Notes on software...
Errors and Zig
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing...
21st Mar 2023
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing sample code for client
libraries, and writing integration tests against the sample code.
The client library documentation is generated with a Zig script. The
sample code is...
Winnie Lim
minimum effective dose
I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the...
1st Feb 2025
I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I...
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
14th Jan 2021
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
History Today...
‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review
‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
1st Oct 2025
‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review
JamesHoare
Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4th Jan 2025
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
Raptitude.com
Do Quests, Not Goals
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get...
8th Aug 2024
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to make a list of what you want to get done this week, it would mostly consist of things you have to do. Get groceries. Book a hair appointment. Get back to so-and-so. Read that health and safety thing for work. If you...
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
3rd Jun 2024
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Tiny struggles
Revived
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very...
13th Feb 2021
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very happy to start writing in tinystruggles.com again.
What have I been up to in last couple of years? I have joined Google in Dublin, so new job, new country, new friends, new hobbies....
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
3rd Jul 2024
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
African History...
Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex...
7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
Writing
Omoiyari
Inconsequential and pleasant!
1st Mar 2021
Inconsequential and pleasant!
Anecdotal Evidence
'Superintending What He Cannot Regulate'
In my family we can’t get
away from the “Y” chromosome. Having children is known as “going to the...
1st Jul 2025
In my family we can’t get
away from the “Y” chromosome. Having children is known as “going to the Y.” I
have three sons, no daughters, and my brother, who died last summer, was my
sole sibling. My mother had five brothers, no sisters. My father, two brothers,
no sisters, etc....
Commoncog
A Few Notes on Moats
Some non-obvious, even surprising things about building competitive moats, including when they might...
11th Feb 2026
Some non-obvious, even surprising things about building competitive moats, including when they might not be necessary.
Alex Meub
Understanding CSS Position
This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have...
10th Mar 2014
This post is a summary of the different values of the CSS position property. It assumes you have knowledge of basic document flow.
Absolute Position
position: absolute elements are removed from the normal document flow and will be positioned relative to their next parent with...
Winnie Lim
more of the same
Pretty late into my run yesterday I went into a meditative-like zone where my breathing was slow and...
5th Mar 2023
Pretty late into my run yesterday I went into a meditative-like zone where my breathing was slow and even, my legs were going at a consistent rhythm, and I found myself thinking:...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?
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3rd Feb 2018
Working Theorys
Second Encounters
Firsts are overrated
10th Mar 2024
Boot.dev Blog
The Problem with Education is a Problem of Incentives
I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement:
There is something wrong with...
10th May 2022
I’ve found that almost anyone I talk to agrees with the statement:
There is something wrong with education, particularly higher education.
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Being an Amazon Seller in 2021; Year in Review
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We...
23rd Jan 2022
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We did $8.8 million in sales in 2021. This article is going to tell you what it was like to run this business in 2021 vs. 2020, amidst threats like the Amazon aggregators, supply chain...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Book Review: CODE by Charles Petzold
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of...
12th Dec 2016
CODE: The
Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles
Petzold
The language of computer hardware and software is not particularly
well hidden in my experience. The more I interact with software, the
more those interactions reflect their makers and materials. This...
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9th Mar 2024
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
Ánh
Nháp
Notebook, fountain pen friendly, Vietnam.
20th May 2026
Notebook, fountain pen friendly, Vietnam.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
Flashbak
People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in...
1st Sep 2025
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in New York City. Were you? If this is you or someone you recognise in these pictures, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. For the rest of us, let’s imagine the stories...
Jordan Eldredge's...
"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
22nd May 2011
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down.
After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
1st Mar 2024
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down.
After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure.
I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder.
This time a part...
Works in Progress...
Every grain of rice
As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is...
22nd May 2023
As climate change threatens crop yields, we need a second Green Revolution – one that, this time, is driven by genetic engineering.
Society's Backend:...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
Eliran Turgeman
PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh
goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the...
