Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
23rd Jul 2017
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
5th Apr 2022
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Louwrentius - Solar
An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor
Introduction
Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at...
30th Oct 2021
Introduction
Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam. I was there to buy a Western Digital Raptor model WD740, with 74 GB of capacity, running at 10,000 RPM.
When I bought this drive, we were still in...
Eric Bailey
The five types of people who produce inaccessible code
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They...
16th Jun 2023
There are roughly five types of people you’ll meet doing accessibility development work. They are:
People who create inaccessible code, but do not realize they are doing so.
People who create inaccessible code and realize they are doing so, but do not know how to fix it.
People...
One Useful Thing
The Machines of Mastery
"Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
1st Feb 2023
"Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
Justin Jackson
Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want
17th Oct 2012
Willem L. Middelkoop
Fietselfstedentocht 2017
This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you...
29th Jun 2017
This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you through various Frisian cities throughout one of the most Northern provinces of the Netherlands. The tour was first organised in 1912 and has grown to become legendary due to its...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 20
Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is...
8th Mar 2022
Highlights I hired TinyPilot’s first support engineer. I learned that hiring a support engineer is even harder than I expected. I’m evaluating platforms for paying international contractors. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how...
The Gradient
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Stephen Wolfram...
Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
A Theory of Medicine? As it’s practiced today, medicine is almost always about particulars: “this...
3rd Feb 2025
A Theory of Medicine? As it’s practiced today, medicine is almost always about particulars: “this has gone wrong; this is how to fix it”. But might it also be possible to talk about medicine in a more general, more abstract way—and perhaps to create a framework in which one can...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
6th Aug 2024
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much.
I thought I more or less understood the...
Hickman's...
Notes From Cream-of-the-Valley Road
Delayed Due Dates, Paternal Nerves, and the New York State Flag
3rd Sep 2025
Delayed Due Dates, Paternal Nerves, and the New York State Flag
FIRE v London
Dec ’25: 2025 in review
It’s over. The year of 2025, the thirteenth year I’ve been systematically tracking my investment...
19th Jan 2026
It’s over. The year of 2025, the thirteenth year I’ve been systematically tracking my investment portfolio every month, is over. One of the reasons I blog is to track my performance with a bit more discipline and rigour than I might manage otherwise. And part of that process is...
escape the algorithm
howdidyoufind.me
a website about how people found this website
24th Sep 2024
a website about how people found this website
sbensu
Payments vs Transfers
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has...
4th Feb 2023
Transfer means to move money but payment means "exchanging goods or services". A payment system has a lot more requirements than a transfer system and I rarely see the crypto ecosystem acknowledge these when building "payment" products.
Louwrentius - Solar
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with:
A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with:
A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion
Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS)
Bootcamp partition with windows
A data partition containg... data.
The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Quina (My First App)!
The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the...
10th Dec 2020
The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the Google Play Store.
Works in Progress...
Just bury your trash
What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
2 weeks ago
What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
Max Woolf's Blog
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
wingolog
ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed...
6th Feb 2026
Hello friends! Today, a quick note: the
ahead-of-time
WebAssembly compiler now supports managed memory via garbage collection!Wastrel
The quickest demo I have is that you should check out and build wastrel
itself:
Then run a quick check with :hello, world
Now give a check...
Justin Jackson
Will a college degree get you a programming job?
7th Sep 2012
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git Advice
Git can be
confusing.
It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release
engineer...
31st Jul 2018
Git can be
confusing.
It’s more confusing fumbling with git under pressure. As a release
engineer fumbling with git under pressure is a appreciable chunk of my
job; as such, I’ve learned a trick or two.
Recently I added some general git
advice to our shared wiki page for...
Society's Backend:...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
These Yaks Ain't...
How to Build Fly Locally With Docker for Mac
In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to...
2nd Oct 2023
In my recent side projet, I’ve been deploying to fly.io and really enjoying it. It’s fairly easy to get setup. And it supports my preferred workflow of deploying my changes early and often.
