A Collection of...
Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know...
2nd May 2025
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then holds up his hand with that ‘wait for it’ gesture and then shouts ‘loose!’ (or worse yet, ‘fire!’)...
Anthony Castrio's...
How I grew from 1,000 to 25,000 daily readers.
Updates on growing a newsletter business.
7th Aug 2023
Updates on growing a newsletter business.
AFAR Media - Travel...
What Makes Disney the Best Family Cruise in Alaska
4th Apr 2025
alexwlchan
What is psephology?
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
3rd May 2024
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news.
As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine):
Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
13th May 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
Commoncog
The Joy of Small Markets
If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
2nd Sep 2025
If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.
alexwlchan
Moving my Glitch apps to my own web server
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down.
Glitch was a platform where you...
8th Jul 2025
About six weeks ago, Glitch announced that they’re shutting down.
Glitch was a platform where you could make websites and web apps, with a heavy emphasis on creativity and sharing.
You could read the source code for any project to understand how it worked, and remix somebody...
FIRE v London
Sep 23: Antisocial markets
For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK,...
8th Oct 2023
For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK, but wider afield too – hence major brands pulling out of cities like San Francisco. From what I hear there is a general increase in antisocial behaviour, dating from the covid-19...
Jonas Hietala
Top ten activities that make me happy
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
24th Jun 2017
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
FIRE v London
Feb ’23: taking profits
February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling...
14th Mar 2023
February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling up again, post covid, though Mondays and Fridays remain subdued to put it mildly. Market movements in February In the markets, February started strongly, but then something...
Eric Migicovsky's...
8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
2nd May 2023
1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
99% Invisible
The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE]
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get...
5th Nov 2023
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries. The city became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to...
Basta’s Notes
The imminent risk of vibe coding
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
30th Nov 2024
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
1st Sep 2024
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
CONTEMPORIST
The Color And Material Palette Of This New Home Allows It To Blend Into The Desert Setting
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy...
3rd Apr 2023
Multidisciplinary creative studio mxtad has designed a home in Mexico, with a natural and earthy color palette that complements its surroundings. The home, designed for an architect and graphic designer, was built on a site with an irregular shape, however, from the street, it...
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
3rd Dec 2024
Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
The Roots of...
Accelerating science through evolvable institutions
This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on...
4th Dec 2023
This is the written version of a talk presented to the Santa Fe Institute at a working group on “Accelerating Science.”
We’re here to discuss “accelerating science.” I like to start on topics like this by taking the historical view: When (if ever) has science accelerated in the...
Josh Thompson
Monthly Review: November
This is my second monthly review, and I’m hooked.
I’ve thought this coming review frequently, but I...
1st Dec 2013
This is my second monthly review, and I’m hooked.
I’ve thought this coming review frequently, but I thought about that as I was conducting my month. This proactive review is in line with
Viktor Frankl’s admonition to “live every day as if it were your second chance to live it.”...
somethingaboutmaps
An Educational Experiment
(Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been...
5th May 2023
(Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been great but overwhelming. I may offer this again in the future if it goes well, so make sure to follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the blog, to be notified of when this happens.)...
davidyat.es
Static websites and right-sizing software
7th Aug 2026
bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
2nd Jun 2024
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
Common Edge
“Architecture Schools Are Responsible for Educating the Whole Student”
A talk with ACSA’s executive director, Michael Monti.
3rd Sep 2024
A talk with ACSA’s executive director, Michael Monti.
Bits about Money
Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the...
24th May 2024
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were...
11th Feb 2026
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we’re now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
Inverted Passion
You can only succeed if you know how you can fail
We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants...
18th Feb 2023
We want to be successful with our decisions. Even though failure is often glamorized, nobody wants it on purpose. Everyone wishes to be successful when they’re starting a company, launching a product, hiring a leader or even while buying a house. It may sound obvious, but the...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
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14th Mar 2022
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The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
Long Now
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
### Humanity's immune system
The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has...
9th Jun 2007
### Humanity's immune system
The title of Paul Hawken's talk, "The New Great Transformation," has two referents, he explained. Economist Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, _The Great Transformation_ , said that the "market society" and modern nation state emerged together in Europe after...
Long Now
Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos
### Cosmic Life
The pace of astronomic discovery, said the Astronomer Royal, keeps increasing with...
3rd Aug 2010
### Cosmic Life
The pace of astronomic discovery, said the Astronomer Royal, keeps increasing with the constant improvement in our sensing technology. The recent discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (dark energy) revolutionized cosmology, and with the launch...
