sbensu
Incentives as selection effects
When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
11th Jun 2024
When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
mtlynch.io
Refactoring English: Month 10
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m...
7th Oct 2025
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...
Oxide Computer...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
8th Nov 2024
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
Long Now
Kim Stanley Robinson: How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society
Humanity’s adaptation to climate change will require novel, global cooperation and societal...
1st Aug 2017
Humanity’s adaptation to climate change will require novel, global cooperation and societal evolution. The award-winning science fiction author of _2312_ , the _Mars_ Trilogy, and _Aurora_ shares his vision for how the world must change in advance of his 02017 novel _New York...
Tony Dinh's...
July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue
small updates from me in July 2023
7th Aug 2023
small updates from me in July 2023
The personal website...
Pictures of websites
A scene from the 2001 movie Zoolander1:
INT. THE PALATIAL OFFICE OF FASHION MOGUL JACOBIM MUGATU...
13th Mar 2021
A scene from the 2001 movie Zoolander1:
INT. THE PALATIAL OFFICE OF FASHION MOGUL JACOBIM MUGATU (PLAYED BY WILL FERRELL)
MUGATU
Without much further ado, I give you...
MUGATU
The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good!
ZOOLANDER
(suddenly enraged)
What is...
videah.net
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Posted on May 12, 2025
This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You
Posted on May 12, 2025
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird.
Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
Alex Strick van...
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
The Ruffian
Podcast: How To Get The Most Out of LLMs
Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
3rd Jul 2025
Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
Cybercultural:...
The Internet’s Impact on Culture
“It feels like the internet’s impact on culture is just beginning. A world in which culture is based...
29th Jan 2020
“It feels like the internet’s impact on culture is just beginning. A world in which culture is based on the internet, which is what I think is happening, is just the very start. Right, ’cause it had to get universal before it could set the culture.”
Those words were spoken by...
Jonas Hietala
5 Kup
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
2nd Dec 2012
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
Win Vector LLC
Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating...
21st May 2026
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data. It is a technical demonstration on how what one observes (outcomes, frequencies, and so on) differ from what we want to know...
The Quanta Podcast
Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
Three physicists stumbled across an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous...
8th Oct 2020
Three physicists stumbled across an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.
The post Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Oykun Yilmaz
Practising distraction-free creativity
The design world is filled with exciting opportunities.
We see Designers on X who are creating...
21st Feb 2024
The design world is filled with exciting opportunities.
We see Designers on X who are creating Framer templates, experimenting with 3D, writing newsletters, starting design subscription agencies, selling icon packs and many more.
I know it’s tempting to chase them all. I’ve given...
Buttondown's blog
Public descriptions for tags
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
3rd Feb 2026
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
Essays - Benedict...
Tech questions for 2022
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022
there are lots of...
2nd Jan 2022
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022
there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open.
These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast
fashion - there are others.
Build In Public...
AI Is Single-Player. Your Work Isn't.
Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.
8th Jul 2026
Meet Ogment: the AI coworker your whole team shares. Lives in Slack. Compounds daily.
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
Posts on Made of...
Indices point between elements
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
17th Jul 2015
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this:
In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap 2026: SF is the GenAI Super Cluster
The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
16th Apr 2026
The San Francisco Bay area has morphed into a massive AI supercluster with 91% of market cap
The Web Witch's Blog
2023 Book Roundup
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
Long Now
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
### Becoming a Benign Dominant
To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began...
28th Jun 2008
### Becoming a Benign Dominant
To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began with a photo of a tarsier in a tree. The little primate had a predator's binocular vision and an insect-grabber's fingers. When (possibly) climate change drove some primates out of...
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
25th Dec 2022
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Construction Physics
The Story of Titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By...
7th Jul 2023
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's...
mtlynch.io
Never Pay the First Bill by Marshall Allen
I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so...
1st Mar 2025
I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so this was right up my alley.
The book was eye-opening and made me infuriated with how corrupt the medical system is in the US and how much it extracts wealth by fleecing the middle...
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Mirror
As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting,...
4th Dec 2024
As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've managed to achieve, what we learned, what we failed in, where we went, and what we...
Construction Physics
Building Fast and Slow Part III: Design of the World Trade Center
This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World...