I have run into a few snags though. Fly.io builds your project into a docker image and...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
8th May 2017
Commoncog
The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do...
12th May 2025
A theory of demand (and product market fit) that explains it all, and does NOT require ‘pain’ to do it.
Jamesin’s Substack
AI Engine - The Hack
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20th Feb 2025
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Matt Blewitt
A Love Letter to Giant Robots
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first...
1st Jun 2024
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first exposure to them was probably through 1994’s BattleTech animated series, where Adam Steiner piloted an AXM-2N Axman, in its frankly ridiculous neon green and purple paint job. And from...
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...
The Web Witch's Blog
Building better websites with the Chromium DevTools Issues Panel
What feels like a very long time ago, I was leading the design, UX and front-end development for the...
19th Jun 2023
What feels like a very long time ago, I was leading the design, UX and front-end development for the open source project webhint.io. Webhint is a linting tool that helps improve your website’s accessibility, performance, security, and interop between browsers.
Sometime within the...
Identity Designed
CleanO2
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
2nd Aug 2022
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Three of our key...
10th Oct 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Three of our key values at Buffer
[http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose
positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter,
not...
balajis.com
AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic
And ten more thoughts on AI.
3rd Aug 2025
And ten more thoughts on AI.
Charles Petzold
That Bullshit Income-Inequality Meme
Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly...
17th Jun 2024
Memes can be fun and sometimes even informative, but when memes contain numbers — and particularly numbers without a source — memes can be deceptive and just plain wrong. For example, here’s a meme that’s been floating around that purports to illustrate income inequality in the...
The Quanta Podcast
Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster
In a Paris lab, researchers have shown for the first time that quantum methods of transmitting...
7th Nov 2019
In a Paris lab, researchers have shown for the first time that quantum methods of transmitting information are superior to classical ones.
The post Milestone Experiment Proves Quantum Communication Really Is Faster first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel - Part I
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
5th Jan 2023
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
Raptitude.com
Give Yourself a Ripcord to Pull
When you’re worked up over some dilemma, talking about it with someone else can give you a whoosh of...
18th Jul 2025
When you’re worked up over some dilemma, talking about it with someone else can give you a whoosh of perspective, mostly because the other person’s mind isn’t stuck in a black cloud like yours is. The overwhelmed mind tends to regard everything as bad. The optimistic and...
The Map is Mostly...
Fujifilm X100 vs Leica Q vs Ricoh GR
Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
18th Jul 2026
Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
Writing
Digital Minimalism
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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…
The Quanta Podcast
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
Most mathematicians take the notion of infinity for granted — it’s deeply rooted in math’s most...
5th May 2026
Most mathematicians take the notion of infinity for granted — it’s deeply rooted in math’s most fundamental assumptions. But a small group of researchers hopes to banish infinity completely. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with math editor Jordana...
Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
Seldo.com
Databases: how they work, and a brief history
19th Nov 2019
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links – "Platforms, promises and bad habits" edition
Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one...
10th Jan 2026
Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one benefit of being useless at taking my holiday allowance is that I usually end up taking December off, and so it proved again this year.
This one is a bit of an
Stephen Diehl
A Vim + Haskell Workflow
A Vim + Haskell Workflow
This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page...
18th Oct 2013
A Vim + Haskell Workflow
This post is out of date and has been updated for modern workflow.This page is left for posterity.
Hoogle
Hoogle is a Haskell type search
$ cabal install hoogle
Hoogle can be used from the command line as well from GHCi by
.ghc/ghci.conf
:def hoogle \s...
Long Now
Ralph Cavanagh & Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
### Climate change and nuclear prospects
Given the power to decide who would go first-- anti-nuke...
14th Jan 2006
### Climate change and nuclear prospects
Given the power to decide who would go first-- anti-nuke Ralph Cavanagh from Natural Resources Defense Counsel or pro-nuke Peter Schwartz from Global Business Network-- the large audience Friday night voted for Schwartz to make the...
