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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I love the periodic table of...
7 hours ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I love the periodic table of the elements. I love it because it reveals the deeper order of what seems like an otherwise wildly disparate collection of atoms with different physical forms, chemical properties,...
alexwlchan
Abusing ID3 chapters to turn videos into glanceable podcasts
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my...
11 hours ago
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I like how they fit around other tasks. I press play, lock my phone, and put it down.
I’m free to wash the dishes, fold the laundry, or shop for groceries.
Unfortunately, more and more information is only published as a video. Technical talks,...
Patrick Kayongo
AI Isn’t Replacing Open Source
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open...
18 hours ago
Andrew Baker, the current Group CIO at Capitec Bank wrote an interesting piece on AI and open source, and how these tools that generate code according to one’s specification may replace the general reliance on open source implementations done by contributors around the world. I’d...
Seán Barry
AI and Existential Dread
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
yesterday
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think it's a farce and others think we face extinction. Here are my thoughts.
Johnathan Bi:...
Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare
1.
yesterday
AI as Normal...
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
yesterday
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
Global Inequality...
Three types of literature regarding the world of AI
Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
yesterday
Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
Arnaud Bertrand
The most important AI story in the world is happening in a place you’ve never heard of
Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5...
yesterday
Have you ever heard of Ulanqab prefecture, a small (by China’s standards) jurisdiction of 1.5 million people lost in the middle of the Inner Mongolian steppe?
charity.wtf
Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
yesterday
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
Maggie Appleton
Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with...
yesterday
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
Charles Chen
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
2 days ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
Old Vintage...
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces!
precious bodily...
2 days ago
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces!
precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...
Seldo.com
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
2 days ago
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce.
I use functions like map...
2 days ago
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce.
I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter.
I...
The Universe of...
George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four
Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which
was being deaccessioned from...
3 days ago
Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which
was being deaccessioned from the library. It opens with a short but
fascinating essay on
,
published 19 October 1945.
It seems clear that Orwell's thinking about this development led
directly to his novel ,...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
3 days ago
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards.
Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems
with numerical stability.
This...
AI for Software...
AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
3 days ago
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
sancho.dev
What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
3 days ago
What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
matduggan.com
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
4 days ago
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
Jonas Hietala
Super ultrawide Niri
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns.
After having used practically the same xmonad...
4 days ago
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns.
After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri.
It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...
Balancing Act
Divorced from reality
Fundamentals will matter
5 days ago
Scope of Work
Tuesday
My breathing was a constant problem.
5 days ago
My breathing was a constant problem.
Kagi Blog
Kagi Translate is back
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
5 days ago
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
Farnam Street
Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making,...
5 days ago
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more...
Escaping Flatland
Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens
If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
5 days ago
If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
CrimethInc.
Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview
Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into...
6 days ago
Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there...
Letters of Note
I AM NOW ON CLOUD 9,000
An Elvis fan writes to her idol
6 days ago
An Elvis fan writes to her idol
Obsolete Sony’s...
Introducing PSPMAN
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
6 days ago
A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
Laetitia@Work
The craftsmanship revival we kept predicting might finally be real
Laetitia@Work #104
6 days ago
somethingaboutmaps
GenAI for the Static Cartographer
It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments...
a week ago
It’s finally time for me to write something about generative AI. While I’ve made occasional comments on social media, I haven’t spoken in any detail. I touched on some colleagues’ genAI work in a recent blog post, but my focus wasn’t really on genAI itself — it was how and where...
anderegg.ca
The Talk Show Timeline
I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while...
a week ago
I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while since it was in my feed. I decided to chart previous episode dates to check some of my assumptions about release frequency.
Cutting to the chase, here’s a link to The Talk Show...
Scarlet Ink
Your Career Isn't a Meritocracy. It's a Trustocracy.
Trustocracy sounds funny, but it's a more accurate representation of how we're measured. We aren't...
a week ago
Trustocracy sounds funny, but it's a more accurate representation of how we're measured. We aren't (and can't) be measured objectively on what we accomplish at work. But we are (unavoidably) measured by the trust we've built with our co-workers.
Never Met a Science
The Discipline and the Discipline
at the intersection of art and social science
a week ago
at the intersection of art and social science
Weighty Thoughts
Why Is AI Bad at Writing?
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
a week ago
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
The personal website...
