Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
16 hours ago
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
21 hours ago
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Screen Readers (article)
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
13 hours ago
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown...
18 hours ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown San Antonio, Texas, where crews have just finished setting up this massive 650-ton crane. The counterweights are on. The outriggers are down. And the jib, an extension for the...
Both Are True
2025 recap
what a year it's been
19 hours ago
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
17 hours ago
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
15 hours ago
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good:
Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
Escaping Flatland
Bring everything into the conversation layer
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that...
15 hours ago
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of each other. The richer the conversation becomes, the more this Otherness can be expressed and explored.
Commoncog
The 2024 Commoncog Recap
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
6 hours ago
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
5 hours ago
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
16 minutes ago
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
After each...
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
30 minutes ago
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
The History of the...
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
yesterday
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.
The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
FIRE v London
Dec ’24 – 2024 in review
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024....
yesterday
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024. I’ll follow the 7 point approach I’ve used for the last few years, starting with the wider market context. Q1 How did markets do? December saw falls across most asset classes –...
Coding Horror
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the...
yesterday
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
yesterday
Trump as a tool of history
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...
2 days ago
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?...
The Rational Walk
A Quarter Century of Investing
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance...
2 days ago
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance statistics.
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
2 days ago
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Meta Swallows the Slop
Plus: Elon's alter ego and Autistic Stew
2 days ago
Plus: Elon's alter ego and Autistic Stew
Passing Time
Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
2 days ago
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
2 days ago
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems...
2 days ago
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps...
NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
2 days ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
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...
2 days ago
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...
Scarlet Ink
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a...
2 days ago
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a manager is to focus on the value hidden behind the piles of work.
Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
2 days ago
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
UX Collective
Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Rest of World -...
YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
2 days ago
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
2 days ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
2 days ago
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
2 days ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been...
3 days ago
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working
on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many
smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly.
Let's...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
3 days ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
3 days ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
3 days ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
Cheese and Biscuits
Vatavaran, Knightsbridge
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners'...
3 days ago
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibilities of modern Indian fine dining. Now, I'm sure Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, 2001), Sriram Aylur (Quilon, 1999) and Cyrus Todiwala (Café...
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
3 days ago
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
3 days ago
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy:
see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Wuthering...
The books I read in December 2024 - From her earliest youth she had discovered a fondness for...
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness...
3 days ago
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
(5th-13th cent.), tr. David Hinton – The teenagers in The Story of the Stone
play various games based on their memorization of massive amounts of...
somenice
CircuitPython in 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
3 days ago
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
Jonas Hietala
2024 in review
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this...
3 days ago
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this year!
My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive.
If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories...
3 days ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port
video, because they often fail to
address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network
cabling. Well, I...
The Marginalian
Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater,...
4 days ago
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and...
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4 days ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
nanoscale views
This week in the arXiv: quantum geometry, fluid momentum "tunneling", and pasta sauce
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098...
4 days ago
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098 - J. Yu et al., "Quantum geometry in quantum materials" - I hope to write up something about quantum geometry soon, but I wanted to point out this nice review even if I haven't...
The Honest Broker
The Parable of Anna Akhmatova
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
4 days ago
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
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...
4 days ago
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...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
4 days ago
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
4 days ago
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task.
I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts.
Each...
The Ruffian
How - and Why - To Read...
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
4 days ago
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
Mazdak
Meta's Fake AI Profiles, the TikTok Ban, Telegram Updates, and Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Investment...
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
4 days ago
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
Probably...
Confidence In the Press
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
4 days ago
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...
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
5 days ago
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
5 days ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project
Just say no to LM741.
5 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 days ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Classical Wisdom
Cicero and Leadership
Philosophy in Action?
5 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
January 3, 2025.
5 days ago
Archinect - Features
Architecture Community 2025 Predictions: Adaptive Reuse, Housing Failures, Diversity Efforts,...
Happy New Year! As we conclude Archinect's 2024 Year in Review highlights, we turn our attention to...
5 days ago
Happy New Year! As we conclude Archinect's 2024 Year in Review highlights, we turn our attention to the fresh possibilities of 2025.
We asked our community of architects, designers, landscape architects, academics, AEC economists, industry experts, preservation advocates, and...
Darek Kay
Grab browser links and titles in one click
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
5 days ago
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
Blog - Bitfield...
The magic function
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a...
5 days ago
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic
function” approach.
Paul Cudenec
The British population is under attack
The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions...
5 days ago
The illusion that their government has their best interests at heart is rapidly fading for millions of people in Britain, particularly since the arrival in power of Keir Starmer, longstanding member of the criminocrats’ Trilateral Commission and ardent proponent of their chilling...
Wrong Side of...
Truth in the old myths
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
5 days ago
On Troy, King Arthur and the Flood of Noah
The Convivial...
The Cat in the Tree: Why AI Content Leaves Us Cold
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
5 days ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
5 days ago
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and
Dragons campaign.
It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it!
The setting
After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
Atoms vs Bits
Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE?
In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism...
6 days ago
In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism within just a few days.
The Cybertruck bombing, in particular, is notable because the alleged perpetrator was in the US Army special forces. This suggests two things about him:
He...
Citation Needed
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part...
6 days ago
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
There are two types...
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on...
6 days ago
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
Stat Significant
6 Reasons to Be (Cautiously) Optimistic About Movies in 2025: A Statistical Analysis
Six reasons to be optimistic about the film industry.
6 days ago
Six reasons to be optimistic about the film industry.
