mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 3
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 3:...
2nd Dec 2018
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
Is It Keto Month 3: Returning to a Site that Grew without Me
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
23rd Oct 2022
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
Drew Ex Machina
Apollo A-002: Testing the Limits of the Launch Escape System
One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed...
8th Dec 2024
One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover […]
CHM
Taiwan Rising
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use.
The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
AVC
Coming Back Up For Air
The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When...
13th Jun 2023
The last time I posted was May 23rd, three weeks ago. There was a time when I wrote every day. When I had not yet posted on any day, I felt like something was missing, like I had not yet had my cup of coffee. Clearly, I have moved on from that need to write […]
./techtipsy
HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably
heard about the Steam...
1st Dec 2022
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably
heard about the Steam Deck, the
Linux-based handheld gaming PC built by Valve. Yes, you heard that right: not
Windows, but Linux.
I’ve had my fair share of attempts at gaming on Linux. When it works,...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
A not so gentle intro to web3
Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the...
30th Dec 2021
Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology...
Eric Migicovsky's...
What is user segmentation?
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it...
5th Jan 2022
User segmentation is a term which is thrown around a lot within product-led teams, but what does it mean? In this article we'll explain what user…
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Pretty much all I want in life…
… is to make things and then have other people look at those things and be
like “woah, cool”
14th Oct 2021
… is to make things and then have other people look at those things and be
like “woah, cool”
fast.ai
How to Solve it With Code course now available
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
This Space
The end of literature, part five
"Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100...
25th Jul 2024
"Stupid" and "a marketing exercise" were the first two descriptions I saw of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century polled from hundreds of "literary luminaries" offering ten choices each, and while it is both of those things, "parochial" is the first word that...
Hidden History
China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in...
2nd Dec 2025
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
Jaz's Blog
Continued Fraction Streams
17th Aug 2016
Permanent Style
Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the...
22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > Read more
Tinloof - Blog
SEO best practices on Sanity
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine...
5th Sep 2022
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
Open for Business
Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
weird medieval guys
The Medieval Monks Who Lived on Top of Giant Pillars
A history of the monastic high life
2nd Aug 2023
A history of the monastic high life
Laetitia@Work
Why I'm tired of goals
Laetitia@Work #55
12th Jan 2023
Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
8th May 2021
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
the late review
ludic capitalism
helmut jahn and the childhood postmodern imaginary
16th Aug 2024
helmut jahn and the childhood postmodern imaginary
Beautiful Public...
FAA Aviation Maps
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a...
29th Jan 2024
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Let a thousand societies bloom
17th Dec 2025
The Works in...
How Japan stopped civil war
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its...
3rd Jun 2026
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
Notes on software...
What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems
interact in chaotic ways. And...
20th Aug 2024
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems
interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be
anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far
away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
Works in Progress...
The golden age of vaccine development
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
7th Jan 2026
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
Eugene Yan
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14th Sep 2025
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Apoorva Srinivasan
what's happened since the human genome project
When the human genome project was deemed “complete” in 2003, it was met with incredible fanfare. The...
17th May 2022
When the human genome project was deemed “complete” in 2003, it was met with incredible fanfare. The entire project leading up to that moment had all the drama to keep its audience enthralled. Fierce rivalry between a public and private institution, multiple countries involved,...
News Archives |...
How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know.
We pop open the hood on a shared benchmark to measure the accuracy of public transit's real-time...
11th Apr 2024
We pop open the hood on a shared benchmark to measure the accuracy of public transit's real-time countdowns
The post How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know. appeared first on Transit.
Yazin Alirhayim
Real Estate Idea
This isn't a particular idea, but a possibility. I've had very little experience with real estate,...
2nd Jul 2017
This isn't a particular idea, but a possibility. I've had very little experience with real estate, but I'm sure there's a way to make it at least 10x better, either for the buyer or for the agents themselves.
HTMHell
#35 a perfectly structured button
button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"}
Bad code
<button type="button"...