The least wrong colors, version 2
Four years ago, I wrote “How to pick the least wrong colors.” The gist is: picking a categorical...
a week ago
Four years ago, I wrote “How to pick the least wrong colors.” The gist is: picking a categorical color palette is an optimization problem. There’s no such thing as the right colors. But if you use the right cost function, and the right kind of hill climbing, you can at least get...
Craig Mod — Writer +...
[RIDGELINE] A Few London Strolls
Ridgeline subscribers —
For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little...
a week ago
Ridgeline subscribers —
For the last ten days I’ve been walking around London. Mostly in a little corner of it in the northeast part of the city. But can you even call a part a “corner” when the city extends in every direction without stopping? Whatever you call it, I’ve been in...
Salish Wolf
#94 Jay St. Charles on Project Quiver
Jay St. Charles is a legendary bowyer based in Fall City, Washington. While
he was born into the...
a week ago
Jay St. Charles is a legendary bowyer based in Fall City, Washington. While
he was born into the world of archery and grew up in his father’s archery
shop, Jay eventually became a master bowyer, carving bows under the brand
of Pacific Yew Longbows. He lives on a small...
Software and Tech...
Clickable whitespace
It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I...
a week ago
It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I can disagree with the choices my employer makes. In fact, I can walk away. But I remember the dilemma I felt I was in, earlier in my career.
The lead developer stood behind me...
WHAT'S ANU
🔗 SIGNAL SCAN :: 9.7.26
+ A Crisis of Fashion
a week ago
weird medieval guys
My favourite etymologies: the dog days of summer
Let’s get canicular
a week ago
GeoCurrents
Average Annual Precipitation by Country Mapped
As noted in the previous GeoCurrents post on the “deserts” of Colombia, Colombia is usually...
a week ago
As noted in the previous GeoCurrents post on the “deserts” of Colombia, Colombia is usually considered to be the world’s rainiest country, receiving some 127 inches (3249 mm) of precipitation annually, averaged over the entire country. Learning this fact inspired me to make a map...
Raptitude.com
How to Outlive Your Bucket List
When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die — feels like you’re...
a week ago
When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die — feels like you’re choosing prizes that will arrive in the mail later. I’ll take fluency in Italian, please, a 300-lb bench press, and a swim in the Nile. I’ll definitely want to drive a Ferrari on...
Sean Carroll
367 | Jared Diamond on the Course of History and the Role of Leaders
The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of...
a week ago
The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people, […]
Cal Newport
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
a week ago
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more
The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
Butler's Log
Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
a week ago
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People
Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which...
a week ago
Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which you were raised — and will impact your ability to gain traction.
In episode 44 of Traction Heroes, Harry read a short segment from Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the...
Product Identity
Mountains of work
This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche...
a week ago
This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche design.
Better than Random
Industry roundup #13
When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
a week ago
When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
Awkward Zombie
Awkward Zombie - Winging It
New comic!
Today's News:
She loves it. It's good for her.
a week ago
New comic!
Today's News:
She loves it. It's good for her.
Naz Hamid • Journal
SF Zine Fest 2026
The antithesis of slop.
It's been a few years since I'd attended the SF Zine Fest. Friend Scott Boms...
a week ago
The antithesis of slop.
It's been a few years since I'd attended the SF Zine Fest. Friend Scott Boms had a table with his Matter Editions wares, and it's a 10-minute walk from home, so Jen and I had to go.
Held at The Hibernia, it was a treat to actually go into this historic...
Solving the decision...
the appeal
what does the creator owe you
a week ago
what does the creator owe you
UX Collective
When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a week ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Twenty Times Faster
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
a week ago
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
Spoon & Tamago
Tokyo is Gearing Up for an Art-Filled Fall. And the Entire City is Here for It
They say autumn is the season for art. In Japan, fall symbolizes freshness and new endeavors. The...
a week ago
They say autumn is the season for art. In Japan, fall symbolizes freshness and new endeavors. The season’s clearer skies and brighter moons gives renewed enthusiasm to encounter artistic inspiration. And the entire city of Tokyo is not only here for it, but sponsoring it. From...
African History...
The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
a week ago
Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
Quantum Frontiers
How can objects interact without touching?
Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is? The...
a week ago
Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is? The electric field is the foundation of most technologies that we rely on every day. From power grids and electronic devices to radio communication and the … Continue reading →
Quentin Santos
My first PCB: AIC3204 eval board
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the...
a week ago
I had some fun with the Adafruit TLV320DAC3100. This is a small board built around the (TLV320)DAC3100 audio chip. “DAC” stands for “Digital-to-Analog Conversion”; that is, it takes some audio signal (here, I²S) and converts it to the analog equivalent (differential for speakers,...
somenice
Player Trading Cards were the original Blind-Box
Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other...
a week ago
Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other hand have that little map that tells you what each one has inside. So you can avoid the orange ones, anyway… When I came across a couple bags of old hockey cards at a thrift […]
matt.sh
agent-shell: your output, your storage
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
a week ago
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one
thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head
or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want.
Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
nanoscale views
NSF, spending, and the end of the fiscal year
We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are...
a week ago
We are less than one month away from the end of the federal fiscal year, and traditionally there are internal deadlines for agencies to allocate their final spending by around September 9. Right now, the NSF is on track to issue about 4000 fewer (!!) awards in FY26 than it did...
The Ruffian
Why I Won’t Reply To Your AI-Generated Email
The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
a week ago
The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
Dreams of Space -...
Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have...
a week ago
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have not been able to find the book yet. There is so much here I run out of comments.
This is a translation into Russian of a 1963 Czech book. The 1963 book's title was:
Šest dnů na...
Armin Ronacher's...
Latent Powers
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay...
a week ago
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The
idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more
interesting with them? They all work quite...
computers are bad
avalanche technology
One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy,
ever-growing text...
a week ago
One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy,
ever-growing text file of topics for future articles contains a bunch of ideas
that have been there for about six years. Part of the problem is that I just
have to scroll so far up to even see them...
What To Cook
THE WHAT TO COOK SHOW: surf and turf summer fajitas
For the grand finale episode of this season of the What To Cook show, I bring you a fajita...
a week ago
For the grand finale episode of this season of the What To Cook show, I bring you a fajita feast!
We’re headed to my backyard to grill up the most delicious summer spread of hanger steak, shrimp, and veg for fajitas, plus we’ll make a creamy charred jalapeño sauce and corn on the...
Marco.org
Bob and Van
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a...
a week ago
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
benn.substack
How to find insights
Excel, still invincible!
a week ago
Xena
FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour...
a week ago
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.me platform, has formalized a complete … Continue reading →
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our...
a week ago
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at Hearts of Iron IV, which...
Jeff Geerling
Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
a week ago
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time.
I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
Probably...
New Book!
I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness...
a week ago
I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness and Tolerance. It’s a data-driven exploration of progress (or not) in public opinion and civil rights. I posted the first two chapters as an Early Access edition on LeanPub (a...
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #209
World Models, Astra 6, Fervo, Cybercab, Lettuce Robot, Space Telescope, PSI + Extra Doses
a week ago
World Models, Astra 6, Fervo, Cybercab, Lettuce Robot, Space Telescope, PSI + Extra Doses
TASTE
This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant
Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs...
a week ago
Pim Techamuanvivit left a career in Silicon Valley to become one of the most important Thai chefs working today.
The post This Is TASTE 832: Pim Techamuanvivit’s First Restaurant Job Was Opening a Now Legendary Restaurant appeared first on TASTE.
Inverted Passion
Asking agents to make money to survive
Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed...
a week ago
Recently I read The Rogue Agent Explosion Will Be Mostly Invisible and the scenario in it seemed intriguing. Essentially, the post painted a picture of how agents could go rogue if prompted with something like the following: Good morning agent 23,000. You have 10,000,000 tokens...
Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic
Hunting, p24
The post Hunting, p24 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
a week ago
The post Hunting, p24 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
Paul Cudenec
An A-Z of the modern mega-racket
[Plus audio version]
a week ago
Ink & Switch
A Morphic programming kernel
TODO
a week ago
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
a week ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The best data warehouses for developers, compared
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a...
a week ago
With most warehouses, answering a data question involves an ingestion pipeline, a dbt model, a permissions grant, and a BI dashboard. And they're all…
TokyoDev
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
a week ago
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here.
I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
Essays - Benedict...
AI, tools and transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder -
now everyone can just...
a week ago
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder -
now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and
apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people
think and where software actually comes from, and...
