SOS
Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art.
I’m a...
14th Sep 2022
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art.
I’m a software engineer, but far more importantly I’m the happy dad of two amazing girls, currently 4 and 6 years old. They love to draw, colour in pictures and tell stories, and when I...
Weighty Thoughts
AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement
How LLMs can accelerate programming, writing, and thinking
25th Sep 2025
How LLMs can accelerate programming, writing, and thinking
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 129: Personal Superintelligence
August 1, 2025.
1st Aug 2025
Long Now
Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity
To think usefully about humanity’s future, you have to bear everything in mind simultaneously....
22nd Jan 2019
To think usefully about humanity’s future, you have to bear everything in mind simultaneously. Nobody has managed that better than Martin Rees in his succinct summing-up book: _ON THE FUTURE: Prospects for Humanity_.
As the recent President of the Royal Society (and longtime...
Josh Thompson
Injury Impedes Improvement
Kristi and I have been in Colorado for three months, I’ve been climbing regularly for two, I am back...
24th Sep 2014
Kristi and I have been in Colorado for three months, I’ve been climbing regularly for two, I am back in shape and it feels good.
I am tempted to throw myself into climbing again. To climb every day, or maybe every other day, and finish every session with training. But here’s the...
Daniel Bourke
AI Anxiety
A walk into the unknown.
28th Apr 2023
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 21
I was young, and needed to ship...
30th Aug 2024
I was young, and needed to ship...
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
9th Sep 2024
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite.
I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Conservation...
Meet the South African startup putting cattle to work for conservation
8th Jul 2024
Applied Cartography
Vertigo
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
Kagi Blog
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
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Your collective defense against...
12th Nov 2025
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Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms
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We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
David Heinemeier...
Thrice charmed at Rails World
The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45...
6th Sep 2025
The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes, the atmosphere was electric, and The Rails Foundation set a new standard for conference execution in the Ruby community.
So when we decided to return to the Dutch Capital for...
Justin Jackson
Put a billion dollars on red
9th Mar 2016
Res Obscura
I talked to Terry Gross!
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled...
16th Jan 2024
A brief update about the publication of "Tripping on Utopia" before we return to regularly scheduled posting
Aaron's Essays
Raise less money
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
12th Aug 2020
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
The History of the...
Thinking more about Netscape Time
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still...
3rd Jun 2026
Netscape time's influence has gone far beyond Netscape itself, and tis a legacy that we still wrestle with on the web. We probably always will.
The post Thinking more about Netscape Time appeared first on The History of the Web.
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys?
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are a
great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining
them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet
products. Existing
descriptions aren’t sinking...
Prolost
My App Will Harm You Physically, Using Math
Log your nog with Drinking Buddy.
I made an app! A real, native iPhone app coded in Swift and...
8th Dec 2025
Log your nog with Drinking Buddy.
I made an app! A real, native iPhone app coded in Swift and SwiftUI.
It’s a thing of beauty. I love it and use it every day. But I can’t share it with you, because Apple rejected it from the App Store due to “Physical Harm.”
Don’t worry, I...
The Honest Broker
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop
Let's look at the warning signs
2nd Aug 2024
Let's look at the warning signs
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Years
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this...
1st Jan 2024
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this is the end of this individual comic. SMBC will persist long enough to be taken over by the AI who killed us all.
Today's News:
Eric Bailey
On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes.
I could...
5th Mar 2024
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes.
I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career.
I could...
Long Now
Caroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th...
The ambition to think on the scale of thousands, millions, even billion of years emerged in the 19th...
6th Feb 2020
The ambition to think on the scale of thousands, millions, even billion of years emerged in the 19th century. Historian and author [Caroline Winterer](https://history.stanford.edu/people/caroline-winterer) chronicles how the concept of “deep time” has inspired and puzzled...
Hixie's Natural Log
Building a UI Framework
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI...