9th Aug 2024
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh
goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the following
1
winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget
Step 2: Choose a Font
Totally optional, but if you want to get a specific font follow this section.
to install a supported...
blag
Snapshot Testing
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
1st Mar 2024
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 4: from the Ya-hu oasis to Hami.
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see...
1st Jul 2020
[Back to Part 3: from the Hun-kua-ling sandhills to the Ya-hu oasis] From Ya-Hu to Hami, we can see that Younghusband now has to turn south, as his own map shows. The journey takes from June 23rd to July 4th, or twelve days. His mapmaker places Ula Khutun almost halfway from...
The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
15th Jul 2024
The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future?
I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
16th Dec 2020
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
diamond geezer
Unblogged April
30 unblogged things I did in April
Wed 1: My blogpost about TfL producing a new set of bus maps may...
1st May 2026
30 unblogged things I did in April
Wed 1: My blogpost about TfL producing a new set of bus maps may have been an April Fool but Quickmap do a truly excellent Greater London bus map which is online here. I might have saved that jpg to my phone.
Thu 2: The West Ham chunk of the...
Oykun Yilmaz
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients.
Many designers shy away from increasing their rates, fearing it will scare clients away and put them...
27th Apr 2024
Many designers shy away from increasing their rates, fearing it will scare clients away and put them under pressure to deliver higher-quality work.
Understandable concerns with the common fixed mindset.
However, if you want to grow as a Designer, you must be comfortable with...
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design
Is it really necessary to buy a new car every couple of years or do car companies make us believe...
1st May 2019
Is it really necessary to buy a new car every couple of years or do car companies make us believe that?
nanoscale views
Brief items - Static electricity, quantum geometry, Hubbard model, + news
It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the...
8th Aug 2025
It's been a busy time that has cut into my blogging, but I wanted to point out some links from the past couple of weeks.
Physics Today has a cover article this past issue about what is colloquially known as static electricity, but what is more technically described as...
Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
11th Oct 2024
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken.
I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Thought Lead (2026)
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic...
14th Mar 2026
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
Escaping Flatland
Some relationships deepen when you tell the truth and some end
I asked people to send me stories about situations where they had done what felt right to them, even...
11th Mar 2026
I asked people to send me stories about situations where they had done what felt right to them, even though they feared social pushback.
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
5th Sep 2024
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Karaoke
This is my last resort
View on my website
8th Feb 2025
This is my last resort
View on my website
Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic
Breaking Up, p16
The post Breaking Up, p16 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
1st Jun 2026
The post Breaking Up, p16 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
Applied Cartography
Emma
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the]...
1st Apr 2020
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the] subjects are not often elegant and certainly never grand; but they are finished up to nature, and with a precision which delights the reader"
orlp.net - Blog...
Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating...
6th Feb 2023
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci
sequence, without loops,
recursion or floating point arithmetic:
f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b
It really does:
>>> [f(n) for n in range(10)]
[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34]
How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
Long Now
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
### Ancient American politics
Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of...
26th Feb 2005
### Ancient American politics
Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and former Director of the US National Park Service, is so eloquent that Walt Kelly based a "Pogo" character on him (the bear P.T. Bridgeport, whose speech...
Res Obscura
The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
5th Feb 2025
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
Vittles
Who is Paying for All of This?
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi....
2 weeks ago
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi. Collage by Cold War Steve
Computer Things
"Integration tests" are just vibes
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
1st May 2024
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here.
"Integration tests" are just vibes
You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
Laetitia@Work
What if generative AI was actually underwhelming?
Laetitia@Work #69
19th Apr 2024
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
22nd Jan 2023
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex,
Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see
people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Willem's Blog
Better Laptop
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
9th Feb 2025
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
Better than Random
Organizations optimized for short-term survival
The system selects for survivors, not learners
4th Aug 2025
The system selects for survivors, not learners
David Crawshaw
Leaving Google
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google
2018-03-27
Today is my last day at Google.
