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What’s inside this book Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing...
1st Jan 2000
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What’s inside this book

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jan 2000
Welcome to my book about getting your music to people, into people, and through people. Marketing is an extension of your art. Business is just as creative as music. All opportunities come from people. Stay in touch with everyone. Use a database. Be resourceful. Ask...
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article...
6th Jan 2022
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Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2022
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Computing 2022-01-06 FOSS Enthusiasts: This article discusses the use of proprietary software and places it in a positive light. You have been warned. No angry emails please... Google has created one of the best operating systems...
Retaining an MVP mindset A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements...
3rd May 2024
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Retaining an MVP mindset

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2024
A short guide on how we tested team plans at Jenni and closed $10k in revenue. Hypothesis statements Team plans are a way to increase retention Team plans move upmarket toward users with more purchasing power Team plans are targeted at full-time researchers who have an ongoing...
What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
7th Dec 2022
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What I have been working on: Modal

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Dec 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
Fighting uphill As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work...
3rd May 2019
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Fighting uphill

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2019
As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into how disabled people actually use the web, so when the organization speaks with authority on a subject, I listen. WebAIM’s...
4th Nov 2024
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
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My Cheapskate Commenting System

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
9th Apr 2021
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2021
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
Site Rebuild, Here We Go! There are still a few bits to work out, but why wait any longer? The latest version of my site is...
22nd Nov 2023
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Site Rebuild, Here We Go!

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

22nd Nov 2023
There are still a few bits to work out, but why wait any longer? The latest version of my site is here and it has been rebuilt from the ground up. I'm feeling pretty good about it and invite you all to celebrate the magic with me! ✨ Inspiration While playing Super Mario Wonder, I...
Sandcastles Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions...
17th Apr 2023
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Sandcastles

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Apr 2023
Getting old as a person who makes digital experiences feels a lot like having really strong opinions about how sandcastles should be built.
Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978 ‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey...
2nd Jul 2026
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Johnny Rotten in Jamaica, 1978

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jul 2026
‘First thing that happened at the airport was this group of Rastas saw us and they were, like ’hey Johnny Rotten mon! God save the Queen!’. And we looked at each other and smiled and were like, “we gonna be cool here”‘. —Dennis Morris   John Lydon still knows how to piss people...
Quicksilver and Clay Quicksilver and Clay Like everyone else, I walk around the world in a body made of quicksilver and...
11th Jan 2024
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Quicksilver and Clay

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

11th Jan 2024
Quicksilver and Clay Like everyone else, I walk around the world in a body made of quicksilver and clay. The pieces of my body—my sense of humor, my beliefs, my opinions and artistic sensibilities and worldviews, everything—combine to present a cohesive self to be...
Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
Signals #001: The Politics of Naming Signals Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn...
25th May 2026
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Signals #001: The Politics of Naming

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

25th May 2026
Signals Something new here—a weekly signal from noise, or at least I hope so. Connections drawn between things I have encountered… Something strange happens when we put a name to things. The moment “cassette futurism” or “Corporate Memphis” enters circulation, it stops being...
How will new countries attract (& keep) citizens? What tomorrow's city builders are learning about equity, loyalty, and community.
2nd Jun 2026
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How will new countries attract (& keep) citizens?

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

2nd Jun 2026
What tomorrow's city builders are learning about equity, loyalty, and community.
LLMs and performative productivity It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we...
5th Jun 2026
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LLMs and performative productivity

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2026
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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
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What is Backend-as-a-Service?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

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...
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
9th Jul 2025
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2025
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
30th Jun 2019
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30th Jun 2019
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
1st Jan 2023
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
Going Viral Well, that was exciting. So, you probably all saw my little marketing effort for PCalc at the...
12th Oct 2009
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Going Viral

from Three Letter Acronym [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

12th Oct 2009
Well, that was exciting. So, you probably all saw my little marketing effort for PCalc at the beginning of the month. It started out as a conversation a while back with some of the usual suspects at the monthly Glasgow MacMacDev developer meeting. We were discussing the recently...
Healthy Holidays It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a...
4th Dec 2025
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Healthy Holidays