25th Jul 2025
Over the past few months, I've been putting together some notes for future creators of UI frameworks, based on my experiences of the past 25-30 years. The work was originally commissioned by a customer for their use, but it seems like it might be of wider interest so I've decided...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
History Today...
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
17th Mar 2025
On the Spot: Annabel Teh Gallop
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/17/2025 - 08:24
lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
12th Jun 2024
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
Grow With Less
Why I'm Shutting Down Lorelight (And What It Taught Me About GEO)
I’m shutting down Lorelight.
Not because it didn’t work. Not because I ran out of money. But because...
31st Oct 2025
I’m shutting down Lorelight.
Not because it didn’t work. Not because I ran out of money. But because I realized something that probably should have been obvious from the start.
Let me explain.
What Was Lorelight?
A few months ago, I launched Lorelight—a generative engine...
Construction Physics
Reading List 12/06/2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
Eukaryote Writes...
A love letter to civilian OSINT
What is civilian OSINT, and could it be used altruistically?
10th Jul 2020
What is civilian OSINT, and could it be used altruistically?
devonzuegel.com
Google Docs' sheet-of-paper metaphor
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its...
12th May 2019
For ages, I've wondered why Google Docs still clings to the sheet-of-paper metaphor when lots of its users never print out most of their documents.
Of course it does make sense for "Print layout" to be an option. Many people do print docs, and students make up a huge portion of...
Blog - Bitfield...
Master of my domain
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being
the boss? Some more...
28th Feb 2024
Let’s talk business—independent business, that is. What’s the cost of being
the boss? Some more hard-learned lessons from my own horrible career.
Passing Time
As Wild as It Gets
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
13th Aug 2025
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge...
10th Sep 2023
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative
like Noom.
The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy,
particularly good data
sources for nutrition...
Works in Progress...
The beauty of concrete
Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately...
17th May 2024
Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor.
History Today...
‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
H T
Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
2nd Nov 2018
‘Sacred Britannia’ by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
H T
Fri, 11/02/2018 - 00:00
Daniel Immke
Laying myself off from Amazon
16th Nov 2022
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
From JSON to TOON
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same...
15th Dec 2025
TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.
It’s a new text format that has the same capability as JSON but uses less space.
It was invented to lower costs of sending data (tokens) to LLM AIs but it has 2 advantages over JSON:
smaller than JSON
more readable than JSON
It...
Blog posts of...
Why i am leaving my own company.
Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post...
17th Aug 2012
Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
Atoms vs Bits
Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts
Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
2nd Mar 2026
Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with...
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
2nd Mar 2024
This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
Charles Chen
AI Startup Moats: The Difference Between Bakers and Ovens
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
9th Nov 2024
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
Retail Design Blog
Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
Project Background — The project is located in the old town of Guangling Road in Yangzhou. It...
1st Oct 2025
Project Background — The project is located in the old town of Guangling Road in Yangzhou. It features architectural clusters...
Seth's Blog
The lazy jugglers
The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work...
1st Jul 2024
The best jugglers don’t seem to be trying very hard. That’s because they understand what the work involves, and they don’t confuse effort with results. Some approaches to keep in mind: Focus on the work at hand Don’t take on more than you can handle Establish a spec, and ignore...
AVC
The Rebrand
I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company...
7th Feb 2023
I’d guess that upwards of half of USV’s portfolio companies have changed the name of their company during their lifetime. It is not hard to understand why. Founders start out with an idea and not much more. By the time they have built a product, built a team, and found product...
Alex Meub
Making a Retro Dock for the Playdate Console
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a...
27th Jul 2025
I made a retro-inspired dock to charge my Playdate out of a Raspberry Pi case. The case is a miniature version of the Super Famicom and I love how it makes the Playdate look like a little game cartridge when it’s charging.
Making one yourself is pretty straight-forward, you’ll...
Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
13th Jan 2025
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing over multinomial distributions
Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
24th Jul 2013
Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
ntietz.com blog -...
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence
Here's an exchange that's pretty common:
"How long will that take?"
"A few days."
I run into this...