A Smart Bear
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
1st May 2012
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers
The Ruffian
Stop Making Sense
David Lynch, Bob Dylan, and the Beauty of the Inexplicable
1st Feb 2025
David Lynch, Bob Dylan, and the Beauty of the Inexplicable
Blog posts of...
My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation.
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
9th Feb 2012
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for...
4th Apr 2025
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit tired and slow to get back to writing, even as they also stimulate my thinking – so the conclusion of our look at Rings of Power...
FIRE v London
June ’23: The hottest ever
June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or...
15th Jul 2023
June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or (definitely) read the last of him but having him out of Westminster is at least a bit safer than him inside. Closer to (my Coastal Folly) home, there has been a sad story in...
Mind Mine
being more available to myself requires me to be less available to others
& other patterns i am trying to notice and break within myself
9th Aug 2024
& other patterns i am trying to notice and break within myself
Conservation...
Despite dire headlines, ‘it would be a mistake to write off tropical forests’
19th Feb 2024
tonsky.me
Clojure macros continue to surprise me
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely...
15th Jul 2024
Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy.
Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
Sherman's Food...
Bernie Beigne
While walking to the metro station after our visit to Lester's, we noticed a huge lineup for donuts...
1st Mar 2026
While walking to the metro station after our visit to Lester's, we noticed a huge lineup for donuts at Bernie Beigne. Not only that, we watched where they took freshly fried donuts and hand-dipped them into glaze. Then they hung them for all to see in the window. Wow, if that...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
10 Reasons why bicycles can't replace cars
I live in Germany. The land of automakers. The land of auto lobbyists and auto marketeers. They’re...
28th Dec 2020
I live in Germany. The land of automakers. The land of auto lobbyists and auto marketeers. They’re doing well convincing...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
The Social Media Mirage
Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of...
1st Mar 2025
Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of course, but to a much, much lesser extent. I won't bore you with a recycled narrative of the shitty algorithm effect, although relevant in this case. Suffice to say, a follow...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's...
28th Apr 2024
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history,
leading to the success of the x86 architecture.
The designers of the IBM PC selected...
Wanderingspace
Saturn Vortex
“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in...
1st Dec 2024
“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in polarized light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on November 27, 2012. I've processed the original monochrome image to approximate the color of the area at the time.” — Jason...
Rest of World -...
The Indian company forcing Uber to change its business model
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now...
2nd May 2025
Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
The Quanta Podcast
Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group. ...
27th Sep 2018
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
The post Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Mark Manson
How to Stop Caring About What People Think
There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think.
We all...
3rd Aug 2023
There's this weird fantasy we all share of not giving a flying fuck about what people think.
We all wish we could be impervious to others' opinions, like Superman deflecting bullets. But instead of bullets, we're out here trying to deflect the fucks we wish we didn't give.
We...
Marc Astbury
The Fidelity Trap
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now...
3rd Jul 2025
If you hang out on Twitter, you’ll realize that every designer, PM, and their dog are now engineers. LLMs have dramatically reduced the barrier to building something and designers who’ve never been able to go beyond a spaghetti Figma prototype suddenly feel like Superman. But...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle,...
23rd May 2026
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts
and experiments.
Spacelab was controlled by a French-built minicomputer, called the Mitra 125 MS.
Unlike modern computers, this computer didn't...
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
4th Sep 2023
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
ntietz.com blog -...
Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we...
1st Dec 2022
I recently read "Designing Freedom" by Stafford Beer.
It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent.
I'm not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step,...
Working Theorys
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
6th Jul 2024
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
computers are bad
2024-01-06 usb on the go
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve
widespread adoption...
6th Jan 2024
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve
widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish
serial and its
awkward sibling the parallel port
were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
8th Jun 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Noodle, released Uxn version. Improved UX to resize the canvas and...
The DESK Magazine
When did our tools become our religion?
Designers love to argue about design tools. Some treat it as their religion, as if their design tool...
6th Sep 2022
Designers love to argue about design tools. Some treat it as their religion, as if their design tool is the only thing that gives them meaning or an identity.
Daniel Immke
How I write blog posts every month
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
17th Feb 2018
What I've learned after writing regularly for half a year.
