Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
23 hours ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
18 hours ago
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years,...
21 hours ago
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
23 hours ago
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
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The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best...
17 hours ago
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best books, really, in translations
by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My
“best book of the year” answer will never be interesting. America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere
on...
SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
19 hours ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
20 hours ago
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
dthompson
Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke...
5 hours ago
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December.
It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of
instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed...
Castles in the Sky
How I Make Room for the Year
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
yesterday
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
yesterday
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
yesterday
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
yesterday
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
yesterday
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows
January 17, 2025.
yesterday
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
yesterday
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file:
$ randline < /usr/share/dict/words
ultraluxurious
$ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words
unexceptionably
baselessness
salinity
There are lots of tools that solve...
Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
yesterday
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
yesterday
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
2 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
2 days ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids?
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
2 days ago
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
escape the algorithm
So you want to escape the algorithm
A primer
2 days ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
2 days ago
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any...
2 days ago
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any engineering organizations.
I imagine that they, reading through the
steps to build engineering strategy,
or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership,
are not impressed....
Handprinted - Blog
Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process,...
2 days ago
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process, and material experimentation. I specialise in etching, lithography and woodcut, and alongside my studio practice, my career as a printmaking technician and tutor intertwines with...
Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
2 days ago
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Noahpinion
The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
2 days ago
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Society's Backend
Call of Duty has a data science problem
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
2 days ago
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
lcamtuf’s thing
Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in...
2 days ago
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in reality.
DYNOMIGHT
I am offering mentoring
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d...
2 days ago
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
How will it work?
We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
mtlynch.io
Overcoming Gotchas in Samsung Secure Erase
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them,...
2 days ago
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them, as Samsung Magician software is terrible.
Here are my notes for overcoming Samsung Magician’s gotchas in the process of secure erasing a Samsung SSD.
You need a Windows or MacOS...
Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
2 days ago
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor.
These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Chris Grossack's...
Where Do Those Undergraduate Divisibility Problems Come From?
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something...
2 days ago
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something similar, you’ll be shown problems of the form “prove that for
$n^6 + n^3 + 2n^2 + 2n$ is a multiple of $6$ for every $n$”… But where do
these problems come from? And have you ever...
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
3 days ago
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Bits about Money
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
3 days ago
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
The Elysian
What movement does the world need now?
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
3 days ago
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
3 days ago
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
3 days ago
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1
I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
3 days ago
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
3 days ago
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
3 days ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
3 days ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
3 days ago
It's not as hard as you think
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
3 days ago
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
3 days ago
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
3 days ago
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
4 days ago
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
The Marginalian
The Countercultural Sanity of the Irrational: Pioneering Psychiatrist Otto Rank on the Blind Spots...
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge:...
4 days ago
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason. Western civilization, with its structural bias...
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
4 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
4 days ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
4 days 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...
Uncharted...
Where to Build 10 New Cities in the US, Part 1
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
4 days ago
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
Rest of World -...
Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive...
4 days ago
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Normalize Being Difficult to Get a Hold Of
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
4 days ago
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
The American Scholar
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The...
4 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The American Scholar.
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....
4 days 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...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
4 days ago
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence”
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
5 days ago
The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
5 days ago
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...
Math Is Still...
Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages...
5 days ago
Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.
The post Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way....
The Diff
The Economics of Logos
Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost...
5 days ago
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Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
5 days ago
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...
Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive...
5 days ago
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning.
NeuroLogica Blog
Should the US Ban TikTok?
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would...
5 days ago
My recent article on social media has fostered good social media engagement, so I thought I would follow up with a discussion of the most urgent question regarding social media – should the US ban TikTok? The Biden administration signs into law legislation that would ban the...
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.
5 days ago
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....
5 days ago
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...
5 days ago
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.
5 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Retail Design Blog
Donut of Curiosity store
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring...
5 days ago
As the capital city of a booming economy, Jakarta has been on a roll for quite some time, featuring a...
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
5 days ago
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
History Today Feed
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
5 days ago
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be...
5 days ago
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be amused.Whippet
Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both
are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked
list. Allocation fills the...
Commoncog
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented...
5 days ago
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.
Open Culture
Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana: Watch Their 1988 Performance Recorded in a Radio Shack
Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the...
5 days ago
Here’s a strange home video of Nirvana when they were unknown, playing inside a Radio Shack in the band’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. The video was recorded on the evening of January 24, 1988, after the store had closed. In those days the group went by the name of Ted Ed...
Wrong Side of...
Britain's Chernobyl?
How bad will the fallout be?
5 days ago
How bad will the fallout be?
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government!
Book your tickets now!
5 days ago
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.
5 days ago
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
Christopher Butler
The Geography of Interface
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were...
5 days ago
Is there a pattern language for digital spaces?
We navigate digital spaces as if they were physical ones. We “visit” websites, “go to” pages, get “lost” in apps, and find our way “back” to where we started. These spatial metaphors are so deeply embedded in how we think about...
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
5 days ago
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...
5 days ago
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
5 days ago
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
5 days ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance.
class Post(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField()
class Event(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
created_at =...
The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
Let's make New Journalism new again
6 days ago
Let's make New Journalism new again
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...
6 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...
6 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.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly...
6 days ago
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically.
To...
Flashbak
A Trip To Butlin’s In 1982
‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry...
6 days ago
‘Our true intent is all for your delight’… – Butlin’s holiday camp motto Photographer Barry Lewis takes us on a holiday to Butlin’s Skegness in 1982. This was first ever Billy Butlin holiday camp. It opened at Skegness in 1936 – and still exists today. Lewis had worked for...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
6 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...
6 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...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Stoicism and Buddhism
6 days ago
Calculated Risk
January 12th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
6 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Maggie Appleton
Common Misconceptions in AI
Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
6 days ago
Common Misconceptions About the Complexity in Robotics vs AI by Dan Ogawa
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
6 days ago
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
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...
6 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
6 days ago
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
6 days ago
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
Seth's Blog
“That will never work”
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single...
6 days ago
Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single one… had skeptics. Someone in the writer’s room, or on the editorial board or even an investor looked at what was on offer and said, “no.” Not just, “I’m sorry, this doesn’t match...
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
6 days ago
As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282.
Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
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...
6 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.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 2
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
6 days ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 2.
Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, I tackled a small volume of early Greek poetry and the first ten books of the Odyssey. I also heard music from recent descendents of these ancient bards...
diamond geezer
Onslow Square/Osborne Square
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one...
6 days ago
45
45 Squared
2) ONSLOW SQUARE, SW7
Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 150m × 90m
Onslow Square is one of the larger examples, tucked away between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road. Turn left out of South Kensington station and you'll be there in two minutes. When Queen Victoria...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Find a Demanding Medium Liberating'
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give...
6 days ago
One can argue that the
essential purpose of art, despite what the humorless say, is to give pleasure
to its consumers. If so, I rather uncharacteristically denied myself a lot of it
by not discovering the poems of Turner Cassity until the final year of his life.
He is a poet...
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...
6 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”...
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
6 days ago
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
6 days ago
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anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
a week 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...
TheCollector
Why Are Most Female Pharaohs Unrecorded in History?
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Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
a week ago
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
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...
a week ago
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
Archinect - Features
How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects...
a week ago
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects that faithfully convey the design and atmosphere of the project ultimately constructed. As modern rendering engines offer architects unprecedented capabilities to create dynamic...
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...
a week 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...
a week 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 -...
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...
a week 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...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
a week ago
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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