Writing
Net Gains
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Reverse Interview Investors
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
2nd Feb 2023
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
The Elysian
Let's read the Terra Ignota series together
Our summer reading is Ada Palmer's feat of utopian worldbuilding.
3rd Jul 2024
Our summer reading is Ada Palmer's feat of utopian worldbuilding.
Quantum Frontiers
Can AI Predict the Quantum Universe?
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of...
11th Dec 2025
AI promises to revolutionize the way we do science, which raises a central technological question of our time: Can classical AI understand all natural phenomena, or are some fundamentally beyond its reach? Many proponents of artificial intelligence argue that any … Continue...
Greg Brockman
It's time to become an ML engineer
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and...
11th Apr 2022
AI has recently crossed a utility threshold, where cutting-edge models such as GPT-3, Codex, and DALL-E 2 are actually useful and can perform tasks computers cannot do any other way. The act of producing these models is an exploration of a new frontier, with the discovery of...
Flashbak
New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
1st Mar 2024
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
Escaping Flatland
Days are enormous
+ personal update and reading recommendations
1st Apr 2026
+ personal update and reading recommendations
Wait But Why
A Short History of My Last Six Years
On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole.
The post A Short History of My Last Six...
17th Feb 2023
On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole.
The post A Short History of My Last Six Years appeared first on Wait But Why.
AI for Software...
Better Agents Mean Better Surveillance | Weekend Reads 3
Your reading list to keep up with AI 03-01-2026
1st Mar 2026
Your reading list to keep up with AI 03-01-2026
Oykun Yilmaz
Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
8th Apr 2022
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
Internal Tech Emails
Musk v. Altman begins
This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
Paolo Amoroso's...
Changing text style for DandeGUI window output
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library...
12th May 2025
<![CDATA[Printing rich text to windows is one of the planned features of DandeGUI, the GUI library for Medley Interlisp I'm developing in Common Lisp. I finally got around to this and implemented the GUI:WITH-TEXT-STYLE macro which controls the attributes of text printed to a...
Yale E360
Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea
The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even...
1st Aug 2025
The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions can, as we know, tragically fail. Now imagine taking a sub nearly three times deeper.
Read more on E360 →
The personal website...
What google search shows us about the future of product design
You can read this article on UX Booth.
10th Sep 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: April 2025
Book sales, draft progress, secret projects, and more!
8th Apr 2025
Book sales, draft progress, secret projects, and more!
Marian's Blog
Agent V – Global Game Jam 2018 Project
This year I participated in my first game jam, the Global Game Jam 2018. With a team of artists,...
4th Feb 2018
This year I participated in my first game jam, the Global Game Jam 2018. With a team of artists, programmers and a sound designer, we made a video game within 48 hours. You play the game as a virus that infiltrates a company’s headquarters. The virus can not move on its own, it...
Simone Salis
Every Enemy Wears Your Face
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
Rest of World -...
Unleash the bololô: Masses of delivery workers set off horns and fireworks at bad customers’ homes
In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
4th Dec 2023
In Brazil, workers protest nasty customers with bikes, horns and fireworks.
Eugene Yan
Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
5th Feb 2023
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
Adventures In...
Hack some bokeh into your ArcGIS Online map
You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching...
4th Apr 2025
You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching over to portrait mode on your phone’s camera? It just looks…cool. The subject is in focus and the peripheral background content is blurry. It’s actually how our eyes and brains...
fast.ai
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic...
2nd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search for information about childhood boredom and you’ll find the opposite message:...
Trying to Understand...
The Road Not Taken.
And some sacrifices along the way.
2 weeks ago
And some sacrifices along the way.
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
8th Mar 2021
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
Wuthering...
What I Read in July 2025 - books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader
In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts
instead of uttering them by...
8th Aug 2025
In general, however, he [Louis XVI] preferred writing down his thoughts
instead of uttering them by word of mouth; and he was fond of reading, for
books are quiet and unobtrusive, and do not try to hustle the reader. (Stefan
Zweig, Marie Antoinette, 1932, p. 77 of the 1933...
Wrong Side of...
If I can shoot fascists
Do words lead to violence?
1st Oct 2025
Do words lead to violence?
Willem's Blog
Back to the University
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
7th Feb 2023
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
Nat Eliason's...
The Birth of Paradise
My novella is out next week!
13th Jan 2026
My novella is out next week!
Mind Prison
All Political Systems Die
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
7th Mar 2025
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
mtlynch.io
An Unexpected Reset Month
Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide...