Ink & Switch
Convergence Is Not Enough
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux)
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
2nd Sep 2024
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out.
They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS
app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Folklore.org:...
He's Only in Field Service
The SCC gets designed into the Mac
31st May 2023
The SCC gets designed into the Mac
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
9th Dec 2023
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
Jason Fried
Hooks, towel bars, and software
Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development.
When...
3rd Mar 2024
Strangely, a recent bathroom renovation crystalized my perspective on product development.
When being asked to choose between towel hooks or a towel bar, the choice was obvious: Hooks, of course.
Hooks take up no space. Towel bars suck up space.
Hooks hold towels no matter how...
Blog System/5
From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
7th Dec 2025
Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test
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...
Applied Cartography
Fatherhood
Read essay: Fatherhood
10th May 2025
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Ernie Is Our Co-Pilot
Hello. You’re receiving this long-dormant-now-re-reawakaned newsletter because at some point in the...
25th Sep 2021
Hello. You’re receiving this long-dormant-now-re-reawakaned newsletter because at some point in the past you subscribed. (Thank you, by the way.) Back then, I was writing about some nexus of travels abroad, personal or professional news, and technology-ish topics.
There are some...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forget What They've Done
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Listen to my podcast Better Offline...
9th Jun 2025
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already.
I want my fucking tech industry back.
Maybe you think I sound insane, but technology means a lot to me. It’s the way that
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
5th Nov 2023
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
SatPost by Trung...
5 Thoughts on LEGO's (Ace) Manufacturing
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
2nd May 2025
PLUS: Apple Watch at 10, McKinsey AI bot.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte reactivity — an inside and out guide
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the...
22nd Apr 2023
I've been working with svelte exclusively for a year now, but I still manage to shoot myself in the foot every now and then when using reactive state. Some of the confusion is due to my prior experience with React, but some points are confusing on their own. Today, I dive into...
Louwrentius - Solar
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
6th Aug 2013
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican.
Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
Quanta Magazine
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing Matter
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra...
1st Feb 2024
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hiding in a (relatively) large extra dimension. The theory makes testable predictions that physicists are investigating now.
The post In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for the Universe’s Missing...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
For anyone who is struggling
This is an animation about Demodex -- little parasites that live on your face.
View on my website
11th Sep 2025
This is an animation about Demodex -- little parasites that live on your face.
View on my website
The Turn Signal RSS...
Guidelines for Designing an In-Car Voice Assistant
A collection of guidelines for designing in-car voice assistants
1st Sep 2022
A collection of guidelines for designing in-car voice assistants
Marco Bambini
The Cloud vs Edge Debate Is Over
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
26th May 2026
Why choose between Cloud and Edge when you can have both?
The Works in...
Getting people to donate their organs
Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier?
2nd Apr 2024
Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier?
The Scholar's Stage
The Eight Tribes of Trump and China
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China...
31st Mar 2025
LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. I published the preview as security: Trump...
ntietz.com blog -...
Asheville
Asheville is in crisis right now.
They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
6th Oct 2024
Asheville is in crisis right now.
They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets.
As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water.
Things are really bad.
Lots of...
Adventures In...
On-the-Fly Generalization Hack for ArcGIS Pro
Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the...
6th Feb 2024
Generalization is one of the most important tools in a map maker’s tool kit. Sometimes the complexity of our geometry needs to be smoothed out to best visually represent a place or appear best at various scales. Here is a way (complete hack, but surprisingly effective) to...
Spoon & Tamago
Shibuya’s New ‘G-CHA & Ba-CHA’ Cafe Is Run by Senior Citizens
In the heart of Shibuya—a district known for youth culture and constant reinvention—a refreshingly...
3rd Apr 2026
In the heart of Shibuya—a district known for youth culture and constant reinvention—a refreshingly different kind of café has just opened its doors. G-CHA & Ba-CHA is not just another trendy tea stand; it’s a celebration of energy, community, and a reimagining of what it means to...
