from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance
yesterday
Warren Buffett has completed Berkshire's succession plan as he steps down as Chairman.
The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
yesterday
from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI
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Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
from The AI Underwriter [alt+shift+b] in life
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A Much Cheaper, Almost-as-Good Alternative
Another Instinct Article
It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this,...
yesterday
from Jamesin’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in startups
yesterday
It has been an insanely busy 2 weeks - and in the time it took me to have time to write this, Instinct went from raising a $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation to reportedly raising $1B at $10B.
from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life
yesterday
cohort four starts sept 28
from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming
yesterday
I owe a lot of my professional identity and success to CSS-Tricks.
CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them. In doing so, they helped to both socialize and normalize accessibility as a mainstream frontend concern. I’m deeply thankful to them for this.
The...
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
2 days ago
I would like to direct my readers’ attention to a new Substack publication by Pete Morris called Terra Cognita. Pete is a frequent GeoCurrents commentor and an insightful geographer. His introductory article in Terra Cognita is an excellent overview of the recent history of...
fibre broadband anticlimax
How can something that “just works” be so annoying?
situation
We live in Cambridge off a little road...
2 days ago
from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 days ago
How can something that “just works” be so annoying?
situation
We live in Cambridge off a little road down a drive in shared
ownership between us and our neighbouring houses. All the utilities
are buried under this drive, including the phone line.
anticipation
Over the last few...
from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology
3 days ago
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....
Impala, Soho
If you know what to look for, you can work out the restaurant lineage of Impala just from a quick...
3 days ago
from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel
3 days ago
If you know what to look for, you can work out the restaurant lineage of Impala just from a quick scan of the menu. Firstly, and most importantly, you want to try every last item - a feat frustratingly unavailable unless you're eating with at least ten of your friends. Between...
from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance
3 days ago
As a business, how do you deal with disruption — technological or otherwise? Some patterns from a collection of case studies.
from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science
4 days 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,...
from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming
4 days 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,...
from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming
4 days 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...
The Empty Heading
For many years, I have maintained a text file called “A Rubric for Website Design Critique.” It is...
4 days ago
from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design
4 days ago
For many years, I have maintained a text file called “A Rubric for Website Design Critique.” It is relatively short, but used nonetheless; I’ve returned to it, off and on, for most of my career, referring back, adding things, removing things, adjusting. Its purpose is to...
from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
4 days ago
I've mostly given up keeping up with agent trends. Every few months, I ignore all of it and ask what I'm actually getting use out of. Three things…
AI and Existential Dread
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
5 days ago
from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in AI
5 days ago
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.
from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI
5 days ago
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history
5 days ago
Economics, politics and philosophy for a new era
from Arnaud Bertrand [alt+shift+b] in history
5 days ago
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?
from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming
5 days ago
A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation
from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming
5 days ago
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming
6 days ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology
6 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...
from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology
6 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...
from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history
a week 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 ,...
from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
a week 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...
from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI
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An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming
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What Reason gives us beyond “it's just JSX”
from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
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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
Super ultrawide Niri
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns.
After having used practically the same xmonad...
a week ago
from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology
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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...
Tuesday
My breathing was a constant problem.
a week ago
from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups
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My breathing was a constant problem.
Kagi Translate is back
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription...
a week ago
from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
a week 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...
from Farnam Street [alt+shift+b] in finance
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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...
from Escaping Flatland [alt+shift+b] in literature
a week ago
If something feels wrong, it is useful to articulate very precisely why that is
from CrimethInc. [alt+shift+b] in history
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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...
from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life
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An Elvis fan writes to her idol
from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history
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A FLAC and MP3 Player for the Sony PSP by ObsoleteSony
from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography
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...
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
from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology
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...
from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life
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.
from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology
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at the intersection of art and social science
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And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design
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...
from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature
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...
from Salish Wolf [alt+shift+b] in literature
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...