7th Aug 2017
Here's an exchange that's pretty common:
"How long will that take?"
"A few days."
I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from the other side of my ~220 kilometer walk through the Kiso...
27th Oct 2025
Ridgeline subscribers —
Hello from the other side of my ~220 kilometer walk through the Kiso Valley.
I sent a shorter version of this newsletter as the last issue of the (the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains pop-up newsletter. This version is quite expanded. The archives of...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
2nd Jul 2026
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a...
1st Jan 2023
✨ Highlights of last month - Traveled to Hilton Head, Savannah, and Denver for the holidays - Had a couple of flights canceled by Southwest - Published "Why I built Postcard: A calmer alternative to s...
Applied Cartography
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the...
18th Feb 2020
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the conversations and stories are ones we've had before, but it is still fun to banter and to rehash old arguments and think about the good times.
Vitalik Buterin's...
收入-邪恶曲线：思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
28th Oct 2022
swyx's site RSS Feed
What Happens When A User Edits A Post on Dev.to?
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3rd Feb 2018
Strange Loop Canon
Nobody Knows Anything
on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
Software and Tech...
The Shoe on The Other Foot
Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk...
2nd Feb 2026
Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk for hours to clear my head, often through parts of the city we typically hurry past.
One Tuesday, I saw a man sitting outside a boarded-up storefront. He was weathered, his eyes...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why linting errors should cause tests to fail
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
16th Sep 2016
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
12th Jun 2021
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand.
In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it.
Why website speed matters
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: Some Thoughts about the Calendar
This year February will have an extra day -- we discuss why?
The post Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: ...
12th Feb 2024
This year February will have an extra day -- we discuss why?
The post Enjoy the Coming Leap Day: Some Thoughts about the Calendar appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Build In Public...
Your AI forgets everything when the session ends. XHawk is fixing that.
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built...
16th Mar 2026
Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built a system to stop it.
wingolog
whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with...
7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage
collector
My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the .
Its name comes from its historical...
The Quanta Podcast
How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too
Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any...
10th Nov 2016
Computer scientists have come up with a bounded algorithm that can fairly divide a cake among any number of people.
The post How to Cut Cake Fairly and Finally Eat It Too first appeared on Quanta Magazine
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Free SSL
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
7th Aug 2018
Setting Up a Free SSL
2018-08-07
I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol.
Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Cheese and Biscuits
Holy Carrot, Notting Hill
I don't know about you, but the concept of a 'vegetarian restaurant' brings to mind a certain set of...
4th Feb 2025
I don't know about you, but the concept of a 'vegetarian restaurant' brings to mind a certain set of expectations, not all of them good. I suppose it's because traditionally, vegetarian food has been, at best, just 'normal' restaurant food with the meat either taken out, or...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Greatest Jedi Mind Trick of All Time
What percentage of your visible world would you say you can see? Yes, you read that correctly. The...
3rd Nov 2018
What percentage of your visible world would you say you can see? Yes, you read that correctly. The obvious answer is "all of it." But stick with me.
UX Collective
Figma and the cost of collaboration
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
5th Aug 2024
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
The DESK Magazine
Our favorite portfolios launched with Semplice in July 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are...
1st Aug 2022
Every week, we handpick two portfolios created with Semplice to feature on our Showcase. These are the best of the best, chosen by yours truly from hundreds of beautiful submissions
A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
Stephen Wolfram...
What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours
Cats Don’t Talk
We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many...
21st May 2025
Cats Don’t Talk
We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, that compositional...
Mert Bulan - Blog &...
Einbürgerungsantragsjubiläum
A personal look at Germany’s slow citizenship process and why it matters for the skilled immigrants...
19th May 2026
A personal look at Germany’s slow citizenship process and why it matters for the skilled immigrants the country says it needs.
Justin Jackson
The coupon code is a slap in the face
15th Jul 2011
Better than Random
Should you take the startup offer?
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
3rd Aug 2026
The Kelly criterion for your next career bet
Blog | Sam Curry
How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request
3rd Aug 2017
ntietz.com blog -...