It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers.
I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0.
As an operating system it gets so many things right.
No doubt I will get a chance to be a user.
For the...
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Being an Amazon Seller in 2020; Year in Review
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart, an educational toy company. We did about $7.4 million in sales...
3rd Jan 2021
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart, an educational toy company. We did about $7.4 million in sales in 2020, mostly through e-commerce channels like Amazon and Walmart.com. This article is going to tell you what that was like and how things were different in 2020 than in 2019.
To...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Grantland
Day 22: Oct 1, 2023
—
As we suspect, the weather reports prove wildly inaccurate. At 8,000 feet,...
1st Oct 2023
Day 22: Oct 1, 2023
—
As we suspect, the weather reports prove wildly inaccurate. At 8,000 feet, we’re subject to alpine weather rules. Meaning, isolated storms can cycle in at anytime, and they do. Lightning flashes, thunder cracks. We sleep in fits and starts. I remove the...
Boot.dev Blog
Boot.dev Beat. January 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this...
1st Feb 2023
If you can’t tell from my absurd profile photo below, I’ve been having too much fun with AI art this month.
CONTEMPORIST
A Sculptural Limestone Facade Was Designed For This Boutique Retail Store
Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique...
1st Jul 2024
Photography by doublespace photography Architecture studio PARTISANS has shared photos of a boutique they completed that’s owned and operated by Royal de Versailles Jewellers in Toronto, Canada, and features a sculptural stone facade. Photography by doublespace photography...
Nothing Human
Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
14th Oct 2023
Herman's blog
The commodification of travel
How travel has become an act of collection
22nd Apr 2026
How travel has become an act of collection
AFAR Media - Travel...
Virginia Beach Travel Tips From Fishing Pro Jim Root
13th Feb 2025
The Ruffian
The One Weird Trick That Gave Humans Language
An Extract From 'A Brief History of Intelligence' by Max Bennett
2nd Aug 2025
An Extract From 'A Brief History of Intelligence' by Max Bennett
Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and...
7th Nov 2022
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and floodplains.
The Map is Mostly...
Love Grows
The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
8th Feb 2025
The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time I
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is...
4th Sep 2023
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but also ones spanning a particular timeframe or through some other theme. I've written a few of them...
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power.
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
28th Mar 2021
A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
The History of the...
Cool URLs Mean Something
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a...
23rd Jul 2024
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop […]
The post Cool URLs Mean Something appeared first on The History of the Web.
Contemporist...
The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist...
11th Jun 2024
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist who wanted a light-filled interior with room to work and to entertain.
Internal Tech Emails
Bill Gates on "hard-core detractors" | Elon Musk responds to Tesla investor
The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things...
2nd Jul 2022
The key point is that they can't both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things about Microsoft.
Retail Design Blog
Sunrise Garden Restaurant by M9 Design Studio
Located within an industrial suburb of Bangalore, Sunrise Garden Restaurant emerges as a quiet...
7th Apr 2026
Located within an industrial suburb of Bangalore, Sunrise Garden Restaurant emerges as a quiet counterpoint to its context — transforming...
Eugene Yan
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
4th May 2025
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
Dr Alun Withey
Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
1st Nov 2024
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Oh, Today is Diwali? Happy Diwali !
"First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the...
22nd Oct 2014
"First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the kitchen for the Diwali sweets. Today…
Luke Mitchell |...
The Window
The day my daughter stood up by herself for the first time.
The day I said my wedding vows.
Laughs...
10th Jan 2021
The day my daughter stood up by herself for the first time.
The day I said my wedding vows.
Laughs over a round of drinks.
Days in the sun.
Days making the best of it.
My Dad near the end looking frail.
The latest iOS update brought widgets to our home screens, a trophy that...
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.
tomcritchlow.com
Notes on my Remarkable Tablet
I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day...