6th Dec 2022
This is Part III in a series comparing the construction of the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. Part I covers the design and construction of the Empire State Building, and Part II covers the initial development of the World Trade Center
Fonts In Use – Blog...
März book covers, 1969–1987
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights...
13th Feb 2023
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights Reserved.
März Texte 1, 1969. Compilation of texts by Bazon Brock, Peter O. Chotjewitz, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Uve Schmidt, Hermann Nitsch, and others.
Among German...
Yale E360
Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging
The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to...
2nd Jun 2025
The lush forests that have long sustained Cambodia’s Indigenous people have steadily fallen to illicit logging. Now, community members face intimidation and risk arrest as they patrol their forests to document the losses and try to push the government to stop the cutting.
Read...
Open Culture
The World’s First Mobile Phone Shown in 1922 Vintage Film
A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women...
2nd Sep 2024
A number of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone. A spokesman for the archive said: ”It’s amazing that 90 years ago mobile phone technology and music … was not only being thought of but...
Long Now
Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
**Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley** track the history and future of quarantine around the globe,...
8th Feb 2022
**Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley** track the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in...
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic
And other updates in April 2023
9th May 2023
And other updates in April 2023
Tiny struggles
I quit my startup because of comic sans
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans.
I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration...
14th Jul 2023
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans.
I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration and intense learning, but in the end I had this very clear feeling that I would be better of on my own.
It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. There were many small and big things...
Tom Blomfield
Advice
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your...
28th May 2013
Starting a company is a challenging process - you’re thrown into the deep-end with nothing but your wits to help you. Often, though, advice will be forthcoming. This post is about that advice, and how to spot the difference between good and bad.
Some advice is expert - your...
Louwrentius - Solar
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The...
22nd Jun 2021
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
Ink & Switch
Account History
Finding moments from before
17th Mar 2026
Finding moments from before
benn.substack
Stuff costs money
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
SatPost by Trung...
Dishoom's $400m Restaurant Playbook
How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining...
20th Nov 2025
How a former Harvard MBA turned Bain consultant co-founded Dishoom and scaled the Indian fine dining business to $180m in sales and a $400m valuation.
Jamesin’s Substack
AI that was inevitable
This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
23rd Jul 2025
This is a feature I’ve been waiting for for the past two years.
Nothing Human
Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
17th Oct 2023
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
Can We Still Govern?
Is MAGA Melting Down?
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
Buttondown's blog
A new blog
Introducing Buttondown's new blog.
4th Nov 2017
Introducing Buttondown's new blog.
Tiny struggles
Browser caching with Django & Webpack
Table of contents
What is browser caching and why is it useful?
Crude approaches ...
8th Jan 2022
Table of contents
What is browser caching and why is it useful?
Crude approaches
Disable all caching!
Change the filename/import every time you edit
Content hashes in filenames
Let Django do it for you
...
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.
Laetitia@Work
What the fear of ageing costs working women
Laetitia@Work #68
22nd Mar 2024
Damn Interesting
The Kingpin of Shanghai
Respectable heads of state rarely admit to keeping company with gangsters. But in April 1927, about...
26th Aug 2021
Respectable heads of state rarely admit to keeping company with gangsters. But in April 1927, about 15 years after the collapse of the last imperial dynasty, Chiang Kai-shek and China were at a crossroads. Chiang had followed a murky path to leadership of the Chinese Nationalist...
Contemporist...
This Home Has A Living Room That Extends Over The Swimming Pool Below
Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that...
11th Apr 2023
Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that includes a cantilevered living room.
DYNOMIGHT
Dear PendingKetchup
PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable:
The...
11th Sep 2025
PendingKetchup comments on my recent post on what it means for something to be heritable:
The article seems pretty good at math and thinking through unusual implications, but my armchair Substack eugenics alarm that I keep in the back of my brain is beeping.
Saying that variance...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
2nd Mar 2025
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
UX Collective
The secret of good metaphors
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
7th Jul 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Seth's Blog
Actionable feedback
“Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very...
1st Jul 2023
“Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very good at offering useful feedback. Because you didn’t create this product or service or performance to please this person. They’re not the customer. Because you’re not going to...
