zanshin's reading list

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December 2025

• Make Your iPhone Display Flash for Alerts - MacRumors - 2025-12-17 - Unlike some Android phones, iPhones don't have a dedicated notification LED that lights up when you get a call, text, or other alert. What...
• A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon - 2025-12-17 - I just got back from a long drive in my wife's new-to-her car, a 2025 VW ID Buzz 1st Edition 4Motion in blue. On Thursday of last week, I flew to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, got picked up by the dealer, signed some paperwork, and that night I headed
• No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog - 2025-12-17 - - Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be.
• 📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? — Bruno's ramblings - 2025-12-17 - - In an interview with "The Verge", the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least...
• Rob Reiner, RIP | Whatever - 2025-12-16 - I don’t have much to add about Rob Reiner and wife Michelle Singer’s shocking death that other people haven’t said better, likewise any more to add about his career and political …
• i'm just having fun - 2025-12-16 - - programming isn't a competition
• Daring Fireball: Rob Reiner and Wife Found Stabbed to Death at Home - 2025-12-15 - Link to: https://deadline.com/2025/12/rob-reiner-two-reported-dead-at-home-lapd-1236648185/
• The Biggest Sports Movie of the Year Is Now Streaming on Apple TV - MacRumors - 2025-12-12 - Acclaimed sports thriller "F1: The Movie" starring Brad Pitt is now available to stream on Apple TV. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer alongside Formula 1 icon Lewis Hamilton, the film casts Pitt as a veteran driver chasing one last shot at glory. According to Deadline, the film has surged to $629 million at the global box office, making it the highest-grossing Apple Original Film to date, and the biggest sports movie of the year.
• The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-12-12 - - - - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...
• EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-12-11 - - With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth and adults, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new resource hub that will sort through the mess and help people fight back. To mark the hub's launch, EFF will host a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) next week and a free livestreamed panel discussion on January 15 highlighting the dangers of these misguided laws.
• 100-day space analog mission: Participants wanted for isolation study at DLR - Probandensuche von DLR für Bettruhestudien, Muskelstudien, Herz-Kreislauf-Studien - 2025-12-11 - JETZT BEWERBEN!
• Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore - 2025-12-11 - Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing
• Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content | Global development | The Guardian - 2025-12-11 - - More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
• Tim Cook Goes to Washington to Fight App Store Age Verification Legislation - MacRumors - 2025-12-10 - Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington, D.C. today to meet with the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the upcoming App Store Accountability Act, reports Bloomberg. The App Store Accountability Act would require Apple to verify a person's age when an Apple Account is created using a "commercially available method or process," and get parental consent for each app that a child under 16 downloads.
• State Department Goes Back to Times New Roman for... Reasons - 512 Pixels - 2025-12-10 - I promise this is not from The Onion, but rather Michael Crowley and Hamed Aleaziz at The New York Times: Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the State Department’s official use of Calibri, reversing a 2023 Biden-era directive that Mr. Rubio called […]
• Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban | Reuters - 2025-12-10 - - Australia on Wednesday became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access in a move welcomed by many parents and child advocates but criticised by major technology companies and free-speech advocates.
• why i think jj-vcs is worth your time · schpet’s notebook - 2025-12-09 -
• N.A.D.D. – Rands in Repose - 2025-12-09 - The gist of the book Guns of the South is straightforward yet odd. What if, during the Civil War, the South became equipped with a lot of AK-47s? Long story very short, they would have won. Handily. The author, Harry Turtledove, chose not to focus on time travel or other delectable science fiction t
• A New Way to Watch Your Linux System Work – Both.org - 2025-12-09 - Here are 3 ways you can keep an eye on your Linux system performance.
• Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life - 2025-12-09 - - Joining an on-call rotation might change the future of your career – and maybe you as a person. This article shares my experience being on-call.
• No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me - zerokspot.com - 2025-12-08 -
• Jujutsu worktrees are very convenient! | Shaddy's - 2025-12-08 - - A place to dump thoughts
• Daring Fireball: Russia Blocks FaceTime and Snapchat - 2025-12-07 - Link to: https://apnews.com/article/russia-internet-crackdown-facetime-restrictions-06301be480510b18ae02039c6524cd80
• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM - 2025-12-07 - - NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by the Chinese company Sipeed. Released last year, it enables remote control of a computer or server using a virtu...
• Flight 19 Vanished in 1945, Fueling the Myth of the Bermuda Triangle - 2025-12-07 - - Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories
• Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway - 2025-12-07 - - A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
• Determining if an entitlement is r… | Apple Developer Forums - 2025-12-06
• From Zero to GitHub: Starting A New jj (Jujutsu) Repo - Notes from VisualMode - 2025-12-06 - - I document the steps and missteps that I take setting up a new jujutsu repo and pushing it to GitHub
• Daring Fireball: Bad Dye Job - 2025-12-06 - - It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.
• John Gruber on Alan Dye’s departure – Six Colors - 2025-12-06 - I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I mostly don’t link to Daring Fireball because I assume that anyone who reads Six Colors reads Daring Fireball. And if you don’t, you p…
• Star Wars Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary | StarWars.com - 2025-12-06 - Experience the original 1977 film with a theatrical re-release in 2027.
• Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession • The Register - 2025-12-05 - - : Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
• The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Two: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Whatever - 2025-12-03 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World wastes no time in getting the viewer acquainted with the HMS Surprise; in a few brief moments we’re given a sailor’s-eye view of the cram…
• The Hammer Hack – Rands in Repose - 2025-12-03 - Who doesn't love a hack? A hack. A clever bit of knowledge that, when used, provides disproportionate return on investment. The fact that it costs you little to nothing to use and deploy a hack isn't irrelevant. You understand the work involved in discovering and refining what others call a hack. Y
• School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement | NBER - 2025-12-02
• Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days - Let's Encrypt - 2025-12-02 - - Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.
• How I Designed and printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE | SnoutCover - 2025-12-02 - - Discover how our pitbull Billie's struggle with Discoid Lupus led to creating SnoutCover - a 3D-printed nose protector that helped her nose fully recover in 5 months.
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• Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions | Vale.Rocks - 2025-12-02 - - No, I did not lose the other wheel.
• faster than a roller coaster – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-12-02 - In just a couple days, I’ll get up at are-you-fucking-serious o’clock to get on a who-flies-this-fucking-early plane to go across the country, where I will land at you-just-spent-the-en…
• Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar | Life and style | The Guardian - 2025-12-02 - Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
• Roundabouts in Keene Help Cut Emissions and Air Pollution - The New York Times - 2025-12-01 - Despite its small stature, the city of Keene, has become an example of the safety and climate benefits of swapping traffic lights for roundabouts.
• For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps – Eye on Design - 2025-12-01 - - The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available on the website of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (Swisstopo). In the “Journey Through Time,” a timeline displays 175 years of the country’s cartogra
• India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app | Reuters - 2025-12-01 - - India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.
• Hacking on the reMarkable 2 - 2025-12-01 - - steen's online burrow
• Why is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? - Allen Pike - 2025-12-01 - - Claude, Copilot, and making a good desktop app.

November 2025

• One Tech Tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it | AP News - 2025-11-30 - - Modern cars are collecting more data than ever, raising privacy concerns. The Mozilla Foundation says cars are the worst product category for privacy.
• Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog - 2025-11-30 - - `CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
• One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - 2025-11-30 - - 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...
• How good engineers write bad code at big companies - 2025-11-30 - - --
• Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Entire Network :: The Tymscar Blog - 2025-11-30 - - Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.
• Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. - 2025-11-30 - - There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
• Testing Shows Automotive Glassbreakers Can't Break Modern Automotive Glass - Core77 - 2025-11-30 - - It's easy to convince EDC people to buy EDC things. But how do you convince non-EDC folks to buy your product? Simple: Fear. The global "car escape tool market," according to market research firm Data Insights Market, is valued at $500 this year, projected to grow 7% a year and
• Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out - 2025-11-30 - - OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.
• Desk Stops - 2025-11-29 - creative technologists and their desktop setups
• GitHub → Codeberg: my experience — ISSOtm's warehouse - 2025-11-29 - In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
• USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - 2025-11-28 - The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.
• The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation - 2025-11-28 - - Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
• The Wolf – Rands in Repose - 2025-11-27 - - You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are an engineer, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics: They appear to exist outside the well-defined process we’ve defined to get things done, but they appear to suffer no consequences for n
• Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg ⚡ Zig Programming Language - 2025-11-27 -
• What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project ~ andrej acevski - 2025-11-26 - - i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here's what maintaining it actually looks like.
• Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON - 2025-11-26 - - XML vs. JSON: Stop Worrying About the Wrong Layer
• The Letter — Stop Hacklore! - 2025-11-26 -
• Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo | Strange Shapes - 2025-11-26 - - “I was really influenced by three films,” Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. “Not so much in terms of Star…
• The Wanderer – Rands in Repose - 2025-11-25 - - Manager at the first start-up. Solid guy. Significant experience. I know that I can learn from him. No doubt. All the correct operational 1:1 hygiene is there. We meet every week like clockwork; we fill the time, and I often leave with a healthy sense of productivity. But sometimes… he talks. And w
• The Future of Software Development is Software Developers – Codemanship's Blog - 2025-11-25 - I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…
• Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors - The Atlantic - 2025-11-25 - How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
• Brain has five ‘eras’, scientists say – with adult mode not starting until early 30s | Neuroscience | The Guardian - 2025-11-25 - - Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83
• F1 in Las Vegas: This sport is a 200 mph soap opera - Ars Technica - 2025-11-24 - Yet another twist in the championship with two more weekends to go.
• X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts - 2025-11-24 - The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
• We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs - Lalit Maganti - 2025-11-24 - - It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap work, no design work, no meetings or standups. Instead, we fix the small things that have been annoying us and our users: an error message that’s been unclear for two years a weird glitch when the user scrolls and zooms at the same time a test which runs slower than it should, slowing down CI for everyone The rules are simple: 1) no bug should take over 2 days and 2) all work should focus on either small end-user bugs/features or developer productivity.
• I built an actually faster Notion in Rust - Imed Adel - 2025-11-24 - - Outcrop is a modern knowledge base for software teams, built with Rust and Solid.
• Daring Fireball: Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired - 2025-11-24 - - The bottom line is that users setting up new Apple Watches in the EU will now get a somewhat slightly worse experience in the name of parity with accessories made by third-party companies. It remains to be seen whether users of third-party iPhone accessories and peripherals in the EU will see any benefit at all.
• after my dad died, we found the love letters | Jenneral HQ - 2025-11-23 - - a few days after , we found the love letters, hidden away among his things. one of them said, my parents were not a love match. at 27 and 26, they were e...
• Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money | Whatever - 2025-11-22 - If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…
• Superman edition found in mum's attic is most valuable comic ever at $9.12m - 2025-11-22 - - It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new record after Man of Steel comic found in a California home is auctioned.
• Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penis - Ars Technica - 2025-11-22 - While tuberculosis can attack anywhere, it’s extremely rare on the penis.
• I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal - 2025-11-22 - "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
• Coast Guard reclassifies swastikas and nooses as hate symbols after backlash | CNN Politics - 2025-11-22 - The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.”
• The Seven Levels of Busy – Rands in Repose - 2025-11-22 - - Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my best life? Level 2: STUFF TO DO I have a few commitments wandering around my brain. They are reasonable, knowable, and not deadline-based. I
• Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson - 2025-11-21 - In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
• Apple Watch Users Claim Workout App Is Now Worse in Every Way - MacRumors - 2025-11-21 - Apple Watch owners have been voicing their frustration online over changes to the Workout app that Apple introduced in watchOS 26, with many finding the redesigned interface makes starting exercises difficult and exasperating. When Apple launched watchOS 26 in September, the Workout app went from large, easily tapped workout tiles to a scrolling, corner-button interface.
• Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz & Anor - Find Case Law - The National Archives - 2025-11-21
• Loose Wire on Containership Dali Leads to Blackouts and Contact with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge - 2025-11-20 -
• Two Years Post-Twitter | Whatever - 2025-11-19 - For various reasons I was reminded that two years ago this week, I quit the former Twitter for good; I had been doing a slow draw down of my presence for most of 2023 but on November 16 I abandoned…
• My two-part desk setup - 2025-11-19 - - How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
• Football Stadium Turned Community Garden - 2025-11-19 - As part of a city-wide urban greening program, Taipei turned an abandoned football stadium into a community garden. Here’s
• Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works - 2025-11-19 - - tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
• Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study - 2025-11-18 - - The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
• I took the “Crusty Interpreter” class! - decomposition ∘ al - 2025-11-18 - - Last week, I cleared everything else off my schedule to take the “Crusty Interpreter” course, an immersive 5-day “write an interpreter in Rust” course taught by Dave Beazley. I have a long history with Rust, but the language has moved on considerably from what I used to know. Worse, I’d barely written code in any language in years, except for a bit of Haskell for courses I teach and the occasional horrible one-off Python script to automate some task – so I was eager to change that.
• I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-11-17 - - I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
• I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ⁄ Manual do Usuário - 2025-11-17 - - Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.
• Daring Fireball: Meta Replaced the Native WhatsApp for Windows 11 With a Shitty Web App - 2025-11-16 - The question is, did Meta scrap its native Windows app because they don’t care that much about Windows in particular? Or because they don’t care that much about native desktop apps, period — and a crude web app wrapper is coming to Mac next?
• Don't Post Passive-Aggressive Webpages - 2025-11-16 -
• Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-11-15 - - It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.
• Messing with bots | Herman's blog - 2025-11-15 - - Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
• Configure Quick Terminal Size in Ghostty - (think) - 2025-11-14 - I’m a very heavy quick (dropdown) terminal user, so after adopting Ghostty one of the points of frustration for me was that I could not specify a default size for my quick terminal. Instead I had to adjust the size every time I started Ghostty.
• MailMaven: A New Mail App From a Longtime Mail Plugin Developer - MacSparky - 2025-11-14 - For years, power users relied on SmallCubed’s MailSuite plugins (including the beloved MailTags and Mail Act-On) to transform Apple Mail. But then Apple killed third-party Mail plugins. Actually, they didn’t kill it. The verb is more appropriately knee-capped. Apple did offer an alternative framework, called extensions, but extensions simply lacked the integration that MailSuite needed.... Continue reading →
• you walk outside, and everything just says “SOON” – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-11-14 - There is a massive winter storm barreling toward us right now, expected to arrive in the next 18 or so hours. Yesterday, it was unseasonably warm and stupidly beautiful. Today, it’s eerily ca…
• Zed Is Our Office — Zed's Blog - 2025-11-14 - - From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
• Tesla Working to Add Apple CarPlay Support to Vehicles - MacRumors - 2025-11-14 - Tesla is working to add support for Apple CarPlay in its vehicles, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Tesla vehicles rely on its own infotainment software system, which integrates vehicle functions, navigation, music, web browsing, and more.
• Protecting our Merchants: Standing up to Extortion - 2025-11-13 - - Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
• Apple rolls out Digital ID in Apple Wallet for U.S. passport holders – Six Colors - 2025-11-13 - If you suffer from that recurring nightmare that you’re at the airport but have forgotten your wallet,1 fret no longer: starting today, holders of U.S. passports can create a Digital ID in Ap…
• The last-ever penny was minted today in Philadelphia | CNN Business - 2025-11-12 - - The American penny passed away today after a prolonged illness. It was 238 years old.
• I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours - James Belchamber - 2025-11-12 -
• Knokke - A New Era of Film Scanning - 2025-11-12 - - Knokke redefines film scanning by bringing modern imaging, optics, and software into a beautifully engineered device.
• the terminal of the future - 2025-11-12 - - To redesign infrastructure, you have to allow incremental adoption, while simultaneously moving the whole design space at once.
• Seven Decisions – Rands in Repose - 2025-11-11 - - Vanilla. Someone decided. Good. No further questions. We can make progress now. Educated. You ask why they decided, and they can clearly explain their reasoning. Not everyone might appreciate the decision, but they will be given the opportunity to understand.1 Calculated. Not only can they explain t
• Daring Fireball: Patrick George Thinks CarPlay's Days Are Numbered; I Doubt It - 2025-11-11 - Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/apple-carplay-general-motors/684799/
• She left her desk job and walked 3,541 miles from Mexico to Canada: ‘Give yourself permission’ | Walking | The Guardian - 2025-11-11 - Jessica Guo hiked 30 miles a day, becoming the first woman to continuously hike two historic trails in a single season
• The kind of company I want to be a part of... - 2025-11-11 - - Like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Without the chocolate. And Charlie.
• Daring Fireball: The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing - 2025-11-11 - Why the Info panel presented by clicking the “(i)” button *next to Sequoia* defaults to installing the upgrade to 26.1 Tahoe, I don’t know. But it sure makes it seem like we need to be more careful than we actually do if we want to stick with MacOS 15 Sequoia for now.
• Introvert and Extrovert Glasses | Whatever - 2025-11-11 - Like a lot of people my age, I have two pair of eyeglasses: A pair with progressive lenses which are my general purpose glasses, suitable for looking at things at varying distances and generally be…
• Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header - 2025-11-11 - - Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.
• Learning the History of Pho - 2025-11-11 - - A writer explores Vietnam, seeking to untangle the origin of the beloved noodle soup that is the country’s national dish.
• Douchebaggery - 2025-11-10 - - David Heinemeier Hansson has a problem with Windows as a programming platform. While I can certainly understand the reasons why some people go with Linux, I have run all but dry of understanding for programmers that willfully pick Windows as their platform of choice. I know a few that are
• Divers visited Edmund Fitzgerald wreck in Lake Superior - 2025-11-10 - - Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.
• I Want You to Understand Chicago - 2025-11-10 -
• The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem :: Max Nagy - 2025-11-09 - - TL;DR: I built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on my balcony, controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image of my old iPhone. Introduction The pigeons in my backyard find particular pleasures in voiding their excrements onto my balcony. Dissatisfied with this situation, I went online to find a solution. I created a handy table to give you an overview of the vast number of effective established ways to get rid if pigeons:
• James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah | STAT - 2025-11-09 - - James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
• World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing - 2025-11-09 - - Marine Insight - The maritime industry guide.
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses on November 7, 1940. - HistoryLink.org - 2025-11-08 - On November 7, 1940, at about 11 a.m., the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a high wind. The bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows, a deep, narrow section of Puget Sound that separates Tacoma from Gig
• Daring Fireball: I Like My Presidents to Care When Someone Faints During a Press Event - 2025-11-08 - Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbSFw7NTneQ&t=49s
• Firefox Forcing LLM Features - equk's blog - 2025-11-07 - - Mozilla forcing llm features and providing no gui for users to disable them
• You Should Write An Agent · The Fly Blog - 2025-11-07 - - They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.
• Leica Q3 vs Sony RX1R III - 2025-11-07 - Leica Q3 vs Sony RX1R III
• Using vimwiki as a personal, portable, knowledge base - 2025-11-07 - - A while back, I was looking for a tool to act as basically a semi-organised dumping ground for all sorts of notes and thoughts.
• I’m a Lego! And a new It’s Storytime – The Odyssey Problem by Chris Willrich – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-11-07 - Oh shit. I just hit publish, so the email already went out, and I am not going to send another. I can’t believe I forgot to even mention that Lego revealed a whole lot about the Enterprise D …
• Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity - 2025-11-06 - - Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
• DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace - 2025-11-06 - - Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them and the people leading them. In an unexpected turn of events, the millionaire receiving money from the billion-dollar company, thought it would...
• I’ve upgraded my house’s holiday lights for the last time – Six Colors - 2025-11-06 - Living in a suburban neighborhood brings certain unspoken expectations. Walk down these streets during the last few months of the year and you’ll see inflatable monsters and turkeys and snowm…
• Thoughts From an Off-Off-Year Election, 2025 | Whatever - 2025-11-06 - Well, that was an evening, wasn’t it. Zohran Mamdani won decisively in NYC, of course, and that was the headline event in terms of optics, but then there was everything else, that went the De…
• Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert - 2025-11-05 - An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year's best.
• How One Night in Chinatown Changed Philly's Cocktail Scene Forever - 2025-11-05 - When Hop Sing Laundromat first opened, everyone thought it would fail. Instead, it ushered in a new era. 
• Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages - 2025-11-05 -
• UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport, at least 7 killed, officials say - CBS News - 2025-11-05 - - The number of fatalities is expected to increase after a UPS plane crashed Tuesday near the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said.
• America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect - 2025-11-05 - It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politically inspired by a good candidate with a good message.
• Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea - 2025-11-05 - - You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
• Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84 | AP News - 2025-11-04 - - The hard-charging conservative became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Google Search - 2025-11-03 -
• you don't need anubis • fxgn - 2025-11-03 - - don't use anubis just to block llm scrapers
• How I Use Every Claude Code Feature - by Shrivu Shankar - 2025-11-02 - - A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
• Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. - Bert Hubert's writings - 2025-11-02 - - Dear anonymous internet user, dear corporate employee hiding behind a gmail.com address, dear “GitHub account with a single issue”, Thank you for your interest in my free software, my project or the documentation I wrote for you. I am happy to hear you want to ask a question, have a problem, or perhaps even inform me of a new requirement you have. But with some small exceptions (do read on), I’m afraid I will not be able to help you.
• Jana's cozy corner - 2025-11-02 - - Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more
• TR | 2025-10-26 - 2025-11-02 -
• Good Luck Trying To Get Your Entire Tesla Roadster Deposit Back - The Autopian - 2025-11-01 - To get in line for a Tesla Roadster, you need to make a $50,000 deposit. While Tesla says it's refundable, you might have a tough time.
• Sam Altman wants a refund for his $50,000 Tesla Roadster deposit - Ars Technica - 2025-11-01 - Altman is just the latest in a string of people to want their money back.
• The Best Early Black Friday Apple Deals - MacRumors - 2025-11-01 - We're officially in the month of Black Friday, which will take place on Friday, November 28 in 2025. As always, this will be the best time of the...
• uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade - Blog - Dr. Emily L. Hunt - 2025-11-01 - - Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.

