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Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web

23 hours ago

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog in programming

(I present to you my stream of consciousness on the topic of casing as it applies to the web platform.) I’m reading about the new command and...

Understanding Bazel remote caching

2 hours ago

from Blog System/5 in programming

A deep dive into the Action Cache, the CAS, and the security issues that arise from using Bazel with a remote cache but without remote execution

Apologies and forgiveness

an hour ago

from Basta’s Notes in programming

The first in a series of posts about doing things the right way

Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

2 hours ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

Hello and welcome to another premium newsletter. Thanks as ever for subscribing, and please email me at ez@betteroffline.com to say hello. As I've...

Archinect City Guide: Explore Brooklyn with Quilian Riano, Dean of Pratt School of Architecture

yesterday

from Archinect - Features in architecture

Archinect City Guide takes on Brooklyn today with the help of Quilian Riano, dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, founder of DSGN AGNC,...

(Ethically dubious) ways to give patients more choice | Out-Of-Pocket

yesterday

from Out-of-Pocket Blog in science

Do these ideas give you the ick? Or is there something interesting here

Esoteric Languages Challenge Coders to Think Way Outside the Box

yesterday

from IEEE Spectrum in science

Have you ever tried programming with a language that uses musical notation? What about a language that never runs programs the same way? What about a...

The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism

yesterday

from Computer Things in programming

Greetings everyone! You might have noticed that it's September and I don't have the next version of Logic for Programmers ready. As penance, here's...

Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom

yesterday

from Escaping Flatland in literature

When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how...

Announcing the 2025 TokyoDev Developers Survey

yesterday

from TokyoDev in programming

The 2025 edition of the TokyoDev Developer Survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please take a few minutes to...

Meet The Maker: Lorna Rose

2 days ago

from Handprinted - Blog in creative

Hello, I’m Lorna, a self-taught artist working with printmaking and collage based in Devon, Southwest England. Themes of movement, how we inhabit and...

Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

2 days ago

from Old Vintage Computing Research in technology

It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC. The specific revision is very...

How to make map textures for ArcGIS and stuff

2 days ago

from Adventures In Mapping in cartography

Here’s how you can take an image, turn it into a repeating texture, and apply it to the whole world. We’ll make a cement-sourced gritty texture and...

Proteins: Weird blobs doing important things

2 days ago

from The Works in Progress Newsletter in science

Episode two of Hard Drugs explores the world of proteins

Submission – Official Map: Kaohsiung MRT Diagram, Taiwan, 2025

2 days ago

from Transit Maps in cartography

Submitted by Emerson, who says: This is Kaohsiung MRT’s new system map, following the Red Line extension to Gangshan and the completion of the LRT...

The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next?

2 days ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.

High-paying tech jobs are fueling a mini baby boom in Taiwan’s chip hub

2 days ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

As Taiwan’s fertility rate plummets and young women increasingly choose to remain single, the island’s Silicon Valley is bucking the trend.

Global Solar Installations Up 64 Percent So Far This Year

2 days ago

from Yale E360 in science

Even as the U.S. guts support for renewable power, the world is still pushing ahead on the shift to solar energy, with installations up 64 percent in...

War In Our Time?

2 days ago

from Trying to Understand the World in history

We need the men in white coats.

$F_2 \times F_2$ is Incoherent -- A Polite Spectral Sequence Computation

2 days ago

from Chris Grossack's Blog in science

Yesterday I watched my friend Jialin Wang defend her thesis, and as part of her background section she mentioned that the group $F_2 \times F_2$ is...

Trump Jr.-advised prediction markets invite bets on president’s demise

3 days ago

from Citation Needed in finance

President Trump’s deregulatory agenda emboldened prediction markets to push boundaries around permitted event contracts. Now sites advised by his son...

8 Great Foodie Cities With Michelin Dining & Hotels

3 days ago

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides in travel

Every country ranked from best to worst

3 days ago

from Elysian Collective in literature

A report card for the whole world.