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Dec 2025
It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a couple of hours. I suppose there is a psychological essay to be written about it, on the order of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. In both, the first stage is denial. “No,...
Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal: A Scientist’s Search for the Fulcrum of Faith "The universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. It is not a...
2nd Feb 2024
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2nd Feb 2024
"The universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. It is not a stage on which drama unfolds, it is the unfolding drama itself."
24th Jun 2026
Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
23rd Jan 2025
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Interactive navigation in embedding space

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jan 2025
tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
9th Jul 2017
15th Apr 2026
The Wisdom of Daybreak The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 1
12th Jan 2024
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The Wisdom of Daybreak

from The Convivial Society [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Jan 2024
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 1
notes from Naval (2025) someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting...
6th Jul 2025
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notes from Naval (2025)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2025
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to Market Yourself Without Being A Celebrity and "Play Long Term Games with Long Term People". HTGR also...
The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most...
8th Mar 2026
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The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment

from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Mar 2026
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in education!) MacBook Neo, the brightly-colored low-end laptop that they launched to great fanfare. The conventional wisdom...
Itsy Bitsy Data Structures Sharing this repository which teaches data structures through charmingly commented JavaScript...
2nd Aug 2024
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Itsy Bitsy Data Structures

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
Sharing this repository which teaches data structures through charmingly commented JavaScript implementations
The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922 “A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night....
1st Dec 2025
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1st Dec 2025
“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
8th Apr 2020
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Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
11th Feb 2025
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What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Feb 2025
Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
Token Anxiety Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
13th Feb 2026
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Token Anxiety

from Balancing Act [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Feb 2026
Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026
Secure your account with MFA Secure your account with MFA
6th Jul 2022
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Secure your account with MFA

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2022
Secure your account with MFA
Training with GRPOTrainer Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation...
7th Feb 2025
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Training with GRPOTrainer

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Feb 2025
Training with GRPOTrainer DeepSeek's impressive new reasoning model is powered by a key innovation called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). This clever variant of PPO not only improves the model's training convergence but also uses less memory than traditional...
Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history...
6th Dec 2025
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Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2025
wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and try to blow up all the mines, which...
Natale Adgnot Country couture The post Natale Adgnot appeared first on The American Scholar.
3rd Nov 2025
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Natale Adgnot

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Nov 2025
Country couture The post Natale Adgnot appeared first on The American Scholar.
On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in...
9th Jan 2016
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On Fables: Finishing up Antifragile

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

9th Jan 2016
I’m cleaning up some notes I wanted to jot down over the last few weeks Nassim Taleb, in Antifragile, says: The great economist Ariel Rubinstein gets the green lumber fallacy - it requires a great deal of intellect and honesty to see things that way. Rubinstein refuses to...
How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
12th Mar 2023
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How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Mar 2023
Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
1st Oct 2024
Heritability puzzlers The heritability wars have been a-raging. Watching these, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s...
7th Aug 2025
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Heritability puzzlers

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Aug 2025
The heritability wars have been a-raging. Watching these, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s near-universal confusion about what “heritable” means. Partly, that’s because it’s a subtle concept. But it also seems relevant that almost all explanations of heritability are very,...
Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp...
5th Aug 2021
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2021
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp specifically), I tried to get a simple (but realistic) web app running. After four days and a patch to ABCL I got something working. The code I had in mind would look something like...
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
17th Jan 2024
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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2024
A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and...
2nd Jun 2026
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Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2026
Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and 4.
Pain I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He...
17th Sep 2024
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Pain

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Sep 2024
I've been staying with my friend Matt Mochary at his house in Hawaii for the last few days. He shared an excellent insight about dealing with pain that I believe everyone should hear. So here it is: We all experience pain caused by others. Perhaps even earlier today
The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
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The Subprime AI Crisis

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Sep 2024
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
2nd Jan 2016
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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jan 2016
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
February Shenzhen Trip Update It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week....
3rd Mar 2025
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February Shenzhen Trip Update

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2025
It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week. Overall, pretty decent trip - I met with 1…
New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
12th Sep 2008
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New Blog Location

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Sep 2008
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
3rd Feb 2025
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
3rd Oct 2022
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Every Achievement Has A Denominator

