matduggan.com
Help Me Help You, Maintainers
My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
7th Mar 2025
My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
Elad Blog
AI Regulation
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
18th Sep 2023
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
20th Aug 2019
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
Hidden History
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two...
3rd Dec 2024
Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference based their strategy on two ideas; the idea that nonviolent civil disobedience, in the tradition of Thoreau and Gandhi, was the only method that the civil rights movement should use, and the idea that white...
The personal website...
Know thyself
Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a...
8th Jun 2020
Throughout the series, we’ve covered four of the major ethical movements in philosophy. Here’s a brief recap:
Virtue ethics is the belief that well-being comes from having the right personality traits or dispositions. The key to virtue ethics is finding those special skills that,...
Max Rozen
@forge/api: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘fetch’)
How to fix a cannot read properties of undefined error in Forge
2nd May 2021
How to fix a cannot read properties of undefined error in Forge
Josh Thompson
October 2016 Goals
In the last year, I’ve fluctuated between writing
every day for 30 days and
not posting once in...
19th Oct 2016
In the last year, I’ve fluctuated between writing
every day for 30 days and
not posting once in two months.
Frankly, neither of those is good for me.
I like writing because it clarifies my own thoughts. Sometimes it seems useful to others. I like to be useful (“utility” can...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] The Shops Atop the Canal in Toyohashi
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Toyohashi, a city between nowhere and somewhere else. A Tōkaidō...
12th Mar 2026
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from Toyohashi, a city between nowhere and somewhere else. A Tōkaidō city I’ve walked through on my two trips back and forth between Kyoto and Tokyo. A city with a space shuttle on top of a building and the letters USA strangely emblazoned below.
On...
The personal website...
What makes a good design principle?
Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design...
14th Nov 2017
Like many design teams, the Wall Street Journal team has been thinking through our design principles. Writing design principles comes pretty naturally (especially if you read this excellent list by Jeremy Keith). As we collaborate, we end up with a lot of candidates. However,...
Build In Public...
Your AI forgets everything when the session ends. XHawk is fixing that.
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built...
16th Mar 2026
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built a system to stop it.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Quick Hinge Health S-1 Thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
3rd Apr 2025
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
Long Now
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
### How the world keeps ending
“This Earth is a story teller,” Childs began. “And it is not a...
30th Jul 2013
### How the world keeps ending
“This Earth is a story teller,” Childs began. “And it is not a stable place to live. It is always ending. We think of endings as sudden, but it is always a process.”
For his book _Apocalyptic Planet_ he sought out some of the world’s most...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 19
Refactoring the business entity, thoughts on marketing and building
8th Mar 2024
Refactoring the business entity, thoughts on marketing and building
Nadia Asparouhova
Idea machines
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their...
12th May 2022
Tech as a system of values, and not just an industry, is heavily driven by its subcultures and their ideologies. Where do these ideologies come from, and how do they influence what’s accomplished?
One of the most visible ideologies in tech is effective altruism (or EA), a...
Computer Things
Texttools dot py
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
14th Aug 2024
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image:
Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Video Games are the Future of Education
The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
21st Jun 2020
The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
Mazdak
What Expenses Can You Write Off Against Your Business Income?
Taxes are an inevitable part of running a business, but that doesn't mean you have to pay more than...
6th Feb 2024
Taxes are an inevitable part of running a business, but that doesn't mean you have to pay more than your fair share. Fortunately, the law allows you to deduct certain expenses from your business income, lowering your taxable amount and saving you money. But navigating the world...
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...
maragu’s blog
Choose boring technology and LLMs
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism VS Skepticism
Which Ancient Philosophy Can Help Us Live Better Today?
1st Jun 2026
Which Ancient Philosophy Can Help Us Live Better Today?
A Smart Bear
Maybe not so much with the "optimization"
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
cabel.com
Marching Age
This is a short story about something delightful. In 2014, I did a bunch of music for my friends...
