Full Width [alt+shift+f] Shortcuts [alt+shift+k]
Sign Up [alt+shift+s] Log In [alt+shift+l]
Top Categories > all
#all #programming #technology #startups #history #life #science #literature #architecture #creative #design #finance #travel #comics #AI #indiehacker #cartography Muted Categories [alt+←][alt+→]
Commoncog
Putting the Jobs to be Done Interview to Practice Things we wished someone told us, before we put the JTBD interview to practice.
23 hours ago
General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
13 hours ago
charity.wtf
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff...
8 hours ago
3
8 hours ago
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pushing myself to write more lately because my co-authors and I have a whole fucking...
Trying to Understand...
The Long And The Short Of It. Or, in defence of nuance.
16 hours ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Valley Metro Light Rail and Streetcar, Phoenix, Arizona, 2025 Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says:...
15 hours ago
3
15 hours ago
Submitted by a few people—sorry for the delay in getting to this!—including Shameek, who says: Phoenix is opening the new southern light rail extension and splitting the system into two separate lines, so naturally they released a new map! I like some of the ideas in here,...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ben Goodman Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in...
6 hours ago
3
6 hours ago
Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in South Bristol where I’m lucky enough to have an old Albion Press. I’ve lived in Bristol for 18 years and love the friendly and open-minded spirit which it seems to...
Build In Public...
From Data Chaos to AI Clarity: The fileAI Story Featured: Exclusive interview with Christian Schneider, CEO of fileAI which aims to be the Stripe...
9 hours ago
nanoscale views
New updates + tetrahedra, tunneling times, and more Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find...
yesterday
4
yesterday
Here are a number of items from the past week or so that I think readers of this blog might find interesting: Essentially all the news pertaining to the US federal funding of science continues to be awful.  This article from Science summarizes the situation well, as does this...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Turns One I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the...
2 days ago
4
2 days ago
I released Logic for Programmers exactly one year ago today. It feels weird to celebrate the anniversary of something that isn't 1.0 yet, but software projects have a proud tradition of celebrating a dozen anniversaries before 1.0. I wanted to share about what's changed in the...
Passing Time
South of the Haimish Line Orienteering on the hedonic treadmill
2 days ago
Machine Learning for...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #15: Stay Married to the Problem, Not the... An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-8-25
2 days ago
This Space
The way of arrival Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes...
2 days ago
5
2 days ago
Two intellectual memoirs dominated my reading over Spring, three if WG Sebald's Silent Catastrophes can be included given that its analysis of the careers of various Austrian writers illuminates Sebald's own literary trajectory.1 Peter Brown's Journeys of a Mind: A Life in...
Steve Blank
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises...
2 days ago
10
2 days ago
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive...
Common Edge
How Will the “Big Beautiful Bill” Affect Renewable Energy Efforts? It’s a mixed bag—with some potential upsides.
2 days ago
Strange Loop Canon
The fair as an allegory
2 days ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Acer A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
3 days ago
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: Balance coaching to find new perspectives The power of mindset shifts and choice and a Tech and Tea balance coaching tool to guide you through...
3 days ago
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
3 days ago
6
3 days ago
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
BLDGBLOG
Uncontrolled Remains I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of...
3 days ago
6
3 days ago
I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical processes we neither...
One Useful Thing
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
3 days ago
The Elysian
Participatory science makes everyone a researcher So we can study the Earth at scale.
3 days ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling...
3 days ago
17
3 days ago
Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Common ROI mistakes in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket Plus some benchmark ROI numbers for you to think about
3 days ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Real Risk of AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been...
3 days ago
7
3 days ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unavoidable. It’s now a part of our daily lives as it has been steadily infiltrating the technology we use every day, whether you realize it or not. I remain somewhat in the middle in terms of the hype-to-technological-miracle spectrum. I don’t...
Escaping Flatland
On agency Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and...
3 days ago
7
3 days ago
Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly
TokyoDev
Buying a house in Karuizawa, Japan After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the...
3 days ago
11
3 days ago
After 18 months of living in Karuizawa, a resort town about an hour away from Tokyo via the Shinkansen, I have bought a house here. This article describes my experience of purchasing a house, and contains tips that are useful both if you’re considering buying in Karuizawa...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Do You Even Personalize, Bro? There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until...
4 days ago
6
4 days ago
There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until now — called Algorithms are breaking how we think. I learned of this video from Gedeon Maheux of The Iconfactory fame. Speaking in the context of why they made Tapestry, he said...
Irrational...
What can agents actually do? There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can...