11th Sep 2025
button table { margin: 0; } .fa-arrow-left::before {content:"←"}
Bad code
<button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<i class="fa fa-arrow-left" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</td>
...
Quanta Magazine
What Is a Manifold?
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces,...
3rd Nov 2025
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
The post What Is a Manifold? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing AirTag Security Cable
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.
So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.
There is an...
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
4th Jun 2021
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Patterns in Humanity
The Assimilation Myth
Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
9th May 2025
Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
Least I Could Do
Never Ending
You’ll notice the tweaks on the site continue. The big remaining items are the archive page, as...
4th Nov 2025
You’ll notice the tweaks on the site continue. The big remaining items are the archive page, as well as the RSS feed (which apparently people still use). Those are going to take a little more time, as apparently we’ve been […]
The post Never Ending appeared first on Least I...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The day I killed my LAN
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore....
30th Jul 2017
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it....
Peder M. Isager
How to share your data online with OSF
The Open Science movement is here to stay. However, incorporating open practices like data sharing...
2nd Oct 2018
The Open Science movement is here to stay. However, incorporating open practices like data sharing into your work flow can seem like a challenging task. If you have never made data available online before, the process can feel a bit daunting. Where should I put the data? What...
Essays - Benedict...
The Deep Research problem
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another
amazing demo, until it...
18th Feb 2025
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another
amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
Artificial Ignorance
Why now?
What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
maragu’s blog
The art of being an indie software consultant: a chat with John Berryman
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just...
13th Dec 2024
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just about writing code, it’s about building a whole persona, finding the right clients, while somehow simultaneously also making sense of the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Posts on Made of...
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are...
3rd Jul 2024
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight...
Josh Thompson
How to fly… like a boss
I am in a quest to
level up my life. Free flights is a big part of this. I’ve not gotten too many...
7th Oct 2013
I am in a quest to
level up my life. Free flights is a big part of this. I’ve not gotten too many of those yet, but the next best thing is free seat upgrades. I’m not talking about first class - that’s beyond me, at the moment. I’m talking about getting stuck in the back of the...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Feature flag best practices and tips (with examples)
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature...
5th Jan 2023
Feature flags, aka feature toggles, are awesome. New feature for your beta test group? Use a feature flag. Testing multiple variants of a new UX? Use…
Luxagraf:...
April White
The mild winter of 2023-2024 brought very little snow to Wisconsin. We watched the weather for...
10th Apr 2024
The mild winter of 2023-2024 brought very little snow to Wisconsin. We watched the weather for months, waiting for more snow to fall but it never did. Last year we arrived in Washburn after Memorial Day and there were still patches of snow in the deep shade of the woods. This...
brr
The Last Egg
Five more months until freshies...
9th Jun 2023
Five more months until freshies...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05
Make it bigger.
portals
birthday eve
exploring...
5th Jul 2024
Make it bigger.
portals
birthday eve
exploring velocity
Daniel Marino
Free Radon album released
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
26th Oct 2023
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music.
I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
The DESK Magazine
What makes me a designer?
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my...
29th Nov 2022
This question crossed my mind enough times recently that I went into the DESK archives to find my own answer. To my surprise, there wasn’t one. I’ve never written about it, not until today.
Justin Jackson
musk twitter quitter, bitter?
I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a...
1st Nov 2022
I've been a big Twitter user since 2008. In nearly 14 years on the platform, Twitter's had a net-positive effect on my life. But now with Elon’s takeover, Twitter is in the hands of a man whose behavior I find reprehensible.
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week!
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
The Map is Mostly...
July 4, 2024
Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
5th Jul 2024
Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
blag
Flashing Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
10th May 2015
This tutorial will explain you how to flash Asus-WRT Merlin by XVortex on NetGear NightHawk R7000.
Josh Collinsworth
Announcing Hondo
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from....
14th Jul 2022
Updating Quina to version 2.0 filled my head with new ideas that I just couldn't walk away from. Eventually, those ideas took the shape of a whole new word game, named Hondo.
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
20th Jun 2023
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Josh Thompson
Barefoot Sprinting Up a Grassy Hill, & Kettlebell Swings
Introduction
A few months ago, maybe in November, certainly by December, I began this ‘barefoot...