Fabien Sanglard
CPS-1: GFX system internals
20th Feb 2022
Laetitia@Work
Your Choice: Trophy Wife or Servant
Laetitia@Work #90
4th Jan 2026
Hidden History
A Closer Look at Australopithecus Deyiremeda
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus...
4th Aug 2026
The discovery of Australopithecus deyiremeda led to some very surprising results. Australopithecus deyiremeda, from Wiki Commons In 2009, researcher Yohanne Haille-Selassie, working at a place called Burtele in the Waranso-Mille region of Ethiopia (not far from where Lucy had...
Blog of Simple...
Closing the data gap - Simple Analytics x Usercentrics
24th Jun 2025
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...
SOS
Mazers – a WebOS app rises again on iOS & iPad
Way, waaayyy back in 2010, I built a fun little game for the Palm WebOS series of phones called...
8th Apr 2026
Way, waaayyy back in 2010, I built a fun little game for the Palm WebOS series of phones called Mazer. I was happy with it, loads of people downloaded and played it, and then WebOS died. I recently found the source code again, and with the help of Claude AI I rewrote it to run...
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthly: November 2023
7th Nov 2023
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
Josh Thompson
Movies I went out of my way to watch
Introduction
I’ve long liked to accrue certain lists of things I like within certain categories. to...
22nd Oct 2025
Introduction
I’ve long liked to accrue certain lists of things I like within certain categories. to list appreciable books invites a similar list for movies and movie-like things.
It feels strange to list all of these movies like this, in some ways, especially the first two...
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
6th Aug 2022
If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project.
Install gems
Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install.
gem...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems...
6th Jan 2025
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps...
macwright.com
Focus
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig
yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013,
in...
14th Sep 2022
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig
yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013,
in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made
a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of
GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the
number is decreasing. Same...
Tony Dinh's...
Nov 2024: My first million!
$1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
22nd Nov 2024
$1M in annual revenue, B2B sales, SOC 2, resellers, grow team, and other updates in November 2024.
The personal website...
Expansion artifacts
The information age has been defined by bandwidth. The internet is limited by how much data we can...
20th Apr 2026
The information age has been defined by bandwidth. The internet is limited by how much data we can squeeze into the narrow pipes of transmission infrastructure. So we invented compression, ways of representing the same object — a website, a picture, a song, a movie — within ever...
Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
16th Jan 2023
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
laike9m's blog
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope...
3rd Jan 2024
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I’m happy to be back in my office. Kids can...
Balancing Act
Token Anxiety
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
Daniel Immke
Behind the syntax: let and const variables
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
11th Jul 2018
There is a lot more going under the hood than simple syntax changes.
sbensu
APIs as ladders
APIs are hard to learn. If you think about the learning curve of your API, you can design one that...
24th Jan 2022
APIs are hard to learn. If you think about the learning curve of your API, you can design one that works for beginners, novices, and experts.
Working Theorys
The Self Is The Platform
On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
18th Sep 2025
On Consumer AI, and why individual leverage is eating collective coordination.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
14th Apr 2020
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
Liz Denys
Reversing the Parks Dept. Ban on E-Bikes is a Matter of Equity
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The...
3rd Jun 2022
Last November, signs banning e-assist bikes were tacked onto Prospect Park's rule signs:
The original signs announcing this ban only stated it in English.
I'm in Streetsblog today with a piece about why reversing this arbitrary ban is a matter of equity:
Over Memorial Day...
Construction Physics
How Valuable Are Building Methods That Use Fewer Materials?
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked...
6th Feb 2024
Materials make up a substantial fraction of the costs of new construction. When we previously looked at a collection of 40 different construction tasks, on average materials made up 62% of the cost of the task. And for an average new house, materials make up roughly 50% of direct...
Molson Hart's Blog -...
What Do Brontosauruses Know about Uncoordinated Conspiracies?
Brontosaurus skeleton at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (allegedly)
Let’s pretend for a...