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Oct 2022
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
Model City Monday 2/3/25 Things fall apart
3rd Feb 2025
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Model City Monday 2/3/25

from Astral Codex Ten [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Feb 2025
Things fall apart
Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes) Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in...
7th Aug 2024
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Aug 2024
Augh! I am so behind on so much writing, I’m even behind on writing shit that I need to reference in order to write other pieces of writing. Like this one. So we’re just gonna do this quick and dirty on the personal blog, and not bother bringing it up to the editorial standards...
What Is Reasoning A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
19th Aug 2026
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What Is Reasoning

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Aug 2026
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion...
Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's...
12th Feb 2023
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Ditch google analytics now: 7 open-source alternatives

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2023
I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the...
13 Lessons from 37 Years My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
1st Oct 2024
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13 Lessons from 37 Years

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Oct 2024
My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub...
28th Apr 2026
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Apr 2026
Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub Feed #65343 After years of waffling around I finally bit the bullet and migrated away from GitHub onto Codeberg and a private Forgejo instance. If Codeberg is good enough for...
Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of...
20th Mar 2025
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Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

20th Mar 2025
We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosophy today is to catch up. In his Long Now Talk, Philosopher of Technology Benjamin Bratton took us on a whirlwind philosophical journey...
I hate work. The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and...
4th Dec 2023
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I hate work.

from Tech + Economics + Humans [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Dec 2023
The piercing sound of my alarm shatters the stillness of my room at the ungodly hour of 5 AM, and I reluctantly drag myself out of bed. It’s the same daily grind, a routine I’ve been stuck in for years, first as a sound engineer, then as a tech exec, and now as an indie...
Bandits for Recommender Systems Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
8th May 2022
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Bandits for Recommender Systems

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th May 2022
Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
Browser font rendering inconsistencies 22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different...
22nd Jun 2020
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Browser font rendering inconsistencies

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jun 2020
22 June 2020 I was working on a project that required me pulling up the developer tools in different browsers against my personal website when I opened up Safari and noticed how drastically different the title of my page was rendering. It was extremely bold in Safari compared to...
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
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Breaking GPT-5 news

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
Hiring from Big Tech Some brief notes about the subject
30th Mar 2024
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Hiring from Big Tech

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

30th Mar 2024
Some brief notes about the subject
The 1-hour design principles workshop Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome....
19th Aug 2018
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The 1-hour design principles workshop

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Aug 2018
Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome. Written well, design principles can create alignment, speed up decision-making, and increase the quality of the team’s output. Lately, I’ve worked with two of my teams to write design...
May updates Here's what's new with Buttondown.
3rd Jun 2018
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May updates

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2018
Here's what's new with Buttondown.
DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
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17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
The power of defaults Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form...
20th Dec 2021
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The power of defaults

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Dec 2021
Are network effects overrated? 01 Intro The world’s most successful companies all exhibit some form of structural competitive advantage: A defensibility mechanism that protects their margins and profits from competitors over long periods of time. Business strategy books like to...
Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not...
6th Aug 2023
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Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2023
Many founders experience a profound and prolonged sadness after selling their company. But "not selling" might be worse. Maybe my story will help you.
ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was...
18th Feb 2020
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ETHDenver: A Glimpse into the Future

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Feb 2020
I signed up for ETHDenver 2020 hoping to learn more about cryptocurrency. What I came away with was questions about the viability of, well, everything.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerd-fight Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: "," > "", Today's News:
1st Nov 2025
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerd-fight

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Nov 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: "," > "", Today's News:
Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be...
11th Oct 2025
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Transition to the Other Side with Container Query Units

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Oct 2025
Managing the position of an element as it travels across the length of its parent container can be tricky. Assuming they both have dynamic, responsive dimensions, we might rely on JS to check the width and/or height of each element and do some calculations for a proper end...
1st May 2024
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Privacy Monthly May

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2024
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
17th Jul 2020
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Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics?

