Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
9 hours ago
It's not as hard as you think
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
23 hours 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...
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
5 hours ago
How will they turn out the lights?
./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...
14 hours 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...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
2 hours 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 hours ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
18 hours ago
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...
44 minutes 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...
an hour 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:...
an hour 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...
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
yesterday
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
yesterday
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!
yesterday
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
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...
yesterday
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....
yesterday
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...
GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
2 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...
Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
2 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...
2 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.
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.
2 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....
2 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...
2 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.
2 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
2 days ago
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
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...
2 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.
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government!
Book your tickets now!
2 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.
2 days ago
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
2 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...
2 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
2 days ago
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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
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...
3 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...
3 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
3 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...
3 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...
3 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
3 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...
4 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...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
4 days 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...
4 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.
The Ruffian
The Death of Scenius
Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
4 days ago
Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
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...
4 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...
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
4 days ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
macwright.com
2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
4 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
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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.
5 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
5 days ago
Math Is Still...
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are...
5 days ago
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unlike many of their peers.
The post The Physicist Decoding the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES
January 10, 2025.
5 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
5 days ago
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
5 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.
5 days ago
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's not-so-good club
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and...
5 days ago
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and philanthropist”.
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
5 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...
Mazdak
Google & Microsoft $1M donation to Trump inauguration fund, Microsoft job cuts, Amazon ad business...
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s...
5 days ago
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s inauguration fund.
watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos...
5 days ago
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos continues.
Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same.
As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Stephen Wolfram...
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
6 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...
Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
6 days ago
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?!
Watch on YouTube
The Marginalian
The Hot Shower as Uncommon Prayer
One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through...
6 days ago
One of the paradoxes of being alive is that it is often through the extremes of sensation, through the shock of having a body, that we come most proximate to the subtleties of the soul. Walt Whitman knew this: “If the body is not the soul,” he sang electric, “what is the soul?”...
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...
6 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
6 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
6 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,...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
6 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...
6 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...
Flashbak
Travels in the Air, 1871
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above...
6 days ago
“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above the infinite expanse of sky” – James Glaisher, Travels In The Air, 1871 Travels in the Air tells the story of balloon travel since the first ‘aerostatic’ flight by the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
6 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...
6 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
6 days ago
It's bizarrely good for your health too
Seth's Blog
The problem with marketing puffery
It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office...
6 days ago
It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office cabinet. I had a bunch of things to send out, and off they went. It turns out, who knew, that old labels stop sticking. It’s entirely possible some of my really important packages never...
History Today Feed
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
6 days ago
Hopes, Fears, and Early Modern Astrology
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 09:45
Retail Design Blog
Chocolat Du Jour
The first store of the Brazilian chocolate brand Chocolat Du Jour in the city of Goiânia introduces...
6 days ago
The first store of the Brazilian chocolate brand Chocolat Du Jour in the city of Goiânia introduces a new concept...
Noahpinion
The Taiwan posts
Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
6 days ago
Three classics from the Noahpinion archive
diamond geezer
45 squared
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot...
6 days ago
45
45 Squared
2025 = 45 × 45 = 452 which is why I'm visiting 45 of them.
n.b. I'm aware that a lot of Squares aren't actually square, more rectangular, but so long as it's called Square and approximately quadrilateral that's fine.
n.b. I won't be doing squares I've blogged about...
Open Culture
The Night When Miles Davis Opened for the Grateful Dead (1970)
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world...
6 days ago
What’s that, you ask? Did Miles Davis open for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West? In what world could such a thing happen? In the world of the late sixties/early seventies, when jazz fused with acid rock, acid rock with country, and pop culture took a long strange trip. The...
wadertales
How are migration sites connected?
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering...
6 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...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Barbarous Terms and Expressions'
One of my favorite letters
in literary history is known as “A Letter to a Young Clergyman,” written...
6 days ago
One of my favorite letters
in literary history is known as “A Letter to a Young Clergyman,” written by
Jonathan Swift in 1619-20 and published on January 9, 1721. I remembered it
recently when a young reader/writer asked me what she ought to read to help her write more plainly,...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 363.5
...
6 days ago
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...
6 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...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What makes strong engineers strong?
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
6 days ago
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Applied Cartography
January, 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining...
6 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...
6 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...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 3
Highlights
I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception.
My attempt to...
6 days ago
Highlights
I published the first chapter of my book and was happy with the reception.
My attempt to hire a book cover designer flopped.
I may have figured out how to support large files on PicoShare.
Goal grades
At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
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...
a week ago
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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...
a week 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,...
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Designing a Logo
I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo:...
a week 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/
Calculated Risk
FOMC Minutes: "The process [of reaching inflation target] could take longer than previously...
From the Fed: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, December 17–18, 2024. Excerpt:
With...
a week ago
From the Fed: Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, December 17–18, 2024. Excerpt:
With regard to the outlook for inflation, participants expected that inflation would continue to move toward 2 percent, although they noted that recent higher-than-expected readings on...
TheCollector
Archaeologists Discover 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor
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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...
a week 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.
High Signal
Living the digital nomad dream in Bangkok
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle...
a week ago
Jesse Schoberg has an enviable life as a founder working from Thailand. He enjoys a great lifestyle at a fraction of the price back in the US. I chatted to him about growing his DropInBlog business into a SaaS success story.
Why did you become a founder?
My brain doesn&
High Signal
Making $15k a month from an AI app
Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a...
a week ago
Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a Mac desktop app which lets you use LLMs straight from your Apple machine. I talked to Daniel about his tips for learning to code, how he made BoltAI and the
High Signal
From Blacksmith to $200k exit
Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses....
a week ago
Mohd went from being a blacksmith working for his father to creating his own software businesses. He's made $200k from selling NoCodeAPI.
High Signal
From client work to AI startups
Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups....
a week ago
Today's interview is with a founder who ditched client work in order to work on AI startups. Fernando makes a good living from his AI apps
High Signal
Getting rich with SEO - how Ian Nuttall does it
Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to...
a week ago
Ian Nuttall is an SEO expert who has made 7 figures from entrepreneurship. He's also using AI to advance his coding skills.
High Signal
Selling a YouTube tool for 6 figures- and what's next
Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a...
a week ago
Rox sold a YouTube A/B testing tool for 6 figures as a bootstrapped founder. Now he's building a video podcast platform.
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...
a week 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.
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...
a week 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...
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
a week 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...
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
a week ago
(but forgot to mention it)
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
a week 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.
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