Construction Physics
How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
a week ago
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
wadertales
A young Oystercatcher’s first adventure
I find it amazing that, when they depart on autumn migration, juvenile waders can be faced with a...
a week ago
I find it amazing that, when they depart on autumn migration, juvenile waders can be faced with a journey of hundreds or thousands of kilometres. In the latest phase of their Oystercatcher studies in Iceland, Verónica Méndez and colleagues have been tagging young birds, just at...
Giles' blog
Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers...
a week ago
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers has been PyTorch-only since version 5
(though they say they're working to add interoperability with JAX in the future), so it
would have been tough to get them working natively with...
Conservation...
This El Niño is different. Here’s why
a week ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Reasons to Stay at The Cooper in Charleston
a week ago
Hyphen Nation
Paralyzed by the Perfect Resume
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
a week ago
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
Rare Historical...
Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
a week ago
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
Charles Petzold
Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication?
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of...
a week ago
I’m sure that some pictures are worth a thousand words, but others trigger a whole lot of puzzlement. Such was the case with the cover of a book I recently bought entitled Calculating with Tones: The Logarithmic Logic of Music: ... more ...
SOS
Clean your Mac & Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
a week ago
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible.
My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
Beijing Scroll
What the mudslide along China-Nepal border tells us about Himalayan Risk
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a...
a week ago
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
Matt Mullenweg
BM Snaps
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For...
a week ago
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer, it’s a great place to test out new gear and processes. Here’s...
Caroline Crampton
While Being A Rather Chaotic Person
The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book...
a week ago
The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book collection second.
I can feel myself becoming ever more algorithm-phobic. This is how I want everything recommended to me, these days.
I found this audio serialisation of Hiroshima,...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker : Jay Caskie
I’m Jay, a full-time printmaker originally from Canada but currently living in Cornwall. I use wood...
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I’m Jay, a full-time printmaker originally from Canada but currently living in Cornwall. I use wood engraving to create intricate and narrative landscapes that explore themes of home and solitude, and our connection with the natural world and each other.
Describe your...
Open for Business
Silence Isn't Violence
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...
a week ago
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.
Explosm.net
Comic for 2026.09.02 - Final Fantasy
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a week ago
Now and again, Geiser finds himself wondering what he really
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Skelton, p. 90)
An uncomfortable sentence there.
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High Signal
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bookbear express
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Winnie Lim
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Stat Significant
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Map of the Week
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Described as a “an absurd guide to the regular wish-it-wasn’t-so paranoia of running as a woman in the city“, the Guide to Running While Female in Central Phoenix shows what to look out for along running routes in central Phoenix.
This map is produced by Steady Hand Maps. Jen...
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Just bury your trash
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What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
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The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom
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Users parse a layout before they read its labels. Whitespace, borders, alignment, color, and motion determine what belongs together. When these cues fight the content, users attach the label, price, warning, status, or action to the wrong object. Proximity, similarity, enclosure,...
Looking Through the...
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A history of verification
Pluralistic: Daily...
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Permanent Style
The silks of Como: A reminder of the value of craft
I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as...
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I miss this. Visiting a mill is such an enjoyable, often inspiring experience, yet I don’t do it as much as I used to. Perhaps because once you’d done one worsted weaver it’s hard to justify more. But we’ve never done silk. I did go to Vann... > Read more
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Flashbak
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The American Scholar
On Returning
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The post On Returning appeared first on The American Scholar.
Marcus on AI
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
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Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
David Gerrells
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Ploum.net
I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.
"I don’t have a smartphone," is what I...
a week ago
I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.
"I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants wishing that I scan a QR code to access their...
Steve Klabnik
So, what happened to my Claude Code series?
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And...
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I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m okay with that. There’s a tremendous amount of good things…
Anil Dash
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital”...
a week ago
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.
There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a...
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Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...
Rubenerd
A boxed set of DR DOS 6!
I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write...
a week ago
I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write another of my shaggy dog posts about old computers, which I’ll never pass up the opportunity to do. Behold, our boxed copy of Digital Research DOS 6.0 from 1992:
The first OS I ever...
Krebs on Security
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more...
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A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it...
MIT News - Civil and...
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
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2 weeks ago
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
CHM
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The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling picks and shovels. At CHM Live, computer architecture pioneers Bill Dally of NVIDIA and Norm Jouppi of Google joined CHM Fellow David Patterson to discuss the modern version of...