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jul 2020
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
love's bad infinity tristan und isolde - in theory and at the met
24th Mar 2026
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love's bad infinity

from the late review [alt+shift+b] in literature

24th Mar 2026
tristan und isolde - in theory and at the met
The Y-Combinator in Python The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in...
10th Aug 2017
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The Y-Combinator in Python

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Aug 2017
The Y-Combinator in Python Lambda calculus holds a revered place as a foundational system in computation theory, influencing programming languages and paradigms. One fascinating application of lambda calculus is Church encoding, which allows representing data and operators using...
Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like...
14th Jul 2025
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation. RSS has its own place in...
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
a week ago
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

a week ago
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
5th Jul 2024
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How HLS Works

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Jul 2024
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
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It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall...
8th Jan 2012
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Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jan 2012
I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall within minutes. It is easy to use, yet very powerful. It uses Iptables and even improves upon some limitations of Iptables. Every person who has to maintain some kind of...
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
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11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
1st Sep 2019
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How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Sep 2019
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial. We have 1 goal: set up...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sale Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Technically, there's no reason you can't set up...
1st Oct 2025
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sale

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Oct 2025
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Technically, there's no reason you can't set up this booth at your next farmer's market. Today's News:
ISS Looks Like a Toy These animated gifs of The International Space Station look just like metal toys — but they are...
4th Jul 2021
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ISS Looks Like a Toy

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Jul 2021
These animated gifs of The International Space Station look just like metal toys — but they are real. Each frame is taken with ground based amateur telescopes and then pieced together with common image software like Adobe Photoshop. It is incredible to me that there are people...
Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
12th Dec 2011
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Hiring Employee #1

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Dec 2011
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
Kickstarter 3: The Return For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a...
14th Nov 2024
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Kickstarter 3: The Return

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

14th Nov 2024
For the past several years, I’ve enjoyed the process of cyanotype printing, and have released a number of projects based on this technique (including my favorite item I’ve ever made). Now, I’ve decided to take my recent work in developing terrain sketches, and turn it into a new...
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
17th Mar 2025
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On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop

from History Today Magazine Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

17th Mar 2025
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop JamesHoare Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary...
15th Dec 2022
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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

15th Dec 2022
In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the nature of time: >THIS PRESENT MOMENT USED TO BE THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s work uses neon, steel, and...
Preserving Common Food as a Defensive Strategy: the Ghorfas of Southern Tunisia The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in...
30th Mar 2025
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30th Mar 2025
The ghorfas (in arab غرفة [ghurfa], meaning “room”) are common granary chambers found mostly in southern Tunisia and certain areas of Libya and associated with Berber populations. In more recent times, they have also been used as dwellings. They consist of barrel-vaulted rooms...
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or...
7th Nov 2017
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Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.)

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Nov 2017
When writing portable C++ code you need to write conditional code that depends on compiler used or the OS for which the code is written. Here’s a typical case: #if defined (_MSC_VER) // code specific to Visual Studio compiler #endif To perform those checks you need to check...
Teaching the Cardinal Directions to Young Students Learning the cardinal directions is an important but often neglected aspect of early geographical...
20th Nov 2025
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Teaching the Cardinal Directions to Young Students

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

20th Nov 2025
Learning the cardinal directions is an important but often neglected aspect of early geographical education. It is my impression that the understanding of cardinal directions, like most other aspects of geography, is in sharp decline. There are several reasons for this...
Programming Errors at Project Scale Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
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Programming Errors at Project Scale

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors. This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
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
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Which Construction Tasks Have Gotten Cheaper?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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...
We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
5th Aug 2025
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We Are Still the Web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Algorithms are breaking how we think Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube...
23rd Feb 2025
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Algorithms are breaking how we think

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Feb 2025
Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
11th Apr 2023
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Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Apr 2023
Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling...
7th Jul 2025
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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Jul 2025
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at [email protected] if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05 Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring...
5th Jul 2024
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visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Jul 2024
Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring velocity
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2023
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
Delight comes last Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes]...
23rd Jun 2019
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Delight comes last

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Jun 2019
Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes] haven’t been resolved first … [but] sometimes it’s just more fun to draw nice pictures and bury oneself in pixels than deal with complicated business decisions and people with...
The prehistoric psychopath Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to...
1st Apr 2025
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The prehistoric psychopath

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Apr 2025
Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to a few psychopaths.
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
27th Jan 2023
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

from Fathy Boundjadj [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2023
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..
How to find insights Excel, still invincible!
2 weeks ago
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How to find insights

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
Excel, still invincible!
Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change ### Catastrophic drought is coming back There are two kinds of historians, Brian Fagan says,...
10th Mar 2007
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10th Mar 2007
### Catastrophic drought is coming back There are two kinds of historians, Brian Fagan says, parachutists and truffle hunters. Parachutists command an overview of the landscape, while truffle hunters dig deeply to uncover marvelous treasures. Fagan is a parachutist. In his talk...
South Pole Signage Please close doors quietly!
23rd Jul 2023
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South Pole Signage