12th Mar 2025
Introduction
A few months ago, maybe in November, certainly by December, I began this ‘barefoot sprinting up grassy hills’ thing I’m going about to talk about in detail below. Shortly after I started, I began making use of the kettlebells I’d usually ignored at the gym(s) I have...
Woody Hayday
Small Bet Models
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I...
22nd Jul 2024
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I thought I’d explore a range of models rather than relying on my ‘known’ entrepreneurial mode (Freemium SaaS/WordPress plugin based business). Below I’ve collected together the...
Max Rozen
Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
15th Nov 2022
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
Contraption Co.
Introducing FRCTNL
With the recent tech downturn, there's been a clear shift. Instead of the previous...
7th Sep 2023
With the recent tech downturn, there's been a clear shift. Instead of the previous "growth-at-all-costs" model, companies are now emphasizing efficiency. This is evident in hiring, as firms now seek experienced contributors who can hit the ground running with minimal management...
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial:...
4th Sep 2021
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono
It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
Old Vintage...
The end of AOL dialup
America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and...
5th Oct 2025
America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and presumably any systems attempting to dial in will no longer be able to make a connection.
We actually had a fairly long history with AOL and its predecessors in our house. We got...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Poor Naked Wretches, Whereso’er You Are'
Aleksander Wat (1900-67)
was a Polish poet and one-time Communist hounded and imprisoned by Nazis...
1st May 2025
Aleksander Wat (1900-67)
was a Polish poet and one-time Communist hounded and imprisoned by Nazis and
Soviets alike. In 1964 while visiting California, he recorded lengthy
conversations with fellow poet and Pole Czesław Miłosz. The transcripts were
translated by Richard Lourie...
The Forney Flyer
And Here We Go Trying Yet Again...
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
14th Feb 2020
There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Ben Borgers
Winter break project list [2024]
21st Dec 2024
David Crawshaw
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes
2018-04-02, David Crawshaw
The Go standard library...
2nd Apr 2018
Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes
2018-04-02, David Crawshaw
The Go standard library includes
,
a generic SQL interface.
It does a good job of doing exactly what it says it does,
providing a generic interface to various SQL database servers.
Sometimes that is what you want....
Product Identity
Designing for a single purpose
What do a Dutch chocolate chip cookie and a thousand-year-old teahouse in Kyoto have in common?
7th May 2024
What do a Dutch chocolate chip cookie and a thousand-year-old teahouse in Kyoto have in common?
nanoscale views
New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more
Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find...
9th Jul 2025
Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting:
Essentially all the news pertaining to the US federal funding of science continues to be awful. This article from Science summarizes the situation well, as does this...
Willem Pennings
Balancing cube
This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a...
10th Feb 2024
This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a controlled manner. It does so using clever controls and a set of three reaction wheels. The original idea for this device comes from researchers at ETH Zürich, who demonstrate...
A Smart Bear
Never say "no," but rarely say "yes."
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes"...
1st Oct 2023
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
Haterade
Tastes Like Cancer
(And potato salad.)
21st Jul 2025
Build In Public...
Skip the 5-day wait: Get UX insights in minutes
Featured: Exclusive interview with founders of Uxia who are making user testing accessible to teams...
7th Sep 2025
Featured: Exclusive interview with founders of Uxia who are making user testing accessible to teams of any budget
joshua stein
Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way)
I wanted to add an internal USB port to my
ThinkPad X1 Nano
which should have been a fairly easy...
29th May 2024
I wanted to add an internal USB port to my
ThinkPad X1 Nano
which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't.
Of course, if I were still using my
Framework Laptop
it would be as easy as plugging in a
custom module
but I've been using my X1 Nano as my primary laptop...
fast.ai
In defense of screen time
Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
29th Oct 2024
Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
The Turn Signal RSS...
How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience
Apple and Google are taking over the car industry. How did we get here and what's next?
1st Dec 2022
Apple and Google are taking over the car industry. How did we get here and what's next?