9th Feb 2024
I love my Remarkable 2. I’ve been using it pretty heavily for almost a year now. It’s my every day companion device. Here’s some notes and ideas.
Overcoming Bias
Abstraction Worsens Drift
My Ph.D.
2nd May 2025
ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
3rd Mar 2025
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out.
He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective.
Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
Charles Petzold
2025 Project: “The Lost Art of Logarithms”
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do have New Year’s projects, and for 2025 I hope to spend...
1st Jan 2025
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but I do have New Year’s projects, and for 2025 I hope to spend as much time as possible working on my book The Lost Art of Logarithms. ... more ...
Internal Tech Emails
Musk v. Altman begins
This is a bait and switch
2nd May 2026
This is a bait and switch
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
Willem's Blog
Inspiration from a child
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
29th Sep 2021
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
Ian's Blog
All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots
The concept of a "Snapshot"
In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
27th Jul 2019
The concept of a "Snapshot"
In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine.
You ever end up doing something like this?
Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it.
Snapshots provide us...
McMansion Hell
pre-recession, post-taste
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s...
30th Oct 2023
Hello, everyone. I hope this blog can bring some well-needed laughs in really trying times. That’s why I’ve gone back into the archives of that precipitous year 2007, a year where the McMansion was sleepwalking into being a symbol of the financial calamity to follow. We return to...
Allen Pike
Building for Voice In, Visuals Out
Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in,...
31st May 2026
Recently, Andrej Karpathy argued that the ideal interaction pattern for AI models is voice in, visuals out:
Audio is the human-preferred input to AIs, but vision is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to...
A Beautiful Site
Feature detection for CSS transitions via jQuery $.support
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may...
9th Dec 2012
When working with CSS transitions, the need to detect whether or not the browser supports them may arise. It can be of particular use when working with the transitionend event, which won't fire in unsupportive browsers.
After finding a number of questionable solutions, I came...
Chris Grossack's...
Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an
extremely natural...
18th Feb 2024
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an
extremely natural question about how we might study topological group
actions via the functorial approach beloved by category theorists.
The usual story is to treat a group $G$ as a one-object...
The Prism
The Cure to Misinformation is More Misinformation
Why we need fake news to know what's true
24th Apr 2023
Why we need fake news to know what's true
David Crawshaw
2014-12-11
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11th Dec 2014
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Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming
So, my friend said this —
If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
29th Aug 2017
So, my friend said this —
If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts,
Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Derek Sivers podcast
Considerate book pricing
I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be.
Let’s separate...
27th Oct 2021
I love having my own store so I can make things the way I think they should be.
Let’s separate these two things:
Contents: the words in a book
Delivery: the ways to get the words into your brain: paper, audio, PDF, HTML, etc.
buy the contents, not delivery.
Today you...
The Marginalian
The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love
This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with...
3rd Aug 2023
This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with the painful pressures of actually being close, how to forge a bond tight enough to feel the warmth of connection but spacious enough to feel free. Kahlil Gibran knew this when he...
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.
Tinloof - Blog
10 Shopify SEO best practices with Sanity and Remix
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a...
1st Feb 2023
Ecommerce competition keeps increasing - for each product you now have dozens of alternatives.
As a result, CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) increases, pushing ecommerce business owners to look for more affordable lead generation strategies.
SEO is one of them. Online store...
Construction Physics
Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?
We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story...
7th Dec 2023
We spend a lot of time around here looking at construction costs, and whenever we do the same story emerges: construction never gets cheaper. Construction costs tend to rise at or above the level of overall inflation. A square foot of building costs as much or more to build today...
Shilin typing
A short film for my friend's birthday
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would...
11th Jun 2026
When I first met Pierre, I couldn't have foreseen what the next three years of our friendship would be like. I had just come back to Montreal. Twice I'd failed to get a place in Toronto. My dream of traveling in a van had also fallen apart. So I rented a U-Haul and went to pick...