26th Dec 2023
This is a short story about something delightful. In 2014, I did a bunch of music for my friends Neven Mrgan and Matt Comi who were making an incredible iOS game called Space Age. I had never written that much music in my life, and it was incredibly fun for me in every way. (You...
Grow With Less
The 27 tools I use to grow my online business
People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put...
30th Oct 2022
People often ask me what tools I use to build and grow French Together so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites.
These are not necessarily the best and trendiest tools, some may even be considered old-fasshioned. But they are the tools that help me build and grow...
HTMHell
How to transfigure wireframes into HTML
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands...
1st Dec 2022
Soon enough in your career as a web developer, you encounter the situation where a designer hands over a wonderful web design in all its large-screen glory. Your mission now is to transform it into code to present a prototype as soon as possible, starting with nothing but an...
Musings on Maps
“A Mighty Redwood Has Fallen”
Malcolm Margolin was the coolest people I knew. If we can’t be hugely saddened by his passing, and...
6th Sep 2025
Malcolm Margolin was the coolest people I knew. If we can’t be hugely saddened by his passing, and the loss of his dynamic presence in the East Bay, he’ll be a model for persisting a vision quest in a dark … Continue reading →
The History of the...
The Analog Web
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The...
16th Apr 2024
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.
The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
The Quanta Podcast
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact....
2nd Aug 2023
Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod.
Eukaryote Writes...
Good posts from the Inkhaven blogging residency
Cannot stress this enough: literally everyone at the writing residency was good at this. Maybe...
28th Feb 2026
Cannot stress this enough: literally everyone at the writing residency was good at this. Maybe you'll find a new favorite blog among these.
Jordan Eldredge's...
The game Snake in 90 lines of JavaScript
I wrote a minimal implementation of the game Snake in JavaScript.
15th Apr 2016
I wrote a minimal implementation of the game Snake in JavaScript.
The Web Witch's Blog
I'm an introvert and I gave a conference talk
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my...
19th Oct 2019
I gave my first conference talk at Design It Build It conference in September this year. After my talk, an attendee invited me to connect on LinkedIn and in his message to me, asked how I had overcome being an introvert to give my talk.
And while I understood the sentiment, I...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
6th Aug 2024
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my
playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much.
I thought I more or less understood the...
Anarchy Unfolds
The razor edge of balance between effort and injury
Exercise as a metaphor for life
19th Apr 2026
Exercise as a metaphor for life
Joel Gustafson
Syntax highlighting on the web
31st May 2022
Posts on Made of...
The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
Liz Denys
Northern Sky & Southern Sky quilts
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed...
3rd Jul 2025
I find a lot of value in doing creative work that isn't in clay - I can feel more fully relaxed creating something that's purely a hobby, and working in other mediums inspires my ceramic studio practice in unexpected ways. I recently finished a very large, non-ceramic project:...
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
18th Dec 2024
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts:
So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”.
I...
IEEE Spectrum
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
2nd Apr 2024
A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail.
if you look on 3M’s own website, you will see no mention of this legacy—it’s a firm that sells abrasive materials, adhesive tapes, filters, films, personal...
Sean Carroll
AMA | June 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded...
1st Jun 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who […]
Dan Quach Blog
Reflections at 44, Tofu, Ancient Robots, Fanny Crosby
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are...
24th Oct 2025
44 I recently turned 44, and this year resonates more than others for the simple fact that there are two repeating numbers. Other numbers that have come to mind are 22, 44, and 88. At 22, I had just graduated from college with a computer science degree during a mild recession,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 3
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a...
6th Oct 2020
Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a complete, custom manufactured product in 26 days. I’m still struggling to manage my inventory. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
How to make digital business cards and share them via QR codes
A previous employer found it important that the whole team had business cards. I had to wait a few...
11th Jun 2023
A previous employer found it important that the whole team had business cards. I had to wait a few months...
Benny Kuriakose
Photographing the Exterior of a Historic Building: Part II
In the 1870s, architectural photographer Albert Levy began capturing old buildings, thus giving rise...