UX Collective
How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Nov 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2026: The Push and Pull of Data!
In my musings on valuation, I have long described myself as more of a number cruncher than a...
9th Jan 2026
In my musings on valuation, I have long described myself as more of a number cruncher than a storyteller, but it is because I love numbers for their own sake, rather than a fondness for abstract mathematics. It is that love for numbers that has led me at the beginning of each...
Obsolete Sony’s...
The End of PlayStation Discs
Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the...
5th Jul 2026
Why physical media is ending on PlayStation, and why the answer is more complicated than the backlash suggests.
Jaz's Blog
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1)
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
15th Apr 2024
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Butler's Log
Introducing GitButler
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason...
13th Apr 2023
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason people put up with Git is love for GitHub, but GitHub is where people collaborate, not where people work. GitHub is not local. Nobody has really tried to reinvent the concept of...
On Test Automation
Time for another LinkedIn break
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a...
11th Dec 2025
Yes, it’s that time again: the season to be jolly and time to stop wasting time on LinkedIn for a while. I’ve gone on a couple of, admittedly not very successful, LinkedIn breaks before (see here and here), breaks from which I always returned after a few weeks, in part because...
The personal website...
The paradox at the heart of A/B testing
A/B testing began with beer.
At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new...
9th Jan 2020
A/B testing began with beer.
At the turn of the 20th century, William Sealy Gosset was exploring new ways of running experiments on his production line. Gosset was trying to improve the quality of Guinness’s signature stout but couldn’t afford to run large-scale experiments on...
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
4th May 2025
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started.
Jump over battles to skip them
You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them!
I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
Boot.dev Blog
Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
Max Woolf's Blog
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
2nd Jan 2025
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
Building Optimism
Join Us In Building The Best New Housing In America
An open call to kindred spirits who want to build a better future
7th May 2024
An open call to kindred spirits who want to build a better future
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 3.0 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF,...
29th Oct 2014
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 3.0 of Sumatra, a multi-format reader (PDF, epub and mobi ebooks, comic books, etc.) for Windows.
You can download it from official SumatraPDF website
The biggest change in this version is addition of tabs, contributed by...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 33
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
6th Apr 2023
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...
Dustin Curtis
Tesla and Storytelling
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no...
14th Oct 2024
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these products have been depicted in...
Kat Snyder
No, I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter — horrible uses of exit overlays
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably...
23rd Oct 2018
When a user moves their mouse from the middle of the page toward the navigation bar — presumably to abandon the page — there are...
Prolost
Magic Bullet Suite 14 and Trapcode Suite 16
It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode...
17th Nov 2020
It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode Suites.
Trapcode Particular continues to embody our ethos of power and ease-of-use, with a completely modernized simulation engine that allows particles to behave more naturally, with...
Alex Strick van...
How to think about evals
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice.
I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
ToughSF
The Laser Revolution Part I: Megawatt beams to the skies
There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we ...
19th May 2025
There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we produce electricity, conduct war and even upset the nuclear world order. All they have to do it reach a certain convergence of price and power.
And by current projections, it...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st Mar 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - Finished my residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I gave a presentation Rethinking Wo...
Greater Still by...
Why is the Internet So Lonely?
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the...
27th Dec 2021
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the digital-turned-physical friends I had made throughout 2020.
anderegg.ca
Reckoning with Liquid Glass
When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had...
20th Jan 2026
When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had initially come away from WWDC 2025 excited about the new Liquid Glass design language, but then became grumpy. The visual effects looked nice to me, but they functioned more poorly than...
Raptitude.com
Why You’re Always Right
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see...
9th Feb 2026
My cat refuses all medicine because she doesn’t understand the benefits. Nothing can make her see that having bitter liquid squirted into her mouth will prevent her from getting intestinal worms. So I have to force the matter by wrapping her in a towel like a burrito, so that she...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
21st Dec 2016
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Beeper is joining Automattic
9th Apr 2024
matt.sh
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k*)
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage...
6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate
Kubernetes Clusters
Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes
cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is
going on?
Say hello to kvestigate your
kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
Ollama
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored...
1st Aug 2023
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
3 weeks ago
TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
NeuroLogica Blog
Brain As Receiver Is Still Wrong
I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great...