Josh Comeau's blog
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
2nd Dec 2024
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
David Gerrells
thinking around a pen
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that...
1st Sep 2020
Codepen is a delightful app that I used over the years to practice my frontend skill. One thing that has annoyed me was that over time they have limited features more and more behind a pay wall for a pro account...
Notes on software...
Transactions are a protocol
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any
storage system can be made...
20th Apr 2025
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any
storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem,
etc. Delta Lake
and Orleans
demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general)
transactional. Epoxy
demonstrated techniques to make...
Both Are True
i failed vs. i'm a failure
the life-changing magic of the failure bow
3rd Jun 2025
the life-changing magic of the failure bow
The Works in...
The San Diego infinite housing glitch
How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
2nd Oct 2024
How a bonus ADU program allows 'granny towers' in gardens
Oykun Yilmaz
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients.
By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
25th Mar 2024
By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
macwright.com
Recently
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
1st Nov 2023
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Louwrentius - Solar
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons:
low latency
high...
25th Mar 2017
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons:
low latency
high bandwidth
As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers.
I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
David Perell
Thoughts on Free Will
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
12th Jul 2021
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
Sebastian Witowski
My Favorite Macbook Tools
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend...
9th Jan 2020
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend days just tweaking things on my computer. Actually, I do. Whenever I see something annoying, I want to drop everything and try to fix it right away. It can be anything. From a...
The Ruffian
Why I Won’t Reply To Your AI-Generated Email
The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
a week ago
The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
Ploum.net
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After...
23rd Jul 2025
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After contributing to the launch of Ubuntu as the "perfect Linux desktop", Ploum realises that Ubuntu is drifting away from both Debian and GNOME. In the meantime, mobile computing...
somethingaboutmaps
Kickstarter 3: The Return
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a...
14th Nov 2024
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new...
Daily Stoic
Perseverance: 7 Stoic Lessons on How To Keep Going
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea...
9th May 2023
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” — Marcus Aurelius The question of why and how we are supposed to live has been contemplated for centuries. Absurdist Albert Camus wrote that life is like...
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2024 ended one week
ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
1st Jun 2024
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2024 ended one week
ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past
week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s
games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct
meta-patterns in how people approached...
Code Of Honor
Debugging running server applications
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real...
2nd Aug 2012
So you’ve written an awesome online game that works perfectly in the test environment, but when real users are playing the game server doesn’t work properly. Now what?!? I was reading an article by Mike Perham called Debugging with Thread Dumps and wanted to share a related...
Identity Designed
BERA
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
22nd Feb 2022
Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
Matt Keeter
Quadratic Error Functions Explainer
17th Nov 2018
Saturday Morning...
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1st May 2026
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5th Jul 2024
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
Bits about Money
Working title (insurance)
Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?
30th Jun 2024
Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
20th Nov 2018
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Strong Towns
Three Ways of Understanding the Housing Crisis
Why supply, demand, and structure lead to very different theories of change.
2nd Mar 2026
Why supply, demand, and structure lead to very different theories of change.
Luxagraf:...
Sometimes
Fall is the slow exhale of the earth. The sun's rays grow ever scarcer as the frosts arrive. Long...
13th Nov 2024
Fall is the slow exhale of the earth. The sun's rays grow ever scarcer as the frosts arrive. Long shadows cut the cold honey sunlight of afternoons that begin to fade at three, turning to a blue-pink twilight over the lake before darkness descends at five. Then four-thirty. Then...
TokyoDev
Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
12th May 2023
At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
Naz Hamid • Journal
The Abstraction Gap
Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises.
There’s a frustrating gap in how development...
1st May 2025
Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises.
There’s a frustrating gap in how development projects present themselves. What looks straightforward on GitHub — ‘just run this command!’ — quickly spirals into an odyssey of sudo permissions, package managers, and missing...
the singularity is...
you can never go back
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc...
31st Aug 2025
Total disassociation, fully out your mind
That Funny Feeling
I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to put the records on the turntables to get the music. You move the information. You were the file system.