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

23rd Jul 2023
Please close doors quietly!
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
3rd Jul 2023
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Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2023
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful With Transit 6.0, our designers have dreamed big, and packed in plenty of surprises for our biggest...
25th Aug 2025
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Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful

from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel

25th Aug 2025
With Transit 6.0, our designers have dreamed big, and packed in plenty of surprises for our biggest update EVER. We think you're going to love it. The post Transit 6.0: let’s make public transit more beautiful appeared first on Transit.
My role as a founder CTO: Year Four It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three...
29th Dec 2021
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Four

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Dec 2021
It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder. 2021 was not an exception, and my role as RevenueCat’s CTO kept evolving quite a lot. As expected, my job did not get any...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
10th Dec 2024
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Where did mainstream media come from?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Dec 2024
The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Projection Cards: Now a Reality A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections....
7th Jun 2022
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Projection Cards: Now a Reality

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

7th Jun 2022
A couple months back, I floated an idea for making some fun trading cards based on map projections. I’m very happy to report that several dozen of you responded and contributed designs to help make the set happen. I’ve been spending several weeks on managing everyone and working...
Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When...
4th May 2020
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Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2020
Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integrity provides us with confidence that the message wasn’t tampered with. For example, the SSL signature of...
Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
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Logs as end user UI

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691) Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that...
8th Jan 2026
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8th Jan 2026
Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution,...
Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review  This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the...
22nd Oct 2025
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Steven Hitchcock tweed bespoke coat: Review 

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

22nd Oct 2025
This is the first English overcoat I’ve ever had made - or a traditional one anyway. There was the topcoat from Michael Browne , but that was his own particular style and structure. And there was the wrap coat from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury , b... > Read more
Notes on switching to Helix from vim Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I...
10th Oct 2025
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Notes on switching to Helix from vim

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2025
Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been using it for 3 months now and...
Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s...
20th Nov 2019
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Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Nov 2019
I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch...
A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
2nd Jan 2024
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A new blog for 2024

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jan 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
10th Jan 2017
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jan 2017
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
Staying relevant Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of...
5th Aug 2025
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Staying relevant

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Aug 2025
Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation. It had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist. —  The Incredible...
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
28th Dec 2019
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JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Dec 2019
Illustrated notes on advanced but fundamental topics in JavaScript
You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
10th Jul 2025
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You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jul 2025
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
Submission – New Official Map: “Harmonized” Montréal Metropolitan Transit Services Map, 2023 A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get...
11th Jul 2023
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11th Jul 2023
A flurry of people have submitted this brand new map out of Montréal for review, so let’s get straight to it! First of all, it’s important to note that is part of a new suite of maps and wayfinding signage that’s been in development since 2018, Using Montréal’s iconic “black...
How we manage our product roadmap The screenshot here is our company Trello board, where we manage our product roadmap. We are...
6th Aug 2021
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How we manage our product roadmap

from 42! [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Aug 2021
The screenshot here is our company Trello board, where we manage our product roadmap. We are extremely lucky in that our thousands of happy customers give us a steady stream of suggestions for new features and improvements, which we used to just throw on this board. However,...
Awkward Zombie - Structural Corruption New comic! Today's News: INFRA is a game about being an engineer and doing the things that...
1st Sep 2025
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Awkward Zombie - Structural Corruption

from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Sep 2025
New comic! Today's News: INFRA is a game about being an engineer and doing the things that engineers do, such as saying "that doesn't look safe" and falling down elevator shafts. Come for the municipal intrigue; stay for the charming way the protagonist pronounces...
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
The Snacks & Cereals of 2024 Welcome to 2025. The vibes are a little heavy, so, I’m trying very hard to focus on the things I can...
27th Jan 2025
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The Snacks & Cereals of 2024

from cabel.com [alt+shift+b] in creative

27th Jan 2025
Welcome to 2025. The vibes are a little heavy, so, I’m trying very hard to focus on the things I can control — and yes, that includes remembering to share things that delight me like the latest #new snacks and cereals I find at the grocery store!! Yeah. It’s an age-old, very-odd...
Artemis 1 Countdown I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it...
4th Sep 2022
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Artemis 1 Countdown