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
from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology
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...
from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography
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...
from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life
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...
from Sean Carroll [alt+shift+b] in science
a week ago
The course of history is affected by many things, including the political and social situations of large groups of people, […]
from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI
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.
from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology
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.
from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology
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...
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
from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design
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This is part of a new experiment I started in an effort to document the process of making Niche design.
from Better than Random [alt+shift+b] in startups
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When "buy, don't build" stops applying to dev tools
from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics
a week ago
New comic!
Today's News:
She loves it. It's good for her.
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
from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature
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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...
from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI
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what does the creator owe you
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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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
from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology
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...
from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel
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...
from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history
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.
from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science
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 →
from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming
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,...
from somenice [alt+shift+b] in programming
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 […]
from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI
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...
from nanoscale views [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks 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...
from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life
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The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks 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...
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...
2 weeks ago
from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI
2 weeks 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...
avalanche technology
One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy,
ever-growing text...
2 weeks ago
from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks 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...
from What To Cook [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks 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...
Bob and Van
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob.
Bob and his wife were a...
2 weeks ago
from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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....
from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI
2 weeks 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 →
from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks 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...
from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks 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...
New Book!
I am working on a new book called You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness...
2 weeks ago
from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks 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...
from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative
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World Models, Astra 6, Fervo, Cybercab, Lettuce Robot, Space Telescope, PSI + Extra Doses
from TASTE [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks 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.
from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks 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...
Hunting, p24
The post Hunting, p24 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
2 weeks ago
from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics
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The post Hunting, p24 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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...
from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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…
from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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...
from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks 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...
from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks 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.
from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks 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...
from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI
2 weeks 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...
from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks ago
Those with the most to lose are often the least likely to take big swings
from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks 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...
from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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 ...
from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks 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...
from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks ago
What we know about the disaster, why it was so hard to predict, and the challenge of building a cross-border warning system
BM Snaps
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For...
2 weeks ago
from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks 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...
from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks 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,...
from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
2 weeks ago
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...
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,...
2 weeks ago
from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks 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.
from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics
2 weeks ago
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history
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The “Prostitute” Who May Have Taught Socrates
from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature
2 weeks ago
Now and again, Geiser finds himself wondering what he really
wants to know, what he hopes to gain from all this knowledge. (Man in the Holocene, Max Frisch, tr. Geoffrey
Skelton, p. 90)
An uncomfortable sentence there.
A reminder that I will return to non-Shakespeare plays...
Hatchbox price increase💰
Chris Oliver has announced the pricing of hosting on Hatchbox is going up. Hatchbox is a specialist...
2 weeks ago
from High Signal [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker
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Chris Oliver has announced the pricing of hosting on Hatchbox is going up. Hatchbox is a specialist hosting provider for web apps built with Ruby, Rails and Node.
from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance
2 weeks ago
It is undeniable technology companies have found their most hospitable setting in the United States and while there are many reasons for the US dominance of technology, easier access to capital for young businesses has been a key ingredient. Venture capital in the US, in its...
from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks ago
Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can’t solve or tolerate.
New and Old #280
Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
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from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture
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Durable homes, the return of the Walkman (?), and very rare video gaming artifacts
from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks ago
today didn't start well — i said that it is the worst anniversary we've had for the past 10 years. is it perimenopause? i've found it harder to cope with my sensitivity and she's finding it harder to cope with fatigue. yet we persisted in celebrating even though we are both...
from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative
2 weeks ago
Measuring the box-office impact of movie trailers and the cultural value that numbers can’t quite capture.
from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography
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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...
from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science
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What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology
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The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom
from Jakob Nielsen on UX [alt+shift+b] in design
2 weeks ago
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,...
from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history
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A history of verification
from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI
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Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs;...
from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design
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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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Earth Villa is part of Kaymana, a hospitality complex in Uluwatu, Bali, conceived around the ideas of solid flow, transition,...
from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history
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“If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London People were keen to fix their hair in the 1980s. Before the buzzcut became the norm for men with a thinning thatch and hair extensions for women became popular, Peter Marshall spotted high...
from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology
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And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history
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And some sacrifices along the way.