Incredible Vitest Defaults (article)

3 days ago

from Epic Web Dev in programming

Learn how to use Vitest’s defaults to eliminate extra configuration and prevent flaky results, letting you write reliable tests with less effort.

The Weirdest Tool in Underwater Construction

3 days ago

from Blog - Practical Engineering in science

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake shook the central coast of California,...

‘World Models,’ an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

3 days ago

from Quanta Magazine in science

You’re carrying around in your head a model of how the world works. Will AI systems need to do the same? The post ‘World Models,’ an Old...

Detecting Online Predatory Journals

3 days ago

from NeuroLogica Blog in science

The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some...

September BATCAVE Schedule is here

3 days ago

from Both Are True in life

hang, write, and even some office hours?

The Joy of Small Markets

3 days ago

from Commoncog in finance

If you want to get rich, the irony is that small markets are often better than large ones.

Ralph Roister Doister, among the first regular English comedies - Then to our recorder with toodleloodle poop

3 days ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

Ralph Roister Doister (written c. 1550, published 1567) once had the distinction of being the first comedy in English. Please see this 1911 edition...

What I Learned From Lifting

4 days ago

from Atoms vs Bits in life

Wax on, wax off

Bear is now source-available

4 days ago

from ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog in programming

Updates to the Bear license

Why Architects Need to be Part of Evolving A.I. Policy

4 days ago

from Common Edge in architecture

Strategic imagination is what we do, but it’s crucially missing in both federal and state efforts to build and manage our A.I. future.

Acacia Coffee & Wine Bar by A-Malysheva Studio

4 days ago

from Retail Design Blog in design

Acacia is a small café and wine bar designed by A-Malysheva studio, situated in a quiet residential neighborhood of Odesa,...

Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX

4 days ago

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal in programming

<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s...

‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review

4 days ago

from History Today Feed in history

‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10

What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol

4 days ago

from Open Culture in creative

A painting is not thought out and settled in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on...

32

4 days ago

from Daniel Bourke in life

Today I turn 32 years old. Every year I write an article with stories, ideas, rules of thumb, anecdotes and ponderous items from the last year. This...

The Stolen Lines

4 days ago

from The American Scholar in literature

The post The Stolen Lines appeared first on The American Scholar.

Pull

4 days ago

from xkcd.com in comics

Byte Interviews IBM's Philip D. Estridge (1983)

4 days ago

from Computer Ads from the Past in technology

They dig into the IBM PC.

The QNX Operating System

5 days ago

from Abort Retry Fail in technology

Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX

went to the club with my raspberry pi and realized i was in club penguin

5 days ago

from Farza's Newsletter in life

Tidbit has 7 more days left to live.

African time

5 days ago

from Patterns in Humanity in history

Traditional and modern notions of time in Africa

Embodiment and the (Re)invention of Emoji, from the Aztecs to Humboldt and Darwin to AI

5 days ago

from The Marginalian in literature

By the time he published Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique, Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769–May 6,...

Can You Pass the Test?

5 days ago

from Classical Wisdom in history

The Weekly Wisdom Quiz

Julius Klinger: Poster Art In Vienna, 1923

5 days ago

from Flashbak in history

These designs appear in Poster Art in Vienna (1923), an introduction to work of Julius Klinger artists and Klinger (22 May 1876 – 1942) himself to an...

you can never go back

5 days ago

from the singularity is nearer in programming

Total disassociation, fully out your mind That Funny Feeling I was thinking today about a disc jockey. Like one in the 80s, where you actually had to...

questioning the prevailing narratives

5 days ago

from journal – Winnie Lim in life

on reading The Dawn of Everything

What's Going on with KPop Demon Hunters?

6 days ago

from The Honest Broker in life

From Baby Shark to Squid Game, the same strategy is producing huge overseas successes. Can others learn from the Korean model?