David Perell
Buenos Aires: The Paris of South America?
Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re...
16th Apr 2025
Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re not, and then you get to know them and you like them but not for the person they’re trying to be? That’s how I feel about Buenos Aires. A week there piqued my curiosity, and at...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34 keyboard layout
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
3rd Jun 2021
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
4th Aug 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July.
Summary Of Changes
100r.ca, added Sitka, and completed route in us se alaska.
Left, can now paste binary directly from programs like Nasu.
Hakum, added two drawings to the...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where
signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason.
Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
CONTEMPORIST
Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel
Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
5th Nov 2024
Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
Conservation...
Bolivia brings an Incan legend to life with new protected park
3rd Nov 2025
Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
15th Aug 2024
We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
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.
The post The Website that Predicted AI appeared first...
Mert Bulan - Blog &...
The American vs. European Mindset on Life
A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find...
1st Jun 2025
A personal look at how the American and European mindsets shape the way we live, work, and find happiness.
Steve Blank
The U.S. Led the World in Science and Technology and Just Gave It Up
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
3rd Apr 2025
Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. With the cutbacks of U.S. government support and the Chinese investing heavily for the...
Val Sopi
A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and...
<p>
<i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
1st Sep 2022
<p>
<i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i>
</p>
<p>
<i><b>TLDR:</b> Towards the end of this article,...
DevOps - Bitfield...
Puppet and MySQL: create databases and users
Puppet MySQL management couldn’t be easier. Most applications use some kind
of SQL database, and...
6th Aug 2018
Puppet MySQL management couldn’t be easier. Most applications use some kind
of SQL database, and MySQL is a simple, easy to use, drop-in solution. In
this article I’ll show you how to manage your MySQL servers, users,
databases, and access permissions using Puppet.
benkuhn.net
Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic
Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more...
1st Feb 2023
Last Friday was my last day as CTO at Wave, capping an incredible ~8 years filled with more professional and personal growth, joy, and meaning than I could have hoped for.
This was the hardest decision I’ve made. I’m still just as excited about Wave’s mission and trajectory. And...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Taming the Frontier, Part 1
I didn’t have a proper vacation in awhile. Then, unexpectedly, I had abundant time on my hands. I...
26th May 2025
I didn’t have a proper vacation in awhile. Then, unexpectedly, I had abundant time on my hands. I also needed to bring a kid home from Michigan State University who just finished the first year of a graduate program. So I planned a delightfully inefficient route through rural...
Krebs on Security
Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 25
Thought Bananas is now Castles in the Sky
2nd Feb 2023
Thought Bananas is now Castles in the Sky
somenice
Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box
Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other...
a week ago
Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other hand have that little map that tells you what each one has inside. So you can avoid the orange ones, anyway… When I came across a couple bags of old hockey cards at a thrift […]
cdixon
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten...
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent...
2nd Mar 2013
Many breakthrough technologies were hatched by hobbyists in garages and dorm rooms. Prominent examples include the PC, the web, blogs, and…
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #1
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech...
11th Nov 2022
In this episode of Captain's Log we cover artificial intelligence, taste companies, mom & pop tech businesses, and more.
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
MIT News - Civil and...
Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
2nd Jun 2026
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
2nd Jul 2026
Win Vector LLC
Reposting Partial Pooling
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
9th Jan 2025
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
Himanshu Mishra |...
It is okay not to be special
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about...
17th Jul 2018
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
22nd Aug 2023
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Yazin Alirhayim
Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh
How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
9th Sep 2014
How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
./techtipsy
Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are...
1st Apr 2026
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are contributing factors that
have lead to the unfocused state dominating. For example, I’ve been that guy who wants to be on top of things, to be in
the loop, to respond to urgent issues....
David Gerrells
never give up
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Mazdak
The Best Age to Start Taking Social Security: It's Not What You Think
When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may...
18th Sep 2023
When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may want to consider taking them sooner, even if it means a smaller monthly check. Here's why: Your benefits will grow by 8% per year for each year you delay taking them, up to age...
Tech and Tea
Transformed into a couch
On taking this time to slooooooow down
28th Dec 2022
On taking this time to slooooooow down
Ian's Blog
Having a Website Used to Be Fun
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
27th Oct 2024
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
Never Met a Science
Does Pinball Cause Violence?