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Sep 2022
I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
because we are both pessimists It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is...
2nd Mar 2025
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because we are both pessimists

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Mar 2025
It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is almost 9 years, a little less than a quarter of my life....
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2020
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
Quality is a trap Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to...
25th Jun 2025
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Quality is a trap

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2025
Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating. I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where an...
Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11 This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at...
7th Jan 2024
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Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Jan 2024
This is how a completely abstract argument about alien germs was taken seriously and mitigated at great effort and expense during the 1969 Apollo landing.
Got myself a Norco RPC-4020 I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion....
16th Jun 2009
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Got myself a Norco RPC-4020

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Jun 2009
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion. This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
1st Sep 2025
How to Reverse Interview Investors I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it...
2nd Feb 2023
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How to Reverse Interview Investors

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2023
I honestly never expected this to be a topic that was common enough to write up, however, it suddenly hit me today that it is the ultra niche topics that deserve writing up since it is the stuff that is outside the usual SERP riffraff.
Source Code for Life v0.1 Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
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Source Code for Life v0.1

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
Warm email I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post, I rarely get emails to it,...
29th Dec 2025
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Warm email

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

29th Dec 2025
I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post, I rarely get emails to it, the ones I do get fall into two categories: very, very kind people paying compliments to me about this website; secondly some sort of cold email, usually from a SEO expert...
Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician,...
17th Nov 2025
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17th Nov 2025
Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician, was murdered in a barbaric attack by neo-Nazis in the very center of St. Petersburg, Russia. Although for us, his death was not only a huge personal loss, but also an event that...
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your...
27th Oct 2024
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27th Oct 2024
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
OnlineOrNot Diaries 16 On content marketing, starting a YouTube channel, and improving status pages
29th Nov 2023
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 16

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

29th Nov 2023
On content marketing, starting a YouTube channel, and improving status pages
What’s the Object of Information Architecture? Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people...
3rd Jan 2025
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What’s the Object of Information Architecture?

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2025
Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software...
25th Feb 2026
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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Feb 2026
Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers? Why do I love infrastructure? Is open source dead? I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we build software. Or...
Let's Learn CSS Variables! CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to...
25th Feb 2018
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Let's Learn CSS Variables!

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Feb 2018
CSS variables (otherwise known as CSS custom properties) give previously impossible superpowers to CSS developers. This post covers what they are, how they work, and a couple of nifty ways you can implement them on your own website.
8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at...
5th Feb 2022
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8 Best Ways to Learn JavaScript, Personalized

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2022
JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the best languages to learn as a developer, whether you’ve been at it for years or are just starting out. More than 97% of today’s websites are powered by JavaScript. Regardless of what field you work in, you’ll likely be exposed to JavaScript at...
Listicle of Buddhist Lists Listicle of Buddhist Lists Buddhism has more lists than a Buzzfeed article. Inspired by the List of...
15th Jan 2019
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Listicle of Buddhist Lists

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jan 2019
Listicle of Buddhist Lists Buddhism has more lists than a Buzzfeed article. Inspired by the List of Buddhist Lists, here are the Buddha's teachings as millennial listicles. Plus or minus some bad puns. Mindfulness: Noticing your brain is completely bonkers right now, and being...
Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
30th Nov 2022
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Summary of changes for November

from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history

30th Nov 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes GrimGrains, added a quick grilled cheese recipe. Noodle,...
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Notes on being an Architect

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

15th May 2023
On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
4th Sep 2025
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On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Sep 2025
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most spirited letter. “As a man is, so he sees.” Because how we look at the world shapes the world we see, every act of noticing is an act...
Coding should be a vibe! The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire...
13th May 2025
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Coding should be a vibe!

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th May 2025
The appeal of "vibe coding" — where programmers lean back and prompt their way through an entire project with AI — appears partly to be based on the fact that so many development environments are deeply unpleasant to work with. So it's no wonder that all these programmers stuck...
How Evil Is Mark Zuckerberg? A Review of "Careless People" by Sarah Wyn-Williams
4th Apr 2026
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How Evil Is Mark Zuckerberg?