2nd Apr 2026
I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great communication tool and allows scientists and science communicators to get their content out to a larger audience cheaply and easily. If you know how to use the internet and social media as...
Lee A Johnson
Limited Editions and Ticket Demand
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4".
If you’re not interested in buying music in a...
19th Apr 2025
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4".
If you’re not interested in buying music in a physical form you may well have missed that last Saturday (12th April 2025) was “Record Store Day” (RSD)1. A biannual event where independent record stores are supplied with releases...
High Signal
Issue 296 - I'm selling my No CS Degree website💰
Thanks for signing up to my newsletter for founders! Some big personal news in today's newsletter....
5th Nov 2025
Thanks for signing up to my newsletter for founders! Some big personal news in today's newsletter. Thanks to Tom from Sevalla for supporting High Signal:
A Smart Bear
Pricing determines your business model
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured...
5th Nov 2014
Pricing is inextricably linked to brand, product, and purchasing decisions. It cannot be "figured out later," because determines your business model today.
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on...
4th Aug 2023
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World”
Python program on Linux, like this one?
print("hello world")
Here’s what it looks like at the command line:
$ python3 hello.py
hello world
But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
Val Sopi
Runway extended by an Angel
<p>
About a month ago, on September 1st, I made a big leap: I stopped my consulting work...
3rd Oct 2022
<p>
About a month ago, on September 1st, I made a big leap: I stopped my consulting work for the 3rd time to chase my SaaS dreams.</p>
<p>
Up to September, I supported my SaaS making with consulting and contract work. Which wasn't an ideal setup for making...
GitButler
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
25th Mar 2022
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of an already powerful fission detonation. What if we could do away with both?
Fusion power without the need for fissiles, but also small enough to be launched into space. It is...
Josh Thompson
Mythical Creatures: Refactoring wizard.rb
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
25th Jan 2020
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
1st Feb 2021
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
Jason Fried
Randomly right
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing.
Every forest, every...
12th Mar 2025
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing.
Every forest, every field, every place untouched by humans is full of randomness. Nothing lines up, a million different shapes, sprouting seeds burst where the winds — or birds — randomly drop...
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?
Willem's Blog
Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
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...
David Crawshaw
Reasoning with Regret
Reasoning with Regret
2018-07-16
I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone...
16th Jul 2018
Reasoning with Regret
2018-07-16
I avoid looking to biographies for advice, most of all for anyone in the
business world who is focused on spinning an origin story.
There is one however which I read by accident years ago that I keep
returning to:
…
From the .Princeton 2010...
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
2nd Jan 2023
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
Matt Mullenweg
My First Million
I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
2nd Feb 2025
I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
Sebastian Witowski
How to Prepare for the CAPM Certification Exam
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?"
If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be...
14th Nov 2019
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?"
If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be thinking: "Aren't you a prominent software developer, not a project manager?" Ok, maybe without the prominent part. But yes, you are right. I started working as a developer a few years...
Atoms vs Bits
Regrets List / Things I Did Good List
Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
2nd Aug 2023
Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
SatPost by Trung...
DeepSeek: Links and Memes (So Many Memes)
How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
1st Feb 2025
How a Chinese AI lab spun out of a hedge fund shook up the entire tech industry.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Nano Banana Pro: raw intelligence with tool use
24th Nov 2025
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #35 Revisited
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago,...
5th Jun 2023
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs," something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. But, sensing I would not be able to...
The Intimate Mirror
Emptiness and Values Realism
Beyond the False Dichotomy
1st Apr 2025
Beyond the False Dichotomy
Eugene Yan
Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
7th May 2023
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 4
Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue...
3rd Nov 2020
Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue for all of 2019. I interviewed several IT consultants and business owners about what TinyPilot features would be useful to them. I tested several new marketing channels and realized...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Blog posts of...
Joining hypergrowth startups 😬
I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I...
21st Jun 2021
I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
Retail Design Blog
Vedalia Salon by Nysa
On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat...
3rd Nov 2025
On a busy street in Ampelokipoi, Vedalia Beauty Salon is conceived as a space of pause and retreat from the...