2nd Apr 2020
Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide shutdown. I’m working on a product to help investors rebalance their portfolios. COVID-19 and me Obviously, the most relevant thing to happen in the last month has been the global...
37signals Dev
Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical —...
4th Sep 2025
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical — Meta’s text editing framework — and it brings a much better text editing experience to Rails:
Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be.
Markdown support:...
David Rozado...
The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news...
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing...
21st Dec 2021
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
Neil Panchal
Quantum Lorem Ipsum
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!...
20th Apr 2021
I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon!
To those who are not familiar, Lorem Ipsum is a piece of latin text, comprised of multiple paragraphs, that is used as a placeholder during the design process of building a page
Ryan Mulligan
Blog Questions Challenge
Hey there.
It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to...
25th Mar 2025
Hey there.
It has been a minute since my last post. I was semi-recently tagged by Zach Leatherman to (optionally) participate in this year's Blog Questions Challenge. I had planned on doing it then. But life really hit hard as we entered this year and it has not let up. Energy...
Fabien Sanglard
Android Shmup
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for...
23rd Feb 2012
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for iOS. Since it did honorably on the Apple Appstore I offered anyone to port it to Android Appmarket for a 50/50 revenues split. Two developers consecutively took on the challenge only...
Damn Interesting
The Anticipated Future of the Moon
When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day...
15th Feb 2021
When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately five hours long. During the intervening billions of years, the dragging effect of the moon’s gravity slowed the Earth’s spin to the 24-hour day we now observe....
cdixon
NFTs and A Thousand True Fans
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform...
27th Feb 2021
In his classic 2008 essay “1000 True Fans,” Kevin Kelly predicted that the internet would transform the economics of creative activities: To…
Blog - Guerrilla...
From Our Southern Border to a Cottonwood Tree
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the...
6th Apr 2022
I am an artist and not a trained cartographer. Because my work or message is often about the environment, geopolitical issues, water, animal and human rights, I look for how I might highlight particular issues, and then draw a word picture to go with the visual message of the...
Construction Physics
The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only...
6th Oct 2023
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it turned a difficult, 20-mile railroad route along “
Uncharted...
6 Questions You Asked Yourself about Solar
How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will...
2nd Nov 2024
How fast will it take over, how fast are costs shrinking, why is it so cheap, what industries will it birth, how much surface will it take up, where will it appear first?
Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner...
26th Dec 2024
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so
friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing
consistently every week since I started for the first time this
August. It's been a...
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.
Dominik Sobe's...
Early marketing efforts showing results
12th Oct 2021
Luke Mitchell |...
Warm email
I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post,
I rarely get emails to it,...
29th Dec 2025
I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post,
I rarely get emails to it, the ones I do get fall into two categories: very,
very kind people paying compliments to me about this website; secondly some
sort of cold email, usually from a SEO expert...
Applied Cartography
Challengers
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator,
I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
6th Dec 2023
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator,
I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users.
To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically.
Do you really need an LLM for that?
The problem of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Try to Make Something New'
Almost the only thing I
ever write down so I don’t forget it is the grocery list. Sporadically I...
1st Feb 2026
Almost the only thing I
ever write down so I don’t forget it is the grocery list. Sporadically I kept a diary when younger but each time the essential tedium of recording quotidian
events defeated me. I discovered that most of my own life, the practical stuff
that consumes so...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Free Edition of Charles Gounod’s Le Crucifix
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
1st Oct 2013
I typeset a Creative Commons edition of Charles Gounod's a cappella choral work 'Le Crucifix'.
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst....
3rd Nov 2022
Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
The Honest Broker
The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself
3rd Mar 2026
How this book was written is as strange as the novel itself
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
Jordan Eldredge's...
PGP Desktop was causing OS X to run slowly
Sharing an issue I found where PGP Desktop was causing my computer to run slowly.
5th Feb 2008
Sharing an issue I found where PGP Desktop was causing my computer to run slowly.
Beautiful Public...
The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s...
6th Feb 2023
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
Greater Still by...
Finance, Fairer
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
Marcus on AI
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
8th Jan 2015
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise.
One...
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
19th May 2021
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Winnie Lim
the answer I must seek
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
1st Sep 2024
My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
Laetitia@Work
Desperate for more male nurses, teachers and cleaners
Laetitia@Work #57
19th Mar 2023
Wuthering...
What I Read in May 2026 – “These stories appeal to my sense of humor as well as my taste for formal...
