Moneyness
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
19 hours ago
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
8 hours ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
7 hours ago
GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
yesterday
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the expected number of children per woman) was 1.2. Among sovereign states, only Singapore and South Korea are ranked below China (at 1.1 and 0.9 respectively). Some sources, however, contend...
Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
yesterday
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go for a weekday lunch or early bird menu. Some of the most exciting dining spots in the country have some remarkably reasonably priced...
GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
yesterday
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time....
yesterday
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the
next step in your career.
Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
yesterday
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 —...
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
yesterday
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
yesterday
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
Scarlet Ink
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
yesterday
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
yesterday
Some thoughts about machine learning
ntietz.com blog -...
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
yesterday
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI.
And to do custom handling of it.
So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them.
But... I'm going...
Blog posts of...
Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
yesterday
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
2 days ago
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
African History...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the...
2 days ago
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
2 days ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
2 days ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's
"cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults.
However, this metaphor has three major problems.
First,
the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
2 days ago
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
2 days ago
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
A Smart Bear
The Important Thing -- powerful enough to override all your deficiencies
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a...
2 days ago
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a startup in the first place.
journal – Winnie Lim
2025: may I have an uneventful year
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to...
2 days ago
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful”...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
2 days ago
anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
3 days ago
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
Contemporist...
A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a...
3 days ago
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
Julia Evans
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person...
3 days ago
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person commented:
There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it
all came out of the box.
My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t...
macwright.com
2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
3 days ago
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial to AI
The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between
websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your
ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
Society's Backend
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
4 days ago
Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on...
4 days ago
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
4 days ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
Citation Needed
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and...
4 days ago
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
The Elysian
We're writing a better future into existence
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
4 days ago
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
4 days ago
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
4 days ago
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Blog System/5
Self-documenting Makefiles
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
4 days ago
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
lcamtuf’s thing
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
4 days ago
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Odyssey
Homer's Homecoming
4 days ago
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
4 days ago
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
Rest of World -...
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
4 days ago
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
4 days ago
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
Stephen Wolfram...
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
5 days ago
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger...
5 days ago
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia?
Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts.
Here’s Ryan Rendle in a recent piece on design...
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
5 days ago
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either.
Much was quietly revealed yesterday
5 days ago
Much was quietly revealed yesterday
CONTEMPORIST
An Intentionally Muted Yet Refined Palette Of Natural Materials For A Home In Lake Tahoe
MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe,...
5 days ago
MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe, California with an intentionally muted yet refined palette of natural materials including cedar, oak, fir, and steel, allowing the house to harmoniously blend with the surroundings....
The Diff
Moderation, Inside and Out
Plus! General-Purpose Technologies; Growth and Concentration; Cross-Platform; The Amazon Model; More...
5 days ago
Plus! General-Purpose Technologies; Growth and Concentration; Cross-Platform; The Amazon Model; More Round-Trips
NeuroLogica Blog
What Kind of Social Media Do We Want?
Recently Meta decided to end their fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. The move has been both...
5 days ago
Recently Meta decided to end their fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. The move has been both hailed and criticized. They are replacing the fact-checkers with an X-style “community notes”. Mark Zuckerberg summed up the move this way: “It means we’re going to catch less bad...
Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
5 days ago
The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
Irrational...
Service onboarding model for Uber (2014).
At the core of
Uber’s service migration strategy (2014)
is understanding the service onboarding...
5 days ago
At the core of
Uber’s service migration strategy (2014)
is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers
to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a
system model
representing that onboarding process, and exercise the model to test a number
of...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
5 days ago
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program:
Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client.
It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack.
I...
wingolog
ephemerons vs generations in whippet
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they...
5 days ago
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we
efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational
collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Secret Life of People with High Agency (It’s Simpler than You Think)
It's bizarrely good for your health too
5 days ago
It's bizarrely good for your health too
wadertales
How are migration sites connected?
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering...
5 days ago
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering locations linked? Forty-four authors have collaborated to bring together ringing, colour-ringing and GPS tracking data in a paper entitled Site-level connectivity identified from...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Julia Triay
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I...
5 days ago
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I moved to Norwich 8 years ago to study illustration. I fell in love with this fine city and made it my home. I recently quit my job to become a full time illustrator, which has been a...
Applied Cartography
January, 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining...
5 days ago
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam.
But, speaking of flotsam:
A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS
Notes on Linear and Fathom
Why...
DYNOMIGHT
Links for January
(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a...
5 days ago
(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a pond in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After returning to DC, he mentioned to some White House staffers that a large rabbit had swum towards him “hissing menacingly” and he’d had...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Habit
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf was steadily making the...