21st Mar 2023
In the 1870s, architectural photographer Albert Levy began capturing old buildings, thus giving rise to a new kind of photography called...
Obsolete Sony’s...
Introducing PSPMAN
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
a week ago
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
The personal website...
Making an audio waveform visualizer with vanilla java script
You can read this article on UX Booth.
12th Nov 2019
You can read this article on UX Booth.
Raptitude.com
Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High
I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s...
24th Dec 2025
I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most enjoyable reading experiences I can remember. From the beginning, I’ve read the whole thing aloud. I’ve found reading aloud...
Justin Jackson
What the People of Wal-Mart want
4th Jan 2013
Justin Jackson
2014: a year of making stuff
30th Dec 2014
WHAT'S ANU
MILAN DESIGN WEEK :: BY THE MACROTRENDS
An inspirational interlude
3rd May 2026
An inspirational interlude
Marc Astbury
End user programming – my experience building an iOS app
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and...
22nd Nov 2024
Update: Sticky was approved on the App Store, you can download it here. The void between users and builders of software is seldom considered. A software builder sits in San Francisco and hopefully talks to and observes user needs and behaviors in order to build a product that has...
Quentin Santos
Interactive Flamegraphs
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are...
8th Sep 2024
In my latest article, I made heavy use of flamegraphs. To makes things clearer, flamegraphs are visualizations of how much time is spent in each function in a program: ./write –write_with_vmsplice –huge_page –busy_loop | ./read –read_with_splice –busy_loop Profiling of ./write...
The Forney Flyer
Northern Scenery, Way Back When...
Today I'm returning to the "Way Back When..." series, highlighting some of the surreal beauty we...
9th Nov 2020
Today I'm returning to the "Way Back When..." series, highlighting some of the surreal beauty we enjoyed in the boreal forests of the far north.
Obviously most of these photos feature frigid beauty. That's because it was cold and snowy/icy much of the year. Also, there were...
Max Schmitt
Next.js: How to add a Contact Form (Pages Router)
Read the post here.
1st Mar 2024
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
11th Aug 2023
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Stat Significant
Why Do People Hate Creed So Much? A Statistical Analysis
How did Creed become "The World's Most Hated Band"?
6th Aug 2025
How did Creed become "The World's Most Hated Band"?
Pea Bee
How old is this newspaper?
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
14th May 2021
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users.
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
4th Nov 2016
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times:
That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d
— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
The Honest Broker
How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?
Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
3rd Jul 2024
Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Turning the Static Dynamic with Gatsby + Netlify Functions + Netlify Identity
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add...
26th Dec 2018
Gatsby is great for not only static sites but also traditional web applications. You can add authentication and serverless functionality and get up and running incredibly quickly with Netlify - here's how.
./techtipsy
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files...
5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files around. You finish the script and test it out.
Oops.
All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved
10 folders deep. It’s a mess.
And you didn’t make a...
A Smart Bear
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other...
1st May 2012
Which is better: Two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers
escape the algorithm
The New Turing Test
Changing the AI conversation
7th Dec 2023
Changing the AI conversation
Leteyski's blog
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X.
Historically, Shopify has always had a checkout problem.
10th Mar 2023
Historically, Shopify has always had a checkout problem.
Sam Altman
DALL•E 2
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
6th Apr 2022
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.
Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle
That which doesn’t kill you…
Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you…
Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate?
We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
21st Sep 2022
Never Met a Science
What is "Theory"?
Substack is clearly growing.
9th Dec 2025
Substack is clearly growing.
Charles Petzold
Twenty Years of Blog Posts
Today is the 20th anniversary of this blog. I posted my first entry 20 years ago as I was finishing...
23rd Aug 2025
Today is the 20th anniversary of this blog. I posted my first entry 20 years ago as I was finishing my book Programming Microsoft Windows Forms. Since then, I’ve posted over 900 entries, all of which are still online. ... more ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 2 (Walla Walla to Pendleton)
We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our...