October 2025

• Amazon says it didn’t cut 14,000 people because of money. It cut them because of ‘culture’ | CNN Business - 2025-10-31 - - Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy’s explanation for why the company is cutting 14,000 employees? Not money. Not even AI, but “culture.”
• My impressions of the MacBook Pro M4 - Michael Stapelberg - 2025-10-31 - - I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 as my portable computer for the last half a year and wanted to share a few short impressions. As always, I am not a professional laptop reviewer, so in this article you won’t find benchmarks, just subjective thoughts!
• Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy | The Record from Recorded Future News - 2025-10-31 - - Earlier in its European Council presidency, Denmark had brought back a draft law which would have required scanning of electronic messages, sparking an intense backlash.
• Apple results: Holiday dunks and questions dodged – Six Colors - 2025-10-31 - Tim Cook signals for victory! On the day that Apple announces its quarterly fiscal results, as it did on Thursday, there’s a little ritual that happens down in Cupertino: Financial journalist…
• A Little Update on My RSS Setup - 512 Pixels - 2025-10-30 - I’m always surprised at just how often I’m asked about how I read RSS. For years, this was a very stable setup, but has recently changed. I’ve used Feedbin for ages. It is widely supported by RSS clients, and has the ability to receive emails newsletters and put them inline with articles coming in via […]
• Bonus Denizen for All: My Coat of Many Colors That My Mama Made For Me | Patreon - 2025-10-30 - Get more from Catherynne M. Valente on Patreon
• Daring Fireball: CarPlay Seems Essential for Rental Fleets - 2025-10-30 - Link to: https://joe-steel.com/2025-10-22-Why-GM-Will-Give-You-Gemini-But-Not-CarPlay.html
• Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-10-30 - - “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
• Daring Fireball: ‘Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology’ - 2025-10-30 - Link to: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
• OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition | OS/2 Museum - 2025-10-30 -
• ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash - 2025-10-29 - - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
• AWS to Bare Metal Two Years Later: Answering Your Toughest Questions About Leaving AWS - 2025-10-29 - - Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.
• Lingerbay - 2025-10-29 - Flights, ferries, and gravel roads lead to a little white house on the Isle of Harris that’s next to turquoise water, golden moorland, and moody sky. Time for photography, conversation, and being...
• If You Thought Ads in Apple Maps Was Bad, Samsung is Putting Ads on $1,900+ Refrigerators - MacRumors - 2025-10-29 - Apple competitor Samsung has a line of "Family Hub" smart refrigerators equipped with integrated displays, and anything with a display can...
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Grokipedia - 2025-10-29
• Apple Scores Legal Victory as Judge Decertifies 2011 App Store Antitrust Lawsuit - MacRumors - 2025-10-28 - Apple today scored a victory in a long-running antitrust lawsuit when the judge overseeing the case decertified it. The antitrust lawsuit was...
• Melissa set to be the strongest hurricane to ever strike Jamaica - Ars Technica - 2025-10-28 - Storm reached sustained winds of 160 mph on Monday morning.
• 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. - Ars Technica - 2025-10-27 - - It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
• Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2025-10-27 - - Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• longbridge/gpui-component: Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI. - 2025-10-27 - - Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI. - longbridge/gpui-component
• Some Big News With the Scalzi Family | Whatever - 2025-10-27 - Athena has been looking for a place of her own for a while, and she wanted something here in Bradford, to be close to work and to us, both of which we were pleased about. We’d all been tracki…
• It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton Returns October 29 – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-10-26 - Good news, everyone! My podcast’s test season earlier this year was received with such enthusiasm, we immediately got to work on building the machinery that would power a full series. It took…
• Daring Fireball: 'Boring Is What We Wanted' - 2025-10-26 - Link to: https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/
• Daring Fireball: Sora Has a Pervert Problem - 2025-10-25 - Link to: https://www.businessinsider.com/sora-video-openai-fetish-content-my-face-problem-2025-10
• Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital - Ars Technica - 2025-10-25 - The 61-year-old had wounds all over, a bacterial infection, and needed intensive care.
• Framework supporting far-right racists? - General Topics - Framework Community - 2025-10-25 - Hey everyone, We want to share some clarity on how moderation will work for this thread going forward. This thread will be an exception to our usual community guidelines in other channels. Our goal is to create a space for open discussion that encourages self-expression and constructive criticism, while maintaining clear boundaries around respect and safety. Discourse features Discourse includes some automated safety features that may temporarily hide posts. If your post is hidden, it’s not a...
• Why I stopped using Gmail after 18 years - 2025-10-24 - I have been using Gmail since 2007, but now I have decided to stop using Gmail for a couple of reasons. By using multiple Google products, you expose yourself to the risk of being locked out of all of them if you ever do something in one product that gets
• Why Jujutsu is a step up from Git - 2025-10-24 - There's a new, hot version control system that replaces Git called Jujutsu (jj). I started to use Jujutsu a couple of months ago, during my summer vacation. I had read posts online from a lot of people who had made the switch and really liked it, which intrigued me. I
• This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen - Ars Technica - 2025-10-23 - - Don’t even apply if you’re not a Tier 1 “A-player.”…
• AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea - Ars Technica - 2025-10-23 - “Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …”…
• Former Apple Employee Sam Sung Changed His Name to Avoid Attention - MacRumors - 2025-10-23 - Back in 2012, an Apple retail employee named Sam Sung went viral because his name is similar to Samsung, one of Apple's main competitors. In a...
• I'm Really Starting to Think These OpenAI Folks Are No Good - 512 Pixels - 2025-10-22 - Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch: OpenAI reportedly asked the Raine family – whose 16-year-old son Adam Raine died by suicide after prolonged conversations with ChatGPT – for a full list of attendees from the teenager’s memorial, signaling that the AI firm may try to subpoena friends and family.   OpenAI also requested “all documents relating to […]
• I see a future in jj - 2025-10-22 - - Blog post: I see a future in jj by Steve Klabnik
• マリウス . A Word on Omarchy - 2025-10-22 - - An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.
• Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds - CBS News - 2025-10-21 - - About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after 2015 guidance upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months, a new study finds.
• SpaceX moon landing contract with NASA in jeopardy, space agency chief suggests | CNN - 2025-10-21 - - Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said SpaceX is “behind schedule” and thwarting the space agency’s ability to beat China back to the moon.
• Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making | Electrek - 2025-10-21 - - Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving Supervised’ expansion is back firing as it exposes its shortcomings. Customers left without promised features are growing...
• United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet - AvBrief.com - 2025-10-20 - - 'Space debris' was suggested in the extremely rare event.
• High Levels of Lead in Protein Powder and Shakes - Consumer Reports - 2025-10-19 - - CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
• Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site — 12 stills and nine videos have been recovered, but none from the fateful OceanGate implosion | Tom's Hardware - 2025-10-18 - - The specialist camera was rated to 6,000m, but the lens and some of its components were probably damaged by the implosion.
• The Transition of RubyGems Repository Ownership - 2025-10-18 -
• jj part 4: configuration - 2025-10-18 - - Just like git, jj offers tiers of configuration that layer on top of one another. Every setting can be set for a single repo, for the current user, or globally for the entire system. Just like git, jj offers the ability to create aliases, either as shortcuts or by building up existing commands and options into new completely new commands. Completely unlike git, jj also allows configuring revset aliases and default templates, extending or replacing built-in functionality. Let’s look at the ways it’s possible to customize jj via configurations. We’ll cover basic config, custom revsets, custom templates, and custom command aliases.
• Last Week on My Mac: Tahoe’s elephant – The Eclectic Light Company - 2025-10-18 - - All of us rely on tone (brightness, lightness) to interpret what we see. Visual artists have gone to great lengths in tonal modelling, but macOS Tahoe offers only bleached-out white or blacked-out …
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP - 2025-10-18 - - Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
• ./watch - 2025-10-18 -
• please, practice kindness. – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-10-18 - Next Thursday, October 23, I am speaking at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center’s 55th Anniversary Gala. We hope to raise some money to help them help our neighbors, and I’m goin…
• Don’t call it “chargergate” – Six Colors - 2025-10-17 - Perhaps you’ve heard the tempest in a wall wart over Apple not including a charger in the MacBook Pro in Europe. While some have been quick to blame this on EU regulation, it’s a little…
• Real Photos That Look Fake - 2025-10-17 - I’ve seen a bunch of these before, but it’s cool to scroll and get your tiny mind blown over and over again. Hum
• Digital Society | Posts | Migrating to Hetzner - 2025-10-17 - - We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean. Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century  — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-10-17 - Recommended: Shippey’s book makes a strong case that Tolkien was indeed one of the premier authors of the 20th century—perhaps the premier. Whether you buy that case or not, it’s a great read that adds considerable depth and background to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the rest of Tolkien’s oeuvre.
• Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel • Buttondown - 2025-10-17 - - No newsletter next week Running the TLA+ workshop. No way I'm gonna have any brainpower after that. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel...
• How I Bypassed Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked - 2025-10-16 - - As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
• NATO boss mocks Russian navy, which is on the hunt for Red October “the nearest mechanic” - Ars Technica - 2025-10-16 - - A Russian sub surfaces off of Western Europe. Is it damaged?
• I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong @ tonsky.me - 2025-10-16 - - Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
• tonsky/sublime-scheme-alabaster: Minimalist color scheme for Sublime Text 3 - 2025-10-16
• How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview' - 2025-10-15 - - I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.
• Anthropic Releases Haiku 4.5: Sonnet 4 Performance, Twice as Fast - MacStories - 2025-10-15 - Earlier today, Anthropic released Haiku 4.5, a new version of their “small and fast” model that matches Sonnet 4 performance from five months ago at a fraction of the cost and twice the speed. From their announcement: What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was
• GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back - 2025-10-14 - - The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.
• ICE arrests US citizen in Oregon. Attorney decries ‘illegal abduction’ - oregonlive.com - 2025-10-14 - Francisco Miranda, who was born in California, was detained by masked agents, taken away in an unmarked van and held for several hours at the ICE office in Portland.
• Why your boss isn't worried about AI - 2025-10-14 - - ...
• The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me - 2025-10-14 - - Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot
• So You Want to Be Promoted, Pt. 1 – Rands in Repose - 2025-10-14 - - My expectation early in my career was that promotions just showed up. You worked hard, and you figured out how to get along with your teammates. Every year or so, my boss would have a one-off conversation with me and alert me that I had a new role along with increased compensation. This hands-off cy
• A House of Dynamite - 2025-10-14 - From director Kathryn Bigelow comes A House of Dynamite (trailer), starring Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, and Greta Lee. When a
• Multiple news outlets say they won't sign new Pentagon rules on access | AP News - 2025-10-14 - - The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative television network Newsmax are among five outlets on Monday who say they won't sign a new Defense Department document about its new press rules.
• Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend - Ars Technica - 2025-10-14 - - Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.
• Amazon Prime Facing Backlash for Removing 'Born To Kill' From 'Full Metal Jacket' Movie Poster - 2025-10-14 - Matthew Modine has even spoken out about the change.
• A Summer Project — Liss is More - 2025-10-13 - - Sometimes a dumb project/obsession can be really fun.
• Amp is now available. Here's how I use it. - Amp - 2025-10-13 - - Amp is now available. Here is how I use it.
• How to Build an Agent - Amp - 2025-10-13 - - Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.
• pSYoniK - Software, Hardware and Tech - In.That.Order. - 2025-10-13 -
• Are you making these 6 common mistakes when using your air fryer? | TechRadar - 2025-10-13 - Struggling with uneven cooking and burnt-on mess? There's an easy solution
• Switch to Jujutsu already: a tutorial - Stavros' Stuff - 2025-10-12 -
• Geoblocking Multiple Localities With Nginx - 2025-10-12 -
• Diane Keaton Dead: 'Annie Hall' Star Was 79 - 2025-10-11 - Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.
• Discord hack shows risks of online age checks as internet policing hopes put to the test | Science, Climate & Tech News | Sky News - 2025-10-11 - - As the drive for age verification grows, so does the pressure on online companies to keep users' data safe and, as the Discord hack shows, that cannot be guaranteed.
• Here's the Latest on Apple Suing Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks - MacRumors - 2025-10-11 - In July, Apple filed a lawsuit against Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over alleged theft of the company's trade secrets. The complaint...
• "It's time to go": Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland | blue News - 2025-10-11 - - At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman has decided to die by his own hand in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet.
• Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left, flight log suggests | Ryanair | The Guardian - 2025-10-10 - - Investigation under way after flight during Storm Amy made three landing attempts in Scotland before flying to Manchester
• Can You Recommend a Good Bookmark Manager? - 2025-10-10 - I know I’m opening up a can of bees here, but I am in the market for a bookmark manager. I’ve got a good workflow goin
• Notes on switching to Helix from vim - 2025-10-10 - Notes on switching to Helix from vim
• GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development - The New Stack - 2025-10-10 - - GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.
• Examples are the best documentation | exotext - 2025-10-10 - - Examples are the best documentation | exotext
• A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-flight Network Restrictions | In Pursuit of Simplicity - 2025-10-10 - - 1 Prologue A while ago, I took a flight from Canada back to Hong Kong - about 12 hours in total with Air Canada. Interestingly, the plane actually had WiFi: However, the WiFi had restrictions. For Aeroplan members who hadn’t paid, it only offered Free Texting, meaning you could only use messaging apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, and WeChat to send text messages, but couldn’t access other websites. If you wanted unlimited access to other websites, it would cost CAD $30.75:
• Three Months With The Synology DS1019+ - Tao of Mac - 2025-10-10 - After a faithful nine years of service, I decided to replace my Synology DS411j with a brand new DS1019+.
• Hyprland is a toxic community - 2025-10-09 -
• How I Learned to Code (using Japanese Method ) | by NUHA | Oct, 2025 | Stackademic - 2025-10-09 - I remember the first time I opened VS Code. The blank screen stared at me like an existential void. One blinking cursor, endless…
• A few things to know before stealing my 914 - Hagerty Media - 2025-10-09 - - If you're going to make a getaway in Norman Garrett's Porsche 914, he's got some tips to help grease the wheels, as it were.
• One Foot Tsunami: An Instant Fan Legend - 2025-10-09 - “I waved at him when he came up,” Turner said. “Maybe he saw me.”
• Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him - Ars Technica - 2025-10-09 - This one seems ready-made for a television medical drama.
• HUML :: Human-oriented Markup Language - 2025-10-09 - - HUML is a simple, strict, serialization language for documents, datasets, and configuration.
• Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy – Patrick Breyer - 2025-10-09 - - In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The government did not take a position on the proposal. This blocks the required majority in the EU Counci
• A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad - Kaushik Gopal's Website - 2025-10-09 - - A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad
• A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad - Kaushik Gopal's Website - 2025-10-09 - - A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad
• Synology Drops Branded Drive Requirement - MacStories - 2025-10-08 - Brad Linder, writing for Liliputing: Earlier this year Synology announced that you’d need to use Synology-branded hard drives in its 2025 line of “Plus” branded network-attached storage devices if you wanted full functionality. While you could theoretically use a non-Synology drive with the Synology DiskStation DS225+, DS425+, DS925+ and other models, you’d be unable to create data
• The Email They Shouldn't Have Read - IT Notes - 2025-10-08 - - A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.
• How to *actually* test your readme – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2025-10-08 - - If you've spent any time using Linux, you'll be used to installing software like this: The README says to download from this link. Huh, I'm not sure how to unarchive .tar.xz files - guess I'll search for that. Right, it says run setup.sh hmm, that doesn't work. Oh, I need to set the permissions. What was the chmod command again? OK, that's working. Wait, it needs sudo. Let me run that again.…
• Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet - 2025-10-08 - - Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet in 2025, the company has decided to lift restrictions that forced users to buy its own Synology hard drives.
• On October 23rd, you can come hear me speak about mental health care and trauma recovery – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-10-08 - One of the privileges I enjoy in my life is the opportunity to speak openly and honestly about my mental health struggles, challenges, and successes. I get to be the person I need in the world, and…
• Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says - Ars Technica - 2025-10-07 - Wikipedia host’s lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works.
• Jujutsu is great for the wrong reason - 2025-10-07 -
• jj part 1: what is it - 2025-10-07 - I’ve been working on a blog post about migrating to jj for two months now. Rather than finish my ultimate opus and smother all of you in eight thousand words, I finally realized I could ship incrementally and post as I finish each section. Here’s part 1: what is jj and how do I start using it? pls, I just want to use jj with GitHub Sure, you can do that. Convert an existing git repo with jj git init --colocate or clone a repo with jj git clone. Work in the repo like usual, but with no add needed, changes are staged automatically.
• Daring Fireball: Wiley Hodges's Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding ICEBlock - 2025-10-07 - Link to: https://substack.com/inbox/post/175351960
• A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal - 2025-10-07 - This is a comic about AI art.
• Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half - Ars Technica - 2025-10-07 - - “In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard.”…
• No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft • The Register - 2025-10-07 - - : Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds
• Folder Quick Look - 512 Pixels - 2025-10-07 - Quick Look is a great Finder feature, and now it can see into folders thanks to a free Mac app named Folder Quick Look. Here’s what it is like in action: John Gruber, in his link to it: Looks, feels, and works like a feature that ought to be built into the Finder itself. Cool.
• iOS 26: Make Your iPhone Wait on Hold for You - MacRumors - 2025-10-07 - If you make a call and are placed on hold, a new feature in ‌iOS 26‌ will do the waiting for you so you can do other things. Hold Assist listens for...
• Moving to Germany | Evan's Website - 2025-10-07 - Website where Evan writes about stuff.
• Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time | Renewable energy | The Guardian - 2025-10-07 - Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
• The Cascade - 2025-10-07 - - Sharing CSS tips, tricks, and best practices
• My First Contribution to Linux - 2025-10-07 - - I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
• The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment | Techdirt - 2025-10-06 - - Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…
• Being Wrong While Being Right — Liss is More - 2025-10-06 - I really like Rivian, and RJ Scaringe seems like a good dude, but his comments nearly gave me an aneurism.
• Tahoe Electron Detector • furbo.org - 2025-10-06 - - No, we’re not doing science at California’s most beautiful lake. We’re looking for bugs. A popular cross-platform app development framework called Electron is using private and undocumented API that’s causing system-wide slowdowns in macOS Tahoe. We’re hearing from customers that some of our apps are running slowly on Tahoe and I suspect that this bug […]
• Saving My Commit With `jj evolog` | lander's posts - 2025-10-06 - - nothing interesting
• When ChatGPT turns snitch - by Andrew Maynard - 2025-10-06 - - The largely overlooked privacy risks of using AI apps that not only remember your conversations, but are capable of using these to reveal your deepest secrets to others
• Rivian CEO Doubles Down on Decision to Not Offer Apple CarPlay - MacRumors - 2025-10-06 - On the latest episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told guest host Joanna Stern why the EV maker continues to pass on...
• Gurman: Major Apple Leadership Shakeup Impending With John Ternus as Next CEO - MacRumors - 2025-10-06 - Apple is entering its most significant leadership transition in more than a decade as multiple senior executives prepare to depart and CEO Tim Cook...
• Simple automated deployments using git push - 2025-10-06 -
• gem.coop - 2025-10-06 -
• How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels | Grist - 2025-10-06 - - Meet balkonkraftwerk, the simple technology putting solar power in the hands of renters and nudging Germany toward its clean energy goals.
• Oof, guys…and October playlist(s) – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-10-06
• Manton Reece - Our attention - 2025-10-05
• You did no fact checking, and I must scream – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2025-10-05 - I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true. There are brilliant tools like reverse Image Search which give you a good indicator of when an image first appeared on the web, and…
• Leveling Up My Homelab • Cameron Eagans - 2025-10-05 - - How I rebuilt my homelab into a reliable, Kubernetes-powered system for real workloads, automation, and growth—starting from a simple rack and NAS.
• blog dds: 2025-09-26 — Why I Choose Email Over Messaging - 2025-10-05 -
• Remembering Steve Jobs - MacRumors - 2025-10-05 - Today marks the 14th anniversary of Steve Jobs passing away, at the age of 56. He died just one day after Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S and Siri. ...
• Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System - 2025-10-05 - - Announcing my latest open-source project.
• Sutra | Portfolio - 2025-10-05 - - A portfolio website for Bhargav. Software developer based in Berlin,Germany.
• A Mac-like experience on Linux – Adventures in Linux and KDE - 2025-10-04 - - In 2016, after being a Mac guy for 23 years, I took the plunge and made a full-time switch to Linux. I did my research, and over and over again encountered the idea that GNOME was good for MacOS re…
• jwz: Delusions of a Protocol - 2025-10-04 - Azhdarchid: So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. [...] For the record: I think Jay Graber is a transphobe; I think there's just too much evidence in her behavior to not read that into her actions at this point. No normal person would go out of their way
• WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home - 2025-10-04 -
• inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App - 2025-10-04
• Daring Fireball: Cheap Batteries Are Dangerous - 2025-10-04 - Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect
• Systems Programming with Zig - Garrison Hinson-Hasty - 2025-10-04 - - Zig delivers performance, reliability, and complex integration in systems programming in a simple, modern package. Zig hits the sweet spot for systems programming. This new programming language is high-performance, low-level, ultra-reliable, and perfectly suited for serious projects like writing libraries, daemons and shell utilities, and even operating systems and embedded code. Systems Programming with Zig shows you how to write quality, useful Zig applications without relying on libraries or frameworks-even if you’re new systems programming. In Systems Programming with Zig you’ll learn how to: Understand the Zig perspective on systems programming Write idiomatic Zig code Integrate Zig with C, systems libraries, and scripting languages Networking, interpreters, and graphics from the ground up Unlike UI-centric applications that form the public face of your software, systems programs like OS kernels, device drivers, and utilities interact directly with the hardware or operating system. In these low-level programs, performance and safety are paramount. Zig is a new programming language that builds on the legacy of C, C++, and even Rust to provide a high-productivity systems programming environment that does not rely on awkward libraries and frameworks.
• Daring Fireball: 'Fuck You, Make Me' - 2025-10-03 - Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPToBog_-g
• The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time - The New York Times - 2025-10-03 - Four editors, a creative director and a visual artist met to debate and discuss the best of print media — and its enduring legacy.
• dfn.sh - 2025-10-03 - GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Be Simple | corrode Rust Consulting - 2025-10-03 - - The phone buzzes at 3 AM. You roll out of bed, open your laptop, and see this in the logs: th…
• World’s highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground | News | Independent TV - 2025-10-03 - - The world’s tallest bridge, which stands at more than 2,000ft above ground, has officially opened in China. Drone footage shared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday (27 September) shows the newly opened Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, which stands above a gorge in the Guizhou province. Underneath the structure, a rainbow can be seen thanks to a “spectacular water curtain test”. The 2,890-metre-long structure, which took more than three years to complete, reduces travel time between the two sides of the canyon from two hours to two minutes. Last month, a team of engineers deployed 96 trucks to strategic points across the bridge to recreate heavy traffic conditions to ensure it would not buckle.
• 26 Hidden iOS 26 Tricks to Change How You Use Your iPhone - MacRumors - 2025-10-03 - Apple released iOS 26 in mid-September, bringing a range of new features and changes to iPhones across the globe. But not all of the included...
• DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com - 2025-10-02 - - DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
• This blog post was not written with AI | Fastmail - 2025-10-02 - - Email immutability matters even more in a world of AI. Here is how we enable your use of your data, in line with our values.
• New iPhones See 'Stronger Than Expected' Demand With One Exception - MacRumors - 2025-10-02 - Nearly two weeks after the iPhone 17 series launched, analysts at investment banking firm Morgan Stanley said demand for the devices has been...
• Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers claim GitHub breach - 2025-10-02 - - An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal projects.
• I Made the Viral Salmon | Cup of Jo - 2025-10-02 - Or, well, at least I think I made the viral honey-glazed salmon.…
• ongoing by Tim Bray · GenAI Predictions - 2025-10-01 -
• Coolify Docs - 2025-10-01 - Self hosting with superpowers: An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