I like the Retro Game...
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
14th Apr 2023
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Deployment Fidelity Problem
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is
this: If somebody thinks of a...
31st Aug 2021
The most important problem that we face as software professionals is
this: If somebody thinks of a good idea, how do we deliver it to users
as quickly as possible?
– Continuous Delivery
Production is a low-fidelity version of your codebase. Many
deployment metrics are just a...
Stephen Diehl
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
This is going to be a very nerdy post so...
20th Jun 2026
Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
This is going to be a very nerdy post so bear with me. Here is a function. Read it the way you would read any other function, and then tell me its type.
fn fib(n) =
var a := 0
var b := 1
repeat(n) fn
let t = a + b
...
Blog of Simple...
How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
20th Jan 2025
watchTowr Labs
How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777)
Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey.
Sit in your chair,...
4th Jul 2025
Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey.
Sit in your chair, stand at your desk, lick your phone screen - close your eyes and imagine a world in which things are great. It’s sunny outside, the birds are chirping, and
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Baby VS Intimacy
A comic about intimate moments.
View on my website
15th Nov 2022
A comic about intimate moments.
View on my website
ntietz.com blog -...
Building a demo of the Bleichenbacher RSA attack in Rust
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of...
4th Mar 2024
Recently while reading Real-World Cryptography, I got nerd sniped[1] by the mention of Bleichenbacher's attack on RSA.
This is cool, how does it work?
I had to understand, and to understand something, I usually have to build it.
Well, friends, that is what I did.
I implemented...
The Ruffian
The Last Lunch
A Short Story
1st Aug 2026
The Scholar's Stage
Science Proceeds One Question at a Time
MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by...
1st Jan 2025
MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection. By the time Wallace came on the scene...
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
3rd Jun 2024
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
Josh Thompson
Avoid a car accident with a $3 tool
TL;DR: Buy a
blind spot mirror for your car. They are $2, and can keep you from getting in an...
4th Jul 2016
TL;DR: Buy a
blind spot mirror for your car. They are $2, and can keep you from getting in an accident. Not a lot of people have them, though they’re awesome.
I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to make driving safer.
Step 1 to making driving safer is “don’t...
Mark Manson
3 Principles for a Better Life
I used to have a newsletter with the pitch, “3 Ideas That Can Change Your Life.” For years, I sent...
13th Jun 2022
I used to have a newsletter with the pitch, “3 Ideas That Can Change Your Life.” For years, I sent out emails in that format: three ideas—one, two, three—thank you, drive through.
News flash: I've got a new weekly newsletter now called The Breakthrough where I send out ideas and...
The Elysian
Metanational corporations are redesigning the world map
Parag Khanna on metanational corporations and how they are opening borders, reshaping geopolitics,...
2nd Feb 2025
Parag Khanna on metanational corporations and how they are opening borders, reshaping geopolitics, and creating a world of interconnected city-states.
Alex Meub
Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully...
31st Jul 2022
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser. It’s something a 6th grader would have thought was a good use of time, but for some reason as a dad in my thirties, I spent the last several months...
Gwern.net Newsletter
September 2020 News
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
26th Oct 2020
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
Eugene Yan
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
30th Jul 2023
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
The personal website...
Beyond 10×
In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper...
1st Nov 2021
In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper appeared under the unassuming title “Exploratory experimental studies comparing online and offline programming performance.” “Programming is a multibillion dollar industry,” the paper...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Great Florida Resort for Multigen Vacations
10th Feb 2026
A Beautiful Site
Bulletproof Components
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book...
8th Dec 2021
Somewhere buried in my dusty basement lives a signed copy of Dan Cederholm's classic book Bulletproof Web Design. I purchased it during my first trip to An Event Apart in 2007. This book meant a lot to me back then, and almost 15 years later, many of its concepts still hold...
ntietz.com blog -...
Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on...
3rd Apr 2023
We are in the early days with a new technology.
There is a lot of hype around LLMs, and takes on every end of the spectrum.
Some predict that programmers will be out of a job sooner than later.