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
15th May 2020
Raptitude.com
The Truth is a Niche Interest for Human Beings
By the time you’re three or four years old, you’ve already learned the tremendous value of...
31st May 2025
By the time you’re three or four years old, you’ve already learned the tremendous value of dishonesty. Even if you were the one who unrolled all the toilet paper onto the floor, you know it’s possible for your parents to believe it was someone else, and that’s a better outcome...
Probably...
Confidence In the Press
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
4th Jan 2025
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s based on Chapter 16, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete example here, or run the Jupyter notebook on...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ A Second Shot
It sunk in. Both the needle and the fact that life had indeed changed. I turned to my left and...
13th May 2021
It sunk in. Both the needle and the fact that life had indeed changed. I turned to my left and looked at her. She, the same Black woman who had administered the first, and this time I tucked her name away into my memory, having forgotten it in the excitement and overwhelming...
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2021: I got a $500K acquisition offer!
...and other updates in January 2022 from me
5th Feb 2023
...and other updates in January 2022 from me
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
nanoscale views
DOE experimental condensed matter PI meeting, + other items
This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting. ...
8th Sep 2025
This week I am attending the every-two-years DOE Experimental Condensed Matter Physics PI meeting. Previously I have written up highlights of these meetings (see here, here, here, here, here), though two years I was unable to do so because I was attending virtually. I will do...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable)
Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
24th Aug 2020
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable)
Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable)
Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch...
6th Aug 2018
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
Home on Erik...
Annoy
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
12th Apr 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system....
30th Jul 2026
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there in…I want to say 1998? I even still...
Steve Klabnik
Nobody understands REST or HTTP
3rd Jul 2011
Strange Loop Canon
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
A Beautiful Site
Introducing TongueType
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on...
14th May 2026
I just launched my first macOS app called TongueType. It's voice dictation that runs entirely on your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release, and your words appear wherever your cursor happens to be.
I build small, simple, stable software. TongueType fits that description, and it...
Jordan Eldredge's...
SFSU Chamber Singers sing for ACDA
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
2nd Mar 2008
A video of my choir singing at St. Boniface Church in Anaheim, California.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Announcing Startup School Beijing
26th Apr 2018
Articles - Alex...
How to ride a recession
A storm is coming. In 2020 Britain suffered its deepest recession in over
300 years. Two years...
2nd Aug 2022
A storm is coming. In 2020 Britain suffered its deepest recession in over
300 years. Two years later and the UK’s economic picture is not much
prettier. This article argues that whilst recessions are a threat to some
businesses, they are an opportunity for others. It argues...
Hundred Rabbits
doldrumming
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some...
20th Nov 2018
Here we go again, time for another passage. We left Fiji on October 23rd 2018, eager to spend some time on the water again. Our plan, was to stop by Tuvalu, maybe Kiribati, before arriving in Majuro in the Marshall islands where we'd be spending two months before moving off west...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Email tips from the drowning
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a...
13th Jun 2023
I have never seen an email message too short.
– Roman and Raphaelson, Writing
That Works
Email is a cornerstone of remote work and a colossal waste of
time.
People say: “That meeting could have been an email.” But I’d add:
“That email could have been a few bullet points.”
Writing...
haseeb qureshi
What explains the rise of AMMs?
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
22nd Jul 2020
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?”
You’d run...
McMansion Hell
bonus mcmansion hell: terrible things are happening in McLean, VA
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
27th Oct 2022
Read the bonus post on Patreon!
A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
5th Mar 2015
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary.
Let's say we have the following variable in PHP:
$name = 'Bob Marley';
And we want to...
ByteofDev
Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A
Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
The Berkeley...
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling
.apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; }
.apr-fig--wide img { display:...
8th May 2026
.apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; }
.apr-fig--wide img { display: inline-block; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; }
.apr-fig--wide-0-8 { max-width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
.apr-fig--tall img...