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Hyperscale Normalization
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The Honest Broker
Wendell Berry’s Nine Rules
I pay tribute to this poet and gadfly, who left us yesterday at age 92, with an article from the...
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The Pragmatic...
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2 weeks ago
The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on
oftwominds-Charles...
The Irresistible Temptations of Centralized Power
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2 weeks ago
The only "reform" that changes our lives in a fundamentally positive way is radical decentralization via distributing centralized power.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Solar Is Booming
Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging...
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Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging milestone recently. Every way you look at it, solar is booming. This is driven primarily by the decrease in the cost of adding solar power, so let’s start there.
The Berkley Lab...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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Birchtree
1Password with an unbelievable own goal
Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
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Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
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In the last...
Herbert Lui
Falling back in love, for the right reasons
When he was a young man, Andy Buckley wanted to be an actor. After graduating from Stanford, he...
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When he was a young man, Andy Buckley wanted to be an actor. After graduating from Stanford, he moved to New York City to try to make it. He appeared in a couple of music videos, but didn’t experience much initial success otherwise. Andy pivoted, spending much of his early...
The Diff
Imperfectly Enforced Rules Create Bad Local Maxima
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Plus! Ads; Marketing; Pricing; Take Rates; SPVs
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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford
Seize the means of code production!
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Seize the means of code production!
Overcoming Bias
Modern Worries
Hope is more fragile than fear.
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Hope is more fragile than fear.
Hustle Originals
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Your gadgets are entering a safety arms race.
Don't Worry About...
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on...
2 weeks ago
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
IEEE Spectrum
Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen...
2 weeks ago
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of...
Hidden History
WW1’s Togoland Campaign
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
2 weeks ago
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
Yale E360
Suburban Sprawl Puts Western Homes at Risk from Wildfires
Recent fires in Spokane, Washington, and Reno, Nevada, illustrate the risks from suburban sprawl,...
2 weeks ago
Recent fires in Spokane, Washington, and Reno, Nevada, illustrate the risks from suburban sprawl, experts say. In both cities, encroaching flames burned homes built at the edge of wilderness.
Read more on E360 →
Jeffrey Zeldman...
Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools
I.
In the early 2000s, an old friend with a new business wanted me to design his website, but his...
2 weeks ago
I.
In the early 2000s, an old friend with a new business wanted me to design his website, but his partner balked:
“I can get two websites made in India for half the price,” the partner said.
“Sounds like you should do that,” I replied, ending the negotiation.
Rude fools were...
Mazdak
Apple has a new CEO. Now comes the hard part.
September is here, and there’s actually quite a bit going on.
2 weeks ago
September is here, and there’s actually quite a bit going on.
Common Edge
How Does Architectural Knowledge Get Passed On in the AI Office?
Technology may reduce production hours, but that lengthier process has been a crucial learning time...
2 weeks ago
Technology may reduce production hours, but that lengthier process has been a crucial learning time for younger professionals.
Arduino Blog
From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor
For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure,...
2 weeks ago
For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure, proprietary systems, and steep learning curves. That’s changing – fast. Foundation models powerful enough to run at the edge are turning natural language into machine control, and the...
Uncharted...
Should We Eradicate Mosquitoes?
They kill us and bother us, but is that enough to eradicate them, or their role in the environment...
2 weeks ago
They kill us and bother us, but is that enough to eradicate them, or their role in the environment is too important?
Atoms vs Bits
A Few Ways to Introduce Advanced Vocabulary into Your Child’s Life
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Let patients control their prescriptions | Out-Of-Pocket
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Old Structures...
The Astor Building 2
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
2 weeks ago
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor Building”… Unlike my previous dive into the construction photos of the Equitable Trust Building on Broad Street, the main sequence photos here (which are numbered and dated) begin...
Slow Boring
Republicans have a big midterm cash advantage
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
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Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
Stratechery by Ben...
Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face
Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company...
2 weeks ago
Nvidia's earnings were remarking and boring — two sides of the same coin. Everything the company does is about avoiding a consolidated world.
The Quanta Podcast
How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
If you are well rested and full, your brain tells you that a bruised overripe apple is a piece of...
2 weeks ago
If you are well rested and full, your brain tells you that a bruised overripe apple is a piece of subpar fruit to be passed over. However, if you are exhausted and hungry, an overripe apple is categorized as much-needed food. But how is the brain able to categorize that same...