Others predict that these will just contribute to spam.
Today I'd like to focus on one...
Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
13th Nov 2019
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
Melissa Penfold
THE 23 MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
20th Jan 2025
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
The personal website...
Why the web will win
197 billion apps were downloaded in 20171: that’s almost 26 per human being on the planet Earth. 6...
6th Jan 2018
197 billion apps were downloaded in 20171: that’s almost 26 per human being on the planet Earth. 6 apps per second. In the 10 years since Apple opened the App Store, app downloads have doubled, on average, every two years.2
Given the numbers, it’s not surprising that many...
Words and Buttons...
Image darning
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
28th Mar 2020
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Julia Evans
New microblog with TILs
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save...
9th Nov 2024
I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called
TIL (“today I learned”).
the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media
One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky is “hey, here’s a cool
thing”, like the great SQLite repl litecli, or
the...
Cybercultural:...
My Top 10 Web Products of 2010
This post as it looked in 2010.
This month ReadWriteWeb is publishing a series of top 10 lists of...
13th Dec 2010
This post as it looked in 2010.
This month ReadWriteWeb is publishing a series of top 10 lists of the best products of 2010, each based on a specific category. This post is a little different, in that it's my own personal top 10 list of my favorite products of 2010. I'm not...
escape the algorithm
Announcing the Escape the Algorithm ᵐⁱᶜʳᵒsupporter Program
Welcoming tiny acts of codependence
5th Feb 2025
Welcoming tiny acts of codependence
Derek Sivers podcast
Unlikely places and untangled goals
I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine.
But the two things I can’t do without for...
11th Dec 2017
I once went without food for ten days, and that was fine.
But the two things I can’t do without for long are solitude and silence.
(Freedom from people and their noises.)
An Irish friend suggested that I stay at Mount Melleray Abbey, home of the Cistercian Trappist monks,...
The Last...
Who Can Know How Much Randi Zuckerberg Is Worth?
cue hatred
Part 1 here
IV.
Off topic: Randi strongly believes Facebook has a legitimate place in...
1st Mar 2014
cue hatred
Part 1 here
IV.
Off topic: Randi strongly believes Facebook has a legitimate place in the business world, and this makes me think Facebook is finished. I realize this is a speculative trade to make. The usual anxiety about Facebook's future is that teenagers aren't...
Jordan Eldredge's...
A Tour of Winamp2-js Features
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
8th Mar 2018
Demo videos of Winamp2-js' more interesting features with notes on how they are implemented.
AI Tidbits
Chatbot Arena - The community-driven leaderboard you need to know
Choose the right AI model for your task
24th Nov 2024
Choose the right AI model for your task
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Copper and Green Energy
The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The...
1st Jul 2024
The United States Department of Energy has updated its list of critically important materials. The current list of 54 materials includes elements that are presently critical to a transition to green energy, such as the rare earth elements important to turbine generators, and...
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
6th Jun 2022
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Ryan Hoover's...
How to make new friends as an adult
11th Jul 2024
The personal website...
Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design
Has design become boring?
A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been...
21st Sep 2022
Has design become boring?
A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing just that. Quirke describes the many shortcomings of modern design: architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and interior design have all been...
One Useful Thing
On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
11th Sep 2025
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
Melissa Penfold
SEASON’S TREE-TINGS! THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS, 2023
The past few years have been rocky for Christmas. In 2020 it was cancelled. In 2021, it felt a...
5th Dec 2023
The past few years have been rocky for Christmas. In 2020 it was cancelled. In 2021, it felt a little more appealing. Things began to feel more normal in 2022, but having been homebodies for so long we were still flexing our dormant social muscles. In 2023 the weight of current...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 12
On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
30th Jun 2023
On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
Derek Sivers podcast
When you’re extremely unmotivated
Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything.
Brain dead.
No...
2nd Aug 2016
Like everyone, I get those times when I’m unmotivated to do anything.
Brain dead.
No energy.
Everything feels like, “Why bother? What’s the point?”
Like everyone, I have a list of boring chores that need to be done but that I’ve been putting off for years.
