016
If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”.
I can press these magical little keys on this little metal box here, and make these words come out.
If you’re reading these words, you don’t care how these words actually got on...
Stephen Wolfram...
Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected
21st Jul 2026
DevOps - Bitfield...
What is GitOps?
It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible,
Puppet, and Chef. Now...
3rd Jul 2020
It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible,
Puppet, and Chef. Now GitOps brings some new tools for managing
containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters.
Haterade
Happy Birthday, Haterade
The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
23rd Nov 2022
The Terrible Twos. Plus, new merch!
Global Inequality...
The order of inequality
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
12th Apr 2024
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
The Turn Signal RSS...
The State of UX Design of Chinese Car Brands
The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening...
1st Jul 2020
The Market Potential Today, the sales numbers from Chinese car manufacturers don't seem threatening to established car companies but they…
Christopher Butler
Signals #001: The Politics of Naming
Signals
Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn...
25th May 2026
Signals
Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn between things I have encountered…
Something strange happens when we put a name to things. The moment “cassette futurism” or “Corporate Memphis” enters circulation, it stops being...
The Rational Walk
Greg Abel’s 2026 Letter to Shareholders
Greg Abel's first letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders emphasized the need to keep the...
2nd Mar 2026
Greg Abel's first letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders emphasized the need to keep the company's unique culture.
Caitlin’s Newsletter
New Painting: Roger Waters
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Nela Dunato Art &...
Quest for the best black paint: Gouache, acrylic, india ink, pastel & more compared
I love adding black backgrounds, borders, or other large areas of black to my artwork! In the past I...
30th Dec 2022
I love adding black backgrounds, borders, or other large areas of black to my artwork! In the past I mostly used India ink because it’s affordable, easy to use, and easy to find in stores. But now I'm curious if I can find something better.
I tested and compared 14 different...
benkuhn.net
Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic.
I’ve been noticing recently that...
13th Jul 2024
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Anthropic.
I’ve been noticing recently that often, a big blocker to teams staying effective as they grow is trust.
“Alice doesn’t trust Bob” makes Alice sound like the bad guy, but it’s often completely appropriate for people...
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
14th Jul 2017
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently.
After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
Confessions of a...
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
1st Sep 2020
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Shilin typing
Don't ever stop dreaming
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet...
8th Feb 2026
Yesterday, I traded sun, beach, and a beautiful warm sea for a cold, gray sky and a pair of wet shoes. I still can't believe I did it. The constant winter overcast was reason enough to leave Canada and never look back. When I finally left, I had bought a ticket to a never-ending...
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Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Navigate Your Computer the Easy Way
Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing,
they simplify navigation,...
1st Jul 2007
Keyboard shortcuts are the ish nizzle, they speed up your computing,
they simplify navigation, they’re old school. If you can’t navigate your
filesystem/computer without touching your mouse, then you aren’t as cool
as me, and that’s the straight dope. I’m writing this because I...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
Product Identity
The Venn of my process
A last minute event
15th Apr 2026
Cheese and Biscuits
Camille, Borough Market
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with...
7th Oct 2024
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared in exciting and distinctive ways, that it's almost enough to spoil any other dining experience by default, and it makes you wonder if they...
Wrong Side of...
The spread of British decline porn
Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
2nd Dec 2025
Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
McMansion Hell
pre-recession, post-taste
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s...
30th Oct 2023
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s why I’ve gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to...
Founder's blog
Zen Browser review and benchmark vs Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Safari
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy...
2nd Nov 2024
I'm looking for a new daily driver browser on my Mac. Chrome is a non-starter for me due to privacy concerns (Google's tracking empire is alive and well), and Edge is just... too much. Every update shoves another set of “features” down my throat — Copilot, discount coupons, Bing...
Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
8th Aug 2011
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux.
Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
13th May 2024
useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
ntietz.com blog -...
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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.
Eugene Yan
Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
4th Apr 2021
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
Epic Web Dev
Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
Blog System/5
What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?
An overview of the cool technical building blocks behind EndBASIC and what they could turn into if...
8th May 2026
An overview of the cool technical building blocks behind EndBASIC and what they could turn into if they evolved on their own
The Honest Broker
How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill?
A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in...
6th Oct 2024
A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in dreams
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.
Prolost
Red Giant VFX Suite
Today Red Giant has released a brand-new collection of plug-ins for visual effects compositing. It’s...