4th Oct 2024
We awoke in Walla Walla at the beginning of our first full day. We couldn’t check-in at our accommodations in Pendleton, Oregon until mid-afternoon and the drive would only take about an hour. So we needed to find something we could do locally and we got another chance to explore...
Words and Buttons...
Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately.
Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive.
As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
Koos Looijesteijn
Your lifestyle won’t save the world
1st Sep 2024
sbensu
Everybody is the main character
People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny....
4th Apr 2023
People are motivated and engaged with the work only if they feel in charge of their own destiny. Make it clear to them that they are!
DevOps - Bitfield...
Kubernetes at Work
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software
engineer Torie Joy-Warren...
20th Jun 2020
Kubernetes is about solving real problems. We talk to 100% real software
engineer Torie Joy-Warren about her experiences with k8s and cloud.
Grant Slatton
Writing a good design document
A guide
1st Feb 2025
Essays - Benedict...
Ways to think about a metaverse
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean?...
31st Oct 2022
Your boss wants a metaverse strategy, but what would that be, and what does
metaverse even mean? If we strip away the noise, what can we say about
this, and what can we predict?
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 17
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch...
6th Dec 2021
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch TinyPilot’s new product and branding. I reduced Google Cloud Platform fees by 90% on my side projects. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
Cheese and Biscuits
Serra, Mayfair
It's very often the case about the very top London hotels that despite the amount of money they have...
12th Sep 2025
It's very often the case about the very top London hotels that despite the amount of money they have at their disposal, and the pick of whatever celebrity or otherwise feted chefs they can choose from, the restaurants end up being rather mediocre. Partly this is due to the unique...
Res Obscura
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet...
2nd Apr 2025
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker : Jay Caskie
I’m Jay, a full-time printmaker originally from Canada but currently living in Cornwall. I use wood...
2 weeks ago
I’m Jay, a full-time printmaker originally from Canada but currently living in Cornwall. I use wood engraving to create intricate and narrative landscapes that explore themes of home and solitude, and our connection with the natural world and each other.
Describe your...
Simply Explained
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
8th Feb 2022
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
NeuroLogica Blog
Marmosets Call Each Other By Name
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has...
3rd Sep 2024
Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has only been identified in a few other species, dolphins, elephants, and some parrots. Interestingly, it has never been documented in our closest relatives, non-human primates – that...
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
1st Jul 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
charity.wtf
Got opinions on observability? I could use your help (once more, with feeling)
Last month I dropped a desperate little plea for help in this space, asking people to email me any...
13th Oct 2025
Last month I dropped a desperate little plea for help in this space, asking people to email me any good advice and/or strong opinions they happened to have on the topic of buying software. I wasn’t really sure what to expect — desperate times, desperate measures — but holy crap,...
Old Vintage...
Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
8th Dec 2024
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component.
The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Dissocial Media
I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social...
1st Aug 2023
I've been writing in my real handwritten journal in recent weeks that I've felt the weight of social networks. And the manipulation and behavior patterning it's designed to do.
I worked for a softer social network for almost two years and while we weren't as abhorrent as the huge...
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
23rd Jan 2023
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me:
Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?
I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
anthonynsimon.com
1-Node ClickHouse in Production
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including...
21st Aug 2022
In this guide I'll show you how to deploy a production-ready ClickHouse instance on EC2, including backups and basic monitoring.
Writing
Across the Spiderverse
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from...
7th Jun 2023
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from the somehow-underappreciated
Into the Spiderverse. And, to be sure, the praise is earned: this is "what if the first movie, but more" in the best way
possible.
I thought the former,...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped!
View on my website
9th Feb 2024
Internal Tech Emails
Facebook and Google "at Defcon 2"
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with...
9th Jun 2024
From: Sheryl Sandberg We really want a deep relationship – or at this point any relationship – with Google
Opsbros
JSON and PowerShell
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
charity.wtf
Software Sprawl, The Golden Path, and Scaling Teams With Agency
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team...