Jonas Hietala
March Theme: 10 seconds
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
2nd Mar 2010
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
Good Enough
You Complete Me
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
4th Dec 2024
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Electronics etc…
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 12
Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly...
1st Jun 2020
Highlights I added 88 new programmatically-generated articles to Is It Keto. With 100k monthly pageviews, it’s time to explore new ways of working with Is It Keto’s audience. I created a KVM over IP device that requires <$100 in hardware. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Steve Blank
Security Clearances at the Speed of Startups
Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for...
13th Aug 2024
Imagine you got a job offer from a company but weren’t allowed to start work – or get paid – for almost a year. And if you can’t pass a security clearance your offer is rescinded. Or you get offered an internship but can’t work on the most interesting part of the project. Sounds...
Winnie Lim
some ruminations on the inherent dislike of my self
[cw: suicidal thoughts] I guess this does not come as a surprise to anyone – I think I have an...
3rd Mar 2024
[cw: suicidal thoughts] I guess this does not come as a surprise to anyone – I think I have an inherent dislike for my self. No one who inherently likes them selves...
Yale E360
As Hurricanes Stir Up Coastal Waters, North Carolina Homes Collapse Into the Sea
Five unoccupied homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed into the sea Tuesday as hurricanes...
1st Oct 2025
Five unoccupied homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed into the sea Tuesday as hurricanes Humberto and Imelda coursed through the Atlantic, stirring up coastal waters. The Outer Banks have seen 17 seaside homes destroyed since 2020.
Read more on E360 →
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI in Software Development
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.
I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue.
We may not have...
Josh Thompson
Turing Prep Chapter 4: Arrays, Hashes, and Nested Collections
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up...
9th Jun 2019
Preparing for Turing Series Index
What follows is an eight-part series that will help you pick up useful information about a number of topics related to Ruby, specifically geared for students learning the Ruby programming language, as part of the Turing School’s Backend Software...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “What Should I Say In My Exit Interview?”
I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has...
16th Apr 2021
I recently received this gem of a note:: Hi Charity, I really enjoy your writing and a lot of it has directly contributed to me finally deciding to leave a company with a toxic management culture. I’ll also be leaving many great IC friends that will have lost a strong voice. My...
escape the algorithm
Artisinal white noise
Shhhhhhhh
3rd May 2024
Quanta Magazine
‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the...
2nd Sep 2025
You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same?
The post ‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Construction Physics
Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
5th Sep 2024
This post is cross-posted at Noahpinion.
Open for Business
DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the...
18th Dec 2025
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the bells and whistles, but they are built so well. But what if a Das Keyboard had all the current extras?
Tony Dinh's...
My entire marketing strategy (+ December 2021 updates)
Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 Hello Hacker News! For context, this post is the latest issue of my...
3rd Jan 2022
Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 Hello Hacker News! For context, this post is the latest issue of my monthly newsletter where I share the progress building BlackMagic.so & DevUtils.app. Check my previous issues to see more details about the products and my journey. Cheers!
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
cdixon
SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor...
5th Mar 2011
Many of the today’s most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor relied heavily on SEO for their initial…
Flashbak
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
“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...
watchTowr Labs
Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711)
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup &...
9th Sep 2024
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup & Replication’. Unfortunately, so is every ransomware operator, given it's somewhat 'privileged position' in the storage world of most enterprise's networks. There's no point deploying...
Jordan Eldredge's...
[Original Song] "Our Love Will Last As Long"
I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
4th Jul 2009
I wrote and recorded a novelty love song for Chelsea.
Joel Gascoigne
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here's why
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I recently...
10th Jan 2012
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I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically
about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup.
This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Multitrack Video: "In My Room"
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My...
4th Jan 2010
On New Years Day some friends and I recorded a multitrack video of The Beach Boys' song 'In My Room'.
charity.wtf
On Engineers and Influence
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
Abishek Muthian
Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a...
12th Dec 2024
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts.
Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to...