2nd Sep 2024
Brontosaurus skeleton at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (allegedly)
Let’s pretend for a moment that brontosauruses are made up, despite them being accepted by the public and scientific community, having ample evidence for their existence, and appearing in museums all...
ntietz.com blog -...
PyOhio
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
30th Jul 2017
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights:
Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
Works in Progress...
The secret fast track for animal drugs
Animal drugs are approved much faster than human drugs. Perhaps we could adopt the same model for...
12th Jun 2025
Animal drugs are approved much faster than human drugs. Perhaps we could adopt the same model for humans without compromising on safety.
The Turn Signal RSS...
How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System
Over the past two years, we created an infotainment system as a product, here is a look inside our...
1st Aug 2024
Over the past two years, we created an infotainment system as a product, here is a look inside our design process.
Ollama
Llama 3.2 Vision
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
6th Nov 2024
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
balajis.com
Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore?
Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
28th Jul 2026
Thirty five million people change countries every year. I'm one of them, and so is Stu Woo.
The History of the...
The Analog Web
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The...
16th Apr 2024
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Justin Jackson
AI isn't going to build your startup
14th Feb 2025
Works in Progress...
The story of Viktor Zhdanov
Although Viktor Zhdanov’s name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in...
20th Aug 2020
Although Viktor Zhdanov’s name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do?
Sarah Parmenter
Geek Mental Health Week
This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016. ...
29th Sep 2016
This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016. You can hear me read this as an audioblog – 8 minutes. T his time of year is a strange one…
The Universe of...
Seven books I keep close because I love them
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting
up, has seven books on it, not...
3rd Aug 2026
The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting
up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the
most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I
write.
Roget's Thesaurus (4th edition)
The one I actually refer to most often...
Ryan Mulligan
CSS Grid Gap Behavior with Hidden Elements
I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of...
14th Feb 2023
I was recently prototyping a component layout that included a way to toggle the visibility of sibling elements inside a grid display. What tripped me up was, while these elements were hidden, all of the container's gap gutters remained, leaving undesired extra visual spacing. I...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
9th Jan 2024
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev's Lead Engineer Interviewed on "Running in Production"
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show!...
9th Dec 2019
The podcast is available here.
Before I begin, I must give thanks to Nick for having me on the show! In this episode of Running in Production, I talk with Nick about how we built boot.dev, an open-source password manager that specializes in cryptocurrency. Boot.dev uses Electron...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
Identity Designed
WHEN
Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
16th Dec 2024
Designed by Universal Favourite, Sydney.
Laetitia@Work
What our time-management styles say about productivity and gender
Laetitia@Work #94
9th Mar 2026
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
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Ian O' Halloran
My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the...
15th May 2025
My name is Ian O’Halloran. I am a professional Artist and Printmaker living and working in the Sussex Weald near Herstmonceux (UK). I am and always have been inspired by the British landscape. I came to art later in life than most, having had a career in civil engineering first...
Uncharted...
Things I Learned at the 2025 Progress Conference
Neural Implants with Actual Neurons, Drone Delivery, Freedom of Speech and AI, Fact-Checking...
3rd Dec 2025
Neural Implants with Actual Neurons, Drone Delivery, Freedom of Speech and AI, Fact-Checking Tech, When AI Will Manage Entire Companies, Ecoterrorists Could Stop Global Warming, and more
Josh Thompson
Why Your Belayer is Keeping You from Climbing Hard(er)
Since climbing regularly again (!!!), I’ve observed lots of belaying in the gym. I can’t walk up to...
1st Oct 2014
Since climbing regularly again (!!!), I’ve observed lots of belaying in the gym. I can’t walk up to a stranger and say “Excuse me, sir, I noticed that your poor belaying is totally crippling your climber’s ability to try hard, and actively eliminating any hope you had of...
Prolost
New Photography Shortcuts Using ToolBox Pro
My love affair with Apple’s Shortcuts took a bit of a hit during the transition to iOS 13, but my...
14th Nov 2019
My love affair with Apple’s Shortcuts took a bit of a hit during the transition to iOS 13, but my fascination with this on-device development environment has been rekindled thanks to a new app called ToolBox Pro.