I never do them...
Naz Hamid • Journal
Simpler Screens
Smartphones are a distraction. Numerous studies and research have proven out various scenarios: from...
5th Feb 2025
Smartphones are a distraction. Numerous studies and research have proven out various scenarios: from students unable to learn as well, to laws prohibiting hands-on device use while driving, and the various apps and platforms that buzz, ping, and are designed to distract.
People...
Aaron's Essays
Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will...
3rd Mar 2016
I think that it is nearly impossible to figure out the exact changes that new technologies will create in the world. That's problematic because investing in startups is largely about figuring out whether or not a team with a new technology - or application of existing technology...
High Signal
What is a B2B SaaS? How these software companies make money
B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers....
1st Jul 2025
B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers. SaaS is delivered over the internet so users do not have to download any software.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Counting Agentic Traffic
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch...
6th Jul 2026
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch without AWStats and without a database. Its party piece is the dimension every other analytics tool throws away: the bots. In the agentic era the question "what did AI agents read...
matduggan.com
OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor...
12th Aug 2026
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?"
Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
1st Jun 2021
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content
Bad code
<section>
<aside>
<div>
<section>
<header>
<a href="/">
...
10th Dec 2021
Bad code
<section>
<aside>
<div>
<section>
<header>
<a href="/">
<img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo">
</a>
</header>
<main>
<a href="/services">Services</a>
<a href="/products">Products</a>
...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
18th Dec 2024
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
Scott DeLong
Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise
Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do...
31st Mar 2023
Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do differently.
The post Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise appeared first on Scott DeLong.
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
Long Now
Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture
### Making farmers cool again
Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past....
6th May 2009
### Making farmers cool again
Farming has become an occupation and cultural force of the past. Michael Pollan's talk promoted the premise - and hope - that farming can become an occupation and force of the future. In the past century American farmers were given the assignment to...
ntietz.com blog -...
PyOhio
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
30th Jul 2017
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights:
Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
wingolog
preliminary notes on a nofl field-logging barrier
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has...
3rd Oct 2024
When you have a generational collector, you aim to trace only the part
of the object graph that has been allocated recently. To do so, you
need to keep a : a set of old-to-new edges, used as
roots when performing a minor collection. A language run-time maintains this set...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: A winter's tale
Melting snow can make the season easier
4th May 2023
Melting snow can make the season easier
lcamtuf’s thing
How much of HN is AI?
I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of...
12th Mar 2026
I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled in my general...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team...
9th Mar 2017
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company
retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline
and size over time:
1.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
2nd Mar 2025
Ploum.net
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk!
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk!
For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a...
1st Apr 2025
Goodbye Offpunk, Welcome XKCDpunk!
For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a command-line gemini and web browser.
Offpunk.net
While my initial goal was to browse the Geminisphere offline, the mission has slowly morphed into cleaning and unenshitiffying the modern...
Writing
Notes from April
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
Remains of the Day
American Idle
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And...
22nd Feb 2021
I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part. But it discusses a bunch of other topics, some only tangentially related to TikTok.
All the points I wanted to cover seem hyperlinked in a sprawling loose...
Varun's Notes
Generative AI Builds Bridges Between Creative Mediums
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
23rd Nov 2022
On architecting a new Internet paradigm for rapid content creation and sharing.
Yazin Alirhayim
Finding An Idea
The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this...
25th Jun 2017
The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this post, I describe how I go about tackling this
sbensu
How to avoid breaking APIs
The main trick is to design them with extension in mind so that you won't have to break them later.
16th Mar 2023
The main trick is to design them with extension in mind so that you won't have to break them later.
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #13
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, now more obviously because the hi-vis workforce...
26th Jan 2025
The major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, now more obviously because the hi-vis workforce have shifted their focus from 'under the flyover' to 'the perimeter of the roundabout'. Their task has been to slightly reshape the roundabout to better accommodate the influx of...
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question:
I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Acko.net
On Variance and Extensibility
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very...