WHAT'S ANU
🟠 TREND RADAR #14 :: SOCIAL DRIVERS
Stability is the Dream. Speculation is the Strategy. Sexlessness is the Consequence. Appearance is...
8th Mar 2026
Stability is the Dream. Speculation is the Strategy. Sexlessness is the Consequence. Appearance is the Outlet. Nostalgia is the Tonic.
Eric Migicovsky's...
How to help us build open source Pebble software!
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big...
6th Feb 2025
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
Engineers Need Art
3D Printing in 2025
It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D...
17th Jan 2026
It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D printing in 2025.
Long Now
Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet
Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he...
6th Aug 2020
Throughout Peter Calthorpe's decade-spanning career in urban design, planning, and architecture, he has developed and practiced the key principles of [New Urbanism](https://www.cnu.org/resources/what-new-urbanism): that the most successful places are diverse in uses and users,...
Build In Public...
🚨 Announcement Alert 🚨 I'm dropping a mega Twitter resource on BUILD IN PUBLIC
Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of...
7th Aug 2021
Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of inflection points, here’s how it would look like: Jan 2018, I was a nobody in startups, stuck in a dead-end corporate job due to visa challenges Oct 2018, read a book called...
Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
12th Nov 2024
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
Benny Kuriakose
Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
16th May 2024
Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more...
Scott DeLong
Websites Are Not Dead: Part 1
The new AI-driven slop Internet is going to give rise to new formats, concepts, and ways to discover...
31st May 2026
The new AI-driven slop Internet is going to give rise to new formats, concepts, and ways to discover humanity.
The post Websites Are Not Dead: Part 1 appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Words and Buttons...
[e-book] So You Think You Know C? And TenMore Short Essays on Programming Languages
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most...
21st Apr 2020
Can’t say that running away from complexity was a smart thing to do. It was definitely not the most productive way to create software. The journey, however, has taught me a few things so it was not a complete waste of time either.
This book is a reflection of these lessons. It...
A Beautiful Site
Postleaf: reimagined
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!)
Today, I'm...
NeuroLogica Blog
Cognitive Legos
We have all likely had the experience that when we learn a task it becomes easier to learn a...
1st Dec 2025
We have all likely had the experience that when we learn a task it becomes easier to learn a distinct but related task. Learning to cook one dish makes it easier to learn other dishes. Learning how to repair a radio helps you learn to repair other electronics. Even more...
Josh Thompson
Practicing with Polylines
This is a first pass at trying to do something interesting (repeatedly) with the same base...
10th Sep 2024
This is a first pass at trying to do something interesting (repeatedly) with the same base primative, in this case, a “polyline”. Read the rest of this post, understand what we’re going for, then go to part 2: get your own polyline from strava. It’s not trivial to get, but its...
Tony Dinh's...
Oct 2022 updates: I will write a book!
Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
4th Nov 2022
Also in October: Speak at JOM Launch Asia 2022, and the thing about Elon Musk.
Max Schmitt
Next.js: The Easiest Way to Create an API Proxy (2023)
Read the post here.
27th Sep 2023
Patterns in Humanity
Africa's Poor Numbers
How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
22nd Jun 2025
How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
Strong Towns
A Lesson in Light
How two identical park buildings reveal the power of small design choices.
3rd Nov 2025
How two identical park buildings reveal the power of small design choices.
Koos Looijesteijn
Hey Koos, do you still recommend WordPress?
29th Jun 2018
Liz Denys
Unintuitive default: who can edit access in Google Docs
When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit....
11th Nov 2018
When you create a new Google Doc, you have the option to share it with others to view or edit. Viewing permission is straightforward, just view access, but by default, editors have the ability not just to edit the content of the document but also to edit sharing permissions. If...
Weighty Thoughts
What’s coming next for AI in 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
5th Jan 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
Both Are True
batcave schedule for november!!!!
it's here and so are we!
3rd Nov 2025
Diaries of Note
I try to make tea out of dust
Born in 1942 in Schenectady, New York, Lyn Lifshin was an award-winning American poet and feminist...