September 2025

• QuickQWERTY 1.1.0 - Susam Pal - 2025-09-30
• Goodbye Ghost, Hello Hugo | ryansouthgate.com - 2025-09-30 - Saying goodbye to the Ghost platform and switching my blog to Hugo
• Nick Heer, on Liquid Glass - 512 Pixels - 2025-09-30 - Nick’s long column on Apple’s new design language is probably the best thing I’ve read on the subject. This line about the glass material switching from light to dark as content scrolls behind it really jumped out at me: It is Apple’s clever solution to a problem Apple created. I like a lot about Liquid […]
• Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code – Codemanship's Blog - 2025-09-30 - - An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…
• Can you use GDPR to Circumvent BlueSky’s Adult Content Blocks? – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2025-09-30 - - In the battle between the Online Safety Act and GDPR, who will win? FIGHT! I'll start by saying that I'm moderately positive on Online Safety. If services don't want to provide moderation then they shouldn't let their younger users be exposed to harm. The social network BlueSky has taken a pragmatic approach to this. If you don't want to verify your age, you can still use its services - but it…
• 2024 - My year of the Linux desktop | ryansouthgate.com - 2025-09-30 - Upgrading from Windows to Linux Mint and becoming more productive in the process
• ZSA Moonlander - A keyboard review | ryansouthgate.com - 2025-09-30 - A review of the ZSA Moonlander, 1 year after purchase
• Goodbye Disqus - Your injected ads are horrible | ryansouthgate.com - 2025-09-30 - - Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
• When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order" | Sebastiano Tronto - 2025-09-28 -
• PUBLIC I ran out of money a year ago, spent the last of my savings on a prostitute in Hong Kong, and became a commie. - 2025-09-28 - Written in 2024. I'm starting full-time at OpenAI tomorrow, so figured this is the last chance to post… I ran out of money a year ago, spent the last of my savings on a prostitute in Hong Kong, and became a commie. My friends often ask me: “Alexey, are you actually broke?”, “How do you live?” W...
• Thoughts on Testing | Brandon's Website - 2025-09-28 - Today I was thinking about tests.
• A statement from members of the moderation team - Announcements - NixOS Discourse - 2025-09-28 - - We resign, effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions. This is not a statement we enjoy making, and we apologize to the community for leaving right before an election that is bound to be contentious, and likely now more so. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach, and we cannot in good faith continue operating u...
• Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander - Mastering Emacs - 2025-09-27 - - Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with programmable firmware. Your fingers will thank you.
• CHERUBIM x TOMATO - HUMMINGBIRD - Tomato Studio - 2025-09-27
• fastcat - A Faster `cat` Implementation Using Splice | Matthias Endler - 2025-09-27 - Lots of people asked me to write another piece about the internals of well-known Unix commands. Well, actually, nobody asked me, but it makes for a good intro. I'm sure you’ve read the previous parts about `yes` and `ls` &ampmdash; they are epic.
• On Choosing Rust | Matthias Endler - 2025-09-27 - - Since my professional writing on Rust has moved…
• Podcastathon 2025 — Liss is More - 2025-09-27 - I'm back from recording my second Podcastathon, and my heart is full.
• Apple Responds to U.S. Class Action Lawsuit Over Delayed Siri Features - MacRumors - 2025-09-27 - In March, Apple delayed the launch of its personalized Siri features, and soon after the company was hit with multiple class action lawsuits over the...
• Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian - 2025-09-26 - - Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
• Artemis II: Nasa plans crewed Moon mission for February - 2025-09-25 - - The mission around the Moon will pave the way for a lunar landing as soon as 2027.
• The Ruby community has a DHH problem | tekin.co.uk - 2025-09-25 - - The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
• iOS 26: Use Live Translation in Messages - MacRumors - 2025-09-25 - In iOS 26, seamless multilingual conversations in Messages are just a few taps away, thanks to Apple's new Live Translation feature. When...
• Why the GL.iNet Beryl AX and Tailscale make for a great travel router - 2025-09-24 - Digging into a pocket-sized router that can connect any device to your Tailscale tailnet.
• From Rust to Reality: The Hidden Journey of fetch_max | QuestDB - 2025-09-24 - - A compiler deep-dive tracing Rust’s AtomicU64::fetch_max from macro expansion and rustc intrinsics through LLVM’s atomicrmw umax and AtomicExpandPass to the final x86-64 CAS loop
• crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println | Rust Blog - 2025-09-24 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• KVICK SÖRT - 2025-09-24 - - Quicksort is an efficient sorting algorithm based on a divide and conquer approach. Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.
• macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls - 2025-09-24 -
• Just Let Me Select Text - 2025-09-24 - - Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
• Should Neovim support transitive plugin dependencies? | sink - 2025-09-24 - - Dependencies considered carnival
• perfectly salted soup – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-09-24 - In every partnership, a division of labor emerges over time that allows each partner to play to their strengths, stay out of each other’s way, and efficiently get shit done together. In our h…
• The Marine behind this viral photo at the Chicago ICE protest - 2025-09-23 - The flag-waving Marine was at the anti-ICE protest near Chicago because of his beliefs, and said his training helped him weather tear gas.
• Why I'm Spoiled By Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) | Simon Hartcher - 2025-09-23 - - A personal comparison of battery life between my MacBook M1 Pro and Framework 13
• 12 macOS Tahoe Settings to Change Right Away - 2025-09-22 - From themes and Liquid Glass to Spotlight and Control Center.
• How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog - 2025-09-22 - - “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in! 
• You Are Going on a Quest – Rands in Repose - 2025-09-21 - - The most common conversation I've had during the last three start-ups was the growth conversation. Some version of: "Rands. I am here. How do I get there?" For leadership-minded engineers, there are four career paths available to you. I will describe three briefly, and then I'll talk about the fou
• iPhone 17 Pro | Paul Stamatiou - 2025-09-21 - iPhone 17 Pro, 256GB, Silver with TechWoven Case I tend to update my iPhone every 2 years. This year I replaced my iPhone 15 Pro with the iPhone 17 Pro. While the new, remarkably thin iPhone Air was intriguing, I know myself: I want the best cameras and the best battery life. I went with the Silve
• Glass artist Sterner's house and workshop | Admirable Art Nouveau - 2025-09-20
• The Unspeakably Hedonistic Lifestyle of an Author On Book Tour | Whatever - 2025-09-20 - It’s just a little before 3pm on a Saturday in Boise, and I’ve fed myself on a Subway Bacon Chicken Ranch sub (with oatmeal raisin cookie), and now I’m going to lie around on a be…
• “…we are all Angelenos who love our city of angels. Our Metro system is an expression of that love for our communities.” – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-09-20 - Yesterday, I had the privilege and the honor to emcee the opening of the new Metro A Line light rail extension from Glendora to Pomona. If you’re local, you know what a big deal this is, and …
• Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease Years Before a Traditional Diagnosis - 2025-09-20 - - Researchers say the experimental tool has huge implications for public health, especially in conjunction with Alzheimer’s drugs that are most effective in the disease’s early stages
• The best YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press) - 2025-09-20 - - Most websites can't tell you about them. But I can.
• Pocket Casts, You Altered The Deal, So I Will Alter Your App - 2025-09-20 - - After all you made your apps open source, so I can remove your ads.
• Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews - 2025-09-19 -
• Expressive Kitties Emerge from Energetic Graphite Lines in Drawings by ShouXin — Colossal - 2025-09-19 - ShouXin uses graphite to make small, expressive drawings of cats that tap into their energy, sounds, and attitudes.
• “Get off the iPad!” warns air traffic control as Spirit flight nears Air Force One - Ars Technica - 2025-09-19 - Do not be slow to comply with ATC instructions.
• apple_ssh_and_filevault(7) - 2025-09-19 -
• YouTube addresses lower view counts, may be due to ad blockers - 2025-09-18 - - In a new post, YouTube acknowledges creator complaints regarding lower view counts, which may be caused by ad blockers based on new data.
• New Amelia Earhart bio delves into her unconventional marriage - Ars Technica - 2025-09-18 - Author Laurie Gwen Shapiro chats with Ars about her latest book, The Aviator and the Showman.
• Apple's Rumored MacBook Pro Redesign: 6 New Features Anticipated - MacRumors - 2025-09-17 - Apple in October 2024 overhauled its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, adding M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, Thunderbolt 5 ports on higher-end...
• Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use | Semafor - 2025-09-17 - - The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.
• macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra – The Eclectic Light Company - 2025-09-17 - - If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, then I’m afraid you’re going to have wait for Apple to build a new release that will install on your Ma…
• jwz: Yet another Space-X vehicle explodes - 2025-09-17 - Billionaire ketamine enthusiast unavailable for comment. Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil: Authorities said the pilot was found dead outside the aircraft after it crashed in Coruripe, an area on Brazil's tropical coastline, according to G1 Globo. Federal police said they had identified evidence of international drug trafficking, ...
• Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89 | Robert Redford | The Guardian - 2025-09-16 - Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning director
• 60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details - Ars Technica - 2025-09-16 - - “It’s that level of risk that they were taking. I think that’s what really hit home.”…
• How I Use AI - Tim Kellogg - 2025-09-16 -
• Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link – Kennedn's Blog - 2025-09-16 -
• Notes on Apple’s ”Awe dropping” event - 2025-09-16 - Apple’s September event brings solid updates to iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches, with some hidden gems for creative pros
• Stations and transfers - albertguillaumes.cat - 2025-09-16 -
• macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass – Six Colors - 2025-09-16 - macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambition…
• What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. - Ars Technica - 2025-09-16 - - New study breaks down what 700 million users do across 2.6 billion daily GPT messages.
• Apple Watch's New High Blood Pressure Detection Feature Now Available - MacRumors - 2025-09-15 - Ahead of watchOS 26 being released today, Apple has enabled the new Hypertension Notifications feature on compatible Apple Watch models in the U.S....
• Solene'% : Introduction to GrapheneOS - 2025-09-15 - - In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS
• Got Myself a COVID Shot Today | Whatever - 2025-09-14 - Why? Well, one, my book tour starts tomorrow and that’s two weeks straight out on the road, and after that I have events basically every other weekend through November, so better to prepare t…
• Update! | Patreon - 2025-09-14 - Get more from Sampson Boat Co on Patreon
• String vs str in Rust: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need - 2025-09-14 - Never Be Confused by String and str Again
• After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts - 2025-09-14 - At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
• Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease | Tampere universities - 2025-09-14 - - A pioneering study by researchers from Finland and the UK has demonstrated for the first time that myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease. This discovery challenges the conventional und...
• Spyware installed on Kenyan filmmakers' phones in police custody - Committee to Protect Journalists - 2025-09-14 - - New York, September 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely alarmed by the installation of spyware on two Kenyan filmmakers’ phones while the devices were in police custody, and calls on authorities to drop a case against them and two other filmmakers and ensure that journalists are not further targeted for surveillance. Forensic analysis...
• iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro Now Facing Extended Delivery Estimates - MacRumors - 2025-09-13 - iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air pre-orders began on Friday in the U.S. and many other countries. iPhone 17 Pro Max...
• Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning | The Nation - 2025-09-13 - The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
• My Terminal and Editor Theming - 2025-09-13 - It's not ricing. Promise.
• Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency - 2025-09-12 - - The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.
• Why our website looks like an operating system - PostHog - 2025-09-12 - - I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…
• Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job openings from US citizens - 2025-09-12 - - Should Americans be prohibited from sharing open job opportunities with each other? The food-delivery platform Instacart seems to think so. Step back in time for a moment to former President G…
• There's a lot of new Apple stuff. Here's what's actually worth buying | Macworld - 2025-09-12 - - Some products really jump out at me as more impressive and intriguing than others.
• Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones - 2025-09-12 -
• AirPods Live Translation Blocked for EU Users With EU Apple Accounts - MacRumors - 2025-09-12 - Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU...
• Read-only Guest tmux Sessions - BAM Weblog - 2025-09-11 -
• You Can Now 'Get Ready' for iPhone 17 Launch With Pre-Order Setup - MacRumors - 2025-09-11 - Following the debut of the iPhone 17, ‌iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max, Apple has started letting customers prepare for...
• Taylor Swift concerts do cause small earthquakes | Popular Science - 2025-09-11 - Seismologists investigate the 'SwiftQuakes' rumor.
• I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop – Sophie Alpert - 2025-09-10 -
• One monkey mind's 10 days of silence | Note to Self - 2025-09-10 - What would happen if you surrendered your computer, phone, books, and pens and went silent—no contact with anyone—for 10 full days? There was something...
• How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs - Anil Dash - 2025-09-10 - - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
• Hypertension Alerts Coming to Older Apple Watch Models - MacRumors - 2025-09-09 - Apple has announced that its new hypertension detection feature, initially exclusive to the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Apple Watch Series 11, will be...
• Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic in Wake Up Dead Man trailer - Ars Technica - 2025-09-09 - “To understand this case, we need to look around the myth that’s being constructed.”…
• The Job Market Is Hell - The Atlantic - 2025-09-09 - Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
• Signal >> Blog >> Introducing Signal Secure Backups - 2025-09-08 - - In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
• Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru - “Hold the AI, Extra Chaos” - 2025 AI Darwin Award Nominee - 2025-09-08 - - Taco Bell boldly deployed voice AI-powered ordering systems across more than 500 drive-through locations, convinced that artificial intelligence could finally s
• Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo S - Ars Technica - 2025-09-08 - The new 911 variant is 14 seconds quicker around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
• A Secret Web - 2025-09-07 - - The web is mind-bogglingly huge; let's look at how personal websites can thrive and interact despite that.
• Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels - Michael Stapelberg - 2025-09-07 - - The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March, and after reading through the reviews of Intel CPUs on my electronics store of choice, many of which (!) mention CPU replacements, I am getting the impression that Intel’s current CPUs just are not stable 😞. Therefore, I am giving up on Intel for the coming years and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU instead.
• Don't write bugs - 2025-09-07 -
• Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time. - 2025-09-07 - - This post introduces Optique, a new library created to address the pervasive problem of repetitive and often messy validation code in CLI tools. The author was motivated by the observation that nearly every CLI tool reinvents the wheel with similar validation patterns for dependent options, mutually exclusive options, and environment-specific requirements. Optique leverages parser combinators and TypeScript's type inference to ensure that CLI arguments are parsed directly into valid configurations, eliminating the need for manual validation. By describing the desired CLI configuration with Optique, TypeScript automatically infers the types and constraints, catching potential bugs at compile time. The author shares their experience of deleting large chunks of validation code and simplifying refactoring tasks. Optique aims to provide a more robust and maintainable approach to CLI argument parsing, potentially saving developers from writing the same validation logic repeatedly.
• Trump says Chicago ‘will find out why it’s called the Department of WAR’ ahead of planned crackdown | CNN Politics - 2025-09-06 - It comes as Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against the country’s third most-populous city. CNN previously reported the Trump administration’s plans to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
• GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register - 2025-09-06 - - : Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options
• 996 | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2025-09-06 - - There is cost to your lifestyle.
• Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy | Electrek - 2025-09-06 - - Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...
• Making a font of my handwriting · Chameth.com - 2025-09-06 -
• Software, change, stability, imperfect markets… — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-09-06 - Some reflections on 1Password.
• Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children - The Atlantic - 2025-09-06 - The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
• I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf) | Jeff Geerling - 2025-09-05 -
• Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude - Ars Technica - 2025-09-05 - Will the new Prelude be the best of both worlds when it goes on sale this fall?
• Summer funemployment - 2025-09-05 - After leaving Shopify, I spent the summer with family and reflecting on the next decade and found unexpected inspiration in Linkin Park’s reformation story centering on creative collaboration.
• One Foot Tsunami: Another Shameful Part of American History - 2025-09-05 - We’re living through it.
• 💉 Covid Vaccine Update : r/minnesota - 2025-09-05
• macOS - cargo-nextest - 2025-09-04 - A next-generation test runner for Rust.
• Welcoming the Rust Innovation Lab | Rust Blog - 2025-09-04 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Release v0.33.0 · jj-vcs/jj - 2025-09-04 - - About jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. See the installation instructions to get started. Release highlights jj undo is now sequential: invoking it m...
• New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption | Scientific American - 2025-09-04 - - Mathematicians have unraveled a key conjecture about knot theory
• For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please? - 2025-09-03 - - The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
• Detecting Exposed LLM Servers: Shodan Case Study on Ollama - 2025-09-03 - - We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.
• Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation \ Anthropic - 2025-09-03 - - Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users.
• Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales | Reuters - 2025-09-02 - - Amazon.com must face a class action on behalf of hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers over claims that the online retail giant overcharged for products sold by third-party sellers, a federal judge in Seattle has ruled.
• First attempt will be 95% garbage: A staff engineer's 6-week journey with Claude Code | Sanity - 2025-09-02 - - This started as an internal Sanity workshop where I demoed how I actually use AI. Spoiler: it's running multiple agents like a small team with daily amnesia.
• Judge: Google keeps Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals - 2025-09-02 - - The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.
• Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater - 2025-09-02 - - At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here,
• One Size Does Not Fit All • furbo.org - 2025-09-02 - - In a previous essay, I briefly expressed some thoughts about why Liquid Glass is inappropriate for the Mac: I’m having a much harder time seeing how Liquid Glass will benefit other platforms like the Mac or Apple TV (where Apple doesn’t even make the screen). Forcing tactility where it’s not needed or wanted feels like […]
• Kitten Update: All Hail the Fuzz Butt | Whatever - 2025-09-02 - So, we kept the black kitten. I want to stress this was not the plan all along. I did in fact have a new home scheduled for this kitten, but then, more or less at the last minute, the people at the…
• What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong - 2025-09-02 - - Refuting the common and flawed argument of
• Bear is now source-available | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2025-09-02 - - Updates to the Bear license
• August 2025 in books – Blankbaby - 2025-09-02 - A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★☆ (Read on Aug 31, 2025) – Another mystery in which the mystery itself was rather annoyingly obvious (when I c…
• Daring Fireball: Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign - 2025-09-02 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.html
• It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health - 2025-09-02 - Six questions worth digging into more.
• Night watch... | Patreon - 2025-09-01 - Get more from Sampson Boat Co on Patreon
• 2x Performance, $300k Savings: A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust - 2025-09-01 - - Wu Xiaoyun's portfolio page
• Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality | Techdirt - 2025-09-01 - Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic reali…
• Tear It Down – Rands in Repose - 2025-09-01 - When I do speaking gigs, I open with a few questions to get to know the audience. I'm looking for a couple of key demographic numbers to gauge how much to focus on and tune different themes in any given talk. I ask: How many self-identified Apple people? (Typography jokes = ok.) How many engineers
• How not to learn Rust - 2025-09-01 - - dystroy - blog
• Just fucking use HTML - 2025-09-01 - - Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.

August 2025

• Sometimes Software is Done, or Why Hugo Why · Don't Panic - 2025-08-31 - - I didn’t sit down this morning planning to write a grouchy blog post about Hugo. When I first used Hugo I loved it. It was fast. It was simple. It just worked, as much as any software does, and it solved a real problem. It was done. But people kept working on it. I’m sure that it has been improved in countless ways. But along the way it has gotten bigger and more complicated, and has broken backwards compatibility repeatedly.
• NetSurf on reMarkable 2 - 2025-08-31 - - Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.
• My phone is an ereader now - Dave Pagurek - 2025-08-31 -
• Using Claude Code from Anywhere - 2025-08-31 - I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day. But I've gotten frustrated enough to build something that solidifies my workf
• Elements of Rust – Core Types and Traits - 2025-08-30 - A complete map of the Rust type system
• Yeknava - The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust - 2025-08-30 - - We used to develop our application as a single DDD monolith (let’s call it the mother) with several smaller microservices around it (the children) to gain some specific advantages. Most of these microservices were built in Go, while the core monolithic service was developed in PHP 8.3.
• Are We Decentralized Yet? - 2025-08-30 - - A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services
• Triangle Grids | rasie1's blog - 2025-08-30 - - Grids are great for tactical gameplay of turn-based games because they allow discrete movement steps. That means that you can bind positioning to other resources such as movement points, action points, food, etc. Grids divide the infinite variety of movement options into a few specific ones, which can be considered separately by the player’s tactical mind. The most popular grid types are hexes and squares. But what about triangles?
• Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days - ABC News - 2025-08-30 - After 139 days at sea, three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean. 
• You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company – This day’s portion - 2025-08-30 - - Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.
• that’s what i do; i blink and i type things – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-08-30 - I am at my desk, staring at the blinking cursor in my text editor for what feels like an hour. If I were in a movie, the camera would do that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off thing they did with Came…
• inessential: Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult - 2025-08-29 -
• The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again) - 2025-08-29 - - I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.
• How to Stop Google from AI-Summarising Your Website (and Reclaim Your Organic Traffic) | Teruza - 2025-08-29 - - Unlock limitless possibilities for your business with Teruza-powered web development solutions tailored to your unique needs. Our enterprise-level CRM expertise ensures seamless customization for any industry. Let us craft your digital success story. Contact us now!
• Tic-tac-toe meets Lean 4 | Adolfo Ochagavía - 2025-08-29 - - This week I reached a milestone in my most useless side project so far. I finished writing a tic-tac-toe game in Lean 4, along with proofs to guarantee that the game behaves correctly! It “only” took me 20 hours, 1000 lines of code and endless suffering… Totally worth it, as you might expect. Chances are you haven’t heard about Lean before, so I’ll share more details below. But first, let’s have an overview of this article’s contents, since it ended up quite long:
• You no longer need JavaScript Ʊ lyra's epic blog - 2025-08-29 - - An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
• They Used to Be Good, But Now They've Turned to Evil: The Synology End Game - LowEndBox - 2025-08-29 - - Synology has recently implemented some pretty user-hostile policies, which means my long-term love affair with them is going to end in heartbreak.
• AVvXsEhOHQMmBwH32L3_wQJmZJJBpMfY-LNnbtJdD-qCxsLcw1m4l84O5yfxKmwVMlShKJ_c_gpy1zBATT8gvz-UsTy03BZ9hhjipmlffxH42i74bsByAvOXAyy_nMhB88xpqM3vUmqUNiHa_wHvBSCvyqTdkfkvAdFaLKmydSzV5JG3wZvCMORVb3jdEf4jHUw 1,439×1,510 pixels - 2025-08-28
• Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS - 2025-08-28 -
• New Tech Day at the Scalzi Compound | Whatever - 2025-08-28 - Yes, indeed, yer boi Scalzi got splurge-y recently and picked up two new pieces of tech, which both arrived today within minutes of each other, namely, an M4 Mac Air (in the extremely subtle Sky Bl…
• So many conferences are mid. Why was BSC 2025 so good? | Benjamin G. Thompson's Blog - 2025-08-28 -
• a clever and interesting title that draws the reader in – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-08-28 - It’s been one of those days when I do an incredible amount of creative work, but it looked like I spent the whole day just cleaning and unfucking my office while I watched and listened to the…
• Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw... - 2025-08-28 - Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent. It’s nice to hear that ordinary citiz
• What Is Omarchy Linux, and Why Is 37signals Moving to It? - The New Stack - 2025-08-28 - - DHH designed Omarchy to be a developer's Linux desktop, and, as such, it comes with carefully selected tools, shell aliases, themes and shortcuts. 
• Daring Fireball: Masimo Sues U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Over Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Ruling - 2025-08-28 - Link to: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/masimo-sues-us-customs-over-apple-restoring-watchs-oxygen-tool
• Bear found in Northern California ice cream shop, shows interest in strawberry ice cream - Los Angeles Times - 2025-08-28 - Deputies from the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office arrived to find a bear Sunday at the ice cream shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe, according to a news release.
• F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska | CNN - 2025-08-27 - - A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
• Want to watch Stand By Me with Corey, Jerry, and me? – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-08-27 - Next year, Stand By Me will turn 40. I know. Take all the time you need to absorb and deal with that. It kinda snuck up on me, too. We filmed Stand By Me in the summer of 1985, mostly in and around…
• The "Wow!" Signal Likely Was From An Extraterrestrial Source, And More Powerful Than We Thought | IFLScience - 2025-08-27 - - A new project has looked at unpublished data from the most intriguing signal in SETI history and found a few intriguing surprises.
• Daring Fireball: Calvinball Makes the Supreme Court - 2025-08-27 - Link to: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf
• Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain · mtlynch.io - 2025-08-26 - - The brilliant relationship tip you won't find anywhere else.
• Tech worker was frustrated with ghost jobs—now he’s trying to pass a national ban - 2025-08-26 - - Eric Thompson grew so frustrated with ghost jobs that he created an advocacy group to propose federal legislation banning the practice.
• rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool - 2025-08-26 - - For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from source every time. And more than all of that, it makes it completely trivial to run any script or tool written in ruby, even if that script or tool needs a different ruby than your application does.
• Big O - 2025-08-26 - - A visual introduction to big O notation.
• “The cool kids call it a blog.” – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-08-26 - August 23 is WWdN’s official birthday. It was 24 years ago last week that I finished building a website from scratch (in notepad, using raw html), after about 6 weeks of intensive study, and …
• inessential: Tough Season in the Apple Fields - 2025-08-26
• Daring Fireball: MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead Canary Utility App Icons - 2025-08-26 - - These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
• Mailbox Delivery Notifications — Liss is More - 2025-08-25 - I rigged up a mailbox notification system last year, and I never wrote it up.
• Why I Read Technical Books - ratfactor - 2025-08-25 -
• “Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!” - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm - 2025-08-25 - - “Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”
• Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks - iFixit - 2025-08-24 - - Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.
• Burner Phone 101 - 2025-08-24 - - Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely.
• Turning Claude Code Into My Best Design Partner – Between the Prompts - 2025-08-24 - - When I first started using Claude Code, I had a naive approach to working with it. I would describe the task directly in the prompt, press Enter, and cross my fingers. If the agent made mistakes, I would tell it how to fix them. For small tasks, this can be good enough, but as the task grows in complexity, this approach reveals several significant drawbacks. When Simple Doesn’t Scale The first problem is that the conversation becomes the only source of truth about the task.
• A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website - lina's blog - 2025-08-24 - - One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.
• Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing - Ars Technica - 2025-08-24 - - Disgruntled developer was caught after naming the “kill switch” after himself.
• Tech Notes: Understanding Jujutsu bookmarks - 2025-08-24 -
• The Four Players That Span the Entire History of the NBA - 2025-08-23 - - Yesterday I posted an incredible fact about LeBron James: he has played against 35% of all of the players that have ever played in
• Links - 2025-08-23 - If you have a blog, consider adding a links page to it, which references resources that you find notable: https://matklad.github.io/links.html
• Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread | Open Culture - 2025-08-23 - No pop music can have inspired more scrutiny than that of the Beatles. Of course, intense and sustained attention has been paid to every aspect of the band's existence — and, in the case of Paul McCartney, his purported non-existence as well.
• Rust For Foundational Software | corrode Rust Consulting - 2025-08-23 - - Ten years of stable Rust; writing this feels surreal. It’s only been yesterday that we all celebrated the 1.0 release of this incredible language. <a class="external-link" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http…
• I Run a Full Linux Desktop in Docker Just Because I Can - 2025-08-23 - - It can provide benefits like remote access, disposable sandboxes, and dedicated workspace.
• AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong - Last Week in AWS Blog - 2025-08-23 - - One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old
• My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy | ssp.sh - 2025-08-23 - - After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
• Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky - 2025-08-23 - - A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
• James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster | Defector - 2025-08-22 - James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public, repeatedly, over a long and rancid public life. He enlisted a whole bunch of Ideology—patriarchy, social […]
• AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' • The Register - 2025-08-22 - - : They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
• Apple Responds to Accusations of Executive Creating 'Toxic Workplace' - MacRumors - 2025-08-22 - The New York Times' Tripp Mickle today reported that "nine current and former employees" who worked with or for Apple's Vice...
• Apple Blood Oxygen Feature Workaround Sparks Fresh Masimo Lawsuit - MacRumors - 2025-08-22 - Medical technology company Masimo on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection in which it challenged the agency's...
• Mavericks Forever - 2025-08-21 -
• Let `jj absorb` help you keep a clean commit history · Paul Smith - 2025-08-21 - - Seeing this reminded me of how much I like jj absorb. It's a powerful command, and one of those features of jj that can put a smile on your face when you see it in action. If you've ever made multiple fixes in your working directory and wished you...
• Daring Fireball: MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo - 2025-08-21 - The oddest part about the whole situation is that CNBC is being spun out into Versant, too, but while they’re losing the NBC peacock logo, they’re just keeping their name, unchanged.
• Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?! — Zed's Blog - 2025-08-20 - - From the Zed Blog: An update on what the Zed for Windows team has been doing in July and August.
• Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding — Zed's Blog - 2025-08-20 - - From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.
• AGENTS.md - 2025-08-20 - - AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
• How NASA’s Juno Probe Changed Everything We Know about Jupiter | Scientific American - 2025-08-20 - The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
• Steven Rosenthal: "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu respo…" - Mastodon - 2025-08-20 - Attached: 2 images Boston Mayor Michelle Wu responding to Pam Bondi's threats. This. This is how it's done. https://content.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025/08/Response%20AG%20Bondi.pdf
• Apple Card Turns Six With Big Change Ahead - MacRumors - 2025-08-20 - Tomorrow marks the sixth anniversary of the Apple Card becoming widely available in the U.S., following a more limited preview period. Apple's...
• How Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes - 2025-08-19 - - The world record for longest underwater breath-hold using oxygen is often viewed as much as a conjuring trick as an athletic feat - and at one time the title
• A Gigantic Jet Caught on Camera: A Spritacular Moment for NASA Astronaut Nicole Ayers! - NASA Science - 2025-08-18 - - On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare gigantic jet from the ISS—lightning shooting from a storm top into the upper atmosphere.
• Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88 - 2025-08-17 - Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
• How to quickly migrate 400TB of data across the country - 2025-08-17 - 400TB, 36 hours, one Porsche Cayman: ~25Gbps of bandwidth on four wheels. Sometimes the fastest network is still the highway.
• MacSurfer Returns - 512 Pixels - 2025-08-16 - I’ve been in this racket long enough to see plenty of other websites, podcasts, and commentators come and go. One of those names from the past is MacSurfer, an old-school link aggregation website keeping up with news from across the Apple ecosystem. Back in the day, getting a link on Macsurfer’s Headline News would mean […]
• DC man released after sandwich toss at officer | wusa9.com - 2025-08-16 - Sean Dunn, accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal officer, is released on his own recognizance.
• Apple Working on All-New Operating System - MacRumors - 2025-08-16 - Apple is developing an all-new operating system codenamed "Charismatic," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. This is likely...
• Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. - Open Policy & Advocacy - 2025-08-16 - - Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...
• Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription | Auto Express - 2025-08-16 - Owners can now subscribe to boost the power of their car… for a fee
• Porsche’s best daily driver 911? The 2025 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid review. - Ars Technica - 2025-08-16 - An electric turbocharger means almost instant throttle response from the T-Hybrid.
• jwz: Great moments in the internet service industry - 2025-08-15 - Nobody will sell fiber internet to DNA Lounge. But it turns out that the condo building next-door-plus-one has Google Fiber. So I got our neighbor who lives there to put us in touch with their service rep. Twelve emails later: Them: Let&apos;s schedule a time to meet in person on site to discuss our services! Me: Can we just do this by email? I only need to know two things: If DNA Lounge had ...
• MacRumors Giveaway: Win iPad Air M3 Bundle to Use With Astropad's New Daily Planner App - MacRumors - 2025-08-15 - For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an M3 iPad Air, an Apple Pencil Pro, and a...
• The Less Glamorous Side of Long-Term Cruising - 2025-08-15 - Discover the real-life challenges of long-term cruising from laundry to maintenance in this honest, insightful guide by seasoned boater Maria Langer.
• Murder case in Australia reveals AI-generated mishap - Fast Company - 2025-08-15 - An Australian lawyer filed submissions in a murder case that included incorrect information generated by artificial intelligence.
• Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software — Zed's Blog - 2025-08-15 - - From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
• A decade after losing her sight, a B.C. woman can see again — through her tooth | CBC News - 2025-08-14 - - A B.C. woman who was blind for a decade is now able to go for walks without a guide after having her own tooth and a special lens implanted into her eye socket.
• Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life | Mashable - 2025-08-14 - - Brilliant illustrations bring this 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' to life
• An update on Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch in the U.S. - Apple - 2025-08-14 - - Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users.
• Optimizing Your Debian 13 Desktop - - 2025-08-14 - - Debian 13 was released last week. This article offers some tips to help you get the most out of your new Debian desktop.
• Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN.net] - 2025-08-14 - - The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]
• Daring Fireball: Perplexity Is on the Prowl to Buy Web Browsers - 2025-08-14 - Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wild-chrome-bid-perplexity-hunting-browsers
• The case for commuting by motorcycle - Ars Technica - 2025-08-14 - Despite the reputation, it’s better, more practical transit than you might think.
• @oppi.li/journal at main · tangled - 2025-08-13 - - journaling system cobbled together with nix, vim, coreutils
• A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online | Open Culture - 2025-08-13 - - Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he'd read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it's gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who'd never heard of him before.
• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File - Alireza Bashiri - 2025-08-12 -
• Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules - 2025-08-12 - - The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.
• Roll On, You Crazy Tire! - 2025-08-12 - The team at Tuk South visited one of the tallest sand dunes in Chile and did the obvious: threw a tire down it and followed it w
• Signal boss: ‘disturbing’ laws show the UK doesn’t understand tech - 2025-08-12
• GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge - 2025-08-11 - - GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
• My dream gravel bike build - 2025-08-11 - Back in March, my bike got stolen. I own a few different bikes, but the stolen one was my main rig. It was my do anything, long distance, off-road, on-road, gravel bike that covered 90% of my riding. It was a load-bearing bike. And I was lost without it. Planning
• All-in on Omarchy at 37signals - 2025-08-10 - - We're going all-in on Omarchy at 37signals. Over the next three years, as the regular churn of hardware invites it, we're switching everyone on our Ops and Ruby programming teams to our own Arch-derived Linux distribution (and of course sharing all the improvements we make along the way with everyone else on Omarchy!). It's funny how n...
• Writing Your Own Simple Tab-Completions for Bash and Zsh :: The Mill Build Tool - 2025-08-10 -
• Jim Lovell, former astronaut and Apollo 13 commander, has died : NPR - 2025-08-08 - Lovell commanded the mission that almost ended in disaster after an explosion that threatened the crew's oxygen and electrical supply. The inspiring story of their survival was made into a hit movie.
• Hottest August day ever in Phoenix at 118 degrees - 2025-08-08 - Phoenix experienced its hottest August day on record Thursday, with a high temperature of 118 degrees.
• Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi - Ars Technica - 2025-08-08 - - Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.
• Cockatoos that feel the beat perform 30 distinct dance moves, study shows - ABC News - 2025-08-08 - Cockatoos can headbang, body roll and sidestep intentionally to music according to a new study. One bird recorded 257 dance moves while listening to music for 20 minutes. 
• The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg - 2025-08-07 - - How to migrate (multiple) static websites from GitHub to Codeberg.
• We replaced passwords with something worse | Blog - Daniel Huang - 2025-08-07 - - where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
• Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share : Juha-Matti Santala - 2025-08-06 - - I love dotfiles and I love sharing. But I have this weird feeling that sharing my dotfiles is too intimate and personal.
• How to Integrate Claude Code with Neovim Using Ghostty Terminal Panes | Daniel Miessler - 2025-08-06 - Learn how to seamlessly integrate Claude Code AI assistant with Neovim using Ghostty terminal panes for an enhanced coding workflow
• Daring Fireball: Cloudflare: 'Perplexity Is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers to Evade Website No-Crawl Directives' - 2025-08-06 - Link to: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
• The McDonald’s Quarter Pounder With Cheese Is a Lie. A Delicious Lie. - 2025-08-06 - Some facts about the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese: 1. As you can see in the photo above, purportedly taken in 1
• Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About | Techdirt - 2025-08-06 - - Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
• You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack. - 2025-08-05 - - You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
• Daring Fireball: How to Leave Substack - 2025-08-05 - Link to: https://leavesubstack.com/
• BMW’s next EV is its most sustainable car yet—here’s why - Ars Technica - 2025-08-05 - The break-even point with an ICE vehicle is as little as one year.
• COMING fall 2025: Wednesday-themed intro to cello intensive – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-08-05
• A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online | Open Culture - 2025-08-05 - - Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he'd read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it's gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who'd never heard of him before.
• Valve pushes back after Mastercard denies quashing adult content on game platforms - 2025-08-05 - Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.
• Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta · baby steps - 2025-08-04 -
• Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand | PC Gamer - 2025-08-04 - - Steam and Itch.io are worried about trouble with their payment processors, and Mastercard is not a payment processor.
• Testing Kagi, a premium search engine for a broken internet | Nieman Journalism Lab - 2025-08-03 - Is replacing Google worth $10 a month?
• Welcome - Unfinished Business - 2025-08-03 - Years ago (like, stone-age-ancient-history-before-social-media-ago) I used to have a blog but I shut it down and eventually transitioned to social media platforms when they started to become a thing. Over the years I have occasionally wished I had a blog again if…
• Stealth Genetic Switch in Mosquitoes Halts Malaria Spread - 2025-08-03 - - Researchers have developed a system that blocks malaria transmission in mosquitoes, which continue to be the deadliest animals on Earth. The CRISPR-based gene-editing system changes a single molecule within mosquitoes, a tiny but effective change that stops the malaria-parasite transmission process.
• Who Wants an Oxide Rack? — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-08-03 - This guy! And at least one other guy!
• In Praise of Pencils - MacSparky - 2025-08-03 - I very much have an analog side. Sometimes I find slowing down and writing things down helps me process thoughts a little better. That doesn’t mean the things I write with paper and pencil necessarily stay that way forever, but quite often, it’s an excellent first draft. As an analog explorer, I’ve gone down the... Continue reading →
• Tesla (TSLA) is not paying its bills and it is destroying small American businesses | Electrek - 2025-08-03 - Tesla (TSLA) is not paying its bills, and this has led to at least two small American businesses going bankrupt....
• Minimal Neovim setup from scratch - 2025-08-02 - Khue's personal website
• macOS Tahoe Review: Spotlight Shines, Liquid Glass Disappoints - MacRumors - 2025-08-02 - We're on the fourth developer beta and first public beta of macOS Tahoe, which means we're getting closer to the launch version that's...
• Getting Tied Up - Allen Pike - 2025-08-02 - - On little things that get in the way.
• Lotus still knows how to make a driver’s car: The 2025 Emira V6, driven - Ars Technica - 2025-08-02 - Forget the Chinese-made Lotus EVs, its UK-made mid-engine sports car still rules.
• At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine - 2025-08-02 - - After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
• you might not need tmux: replacing tmux in my dev workflow - 2025-08-01 - - replacing tmux in my dev workflow
• Every Satellite Orbiting Earth and Who Owns Them | Dewesoft - 2025-08-01 - - Who owns our orbit? Read this article to learn which governments, organizations, and companies own and operate the most satellites orbiting our Earth.
• 3 Billion iPhones - 512 Pixels - 2025-08-01 - In January 2007, I was on a trip visiting family in rural North Carolina during the week of Macworld Expo. When I got back to my aunt’s house after a day of visiting folks, I waited as her sloooooow Internet connection loaded apple.com. What I saw blew my mind. The iPhone had been rumored, but seeing […]
• World's Longest Lightning Strike Crossed 515 Miles From Texas to Kansas : ScienceAlert - 2025-08-01 - A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for the world's longest.
• jwz: Ambient age verification - 2025-08-01 - Newgrounds, a gaming forum, has some clever ways for non-intrusively complying with the shambling disaster that is the "UK Online Safety Act". For years, I've been doing something similar to this when generating internal reports on DNA Lounge demographics: e.g., if someone bought a ticket for an 18+ event 5 years ago, they must be at least 23 years old now. Newgrounds: Here is our current ...
• Proton Releases Free Two-Factor Authentication App - MacRumors - 2025-08-01 - Proton today launched Proton Authenticator, a free two-factor authentication app available across all major platforms including iOS, Android,...
• In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network - Ars Technica - 2025-08-01 - - Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.