ToolBox Pro is a free iOS/iPadOS app that adds powerful new actions...
Justin Jackson
What would you do differently?
26th May 2018
Eric Bailey
Attempting to corral colors with a Sass function
7th Jun 2019
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
1st Mar 2024
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward?
Today's News:
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Music That Got Me Through 2020
As time goes on, I've learned something about myself: I'm now that person — that old fogey — that...
1st Feb 2021
As time goes on, I've learned something about myself: I'm now that person — that old fogey — that mumbles under their breath about the old days when music was real. That said, there are plenty of good artists (even great artists) making meaningful music today. I just have to...
charity.wtf
Career Development For Engineering Managers
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for...
3rd Jun 2021
(Cross-posted from leaddev.com) What comes to mind when you hear the words, ‘career development for managers’? If you’re like me, it’s one of two things: either obsessively climbing the ladder or those awful mandatory ‘trainings’ that get hastily assembled. (Otherwise known as,...
Blog - Guerrilla...
We are Survivors. We are Stardust.
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
25th Aug 2020
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that the...
Ryan Barrett
Tech pace layers
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
31st Dec 2024
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
The personal website...
Who are design systems for?
I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called...
14th Dec 2018
I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called Clarity happened here in New York, and my twitter feed has been full of pictures and quotes from the very talented and articulate speakers. Lesson learned: go to more conferences. To...
Ploum.net
La conjuration de la fierté ignorante
La conjuration de la fierté ignorante
Les scientifiques, les vulgarisateurs, les professeurs...
2nd Dec 2024
La conjuration de la fierté ignorante
Les scientifiques, les vulgarisateurs, les professeurs consacrent leur vie à lutter contre l’ignorance. Mais l’ignorance n’est pas vraiment le problème. Ce qui est dangereux c’est lorsqu’elle se camoufle. Lorsqu’elle se transforme en...
Ink & Switch
Ambsheets: A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios
TODO
21st Jul 2025
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
30th May 2021
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
Quantum Frontiers
Let gravity do its work
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort...
13th May 2024
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading →
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Philip K. Dick paperback covers (Panther Science Fiction)
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by
citizen3xx24j....
20th Jun 2021
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by
citizen3xx24j. License: All Rights Reserved.
Now Wait for Last Year (1975). Cover art by Chris Foss. [More info on ISFDB]
Roslyn Gothic arguably saw its most extensive and iconic use on the...
The Map is Mostly...
Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me...
7th Oct 2023
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning! How do you do? I am quite well, thank God, and I am to have a new storey in May," or, "How are you? I am being redecorated...
Aaron's Essays
Don't focus on the NASDAQ
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the...
11th Feb 2016
While thinking about wiggles (Ignoring the Wiggles ), I looked at when the biggest tech cos in the world started relative to NASDAQ. At first, I thought I'd find no correlation between how well the index was doing and when successful companies were founded.
I love...
Noahpinion
Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program!
Fun!!
4th Oct 2024
ntietz.com blog -...
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or...
6th Nov 2023
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap."
Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users
1
."
It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry:
That accessibility...
Louwrentius - Solar
Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the
Core i7 920 is of a...
4th Mar 2009
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the
Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher
speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re-
introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
SOS
My 2025: The most productive year yet?
As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I...
2nd Jan 2026
As 2026 begins, thinking back on my 2025 is a bit nuts. I can’t believe how much new product I shipped. I think AI had a lot to do with it, freeing me up to take on projects that
Had a technical component that would have discouraged me from starting
Are purely personal but...
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
...
14th Mar 2020
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
<section>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)">
<figcaption>
<h4>My heading</h4>
...
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
30th Jun 2019
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
12th Jul 2021
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Derek Sivers podcast
Smart people don’t think others are stupid
The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are...
16th May 2012
The woman seemed to be making some pretty good points until she stopped with, “Ugh! Those people are just so stupid!!”
There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid.
Being stupid means avoiding thinking by jumping to...