NOT SHAKESPEARE
Poems and a Defence of Ryme (1592-1605), Samuel
Daniel – Author of the “Delia”...
4th Jun 2026
NOT SHAKESPEARE
Poems and a Defence of Ryme (1592-1605), Samuel
Daniel – Author of the “Delia” sequence of fifty sonnets, a genuine sequence, with
for example lines ending one poem and beginning the next. For some reason Thomas Campion, a writer of
the most beautiful songs,...
The personal website...
Tiny data visualizations
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube.
Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
Max Rozen
@forge/api: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘fetch’)
How to fix a cannot read properties of undefined error in Forge
2nd May 2021
How to fix a cannot read properties of undefined error in Forge
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4th Jan 2025
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
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Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Res Obscura
The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
2nd Oct 2025
A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
Long Now
Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem
### The depopulation problem
Full PDF of the talk...
14th Aug 2004
### The depopulation problem
Full PDF of the talk [here](http://static.longnow.org/seminars/020040813-longman/salt-020040813-longman.pdf "PDF"), slideshow [here](https://media.longnow.org/salt-slides/Longman.html "The Depopulation Problem").
No need to summarize this time....
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The World Is Your Toilet
Today I am going to share some design advice that you aren’t going to get anywhere else. They don’t...
10th Mar 2018
Today I am going to share some design advice that you aren’t going to get anywhere else. They don’t teach you this at the university. You won’t find articles about it in the glossy magazines. The design blogs won’t touch the subject. Research would inevitably show that there...
Electronics etc…
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem
Introduction
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna!
The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
18th Aug 2024
Introduction
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna!
The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS
The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue
Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again
How It Works
Build Instructions
Power Supply Recapping
The Future: A Software-Only Solution
The...
charity.wtf
Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team...
2nd Dec 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team keeps rising to the challenge, and you are ferociously proud of them. But some cracks are beginning to show, and frankly you’re a little worried. You have always advocated for...
Justin Jackson
When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?
21st Apr 2018
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
7th Mar 2025
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well.
AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
Tinloof - Blog
Why we charge daily: Tinloof’s pricing model explained
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
6th Jun 2023
This article explains why Tinloof bills on a daily basis instead of a fixed rate.
Eric Bailey
A designer developing for Android
8th Nov 2018
Louwrentius - Solar
Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy)
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is...
1st Feb 2015
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is Debian Wheezy.
There are three iSCSI target solutions available for Linux:
LIO
IET
SCST
I've briefly played with LIO but the targetcli tool is interactive only. If you want to...
Oykun Yilmaz
Why Visual Design Matters
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
24th Jul 2023
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on.
I have faced situations like:
Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please.
We do not need visual...
Liz Denys
Hearts, stars, and trumpets: the things I 'favorite' but don't 'like'
Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes".
We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding...
5th Nov 2015
Twitter recently changed "favorites" to "likes".
We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite.
It's true - not...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we...
3rd Jul 2023
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
Eric Migicovsky's...
What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on...
19th Sep 2017
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…
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...
Long Now
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
Personal goals need a long-term strategy too.
Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen...
18th May 2022
Personal goals need a long-term strategy too.
Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen strategic thinking and incorporate a long-term perspective within a personal time scale. By reorienting ourselves to focus on the big picture, and using the power of small but...
Willem's Blog
Tablet as main computer
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share...
6th Mar 2018
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share you my experience on using Surface Pro and iPad Pro to get my work done.
bookbear express
notes on the brothers karamazov
Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I...
2 weeks ago
Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can’t solve or tolerate.
The personal website...
UI Density
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it...
20th May 2024
Interfaces are becoming less dense.
I’m usually one to be skeptical of nostalgia and “we liked it that way” bias, but comparing websites and applications of 2024 to their 2000s-era counterparts, the spreading out of software is hard to ignore.
To explain this trend, and suggest...
Willem's Blog
Dig for dummies
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network...
23rd May 2019
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network problems, IP-addresses, hostnames, mail servers and related info.
Cremieux Recueil
Are All the Good Men Married?
Why do married men earn so much? Is it because the good men get married, or does marriage make men...
13th Sep 2025
Why do married men earn so much? Is it because the good men get married, or does marriage make men good?
Applied Cartography
Spring, 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
blag
Install Windows 8 UEFI on Legacy BIOS with Clover (and Dual boot with Yosemite)
This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual...
28th Dec 2014
This tutorial will help you install Windows 8 on a Legacy BIOS in UEFI mode using Clover and dual boot with Yosemite.