July 2025

• Ollama's new app · Ollama Blog - 2025-07-31 - - Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
• I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust - 2025-07-31 - - Servo was supposed to be Firefox's future. Now it's an independent effort to make a fast and secure web browser engine.
• Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death | Yle News | Yle - 2025-07-31 - A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
• YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections | TechCrunch - 2025-07-31 - - YouTube is introducing age-detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply protections.
• Daring Fireball: YouTube Is Rolling Out an Age-Estimation Algorithm to Identify US Teens - 2025-07-31 - Link to: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/youtube-rolls-out-age-estimatation-tech-to-identify-u-s-teens-and-apply-additional-protections/
• ongoing by Tim Bray · De-Google Project Update - 2025-07-30 -
• Science Is Winning the Tour de France - The Atlantic - 2025-07-30 - Why today’s competitors far surpass the cheating champions of yesteryear
• Chase Reportedly in Advanced Talks to Become New Apple Card Partner - MacRumors - 2025-07-30 - JPMorgan Chase is in "advanced talks" with Apple about becoming the Apple Card's new financial partner, according to The Wall Street...
• F1 in Belgium: The best racetrack in the world - Ars Technica - 2025-07-29 - Changeable conditions usually make for exciting races, but 2025 was a bit dull.
• Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues | WBUR - 2025-07-29 - In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
• One Foot Tsunami: The Health Insurance Blues - 2025-07-29 - Tying health insurance to jobs was really just a lousy idea.
• One Foot Tsunami: The Health Insurance Blues - 2025-07-29 - Tying health insurance to jobs was really just a lousy idea.
• jj workshop — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-07-29 - A tutorial you can follow to build your skills.
• What I Got in Murano | Whatever - 2025-07-29 - When Krissy and I went to Venice, one of the trips we had scheduled was going to the nearby island of Murano and watching some of the artisans engage in their centuries-long tradition of glass-maki…
• Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update - Ars Technica - 2025-07-27 - - Update also blocks compatibility with popular third-party apps.
• ILE Radius Mini backpack | Paul Stamatiou - 2025-07-27 - 14L ILE Radius Mini in Forest A few weeks ago I joined Sesame. It's hard to believe I now work from an office again. It's been almost 5 years that I've primarily been working from home and I really missed being in an office again. With my new commute to the office I wanted a smaller and lighter b
• Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years | Live Science - 2025-07-27 - - Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen.
• Daring Fireball: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for 'The President Violated the Constitution' - 2025-07-26 - Link to: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new-york-times-style-guide-substitutions-for-the-president-violated-the-constitution
• Discord users 'bypassing age-checks with video game characters' - 2025-07-26 - - Discord users are claiming that you can use pictures of video game characters to bypass the platform's new age verification checks.
• PayPal, Square and big banking's war on the sex industry - 2025-07-26 - For nearly a decade, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, Visa/MasterCard, and now Square, have systematically denied or closed accounts of small businesses, artists and independent contractors whose business happens to be about sex. These payment processing authorities have also coerced websites to cease featuring sexual content under threat of service withdrawal, all while blaming ambiguous rules or pressure from one another.Monday a federal appeals court ruled that pressuring credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard to stop doing business with speech-protected websites violates their First Amendment rights. Specifically ones that feature content from sex workers. And in June, the FDIC clarified that it's against the rules for businesses like PayPal, Chase and Square to refuse business or close accounts based on "high risk" assessments related to human sexuality. But it may not be enough to stop what's become an entrenched pattern of systematic discrimination by payment processors -- one that disproportionately denies financial opportunities for women.
• Why I Do Programming - 2025-07-26 - - Wiring life through programming
• #35 (Fuck) Dopamine - by Anushka Karmakar - Strayed Wolf - 2025-07-26 - - We're voluntarily breaking our own brains
• Do not download the app, use the website - 2025-07-26 - - The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed
• Git and jujutsu: in miniature - lottia notes - 2025-07-26 - - A concrete example of Git and jujutsu usage compared.
• What Even Is ‘Adult’ Content? | World of Matthew - 2025-07-25 -
• Renting is for Suckers - Andrew Kelley - 2025-07-25 -
• Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained - 2025-07-25 - «You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen to almost anyone.
• Six Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On - The Atlantic - 2025-07-24 - These movie adaptations find a way to elevate their source material.
• Air Force unit has suspended the use of a Sig Sauer pistol after the shooting death of an airman. | New Hampshire Public Radio - 2025-07-24 - - While the incident on a base in Wyoming remains under investigation, all service members in the Air Force’s Global Strike Command unit will pause use of the New Hampshire-made M18 pistol.
• Foldable iPhone's Display Sizes Leaked - MacRumors - 2025-07-24 - Apple's first foldable iPhone will be equipped with a 7.8-inch inner display, and a 5.5-inch outer display, according to Taiwanese research firm...
• Neovim, and floating terminals - 2025-07-24
• You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed — Zed's Blog - 2025-07-23 - - From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
• Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Sets Charity Record - 2025-07-23 - On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning” show, it was a massive ordeal: an all-day festival featuring most of the biggest names in metal and hard rock from across the past half-century, livestreamed to a pay-per-view audience around the world. It was also a charity event, and in that capacity, it made history.
• Ozzy Osborne died today at the age of 76. His farewell conce... - 2025-07-23 - Ozzy Osborne died today at the age of 76. His farewell concert a few weeks ago was the highest-grossing charity concert of all tim
• Programmer Przemysław Dębiak recently defeated an advanced O... - 2025-07-23 - Programmer Przemysław Dębiak recently defeated an advanced OpenAI model in a coding competition. “The contest echoes the Ame
• Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76 - 2025-07-23 - Word of Osbourne’s death came weeks after he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates.
• We shouldn’t know the intimate details of the Coldplay CEO scandal | The Independent - 2025-07-22 - As Andy Byron resigns from his role at Astronomer following the viral video that saw him embracing a colleague, Olivia Petter asks what the aftermath tells us about doxxing in the TikTok age
• Jujutsu For Busy Devs | maddie, wtf?! - 2025-07-22 -
• Being a Mastodon Moderator — Mark W.rites - 2025-07-22 - People ask me what it’s like to be a moderator. Our discussions reveal that a lot of what we do is a mystery. So, I’m gonna lay it out ...
• Salary Transparency · Matthew Sanabria - 2025-07-22 - Thoughts on salary transparency and my salary history.
• Radio geeks say you can still get 'lost' DoD hurricane data • The Register - 2025-07-21 - - : Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
• “You Feel Like Your Life is Over”: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 | HRW - 2025-07-21 - The 92-page report, “‘You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025,” documents that people detained at Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome), Broward Transitional Center (BTC), and the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Miami have been held in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions and subjected to degrading treatment, and have not been given access to prompt and adequate medical care. The groups also reported the experiences of 17 immigrants in at the three detention facilities since January 20.   
• Daring Fireball: HRW Report Documents Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 - 2025-07-21 - Link to: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration
• The "Why I want to leave" list - by Dunya Kirkali - 2025-07-21 - - A Professional's guide to self-awareness
• They're putting blue food coloring in everything - 2025-07-21 - - "Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
• Jim Boggia at the Old Church | Whatever - 2025-07-21 - After we purchased the Methodist Church building here in town, one of the things we said that we wanted was to keep it part of the community, and not just our own office building. One way we were t…
• Australia Wants To See Your Papers Before You Press Play - 2025-07-20 - - Julie Inman Grant targets YouTube as Australia moves to impose digital ID rules.
• Speeding Up My ZSH Shell ⚡ - Scott Spence - 2025-07-20 - - Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ag...
• Rands Cheat Sheet, #1 – Rands in Repose - 2025-07-20 - - There's a lot of content hiding in the Rands archives from the past three decades. Over the years, some of that content keeps showing up. I keep forwarding the same links to the same articles; I get asked the same questions at Q&A. I've decided to synthesize the advice into a single artifact. M
• NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency - 2025-07-20 - Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
• How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five - 2025-07-20 - It's the first AI tool that feels like delegating to a colleague, not prompting a chatbot
• I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1 - @yberreby - 2025-07-20 -
• jwz: "Visit Dubai!" - 2025-07-19 - Caitlín Doherty: I went to Dubai wrongheaded. I learnt nothing and left nauseated. I had thought it would be fun -- funny, even -- to experience the disorientation of standing at the pivot point between two world systems. Instead, it was merely disorientating -- sickeningly so. There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies. Its ...
• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup - 2025-07-19 -
• Welcome to Ghost – Rands in Repose - 2025-07-19 - One of the more interesting robot-assisted tools I’ve built in the last few months is tracking the various metrics for Rands-related properties. Think social like Mastodon, BlueSky, and Threads. Think blog analytics like new users, session duration, and popular articles. I’ve been plopping this data
• Fascism For First Time Founders | Techdirt - 2025-07-19 - - Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
• Daring Fireball: Curse Not the King - 2025-07-18 - - Why CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” stinks to high hell.
• Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning – Mother Jones - 2025-07-18 - CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
• Criticism Capture — Liss is More - 2025-07-18 - Read more on Liss is More
• Daring Fireball: Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks - 2025-07-18 - Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/
• Jared Leto is the ultimate soldier in new TRON: Ares trailer - Ars Technica - 2025-07-18 - “He’s biblically strong, lightning fast, and supremely intelligent”—and very dispensable.
• Trump’s claims of a Coca-Cola agreement quickly go flat as nutritionists groan - Ars Technica - 2025-07-18 - Whichever sweetener is used, Coke is still crammed with sugar.
• How Jackie Chan Filmed the Best Fight Scene in Cinema History | Open Culture - 2025-07-18 - Though now in his seventies, Jackie Chan continues to appear on the big screen with regularity.
• Two Simple Rules to Fix Code Reviews - 2025-07-17 - - This article describes how following two simple code review rules can make code reviews a great instrument, not a hurdle you have to go through.
• A Rust shaped hole | mnvr.in - 2025-07-17 - - Without writing a single line of Rust, why I feel it might be right
• At the End - 2025-07-17 - “What,” I have often asked myself, “must it have been to live through the rise of Nazi Germany? What did people do?”
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Memory in Saskatchewan - 2025-07-17
• Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog - 2025-07-17 - - How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
• The life swap dream – or a marketing gimmick? The Italian towns selling houses for €1 | Housing | The Guardian - 2025-07-16 - - The long read: Frustrated with my life back in the US, I was captivated by the idea of a new home – and new life – for less than the price of an espresso. So I travelled to Italy to find out whether it was too good to be true
• Daring Fireball: The Party of 'Free Speech' - 2025-07-15 - Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/trump-rosie-odonnell-citizenship-free-speech/683530/
• no days off - 2025-07-15 - - A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement
• Hertz AI Scanner Charges $350 for Tiny 'Dings' on Rental and This Is Going Off the Rails - 2025-07-15 - - More Hertz customers are learning that if you rent from a lot with an AI scanner, chances are it'll charge you for the tiniest things.
• One Foot Tsunami: Rental Car Damages Should Not Be a Profit Center - 2025-07-15 - Normal wear and tear is a thing.
• The hunt for a perfect laptop continues – Adventures in Linux and KDE - 2025-07-14 - - This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and …
• Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP - Ars Technica - 2025-07-14 - Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.
• Chimborazo - Wikipedia - 2025-07-14 -
• Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure - Ars Technica - 2025-07-13 - Sure, the plot lacks originality but it’s a solid B movie—and H.R. Giger designed the alien lifeform.
• Watch Queen's Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985) | Open Culture - 2025-07-13 - “The last people anyone expected to come out of that gig as being the memorable ones was Queen,” said Bob Geldof in an interview, looking back at the band’s stunning 24 minute set at Live Aid on July 13, 1985.
• Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage - Ars Technica - 2025-07-13 - - Although she eventually recovered, she was close to needing a liver transplant.
• Today In “Prices Aren’t Real” | Whatever - 2025-07-12 - So, if I want to buy a 100 Grand candy bar (or an Almond Joy, or a Heath Bar, or whatever), and I go to the candy aisle in the local gas station, or the one in the IGA, the candy bar will cost abou…
• Same Stop - 2025-07-12
• Air India crash: Fuel switches cut off before crash, preliminary report says - live updates - BBC News - 2025-07-12 - - In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he "did the cut-off".
• German backpacker Carolina Wilga found alive in WA's outback | RNZ News - 2025-07-11 - Carolina Wilga, 26, has been missing for 12 days in Western Australia.
• Stephen King's Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books | Open Culture - 2025-07-11 - Image by The USO, via Flickr Commons So you might think that if Stephen King – the guy who wrote such horror classics like Carrie and The Stand – were to rattle off his top ten favorite books, it would feature works by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or maybe J. R. R.
• Rare pygmy hippo born in Kansas zoo offers hope for endangered species - 2025-07-10 - A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species that’s becoming rare in the wild. The yet-to-be-named male pygmy hippo calf, born June 26, is the fifth offspring of parents Pluto and Posie since their arrival at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in […]
• Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens | KPBS Public Media - 2025-07-09 - Research shows worksite immigration raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money. So far, they aren’t known to free up jobs for citizens.
• Cables not included – Blankbaby - 2025-07-09 - One of the most frustrating things about modern life is updates. You get a new computer, video game, or gadget, and you’re so excited to use it. You set it up, connect to the Internet, and wa…
• Archaeologists Found a 6-Foot Sarcophagus at the Bottom of a Forgotten Staircase - 2025-07-09 - The rock-cut tombs require stone stairs to access
• You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log - 2025-07-08 - - Maybe you, yes you, should run a Certificate Transparency log. It’s cheaper, easier, and more important than ever.
• List of known websites using Anubis | Anubis - 2025-07-08 - This page contains a non-exhaustive list with all websites using Anubis.
• Stop putting nix setup in your checked-in .envrc files - Ideas.Offby1 - 2025-07-08 - - Nix-using developers who use direnv, please stop checking in your .envrc files; they break your project for other contributors.
• The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess - 2025-07-08 -
• One month of using iOS/MacOS developer builds - 2025-07-07 - Every June, Apple shows off new features coming to their devices at WWDC, but it was only a couple years ago when I realized I was no longer working at a big company with security protocols that prohibited beta software, so I could install them on day one. So I
• Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30 - Ars Technica - 2025-07-07 - - Ron Howard’s 1995 love letter to NASA’s Apollo program takes a few historical liberties but it still inspires awe.
• Almost Fired - 2025-07-07 -
• Apple's $350 Million Gamble on 'F1' Is Starting to Pay Off - MacRumors - 2025-07-07 - Apple's latest original film, "F1: The Movie," has become the company's highest-grossing theatrical release to date, earning over...
• Subscriptions That Respect Users — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-07-06 - JetBrains has a sensible model for subscriptions: once you pay for a version, it is yours. Would that other vendors would follow suit.
• Vim Setup - 2025-07-06 -
• Vim Setup - 2025-07-06 -
• Elon Musk says he's created new political party - 2025-07-06 - Elon Musk, the world's richest man, suggests the new party would focus "on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts."
• Vim Setup - 2025-07-06 -
• Kevin Kelly’s flounder mode - 2025-07-05 - Brie Wolfson visits Kevin Kelly and explores an alternative to Silicon Valley culture.
• Relocating to the Netherlands with DAFT - HedgeDoc - 2025-07-05 - What to expect when relocating to the Netherlands with the DAFT visa
• Hyper Case: Designing my own keyboard case - 2025-07-05 - - The Hyper case is my latest design project. It's a custom-made case for the Halcyon Elora Split keyboard made by the company splitkb.com. I already published it on my website under the "Design & Works" page. But subscribers don't get a notification of those additions, so I thought I’d
• In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home - 2025-07-05 - - For six years, two photographers have carefully followed the canines and documented their secret lives
• Drone captures Greenland ice tearing open to reveal humungous animal beneath | Discover Wildlife - 2025-07-04 - The colossal marine creature can be seen breaking through the ice to take several breaths of air before returning to the deep.
• I didn’t suddenly return to Mastodon – Lisa Melton - 2025-07-04 - When referring to December of 2024 like this in my previous post: "For those on Mastodon, do you recall me just sort of disappearing for several weeks of that month?" …some readers were… confused? Apparently, they somehow thought I had suddenly returned to Mastodon when that post was published two weeks ago. They thought that [...]
• Git experts should try Jujutsu · pksunkara - 2025-07-04 - - My personal blog
• Lucky 13 Lobsters | Lobsters - 2025-07-04
• Man’s ghastly festering ulcer stumps doctors—until they cut out a wedge of flesh - Ars Technica - 2025-07-04 - The man made a full recovery, but this tale is not for the faint of heart.
• Astronomers may have found a third interstellar object - Ars Technica - 2025-07-03 - The object has a very high eccentricity.
• Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage — Zed's Blog - 2025-07-03 - - From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.
• The Titanic's Best Lifeboat - 99% Invisible - 2025-07-02 - - Everyone grows up learning the same story about the RMS Titanic, that when the ship set out on its maiden voyage in 1912, the owners and authorities, confident that the ship was unsinkable, did not require it to carry a full complement of lifeboats. So when the Titanic sank in the frigid waters of the
• swissmiss | Sides Of The Mountain - 2025-07-02 - “It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.” – Robert M. Pirsig (via)
• git stage over git add | Jayesh Bhoot - 2025-07-02 -
• A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things - 2025-07-02 - Bumblebee, honey bee, yellow jacket, paper wasp…what’s the difference? I don’t know if this comprehensive guid
• Anthropic’s AI fluency course - 2025-07-01 - Anthropic has released a free 12-lesson course teaching effective AI collaboration through four core competencies: delegation, description, discernment, and diligence.
• Anthropic’s AI fluency course - 2025-07-01 - Anthropic has released a free 12-lesson course teaching effective AI collaboration through four core competencies: delegation, description, discernment, and diligence.
• Feedback: working state, mobile rollovers, and IP filtering - 2025-07-01