Johnathan Bi:...
Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare
1.
2 days ago
Eric Bailey
Truths about digital accessibility
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional):
Each screen reader behaves differently
This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
Grant Slatton
How to write complex software
A general method
1st Jan 2025
Philip Ilic Thomas
Advice for marketplace startups
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of...
11th May 2021
Marketplace businesses connect buyers and sellers, and they typically make money by taking a cut of transactions. Some of today's largest companies are marketplaces, such as Amazon, Airbnb, and Uber. ...
Naz Hamid • Journal
Have the Coffee
Carve space out for opportunity.
After speaking in Kuala Lumpur last week, people stayed to discuss...
9th Sep 2025
Carve space out for opportunity.
After speaking in Kuala Lumpur last week, people stayed to discuss the topics we’d covered, forming a small group.
Building community was a weighty topic during the event, with myself, host Shaza Hakim, and many attendees speaking to it. In this...
Atoms vs Bits
11 Universal And Objective Truths About Making Friends
the reason we are here
2nd Jul 2026
FIRE v London
Jan ’24: A giant tax bill lands
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an...
10th Feb 2024
One of several highlights for me in January was visiting Salisbury cathedral, which I did on an impulse while travelling back from the Coastal Folly. My main frame of reference to the cathedral being those notorious Russian nerve agent assassins citing it as their reason for...
Essays - Benedict...
Vision Pro
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why
does it cost $3,500?...
15th Jun 2023
What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why
does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
tim.sh
Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively...
27th Feb 2025
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me.
People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop.
As...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on...
21st Aug 2022
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
Dustin Curtis
Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA
In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen...
21st May 2024
In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app, you could toss around pictures...
Handprinted - Blog
On The Course: Creating Life Drawing Mono Screen Prints
I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop...
7th Jun 2023
I (Bridget) was lucky enough to take part on last years Life-Drawing Monoscreen Printing workshop with Tricia Johnson. During the course, we worked with a life model to create painterly screen prints using the mono screen method. We used acrylic based screen printing inks and...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
3rd Sep 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Uxn, updated Playdate implementation to the latest core,...
the singularity is...
Computer Use Models
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line.
I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
MMapped blog
Static types are for perfectionists
1st Apr 2025
eieio.games
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I...
4th Mar 2026
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I think it's much nicer than the experience of searching a channel on youtube's website.
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
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Tony Finch's blog
Constructing a four-point egg
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The...
29th Jan 2024
For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I was investigating
elliptical and ovoid shapes. The Wikipedia article for Moss’s
egg has a link to a tutorial on Euclidean Eggs by Freyja
Hreinsdóttir which (amongst other things) describes how to
construct the “four point egg”. I...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X.
...
10th Mar 2023
Dreams of Space -...
Captain Ray-O-Vac’s Adventure and Game Book (1952)
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly...
19th Jun 2026
Sorry for the sporadic postings, I should have some lined up for the next couple of months. Mostly there will be comic book premiums and punch out books.
To start how about "Flashlights in Space...!" This was a comic premium from Ray-O-Vac batteries company. There was not much...
charity.wtf
WTF is operations? #serverless
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for...
31st May 2016
I just got back from the very first ever @serverlessconf in NYC. I have a soft spot for well-curated single-track conferences, and the organizers did an incredible job. Major kudos to @iamstan and team for pulling together such a high-caliber mix of attendees as well as...
Tony Finch's blog
libc delenda est
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if...
12th Feb 2023
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C
library are terrible,
especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring
into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a
setjmp which is fun in a
more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
Commoncog
The Capital Cycle
What a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the...
20th Sep 2023
What a famous investing framework — part of the modern canon of value investing — tells us about the expertise of capital in business.
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Foundations (workshop)
The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling,...
1st Sep 2023
The Full Stack Foundations workshop covers modern web development best practices including Styling, Routing, Data Loading, Forms, SEO, Error Handling, and more!
The Convivial...
Do Not Resign From Life
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
2nd Jun 2026
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.
Xena
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
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