4 days ago
12
4 days ago
There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
4 days ago
11
4 days ago
<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
Quentin Santos
Transistors in reverse and redundant circuits The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog...
4 days ago
5
4 days ago
The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog and the reproduced circuit, when it comes to EN: Focusing on EN, it looks like the voltage level goes back to 3.3V much faster on the ESP-Prog than on the breadboard circuit. The...
journal – Winnie Lim
first impressions of khao yai Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to...
4 days ago
8
4 days ago
Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to places where we don’t have to drive because I tend to...
Farza's Newsletter
i said arigato to fred again and he started boiling eggs for me great guy Hello! Whats up.
4 days ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is...
4 days ago
7
4 days ago
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go A footgun In Go empty interface is an interface without any methods, typed as interface{}. A zero value of interface{} is nil: var v interface{} // compiler sets this to nil, you could explicitly write = nil if v ==...
computers are bad
2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military...
4 days ago
12
4 days ago
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military telephone buttons. I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke, but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any real...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
4 days ago
4
4 days ago
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
The Honest Broker
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
5 days ago
Construction Physics
Reading List 07/05/2025 A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map...
5 days ago
9
5 days ago
A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.
the singularity is...
Are we the baddies? I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every...
5 days ago
13
5 days ago
I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves? Similarly with the tip screens, Uber algorithm, all the zero sum bullshit using all the tricks of psychology to extract a little bit more...
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
5 days ago
Global Inequality...
Nomonhan, 1939 A four-month long war between Great Powers of which you have never heard
5 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
6 days ago
12
6 days ago
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
The Marginalian
A Defense of Joy One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with...
6 days ago
8
6 days ago
One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite the abounding sorrow we barely survive but because of it, because joy — like music,...
Both Are True
the bravest thing you can do this 4th of july if america is so bold, why aren't you?
6 days ago
Classical Wisdom
The Founding Fathers and the Classics How the Ancients influenced America
6 days ago
Noahpinion
The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates.
6 days ago
Nothing Human
To all Language Models Reading This Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
6 days ago
Atoms vs Bits
The Tolix Chair: A Design That Works By Pretending To The Tolix chair was built to endure welders, storms, and salt air. Today, it endures brunch.
6 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
6 days ago
diamond geezer
What's the best thing TfL ever did? What's the best thing TfL ever did? anniversary poster series highlights several major achievements...
6 days ago
8
6 days ago
What's the best thing TfL ever did? anniversary poster series highlights several major achievements across the last 25 years, but they haven't released one for each year, not yet anyway. So I had a go at selecting annual highlights. 2000  Tramlink 2001  Bus Saver...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great Euthanasia' I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once...
6 days ago
6
6 days ago
I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once tried tallying his death-themed poems and lost count. Here’s a sample: “How to Behave When Dead,” “Symbols of Love and Death,” “In Defense of Forest Lawn,” “At the Tomb of the...
The American Scholar
America the Beautiful The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times The post America...
6 days ago
7
6 days ago
The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times The post America the Beautiful appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Artificial Gravity
6 days ago
David Heinemeier...
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
a week ago
12
a week ago
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
Flashbak
Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness For more than 60 years, Charles Van Schaick (1852-1946) worked as a photographer in the town of...
a week ago
7
a week ago
For more than 60 years, Charles Van Schaick (1852-1946) worked as a photographer in the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Opened in 1879, he took around 8,000 of glass plate negatives, of which approximately 5,700 are studio portraits. The Charles Van Schaick collection, now...
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Can’t-Miss Summer Events in Park City
a week ago
Arduino Blog
This automatic emergency braking system protects RC cars It is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly...
a week ago
10
a week ago
It is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly takes it for spin, but crashes it into a wall within five minutes and tears ensue. The automotive industry has cut down on accidents by implementing automatic emergency braking...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 4 (Penetanguishene and Beyond) I had absolutely no idea how to pronounce Penetanguishene, and I still don’t. Typing it isn’t any...
a week ago
8
a week ago
I had absolutely no idea how to pronounce Penetanguishene, and I still don’t. Typing it isn’t any easier. I had to cut-and-paste the name to make sure I got it right. Nonetheless, that’s where we pointed the car on our fourth day in Ontario, about an hour northeast of...
Artificial Ignorance
Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
a week ago
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.03 - Pokemon New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a week ago
Epic Web Dev
Another tip (tip)
a week ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Butlerian Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't believe in a fast take-off for evil AI...
a week ago
7
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't believe in a fast take-off for evil AI because it's gonna take at least a few weeks to get the human-grinders up and running. Today's News:
Contemporist...