Steve Klabnik
Reddit drama: an interesting look at community values
1st Mar 2010
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
30th Oct 2023
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
Weighty Thoughts
Startup Valuation Made Simple(r) - Working Backwards
Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
30th Aug 2021
Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
1st Nov 2021
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Announcing Startup School Beijing
26th Apr 2018
A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary.
Let's say we have the following variable in PHP:
$name = 'Bob Marley';
And we want to...
Maggie Appleton
On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
13th Apr 2024
How to open pieces of narrative non-fiction writing, conference talks, and sticky jars
The American Scholar
Mario Ayala
Research while driving
The post Mario Ayala appeared first on The American Scholar.
2nd Feb 2026
Research while driving
The post Mario Ayala appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jan Miksovsky’s blog
Home science and engineering projects that my kids and I enjoyed
2nd Apr 2025
Uncharted...
Should You Be Able to Experiment on Your Own Cancer?
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the...
26th Sep 2024
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.
42!
Does your SaaS actually save your customers from doing more work?
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our...
11th Jun 2023
A recent conversation on Twitter with a colleague has reminded of this dilemma that we faced in our early days of launching my SaaS.
You see, In 25 years of consulting to small businesses, I had learned that business owners and managers were faced with the challenge of recording...
nanoscale views
DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting, + other items
This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting. ...
8th Sep 2025
This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting. Previously I have written up highlights of these meetings (see here, here, here, here, here), though two years I was unable to do so because I was attending virtually. I will do...
the jsomers.net blog
The paper computer
Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me...
9th Apr 2026
Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me using a computer so much. Imagine you had the day’s emails to go through. It would be nice if the ones that required a simple decision could be dispatched with a few pen-strokes:...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments
Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
7th Apr 2023
Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
3rd Feb 2023
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: NASA’s Mars Pathfinder – July 4, 1997
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to...
4th Jul 2022
During the morning hours of July 4, 1997, I experienced a strange sense of déjà vu as I sat glued to the television set watching live […]
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World?
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build
Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-12-02
I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
2nd Dec 2022
Building openring with Jekyll Build
2022-12-02
I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
The Ruffian
Labour Isn't Thinking
The Real Point of Blair's Essay
1st Jun 2026
The Real Point of Blair's Essay
Scott DeLong
My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them)
With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future...
31st Oct 2023
With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future look like for websites? Let's predict it.
The post My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Cheese and Biscuits
El Molí de l’Escala, L'Escala
I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting...
18th Jul 2025
I have eaten at El Moli a number of times over the 40 or so years I and my family have been visiting this part of the world. The first couple of visits were pre-blog and pre-camera phone and I don't remember much about it other than being sat in those same ancient vaulted rooms...
Scott Jenson
Thinking with your hands
UX is less about technique and more about teamwork. Getting everyone to agree on a common goal is...
24th Aug 2021
UX is less about technique and more about teamwork. Getting everyone to agree on a common goal is where the real magic lives. But too often UX designers inadvertently sabotage that teamwork. Not intentionally, it’s just that, as a group, we UX designers have strong opinions that...
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
19th Feb 2018
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
Matt Mullenweg
Tesla Spyware
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
13th Dec 2022
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Fatih Arslan
My Homelab Setup
I replaced my existing Homelab setup from the ground up with Unifi's latest Gateways, Switches APs,...
10th Sep 2024
I replaced my existing Homelab setup from the ground up with Unifi's latest Gateways, Switches APs, and Cameras. Here is what I did and how it ended up.
AVC
AIVC
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog...
4th May 2023
I was approached by a company this week that has trained a large language model on all of the blog posts I have written here at AVC. There are 9059 of them for those that are counting. They wanted to offer me a chat bot called “ask Fred.” I told them no thanks. Let me […]
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
haseeb qureshi
How to Break Into VC
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on...
9th Nov 2025
Here’s what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC:
Write.
Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you’re brilliant, which you’re...
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
2nd Mar 2023
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions.
In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
Bits about Money
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for...
9th Dec 2024
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.
mtlynch.io
Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You...
9th Nov 2018
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property.
Months later, you arrive at the grand...
Charles Chen
Thoughts on React vs Vue vs Everything Else in 2023
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
3rd Dec 2022
My personal thoughts on front-end in 2023
IEEE Spectrum
Esoteric Languages Challenge Coders to Think Way Outside the Box
Have you ever tried programming with a language that uses musical notation? What about a language...