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: January 2025
Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
6 days ago
Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
The Diff
In Credit Underwriting, Better is Worse
Plus! IRR; Structure; Financial Epiphytes; Shale; Weakening the Cartel
6 days ago
Plus! IRR; Structure; Financial Epiphytes; Shale; Weakening the Cartel
Math Is Still...
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
6 days ago
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
The post Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life first appeared...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of...
6 days ago
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of the three core strategy refinement techniques,
this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least.
Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
highlights how...
Flashbak
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York...
6 days ago
“Every day was like being in a scene from a movie set in the city” – George Wright In ‘New York 1978’, British photographer George Wright shows us the city. Having trained as a graphic design at London’s Wimbledon School of Art in the early 1970s, Wright took a class taught...
Unfiltered by Tim...
How To Make Enough Money to Retire in the Next 5 Years
It isn’t obvious, despite the hype.
6 days ago
It isn’t obvious, despite the hype.
Retail Design Blog
LIGHT UP COFFEE by Spicy Architects
The Extraordinary within the Ordinary LIGHT UP COFFEE Shimokitazawa was originally a first floor...
6 days ago
The Extraordinary within the Ordinary LIGHT UP COFFEE Shimokitazawa was originally a first floor two-seat cafe and coffee roastery, with...
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
6 days ago
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:09
Seth's Blog
Winging it
Tech and culture have enabled a new sort of informality. Not simply the end of suits and ties and...
6 days ago
Tech and culture have enabled a new sort of informality. Not simply the end of suits and ties and heels at work, but the office itself is fading away. But there’s a difference between being informal and being in such a hurry to get to the next thing that we don’t take this thing...
Noahpinion
The Players on the Eve of Destruction
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
6 days ago
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931)
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
6 days ago
On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Curiosity'
Someone is
forever rediscovering the novels of Dawn Powell. Just this week I reread My Home Is Far...
6 days ago
Someone is
forever rediscovering the novels of Dawn Powell. Just this week I reread My Home Is Far Away (1944), one of her “Ohio
novels.” Here she describes children out after dark in the winter in a small
town. I choose it because it is typical of Powell’s prose, not a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Date me
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
6 days ago
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
The American Scholar
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of...
6 days ago
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
The post The Weight of a Stone appeared first on The American Scholar.
Handprinted - Blog
Projects for the Year Ahead
Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you...
6 days ago
Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you just need a boost of inspiration? We've put together some projects to get you going for the year ahead.
Introduction to Linocut
Did you get some new tools for Christmas and you'd...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
6 days ago
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
Lighthouse Blog
Improvements and fixes: December 2024
6 days ago
DYNOMIGHT
Why I’m skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing
The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies...
6 days ago
The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies must be paid at least $32.50 per hour.
Now, if you’re a hardcore libertarian, then you probably hate the minimum wage. You already disagree with this policy, so you need no convincing...
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
6 days ago
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution.
We store different kinds of information on S3,...
Mind Mine
on trading potential for something actual
just make a choice
a week ago
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI
With a review of last year’s predictions
a week ago
With a review of last year’s predictions
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...
a week ago
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...
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Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
a week ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
Contemporist...
A Dark Brick Exterior For A Home Surrounded By Trees
Scott Posno Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Vancouver, Canada, that...
a week ago
Scott Posno Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Vancouver, Canada, that showcases a dark brick exterior.
Astral Codex Ten
H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens
a week ago
Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens
Ralph Ammer
Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good?
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t...
a week ago
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t just having a bad day. The question—Are humans fundamentally good or bad?—is a major fork in the road. How you answer this question profoundly impacts your morals and how you live...
Map of the Week
Fastest Growing and Shrinking Cities
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023...
a week ago
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023 data.
The map appears on Visual Capitalist and the data is only for the city populations, it does not reflect the overall metropolitan areas. The top seven population gainers are...
Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024
The top 5 articles and resources
a week ago
The top 5 articles and resources
diamond geezer
2025 anniversary quiz
2025 anniversary quiz
a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes
b) reigned Jan 1725...
a week ago
2025 anniversary quiz
a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes
b) reigned Jan 1725 (300 years): a Great empress
c) written Jan 1775 (250 years): a comedy of errors
d) buffered Feb 1975 (50 years): City crash
e) reigned Mar 1625 (400 years): lost his head
f) born...
The Elysian
Social Development > Self-Development
We need one much more than the other.
a week ago
We need one much more than the other.
TheCollector
10 Zany Facts About Benjamin Franklin You Probably Didn’t Know
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a week ago
Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
a week ago
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Explorations of an...
2024 (Part 2 of 2)
June and July
I always sound like a broken record each year when discussing June and July. I was...
a week ago
June and July
I always sound like a broken record each year when discussing June and July. I was fortunate to have a lot of field work in 2024 which kept me occupied for most of these two months. But it's one of the best jobs in the world as I spend each and every day outside,...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a week ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Made in 2024
Here are some things I made in 2024:
Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature):
...
a week ago
Here are some things I made in 2024:
Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature):
Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging)
Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
a week ago
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary
painfully quick thoughts about AI
a week ago
painfully quick thoughts about AI
Nothing Human
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
a week ago
the actually scary thing about social media
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
a week ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
a week ago
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
a week ago
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
journal – Winnie Lim
looking back at 2024
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the...
a week ago
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the last minute, but every year I fail to do so. Next year,...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2024
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it...
a week ago
The ware for December 2024 is shown below. This one should be a cakewalk, and I’m mostly sharing it because I had trouble searching for a recent example at an image quality sufficient to make out most of the part numbers. Maybe this can help someone else in a similar fix! Warm...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
a week ago
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2024
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
a week ago
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Inverted Passion
2024 wrapped
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
a week ago
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing…
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