This apartment's moving walls hide a secret bedroom Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four...
a week ago
7
a week ago
Most growing families dream of upgrading to a house when space feels tight, but one family of four in downtown Toronto chose to do the opposite. With help from Picnic Design Inc., they turned their modest 850-square-foot condo into a forever home using a pair of ingenious movable...
Quanta Magazine
How Smell Guides Our Inner World A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental...
a week ago
8
a week ago
A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain. The post How Smell Guides Our Inner World first...
IEEE Spectrum
This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types...
a week ago
14
a week ago
As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on our own projects—separate yet together, a comfortable companionship. I had never really thought of the proliferation of screens as...
The Works in...
The end of lead How a single taxi ride saved millions of lives
a week ago
Yale e360
Meta Said A.I. Could Help Tackle Warming. An Early Experiment Underwhelmed Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide,...
a week ago
6
a week ago
Last year Meta identified 135 materials that could potentially be used to draw down carbon dioxide, work it described as "groundbreaking." But when scientists tried to reproduce the results, they found that none of the materials could perform as promised and that some did not...
Retail Design Blog
Conglong restaurant by Studio8 Architects Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed...
a week ago
7
a week ago
Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed by Studio8 Architects. Drawing...
Rest of World -...
Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical The country recently announced its national data center policy, despite worries that new investments...
a week ago
Seth's Blog
Which shelf is yours? A friend sorts his records in an interesting way: not by name or genre, but by which musicians are...
a week ago
8
a week ago
A friend sorts his records in an interesting way: not by name or genre, but by which musicians are friends with each other. That means some shelves are very crowded, and I’m imagining a few notorious artists have plenty of room all to themselves. It’s possible that we sort the...
Open Culture
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, a Reddit user posed the question to Neil deGrasse...
a week ago
8
a week ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, a Reddit user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?” Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Revolutionary War
a week ago
The Ruffian
Podcast: How To Get The Most Out of LLMs Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
a week ago
History Today Feed
Swahili on the Road Swahili on the Road JamesHoare Thu, 07/03/2025 - 08:00
a week ago
TheCollector
Meet Osiris, the Egyptian God Who Ruled the Afterlife (Myth & Facts) Osiris is best known as the god of the dead in ancient Egyptian religion, as the afterlife was...
a week ago
6
a week ago
Osiris is best known as the god of the dead in ancient Egyptian religion, as the afterlife was created for Osiris after he was killed by his brother Set, and he enabled others to join him in eternal life. But Osiris is also connected to many other important aspects of ancient...
Wuthering...
What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught. My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult...
a week ago
14
a week ago
My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult books in French, and accidentally read several grim, sad, violent books, alongside some playful nonsense.   FICTION The Field of Life and Death (1935), Xiao Hong – For example.  Ninety...
Patterns in Humanity
The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
a week ago
Tony Finch's blog
clamp / median / range Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison...
a week ago
11
a week ago
Here are a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators. comparison style clamp style clamp is median clamp in range range style style clash? comparison style Some languages such as BCPL, Icon, Python have chained comparison operators, like if...
mtlynch.io
goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard...
a week ago
13
a week ago
I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about thousands of their customers, including their full names, mailing addresses, email...
elementary Blog
Supporting Disability Is Our Social Responsibility July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled...
a week ago
11
a week ago
July is Disability Pride Month, an opportunity for us to consider how we’re serving our disabled community and work on breaking down barriers to access. Last year we had the pleasure of being introduced to Florian—a fully blind cybersecurity enthusiast—and thanks to his feedback...
99% Invisible
Open Borders A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it....
a week ago
12
a week ago
A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinement. And borders as they exist today – which is to say, increasingly militarized...
Diaries of Note
Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement,...
a week ago
11
a week ago
A diary is a rare thing: an unfiltered space where a person can meet themselves without judgement, without audience, and (for most, at least) without performance. In an age of constant sharing and curated lives, the diary remains stubbornly private, gloriously unedited. It offers...
Citation Needed
Issue 87 – SO ORDERED Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders,...
a week ago
10
a week ago
Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
High Signal
What is a B2B SaaS? How these software companies make money B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers....
a week ago
11
a week ago
B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers. SaaS is delivered over the internet so users do not have to download any software.
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in...
a week ago
10
a week ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] There’s a new trend in high-rise building design. Maybe you’ve seen this in your city. The best lots are all taken, so developers are stretching the limits to make use of space that isn’t always ideal for...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Digital hygiene: Emails Email is your most important online account, so keep it clean.
a week ago
Alice GG
Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
a week ago
13
a week ago
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
./techtipsy
From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
a week ago
15
a week ago
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...