Home on Erik...
statself.com
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
18th Oct 2013
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
Ian's Blog
The Zune "HD"
It is my joy and pleasure to present to you: the Zune "HD". The final device to wear the Zune name,...
2nd Nov 2022
It is my joy and pleasure to present to you: the Zune "HD". The final device to wear the Zune name, released by Microsoft in October of 2009. A direct competitor to Apple's wildly successful iPod Touch, the Zune HD was the first Zune to feature a multi-touch display, full web...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.03.01 - Wandering The Desert
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Mar 2026
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Obsolete Sony’s...
Sony 80 Is Almost Here
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
16th Jun 2026
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
Blog - Guerrilla...
Shelter of Man
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
7th Jul 2021
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
Open for Business
First, Do Harm
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more...
2nd Apr 2026
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more and more countries in the world, and a dozen states, now have laws that allow the killing of killing their citizens and residents.
Three Letter Acronym
I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve...
4th Jan 2025
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know the Dock, it’s been …...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now?
What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
1st Feb 2025
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Construction Physics
Reading List 03/01/25
Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use...
1st Mar 2025
Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
mtlynch.io
I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business
My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers,...
29th May 2024
My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my businesses lost money. I began questioning my decision to quit my cushy Google job.
In mid-2020, yet another of my businesses had flopped, and it was only kind of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
14th Oct 2023
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired.
A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Alice GG
Steam nerfed popular upcoming. So what?
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page.
One of the...
12th Jun 2026
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page.
One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer games.
This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section as...
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
1st Nov 2021
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 1 (Oahu: Honolulu Waterfront)
Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa...
27th Apr 2023
Most of my work trips are pretty mundane. The last three were rather typical — Philadelphia, Tampa and Atlanta — for example. Sometimes I go to more interesting places like my quick jaunt to Germany a few years ago. However, this time I hit the jackpot: Hawaii, Japan, and South...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Alt-Numpad for Linux
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a
major stumbling block for me since I am...
26th Jul 2011
In Ubuntu the alt+numpad ACSII codes don’t work—this was a
major stumbling block for me since I am annoyingly picky about
typography.
After spending way too much time Googling I found that these steps
work:
Hold Ctrl+Shift+U
Release the “U” key (while still holding...
Long Now
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism
### Undeniable Progress
Hominids had upright walking, stone tools, fire, even language but still...
23rd Mar 2011
### Undeniable Progress
Hominids had upright walking, stone tools, fire, even language but still remained in profound stasis. What led to humanity's global takeoff, Ridley argues, was the invention of exchange about 120,000 years ago. "That's ten times older than...
Charlie Becker
Thought Bananas (Castles in the Sky) 23
“Failing is not the end of growth”
13th Jan 2023
“Failing is not the end of growth”
Epic Web Dev
How to Get Started with Programming for Free in 2026 (article)
Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to...
2nd Mar 2026
Learn TypeScript for free in 2026 — no experience needed. A structured path from total beginner to production-ready developer, starting with two free workshops.
Krebs on Security
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Northern Railway Map, England, 2025
Submitted by Nicholas, who says: Northern Rail’s new map is well worth a look – I find it exemplary...
18th Aug 2025
Submitted by Nicholas, who says: Northern Rail’s new map is well worth a look – I find it exemplary for making such a previously nebulous network entirely understandable. Graphics pretty well impeccable. I understand this network may not survive the transition to Great British...
Long Now
Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent
Alexander Rose, Long Now Executive Director and project manager for the Clock of the Long Now,...
6th Apr 2011
Alexander Rose, Long Now Executive Director and project manager for the Clock of the Long Now, discussed lessons learned in multi-millennial site design. Rose covers his trip to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as well as other sites and precedents like the Mormon Genealogical...
Passing Time
Stop using your health wearables
Against the tyranny of data
17th Sep 2025
Against the tyranny of data
The Berkeley...
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
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display: none;
position: fixed;
z-index: 9999;
padding-top: 50px;
left: 0;
top:...