June 2025

• The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering - 2025-06-30 - - Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.
• Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer - 2025-06-30 - I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make
• Apple Will Delay Bringing New Features to Users in the EU - MacRumors - 2025-06-30 - Apple will delay bringing some features to users in the European Union because regulations are making it increasingly difficult for it to do so, the...
• Coeur d’Alene, Idaho: Multiple firefighters shot while responding to a brush fire | CNN - 2025-06-30 - Multiple firefighters have been shot while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to Northern Lakes Fire Protection Chief Pat Riley.
• Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books That Will Transport You to Other Worlds - The New York Times - 2025-06-29
• An Indoor Beehive In My Bedroom Wall Keeping Backyard Bees - 2025-06-29 - - Once again, I find myself gloriously behind the times. In this particular case, a few thousand years behind the times. I built and maintain a wall beehive Your house walls may be a perfect home for your bees.
• The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) – Desktop On Fire! - 2025-06-29 -
• Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data - 2025-06-29 -
• catching halos on the moon – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-06-28 - I had such a good time with my garden last season. It was the first time I had ever capital-t Tended a garden in my life, and it was a deeply meaningful experience for me. I learned a lot about mys…
• Amp is now available. Here's how I use it. - Amp - 2025-06-28 - - Amp is now available. Here is how I use it.
• American - kieranhealy.org - 2025-06-28 - In 1995, at the beginning of the last week of August, on the afternoon of an inhumanly hot and intolerably humid day, I arrived at Newark Airport to live in the United States. I was twenty two years old and about to start as a graduate student at Princeton. I have been here more or less the whole time since. I spent six years on an F-1 Visa while getting my PhD. After that, I lived and worked in Tucson for seven years. My conception of what counts as an inhumanly hot day changed. During that time I was on an H1-B Visa sponsored by my employer, the University of Arizona. Subsequently, I was granted Permanent Residency—a Green Card—through marriage. In 2009 I moved to North Carolina. My conception of what counts as an intolerably humid day changed. I am an immigrant to this country. I have made my life here. My two children are Americans. And now, as of yesterday, so am I.
• I Deleted My Second Brain - 2025-06-28 - - Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
• The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet - 2025-06-28 - - Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare
• Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death | Classical music | The Guardian - 2025-06-28 - - Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album
• Daring Fireball: RFK Jr.’s CDC Panel Ditches Some Flu Shots Based on Anti-Vaccine Junk Data - 2025-06-28 - Link to: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/rfk-jr-s-cdc-panel-ditches-some-flu-shots-based-on-anti-vaccine-junk-data/
• The 2017 Charlize Theron Action Cult Classic You Didn’t Know Was Based On A Comic Book | Thought Catalog - 2025-06-28 - Charlize Theron’s ‘Atomic Blonde’ is based on a highly rated graphic novel.
• Briefly, Venice | Whatever - 2025-06-27 - For our 25th anniversary, Krissy and I were planning to go to Iceland and spend a week or so there, getting to know the country. Then the pandemic happened and we ended up spending the anniversary …
• Bank of America bungled mortgage records – and sued Mass. homeowners to fix them | WBUR News - 2025-06-27 - Bank of America discharged over 16,000 old mortgages after a merger with Fleet. Then it discovered more than hundreds of the loans had never been paid off after all. The bank has sued over 100 of homeowners in Massachusetts to reinstate the mortgages.
• An Ephemeral Work Journal: The Kokuyo Campus 20 Ring Binder – Joseph Dickson - 2025-06-27 - While looking for a thin, lightweight, ephemeral work journal I experimented with the Kokuyo Campus…
• San Francisco bookstore stops selling J.K. Rowling titles due to 'Harry Potter' author's anti-trans views - 2025-06-26 - The Booksmith team said on Instagram that Rowling’s new "women's fund" was the last straw.
• This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World - 2025-06-26 - Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels
• The City of Memphis Conducted Air Quality Tests in Response to Community Concerns Over xAI - 512 Pixels - 2025-06-26 - After months of reporting and community concern, the city of Memphis has released its findings of air quality testing that took place near xAI’s two data centers. The PDF of those results can be seen here, and for more, we turn to Samuel Hardiman: The city tested at Macedonia Missionary Baptist in Boxtown, which is […]
• Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film - 2025-06-26 - Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio abruptly announced on Wednesday.
• jwz: Wayland screenshots - 2025-06-25 - To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I'd try something "simple"... Let's see if there's some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far: Words mean nothing: a "window manager" is now called a "compositor", and a "graphical desktop environment" is now called a "shell". Wayland
• jwz: FuckLAPD dot com: - 2025-06-25 - Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops: "We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up," McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. "fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests ...
• Apple's New Alarm Design in iOS 26 Might Make You Oversleep - MacRumors - 2025-06-25 - In the iOS 26 beta, Apple has redesigned the alarm screen in the Clock app, giving it a cleaner look with a larger time display and significantly...
• Central Park hits temp record last seen on this date in 1888 as heat wave hits eastern US | CNN - 2025-06-24 - - New York’s Central Park tied a record high of 96 degrees for the date Monday, which was set in 1888. In neighboring New Jersey, 16 people were sent to the emergency room following a sweltering set of graduations. And in Baltimore, a malfunctioning Amtrak train left riders temporarily stranded without air conditioning in the depths of its tunnel system.
• ‘Dragon prince’ dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree - 2025-06-24 - - The dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, is an ancestor of the mighty tyrannosaurs.
• Back in the Day and Here and Now | Whatever - 2025-06-24 - My friend George sent me this picture of me and Krissy — which I had been literally trying to find for years! — where she and I were at the wedding of my friend Clete. I was a groomsman…
• how i use my terminal - 2025-06-23 - - i have gone a little above and beyond trying to get all the features of VSCode
• The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next? - The Atlantic - 2025-06-23 - President Trump is taking an enormous risk.
• Off to Portland, Oregon – Blankbaby - 2025-06-23 - I grew up just outside New York City in a place called Yonkers (made famous by Hello, Dolly, Neil Simon, and a lotto commercial). As a kid, we rarely went into NYC, but despite that, it never occur…
• No, I’m not okay – Lisa Melton - 2025-06-22 - But thanks for asking. My post here should be a celebration of my coming out publicly. On Mastodon, no less. Two years ago today. Yay! I'm still so surprised at and so grateful for the positive reaction I received there. Those are good people. But this is more than an anniversary party. It's a vulgar [...]
• To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, - 2025-06-22 - To the people I know who voted for him,
• What is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made? | Proceedings - October 2019 Vol. 145/10/1,400 - 2025-06-22 - - Readers proffer their choice for this thought-provoking question—though one film stands out above them all.
• html - RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags - Stack Overflow - 2025-06-22 -
• Cosmoe - 2025-06-21 -
• in the heat of the summer better call out a plumber – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-06-21 - Back in the old days, the good old days, when it was generally accepted that Fascism and Nazis were bad, bloggers would write these posts that were sort of recaps of what we were doing, what we&#82…
• Man’s health crashes after getting donated kidney—it was riddled with worms - Ars Technica - 2025-06-21 - Rare cases like this have led to changes in organ screening protocols.
• Formula One Cars Are Fast. Like Super Fast. - 2025-06-20 - Speaking of what fast looks like, here’s a pair of synced videos that show just how fast F1 cars are. On the left are driver
• No Learnings - 2025-06-20
• 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved | CBC Radio - 2025-06-20 - The Shining is hailed as a spine-tingling horror classic, gripping audiences with its chilling psychological twists. It’s also mired with countless conspiracy theories. Now, one of those theories has finally been cracked: the mystery of where the infamous final photo, which ends the film on a haunting cliffhanger, came from.
• Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad's Essence - MacStories - 2025-06-20 - - It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and members of the press around Apple’s campus, it
• The Giant Octobass Plays Notes So Low Humans Can't Hear Them - Atlas Obscura - 2025-06-20 - - There are only seven known examples of this rare string instrument in the world.
• persistent.info: Infinite Mac OS X - 2025-06-20 -
• lift every voice and sing – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-06-20 - Lift every voice and sing,’Til earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song fu…
• it picks me up, puts me down – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-06-20 - I’ve been open and unashamed about my mental health struggles and triumphs, always willing to talk about my CPTSD, always willing to supportively listen when someone chooses to share their ex…
• Posterior Tibialis Tendinopathy vs Plantar Fasciitis - The Important Difference - [P]rehab - 2025-06-19 - Can't seem to tackle that plantar fasciitis? Have you looked into your posterior tibialis muscle? Dive into this blog to learn more!
• I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice — fireborn - 2025-06-19 -
• This $7,000 single-seat electric car has become a hit in Japan - The Japan Times - 2025-06-19 - In the rural suburbs of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup is trying to kick-start the nation’s electric vehicle market with the smallest, cheapest car it can possibly make.
• John Gruber Reacts to Apple Declining His Interview After His Criticism - MacRumors - 2025-06-19 - Every year between 2015 and 2024, at least one Apple executive agreed to be interviewed by Daring Fireball's John Gruber for a special WWDC...
• Downloaded more for business, or pleasure? - 2025-06-19 - - This mini-project was inspired by this tweet: After which I spent about two hours making a small script that grabs data from the rust package repository crates.io, and analyses the ...
• “Have we no shame?”: Trump’s NIH grant cuts appallingly illegal, judge rules - Ars Technica - 2025-06-18 - Trump ordered to restore funding for minority, LGBTQ+ health research.
• LLMs are weird computers - 2025-06-18 - Philip Carter calls LLMs “weird computers” because they excel at fuzzy tasks but struggle with precision - the inverse of traditional PCs.
• My First WWDC, 20 Years in the Making - 2025-06-17 - A 20-year journey, from my first Mac in 2005, to attending my first WWDC in-person, and all the incredible people I met along the way.
• Changes to Kubernetes Slack | Kubernetes Contributors - 2025-06-17 - - Kubernetes Slack will lose its special status and will be changing into a standard free Slack on June 20. Sometime later this year, our community will likely move to a new platform. If you are responsible for a channel or private channel, or a member of a User Group, you will need to take some actions as soon as you can. For the last decade, Slack has supported our project with a free customized enterprise account.
• no hello - 2025-06-17 - - please don't say just hello in chat
• A free agent again, for now - 2025-06-17 - After over 4 years at Shopify, I’m a free agent again. The AI revolution feels like 1997’s web all over again. It’s time to step back and reflect on what I’ve learned and what’s next.
• Spigen's Latest Apple Watch Charger Looks Like a Retro iMac - MacRumors - 2025-06-17 - Spigen recently expanded its C1 series with an Apple Watch charger that's designed to look like Apple's retro iMac G3. For those unfamiliar...
• Apple's Terminal App Gets Colorful Redesign in macOS Tahoe - MacRumors - 2025-06-16 - Apple's Terminal app is getting a visual refresh in macOS Tahoe, and it's the first notable design update since the command-line tool...
• Proposal For A New Finder Icon | D. Griffin Jones - 2025-06-16 - I would like to present, in response to the widely criticized Finder icon in macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 1, the icon I created in literally fifteen minutes.
• A Simple Fix for Tahoe's Finder Icon - 512 Pixels - 2025-06-16 - D. Griffin Jones: I would like to present, in response to the widely criticized Finder icon in macOS Tahoe Developer Beta 1, the icon I created in literally fifteen minutes with Pixelmator Pro and Apple’s own Icon Composer. Apple could very easily keep the icon’s historical appearance without compromising the Liquid Glass aesthetic by just… flipping the […]
• Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable - Our World in Data - 2025-06-16 - - Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would quickly die from it. Now, most children in rich countries are cured.
• Blogs are still a thing - 82MHz - 2025-06-15
• The Big Red W – Rands in Repose - 2025-06-15 - - I was lying on the 22nd floor of The Standard1 I was three martinis up the Hudson and surfing YouTube when the new Superman trailer dropped. This one: This trailer hit me hard. The prior Superman, as we'll read about in a moment, was a watered-down meh version of the hero. This brand-new take on
• Email list redux – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-06-14
• AI thinks fast, so think slow - 2025-06-14 - It’s useful to treat LLM outputs as System 1 thinking (fast, reflexive, pattern-matching) while you provide System 2 oversight (deliberate, logical). This framework helps maintain thoughtful human judgment in AI interactions.
• strace tips for better debugging | A Random Walk - 2025-06-14 - - Recently, I have been building software without libc to better understand Linux syscalls and internals better. So far, I have built a minimal shell, terminal Snake game, pure ARM64 assembly HTTP server and threads implementation. I have been using strace extensively while debugging. Useful options and flags I use a version of the following command: strace -fintrCDTYyy -o strace.log -v -s128 ./binary This looks like an alphabet soup of options! Here’s what they do and how they are useful: -f: Follow child processes/threads. This is especially useful when dealing with spawning processes or threads as otherwise, strace will only trace the parent process. -v: Print unabbreviated versions of environment, stat, termios and other structs in syscalls. I found this invaluable in conjunction with -s when doing assembly programming to check if the structs were being initialized correctly and if certain arguments were being sent in little/big endian format -s NUM: Specify the maximum string size to print. Useful for large structs -o: Save strace output to a log file. It is always better to do this to investigate the output of the original process and strace separately without each cluttering the other -yy: Print all available information associated with file descriptors. This is great for expanding the file descriptor to either its full path in case of a file or TCP address in case of sockets -Y: Print command names for PIDs. I found this useful when building the shell to check if the correct program is being executed -t: Print current timestamp in log -T: Show time spent in syscalls. Useful for some basic profiling although strace heavily slows down the process. -r: Print a relative timestamp upon entry to each system call -n: Print syscall number. Great to quickly find out syscall numbers on new architectures. -i: Print instruction pointer at the time of syscall. Found this useful when debugging assembly code to check rough location of errors. -C: Print summary of syscall count, time, errors at the end of regular output Print stack traces The -k or --stack-trace prints the stacktrace along with the syscall. This is useful if your program is compiled with with -g. This post is a good read on using strace to show backtraces for a Golang program compiled with GODEBUG.
• Review: The John Wick franchise is alive and kicking with Ballerina - Ars Technica - 2025-06-14 - With her fierce performance, Ana de Armas proves she’s well up to the task of carrying on the Wick legacy.
• I Couldn't Stop Thinking About This Cake, So I Tracked Down The Recipe | Cup of Jo - 2025-06-14 - A cake so good, I ate it for breakfast.
• inessential: Saturday March - 2025-06-14
• Zed’s agentic editing features released - 2025-06-14 - Zed’s new agentic coding feature is out, and it’s really good. This is great news for those of us that want to work with LLMs in a faster environment than VSCode provides.
• Everyone Definitely Having A Normal One Over Greta Thunberg - 2025-06-13 - The absolute rage the activist inspires in the world's worst men is one of her most admirable qualities.
• WWDC 2025 Reactions — Liss is More - 2025-06-13 - Some gut reactions to WWDC, both as a member of the commentariat, as well as a developer.
• Every Default macOS Wallpaper - in Glorious 6K Resolution - 512 Pixels - 2025-06-12 - - Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays. If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release […]
• iOS 26 Adds Custom Snooze Times After Years of 9-Minute Tyranny - MacRumors - 2025-06-11 - In iOS 26, Apple is introducing a deceptively simple feature that could transform your morning routine: customizable alarm snooze intervals. The...
• Apple 'Sherlocked' These Apps at WWDC 2025 - MacRumors - 2025-06-11 - Apple at WWDC previewed a bunch of new features coming in its updated operating systems, but certain changes will have been met with dismay by...
• macOS Tahoe is More Customizable in Three Ways - MacRumors - 2025-06-11 - The upcoming macOS Tahoe update that Apple previewed this week gives the Mac more personality, with several new customization options. iOS 18...
• WWDC 2025 Proved That Apple Learned a Valuable Lesson - MacRumors - 2025-06-11 - At its WWDC 2024 keynote last year, Apple previewed a more personalized version of Siri that has since been delayed until next year. Subsequently,...
• “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion. - 2025-06-11 - - You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
• jwz: Thermal Runaway - 2025-06-10 - Why did the fires cause such obliteration? The answer starts with the battery. Each I-Pace can carry roughly 90 kilowatt-hours of stored chemical energy, comparable to about 170 pounds (77 kilograms) of TNT. That energy is distributed across hundreds of lithium-ion pouch cells, which are sealed in flammable electrolyte and separated by polymer films as thin as snack-bag plastic. When any one ...
• Daring Fireball: ‘Apple Retreats’ - 2025-06-10 - Link to: https://stratechery.com/2025/apple-retreats/
• Solar panels to be legal requirement in French car parks - 2025-06-10 - France passes law to make solar compulsory in all car parks with more than 80 spaces
• New iOS 26 Setting Fixes Annoying Auto Audio Switching Issue - MacRumors - 2025-06-10 - Apple's first iOS 26 beta includes a new "Keep Audio in Headphones" setting that addresses a common frustration for iPhone users juggling...
• watchOS 26 Features New Gesture to Dismiss Notifications - MacRumors - 2025-06-10 - Apple in watchOS 26 has added a new one-handed wrist-flick gesture to easily dismiss notifications, but the gesture only works on newer Apple Watch...
• The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved? | Open Culture - 2025-06-10 - Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives refer to as 'Dead Mountain.' That didn't stop the Dyatlov Hiking Group, who set out on a sixteen-day skiing expedition across the northern Urals in late January of 1959.
• Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More - Phoronix - 2025-06-09 -
• History Repeats • furbo.org - 2025-06-09 - - I’ve been developing on Apple products for a long time: typing PEEK and POKE code from magazines into an Apple ][, figuring out how QuickDraw worked using the Inside Macintosh pre-prints, having my mind blown by Mac OS X and every new thing prefixed with “NS”, and then jailbreaking the first iPhone so I could […]
• Folklore.org: Signing Party - 2025-06-08
• Hypercritical: Apple Turnaround - 2025-06-08 -
• swissmiss | Hypotheticals - 2025-06-07 - Visit the post for more.
• Daring Fireball: Thomas Ptacek: 'My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts' - 2025-06-07 - Link to: https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/?ueid=4b93173967d7dc762529a10418e85007
• Daring Fireball: Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74 - 2025-06-07 - - Link to: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10238073579963378&id=1378467145&_rdr
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation - 2025-06-07 - - There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
• Automatic dark mode for Terminal Apps, Revisited - 2025-06-07 - Four years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining how I set up automatic dark mode for my terminal apps. Back then, it needed some workarounds— Fish scripts, AppleScript installation, and other tricks to make everything sync together. I can't say it was easy. The scripts were simple, but there
• Bernini’s Ratto di Proserpina - 2025-06-07 - I’m in Rome with my family to celebrate a milestone. We went to the Borghese Gallery this morning and I got to see my fa
• What would happen if Trump retaliated against Musk’s companies? - Ars Technica - 2025-06-07 - “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”…
• inessential: Retirement Day - 2025-06-06 -
• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful | Jeff Geerling - 2025-06-06 -
• Take Control of Favicons in Safari's Favorites Bar - MacRumors - 2025-06-05 - Since Safari 17 and macOS Sonoma, Apple's browser has supported favicons in the Favorites bar. Keep reading to learn why favicons can be useful,...
• iOS 26 to Upgrade CarPlay in Two Ways - MacRumors - 2025-06-04 - While the spotlight has been on CarPlay Ultra lately, the regular version of CarPlay is set to receive some enhancements alongside iOS 26. Apple...
• Flexoki — Steph Ango - 2025-06-04 - - An inky color scheme for prose and code.
• How to Vim: Reloading File Buffers - (think) - 2025-06-04 - In Vim (and many other editors) we interact with the contents of files via the “file buffer” abstraction. Basically, that’s the in-memory representation of a file within a text editor, that occasionally gets synchronized with the disk one (the actual file).
• How to Vim: Proper Ways to Escape - (think) - 2025-06-04 - ESC (Escape) is one of the most central key in the world of Vim. It takes you from Insert mode to Normal mode and it also serves to interrupt operations in progress in Vim. You’ll be using it a lot!
• Don't McBlock me - 2025-06-03 - - “That cannot be done.” Is rarely true, but it’s a phrase I’ve heard more and more from technical people without offering any rationale or further explanation...
• I Live Here Now – Rands in Repose - 2025-06-03 - I had a dog, his name was Marleau. He was a Boston Terrier, and he just wasn't that smart. His nickname was "Derpity Doo" because he was was that derpy. We all loved him a lot. One day, we visited my parents, and we brought the Derp along. We got in the house, let him off the leash, and forgot abou
• Large Language Muddle • Jason Santa Maria - 2025-06-03 - Notes to my future self about AI, the web, and what it means to keep making things.
• AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow | InfoWorld - 2025-06-03 - - How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.
• Daring Fireball: Apple Appeals EU’s March Ruling on ‘Interoperability’ Requirements Under the DMA - 2025-06-03 - - https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/02/apple-eu-interoperability-appeal/
• My experience with Canonical's interview process - 2025-06-02 - - Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
• Thrive in obscurity - 2025-06-02 - - The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway.
• Taylor Swift buys back first 6 albums, now owns all her music | AP News - 2025-06-01 - - Taylor Swift says she’s has regained control over her entire body of work. In a lengthy note posted to her official website on Friday, Swift announced that all the music she’s ever made now belongs to her.
• How to Vim: Jump Around - (think) - 2025-06-01 - One of the most important aspects of effective editing is to be able to quickly move where you want to go in a buffer - e.g. to a specific line, paragraph, character, word, etc.

May 2025

• Inboxes are Underrated - 2025-05-31 - - On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.
• Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments: Digital Photography Review - 2025-05-31 - - Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
• HellCaptcha: Accessibility Theater at Its Worst — fireborn - 2025-05-30 -
• Retreating to Safety – Marco.org - 2025-05-30 -
• Sony XM6 Headphones | Paul Stamatiou - 2025-05-30 - I've had my AirPods Max for 4.5 years now, and I've been happy with them. They have great noise-cancelling performance paired with the typical high quality you'd expect from Apple. They were also the first pair of headphones where the transparency mode was great and felt good enough to use for meeti
• Exclusive: US Airlines Are Quietly Hitting Solo & Biz Travelers with Higher Fares - 2025-05-30 - - It's not just Delta. The country's three largest airlines are charging some solo travelers higher fares than groups of two or more.
• I am disappointed in the AI discourse - 2025-05-30 -
• Daring Fireball: Trump's Entire Tariff Endeavor Ruled Illegal by U.S. Court of International Trade - 2025-05-29 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/business/trump-tariffs-blocked-federal-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K08.Dopk.xjccPnSSgb59&smid=url-share
• How to fix email encryption - Konstantin Weddige - 2025-05-29 - - Jan Wildeboer’s thread on setting up a cooperative CA inspired me to finally write down (and then forget about them again for over a week) my thoughts on a related topic: Email encryption. With PGP and S/MIME, we already have two mature solutions for sending encrypted emails that have been around for decades. And while there are a few issues here and there, we can essentially consider the problem solved. If it wasn’t for the UX…
• Swiss glacier collapse buries most of village of Blatten - 2025-05-29 - Many homes in Blatten have been flattened after a large chunk of the Birch glacier fell on to the village.
• Daring Fireball: The Resistance Is Working Better Than You Think - 2025-05-29 - Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/28/the-resistance-is-working-better-than-you-think/
• Getting a Cease and Desist from Waffle House | Jack's Blog - 2025-05-28 - - Bit of a sticky situation.
• Mark Gurman: Apple to Move to Years for OS Version Numbers - 512 Pixels - 2025-05-28 - Writing on Mastodon: Apple will announce its biggest ever software rebrand at WWDC, tied to operating system redesigns. Apple is moving from version numbers to years (like Windows in the 90s). The new OSs: iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26. SIGN. ME. UP.
• An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-05-28 - Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
• Apple Card Savings Account's Interest Rate Lowered Again - MacRumors - 2025-05-28 - The interest rate on Apple Card's savings account was today lowered from 3.75% to 3.65%—an all-time low. The drop follows the last interest...
• Daring Fireball: On the Engineering Talent at IO - 2025-05-27 - Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/sam-and-jony-and-skepticism/
• They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering? - The New York Times - 2025-05-27 - A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased.
• Cook tries to find an off-ramp – Six Colors - 2025-05-27 - Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends
• An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-05-27 - Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
• Remembering Daniel Williams — Liss is More - 2025-05-27 - I lost an internet friend last week, and I'm still processing it.
• Apple Explains How the App Store Keeps Users Safe in Very Big Ways - MacRumors - 2025-05-27 - Apple today shared a variety of statistics that are intended to show how the App Store is a safe and trusted place for users to download apps. This...
• The Crafters of “Andor” - Anil Dash - 2025-05-27 - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
• Daring Fireball: The New York Times Digs in on the 'Young Chinese Women Have Small Fingers' Claim - 2025-05-26 - Link to: https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpw5thw4e22f
• Two Years of Rust - 2025-05-26 - - Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.
• GitHub issues for notes - 2025-05-26 - - GitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …
• ‘If dieting works, where’s the evidence?’ How weightlifting helped Casey Johnston love her body again | Weightlifting | The Guardian - 2025-05-26 - The American writer spent year after miserable year trying to be smaller. Then she stepped into a gym, picked up a barbell – and never looked back. She talks about self-confidence, her new book and the joy of eating like a ‘big beautiful horse’
• In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor | GBH - 2025-05-26 - An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.
• How to Vim: Toggle Comments - (think) - 2025-05-26 - One if the things that had initially frustrated me about Vim is that out-of-the-box there’s no way to toggle comments on and off in programming languages. This definitely struck me as something odd, given that almost all of Vim’s users are programmers and we have to deal with comments quite often.
• Creating a static website for all my bookmarks – alexwlchan - 2025-05-25 - To help me keep track of interesting links, I created a static website that keeps all my data locally. Why do I care about bookmarks, and how does my new site work?
• Mexico City's embrace of culture - 2025-05-25 - On my last visit to Mexico City, I discovered what makes this city special
• Daring Fireball: Idiocy or Jackassery, You Make the Call: Tripp Mickle on Whether Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone Is a Fantasy - 2025-05-24 - My chances of ever landing a job at The New York Times continue to sink.
• About That Deal, Ten Years On | Whatever - 2025-05-24 - Ten years ago today, the New York Times published the story about me getting a 10-year, 13-book contract with Tor Books, along with $3.4 million advance. And as it is, in fact, the tenth anniversar…
• inessential: Retirement and NetNewsWire - 2025-05-24 -
• How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? | sean goedecke - 2025-05-24 - How does AI work? Since 2022, it’s been possible to have a conversation with a computer: first with ChatGPT 3.5, and now with a variety of AI models from…
• Chloe Yehwon Lee - Society for Science - 2025-05-24 - - 2025 Science Talent Search Project Showcase: Chloe Yehwon Lee, 17, of Murphy, explored a way to lower the toxic effects of acetaminophen (Tylenol) on the liver for her Regeneron Science Talent Search chemistry project.
• 60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang | Open Culture - 2025-05-24 - During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled fiction. These films were set in dark locations and shot in a black & white aesthetic that fit like a glove. Hardened men wore fedoras and forever smoked cigarettes.
• Rediscovering Vim - (think) - 2025-05-24 - Most people who know me and follow my open-source work are likely going to be surprised that I’m writing an article about Vim. After all, I’ve been a devout member of the Church of Emacs for 20 years now, and I’ve spent a lot of time preaching the gospel of Emacs and building extensions for Emacs.
• Configuring Jujutsu · oppi.li - 2025-05-24 - - a static site {for, by, about} me
• inessential: My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers - 2025-05-24 -
• 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work - 2025-05-23 - - 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work
• Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my https site - 2025-05-23 -
• DEI boycott 'played a role' in Target's Q1 sales slump as foot traffic declined - 2025-05-23 - Target and Walmart both faced boycotts over pulling back from their DEI efforts. But Target got the worst of the effects.
• Signal >> Blog >> By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall - 2025-05-22 - - Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...
• Four years of sight reading practice – Negative Feedback - 2025-05-22 -
• Back to the Basics: Zsh without Oh My Zsh - (think) - 2025-05-21 - .zshrc simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo Da Zshinci
• Switching from Zsh to Fish - (think) - 2025-05-21 - Recently I’ve switched from Z Shell (aka Zsh) to Fish, after being a Zsh user since 2008. The experience has been pretty good overall and here I’ll share a few tips for everyone looking to make the change.
• Callsheet 2025.4 — Liss is More - 2025-05-21 - Callsheet 2025.4 is rolling out now, and has a bunch of great new features and fixes.
• Rolla is no longer considering removing fluoride from its water | STLPR - 2025-05-21 - Dentists say adding fluoride to drinking water is a major benefit for healthy teeth, but opponents are having some success with local and statewide bans.
• Daring Fireball: Kristi Noem Doesn’t Know What ‘Habeas Corpus’ Is - 2025-05-20 - Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/20/kristi-noem-doesnt-know-what-habeus-corpus-is/
• Take the high road: the man who visited every country in the world – without boarding a plane | Travel | The Guardian - 2025-05-20 - - At 34, Torbjørn Pedersen embarked on a seemingly impossible journey that would take 10 years – and involve cerebral malaria and being held up at gunpoint. He reflects on the highs, the lows and the joy of getting married en route
• Daring Fireball: The First Rule of Legal Fight Club Is 'Don't Piss Off the Judge'; the Second Rule of Legal Fight Club Is 'Don't Piss Off the Judge' - 2025-05-20 - Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/19/apple-fortnite-us-app-store-dispute/
• Daring Fireball: More Insight and Not-Negativity - 2025-05-19 - - I never linked to the viral blog post where Jobs was quoted recommending my article, I never mentioned it in a post, but I *did* acknowledge it, in what is clearly the most Daring-Fireball-ish way possible: I made it the slogan under the logo banner.
• Ditching Obsidian and building my own - 2025-05-19 - - Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.
• Easily Using SSH with FIDO2/U2F Hardware Security Keys | www.complete.org - 2025-05-18 - - A lot of new hardware security keys (Yubikey, Nitrokey, Titan, etc.) now support FIDO2 (aka U2F aka Webauthn aka Passkey; yes it’s a mess). So does OpenSSH. This spells good news for us, because it is far easier to use than previous hardware security types (eg, PKCS#11 and OpenPGP) with ssh. A key benefit of all this, if done correctly, is that it is actually impossible to access the raw SSH private key, and impossible to use it without the presence of the SK and a human touching it.
• Easily Using SSH with FIDO2/U2F Hardware Security Keys | www.complete.org - 2025-05-18 - - A lot of new hardware security keys (Yubikey, Nitrokey, Titan, etc.) now support FIDO2 (aka U2F aka Webauthn aka Passkey; yes it’s a mess). So does OpenSSH. This spells good news for us, because it is far easier to use than previous hardware security types (eg, PKCS#11 and OpenPGP) with ssh. A key benefit of all this, if done correctly, is that it is actually impossible to access the raw SSH private key, and impossible to use it without the presence of the SK and a human touching it.
• hey it’s me on the katee sackhoff podcast! – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-05-18 - I recorded this episode of the Katee Sackhoff Podcast a couple of weeks ago. It’s when I realized I needed to spend some money on a camera and some lights, so I could present myself in my &#8…
• Daring Fireball: Joe Biden Has an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer - 2025-05-18 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/us/politics/biden-prostate-cancer.html
• Daring Fireball: Jack Rix at Top Gear Reviews CarPlay Ultra in the Aston Martin DBX - 2025-05-18 - Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlLjVraA9g
• Temp post: don’t try to sign up just yet! – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-05-18
• The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World - 2025-05-18 -
• Easily Using SSH with FIDO2/U2F Hardware Security Keys | www.complete.org - 2025-05-18 - - A lot of new hardware security keys (Yubikey, Nitrokey, Titan, etc.) now support FIDO2 (aka U2F aka Webauthn aka Passkey; yes it’s a mess). So does OpenSSH. This spells good news for us, because it is far easier to use than previous hardware security types (eg, PKCS#11 and OpenPGP) with ssh. A key benefit of all this, if done correctly, is that it is actually impossible to access the raw SSH private key, and impossible to use it without the presence of the SK and a human touching it.
• "We would be less confidential than Google" – Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law | TechRadar - 2025-05-18 - - If passed, new rules would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain users' data
• Apollo 13 Hero Ed Smylie Dies at 95 - 512 Pixels - 2025-05-17 - If you’ve seen Tom Hanks’ Apollo 13, you surely remember the scene where a group of guys dump a bunch of junk onto a table to figure out how to adapt air-scrubbing canisters meant for the command module to work in the lunar module that was keeping the crew alive. Ed Smylie lead the work […]
• jwz: College student asks for her tuition fees back after catching her professor using ChatGPT - 2025-05-17 - Northeastern in the bag for the Bullshit Fountain: Ella Stapleton grew suspicious of her business professor's lecture notes when she spotted telltale signs of AI generation, including a stray "ChatGPT" citation tucked into the bibliography, recurrent typos that mirrored machine outputs, and images depicting figures with extra limbs. "He's telling us not to use it, and then he's using it ...
• My 2025 high-end Linux PC 🐧 - Michael Stapelberg - 2025-05-16 - - Turns out my previous attempt at this build had a faulty CPU! With the CPU replaced, the machine now is stable and fast! 🚀 In this article, I’ll go into a lot more detail about the component selection, but in a nutshell, I picked an Intel 285K CPU for low idle power, chose a 4TB SSD so I don’t have to worry about running out of storage quickly, and a capable nvidia graphics card to drive my Dell UP3218K 8K monitor.
• Focused Technology—The Deliberate Practice of Craig Mod - 2025-05-14 - Discussing his latest work, 'Things Become Other Things,' the writer and photographer reveals how walking thousands of kilometers across Japan generates the mental space where his ideas develop.
• Just Say No | Jeff Geerling - 2025-05-13 -
• Flattening Rust's Learning Curve | corrode Rust Consulting - 2025-05-12 - - I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust. Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process. My goal is to help you save time and frustration. <…
• Plain Vanilla - 2025-05-12 - - An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques.
• Migrating to Codeberg — 2025 — Blog — GNU Guix - 2025-05-12 - - Blog posts about GNU Guix.
• Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. - 2025-05-11 - In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries in the world to adopt the four-day working week, not through a general law, but through agreements allowing workers to negotiate shorter weeks or reduced hours. Five years on, the results are indisputable. The Icelandic experiment began in…
• ‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | The Observer - 2025-05-11 - An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society
• I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn - 2025-05-10 -
• Six iPhone Safety Tools You Should Know About - MacRumors - 2025-05-10 - Apple is known for its privacy policies that keep user data collected to a minimum, but the company has also worked to incorporate many safety...
• Hypercritical: Apple Turnover - 2025-05-09 -
• There’s no ‘s’ in Pike Place Market. ‘Jeopardy!’ sets record straight | The Seattle Times - 2025-05-09 - Edmonds-born "Jeopardy!" host Ken Jennings corrected a contestant's answer quickly, saying "we are sticklers in Seattle."
• Range – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-05-09
• WWII Vet Crushes a Tesla With a Sherman Tank - 2025-05-08 - In this video, 98-year-old British WWII veteran Ken Turner demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. Here’s what Turner had
• Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride - Ars Technica - 2025-05-07 - Colgate and Crest toothpastes are in the crosshairs.
• reubeno/brush: bash/POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust - 2025-05-07 - - bash/POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust. Contribute to reubeno/brush development by creating an account on GitHub.
• I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change | HuffPost HuffPost Personal - 2025-05-06 - - “I immediately wondered if this was real.”
• This adorable bopping sea lion can probably hold a beat better than you | BBC Science Focus Magazine - 2025-05-04 - Note to self: avoid dance-offs with sea lions. A new study shows Ronan the sea lion can keep a musical beat better than most humans.
• A Better Man Page Viewer - Notes from VisualMode - 2025-05-04 - - Neovim with its built-in man page plugin makes for an ideal man page viewer
• When Flat Rate Movers Won't Answer Your Calls - 2025-05-04 -
• 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber - ESPN - 2025-05-03 - - Bill Stampfl vanished climbing Peru's highest mountain 22 years ago. This is the story of the hiker who found him and brought closure to Stampfl's family.
• Fantastic Fiction: Elric of Melniboné: Tortured Elf Emperor with a Cursed Sword – Seattle Worldcon 2025 - 2025-05-02 - What is the longest running SFF series written by a single author? If you answered "Elric of Melniboné" by Michael Moorcock, congratulations, you're right. Spanning a whopping 62 years from the first Elric story, The Dreaming City, in 1961 to the last story to date, The Folk of the Forest (2023), no other series written by a single author has run longer. But who is Elric of Melniboné, and what makes him so special?
• There's one question that stumps North Korean fake workers • The Register - 2025-05-02 - - RSAC: FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder
• ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves | The New Republic - 2025-05-01 - A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.
• Hypercritical: Hyperspace Update - 2025-05-01
• Daring Fireball: Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search - 2025-05-01 - - Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
• I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server - 2025-05-01 - - The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
• A reluctant statement — Matt Gemmell - 2025-05-01 - Regarding some recent podcast coverage of one of my articles.