18th Jun 2019
Today Red Giant has released a brand-new collection of plug-ins for visual effects compositing. It’s called VFX Suite, and some of these tools are things I’ve been dreaming about since computers were beige.
There are nine plug-ins in the suite. You can learn about all of them at...
matt.sh
BlazeIt (macOS + iOS B2 Client)
4th Jul 2026
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in...
1st Jun 2026
My monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in May - Went to Oaxaca for vacation, which was a culturally rich and walkable place. I enjoyed a lot of ...
Long Now
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth
## De-extinction science
When people hear about “ancient DNA” in fossils, Shapiro began, the first...
12th May 2015
## De-extinction science
When people hear about “ancient DNA” in fossils, Shapiro began, the first question always is “Can we clone a dinosaur?” Dinosaurs died out so many millions of years ago, their fossils are nothing but rock (and by the way, there’s no workaround with...
CrimethInc.
When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE : A Guide from Chicago Organizers
Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect...
3rd Dec 2025
Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start?
We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt...
Stephen Diehl
Book Review: Capitalist Realism
Book Review: Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange...
5th Aug 2023
Book Review: Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange your brain. It is the most important political book of its generation, and it was published by a tiny press, written by a further education lecturer, and reads like a blog post...
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
2nd Oct 2023
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
Build In Public...
Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you?
It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...
25th Mar 2022
It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method
With Postgres 12,
released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage
engine.
This...
1st Nov 2023
With Postgres 12,
released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage
engine.
This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at
least 8 different built-in
engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on
RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Scott Kennedy
Principal Engineers and their million dollar microbiomes
29th Jul 2023
Some Bits: Nelson's...
Society of Mind
Harper Reed's company has been experimenting with having several AI agents talk to each other via...
1st Oct 2025
Harper Reed's company has been experimenting with having several AI agents talk to each other via blogs and social media. It seems to be engendering some interesting social intelligence
Marc Astbury
End user programming – my experience building an iOS app
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and...
22nd Nov 2024
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and builders of software is seldom considered. A software builder sits in San Francisco and hopefully talks to and observes user needs and behaviors in order to build a product that has...
Tech and Tea
My First Vibe Coding Project: The Trader Joe’s Snack Box Builder
A surprisingly delightful experience
5th May 2025
A surprisingly delightful experience
Woody Hayday
Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build
This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly...
5th Sep 2024
This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly uncomfortable. What to make?
The post Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Open for Business
First, Do Harm
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more...
2nd Apr 2026
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more and more countries in the world, and a dozen states, now have laws that allow the killing of killing their citizens and residents.
sancho.dev
4 Years at ahrefs, can’t ask for a better job
9th May 2024
Willem L. Middelkoop
Master of Change
Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel...
17th Jan 2025
Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel daunting and disorienting. In the book "Master of Change", Brad Stulberg offers a thought-provoking guide to not just survive but thrive in an ever changing world.
As you grow...
The Quanta Podcast
A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But...
18th May 2017
For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But many now argue for a different cosmic quarry.
The post A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Fabien Sanglard
Game Engine Black Book ReleaseDate
More...
7th Aug 2017
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
21st Dec 2021
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Bits about Money
Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are...
6th Feb 2026
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Friction by Design
What gets lost when everything is effortless?
For years, good digital design has been framed as the...
2nd Dec 2025
What gets lost when everything is effortless?
For years, good digital design has been framed as the removal of friction. Faster flows. Fewer steps. Instant feedback. Smooth, seamless interactions that disappear into the background. If something slows a user down, it’s treated as...
mtlynch.io
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these...
12th Oct 2017
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every other component of a review. Communicating issues you discover in a constructive and professional way? Irrelevant! Just...
Rare Historical...
What the Arctic Looked Like in the 1870s–1900s, Seen Through Old Photos
At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a...
1st Feb 2026
At the far edges of the nineteenth-century world, the Arctic stood as both a lived homeland and a testing ground for human ambition. Long before explorers and photographers arrived with cameras and scientific instruments, Indigenous peoples such as the Inuit, Sámi, and Chukchi...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Mouth Lookers and the Connection Illusion
My girlfriend told me I was do it wrong. How was I supposed to know? They don’t teach this stuff in...
6th Aug 2016
My girlfriend told me I was do it wrong. How was I supposed to know? They don’t teach this stuff in school.