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that...
15th May 2025
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to...
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?...
Calculated Risk
Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
1st Jan 2025
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Tech and Tea
How to know the right next step when everything feels uncertain
A guest post by Vinamrata Singal, on navigating the journey from quitting her PM job to entering...
10th Sep 2025
A guest post by Vinamrata Singal, on navigating the journey from quitting her PM job to entering filmmaking
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
13th May 2024
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day.
I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
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"
Stephen Wolfram...
The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and...
14th Dec 2022
Delivering from Our R&D Pipeline In 2020 it was Versions 12.1 and 12.2; in 2021 Versions 12.3 and 13.0. In late June this year it was Version 13.1. And now we’re releasing Version 13.2. We continue to have a huge pipeline of R&D, some short term, some medium term, some long term...
Justin Jackson
Why I'm building a new SaaS in 2018
7th Mar 2018
The Ruffian
How To Build Your Own Tower
And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
7th Mar 2026
And Why You Should (Plus What I've Been Reading/Watching/Listening to)
High Signal
Making thousands from a German learning online community
Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands...
3rd May 2023
Rónán is the founder of Deutsch Gym, an online community for learning German. He's making thousands in revenue from his startup which he made after moving to Berlin and wanting to improve his German language skills. Read on for his tips on making a
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
1st Dec 2023
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
The Intimate Mirror
The Waters of Grief
Love's Response to Its Own Absence
12th Dec 2025
Love's Response to Its Own Absence
Bits about Money
Credit cards as a legacy system
Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences...
2nd Dec 2022
Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences in the present day. But change is possible.
Daily Stoic
Goal Setting: A Philosophical Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus What do the...
28th Apr 2022
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus What do the goals we set, whether personal or professional, require? If we hope to accomplish our goals, we need the discipline to hold ourselves accountable. We need the self-control to stay...
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
5th May 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team.
We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
The Web Witch's Blog
The `<details>` and `<summary>` elements are getting an upgrade
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about...
1st Nov 2024
Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years. In 2019, when I was still at Microsoft, I had been working with Greg Whitworth to start evangelizing the work that was being planned for <select>, as well as the Open...
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Plant Sounds
My early adulthood coincided with the New Age movement and its belief in many discredited past...
5th Aug 2024
My early adulthood coincided with the New Age movement and its belief in many discredited past ideas, such as astrology. One New Age idea that seemed strange at the time was that talking to plants helped them to grow. What could be more New Age than a hippie chick talking to a...
Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable...
18th Mar 2023
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to
defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if
you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand
what the tradeoffs are.
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
1st Feb 2023
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
Commoncog
Danny Meyer’s Business Expertise
Let's break down Danny Meyer's business expertise as an exercise in biography reading.
7th Aug 2024
Let's break down Danny Meyer's business expertise as an exercise in biography reading.
Londonist
Explore This Historic Ship When It Docks In London This Summer
Nao Victoria sails into St Katharine Docks.
1st Jun 2026
Nao Victoria sails into St Katharine Docks.
Posts on Made of...
My Apollo Bibliography
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
9th Apr 2019
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
1st Nov 2021
The 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Derek Sivers podcast
Aim for the edges
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades.
remarkably unusual.
Our culture is now...
7th May 2008
An amazing shift has happened in the last few decades.
remarkably unusual.
Our culture is now split into niches.
In 1948, Milton Berle’s TV show had 80% of all viewers, because it was one of only three choices!
When the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan in 1964, they had 60% of...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Implementing a Robust Web Audio API Balance Node
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
16th Apr 2019
After more than four years, I'm finally happy with how Webamp implements balance.
eieio.games
One Million Chessboards
One Million Chessboards
I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million...
28th Apr 2025
One Million Chessboards
I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million chessboards on it. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns.
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
...
Electronics etc…
Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside...
26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside the OCXO107-10
Looking Forward
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market
on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator.
Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
1st Nov 2024
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
DevOps - Bitfield...
Notational Velocity
Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking
application”, as the...
26th Aug 2019
Notational Velocity (NV) is a “modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking
application”, as the author describes it, which is elegant, attractive, and
powerful. The original application has inspired various forks, of which
nvALT is perhaps the best, and adds some very useful...