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Apr 2026
A Review of "Careless People" by Sarah Wyn-Williams
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
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Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
Announcing FinFam In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building...
19th Sep 2025
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Announcing FinFam

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Sep 2025
In my last post, I mentioned founding a startup. It's called FinFam, and we're building collaborative financial planning. The GitHub of money, if you will. Enough with the telling, time for the show! Here's a 3-minute demo: We launched beta this week and I couldn't be more...
America, here is why I love you. I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times...
9th Nov 2016
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America, here is why I love you.

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

9th Nov 2016
I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times than I can count. On this day when emotions are running high, and sadness, anxiety, and trepidation is in the air for so many, I wanted to note down why I love America and what, as...
Why time seems to pass faster as we age 1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as...
27th Feb 2024
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in startups

27th Feb 2024
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative...
100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org. This is still a...
3rd Jun 2026
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100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2026
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org. This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people. Computers...
On Money (again) Recently I posted thoughts about money I’d written from back in 2013.  Money is hard to write about,...
18th Feb 2016
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On Money (again)

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

18th Feb 2016
Recently I posted thoughts about money I’d written from back in 2013.  Money is hard to write about, because there are many different ways we can approach it. It’s easy to feel judged when someone does something with their money that I don’t do with mine. That all said, there...
The imminent risk of vibe coding Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
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The imminent risk of vibe coding

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
32 Hotdogs and A Pocketful of Chops: Eating With Duke Ellington Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious...
1st Jun 2025
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1st Jun 2025
Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious appetite for sex and food. The elegant American jazz pianist, composer, master of instrumental colour and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra wrote thousands of songs and performed...
AI Engine: UK University Hackathon Two things are true:
24th Jan 2025
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AI Engine: UK University Hackathon

from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups

24th Jan 2025
Two things are true:
10Gb/s Ethernet: using mini-heatsinks with a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T...
18th May 2026
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18th May 2026
In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T SFP+ module I have plugged into nigel, the 10Gb/s switch I have in my study. As I mentioned then, the plan was to try using some of the mini-heatsinks that people use on Raspberry...
Translate your UI Strings with AI TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
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Translate your UI Strings with AI

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package. A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
Blog questions challenge: TV shows The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down....
13th Apr 2025
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Blog questions challenge: TV shows

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

13th Apr 2025
The imitable R.L. Dane tagged me in this blog post challenge, which I will not take sitting down. That’s a blatant lie, I’m 100% sitting down as I write this. I’m also drinking coffee, in case that was never obvious. What TV character from a beloved show do you wish you could be...
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good"...
7th Apr 2024
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The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2024
How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
9th Jan 2024
30

Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2024
I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
2nd Feb 2021
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2021
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its...
1st Jul 2024
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A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2024
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most databases. But I...
solving my problems happy easter
5th Apr 2026
DevDays in Vilnius The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and...
1st Jun 2023
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DevDays in Vilnius

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2023
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and future of version control tools and we had a blast meeting new friends and talking version control.
The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
9th Jul 2024
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The New Wave of Concierge Medicine | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Jul 2024
This episode of Out-Of-Pocket is brought to you by…
The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
23

The Wrong Bet

from Buck on Software [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
1st Sep 2023
49

Sing your way to learning a new language

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Sep 2023
Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million users.
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
21st May 2022
31

Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st May 2022
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
Why Am I Left-Handed? Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Geneticists, developmental biologists, neuroscientists, and...
4th Aug 2026
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Why Am I Left-Handed?

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Aug 2026
Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Geneticists, developmental biologists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists have all sought explanations, resulting in an astronomical amount of research into the mystery of handedness. No one has put all the pieces together yet,...
How birds got human names Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
11th Nov 2025
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How birds got human names

from weird medieval guys [alt+shift+b] in history

11th Nov 2025
Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
1st Nov 2024
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Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
Anduril & Defense Tech The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of...
17th Jun 2021
53

Anduril & Defense Tech

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jun 2021
The last year has demonstrated repeatedly the lack of societal preparation for multiple forms of threats to our country and world. Examples of this include issues responding to the COVID pandemic, the cybersecurity ransomware attacks on critical US infrastructure such as our
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
20th Mar 2024
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Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification

from PromptArmor Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Mar 2024
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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