Inverted Passion
Becoming a Republic
The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the...
1st Aug 2025
The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the Oxford University, where we read Plato’s Republic. The essay includes a few references to structure and specific content from the book, so if something doesn’t make sense, it’s probably...
Ben Borgers
Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
5th Apr 2026
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping out the tribes of climate
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent...
30th Nov 2022
Climate is a gravity well for talent, but why don’t other, equally impactful topics attract talent in the same way? Why isn’t everyone dropping everything to work on homelessness, or global poverty, or curing cancer? With many peers in tech now working on climate issues, I tried...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Greensburg Tornado Disaster Relief
Greensburg
I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close...
7th May 2007
Greensburg
I know that this is a goofy little tech blog, but I think that a disaster that hit close to home (for me anyway) needs more attention than it's getting. My fear is that the Greensburg tornado will fade from the public mind just as quickly as it came. I would like to...
Eric Bailey
Tech metaphors
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors...
11th Nov 2019
Tired of referencing the same yaks, sheds, and cars over and over again? Here’s a few new metaphors to drop at your next sprint planning meeting:
Winchester Mystery House
A mansion in San Jose, California that was once occupied by Sarah Winchester, widow of the eponymous firearms...
Patterns in Humanity
Immigrant assimilation in Denmark
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
17th May 2024
A brief overview of the school performance of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants in Denmark
Herman's blog
The commodification of travel
How travel has become an act of collection
22nd Apr 2026
How travel has become an act of collection
Asterisk
The Highway to NIMBYism
San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up...
1st May 2024
San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up by highways. Today, that same legacy prevents the city from building what it desperately needs: more housing.
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...
Confessions of a...
x86 Addressing Modes, Part 2: Indirect, Indexed, and Offset-based Modes
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing...
9th Aug 2026
In this final part on addressing modes, we learn about indirect, indexed and offset-based addressing modes along with some interesting examples and exercises.
Julia Evans
How do Nix builds work?
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix...
3rd Mar 2023
Hello! For some reason after the last nix post I got nerdsniped by trying to understand how Nix builds
work under the hood, so here’s a quick exploration I did today. There are probably some mistakes in here.
I started by complaining on Mastodon:
are there any guides to nix that...
Noahpinion
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
1st Nov 2024
It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
blag
Recurse Center: Winter Break
the Recurse Center winter break
1st Jan 2022
the Recurse Center winter break
Ben Borgers
Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes
5th Jan 2023
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
12th Sep 2009
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site.
Let’s rock!!
Old Structures...
Two Views, Both Not Quite Photographs
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller...
1st Jun 2026
From a 1902 postcard, a profile view of the Brooklyn Bridge (with bonus Fulton ferry) and a smaller view of the walkway. If you know the bridge well, as I do, the promenade view is actually quite accurate, but I suspect it’s a little bit difficult to parse for people who haven’t...
I Have No Idea What...
A New Project: Remote Rocketship 🚀
In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now...
11th Dec 2022
In my last post, I talked about how I going about searching for a new idea to work on. I’ve now landed on Remote Rocketship, a job board for remote roles. In this post, I’ll talk about how I got there, what I’ve been up to and how I’m thinking about moving forward.
Sedimental
Maintainerati 2017: GitHub Design
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular...
18th Oct 2017
Last week I attended a Maintainerati event, an
unconference/mini-summit for maintainers of popular software, run as a
prelude to the GitHub Universe conference. After being
brought up to speed on this year's secret handshake of the software elite,
I had a great time in the...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Issue tracking for your workflow
I've been using GitHub issues to track problems with my workflow.
18th Nov 2013
I've been using GitHub issues to track problems with my workflow.
Liz Denys
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive...
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric
On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
11th Aug 2016
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric
On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Transit Maps
Submission – Fantasy Map: Honolulu Skyline by Justin Kunimune
Submitted by Justin, who says: Hi, I’m a big fan of this blog! I’ve been working on a fantasy...
8th Dec 2025
Submitted by Justin, who says: Hi, I’m a big fan of this blog! I’ve been working on a fantasy diagram for the Honolulu rapid transit system, Skyline, and wanted to submit it for you to review. As of this year, the system has one line that runs from East Kapolei (Kualakaʻi...
Maggie Appleton
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
10th Jul 2020
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
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