Josh Thompson
Change
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Or something like that. Sometimes change is for...
30th Jun 2014
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Or something like that. Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes its for the worse. I don’t know if there’s always a difference.
Recently, Kristi and I have seen lots of change; I’d say its for the better, but it’s not...
Wrong Side of...
Soothing the injured spirit of the Temple
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
3rd Dec 2024
The case for giving back the Elgin Marbles
Butler's Log
Opening Up GitButler
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
24th Feb 2020
A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
Max Rozen
How to implement a Higher-order component in React with TypeScript
You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
10th Apr 2020
You probably know how to implement a HoC, but do you know how to write types for one?
Tom Blomfield
Monzo growth
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
1st Aug 2022
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
Boot.dev Blog
Write on the Boot.dev Blog
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the...
2nd Sep 2022
We’ve just opened up the Boot.dev Blog to public contributions! We’re really excited to see all the great stories that our readers and students will create.
Writing
The Boys in the Boat
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of...
14th Jan 2019
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of them did crew in college.
There's gotta be a word for the narrative neatness that this book employs. Of course the UW folks are the young upstarts — of course they are portrayed...
Sebastian Witowski
You Don't Need Stream Deck, You Need Macros
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work...
9th May 2024
One day, during one of those meetings that did not require my full attention, I was doing some work in the background. I muted my microphone, and I was coding away[1]. Suddenly, someone asked me a question. "Now, where is that goddamn Teams window so I can unmute my microphone?!"...
Better than Random
Either micromanage your people or lean on them
Something in between is the worst
5th Jan 2026
Something in between is the worst
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Sep 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of August. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.ca, added Heriot Bay, Ballet Bay Octopus Islands, and...
The Web Witch's Blog
The Inevitability of Change
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the...
8th Aug 2024
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the water in West Seattle. I've not been living here since January 2023. I've been back 5 or 6 times in the last year and a half and suddenly the buildings that were steel bones and...
Wuthering...
What I Read in June 2026 – I don’t know, that’s all words, never wake, all words, there’s nothing...
Oh right, I can pretend I am writing something. Some notes on books I read in the distant...
22nd Jul 2026
Oh right, I can pretend I am writing something. Some notes on books I read in the distant past.
NOT SHAKESPEARE
The Dutch Courtesan (1604), John Marston – Discussed long ago.
Poems (1594-1612), George Chapman – A superb,
innovative poet, somehow an Ovidian and an...
Jason Fried
Appetites instead of estimates
The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong.
Yes...
4th Oct 2024
The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong.
Yes there's a 3 week version of something. And a 6 week version. And a 4 month version. And a 12 month version. That's correct.
Yet, you'll almost always be wrong whichever you pick....
The Turn Signal RSS...
How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience
Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives...
1st Dec 2022
Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives center around apps. These are available…
Josh Comeau's blog
The World of CSS Transforms
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take...
9th Aug 2021
The “transform” property is such a powerful part of the CSS language! In this blog post, we'll take a deep look at this property and see some of the nifty things it can do.
Home on Erik...
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
The Deleted Scenes
New and Old #280
Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
a week ago
Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
Ink & Switch
The Livelymerge Experiment
Introducing Livelymerge.
5th Jun 2026
The Quanta Podcast
Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group. ...
27th Sep 2018
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
The post Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Joel Gascoigne
5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time...
1st Apr 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first
went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Geniune Love and Infatuation
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
10th Jan 2019
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: Ask Marcus Aurelius
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
7th Apr 2023
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re...
8th Jun 2018
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year.
And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop
procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably
obvious to you, but they were new to me!
Being right is...
Passing Time
So We Won't Forget
Why do we film concerts?
23rd Oct 2023
Making software...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).
This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
bt RSS Feed
Making a Website Under 1kB
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
2nd Aug 2022
Making a Website Under 1kB
2022-08-02
I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn’t as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
Mazdak
Apple has a new CEO. Now comes the hard part.
September is here, and there’s actually quite a bit going on.
2 weeks ago
September is here, and there’s actually quite a bit going on.
Eugene Yan
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
Laetitia@Work
How much rest do we really need?