2nd Dec 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The company is growing like crazy, your engineering team keeps rising to the challenge, and you are ferociously proud of them. But some cracks are beginning to show, and frankly you’re a little worried. You have always advocated for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
17th Mar 2023
Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
Josh Thompson
Playing with the HTTP send/response cycle in Ruby, without Faraday ("HTTP Yeah You Know Me" project)
As part of the HTTP Server project.
First, I’m working through Practicing Ruby’s “Implementing an...
7th Apr 2017
As part of the HTTP Server project.
First, I’m working through Practicing Ruby’s “Implementing an HTTP File Server” for general practice and understanding.
I’m going to use Postman to capture traffic and try to replicate some of the things the guides reference.
Lastly, I just...
bookbear express
on one-sidedness
giving without getting
3rd Feb 2025
Blog - Guerrilla...
Interculturality as Shelter
Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants...
25th Jul 2023
Interculturality as Shelter is a map made of many maps. It examines the ways in which young migrants experience interculturality in the neighborhood where their school is located. It shows their ways of feeling, walking, and making the city.
A neighborhood where nobody...
charity.wtf
“Why are my tests so slow?” A list of likely suspects, anti-patterns, and unresolved personal...
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval...
31st Dec 2020
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval encompassing the time from when the code gets written and when it’s been deployed to production. Also described as “how long it takes you to run CI/CD.” How important is this? Fucking...
Herman's blog
Bear is now source-available
Updates to the Bear license
1st Sep 2025
Updates to the Bear license
Justin Jackson
The person on the other side of the screen
22nd Aug 2014
Charlie Becker
One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July
Charlie Becker Letter #97
8th Aug 2025
Charlie Becker Letter #97
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] A Few London Strolls
Ridgeline subscribers —
For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little...
a week ago
Ridgeline subscribers —
For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little corner of it in the northeast part of the city. But can you even call a part a “corner” when the city extends in every direction without stopping? Whatever you call it, I’ve been in...
Cybercultural:...
1994: Publishing comes to the Web — and design matters
Netscape's browser project was codenamed Mozilla during 1994; via Macintosh Garden.
If web design is...
10th Feb 2026
Netscape's browser project was codenamed Mozilla during 1994; via Macintosh Garden.
If web design is not yet a profession in 1993 because of the technical limitations of HTML and early browsers, then 1994 is the year web authors start asking the question: why can't we control...
Charles Petzold
The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online...
17th May 2025
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and...
Beautiful Public...
Here’s All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar...
2nd May 2023
The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
Arduino Blog
This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an...
3rd Jun 2025
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
ToughSF
Fusion Highways in Space
A transport system that can get spacecraft to Jupiter in 10 days, but without a massive onboard...
11th Mar 2021
A transport system that can get spacecraft to Jupiter in 10 days, but without a massive onboard reactor, using antimatter fuel or riding a gigantic laser beam?
What we need instead is a Fusion Highway to connect the Solar System in unprecedented ways.
The art above is by...
Tech and Tea
Expectations, planning, and suffering
Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
29th May 2024
Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down
> Translations welcome! (Português)
1st Jan 2020
> Translations welcome! (Português)
escape the algorithm
Artisinal white noise
Shhhhhhhh
3rd May 2024
charity.wtf
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
5 days ago
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
The Roots of...
The Spirit We Lost, part 1
Previously: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1 and part 2.
On a fine day late in May, 1883, hundreds of...
30th Sep 2025
Previously: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1 and part 2.
On a fine day late in May, 1883, hundreds of thousands of people gathered along the East River in New York City for a grand celebration.1 Perhaps a hundred thousand came from outside the city: by train, by boat, by wagon from...
TokyoDev
Safari bug with ruby tag
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this...
28th Jul 2019
*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.*
Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
which renders as
ホゲホゲ（ホゲホゲ）
If you control click...
Sherman's Food...