1st Apr 2023
Born in 1942 in Schenectady, New York, Lyn Lifshin was an award-winning American poet and feminist known for her unique voice and prolific output: over her lifetime, she authored more than 120 books and chapbooks of poetry, edited four anthologies of women’s writing, and...
Quanta Magazine
How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles
In this article adapted from his new book, "Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler...
3rd Sep 2024
In this article adapted from his new book, "Waves in an Impossible Sea," physicist Matt Strassler explains that the origin of mass in the universe has a lot to do with music.
The post How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles first appeared on...
The Beauty of...
Cover Story (Workington Bus Station, Workington, Cumbria, UK)
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you,...
6th Oct 2021
Sometimes you seek out transport architecture, at others transport architecture is thrust upon you, just as it was when I accidentally ended up in Workington a couple of months ago. With poor weather forecast on one of the days of a trip to the Lake District, I spent the day...
Works in Progress...
Who cares about plagiarism?
Plagiarism is unforgivable in academia but it’s not plagiarism itself that should trouble us. It’s...
21st Jan 2022
Plagiarism is unforgivable in academia but it’s not plagiarism itself that should trouble us. It’s carelessness and a lack of originality.
Fatih Arslan
I was wrong about AI Coding
I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I...
26th Mar 2025
I'm mostly anti-AI person since the AI hype started years ago. However with time I realized that I misjudged AI Coding — Here’s Why.
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Atomic CSS
Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind,...
6th Feb 2022
Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind, and more.
Seeking Wisdom
Case for indexing
Warren Buffet made a compelling case in favor of indexing in the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM. In...
5th Feb 2023
Warren Buffet made a compelling case in favor of indexing in the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway’s AGM. In 1989, 65% of the top 20 global companies were domiciled in Japan. After three decades, 65% of the top 20 global companies are from the US. No companies from Japan made into the top...
macwright.com
Recently
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu.
Bought the album as soon...
1st Dec 2023
I saw Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works, and was astounded by the opener, Mizu.
Bought the album as soon as I got home. It is, crudely explained, like if
Zoë Keating dialed up the synths and pedals and rhythm, and it was also a
remarkable live show.
Distant Intervals by MIZU
Reading
I...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 1: Introduction, Phoenix to Miller Canyon
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini...
22nd Sep 2024
Earlier this summer, Laura and I were trying to determine where we would visit for a couple of mini vacations. Due to the variations in her work schedule, Laura had two blocks of time - a five-day chunk in early August, and six days in early September - and we wanted to make the...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Decoding T cells with AI
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
Melting Asphalt
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
11th Jul 2016
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned…
Read more ›
Seán Barry
AI and Existential Dread
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
3 days ago
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think it's a farce and others think we face extinction. Here are my thoughts.
Seldo.com
2026 is the year of fine-tuned small models
26th Oct 2025
Applied Cartography
Content debt
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one.
However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create React Notifications/Toasts with 0 dependencies
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without...
19th Oct 2020
In this article, we will demonstrate how to build React Notifications (toasts) from scratch, without using any third-party library (except React).
The notification component has the following requirements:
Four color variations: info (blue), success (green), warning (orange),...
Strange Loop Canon
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons
On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
TokyoDev
How to screen developers
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
2nd May 2018
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
Rare Historical...
Vintage Beach Fashion of the 1930s: Glamorous Swimwear Photos From the Pre-Bikini Era
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to...
1st Aug 2026
Sun-drenched shores, tailored wool swimsuits, and a newfound sense of freedom all came together to define one of the most stylish decades in beach history. The 1930s transformed swimming from a rare luxury into a beloved national pastime, and with that shift came a wave of...
Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught...
8th Jun 2026
We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense, and the impact of asymmetric warfare, (drones, off-the-shelf technologies, etc.,) disruptive technologies (AI, commercial access to space) and a startup friendly...
Nadia Asparouhova
Not voting as a form of protest
Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized...