Laetitia@Work #52
20th Oct 2022
Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
6th Jan 2025
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
21st Dec 2023
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Jonas Hietala
5 Kup
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
2nd Dec 2012
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement...
9th Jul 2018
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
Looking Through the...
How Do You Know That Document Is Real?
A history of verification
a week ago
A history of verification
Spoon & Tamago
Goldwin Set to Open Expansive Nature Park in Toyama in 2027
Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the...
26th Apr 2025
Goldwin, the Japanese outdoor apparel company, has unveiled plans for an ambitious new project: the Play Earth Park Naturing Forest. Set to open in the summer of 2027, this expansive nature-themed facility will be located in Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture, the birthplace of...
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved
The decline and fall of the print media.
2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Buying a house 🏠 in 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a...
4th Sep 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a lot during this process. I’m writing
it down while it’s still fresh in my mind.
Why not rent?
I’ve always rented and thought I would continue to rent forever. When
I was still in...
./techtipsy
I yearn for the perfect home server
I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past
decade, mainly because I keep changing the...
7th Mar 2025
I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past
decade, mainly because I keep changing the goals all the time.
I’ve now realized why that keeps happening.
I want the perfect home server.
What is the perfect home server? I’d phrase it like this:
The perfect home server uses...
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
099 SPLY
In the spring of 2022, I had a call with Stefan Jandl, who runs Favorit Studio. As we have similar...
3rd Nov 2022
In the spring of 2022, I had a call with Stefan Jandl, who runs Favorit Studio. As we have similar tastes and approach to design, we wanted to collaborate on a project together. Initially, we toyed with the idea of NFT art given its rise in popularity at the time, but it didn't...
Drew Ex Machina
The Promise of MIDAS: The First Experimental Early Warning Satellites
Today in the United States we almost take for granted the military’s ability to detect missile...
19th Jul 2023
Today in the United States we almost take for granted the military’s ability to detect missile launches anywhere on the planet and quickly determine whether it […]
TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
6th Dec 2023
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
Global Inequality...
The life of Maynard K.
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
9th Jun 2024
A review of Zach Carter’s “The Price of Peace”
Winnie Lim
Paik Jong Won
…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of...
6th Oct 2024
…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of branches mainly in korea with some splattered all over the world. I first knew of him...
IEEE Spectrum
Sci-fi and Hi-fi
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire...
4th Mar 2024
Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992...
Cybercultural:...
The Internet’s Impact on Culture
“It feels like the internet’s impact on culture is just beginning. A world in which culture is based...
29th Jan 2020
“It feels like the internet’s impact on culture is just beginning. A world in which culture is based on the internet, which is what I think is happening, is just the very start. Right, ’cause it had to get universal before it could set the culture.”
Those words were spoken by...
skin contact
house cats
These days, it is easier to let my mind be a house cat.
3rd Aug 2025
These days, it is easier to let my mind be a house cat.
Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions)
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
14th Jun 2025
Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
Justin Jackson
The iPad is a family device
29th May 2010
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pin for AirTag
Wanting a quick, safe, and secure way to attach an AirTag to our kids, we designed the TagVault Pin...
24th Jan 2024
Wanting a quick, safe, and secure way to attach an AirTag to our kids, we designed the TagVault Pin Mount.
Other AirTag cases for kids were too easy to take off, bulky, and flopped around. So we designed a better solution with an ultra-secure mount, dual hidden safety pins, and...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 1 (The Wright Stuff)
When people have asked, I’ve told them with a straight face that we didn’t go to Daytona for Spring...
2nd Apr 2024
When people have asked, I’ve told them with a straight face that we didn’t go to Daytona for Spring Break, no, we went to Dayton. As in Ohio. As in probably the least likely Spring Break destination in the United States. We managed to avoid warm weather, sandy beaches, and...
Conservation...
‘A profound loss’: Conservation world mourns Jane Goodall
1st Oct 2025
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for January
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
31st Jan 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of January. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Continue Reading
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Death by Toothbrush
Apple products are notoriously hard to open because they are obsessed with hiding screws and...
6th Feb 2016
Apple products are notoriously hard to open because they are obsessed with hiding screws and minimizing seams. But if you are able to crack open one of their products you will see something beautiful.
One Useful Thing
Signs and Portents
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
6th Jan 2024
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fibonacci Goals
A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
42!