1st Jul 2025
.modal {
display: none;
position: fixed;
z-index: 9999;
padding-top: 50px;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9);
}
.modal-content {
margin: auto;
display: block;
max-width: 90%;
max-height:...
./techtipsy
The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of...
7th Sep 2023
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best
place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
Old Vintage...
More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family...
16th Mar 2025
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that...
Aaron's Essays
20 Years Later
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the...
12th Sep 2021
Twenty years later, I can’t remember what I saw and what I think I saw. I remember listening to the news with my mom, Judah, and Mimi as the anchors casually mentioned that a small plane seemed to have hit a tower. We were on I-95 - or maybe the Garden State - headed south to...
Woody Hayday
Market Research for Entrepreneurs
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out...
14th Oct 2024
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out a smart niche report. (Market research for entrepreneurs.)
The post Market Research for Entrepreneurs first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Making software...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
9th Nov 2020
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?
2020-11-09
I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
tim.sh
Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
Tinloof - Blog
How to make your own SplitPane React component with 0 dependencies
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that...
1st Jul 2019
A SplitPane is a collection of 2 elements whose heights can be changed by dragging a line that separates them. Based on its layout, a SplitPane can be horizontal or vertical. If you've ever used the Chrome dev tools, you probably came across both versions of the SplitPane. For...
Essays - Benedict...
There’s no such thing as data
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and
all of us should own...
31st May 2022
Data is the new oil, we are told. Every country needs a data strategy, and
all of us should own our data, and be paid for it. But really, there is no
such thing as data, it’s not yours, and it’s not worth anything.
Justin Jackson
How I would build a new startup if I had to do it all over
I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here...
3rd Sep 2023
I've been brainstorming how I would build a new indie startup if I had to do it again in 2023. Here are 5 principles I’d use.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
30th Jul 2023
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
Josh Comeau's blog
Common Beginner Mistakes with React
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped...
6th Mar 2023
I used to teach React at a local coding bootcamp, and I noticed that students kept getting tripped up by the same handful of things. In this article, we're going to go through 9 of the most dastardly gotchas. I'll show you how to solve these common problems, so you can avoid a...
Posts on Made of...
Disable Transparent Hugepages
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions.
Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
Lefineder’s Substack
Inequality, galactic and planetary
Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
26th May 2023
Is the relationship between inequality and homicide casual? Should we expect it to be?
Christopher Butler
The Last Time
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our...
15th Oct 2021
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our world?
Bye, Chris” were the last words a friend said to me. We had been talking on the phone for about an hour, catching up as we did back then, a few times each year. He said his goodbye as...
Xena
2022 Xena Project undergraduate workshop
I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before...
23rd May 2022
I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before term starts for many people in the UK). What? A week-long in person workshop including a bunch of working on group projects in … Continue reading →
Tony Dinh's...
Jun 2023: How I work with employees
Some quick updates from me in June 2023
6th Jul 2023
Some quick updates from me in June 2023
Steve Blank
Nowhere Is Safe
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The...
9th Apr 2026
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batteries) designed to counter tens or hundreds of aircraft and missiles is insufficient...
The Quanta Podcast
A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order
Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds’ eyes, boxes of marbles and other...
5th Aug 2016
Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds’ eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random.
The post A Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend Web Development?
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of...
7th Aug 2023
The boring answer is that backend web development is the process of building the server-side of websites and web applications. It primarily focuses on handling the logic, data processing, and communication between the user’s web browser and the server.
Blog | Sam Curry
How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user
9th May 2017
Left To Write
#1 Writemas
Prioritising time to think, write and publish
1st Dec 2023
Prioritising time to think, write and publish
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
12th May 2018
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook (Part 1)
This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1...
1st Nov 2019
This is a series of articles where we learn a few techniques to create scroll animations with just 1 React hook.
In this first part, we will use the scroll event to achieve that.