Notes on software...
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript
today. Used in Chrome, (and by...
21st Sep 2021
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript
today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js,
etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also
contenders for extremely mainstream implementations.
But what else is out there? What if...
Tom MacWright
Sketches
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face.
Faces...
31st Jan 2026
I've been sticking to a sketching routine recently: every day I draw at least once face.
Faces are different for me than any other kind of drawing. Somewhere in the process the face looks real enough for me to recognize it as a human being, if it's a good drawing. About 30% of...
Raptitude.com
Growth Means Choosing a Different Kind of Pain
I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or,...
1st Oct 2024
I never threw a party until I was in my late 30s. I was always afraid people wouldn’t show up, or, even worse, that they would show up and quickly want to leave. It felt like this particular fate could not be risked, which meant party-throwing was off the table. Other people...
Butler's Log
Git Worktrees and GitButler
How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that...
4th Mar 2024
How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that differ from virtual branches in GitButler?
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
5th May 2023
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements.
Mail
The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
alexwlchan
Quietly quantum-resistant blogging
Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable...
9th Apr 2026
Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable of breaking classical public-key cryptography algorithms are much closer than previously believed.
What was thought to be years away might now be months.
I found Filippo Valsorda’s...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Tom Waits' "Ol' 55" for Jared and Kathleen [Ukulele]
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
12th Sep 2012
I recorded a simple version of Tom Waits' 'Ol' 55' for my friends Jared and Kathleen's wedding.
Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2020, 3)
Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of...
18th Sep 2020
Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of butterflies, and more.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
2nd Nov 2023
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing.
A lot of my blogging is quoting other people.
I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter.
But I...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Deep State Cometh
/r/FedNews, DeepSeek hot takes, and a brutal menswear guy post
3rd Feb 2025
/r/FedNews, DeepSeek hot takes, and a brutal menswear guy post
computers are bad
LotusNotes
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly
in the early days of...
14th Mar 2026
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly
in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and
fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories
serving military contracts. Of course, the...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the...
3rd Mar 2023
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
22nd Jun 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the ulisp
compiler's LLVM backend to
support printing integers to...
devonzuegel.com
Inside Argentina's currency exchange black markets
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to...
10th Sep 2022
In Argentina, your money is worth double if you skip the airport currency exchange and instead go to one of the many black market exchanges hidden throughout Buenos Aires.
These illegal exchanges are called "cuevas" (the word for "cave" in Spanish), and they are a crucial part of...
Moneyness
Renovatio monetae
This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of...
8th May 2024
This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae. Twice a year whoever held it had to bring it in to be changed for new coins at a rate of four old coins to three new coins. That suggests an annualized tax rate on...
CHM
Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative
CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by...
23rd Jun 2025
CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by artificial intelligence on journalism and the news industry.
The post Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative appeared first on CHM.
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
Classical Wisdom
The Sirens' Song
Can You Resist?
2nd Jan 2026
Asterisk
The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance
TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did...
16th Mar 2026
TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did ITRI implement one of the most successful industrial policy programs of all time?
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
2nd Dec 2024
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Josh Thompson
Climbing in Cuba, 2019
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go climbing in Cuba.
Mark and Dave, walking back from...
12th Apr 2019
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go climbing in Cuba.
Mark and Dave, walking back from climbing outside Viñales
Locals crag, called “The roof of the world”. Stunning routes.
because it was so hot, we spent a lot of time in this cave.
Kristi and I tend to stick...
Willem's Blog
Batavus Champion bike from 1978
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
2nd Sep 2016
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
News Archives |...
Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful
With Transit 6.0, our designers have dreamed big, and packed in plenty of surprises for our biggest...
25th Aug 2025
With Transit 6.0, our designers have dreamed big, and packed in plenty of surprises for our biggest update EVER. We think you're going to love it.
The post Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful appeared first on Transit.
Uncharted...
AI Weeks When Decades Happen
How fast AI is improving, and how that's impacting jobs today
6th Feb 2025
How fast AI is improving, and how that's impacting jobs today
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Adventures In...
Browser Hack: Gigantic Screenshots
Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its...
4th Nov 2025
Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920×1080? Here’s how to trick a browser’s device emulation tools to capture enormous screenshots. Now you can export your screen...
Daniel Marino
The Money Filter
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
Kagi Blog
Small Web Just Got Bigger
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart...
12th Mar 2026
Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...