28th Aug 2021
Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job
Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
Least I Could Do
Tap Tap
Is this thing still on? Do I even remember how to do this? Hi. As I started work last week on...
18th Aug 2025
Is this thing still on? Do I even remember how to do this? Hi. As I started work last week on re-building the LICD site, I unintentionally began reading a few of my old blog posts. One question kept popping […]
The post Tap Tap appeared first on Least I Could Do.
The Web Witch's Blog
Personal Sprint Retrospectives
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays.
If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
4th Apr 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
A Day In The Life...
A comprehensive list of failed projects
A comprehensive list of failed projects
27th Dec 2021
A comprehensive list of failed projects
wadertales
Juvenile settlement in Black-tailed Godwits
Adult waders tend to be exceptionally consistent in their use of time and space, with marked...
12th Sep 2024
Adult waders tend to be exceptionally consistent in their use of time and space, with marked individuals turning up on the same estuaries at the same time year after year, as discussed in the Whimbrel blog ‘Whimbrel: time to leave’. How do these patterns become established? Do...
Willem's Blog
Computer says no
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
Rozado’s Visual...
Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the...
22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
Conservation...
Despite dire headlines, ‘it would be a mistake to write off tropical forests’
19th Feb 2024
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
5th Dec 2024
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
Louwrentius - Solar
Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources
Introduction
Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
7th Jul 2012
Introduction
Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
Yale E360
African Forests Have Become a Source of Carbon Emissions
Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that...
1st Dec 2025
Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilizers.
Read more on E360 →
Noahpinion
The student debt revolt failed, but Millennials will be fine
My generation will bear some minor economic scars into our prosperous middle age.
2nd Jul 2023
My generation will bear some minor economic scars into our prosperous middle age.
Data Boutique
Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in
... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
1st Sep 2023
... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
Making software...
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and...
18th Oct 2018
What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?
2018-10-18
I remember a time on the internet1 when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean personal - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.
Nowadays companies and...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight....
4th Sep 2024
The aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
Sometimes It Works...
Thinking in packages
Thinking in packages
Path repository
Override PSR-4 Autoloading
¶Thinking in packages
If you’re in...
6th Jun 2018
Thinking in packages
Path repository
Override PSR-4 Autoloading
¶Thinking in packages
If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem:
“How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
Birchtree
+ The only thing of value I can provide
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
2nd Nov 2025
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
Cheese and Biscuits
Crispin at Studio Voltaire, Clapham Common
Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start),...
16th Dec 2024
Although my useless photos hardly do it justice (let's just get that out of the way from the start), Crispin at Studio Voltaire is a lovely space to eat in. The candles on each table aren't the only source of light, but provide a romantic accessory to the tealights dangling above...
Society's Backend:...
Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
2nd Dec 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
fast.ai
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
What analog and AI education both get wrong
17th Feb 2026
What analog and AI education both get wrong
TheCollector
A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War...
1st Apr 2025
The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War II. Hungary, however, had a brush with communist leadership several decades before, in the aftermath of the First World War. The short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ultimately...
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
7th Jun 2024
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Benny Kuriakose
Importance of Landscape in School Design
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only...
29th Aug 2023
Landscape plays a major role in the learning experience of a child. A school campus not only comprises of the buildings in a school,...
Sam Altman
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital...
10th Jun 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People...
Build In Public...
Meet Bond: Lovable for prospecting. No GTM engineer required.
Christian and his co-founders watched founders ship great products and then go quiet. They built the...
26th May 2026
Christian and his co-founders watched founders ship great products and then go quiet. They built the thing that comes next.
Long Now
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times
### Principles against panic
"Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any new enterprise,...
10th Nov 2007
### Principles against panic
"Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any new enterprise, Kanter explained, encounters roadblocks. As the obstacles multiply, the situation looks hopeless. That's when deeply held principles and the long view are most needed to get you...
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book!
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
25th Nov 2024
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
Tiny struggles
Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will...
17th Mar 2022
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea.
I’m a software engineer by trade and I have spent thousands of hours building software products that don’t really earn me money...
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from?
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
28th Jun 2023
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
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