4th Sep 2025
Have you ever tried programming with a language that uses musical notation? What about a language that never runs programs the same way? What about a language where you write code with photographs?
All exist, among many others, in the world of esoteric programming languages, and...
SOCKS
Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot
Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of...
12th Jun 2022
Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views....
A Smart Bear
Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
24th May 2026
Worrying makes things worse. Replace worry with preparation and strategic planning.
Scarlet Ink
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a...
6th Jan 2025
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a manager is to focus on the value hidden behind the piles of work.
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #209
World Models, Astra 6, Fervo, Cybercab, Lettuce Robot, Space Telescope, PSI + Extra Doses
a week ago
World Models, Astra 6, Fervo, Cybercab, Lettuce Robot, Space Telescope, PSI + Extra Doses
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
31st Jul 2018
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight.
Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - February 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the...
1st Feb 2023
✨ What I've been up to Hello from Cozumel, Mexico! It's 80° F here - a welcome break from the Chicago Winter. Since last Summer, I've been taking a "solo week" trip every quarter as a creat...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Essays - Benedict...
Unbundling AI
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you
know? Do we move to...
5th Oct 2023
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything, so what can you do with them? How do you
know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do
we unbundle them back into single-purpose software?
Drew Ex Machina
USAF Project Able-1: The First Attempt to Reach the Moon
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West...
17th Aug 2022
In the years leading up to the beginning of the Space Age, there were many studies made in the West about lunar missions which gripped the […]
General Robots
Correct vs Good
Part 2: Can we have it both ways?
26th Mar 2025
Part 2: Can we have it both ways?
Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
24th Dec 2023
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
Cremieux Recueil
Viagra for Life Extension
Does it work? I'm doubtful
1st Jun 2026
Does it work? I'm doubtful
Works in Progress...
The perks of being a mole rat
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for...
4th Feb 2026
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
A Smart Bear
Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness
Want to write better? Swap generic words for specifics to make your text clear, powerful, engaging,...
13th Jul 2025
Want to write better? Swap generic words for specifics to make your text clear, powerful, engaging, and even funny.
Liz Denys
Coronet in sunflower embroidery
I got an embroidery kit for a wreath of flowers by Studio Flax and Purl Soho and could not resist...
24th Feb 2023
I got an embroidery kit for a wreath of flowers by Studio Flax and Purl Soho and could not resist making the stitching more complicated. I ended up using additional thread in many of the colors, though I was too quick to mix the remainders into my stash to really know which ones...
Derek Sivers podcast
The public you is not you
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did.
a blog post sharing what I had learned...
25th Sep 2007
I hope you don’t have to learn this lesson the way I did.
a blog post sharing what I had learned while switching between the PHP programming language and Ruby on Rails framework.
At the time, my blog had no readers, so I didn’t think anyone would see it.
I just wrote it for...
Leteyski's blog
Why I’m leaving the Shopify Apps business
Update: After writing this article, I acquired a Shopify App called Zipchat AI, and I’m currently...
10th Apr 2023
Update: After writing this article, I acquired a Shopify App called Zipchat AI, and I’m currently very much involved in the Shopify App Ecosystem once again.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
5th Mar 2024
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
Boot.dev Blog
How to Structure a Golang Project
I lead a team that’s responsible for anywhere from 15-25 Go microservices at any given time. We’re...
1st Oct 2020
I lead a team that’s responsible for anywhere from 15-25 Go microservices at any given time. We’re constantly creating new services and libraries, so it’s become important to streamline the project creation process. I’m mostly writing this article for myself as a kind of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: CODE by Charles Petzold
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of...
12th Dec 2016
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of computer hardware and software is not particularly
well hidden in my experience. The more I interact with software, the
more those interactions reflect their makers and materials. This...
Alex Meub
My Favorite Tiny Programming Projects
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out,...
23rd May 2022
I love creating tiny programs that solve actual (often minor) problems. As Julia Evans points out, this is not only a great way to make programming fun but actually one of the best ways to learn. Below are some my favorite tiny programs I’ve created.
Finding Campsites
My wife...
