Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
19 hours ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
18 hours ago
./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...
5 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...
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
26 minutes ago
It's not as hard as you think
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
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
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
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...
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,...
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
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf was steadily making the discourse so befogged with mendacity that in the grim final moment the villagers wouldn't even believe their own eyes and ears.
Today's News:
Archinect - Features
How Moshe Safdie’s Iconic Habitat 67 Was Reborn in a Virtual World
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not...
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,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
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/
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.
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
a week ago
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Stat Significant
Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
a week ago
Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
High Signal
From agency to SaaS founder - how Jules is making the change
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things...
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.
Uncharted...
The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are?
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated...
a week ago
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated ones
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025
And a review of last year's predictions.
a week ago
And a review of last year's predictions.
Math Is Still...
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be...
a week ago
It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.
The post Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. first...
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
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...
Arduino Blog
Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time...
a week ago
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform...
Common Edge
Confronting the Leviathan in Vietnam
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
a week ago
An architect’s search for clarity in a far-off land.
Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post)
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
a week ago
A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
Map of the Week
A Really Greater New York
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have...
a week ago
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have been many other plans over the years to alter the city to improve traffic flow, also to create housing and solve environmental problems. One of the most ambitious plans was this one,...
Retail Design Blog
AREMAR jewelry Showroom
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured...
a week ago
Upon entering the Aremar showroom, visitors find a refined environment of curved forms and textured surfaces, highlighted by a subtle...
IEEE Spectrum
Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d...
a week ago
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices would’ve been engineered. But that’s not the case. In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding...
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
The future belongs to them.
a week ago
The future belongs to them.
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
a week ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications decreased 3.7 percent from one
week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
Applications Survey for the week ending January 3, 2025....
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #51: Transport for London made a terrible decision and I hope they reverse it
Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions...
a week ago
Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions have a class problem,
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
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...
Infinite Scroll
Why Are So Many Online Trads Still Single?
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
a week ago
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
a week ago
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
TheCollector
What Made the Harlem Hellfighters Legendary?
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Seth's Blog
Situational spending
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in...
a week ago
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is a trap that seduces us into forgetting that time passes and debt (or assets) remain. A couple about to wed might not...
Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
a week ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
a week ago
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Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
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James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
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Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Screen Readers (article)
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
a week ago
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
alexwlchan
How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd`
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
a week ago
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours.
There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it.
I’ve...
Escaping Flatland
Bring everything into the conversation layer
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that...
a week ago
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of each other. The richer the conversation becomes, the more this Otherness can be expressed and explored.
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
a week ago
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
a week ago
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
David Heinemeier...
The social media censorship era is over (for now)
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
a week ago
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do:
Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X.
Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown...
a week ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown San Antonio, Texas, where crews have just finished setting up this massive 650-ton crane. The counterweights are on. The outriggers are down. And the jib, an extension for the...
Both Are True
2025 recap
what a year it's been
a week ago
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