Here’s a preview of what we will achieve by the end of the article:
Long Now
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State
### Government as radical, patient VC
The iPhone, Mazzucato pointed out, is held up as a classic...
25th Mar 2014
### Government as radical, patient VC
The iPhone, Mazzucato pointed out, is held up as a classic example of world-changing innovation coming from business.
Yet every feature of the iPhone was created, originally, by multi-decade government-funded research. From DARPA came the...
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
15th Jun 2023
My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product:
I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
A Weekly Dose of...
Reading About Drawings
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I...
8th Jan 2024
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I'm particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City.
Drawing on...
Justin Jackson
Why you should go after a market with strong demand
Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look...
2nd Oct 2020
Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look for a evidence of demand!
Daniel Marino
GitHub Game Off 2021 Retrospective
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve...
19th Feb 2022
Recently, I completed the GitHub Game Off. With over 500 entries, this is the largest game jam I’ve been a part of. I had some lofty goals for this game, and I just about met them all. I’m extremely happy with how the game came out!
Like prior games I’ve made, I don’t tend to...
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog
The reasons why I started blogging.
23rd Sep 2023
The reasons why I started blogging.
The Forney Flyer
From the Flight Line
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking...
10th Aug 2021
Here's some random shots from the flight line. First, one of our Cessna 208B Grand Caravans taking off from our home airstrip in Kajjansi, Uganda. This aircraft is now serving in Liberia.
I've always loved watching the sky and the weather. Last week I was out of the city and...
Tiny struggles
Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training
In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training
In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
Alice GG
Introducing Mikochi: a minimalist remote file browser
Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and...
9th Jun 2023
Like many people working in DevOps, I have taken the bad habit to keep playing with servers and containers in my free time.
One of the things I have running is a Media Server, which I use to access my collection of movies and shows (that I evidently own and ripped myself).
To...
Ian's Blog
Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It...
5th Dec 2022
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It might surprise you, and it certainly did for me, but out-of-the-box Windows doesn't come with a set of root CA certificates sufficient for web browsing.
You can see this for...
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
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.
The Scholar's Stage
More on Xi Jinping’s Industrial Drive + London Meet Up
A few items of interest to my readers:
First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German...
27th Jun 2024
A few items of interest to my readers:
First, at the end of last month I appeared on the German Marshall Fund's China Global podcast to discuss the CPC's current techno-industrial drive. You can listen to the full thing on Simplecast, Apple Podcast, or in the embed below:
Willem's Blog
Beast of the Green Hell
Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
30th May 2017
Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
DYNOMIGHT
Trading stuff for money
Examples are good. Let’s start with some examples:
We all need kidneys, or at least one kidney....
1st May 2025
Examples are good. Let’s start with some examples:
We all need kidneys, or at least one kidney. Donating a kidney sucks, but having zero working kidneys really sucks. Paying people for kidneys would increase the number available, but it seems gross to pay people for part of their...
Luxagraf:...
Ready to Start
If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way.
Where you're going may...
6th Sep 2023
If you're not excited about where you're going, you're going the wrong way.
Where you're going may be challenging, difficult, a real pain in the ass even, but come what may, you should be excited about getting there—both the getting, and the there. That's how you know you're on...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
3rd Jan 2024
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
10th Mar 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. LLVM system calls
6. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the
compiler to emit LLVM
IR as an option instead of...
balajis.com
Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic
Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
1st May 2024
Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
Alex Meub
Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging.
Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
alexwlchan
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by...
4th Jul 2024
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years.
It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map.
It’s an...
Maps Mania
Solve the Global Treasure Hunt!
1st Aug 2025
Liz Denys
A quick hop across the southern border
Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
16th Mar 2012
Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
Software and Tech...
Is Blogging Dead?
When I started 2025, I set myself a simple challenge: write consistently and see if I could reclaim...
2nd Jan 2026
When I started 2025, I set myself a simple challenge: write consistently and see if I could reclaim some of the audience this blog once had. In 2024, I had published just 4 posts and had only a handful of RSS subscribers. It felt like shouting into the void.