My first ever app I made and sold...
I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below.
I was initially...
30th Nov 2021
I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below.
I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this.
It...
Willem's Blog
From tree to table
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
22nd Oct 2017
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
charity.wtf
How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
1st Feb 2018
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
Pea Bee
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your...
27th Mar 2025
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
Woody Hayday
AI Automating: The Worksheet
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai.
It's going well. It's...
18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai.
It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging.
The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
devonzuegel.com
Part 1: The story so far of California Forever
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
20th Feb 2024
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal.
California Forever was founded by Jan Sramek in 2017 as a way to create...
Posts on Nikita...
2024 Reflection
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff...
8th Dec 2024
Holy shit, what a year that was. It was absolutely bonkers overwhelming. A lot of interesting stuff happened, but at the same time I took on so much more than I could handle.
Conferences Speaking at RustLab 2024
During late 2023 and early 2024 I applied to a bunch of conferences....
Works in Progress...
Watt lies beneath
The earth’s core is hot. So hot, that if we drilled deep enough, we could power the world millions...
15th Nov 2023
The earth’s core is hot. So hot, that if we drilled deep enough, we could power the world millions of times over with cheap, clean energy, supporting renewables when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. But getting there is tough.
Marcus on AI
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Genre
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Epically would have also worked.
Today's News:
1st Apr 2025
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Hovertext:
Epically would have also worked.
Today's News:
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mitten Accomplished
I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
28th Nov 2022
I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
13th Feb 2024
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
Both Are True
how to write about the vulnerable stuff your family doesn't know about (and other fun easy topics...
therapy for writers // batcave live #001 w special guest Isabel Cowles Murphy
1st May 2025
therapy for writers // batcave live #001 w special guest Isabel Cowles Murphy
csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
22nd Aug 2023
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
Comments for Lars...
The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch...
23rd Oct 2024
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get...
The Tao Of Wealth
How to redesign mindfulness for our very modern lives
You do not need to have to have a lot of time, be spiritual, religious, or unplug from technology to...
5th May 2019
You do not need to have to have a lot of time, be spiritual, religious, or unplug from technology to meditate. Because meditation is something that we can do anywhere and at any time. An important concept is to take care of how you are aware of rather than what you are aware of....
Style over Substance
DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome
IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product...
21st Aug 2021
IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product line, one unit that stands out is the VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor. This cheap (just €9,99) sensor measures the air quality in your home, using a simple traffic light scheme to...
The Pragmatic...
Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009....
15th May 2025
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
Herman's blog
Messing with bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
13th Nov 2025
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
The Honest Broker
Why Do Heroes Always Have Theme Songs (Part 1 of 2)
An excerpt from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
4th Oct 2023
An excerpt from my new book 'Music to Raise the Dead'
Herman's blog
Committing to creativity
The fine line between commitment and motivation
5th Aug 2026
The fine line between commitment and motivation
👋 Hello, I'm...
Seven deadly sins of a second-time founder
11th Dec 2023
Fabien Sanglard
How the SNES Graphics System works
9th Aug 2024
Sebastian Witowski
Writing Faster Python - Introduction
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements.
So all the...
Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs?
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
11th Jun 2025
Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button
Bad code
<button display="flex" role="button">
<svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
18th Jul 2022
Bad code
<button display="flex" role="button">
<svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close">
<title>Close dialog</title>
<path d="…"> </path>
</svg>
</button>
Issues and...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate - We speak your language
Your browser does not support the video tag.
7th Nov 2024
Your browser does not support the video tag.
devonzuegel.com
Travel photos are underrated
I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new...
9th Jun 2019
I snapped many photos while wandering Haifa last week, as I always do whenever I see something new or interesting while exploring a city. I was with my friend Tyler, who conspicuously does not take photos while exploring a new place. I asked him why, and his answer was, "It's a...
Dan Quach Blog
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Jordan Eldredge's...
?? "" is a Code Smell
Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
12th Apr 2022
Defaulting to empty string is a lie we tell our type checker.
Willem's Blog
Apple Watch as Phone
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
9th Nov 2023
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
The Changelog
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
1st May 2025
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture.
Like most processors, the 386 contains numerous registers; registers are a key part of a processor because
they provide storage that is much faster than main memory.