April 2025

• Finland bans smartphones in schools | Yle News | Yle - 2025-04-30 - - Pupils will be able to use their phones in some circumstances, but they will need to get permission from teachers.
• Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite - 2025-04-30 - - Shipments from China to the U.S. west coast appear poised to drop sharply in May.
• Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses | Jayden’s Blog - 2025-04-30 - - Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination:
• Therapy — Matt Gemmell - 2025-04-30 - I'm in therapy. Here's a brief description of how it works.
• I Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ Reaction Was Brutal. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal - 2025-04-29 - “This was the first time in my life that I had ever truly gotten mad at my grandparents.”
• Over 170,000 bottles of apple juice recalled over toxic substance fears - 2025-04-28 - According to the FDA, the impacted bottles might be contaminated with a poisonous substance produced by certain molds.
• New podcast episode: Miranda Wilson – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-04-28
• whatever this is, is how I feel right now – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-04-28
• RFK Jr.’s Proposed Autism Registry, Explained - 2025-04-27 - The HHS secretary says he’s gathering medical records to monitor Americans with autism.
• Valerie the dachshund found 'fit and well' after 529 days on Kangaroo Island - ABC News - 2025-04-27 - The beloved miniature dachshund, who disappeared on a South Australian island 529 days ago, has been found safe and well by wildlife rescuers.
• This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2025-04-26 - Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps...
• Next: Vanta — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-04-26 - I started a new role at Vanta this week, and I am excited to see what we can do together!
• When /etc/h*sts Breaks Your Substack Editor: An Adventure in Web Content Filtering - 2025-04-26 - - An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences
• Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - 2025-04-26 -
• How I Setup New MacBooks - 2025-04-25 - - Learn how to setup your MacBook faster with Brewfiles and macOS defaults.
• On loyalty to your employer — Talent Stuff - 2025-04-24 - - Your employer pays you to spend more time with them than you spend with your family and/or loved ones. Your employer is one of the biggest influencers on your mental well-being. Your employer can and will replace you in a heartbeat if absolutely necessary. Let me be explicitly clear, your employer
• The tools I love are made by awful people — Ankur Sethi - 2025-04-24 -
• Sleeping with the Apple Watch – Six Colors - 2025-04-24 - I never reviewed the Apple Watch Series 10 when it came out, but I got one on day one and have been wearing it faithfully since then. After lingering on a previous model for a few years, the thinne…
• Senator Elizabeth Warren Has Some Questions for Tim Cook - 512 Pixels - 2025-04-24 - Chance Miller at 9to5Mac: Apple CEO Tim Cook is being pressed for information on his collaboration with the Trump administration surrounding tariffs. In a letter sent today, Senator Elizabeth Warren said that Cook’s collaboration with Trump “creates the appearance of impropriety.” This comes after Warren and other senators questioned $1 million donations made by Cook and others […]
• Real ID deadline is weeks away and most states aren't fully compliant yet - CBS San Francisco - 2025-04-24 - Beginning May 7, Americans and permanent residents will only be able to pass through airport security or enter federal government buildings if they have a Real ID.
• Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome - 2025-04-22 - - According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad
• Separating work and personal config - Evan Moses - 2025-04-22 - - TL;DR My dotfiles are checked into a git repo I want to avoid checking in sensitive, work-specific config to a public git repo I updated my git and emacs configs to check for local overrides in ~/.local Like many folks, I check my dotfiles into a git repo to share them across multiple machines. When I set up a new machine I can simply clone that repo, run an install script that adds some symlinks, and get to work with my happy personalized config.
• Pope Francis has died, Vatican says | Reuters - 2025-04-21 - - He was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He sought to overhaul the hidebound institution.
• Email list redux – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-04-21
• Footguns — Liss is More - 2025-04-20 - - Some of my favorite products have gotten crappier. Did they have to?
• Layered Design in Go - iRi - 2025-04-20 -
• Trans woman allegedly turned away from hotel because "people like you can't stay here" - LGBTQ Nation - 2025-04-20 - Sadie Vice reserved a hotel room online but was turned away when she showed up. Now an employee is offering up excuses.
• In 1982, Gophers Were Dropped Onto Mount St Helens To Help It Recover After Eruption. It Worked Perfectly. | IFLScience - 2025-04-19 - A team of very confused gophers revitalized the ecosystem after a devastating volcanic eruption.
• Who will take care of you in your time of need? – Jon Udell - 2025-04-19 - This Fresh Air interview with Hanif Kureishi had me riveted from the beginning, for one reason, and then at the end for a different reason. Kureishi is best known as the author of the 1985 British …
• Tesla Accused of Hacking Odometers to Rip Off Customers - 2025-04-19 - Tesla has been accused of manipulating the odometers in its cars to avoid repair responsibilities and warranty agreements.
• ICE came for their neighbor, so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him - 2025-04-19 - Neighbors delivered food, water and gasoline to the man, who was with a child in a van, as ICE agents stayed at the home for hours.
• 5 Points On How Judge Boasberg Broke Down The Admin’s Alien Enemies Contempt - TPM – Talking Points Memo - 2025-04-16 - In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg...
• Daring Fireball: Man of the Hour: Judge James Boasberg - 2025-04-16 - Link to: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5-points-on-how-judge-boasberg-broke-down-the-admins-alien-enemies-contempt
• Daring Fireball: Wink Martindale Dies at 91 - 2025-04-16 - Link to: https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-04-15/wink-martindale-dead-game-show-host-tic-tac-dough-gambit
• Reveal Hidden Folder Sizes in macOS Finder With These Tricks - MacRumors - 2025-04-16 - When using macOS Finder in List view, you'll see the sizes of individual files – but not folders. Instead, folders show a pair of dashes (--) in...
• White House bizarrely denies the existence of Apple's tariff exemption | Macworld - 2025-04-15 - Even though it totally exists.
• A Colossal Squid Has Been Filmed in the Deep Sea for the First Time | Scientific American - 2025-04-15 - A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent expedition, and it turned out to be a baby
• How to win an argument with a toddler | Seth's Blog - 2025-04-15 - - You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e…
• Variables in Rust: Let Me Be Immutable - Chris Woody Woodruff - 2025-04-15 - So today, I ran head-first into a Rust design decision that made me pause and go, “Wait… really?” In C#, I can declare a variable with var and change it later. No fuss. In Rust? Not so fast. Your variables are frozen solid if you don’t explicitly ask for mutability. Welcome to Day 4: the world of let, mut, and what happens when your muscle memory meets a strict compiler.
• Hello, Rust! Hello, World! Rust vs C# Syntax - Chris Woody Woodruff - 2025-04-15 - Let’s be honest—every new language journey begins the same way: with a humble "Hello, World!" It’s the developer's rite of passage. So today, on Day 3 of my 42-day Rust challenge, I’m writing the most iconic two-word phrase in programming in both C# and Rust… and then tearing it apart. Because while the output is the same, what these two languages make you say to get there reveals a lot about how they think.
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/ShortTLSCertificatesComing - 2025-04-13 -
• What It Feels Like, Right Now – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds - 2025-04-13 - When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/MyPersonalProgramsSetup - 2025-04-13 -
• Why Rust? A C# Developer’s Journey Begins - Chris Woody Woodruff - 2025-04-12 - Today marks Day 1 of my 42-day challenge to learn Rust—with a twist. I’m not approaching this as a blank-slate beginner. I’m bringing along years of C# experience, mental muscle memory from countless LINQ expressions, async/await workflows, and enough IEnumerables to make your head spin. But now? I’m learning a language that doesn’t have a garbage collector, doesn’t throw exceptions the same way, and thinks null is a bad idea.
• Select Faster on iPhone With This Two-Finger Trick - MacRumors - 2025-04-12 - Your iPhone has multiple touch and gesture capabilities that can enhance how you interact with apps. Some, like pinch and zoom, are well known enough...
• Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours - 2025-04-11 - - The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg.
• How to Get the Old Apple Mail Back - MacRumors - 2025-04-11 - With recent software updates, Apple has made some major changes to the way its stock Mail app looks and works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Keen to roll...
• Hypercritical: Love, Death & Robots - 2025-04-11
• How to Adjust Mac Volume and Brightness More Precisely - MacRumors - 2025-04-11 - On a Mac that has a top row of function keys, Apple includes volume and brightness controls that can be used to make adjustments in stepwise...
• model ships in the cinema: Hunt for Red October 1990 - 2025-04-10 - - Visual Effects Supervisor -  Scott Squires Visual Effects Director of Photography - Patrick Sweeney The effects for this movie were orig...
• Man pages are great, man readers are the problem · Hugo's weblog - 2025-04-09 -
• Drag Racers Are Ditching Superchargers for Scuba-Style Tanks and Compressed Air - 2025-04-07 - - Compressed Air Supercharging has developed equipment that delivers extremely cold, dense air to the engine in an instant—and racers are getting results with it.
• The Best Programmers I Know | Matthias Endler - 2025-04-07 - - I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…
• The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer | 0x1 - 2025-04-07 - - Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.
• More Contrast, Please - Susam's Quick Notes - 2025-04-07 -
• Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard - Raspberry Pi - 2025-04-07 - - A Raspberry Pi Pico W–powered e-ink display helps this maker focus and stay on track with the demands of a busy schedule.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · The CoSocialist Future - 2025-04-06
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHConfigOrderMatters - 2025-04-06 -
• I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre | US immigration | The Guardian - 2025-04-05 - - Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it
• Amp - 2025-04-05 - Everything will change.
• Why I stopped using AI code editors · Luciano Nooijen - 2025-04-04 - - In the past I used AI code editors for all of my programming, but I stopped using it and recommend others to consider this as well
• Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer - 2025-04-03 -
• Old Vintage Computing Research: The April Fools joke that might have got me fired - 2025-04-01 - - Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...

March 2025

• I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor - 2025-03-30 -
• Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House | Quakers in Britain - 2025-03-30 - Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
• jwz: While trying to harass trans people, Idaho accidentally bans truck nuts. - 2025-03-30 - Senate Democratic Leader Melissa Wintrow said that clause applies to replicas of scrotums hanging from people's trailer hitches. "They're gross, they're offensive and kids on the road see them, so why wouldn't the police get a call [saying], 'That offends me. Pull it off the truck.' Because now this bill will allow it."
• What is BYD, the world’s hottest car company beating Tesla that you can’t buy from in America | CNN Business - 2025-03-30 - - In the world of electric vehicles (EV), a Chinese car maker has gotten the upper hand over Tesla in just a few years. And it seems to be just getting started.
• Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water - 2025-03-30 - - The move has been criticised by experts, who say the mineral helps reduce oral cavities, especially in children.
• I made a thing! – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-03-29 - Hi friends! I am so excited to announce It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton, my new podcast. Our first episode drops on March 26th. This idea emerged from my creative self the same way that Table…
• Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada | US universities | The Guardian - 2025-03-29 - Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
• Daring Fireball: The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You’re Reading It) - 2025-03-28 - - What bothers me isn’t so much that Daring Fireball is shitlisted at Hacker News. What bothers me is that it’s unexplained.
• What's New in Neovim 0.11 | g.p. anders - 2025-03-26 - - Neovim 0.11 was just released. As in previous installments in this series, let’s talk a bit about some of the big highlights! As always, the full list of changes can be found in the release notes (use :h news to read inside of Neovim). Table of Contents Breaking Changes LSP Simpler LSP setup and configuration Builtin auto-completion Improved hover documentation Putting it all together Diagnostics Virtual text handler changed from opt-out to opt-in Virtual lines Defaults More default mappings Terminal Miscellaneous Breaking Changes We make a concerted effort to avoid breaking changes.
• How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border | US immigration | The Guardian - 2025-03-26 - - With reports of people being turned away at airports over messages found on devices, here’s what to do to minimize risks
• Pride Versioning 🏳️‍🌈 0.2.0 - 2025-03-26 - Forget semantic versioning, use PRIDE VERSIONING 🏳️‍🌈
• Laurence Tratt: Better Shell History Search - 2025-03-25 -
• I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling - 2025-03-24 -
• Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-03-23 - - by Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.[fn] Gillian Flaccus, Electronic...
• Border Searches | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-03-23 - - With the number of border searches of electronic devices increasing every year, how can travelers keep their digital data safe? Our lives are extensively documented on the phones, laptops, and other electronic devices we carry. Our devices can store an unprecedented amount of highly personal information about us, including private emails and text messages, photos and videos, web browsing history, and other data that can reveal our political and religious affiliations, medical conditions, family and romantic lives, financial status, and much more. People in many professions, such as lawyers and journalists, have a heightened need to keep their digital data confidential. The U.S. Constitution generally places strong limits on the government’s ability to pry into our private lives. At the U.S. border, however, those limits are not as strong—a fact EFF is working to change. The “border search exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement has traditionally permitted border agents to conduct warrantless and usually suspicionless searches on the legal assumption that travelers have negligible privacy interests in the contents of their luggage. The "border" includes ports of entry at the land borders, international airports, and seaports. But electronic devices turn this reasoning on its head: your privacy interests in your phone, laptop, or tablet are extraordinary given the vastness of storage capacity, variety of content, and personal aspects of your life that electronic devices contain. EFF argues that a warrant based on probable cause, issued by a judge, is required for border device searches. It’s past time for a new analysis of privacy at the border. EFF is working on many fronts to protect your digital rights when you cross the U.S. border: Read our comprehensive travel guide on how to protect your digital data when crossing the U.S. border, as well as our pocket guides. Learn the extensive facts about how CBP and ICE conduct border device searches that we uncovered during our civil case with ACLU, Merchant v. Mayorkas (formerly Alasaad v. [DHS Secretary]), where we represented  11 plaintiffs in challenging under the First and Fourth Amendments the U.S. government’s practice of conducting warrantless and suspicionless border searches of electronic devices. Read one of our many amicus briefs: Elsharkawi v. United States (9th Circuit). Read the whitepaper we wrote for the American Constitution Society. Read our analysis of proposed legislation. Read our analysis of CBP’s current (2018) border device search policy. Check out all of our work on border searches below, and join EFF to help support our efforts. Self-Help Options If Your Device Was Seized or You're Repeatedly Referred to Secondary Inspection If your device was seized, did you get the name and contact information of a CBP or ICE supervisor when you received the custody receipt (Form 6051D)? If so, try contacting them. Otherwise, try contacting the relevant port of entry or field office. File a complaint with the DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP). File a complaint with CBP. Contact ICE (e.g., Office of Information Governance & Privacy or Office of Diversity & Civil Rights). File a DHS civil rights/civil liberties complaint. Contact the DHS Inspector General. For U.S. persons: Contact your senators or congressional representative, and ask them to contact CBP/ICE on your behalf.
 File a Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act request. You can submit requests via the CBP website or the ICE website. You can also use the nonprofit website Muckrock to file requests with CBP or ICE.
• Excising Dropbox — Liss is More - 2025-03-22 - - I still use Dropbox, but I haven't had a client app installed in several years. It's glorious.
• Volvo reconstructs crashes with AI in virtual worlds to make safer cars - Ars Technica - 2025-03-22 - Massive parallel testing means Volvo can work through lots of unusual scenarios.
• Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria - Ars Technica - 2025-03-22 - - It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain.
• Measles arrives in Kansas, spreads quickly in undervaccinated counties - Ars Technica - 2025-03-22 - Since a single case last week, at least 9 more have been reported with more pending.
• Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten - 2025-03-22 - - Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
• Pianist Sir András Schiff Cancels U.S. Appearances for 2025-2026 Season | Kirshbaum Associates Inc. - 2025-03-21
• GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs | The Verge - 2025-03-21 - GM cites safety concerns over aftermarket CarPlay kit.
• iPhone Users Who Pay for iCloud Storage Receive a New Perk - MacRumors - 2025-03-21 - If you pay for iCloud storage on your iPhone, Apple has a new perk for you, at no additional cost. The new perk is the ability to create...
• Deliberate Practice for Developers - 2025-03-21 - - Alex's Blog
• Sally Rooney on Snooker and the Mystery of Athletic Genius - 2025-03-20 - Writing for the New York Review (archive), Sally Rooney profiles “genius” snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan. But
• Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter' - 2025-03-20 - - Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.
• Apple Says iPhone Driver's Licenses Coming to These 8 U.S. States, But Rollout Remains Slow - MacRumors - 2025-03-19 - In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a...
• This Is How Tesla Will Die - by Will Lockett - 2025-03-19 - - The vultures are circling the tech giant.
• I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped | US immigration | The Guardian - 2025-03-19 - - I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Long Links - 2025-03-19
• Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla over safety concerns | CBC News - 2025-03-19 - The Vancouver International Auto Show has removed U.S. electric carmaker Tesla from its event this week, saying its primary concern was the safety of attendees and exhibitors.
• The Real Failure Rate of EBS — PlanetScale - 2025-03-18 - - Our experience running AWS EBS at scale for critical workloads
• Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino - 2025-03-18 - - Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup?
• A marathon trip - 2025-03-17 - Years ago, my brother started volunteering at running races as a support guy and eventually turned it into a part-time gig. About 10 years ago, he started working on what is probably "The Big Show" of LA events which is the Los Angeles Marathon. After his first race there, he
• Refresh. — Ethan Marcotte - 2025-03-17 - In 2023, I wrote a book. Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. And now? We’re back, and better than ever.
• SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing - 2025-03-16 - This should never have happened.
• Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code - 2025-03-15 - Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …
• Build a Team that Ships - 2025-03-15 - I started my first company 15 years go, and I still can’t manage. I suspect that very few people can. With AngelList, we want a team of self-managing people who ship code. Here’s what we do: Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle managers. All BD via APIs. More
• Boycott Tesla - 2025-03-15 - Electric car buyers don’t like right-wing politics. This means Elon Musk’s position at Tesla is very vulnerable and susceptible to economic pressure.
• DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find - The New York Times - 2025-03-15 - Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
• Updating my toolbox: Ghostty and Fish - (think) - 2025-03-15 - Often when I’m setting up new computers I take a bit of time to evaluate my programming toolbox and make some (usually small) adjustments to it. In January I got myself a new mac mini M4 and for whatever reasons I got inspired to dive much deeper than usual. This time around I spent a lot of time playing with different terminals, editors (e.g. neovim and helix), shells, configuration managers (mostly chezmoi), etc.
• Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For - FuelArc News - 2025-03-15 - - Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This garbage feature was spotted in the wild, where a Charger […]
• My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster | www.bentasker.co.uk - 2025-03-14 - - Romance fraud has been growing as an issue for years. It's not uncommon to see news stories with bewildered victims explaining just how deeply they'd been sucked in. After receiving a number of opener
• Ex-Facebook worker's new book paints brutal image of Mark Zuckerberg - 2025-03-14 - - Mark Zuckerberg is blasted in a new book, "Careless People," from ex-Facebook director Sarah Wynn-Williams. The company is pushing to slow its spread.
• B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona facility in chains | Vancouver Sun - 2025-03-14 - - Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.
• Tech Notes: The Jujutsu version control system - 2025-03-13 -
• Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino - 2025-03-13 - - Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup?
• Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino - 2025-03-13 - - Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup?
• A CLI tool to delete a bulk AWS snapshots and keep the expected snapshots based on snapshot age – DevOps's Tips and Tricks - 2025-03-13 - When operating EC2, we might usually run into the situation of removing the old unused snapshots, and when you have e.g. hundreds of old snapshots, this becomes hard to delete manually. Or you prob…
• What the hell, community orchestra conductors? – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-03-12
• eagles and books and odds and ends – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-03-12 - In a wonderful little neighborhood called Larchmont, there’s a wonderful little bookshop called Chevalier’s. A friend of mine ran into Patrick Stewart there today, and when my friend me…
• Dmitri Shuralyov - Idiomatic Go - 2025-03-12 -
• Does exoplanet K2-18b host alien life or not? Here's why the debate continues | Space - 2025-03-12 - "I do not believe we yet have convincing evidence of the presence of DMS in K2-18b's atmosphere."
• A hiker was lost and desperate. A stranger with an unusual hobby saved him. - The Washington Post - 2025-03-12 - “SOS. My phone is going to die. I’m lost,” the hiker texted a friend, along with two photos.
• Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics | Techdirt - 2025-03-12 - - When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren&#82…
• What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X | WIRED - 2025-03-12 - - Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.
• Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says - Ars Technica - 2025-03-10 - - Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s.
• Dmitri Shuralyov - Idiomatic Go - 2025-03-10 -
• Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia - 2025-03-10 - - Because we believe that the world would be a better place if more businesses were driven by a meaningful cause instead of greed.
• We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index - 2025-03-10 - - We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!
• Daring Fireball: Broccoli, the Man -- and Vegetable -- Behind the Bond Franchise - 2025-03-09 - Link to: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-09-ca-5205-story.html
• Tesla Cybertruck Banned And Seized By Police In The U.K. - 2025-03-09 - - The Cybertruck has a cult following in the U.S., but safety issues such as excessive size and acceleration and sharp edges make the Tesla illegal on U.K. roads.
• Lobsters - 2025-03-09 -
• An exploratory fly-by of Pi-Hole 6 • The Register - 2025-03-09 - - Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them – it's time for stricter measures
• Measles outbreak hits 208 cases as federal response goes off the rails - Ars Technica - 2025-03-08 - CDC to reportedly study nonexistent link between measles vaccine and autism.
• Git Support - Zed - 2025-03-08 - - Native support for Git staging, committing, pushing, and pulling.
• New MacBook Air Quietly Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight - MacRumors - 2025-03-08 - In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple has quietly corrected a 26-year-old...
• Why "alias" is my last resort for aliases - 2025-03-07 - - I prefer scripts to real aliases when defining a custom command.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Prime - 2025-03-07
• Volkswagen gets the message: Cheap, stylish EVs coming from 2026 - Ars Technica - 2025-03-06 - VW is preparing new front-wheel-drive EVs, the ID. 2all and ID. EVERY1.
• Andor S2 featurette teases canonical tragic event - Ars Technica - 2025-03-06 - Adria Arjona: “It’s human, it’s incredibly truthful, and it just happens to be in a galaxy far, far away.”…
• slava ukraini – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-03-06 - Trump and Vance really put the tyrant in tantrum, didn’t they? Pathetic. Weak, cowardly, sniveling little bullies is all that they are. I understand that I’m just one person who voted a…
• Plotter Notebook System - 2025-03-06 - - Taking notes, in my opinion, is the best thing one can do for themselves. Writing is a form of thinking, and writing manually, in an analog manner, elevates the process. It has a positive impact on your well-being. It’s akin to working out for hours and then returning home
• Forté 4GL - Wikipedia - 2025-03-05
• Tailscale is pretty useful | Fatih's Personal Blog - 2025-03-05 - - It's probably old news for most, but I've recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it.
• Irene Y. Zhang: University of Washington Sexual Harassment and Bullying Investigation - 2025-03-05
• Cholick.com - - 2025-03-05
• Protests, broken windows, even arson: Tesla’s massive Elon problem - Ars Technica - 2025-03-05 - As Musk sticks his fingers in government, Tesla suffers serious reputational damage.
• Trump’s 25% tariffs take effect; Canadian PM calls it “a very dumb thing” - Ars Technica - 2025-03-05 - Stock markets sink; US faces retaliatory tariffs and complaints at the WTO.
• Jonas Hietala: I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands - 2025-03-05 -
• Michael Tsai - Blog - MailMate 2.0 Beta - 2025-03-05
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Moved - 2025-03-05
• Blogging for Democracy - 2025-03-04 - This is a great post from Mike Masnick about why Techdirt is writing more or less full-time about the Trump regime’s attack
• An Open Letter to Our Neighbors in Canada and Mexico... - 2025-03-04 - SEL Founder Dr. Ed Schweitzer writes letter to customers and suppliers in reaction to tariffs.
• German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility | KPBS Public Media - 2025-03-04 - - The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
• Blood donor James Harrison, who saved 2 million babies, has died : NPR - 2025-03-03 - - Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
• What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox - 2025-03-02 - - I currently use Firefox as one of my main browsers.
• Daring Fireball - 2025-03-02 - - Commentary on Apple, technology, design, politics, and more.
• Stand With Ukraine Wallpaper (FREE) | Patreon - 2025-03-01 - Get more from The Iconfactory on Patreon
• It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings - 2025-03-01 - - The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
• An update on our Terms of Use - 2025-03-01 - - On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our
• Write to Escape Your Default Setting - kupajo - 2025-03-01 -