4th Sep 2020
Sometime at the end of last year, I wondered about what it would look like to have a mass-organized abstention campaign. My interest in this topic was mostly casual, but in a moment of enthusiasm, I shared these thoughts on a mailing list with a bunch of creative...
computers are bad
air traffic control: the IBM 9020
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air
traffic control in the United...
17th Jan 2026
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air
traffic control in the United States.
The technical demands of air traffic control are well known in computer history
circles because of the prominence of SAGE, but what's less well known is that
SAGE itself...
swyx's site RSS Feed
2025 Advice to my old selves
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
What you can do in a decade
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more...
22nd Apr 2026
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
Ben Borgers
Good Software Has a Clear Geography
1st Feb 2022
Dreams of Space -...
Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most...
11th Oct 2025
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics...
David Rozado...
The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news...
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing...
21st Dec 2021
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
Sebastian Witowski
dict() vs. {}
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time.
But they don't!
Starting...
Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
24th Mar 2024
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
Eric Bailey
All the user-facing states
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
29th Apr 2022
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild.
What user-facing state is
User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
Dan Quach Blog
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would...
29th Feb 2024
During the early pandemic, a topic came up I never thought I would need to worry about. Who would cut my hair? My Asian hair is a bit funky where it is similar to Wolverine in X-men. After a couple weeks the sides get really pointy and uncomfortable so I would go to the barber...
mtlynch.io
Building a Homelab VM Server
Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017.
For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM...
7th May 2017
Note: This article describes a VM build in 2017.
For the 2020 version, see, “Building a Homelab VM Server (2020 Edition).”
Overview I do the bulk of my home development work in virtual machines (VMs). My main desktop PC is a Windows 10 machine, so I had always run my VMs from...
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
25th Nov 2020
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
I've...
Both Are True
BATWRITE AUGUST DATES ARE LIVE
"omg this is crazy" - every big newspaper
1st Aug 2025
"omg this is crazy" - every big newspaper
I am BARRY HESS
Spell Check
I proofread everything I write. Still, there is no better spellchecker than the "publish" button.
–...
2nd Jan 2026
I proofread everything I write. Still, there is no better spellchecker than the "publish" button.
– Nick Heer via People and Blogs via The Jolly Teapot
So very much this!
As a blogger of twenty-plus years, I’ve experienced this phenomenon many, many times. That is why Pika has...
Allen Pike
We Can Do Hard Things
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business.
You see,...
30th Apr 2026
Years ago, back when I was leading a mobile dev team, my friend had an idea for a business.
You see, back then the most frustrating thing about mobile dev was the final step: getting your app on actual phones. Builds, provisioning, and code signing made for a harrowing trial,...
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
3rd Aug 2013
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations.
Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
African History...
Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca....
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Diaries of Note
He would not cease singing or feeding for an earthquake
Born in 1838 in Scotland, John Muir was 11 years old when his family moved to Fountain Lake Farm in...
1st Feb 2023
Born in 1838 in Scotland, John Muir was 11 years old when his family moved to Fountain Lake Farm in Wisconsin, USA. It was whilst growing up on that farm, now recognised as a National Historic Landmark thanks to his work, that the “Father of the National Parks” fell in love with...
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net
Background
My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
1st Mar 2021
Background
My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE
after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger
than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable.
So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro
We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing...
16th Dec 2016
We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing and iteration with artists, designers and heavy iPad users to make the very best stand for working on iPad pro.
Like a traditional drafters table, it is ultra-sturdy, widely...
Luxagraf:...
Cities of the Red Night
We swing south to Albuquerque, catching I-40 west for a few miles. The earth turns redder, with a...
6th May 2026
We swing south to Albuquerque, catching I-40 west for a few miles. The earth turns redder, with a thin frosting of green -- junipers, snakeweed, and shrubs on the mesa tops. The sky is impossibly blue, littered with tufts of white cloud.
Just before the city the oil pressure...
The Marginalian
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial...
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
2nd Mar 2023
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
Slow Boring
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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1st Feb 2026
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