Londonist
Hither Green Rail Crash: 1967 Disaster Was One Of London's Worst
"I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
1st Nov 2023
"I saw one of the coaches go straight up on its end."
Ryan Mulligan
Website Themes and Color Schemes
Getting into the mode
Before we begin, I'd like to preface this article with the following resources...
1st Feb 2022
Getting into the mode
Before we begin, I'd like to preface this article with the following resources that were helpful guides on my theming quest. They explain a lot of the intricacies of setting up dark mode and I recommend reading them before my own.
A Complete Guide to Dark...
Blog - Mac Pierce
p5.js on Squarespace - The Basics
A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.
2nd Mar 2022
A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes
Previously in database basics:
1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
2. binary expressions...
1st May 2020
Previously in database basics:
1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
2. binary expressions and WHERE filters
4. a database/sql driver
In this post, we extend gosql
to support indexes. We focus on the addition of PRIMARY
KEY constraints on table creation and some easy...
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
26th Jun 2023
On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
3rd Nov 2023
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
Tech and Tea
On the path to thriving
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even...
14th Oct 2024
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?
Eugene Yan
How to Keep Learning about Machine Learning
Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field?
19th Jan 2022
Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field?
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
Musings on Maps
“You Know,–It’s Over”
“I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now,” President Trump told Jordan’s Abdullah II, “and...
4th Feb 2025
“I am looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now,” President Trump told Jordan’s Abdullah II, “and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.” Trump seemed not to consider the scale of American arms’ involvement in its destruction, but to … Continue reading →
Daily Stoic
Stoicism and The Law of Attraction: The Ancient Truth About Manifestation and Magical Thinking
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...
4th Nov 2021
“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote. “Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Does that mean Marcus Aurelius and the ancient Stoics believed in the Law of Attraction, as popularized by Rhonda Byrne? It’s...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The most popular Mixpanel alternatives, compared
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces...
4th Oct 2023
The four most popular alternatives to Mixpanel are: PostHog – An all-in-one platform that replaces multiple tools. The fastest growing Mixpanel…
Long Now
Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change
## Green infrastructure
Griffith began with an eyeroll at the first round of responses in the US...
22nd Sep 2015
## Green infrastructure
Griffith began with an eyeroll at the first round of responses in the US to reducing greenhouse gases, a program he calls “peak Al Gore.” Some activities feel virtuous —becoming vegetarian, installing LED lights, avoiding bottled water, reading news...
Luke Mitchell |...
IKEA Bekant Standing Desk: Personal Review
Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to...
21st Sep 2020
Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to upgrade my home setup. The biggest change was a new desk.
I’ve wanted a sit-stand desk for a long time, this gave the perfect oppurtunity to try one. I settled on the IKEA Bekant,...
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
1st Feb 2023
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Barn at Moor Hall, Ormskirk
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought...
12th Aug 2024
In restaurants that offer both an A La Carte and parallel set menu I often play a bit of a thought experiment. If there was no such separation of options, and if all the dishes available were priced evenly on the same list, which would I end up going for?
Set menus (usually,...
Adventures In...
Make these ornaments please
It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just...
5th Dec 2024
It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just slightly awkward office holiday parties. We dedicate 82-86% of our mental capacities to socializing with our colleagues over deserts and drinks, while the remaining 14-16% remain...
ToughSF
Riding Sunbeams with Solar Sails
Reset your expectations of solar sails. They are a fast and free way to travel to any point in the...
26th May 2023
Reset your expectations of solar sails. They are a fast and free way to travel to any point in the Solar System, as many times as you want, any time of the year.
Solar sails can carry passengers and they have a nearly unlimited number of uses. You just have to... think...
Dan Quach Blog
Vietnam
Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the...
13th Apr 2024
Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the shelf that caught their attention in my room. It was a photo of an elderly Caucasian lady and their first question to me was, “How come you didn’t take the stock photo out of the...
Matt Keeter
Reverse-engineering the Synacor challenge
28th Jan 2024
Applied Cartography
Rear Window
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
devonzuegel.com
A libertarian just won Argentina's presidency... what's going on?
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential...
21st Nov 2023
If you're wondering how the heck a hardline libertarian just won the Argentinian presidential election, here's some background.
First, a key fact is that the government is printing money at an accelerating rate, resulting in 143% annual inflation as of the most recent count. The...
Notes on software...
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic
support for five standard SQL...
16th May 2024
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic
support for five standard SQL transaction levels: Read Uncommitted,
Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Snapshot Isolation and
Serializable. We'll use multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and
optimistic...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX
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