Naniwa Okina なにわ 翁
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka. This Michelin Bib...
1st Dec 2025
Wanting to go for something light, we decided to hit up Naniwa Okina in Osaka. This Michelin Bib Gourmand spot is small and cozy featuring handmade soba noodles. It was a bit of a walk from the Kitahama Station, especially in the scorching heat (in July). Glad their A/C held...
Classical Wisdom
Aeneas: Founder of Rome
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
2nd Feb 2024
The Most Important Myth Ever Told?
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
Sebastian Witowski
How to Prepare for the CAPM Certification Exam
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?"
If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be...
14th Nov 2019
"Wait, aren't you a software developer?"
If it's not your first time on my blog, you might be thinking: "Aren't you a prominent software developer, not a project manager?" Ok, maybe without the prominent part. But yes, you are right. I started working as a developer a few years...
Writing
It's All Smiles
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
somenice
Post-Twitter
Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my...
25th Apr 2022
Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my intent to “own” my content has been renewed. I’m going to clean up my old Feedly RSS subscriptions and try posting here a bit more frequently.You can subscribe if you like –...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Interior That Blends Japandi And Australian Design Inspiration
NAKO Design has designed a home in Edmonton, Canada, that’s influenced by both Japandi and...
8th Feb 2023
NAKO Design has designed a home in Edmonton, Canada, that’s influenced by both Japandi and Australian design styles. With a modern palette of black and white warmed with soft silver elm wood accents and texture, the home shows sophistication with a continuity of texture and tone...
Nelson's Weblog
Legal aid charities for immigrants (2024)
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear...
27th Nov 2024
The Trump administration has made aggressive threats against immigrants
in the US. It’s not clear what’s coming, my biggest fear is a violent
display of fascism. (Don’t
call them camps!) But even if it’s a polite legal process it will be
chaotic and disruptive to many...
Home on Erik...
Model benchmarks
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
2nd Nov 2013
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
Slow Boring
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
1st Mar 2026
Ask your questions below.
Contemporist...
A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco
Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
6th May 2024
Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a bustling San Francisco neighborhood.
Essays - Benedict...
A month of the Vision Pro
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems
years away from the mass...
17th Mar 2024
The Vision Pro is amazing, but like the rest of VR and AR, Apple seems
years away from the mass market. And if it gets there, how much will it
matter?
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend-as-a-Service?
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
Fabien Sanglard
The art and engineering of Silpheed
1st Jun 2026
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in...
31st Dec 2023
2023 was a busy year so I did not spend a lot of time blogging, unfortunately.
It was only in December that I had meaningful time for writing.
In the 2022 review I set a few targets for the blog in 2023:
Targets for 2023
❎ Publish at least 40 posts
14
✅ Reach at least 150k...
Justin Jackson
Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018
7th Mar 2018
Quanta Magazine
Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
2nd Oct 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against COVID-19.
The post Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 first appeared on...
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Can’t Fail
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
19th Dec 2024
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be...
Conservation...
3 things our experts loved in May
26th Jun 2024
ntietz.com blog -...
Kill the crunch time heroics
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
Anil Dash
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?”
There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
99% Invisible
Weeding is Fundamental
On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A’s were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series,...
5th Aug 2025
On October 17th, 1989, the Oakland A’s were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series, but just as the game was kicking off—the television broadcast cut out. When the signal came back, it was no longer the baseball game. These were the early minutes of the Loma Prieta...
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful!
As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Bits about Money
The business of wallets
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around...
30th Apr 2024
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
Global Inequality...
Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
bt RSS Feed
WP Enqueue for Beginners
WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-05-05
Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing...
5th May 2020
WP Enqueue for Beginners
2020-05-05
Throughout my career designing, developing and auditing WordPress themes, I’ve come across many that include their custom styles / scripts as static HTML elements inside their respective header and footer templates. This is perfectly fine, but...
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...
Solving the decision...
never waste a token
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with...
15th Jun 2026
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
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"
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...