The register...
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
6th Oct 2020
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again?
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
21st May 2025
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.
The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering
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Please consult yesterday's comments (we have...
1st Apr 2023
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Hovertext:
Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit.
Today's News:
We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
Push to Prod
Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too
On queues, capacity, and why your dashboard is lying to you
23rd Mar 2026
On queues, capacity, and why your dashboard is lying to you
Justin Jackson
How do I find customers for my SaaS?
I think we need to stop trying to find customers for our products and start building solutions our...
21st May 2021
I think we need to stop trying to find customers for our products and start building solutions our customers are already searching for.
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
4th Apr 2023
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
Code Of Honor
The StarCraft path-finding hack
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
20th Feb 2013
Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
1st Jan 2020
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
Asterisk
No Retvrn
An American tradition of embracing modernity.
4th Aug 2025
An American tradition of embracing modernity.
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 13
Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving...
2nd Jul 2020
Highlights I sold my first pre-order for KVM Pi. Finding new ways to monetize Is It Keto is proving more difficult than I expected. I sold an Enterprise plan for Zestful. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those...
Fabien Sanglard
Exploring Command-line space time
26th Sep 2023
Max Woolf's Blog
AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again.
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
13th Aug 2024
What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
10th Jul 2022
2022/07/09
My favorite Erlang Container
Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang:
universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end.
You could then write a small program that could fit this...
Oykun Yilmaz
Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:
Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow...
22nd Apr 2023
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:
Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value and Income.
It's a bit unclear, right?
What the heck is "Value" anyway? How can you grow it?
Well, there are many meanings to
Josh Thompson
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
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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
5 coding interview questions I hate
I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some...
21st Mar 2022
I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some were pure cringe. I’ve been asked if I have kids (supposedly, people with children won’t have time to job hop), and if “I bet my ass I cost that much”. Fun times.
But today I’d like...
bookbear express
nothing will change your life more than saying what you actually want to say
happy new year
6th Jan 2026
Eugene Yan
2025 Year in Review
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
14th Dec 2025
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
A Smart Bear
Scars
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
1st Dec 2024
Our emotional baggage and experience make us unique, but also serve as blinders.
MIT News - Civil and...
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
2 weeks ago
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
Ryan Mulligan
Detect JavaScript Support in CSS
I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that...
20th Apr 2024
I had been aware of the scripting CSS media feature but I was still under the impression that cross-browser support was lacking. What a pleasant surprise to discover that it has been available in all modern browsers as of December 2023 according to caniuse.com. With this feature,...
Tech and Tea
Do you keep your wishes secret?
Have you ever hoped that someone would notice your good work and give you more opportunities? Would...
6th Aug 2023
Have you ever hoped that someone would notice your good work and give you more opportunities? Would that have been even more meaningful than if you asked for what you wanted, and got it?
Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
Common Edge
Why Disband the Urban Design Group Just as New York City Ramps Up Housing Development?
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
2nd Feb 2026
As the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
23rd Jul 2017
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
Hundred Rabbits
where is the turtle farm
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
20th Aug 2018
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go!
We left our mooring at...
Identity Designed
CleanO2
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
2nd Aug 2022
Designed by Ordinary Things, San Francisco.
Yazin Alirhayim
On building quicker
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering
3rd Mar 2026
OH8HUB’s Substack
Albert's Nature Reserve
Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
22nd Apr 2025
Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
HTMHell
#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
25th Oct 2021
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development:
🔥 the burger button. 🔥
The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
Tony Dinh's...
Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast!
Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
4th Oct 2022
Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
Eugene Yan
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines
Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to...
4th Jan 2025
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now.
However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature.
It costs me money.
And I don’t monetize my blog.
So sending you an email costs me...
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast.
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
8th Mar 2024
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
heavymeta.org
Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for
Geolocation?”.
In that article, they...
21st Mar 2025
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for
Geolocation?”.
In that article, they examine the ability of LLMs to geolocate photos. They gave
Microsoft Bing and Google Bard three photos of locations in Canada:
the Edmonton City Hall
Churchill Square, also in...
SOS
Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud & Vercel costs
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years.
I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
7th Apr 2023
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.4.0
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
7th May 2020
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
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