February 2025

• Tips to debug hanging Go programs - Michael Stapelberg - 2025-02-28 - - I was helping someone get my gokrazy/rsync implementation set up to synchronize RPKI data (used for securing BGP routing infrastructure), when we discovered that with the right invocation, my rsync receiver would just hang indefinitely. This was a quick problem to solve, but in the process, I realized that I should probably write down a few Go debugging tips I have come to appreciate over the years!
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Safari Cleanup - 2025-02-28
• The full force of this administration’s destruction is about to hit - 2025-02-28 - Once social security checks stop showing up, millions of Americans will finally understand the scope.
• Gene Hackman: Death of actor and wife 'suspicious enough' for investigation, police say - 2025-02-28 - - Authorities say there was no sign the couple had sustained any injuries, but no cause of death has been given.
• Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife found dead at home in New Mexico | AP News - 2025-02-28 - Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead when they performed a welfare check, a spokesperson said.
• Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action - Ars Technica - 2025-02-28 - - Lawsuit: WordPress trademark fight put website owners in an “impossible situation.”…
• How to Persuade the Vaccine Hesitant - 2025-02-28 - I loved this short thread from Andrew Miller about how his pediatrician wife helps parents who are skeptical of vaccinating their
• How I Broke Up With Amazon: A Practical Guide - 2025-02-27 - The small and large steps I took that led to big shifts and surprising benefits
• Pedro Pascal calls out "vile and pathetic" transphobic trolls after defending trans... - Capital - 2025-02-27 - Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
• Why and How I Version My Blog - 2025-02-26 - - The need for a versioning system in blogs and how I built a custom approach to track and log my blog's evolution.
• W.O.R.K (N.O. Nah, No No My Daddy Don’t) – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-02-26 - My work life is weird. Most people have a reliable schedule and know when they’ll work, and how much. They can plan out their week, their month, and their budget accordingly. But not me. I wi…
• Sreten Milisavljevic: Youtuber, Mechanic from Serbia - Biography & Wiki - 2025-02-26 - Sreten Milisavljevic, the mastermind behind the YouTube channel 'M539 Restorations,' is not your typical car influencer. In the vast sea of automotive content creators, he stands out for his genuine approach to DIY car repair. Based in Germany, Sreten shares his passion for fixing and restoring older BMWs through long-form, informative, and entertaining videos.
• Breaking into dozens of apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone – Eric Daigle - 2025-02-26 - - What a place to use default credentials
• Steve Jobs Would Have Celebrated His 70th Birthday Today - MacRumors - 2025-02-25 - Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 70th birthday if he hadn't passed away...
• Hypercritical: Hyperspace - 2025-02-25 -
• DOGE staffers resign en masse to protest Musk's slashing of federal government | AP News - 2025-02-25 - - Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
• Apple Rebuffs Investor Pressure to Cut DEI, Scrutinize AI (2) - 2025-02-25 - Apple Inc. shareholders voted against an investor bid at the tech giant’s annual meeting aiming to reel in its diversity initiatives.
• As measles cases rise in the U.S., some adults may need a vaccine booster : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2025-02-25 - With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
• As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase - Ars Technica - 2025-02-24 - - Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.
• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2025-02-23 - - Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
• The Gods Pocket Peak Trail – Embedded in Academia - 2025-02-23
• The Basic Toolbox – Embedded in Academia - 2025-02-23 -
• The Murderbot TV series gets a release date | Live for Films - 2025-02-22
• Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands - MacRumors - 2025-02-21 - - Apple has withdrawn its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted...
• Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands | The Verge - 2025-02-21 - - UK security services reportedly demanded a backdoor to access encrypted files from users worldwide.
• Callsheet 2025.2 — Liss is More - 2025-02-20 - Callsheet version 2025.2 is rolling out, which has a whole host of new features.
• (4) First Drive in 5 Years - V12 BMW E32 750iL - Project Karlsruhe: Part 4 - YouTube - 2025-02-20 - Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
• The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising. Should we be worried? - Ars Technica - 2025-02-20 - “Humanity has never tried to stop an asteroid impact for real.”…
• How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar | Spain | The Guardian - 2025-02-20 - As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
• Being a happy Nixer on a Mac - Blog - Pareto Security - 2025-02-19 - - At Pareto Security, we recently shipped Linux support. Building a Linux app also means writing automated tests for said app. This entails building up a number
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust - Phoronix - 2025-02-19 -
• Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people - 2025-02-19 - - Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.
• Moving on from 18F. — Ethan Marcotte - 2025-02-19 - - I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.
• Choosing a browser — Eli Grey - 2025-02-18 -
• Leverage | massicotte.org - 2025-02-18 - - I’m really not sure how to start this one. Normally, I write about technical topics. But, that’s not what this is. This is different. So I’m just going to say it.
• ‘It’s a cowboy show out there’: the deadly lottery of the snakebite antivenom industry | Global health | The Guardian - 2025-02-17 - - Investigation reveals ineffective products being sold across Africa, with poor regulation and shortage of effective medication leading to needless deaths
• Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service - 2025-02-17 - - Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
• The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through. - 2025-02-17 - A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.
• ‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon | Books | The Guardian - 2025-02-16 - - Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
• RFK Jr. Is Already Taking Aim at Antidepressants – Mother Jones - 2025-02-16 - The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
• Daring Fireball: Martin Pilkington, Longtime Stalwart of the Mac and Apple Developer Community, Dies From Cancer - 2025-02-15 - Link to: https://mastodon.social/@pilky/114008572002612525
• Lung Cancer Is Rising in Non-Smokers, And This Could Be Why : ScienceAlert - 2025-02-15 - While the number of smokers in the world as a proportion of the population is dropping, lung cancer continues to cause almost 2 million deaths per year – and new research reports on a concerning rise in cases among people who've never lit up a cigarette.
• Daring Fireball: Apple Has Resumed Advertising on X for the First Time Since Late 2023 - 2025-02-14 - - Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/
• NASA says yes, an asteroid buzzing by in 2032 could hit Earth - 2025-02-14 - But — importantly — the chances are still "extremely low," though they have ticked up since the object was first detected.
• A luxury house is close to tumbling into Cape Cod Bay. Will anyone stop it? | WBUR News - 2025-02-13 - The luxury house near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, is expected to tumble into the bay sometime in the next three years as erosion gnaws away at the bluff. A standoff is ongoing over who will pay to remove the house before it collapses into Cape Cod Bay.
• Easy Garlic Bread for Dinner | Cup of Jo - 2025-02-13 - My growing boys eat so much, so I'm always looking for simple recipes...
• DOGE's Cyberattack Against America - 2025-02-12
• Meishi: a tiny productivity system - 2025-02-12 - - When my digital todo lists became overwhelming, I designed a minimalist system that fits in my MagSafe wallet.
• Justin Pombrio - 2025-02-12 -
• AI court decision blows hole in industry's defense - 2025-02-12 - Thomson Reuters' AI copyright win blows a hole in AI industry’s fair use defense 
• Church Office Update | Whatever - 2025-02-11 - As you all know by now, we bought a church a while back with the intent of using it as office space for Scalzi Enterprises, and while Krissy has had an office here for some time now, I hadn’t…
• Daring Fireball: Nike’s ‘So Win’ Won the Super Bowl - 2025-02-11 - My favorite (and least favorite) ads from Super Bowl 59.
• Authoring This Site in Obsidian etc.? — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-02-10 - Someone asked whether I’ve looked into integrating this site with my notes system; I don’t. Here’s what I do instead!
• a couple of og star trek kids, talking about what it is like to be the og star trek kids – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-02-10 - Cirroc Lofton played Jake Sisko on Deep Space Nine. I played Wesley Crusher on The Next Generation. And before this week, he and I never talked about it, which is something that’s been on my …
• The Field Notes Thing — 512 Pixels - 2025-02-09 - This was an article sent to 512 Pixels members last month. Learn more about membership here. At the end of every year, I publish a photo on Instagram cataloging the Field Notes notebooks I used over the previous 12 months. Here is the most recent picture: Every year, I get questions about this. I wrote a bit about […]
• The Zettelkasten note taking methodology - 2025-02-09 - - My thoughts about the Zettelkasten (Slip box) note taking methodology invented by the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
• Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot - 2025-02-08 -
• ongoing by Tim Bray · December 24th Lasagna - 2025-02-08
• Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line | SoraNews24 -Japan News- - 2025-02-08 - - More people spend the night in Otsuki than want to spend the night there.
• Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK - Ars Technica - 2025-02-08 - - EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla.
• “that’s the picard maneuver. you can’t do that.” – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-02-08 - There’s a post in r/startrek collecting some of the more memorable stories we have told, and fans have remembered, over the decades. I added one of my own, which I know I’ve written abo…
• Did You Know iPhones Can Measure a Person's Height? Here's How - MacRumors - 2025-02-08 - iPhones equipped with a LiDAR Scanner have a useful trick: they can be used to measure a person's height. In order to take advantage of this...
• Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab - 2025-02-07 - - Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
• America desperately needs more air traffic controllers. So why is it so tough to hire them? | CNN Business - 2025-02-05 - - The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but the flying public at large.
• International inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts - Newsroom - About.usps.com - 2025-02-05 - - Suspension of Inbound Parcels from China and Hong Kong
• Site home page - 2025-02-03 - Help ensure no one goes through a health journey alone.
• eeep – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-02-02
• Book: The Problem with Change – Accidentally in Code - 2025-02-02 - I think the thing I enjoyed most about Ashley Goodall’s The Problem with Change is the author’s cynicism about corporate America. In places it’s a little bit of a diatribe, but what can I say, I lo…
• How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content - Ars Technica - 2025-02-02 - - Specialized garbage-filled captions are invisible to humans, confounding to AI.
• FDA approves first non-opioid pain medicine in more than 20 years - Ars Technica - 2025-02-02 - The drug, Journavx (suzetrigine), inhibits an ion channel in peripheral nerves.
• Extending the Coreutils project - Rewriting base tools in Rust | uutils - 2025-02-01
• Daring Fireball: If Anyone Needed Further Proof, Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Los Angeles Times Is Now a Propaganda Rag (and They’re Bad at HTML) - 2025-02-01 - You can’t see the link or click on it as rendered in a browser, because there’s no content between the opening `<a …>` and closing `</a>` tags, but whoever at the LA Times edited Reinhart’s column to pervert its meaning, did so sloppily, leaving behind at least this one acerbic vestigial link from his originally-submitted prose.