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev Beat. February 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back...
1st Mar 2023
I’m back from paternity leave! My new son is healthy, and my daughter is… busy. It’s good to be back writing code, writing courses and filming videos.
Light from Space
The Soul of the Heart Nebula
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere...
5th Nov 2022
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere amateury astronomy.
In the gallery below, I've highlighted 3 very different areas of the image:
Left: Planetary Nebula WeBo-1
Middle: Melotte 15 in the... heart of the Heart...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years...
3rd Jan 2024
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's time to do year 5(!)
Eugene Yan
How to Write Design Docs for Machine Learning Systems
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
7th Mar 2021
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
On Life and Lisp
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release!
We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new
driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is
still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth
desktop...
Chris Nicholas
Live cursors with Liveblocks & Next.js
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer!...
2nd Aug 2021
Displaying other users' cursors live on-screen has always been tricky to implement... but no longer! Using Liveblocks and Next.js we can get it working in a matter of minutes.
Product Identity
#5 Kubera: What's my net worth?
Respect master spreadsheet
8th Feb 2024
Respect master spreadsheet
David Crawshaw
Smaller Go 1.7 binaries
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
19th Aug 2016
blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size
Eric Bailey
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
17th Jun 2021
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...
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
20th Jan 2023
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users.
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Record/Replay testing in Sorbet
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
13th Jan 2020
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
Buttondown's blog
How to build a culture of shipping
The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
3rd Jun 2024
The best time to write is when you're excited about an idea. Strike when the iron is hot.
Gwern.net Newsletter
October 2020 news
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
1st Nov 2020
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
The Codist
My Compensation Over Four Decades As A Programmer
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job....
5th Jul 2023
It's a lie, as I don't remember exactly what I made in every job, and it changed during each job. Also, I never worked for a big tech company (other than Apple briefly, but that was when they were going out of business) and only a
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Reader Profile: Jaime
Jaime is a reader based in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s a pastor there, and works particularly on social...
2nd Jan 2026
Jaime is a reader based in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s a pastor there, and works particularly on social justice projects and inter-faith relations. Church has always been an excuse for him to dress up, but also an excuse to talk to young men in t... > Read more
Dr Alun Withey
Should I Stay or Should I go?: Encouraging travel in the early modern period.
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the...
11th Jun 2024
Travel today is often portrayed as a healthy activity, good for body, mind…and what’s left of the spirit! A good holiday is generally viewed as a tonic, and holiday company advertisements extol the virtues of ‘getting away’, encountering new places, people and cultures and (if...
Apoorva Srinivasan
getting started with bayesian inference
In my previous post, we spoke about hypothesis testing from a frequentist perspective. This is the...
27th Jun 2020
In my previous post, we spoke about hypothesis testing from a frequentist perspective. This is the method that is commonly taught in STAT101 classes. But for many decades, some statisticians have argued for another approach to conduct statistical analysis based on bayes...
Copper • A blog...
How good is Claude, really?
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype.
One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
Beijing Scroll
How China sees the world — and plans to respond
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top...
7th Nov 2025
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
18th Dec 2015
Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
Last Place Comics
Claw Machine
The post Claw Machine appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Mar 2025
The post Claw Machine appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Allen Pike
Test Coverage Won't Save You
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of...
8th Jun 2026
Forestwalk’s CTO Jenn Cooper shares what she’s been learning about tests, after a couple years of increasingly coding with agents:
Most discussions about AI-native development jump from this problem – agents’ tendency to accumulate tech debt – directly to tests. … Tests verify...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign"
This was an act of betrayal.
19th Mar 2023
This was an act of betrayal.
Contemporist...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
9th Jul 2024
Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's surrounded by a pine tree forest.
macwright.com
Incentives
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
1st Mar 2024
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
Notes on software...
Make small changes and solve the problems you have
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big
changes and 2) changes that...
27th Dec 2018
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big
changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known
problem. It’s even worse in that order.
These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for
too long. These situations tend to...
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1st Jun 2023
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million...
24th Jun 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million Chessboards. It's a realtime chess MMO played over a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Pieces can move between boards and there are no turns. I ran the game out of a single process and...
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
28th Mar 2024
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Sep 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.ca, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
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