Seth's Blog
Apophenia cuts both ways
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or...
2 weeks ago
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. And one thing we do is turn co-incident events into more than coincidences. When we see faces and shapes in...
Cremieux Recueil
The Great Permitting Downturn and Your Rent
Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
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Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
Londonist
Open House London 2026: The Best New Buildings To Visit
Use this filter to find new additions.
2 weeks ago
Use this filter to find new additions.
Vittles
Who is Paying for All of This?
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi....
2 weeks ago
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi. Collage by Cold War Steve
Maps Mania
The Coffee Barista's Maps
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my...
2 weeks ago
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my favourite bean, Finca La Bolsa, has been out of season and unavailable from my local roasters. I've therefore been using the opportunity to experiment with beans from different...
Astral Codex Ten
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lcamtuf’s thing
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Journal of Negative Results
Sherman's Food...
Hamono Sushi
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered...
2 weeks ago
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered Nimblefish and Nodoguro, however after reading up on Reddit, we narrowed in on Hamono Sushi in Downtown Portland. Besides the Omakase course, the one thing that makes Hamono...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for August 2026
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of August.
Wiki, updated various sections in solar cooking experiment.
Donsol, putting some final touches to the new release.
Hakum, completed Recharge.
Rabbit Waves, added an image for...
diamond geezer
Belated transport news
Belated transport news
I missed reporting on several transport stories while I was away so here's a...
2 weeks ago
Belated transport news
I missed reporting on several transport stories while I was away so here's a brief catch-up.
🚦 This Saturday the gyratory at St Paul's is being tweaked. The southern end of King Edward Street is being pedestrianised (to create Greyfriars Square) so...
Anecdotal Evidence
'On the Plains of Poland'
On August 23, 1939, Hitler
and Stalin agreed to the secret non-aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact....
2 weeks ago
On August 23, 1939, Hitler
and Stalin agreed to the secret non-aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Germans
invaded Poland from the west nine days later, on September 1, 1939. On
September 17, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. The battle was over,
Poland subdued, by...
TheCollector
Sufi Rituals, Papal Editcs, and Other Fascinating Facts About the History of Coffee
According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day...
2 weeks ago
According to the National Coffee Association, about two-thirds of adult Americans start their day with a cup of that precious beverage: coffee. There is something special about its bitter flavor and potent aroma that stimulates the mind and the senses. It is estimated that around...
Least I Could Do
Paved with good intentions
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bitCards
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Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
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Just bury your trash
What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
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What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
Noahpinion
Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The...
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Caitlin’s Newsletter
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel
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Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
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Platformer
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
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The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
Archinect
Supreme Court allows Trump's White House ballroom construction to continue
This just in: The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed construction of Trump's $400 million White House...
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This just in: The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed construction of Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project to proceed indefinitely while legal challenges continue. In a 5–4 decision, the court blocked lower-court rulings that would have paused the aboveground portion of...
Tom MacWright
Recently
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.
For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was...
James Vaughan's blog
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Asterisk
After Work, We’ll Have Each Other
Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic.
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Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic.
Applied Cartography
Everybody Wants Some!!
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
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The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that status in order to try to convey what makes filmmaking uniquely magical: a sense of shared enchantment between the audience and the director, and the ecstasy of the latter pulling a...
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Dashboard and Archives downtime
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Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
Philip Ilic Thomas
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Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York....
2 weeks ago
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I am up to. What I did in August I moved back to New York. I have been busy bouncing between hotels and touring potential homes. I visited Copenhagen for an event at noma.
Coding Horror
You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
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About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely take speaking engagements, especially international ones, but this one arrived at just the right time, the right place, and with the right person – I said yes, on the...
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Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts
and experiments.1
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rather than the Shuttle's main...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware July 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
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The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
videah.net
The fresh new videah.net
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Laetitia@Work
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Least I Could Do
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I made a game with AI
Sharing a fun experiment I created recently: a top-down shooter game built with AI!
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Sharing a fun experiment I created recently: a top-down shooter game built with AI!
Stephen Diehl
The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now
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I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. It was also...
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This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000...
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This week I had the wonderful message from WordPress that my blog has now had more than 500,000 views, from over 120 countries. When I started the blog more than a decade ago I had no expectation that anyone would read the posts, so thank you to everyone for your support. As you...
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