By the end of 2025, I...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Waiting is risky
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch,...
21st Jun 2025
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch, but most of my lists are for collecting ideas. They include ideas for blog posts, websites, businesses, open-source code, video games, books, and other kinds of projects.
Some of...
Passing Time
Is it time for Post-Stoicism?
Stoicism has never been more popular. Is it time for a reaction?
12th Nov 2025
Stoicism has never been more popular. Is it time for a reaction?
Evan Hahn (dot com)
In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F.
“Zero nines uptime”?
99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
Charles Petzold
30 Years
After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
13th Jan 2026
After all these years, I still get the dreams. ... more ...
Ollama
Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted...
3rd Jun 2025
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
Farza's Newsletter
i said arigato to fred again and he started boiling eggs for me great guy
Hello! Whats up.
6th Jul 2025
Retail Design Blog
Junshanye x Gugo Brand – The national tea aesthetics of Valley Creation
Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature...
2nd Jan 2025
Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature Starting the journey of seeking...
Stephen Diehl
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood...
3rd Mar 2016
Cooking Classes with Datatype Generic Programming
Haskell Generics are a somewhat misunderstood topic but are an extremely
Source for examples code is available
.
Generics are a form of datatype-generic programming, which although the
sum of
.
A sum type, is a data structure used...
AI as Normal...
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
Essays - Benedict...
TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising
Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS.
Shein is the biggest...
18th Mar 2022
Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS.
Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US
pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where
does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
James Cheshire
The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after...
8th Oct 2022
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers and coastline of Kent, Hampshire and Sussex. More than a year later, the headlines have not improved for Britain’s...
Daniel Bourke
A dog called Seven
Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven.
And we had our dog Bella.
Bella and Seven would yell at...
13th Jul 2025
Our crazy neighbours had a dog called Seven.
And we had our dog Bella.
Bella and Seven would yell at each other and sometimes say something nice like hello how was your day by sniffing each other through the gaps in the fence.
One day my younger brothers opened the
Krebs on Security
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors...
6th Aug 2026
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka,...
Applied Cartography
Winners Take All
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
Melissa Penfold
YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO SHOPPING ANTIQUES
Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an...
8th Aug 2023
Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an explosion of interest as online auction shopping gives all the convenience of mass-produced decor without the environmental impact. The benefits of decorating with antiques are almost...
Computer Things
Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content...
10th Oct 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release!
v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content release. The next few months are going to be technical review, copyediting and polishing, with a hopeful 1.0 release in March. Full release notes here.
Three ways formally...
TokyoDev
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
10th Mar 2025
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
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.
Chris Grossack's...
Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!)
I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close.
It was great getting to see so...
20th Jul 2025
I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close.
It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones,
and every time I go to a CT I’m reminded of just how much category theory
there is in the world, as well as just how much I enjoy all...
Adventures In...
Make this 3D printed globe please
Ah, it’s that time of year when we geographers pour ourselves a steaming mug of hot coffee and place...
4th Dec 2023
Ah, it’s that time of year when we geographers pour ourselves a steaming mug of hot coffee and place a stroopwafel over it until the caramel is nice and gooey and take the hand of other nearby geographers and sing O Denneboom together. Say, what’s with all the Dutch references?...
Buttondown's blog
The principle of LII
Developers want news from your product (sparingly).
1st Nov 2024
Developers want news from your product (sparingly).
Allen Pike
The Rise of Transparency
Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you...
31st Mar 2026
Small companies are, by default, very transparent. When there are 4 people working in a room, you have a direct line of sight on what everybody else is doing, and why. Your docs, Slack channels, and repositories are open to everybody. When the CEO has an epiphany that changes...
Better than Random
The next horses
AI capex and the SWE replacement theory
2nd Mar 2026
AI capex and the SWE replacement theory
David Crawshaw
BBR
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
7th Jan 2017
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
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