Boot.dev Blog
How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
Ink & Switch
Convergence Is Not Enough
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
27th Jul 2026
Getting into trouble with data representations in Automerge.
Paul Cudenec
Christianity and the forces of evil
[Plus audio version]
1st Oct 2025
Drew Ex Machina
The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at...
18th Jul 2025
Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft […]
Long Now
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding
### Why nature is rebounding
Over the last 40 years, in nearly every field, human productivity has...
14th Jan 2015
### Why nature is rebounding
Over the last 40 years, in nearly every field, human productivity has _decoupled_ from resource use, Ausubel began. Even though our prosperity and population continue to increase, the trends show _decreasing_ use of energy, water, land, material...
Works in Progress...
Who’s afraid of artificial flavors?
‘Artificial’ didn’t scare Americans in the 19th century. Why does it scare them now?
8th May 2026
‘Artificial’ didn’t scare Americans in the 19th century. Why does it scare them now?
Wrong Side of...
The case for bundling substacks
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
3rd Mar 2026
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
Last Place Comics
McCollesseum
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
22nd Nov 2025
The post McCollesseum appeared first on Last Place Comics.
The Map is Mostly...
Ink in the Stomach
Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve...
3rd Jan 2026
Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve shoved your own hands deep in the entrails of a building, you’ve permanently altered your entire relationship with the world.
FIRE v London
Nov ’23 revalues the future
In the news It has been quite a busy month out there. The Israel/Gaza crisis continues. Public...
5th Dec 2023
In the news It has been quite a busy month out there. The Israel/Gaza crisis continues. Public opinion is shifting against the Israel government here, even in North London – which would normally be one of the most sympathetic neighbourhoods outside Tel Aviv. The Ukrainians are...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
A Course Via Zoom on Atomic Science for Everyone
I am teaching a new Zoom course on the mysterious world of the atom, with lots of visuals and no...
20th Sep 2025
I am teaching a new Zoom course on the mysterious world of the atom, with lots of visuals and no math. It’s a six-week class for retired people: Join me for a richly illustrated tour of the atomic world that lies beneath our everyday conception of reality. Using historical...
Christian Selig
I have thoughts on the iPhone Air
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
Rest of World -...
Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed...
30th Mar 2023
Victims of extortion say reimbursements are extremely difficult since apps and banks say they handed over their cards voluntarily.
Citation Needed
Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of...
2nd Feb 2024
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
Stat Significant
The "Gone Too Soon" Movie Star Hall of Fame: A Statistical Analysis
Which actors left us too soon, yet remain unforgettable?
1st Oct 2025
Which actors left us too soon, yet remain unforgettable?
Making software...
Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
4th Jun 2019
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
Nat Eliason's...
Proof You Can Do Hard Things
An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
10th Jul 2023
An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
Quanta Magazine
When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again.
Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness...
2nd Oct 2024
Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.
The post When Data Is Missing, Scientists Guess. Then Guess Again. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Casey Handmer's blog
Sierras Projects
A short post where I collate some info related to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, various...
15th Aug 2025
A short post where I collate some info related to the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, various aspirational objectives and questions. Table Mountain Traverse Table Mountain is at the north west edge of the Kern River basin. It has numerous third and fourth class routes. I...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2024-Part 2
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just...
4th Dec 2024
Here is the second half of the 30 Day Map Challenge. The one where I don’t make anything but just sit back and enjoy the work of others. The first half of the month was reviewed here.
I will start on Day 23 where the prompt was memory. There were quite a few good entries for this...
oftwominds-Charles...
Disney World's New Theme Park: The White House and Congress
A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed...
1st Apr 2026
A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed by a motley crew of miscreants.
In a blockbuster deal, an obscure federal agency has granted Disney the rights to develop the White House and Congress as a new FantasyLand...
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Packing & Expanding Polygons : An ongoing exploration
I've been packing lots of irregular polygons into the canvas, and
discovered some interesting (and...