6 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf was steadily making the discourse so befogged with mendacity that in the grim final moment the villagers wouldn't even believe their own eyes and ears.
Today's News:
Archinect - Features
How Moshe Safdie’s Iconic Habitat 67 Was Reborn in a Virtual World
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not...
6 days ago
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not only of Montreal, Canada, but of architectural discourse on how modern buildings could be designed, constructed, and lived in. The structure also catapulted its young architect,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Designing a Logo
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
6 days ago
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/
The Honest Broker
Open Mic: Tell Us About Anything You Want
It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you...
6 days ago
It’s Open Mic Day at The Honest Broker. And it’s totally open today—you can talk about anything you want in the comments.
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
6 days ago
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Stat Significant
Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
6 days ago
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
6 days ago
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
Uncharted...
The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are?
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated...
6 days ago
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated ones
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025
And a review of last year's predictions.
6 days ago
And a review of last year's predictions.
Math Is Still...
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be...
6 days ago
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.
The post Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. first...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
6 days ago
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Arduino Blog
Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time...
6 days ago
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform...
Common Edge
Confronting the Leviathan in Vietnam
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
6 days ago
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post)
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
6 days ago
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
Map of the Week
A Really Greater New York
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have...
6 days ago
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have been many other plans over the years to alter the city to improve traffic flow, also to create housing and solve environmental problems. One of the most ambitious plans was this one,...
Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
6 days ago
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
IEEE Spectrum
Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d...
6 days ago
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices would’ve been engineered. But that’s not the case. In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding...
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
6 days ago
The future belongs to them.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #51: Transport for London made a terrible decision and I hope they reverse it
Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions...
6 days ago
Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions have a class problem,
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
6 days 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...
Infinite Scroll
Why Are So Many Online Trads Still Single?
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
6 days ago
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
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...
6 days 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...
Seth's Blog
Situational spending
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in...
6 days ago
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is a trap that seduces us into forgetting that time passes and debt (or assets) remain. A couple about to wed might not...
History Today Feed
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
6 days ago
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
Atoms vs Bits
Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation
Again the melody returns
6 days ago
Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
6 days ago
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
6 days ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
6 days ago
(but forgot to mention it)
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
6 days ago
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
The Ruffian
James Marriott on Neil Postman: Are We Making Ourselves Stupid?
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
6 days ago
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
Paul Cudenec
Basketball, neo-imperialism and Zionism
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
6 days ago
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Who Became Works of Art
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6 days ago
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
6 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Certain Minimum of General Knowledge'
The Oxford-based English journal Critical
Survey in 1969 published a special issue titled “Fight for...
6 days ago
The Oxford-based English journal Critical
Survey in 1969 published a special issue titled “Fight for Education: A Black Paper.” Among the contributors was Robert Conquest who a year earlier had
published his best-known and most influential book, The Great Terror, a
pioneering...
The American Scholar
Birthday Boy
The post Birthday Boy appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
The post Birthday Boy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Commoncog
The 2024 Commoncog Recap
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
6 days ago
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
Mazdak
Meta's Shifting Approach to Politics and Content Moderation
Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
6 days ago
Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: ADP Employment
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage...
6 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage purchase applications index.
ADP Employment Report for December. This report is for private payrolls only (no government). The consensus is for 143,000, down from 146,000 jobs added in...
The Marginalian
Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology
The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and...
6 days ago
The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and the printing press have not been invented. Earth is the center of the universe, encircled by heavenly bodies whose motions are ministered by angels. Most people never live past...
diamond geezer
London's Unlost Rivers 10
It's ten years today since I started a blog series called London's Unlost Rivers.
Fray's...
6 days ago
It's ten years today since I started a blog series called London's Unlost Rivers.
Fray's River
The RoxbourneEdgwarebury Brook
Deans BrookCuffley Brook
Merryhills BrookRiver Lea
The ChingThe Ravensbourne
River Roding
River Pinn
River ColneBurnt Oak Brook
Wealdstone Brook
Silk...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
6 days ago
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
mtlynch.io
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30...
6 days ago
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds.
Instead of writing Go tests like this:
// The common, unrefined way.
username := GetUser()
if username != "dummyUser" {
t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s",...
James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
6 days ago
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....
a week 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
alexwlchan
How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd`
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
a week ago
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours.
There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it.
I’ve...
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...
a week 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.
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
a week 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...
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,...
a week 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...
David Heinemeier...
The social media censorship era is over (for now)
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
a week ago
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do:
Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X.
Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
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...
a week 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
a week ago
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...
a week ago
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....
a week ago
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...
a week ago
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
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