On Returning
The post On Returning appeared first on The American Scholar.
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from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature
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The post On Returning appeared first on The American Scholar.
from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI
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Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming
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from Strong Towns [alt+shift+b] in architecture
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What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature
2 weeks 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...
from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks ago
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…
from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI
2 weeks 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...
from Azad's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
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...
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...
2 weeks ago
from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks 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...
from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
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...
from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks ago
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...
from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks ago
UK News Report #8: August 2026
Hyperscale Normalization
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from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks ago
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of
from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks ago
I pay tribute to this poet and gadfly, who left us yesterday at age 92, with an article from the archive
from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming
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
from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance
2 weeks ago
The only "reform" that changes our lives in a fundamentally positive way is radical decentralization via distributing centralized power.
Presidents like to deal with the CEOs of corporate monopolies for self-evident reasons: Rather than engage in the tedious, contentious...
Solar Is Booming
Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging...
2 weeks ago
from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
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...
from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics
2 weeks ago
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from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
Andrew Lilley Brinker: 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe
Omarchy is a Linux distribution created and controlled by David Heinemeier Hansson, usually known as DHH. DHH is the founder and CTO of 37signals (formerly Basecamp) and creator of Ruby on Rails.
In the last...
from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel
2 weeks ago
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...
from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance
2 weeks ago
Plus! Ads; Marketing; Pricing; Take Rates; SPVs
from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
Seize the means of code production!
from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks ago
Hope is more fragile than fear.
from Hustle Originals [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks ago
Your gadgets are entering a safety arms race.
from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI
2 weeks ago
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science
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...
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
from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history
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...
from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in science
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 →
from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design
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...
from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance
2 weeks ago
September is here, and there’s actually quite a bit going on.
from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture
2 weeks ago
Technology may reduce production hours, but that lengthier process has been a crucial learning time for younger professionals.
from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology
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...
from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science
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?
from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
A walkthrough of how a digital prescription works and what Photon does to let patients control prescriptions themselves
The Astor Building 2
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
2 weeks ago
from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture
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...
from Slow Boring [alt+shift+b] in history
2 weeks ago
Democrats have alienated billionaires without winning back the working class.
from Stratechery by Ben Thompson [alt+shift+b] in startups
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.
from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science
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...
Apophenia cuts both ways
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or...
2 weeks ago
from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative
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...
from Cremieux Recueil [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
Renting a home is more expensive because we stopped letting people build homes
from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel
2 weeks ago
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from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life
2 weeks ago
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi. Collage by Cold War Steve
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
from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography
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...
from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Journal of Negative Results
Hamono Sushi
While trying to decide on which Omakase we were going to try while in Portland, I briefly considered...
2 weeks ago
from Sherman's Food Adventures [alt+shift+b] in life
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...
from Hundred Rabbits [alt+shift+b] in history
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...
Belated transport news
Belated transport news
I missed reporting on several transport stories while I was away so here's a...
2 weeks ago
from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel
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...
'On the Plains of Poland'
On August 23, 1939, Hitler
and Stalin agreed to the secret non-aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact....
2 weeks ago
from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature
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...
from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history
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...
from Least I Could Do [alt+shift+b] in comics
2 weeks ago
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bitCards
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
2 weeks ago
from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks ago
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution
Dinosaur Kingdom II
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
2 weeks ago
from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks ago
A theme park in Virginia depicting the battles where dinosaurs attacked the Confederate army
from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups
2 weeks ago
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture
2 weeks ago
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...
Recently
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense....
2 weeks ago
from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming
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...
from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science
2 weeks ago
Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic.
Everybody Wants Some!!
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
2 weeks ago
from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology
2 weeks ago
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...
from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on September 1st, 2026.
from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming
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.
from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming
2 weeks ago
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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