4th May 2022
I've been packing lots of irregular polygons into the canvas, and
discovered some interesting (and some annoying) geometry along the way.
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
23rd Jul 2013
African History...
The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
5th Nov 2023
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
Jason Fried
Randomly right
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing.
Every forest, every...
12th Mar 2025
One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing.
Every forest, every field, every place untouched by humans is full of randomness. Nothing lines up, a million different shapes, sprouting seeds burst where the winds — or birds — randomly drop...
Justin Jackson
The potential dark side of AI and GPT-3 writing tools
What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia?...
21st Oct 2022
What happens when people start going to the AI for answers instead of Google search and Wikipedia? How does the AI decide what to suggest? What are the knock-on effects of these suggestions?
Trying to Understand...
Reality Would Like A Word.
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
2nd Aug 2023
Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
A Collection of...
Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient...
5th Dec 2025
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked at how the equipment which defined the hoplite – hoplite (ὁπλίτης), after all,...
Long Now
Margaret Levi: The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge
The human quest to understand our world continues. The Director of Stanford’s [Center for Advanced...
18th Apr 2018
The human quest to understand our world continues. The Director of Stanford’s [Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)](http://casbs.stanford.edu/) discusses how academics and researchers have organized the study of human action, society, and institutions...
Wrong Side of...
Get ready for the Ursulawave
There can be no Based Europe (an article which completely contradicts my previous article)
3rd Feb 2026
There can be no Based Europe (an article which completely contradicts my previous article)
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ The Work Is Never Done
I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for...
7th Nov 2024
I went for a run. I’ve been running consistently for over a year and a half now. It’s a panacea for me. I run outside. I like to feel the cool wind on my skin, my pores open and sweating, the legs rhythmically turning over in pursuit of flow.
In the beginning, I kept my head...
Fabien Sanglard
How the DevTeam conquered the iPhone
21st Jan 2024
SatPost by Trung...
Taylor Swift, Johnny Cash and AI Art
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
2nd Dec 2023
Context matters more than content in the age of AI-generated audio, images and videos.
Derek Sivers podcast
How many pets do you have?
I used to have too many pets.
My house was overflowing.
But it didn’t feel that way at the...
13th Aug 2021
I used to have too many pets.
My house was overflowing.
But it didn’t feel that way at the time.
In each moment, I was giving just one pet my full attention.
My life was full of so many loves.
I sadly realized this was unfair.
The situation was hurting them.
No pet was...
Cybercultural:...
Rise of Podcasting: Spotify and Google Make Moves
Podcasting has been a growth industry this year, particularly after Spotify announced its intentions...
20th May 2019
Podcasting has been a growth industry this year, particularly after Spotify announced its intentions to rapidly expand into podcasting back in February. Podcasting is still a tiny industry compared to radio, but recent moves by both Spotify and Google are beginning to lay the...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently.
The 386,...
22nd Nov 2025
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently.
The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex processor at the time, containing 285,000 transistors.
Intel's existing design techniques couldn't handle this complexity and the chip began...
Melting Asphalt
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
11th Jul 2016
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned…
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The Ruffian
Stop Making Sense
David Lynch, Bob Dylan, and the Beauty of the Inexplicable
1st Feb 2025
David Lynch, Bob Dylan, and the Beauty of the Inexplicable
ByteofDev
Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A
Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
Miguel Carranza
Working with Miguel: A Practical Guide
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document...
2nd Feb 2024
Since reading ‘High Growth Handbook’ by Elad Gil, the value of writing a ‘Working with’ document became crystal clear to me. I am sharing mine externally to inspire other founders and leaders to reflect and write down their own working styles. These documents are incredibly...
Boot.dev Blog
Breaking Into Tech on Hard Mode: A Supply/Demand Analysis of Career Options
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
23rd Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right?
I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
Never Met a Science
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 1, 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
1st Dec 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
The History of the...
The Website that Predicted AI
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in...
13th Nov 2024
There's a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.
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Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
6th Jan 2025
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
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