January 2025

• Canadians rescued from broken sailboat after 20 days at sea | National - 2025-01-31 - The man and woman whose sailboat was full of water used their last flares to attract the attention of a cargo ship off the coast of BC.
• 1.1.0 - Release Notes - 2025-01-31 - - Release notes for Ghostty 1.1.0, released on January 30, 2025.
• 1.1.0 - Release Notes - 2025-01-31 - Release notes for Ghostty 1.1.0, released on January 30, 2025.
• Apple Explains How to Keep Your Mac From Turning on When Opening Lid - MacRumors - 2025-01-31 - Apple designed Macs with Apple silicon chips to automatically turn on and start up when the Mac's lid is opened or when the Mac is connected to...
• Marginalia Search Engine - Marginalia Search - 2025-01-29 - - Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
• You're thinking about passkeys wrong - DEV Community - 2025-01-29 - It's a godsend for ordinary people but hated by (some) tech folks
• Departing the New York Times - by Paul Krugman - 2025-01-29 - - I left to stay true to my byline
• Save 7GB Storage Per Device by Disabling Apple Intelligence - MacRumors - 2025-01-28 - Apple this week released iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, software updates that enable Apple Intelligence on supported devices by...
• Using uv as your shebang line – Rob Allen - 2025-01-28 - - An article by Rob Allen
• Google Maps to show Gulf of America and Mount McKinley | The Verge - 2025-01-28 - - Once official government sources update.
• DeepSeek FAQ – Stratechery by Ben Thompson - 2025-01-28 - - DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?
• Daring Fireball: CNBC: 'Nvidia Drops 17 Percent as China's Cheaper AI Model DeepSeek Sparks Global Tech Sell-Off' - 2025-01-28 - - Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html
• Apple Finally Explains How to Install New Firmware on Your AirPods - MacRumors - 2025-01-27 - Apple regularly releases new firmware for the AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max, but the company has historically provided limited information on...
• 'Operation Leg' – a pilot unlike any other | RAF Benevolent Fund - 2025-01-27 - - Douglas Bader was a Battle of Britain pilot unlike any other.  Medically discharged against his will in 1932, the outbreak of the war was an opportunity for Bader to re-join the RAF and take back to the skies.
• Supercut of Movie Scenes That Break the Fourth Wall - 2025-01-27 - Leigh Singer gathered more than 50 clips from movies that break the fourth wall (where the characters acknowledge they’re
• Lobsters - 2025-01-27 -
• An asteroid got deleted because it was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster - 2025-01-27 - - The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in deep space.
• Tim Cook Is Failing Us - 2025-01-26
• ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved - Ars Technica - 2025-01-26 - - Optimum wasn’t ready to comply with law, rejected low-income man’s request twice.
• Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is largest in recorded history in U.S. - 2025-01-25 - Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.
• New Book-Sorting Algorithm Almost Reaches Perfection | Quanta Magazine - 2025-01-25 - - The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal.
• WalkLakes • Online Safety Act 2023 and its impact on small businesses - 2025-01-25 - WalkLakes has the best Lake District walks. Hundreds of detailed free walks with proper maps, photos, and GPS waypoints.
• Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim | Siddhant Goel - 2025-01-25 - - After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.
• Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin - 2025-01-24 - Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
• The Impact of Age Verification Measures Goes Beyond Porn Sites | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-01-24 - As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online services to remove and block anything that may be...
• Daring Fireball - 2025-01-24 -
• Daniel Jalkut - Nuance - 2025-01-24
• If OpenSSL were a GUI - 2025-01-23 - - What if OpenSSL were a GUI program? Here's what it might look like.
• A rotten Apple: Tim Cook’s betrayal of LGBTQ+ rights | Really Lovely Things - 2025-01-23 - When somebody you respect betrays you so deeply, it’s hard to know where to turn. Tim Cook’s actions at Trump’s inauguration are a stark reminder of the fragility of our progress.
• Walmart Stands Firm on Why It Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in the U.S. - MacRumors - 2025-01-23 - Walmart still does not accept Apple Pay at its more than 4,600 stores across the U.S., and it stood firm on its reasoning for that today. A...
• Terminal Fever – On my Om - 2025-01-23 - In 2010, a college student wrote a piece of code that would help him start a company. Thirteen years later, he would walk away from a multi-billion-dollar public company he built, only to start tin…
• squirrel appreciation day is a thing, i guess? – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-01-23 - Last Spring, I entered into a pact with the local squirrels: I would give them peanuts and treats from my kitchen, and they would leave my garden alone. As the year unfolded, though, the pact becam…
• i did some great work on some audiobooks that are about to be released, and i want you to know about them. – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-01-23 - I closed out last year with two straight months of audiobook work on a number of projects I am so thrilled to be part of. One of them was just announced yesterday, and as many of you correctly gues…
• Truecaller iOS Update Rolls Out Real-Time Caller ID Support - MacRumors - 2025-01-22 - Popular caller ID app Truecaller is rolling out an update that brings real-time caller ID support to its iOS subscribers. Apple introduced Live...
• Daring Fireball: Let’s Not Mince Words Regarding Trump’s Executive Order to Pause Enforcement of the TikTok Law and Provide Supposed Immunity to Companies That Are in Clear Violation of It - 2025-01-22 - The order doesn’t change the law; it says to ignore the law. It’s going to be a very telling test of Republicans in both houses of Congress.
• How to survive being online • Buttondown - 2025-01-22 - - Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...
• Protecting your mental health during a clown president's second term - 2025-01-21 - We are on day two of President Kayfabe and the first day was pure stunts and stupidity to flood the news with garbage views that most people in the country don't support. I've learned a lot about mental health over the years and the one thing that feels like a
• Trump orders US withdrawal from the World Health Organization - Ars Technica - 2025-01-21 - A withdrawal from the UN health agency is a yearlong process.
• “Jaws” myths exploded by Spielberg, via Vaziri – Six Colors - 2025-01-21 - VFX artist and movie fan (and Friend of Six Colors) Todd Vaziri, in a post from 2018 that he updated Monday with new information that debunks the myth that there was an “actual shooting star&…
• Citroën Sabotaged Wartime Nazi Truck Production in a Simple and Brilliant Way - 2025-01-21 - - In case you forgot to change the batteries in your calendar, you may not be aware that this year is the 100th anniversary of Citroën. We’ve been shooting a Jason Drives special mini-series for this centenary, and while doing some research I happened to stumble upon a fascinating bit of wartime Citroën lore. It…
• Please Don't Force Dark Mode — Vishnu's Pages - 2025-01-21 - - Dear website designers, Please don’t force dark mode on your users. If dark mode is a characteristic of your brand, please ensure you choose a comfortable...
• Block AI scrapers with Anubis - Xe Iaso - 2025-01-19 - I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.
• Apple's Redesigned Mail App is Expanding to the Mac — Here's When - MacRumors - 2025-01-19 - Apple plans to expand the iPhone's redesigned Mail app to the Mac starting with macOS 15.4, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The first...
• What I’m Expecting From the New Administration | Whatever - 2025-01-19 - Nothing great! I was going to write a longer and more serious piece about this, and who knows, later I might, but right now I’m behind on a book deadline and it has priority. Nevertheless, I …
• odds n ends – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-01-19 - I spent some time in the booth this morning, recording some pickups on an audiobook I still can’t believe I was chosen to narrate. I believe it will come out in March, around the same time as…
• Daring Fireball: Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right - 2025-01-18 - To the credit of the team that put this presentation together, they mostly got it.
• Lobsters - 2025-01-18 -
• I deleted all of my email filters - 2025-01-18 - - Gmail's long had a segmented/tabbed inbox and Apple added their own (to iOS) recently. I've long used manual mail rules to label and sort inbound messages into different folders.
• Daring Fireball: Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript - 2025-01-18 - Link to: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/
• Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor · Paul Smith - 2025-01-18 - - I grepped the scm-record repo for command names I was familiar with, and, finding the ui.rs source that maps key strokes and mouse clicks to commands, I extracted them into a cheatsheet-style layout suitable for quick reference while learning and...
• RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout - The New York Times - 2025-01-18 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
• McLarens and CarPlay | Adam Bell - 2025-01-17 - building / breaking things
• No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 – Roman Zipp - 2025-01-17 - - $30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam
• A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter - james vaughan - 2025-01-17 - - I received a surprising scammy email today, and I ended up learning some things about email security as a result. Here’s the email: I was about to mark it as spam in Gmail and move on, but I noticed a couple things that intrigued me. At first glance, this appeared to be a legitimate PayPal invoice email. It looked like someone set their seller name to be “Don’t recognize the seller?Quickly let us know +1(888) XXX-XXXX”, but with non-ASCII numerals, probably to avoid some automated spam detection.
• A Response to Recent Claims About Session's Security Architecture - Session Private Messenger - 2025-01-17 - This post provides a comprehensive analysis of Session's security design choices and explains why the supposed vulnerabilities recently described by a security researcher are based on misinterpretations of both the code and underlying cryptography.
• How I think about Zig and Rust - 2025-01-17 - - todo
• Transitioning from Chef Cookbooks to Ansible Playbooks: A seamless journey - 2025-01-16 - In the ever-evolving landscape of configuration management and automation tools, the shift from Chef to Ansible has become a strategic choice for many organizations seeking simplicity, scalability, and ease of use. This article explores the process of converting Chef cookbooks into Ansible playbooks, providing insights and guidance for a smooth and efficient transition.
• Default Browser: A Mac Menu Bar Utility for Quickly Switching Browsers - MacStories - 2025-01-16 - Sindre Sorhus has released more apps than most indie developers I’ve covered, and many are among my favorite utilities. I suspect that a big part of Sorhus’ success is the tight focus of most of those apps, which are designed to eliminate specific points of friction for users. Sorhus’ latest utility is called Default Browser.
• Apple interoperability efforts under EU law falls short • The Register - 2025-01-16 - - Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA
• Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket - Ars Technica - 2025-01-16 - - Bypassing engine chill issues and a wayward boat, Blue Origin got to T-0.
• No calls - 2025-01-16 - - Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.
• Three Companies Are Now in the Running to Take Over the Apple Card - MacRumors - 2025-01-16 - Apple is in talks with Barclays and Synchrony about becoming its new financial partner for the Apple Card, according to Reuters sources. The report...
• Twenty — Liss is More - 2025-01-16 - Today is a milestone day for Erin and me.
• ZADZMO code - 2025-01-16 -
• Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think. - Ars Technica - 2025-01-16 - Are scientists speculating, or is there a scientific consensus here?
• Duncan Davidson - 2025-01-16
• Deeper dive: practice quality – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-01-16
• smash that subscribe button – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-01-16 - The one time in years I deliberately point people to my blog for ONE PURPOSE, I discovered that WordPress hid the thing I wanted them to see. Neat.
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares Tidbits About His Life - MacRumors - 2025-01-16 - If you've ever wondered what it's like to be the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook recently sat down for an interview with Table Manners podcast hosts...
• 'Knives Out 3' Gets Title 'Wake Up Dead Man' and 2025 Release - 2025-01-16 - Rian Johnson announced the title and a 2025 release for his third 'Knives Out' movie starring Daniel Craig.
• BASIC Star Trek Games - 2025-01-15 -
• The best laptop ever - Mijndert Stuij - 2025-01-15 - - In which I gush over my M1 Macbook Air.
• Daring Fireball: 'TikTok Is Just the Beginning' - 2025-01-15 - Link to: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/tiktok-is-just-the-beginning
• Das Blinkenlights! | - 2025-01-15 -
• A big western loop: day 1 & 2 - 2025-01-15 - I spent the last few months cramming to finish off the soccer stadium book, and I purposely stacked my first week of January with every annoying obligation I had (oil changes, teeth cleanings, etc) so the rest of my month was free. I planned the second week in January for
• Taking Leave | Whatever - 2025-01-15 - If you want to know when I pretty much drew a line though my friendship with Neil Gaiman, it was when Neil acknowledged that he made moves on his early-20s nanny on her first day of employment. Thi…
• Two fire experts describe inconvenient truths about L.A. wildfires - Los Angeles Times - 2025-01-15 - - For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.
• The MacBook Air Turns 17 Today - MacRumors - 2025-01-15 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air 17 years ago today at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, captivating audiences with...
• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts - 2025-01-14 - - thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
• Why I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back - 2025-01-14 - - And I think you should too.
• Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com - SourceCodeRed - 2025-01-14 - - A security researcher at Snyk published 5 malicious software packages to the NPM registry. These packages appear to target Cursor.com
• 1 in 5 Online Job Postings Are Either Fake or Never Filled, Study Finds - 2025-01-14 - - A plague of "ghost jobs" is haunting the modern job-seeker.
• Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers - 2025-01-14 - - How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people.
• This is The Contrarian - by Jennifer Rubin - The Contrarian - 2025-01-14 - Not Owned by Anybody
• Against Hard-Wrapping Text Documents — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-01-14 - Yes, it makes things look nicer in a very few, very specific places. But it makes it that much worse everywhere else.
• Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Tweets on Gender Identity | The Trevor Project - 2025-01-14 - "As someone who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment," said Radcliffe.
• Daring Fireball: One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps - 2025-01-14 - - The notion that mobile web apps are closing the gap with native apps is laughable. The gulf between them is widening, not narrowing.
• My UniFi Experience, Thus Far — 512 Pixels - 2025-01-13 - After years of waiting, AT&T Fiber finally became available on my side of the street,1 giving me access to sweet, sweet gigabit speed both to and from the Internet. This became the impetus for me to replace most of my home network. I was using a set of pretty old eero base stations, back from […]
• Migrating from WordPress | Craft CMS - 2025-01-13 - Migrating from WordPress to Craft CMS just got a whole lot easier, with the help of a new CLI command.
• WordPress is in trouble | anderegg.ca - 2025-01-13 - - 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 moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that’s going on. It should be noted that many sites are leaving for Pressable — owned by Mullenweg’s company, Automattic — because of a sweetheart deal.
• MA270U Review - MacRumors - 2025-01-13 - Any typical search for a consumer Mac monitor inevitably leads to the Apple Studio Display – a seamless but prohibitively expensive option for most...
• Daring Fireball: Rory Sykes, Killed in LA Wildfires, RIP - 2025-01-13 - Link to: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/mother-of-former-child-star-killed-in-palisades-fire-speaks-on-devastating-loss/
• Sonos CEO Steps Down Following Disastrous App Redesign - MacRumors - 2025-01-13 - Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has stepped down after eight years, following widespread criticism over the company's failed app redesign (via...
• Phishing Attacks Use This Simple Trick to Defeat iPhone Message Security - MacRumors - 2025-01-13 - A new social engineering tactic is being used by cybercriminals to trick iPhone users into disabling iMessage's built-in phishing protection, in...
• Here's why Apple is right to hold firm on its DEI policies - 9to5Mac - 2025-01-13 - The upcoming change in the presidency has seen a number of companies make changes to long-standing policies, in fields spanning...
• Apple Faces £1.5 Billion UK Lawsuit Over App Store 'Overcharging' - MacRumors - 2025-01-13 - Apple is heading to court in London on Monday to defend against a class-action lawsuit seeking £1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) in damages over...
• Americans Don’t Know How Good They Don’t Have It - 2025-01-13 - Tell them.
• Asylum Square: Retrogames revised. - 2025-01-12 - - Retrogames revised.
• Daniel Craig is my James Bond - (think) - 2025-01-12 - Note: This article was originally published on “HEY World” on Oct 25, 2021. I’m moving it to my main blog, as I’ve decided to close my HEY account.
• macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs - (think) - 2025-01-12 - - While I was setting up my new mac mini yesterday I noticed something interesting - Apple have stopped shipping the ancient Emacs 22.1 with macOS! As I was mostly using Windows + WSL2 in the past 5 years I had missed the exact moment when this happened, but after some digging I discovered that the change was first made in macOS 10.15 (“Catalina”), which was released in October 2019.
• AI founders will learn The Bitter Lesson | Lukas Petersson - 2025-01-12 - - Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
• Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans | TechCrunch - 2025-01-12 - -  Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.
• Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash - The Repository - 2025-01-12 - - Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech journalist Kara Swisher has described as "bizarrely heinous behavior."
• Blockchain for beginners | sean goedecke - 2025-01-12 - A brief explanation of how blockchains work for developers
• Daring Fireball: 'Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era' - 2025-01-12 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU4.1YiC.LBBOij0yKLtb&smid=url-share
• Daring Fireball: Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes - 2025-01-11 - The answer to the question of which company held the keynotes which attracted the most enthusiastic large live audiences was always Apple. And they just walked away from that.
• Writing good technical explanations | sean goedecke - 2025-01-11 - How to explain complex technical concepts by starting with why
• What makes strong engineers strong? | sean goedecke - 2025-01-11 - Self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability
• Build your own elegant e-paper weather display powered by an ESP32 microcontroller - 2025-01-11 - If you want a gorgeous e-paper weather display, the design work has already been done for you with this ESP32 project.
• What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? - 2025-01-11 - - What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
• Blockchain explained simply | sean goedecke - 2025-01-11 - As simple an explanation of blockchain as possible
• What kind of work I want | sean goedecke - 2025-01-11 - A brief statement of values for recruiters or hiring managers
• The state of Vim [LWN.net] - 2025-01-11 -
• Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - 2025-01-11 - - Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS
• Today I learned that bash has hashmaps - Xe Iaso - 2025-01-11 - - Xe Iaso's personal website.
• Daring Fireball - 2025-01-11 -
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Bitcoin Lessons - 2025-01-11
• Building a new treadmill desk setup for 2025 – Six Colors - 2025-01-11 - Lex Friedman’s dual-desk setup, now (again) with treadmill. I’m writing this article at 2.6 miles per hour. Fifteen years ago(!), I wrote an article for Macworld about upgrading to a st…
• Surviving the dentist - 2025-01-10 - I grew up with parents that owned their own struggling small business. Throughout my childhood, we had pretty much zero healthcare until I got to college. I went to the same doctor from birth to high school but only saw him once every 2-3 years when I was super sick
• MacStories Won't Stand for Meta's Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies - MacStories - 2025-01-10 - - Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform. Meta is now doing the same thing with Threads and Instagram, so we’re leaving them behind, too. We were initially optimistic about Threads because of
• Announcing Rust 1.84.0 | Rust Blog - 2025-01-09 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Crews rescue man from silo in Lancaster County, Pa. - 2025-01-09 - The rescue took about two hours.
• if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests · mtlynch.io - 2025-01-09 - - There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if username != "dummyUser" { t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s", username, "dummyUser") } Write your tests like this, beginning each assertion with if got, want :=: // The underused, elegant way. if got, want := GetUser(), "dummyUser"; got != want { t.Errorf("username=%s, want=%s", got, want) } The if got, want :=: pattern works even better in table-driven tests. Here’s an example from my library for parsing social media handles:
• Rot or Not 2: Aveleda Alvarinho 2022 – Emily Wright dot net - 2025-01-08
• udondan/cfn-teleport: A command-line tool which can move CloudFormation resources between stacks - 2025-01-07 - A command-line tool which can move CloudFormation resources between stacks - udondan/cfn-teleport
• Great things about Rust that aren't just performance | nicole@web - 2025-01-07
• Birdfy Debuts Camera-Equipped Bird Bath and Multi-Camera Bird Feeder - MacRumors - 2025-01-07 - Birdfy, a company that makes smart cameras for bird watching, today introduced several updated products that give bird lovers new, more advanced...
• Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough. – Six Colors - 2025-01-07 - The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple: Apple has said it will upda…
• Jonas Hietala: First impressions of Ghostty - 2025-01-07 -
• Birdfy Debuts Camera-Equipped Bird Bath and Multi-Camera Bird Feeder - MacRumors - 2025-01-07 - Birdfy, a company that makes smart cameras for bird watching, today introduced several updated products that give bird lovers new, more advanced...
• How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias — ProPublica - 2025-01-06 - - Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
• It’s Impossible to Get Rid of a Tesla Cybertruck. I Want to Cut My Losses and Move On, but I Can't Give This Thing Away. I’ve Lost So Much Money Already; Help. | Torque News - 2025-01-06 - A Cybertruck owner shares his frustration following multiple failed attempts to sell his truck. After losing more than $20,000 in 2,800 miles, the owner says, “I want to cut my losses and move on, but I can't give this thing away.”
• Satechi's New Mac Mini Hub Solves the Power Button Problem - MacRumors - 2025-01-06 - The power button on the latest Mac mini is located on the bottom of the computer. If that bothers you, an upcoming accessory offers a solution. At...
• Collecting Spy Sheets: CSS allows user tracking in emails | heise online - 2025-01-06 - Users can be tracked not only on the web, but also in emails. Only a few email clients prevent tracking via CSS.
• It's book launch day! - 2025-01-06 - My wife and I love soccer. We love watching it, we've both loved playing it in the past, and for the last few years we've been pretty obsessed with women's soccer. The women's game doesn't have the same kind of diving and fake injuries and bench-clearing brawls that ultimately slows
• New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2025-01-06 - - You may have arrived at this post because you received an email with an attached PDF from a purported hacker who is demanding payment or else they will send compromising information—such as pictures sexual in nature—to all your friends and family. You’re searching for what to do in this frightening...
• Daring Fireball: Jamison Foser on the Obsequiousness of The Washington Post Spiking Ann Telnaes's Cartoon - 2025-01-05 - Link to: https://www.findinggravity.net/p/no-jeff-bezos-is-not-obeying-in-advance#footnote-1-154176323
• Quick Tip: Which USB devices are currently attached? – Six Colors - 2025-01-05 - I’ve recently switched from using two computers in two different offices (the hard-to-heat garage and my well-heated back bedroom) to using one computer (a MacBook Pro) docked in either locat…
• Kubernetes Spec v1.32: Reference Guide and Documentation - 2025-01-05 - - Find the documentation for all builtin resources, properties, types and even some examples!
• blog.davep.org – Braindrop - 2025-01-05 - A touch over a year ago I did the initial work on an application called Tinboard, a terminal-based client for the Pinboard bookmarking service. I had a lot of fun building it and it was an application that I used on a near-daily basis. However, around August last year I realised it was time for me to move on from Pinboard and try something new; based on various recommendations I settled on Raindrop. As mentioned in the other blog post, Raindrop offered more or less everything I had with Pinboard and so the move was fairly straightforward. The one thing that was missing though was an application similar to Tinboard. So, late on last year, with my winter break approaching, I decided to start from scratch and build a "Tinboard for Raindrop", which I'm calling Braindrop. This was going to be a bit of an adventure too. Since being laid off from Textualize earlier in 2024 I'd not been following its development quite as closely as I used to, and had also run into some issues and bugs with it since that time; moreover, as well as various bugs appearing, some breaking changes had also been made. As such this was going to be a process where I'd wrap my head around what's happened with the framework over the prior six months or so. Given all this, over the past couple of weeks I've been spending a few hours a day doing some for-pleasure coding and v0.1.0 of Braindrop is the result. As much as possible I've tried to keep the look and feel similar to that of Tinboard, while also doing my best to avoid some of the "ah, I wish I hadn't done it this way" design decisions I'd made. As of the time of writing I'm very pleased with the result. One thing I did want to do is ensure that the application was as keyboard-friendly as possible, while also still allowing use of the mouse. Textual can sometimes get that wrong and I ran into an example of this while trying to ensure that there's good in-application help. Somewhat recently Textual added a built-in help system which, sadly, can't easily be used by and navigated by someone using the keyboard. So instead I've recreated the help system I built into Tinboard, while adopting the documentation standard that Textual had settled on (which, coincidentally, was kind of similar to what I did in Tinboard to start with). As with Tinboard, I've also made sure to make full use of the command palette, with every action that makes sense having a keyboard hotkey as well as a command in the palette. I also took things a little further and made sure that the hotkeys are shown in the command palette for easier discovery. I've also made sure that Textual's new theme system is available for easy use; so out goes dark/light mode toggling and in comes a collection of different themes. Here's a wee selection as an example: That's a small selection of the themes, with more to explore. There's a few more things I want to do before I consider the application v1.0-ready, but it's already in use by me and working well. As I decide what else I want to add to it I'm building up a list of TODO items. Given that my day job these days is quite varied, isn't quite so coding-intensive, and isn't always related to all things Python, it's actually been fun to sit down and hack up a pure Python application from scratch again. It's also helped me discover a couple or so fresh bugs in Textual (which I've reported, of course) and given me the opportunity to PR some trivial fixes as I've noticed typos and stuff as I go. Anyway; that's v0.1.0 out in the wild. I'm pleased with how it's turned out and there's more to come. It's licensed GPL-3.0 and available via GitHub and also via PyPi. If you have an environment that has pipx installed you should be able to get up and going with: $ pipx install braindrop It can also be installed with Homebrew by tapping davep/homebrew and then installing braindrop: $ brew tap davep/homebrew $ brew install braindrop I hope this is useful to someone else. :-)
• Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb | Jeff Geerling - 2025-01-05 -
• Bowing the Knee. Again. - by Charlie Sykes - 2025-01-05 - The Wapo's Profile in Uncourage.
• Daring Fireball: Charlie Sykes on the Stupidity of The Washington Post Spiking Ann Telnaes's Cartoon - 2025-01-05 - Link to: https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/bowing-the-knee-again
• Amund's note on home server security - 2025-01-05 -
• 39 - Iain Simmons - by Adib Hanna - .dotfiles - 2025-01-05 - Iain Simmons is a Development Lead and Web Developer working full-time remotely from his home in the beautiful Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• Inspiration and the Subconscious — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-01-05 - Inspiration is not always conscious; sometimes we cannot even say what it is we want to try artistically until we are already trying it.
• it’s in a book – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2025-01-05 - I noticed something about the way I read books, yesterday. When I start a book, it’s like I’m sitting in an empty space, completely surrounded by the fog of war. Over some number of pag…
• A New [Home Screen] Thought Technology — Liss is More - 2025-01-04 - A few months back, I [mostly] declared home screen bankruptcy and tried a whole new approach. I've come to really like it.
• What are muscle knots? An exercise physiologist explains what those tight little lumps are and how to get rid of them - 2025-01-04 - Researchers are still trying to figure out exactly what happens within muscle to create knots, also known as myofascial trigger points. But they do know some ways you can avoid or alleviate them.
• I drove a Cybertruck around SF because I am a smart, cool alpha male - 2025-01-04 - You can rent a Tesla Cybertruck for a day, if you dare, and SFGATE columnist Drew Magary dared.
• Turo CEO: Attackers had clean records, so background checks wouldn't have stopped them | TechCrunch - 2025-01-04 - Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military
• I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone - 2025-01-04 - - One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …
• Why I'm quitting the Washington Post - by Ann Telnaes - 2025-01-04 - - Democracy can't function without a free press
• jwz: ISBN - 2025-01-03 - I've finally gotten around to trying to scan the barcodes on all of my books. I'm using Library Thing, even though it is trying really hard to be some kind of Clown-based gamified "goodreads" fucktangle when all I want is a local catalog. Anyway, what's the deal with every single paperback book released in the 1990s having a barcode on the back cover that is useless for scanning? Most of the ...
• Apple Plans to Expand iPhone Driver's Licenses to These 7 U.S. States - MacRumors - 2025-01-03 - In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a...
• Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts | WBUR News - 2025-01-03 - - Drummers across the globe know the Zildjian name because it’s emblazoned on every shiny cymbal they make. What’s less known is that the family has been making their famous cymbals, with a secret process, for more than four centuries.
• Daring Fireball: 'Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024' - 2025-01-03 - Link to: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
• New World Record for Biggest Wave Ever Surfed? Potentially. - 2025-01-03 - Alessandro “Alo” Slebir has possibly broken the Guinness World Record for largest wave ever surfed with a 108-footer.
• Manton Reece - 2025-01-02
• An Unreasonable Amount of Time - Allen Pike - 2025-01-02 - - A method for magic.
• It's 2025 - 2025-01-02 - Welp.
• How Michigan’s capital learned to love a truck-eating bridge - mlive.com - 2025-01-02 - More than two dozen trucks have crashed into a Lansing railroad bridge over the past year. Over the summer, it got googly eyes and teeth and became one of the city's most beloved icons.
• One dead, seven injured as Cybertruck explodes outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas - The Verge - 2025-01-02 - - The vehicle was parked directly outside the hotel doors.
• Daring Fireball: Tesla Cybertruck Explodes and Burns Outside Entrance of Trump International Hotel and No-Casino in Las Vegas - 2025-01-02 - Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/1/24333612/cybertruck-fire-explosion-trump-hotel-las-vegas
• 20 Years of Old Man’s War | Whatever - 2025-01-01 - In retrospect, Tor Books officially releasing Old Man’s War on January 1, 2005, doesn’t seem like a huge vote of confidence in the novel. One, the holiday season is over and all the spe…
• Eric Hellman: "Here's something I've been wor…" - tilde.zone - 2025-01-01 - - Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098 The conversion of all 75,000 texts in Project Gutenberg to Accessible EPUB3 is an ongoing collective effort, but the last missing piece for Pooh was to supply image descriptions in alt text worthy of this iconic work. I hope we've mostly succeeded! With work being done to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, national "authorized entities" are now able to share accessible versions of in-copyright works with each other internationally, but we don't have to wait for that in the case of works in the Public Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh_VIP_Treaty Project Gutenberg's accessible version of Winnie-the-Pooh can be shared freely throughout the world. If you don't like the added alt text, you are free to change it! (but maybe you'd prefer to work on one of the thousands of books that don't yet have image descriptions for the visually impaired!) Creating alt text for a work of fiction is both hard work and a lot of fun. The descriptions have to fit in to the narrative of the text, without adding subjective interpretation of the illustrations. Not easy at all! For example, the alt text for the illustration showing Pooh peering up at the bees can't call them bees, because in the next sentence, Pooh thinks: "That buzzing-noise means something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something." https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.html#img_images_illus15.jpg For Pooh, some technical corrections were necessary as well. The horizontal rules around the illustrations needed to be silenced with the HTML5 aria-hidden attribute. Six illustrations needed to be moved up or down a sentence to fit into the narrative. In Chapter 7, the sentence: "If this is flying I shall never really take to it." had been rendered across 3 lines with margins and spaces, jumbling the word order. A change to vertical-align rendering makes it more accessible to everybody - I could copy and paste it! https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.html#images/illus73.jpg We've played with AI for image description, and the results are quite good for complex figures and the like, but it will be quite a while before AI image descriptions can be set loose without human editors, especially for works like Pooh. AI's can completely whiff on the simplest images! We're working to create UIs for alt text editing and creation to enable more people to help out in accessibility mitigation. Maybe one of these people will be you! There are thousand of books that need help.
• Goodbye Github Pages, Hello Coolify · Quakkels.com - 2025-01-01 - Coolify is more than just a tool that lets me self host my blog. (It's definitely overkill for a static site like this.) Coolify facilitates so much more. It can manage applications like Laravel, Django, and Nextjs. It can spin up databases like Postgres, Mongo, and more. Do you need a service like Redis, or how about RabbitMQ? What about your own Docker Registry? Coolify can spin up and manage all of these. And it can automate deploys and notifications.
• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released! - Pidgin - Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse - 2025-01-01 - - We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the first experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.90.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users. The release can be found on SourceForge. Please see the README file in the source code for building instructions. We recommend you use a meson devenv instead of installing directly to your OS instal...
• Running only a single instance of a process | Redowan's Reflections - 2025-01-01 - I’ve been having a ton of fun fiddling with Tailscale1 over the past few days. While setting it up on a server, I came across this shell script2 that configures the ufw firewall on Linux to ensure direct communication across different nodes in my tailnet. It has the following block of code that I found interesting (added comments for clarity): #!/usr/bin/env bash # Define the path for the PID file, using the script's name to ensure uniqueness PIDFILE="/tmp/$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]%.*}.pid")" # Open file descriptor 200 for the PID file exec 200>"${PIDFILE}" # Try to acquire a non-blocking lock; exit if the script is already running flock -n 200 \ || { echo "${BASH_SOURCE[0]} script is already running. Aborting..."; exit 1; } # Store the current process ID (PID) in the lock file for reference PID=$$ echo "${PID}" 1>&200 # Do work (in the original script, real work happens here) sleep 999 Here, flock is a Linux command that ensures only one instance of the script runs at a time by locking a specified file (e.g., PIDFILE) through a file descriptor (e.g., 200). If another process already holds the lock, the script either waits or exits immediately. Above, it bails with an error message and exit code 1.
• 2024 in Review — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2025-01-01 - A very strange year: parts of it far exceeding my hopes, others falling rather flat.
• Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left By Tanker That Broke Cables - 2025-01-01 - - By Kati Pohjanpalo Dec 29, 2024(Bloomberg) –Finnish authorities investigating damage to subsea power and data cables found drag marks on the seabed likely left by the anchor of seized tanker Eagle...
• Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production - MacRumors - 2025-01-01 - - Apple's first-generation Vision Pro headset may have now ceased production, following reports of reduced demand and production cuts earlier in...

December 2024

• Daring Fireball: Coding Font Selection 'Tournament' - 2024-12-31 - - Link to: https://www.codingfont.com/
• U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions – Krebs on Security - 2024-12-31 -
• Jimmy Carter, Who Has Died at Age 100, Spared Millions of People from Guinea Worm, a Debilitating Parasite | Scientific American - 2024-12-31 - Former president Jimmy Carter’s charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one that infects fewer than a dozen
• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security - Ars Technica - 2024-12-30 - - Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.
• mhoye/moderntools: Modern problems require modern solutions. - 2024-12-30 - Modern problems require modern solutions. Contribute to mhoye/moderntools development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Your “Right” to Speedy Travel Doesn’t Exist – Bike Style Life - 2024-12-30 - Originally I planned to write this post as the second part of my response to Bike Shop Girl’s piece We Are the Problem. One of the underlying assumptions in her post that I take issue with is…
• Our response to Google’s policy change on fingerprinting | ICO - 2024-12-30 -
• Idiosyncra | blarg - 2024-12-30 -
• Use policy-rc.d to prevent services from starting automatically - 2024-12-30 -
• Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes in a first for the EU : NPR - 2024-12-30 - - The ban, which will take effect on Jan. 1, is based on health and environmental grounds and is a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.
• Notes for December 23-29 - Tao of Mac - 2024-12-30 - Nothing much happened during the holiday season except that in an unusual turn of events, my CM3588 NAS kit killed three of the four SSDs I ...
• Photos of Jimmy Carter's Life - The Atlantic - 2024-12-30 - A collection of images of Jimmy Carter’s life as a husband, father, farmer, sailor, governor, president, diplomat, volunteer, and teacher.
• Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt - 2024-12-28 - Figuring out how to keep secrets secret using git-crypt and PGP keys.
• Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom - Ars Technica - 2024-12-28 - - Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in 2024.
• Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? - 2024-12-28 - - a personal blog
• Rubenerd: Ten things in tech I found joy in during 2024 - 2024-12-28 - - Includes Python 3, creative people online, modern hardware on retrocomputers, XML with coffee, social media, NetBSD and Alpine Linux, boutique hosting, repair approachability, and feedback.
• So You Want to Write Java in Neovim - 2024-12-28 - - I have been doing Java in Neovim for quite a while at work, and it’s been a very pleasant experience. As Neovim usage grows (especially amongst the younger crowd), I want to share how I do it.
• The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024 | Scientific American - 2024-12-27 - Unsolvable problems, many-dimensional wheels and new prime numbers are among new mathematical discoveries this year
• Apple Set to Become First $4 Trillion Company - MacRumors - 2024-12-27 - Apple is on the brink of becoming the first company in history to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, Fortune reports. Apple's stock...
• Perfect Desk | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 - 2024-12-27 - - Early in my computer related life – that means being 15+ years old – especially at parents house – I had a prefabricated desk with stand for monitor and for all other possible thi…
• ChatGPT Experiencing Outage - MacRumors - 2024-12-26 - OpenAI's popular ChatGPT service is experiencing an outage at the current time, according to the company's website. A system status page says...
• Ascension says impact of cyber attack included data from more than 5.5 million people - News Radio KMAN - 2024-12-26 - The company that runs Manhattan’s Via Christi hospital has told federal regulators that a cyber attack on their systems impacted about five-point-six million people. In the report, Ascension leadership says it continues to work with third-party experts to look further into the personal data that may have been compromised. The data breach notification said the
• Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans | PNAS - 2024-12-26 - - Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges together, but suboptimal coordination can undermine the effectiveness of grou...
• Why the Jujutsu posts are all about differences from Git — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-12-26 - When writing about something which invites obvious comparisons to a “peer” in its category, it is natural to emphasize what is different and novel.
• facundoolano/software-papers: 📚 A curated list of papers for Software Engineers - 2024-12-26 - - 📚 A curated list of papers for Software Engineers. Contribute to facundoolano/software-papers development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Shellcheck — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-12-24 - If you want your shell scripting to be as bug-free and reliable as possible, use Shellcheck!
• X Announces Major Price Increases for Ad-Free Premium Plus Tier - MacRumors - 2024-12-24 - X (Twitter) has announced a big jump in pricing for its Premium Plus subscription tier, with monthly rates in the US jumping from $16 to $22,...
• How I discovered a German way to fight loneliness: The Stammstich : NPR - 2024-12-23 - - Modern life can be lonely. Some are looking to an old German tradition – of drinking and conversation – to deepen connection through regular meetups.
• Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab | TechCrunch - 2024-12-23 - - Cybersecurity experts, who work with human rights defenders and journalists, agree that Apple is doing the right thing by sending notifications to victims of mercenary spyware — and at the same time refusing to forensically analyze the devices.
• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects – code.dblock.org | tech blog - 2024-12-22 - - Have you watched The IT Crowd? It’s a hilarious British television sitcom from around 2006 that cast a bunch of IT geniuses at the Reynholm Industries tech support department in London. One of the signature laughs is that every time the phone rang, Roy would pick it up and without waiting say “Have you turned it off and on again?”, then hang up. I often feel like Roy when engaging with users reporting bugs in open-source projects I maintain.
• Keeping a CHANGELOG at Work – code.dblock.org | tech blog - 2024-12-22 - - What did you do at work today? How about last week? I spent a couple of days in quarterly business reviews, and wrapped up yearly planning activities for AWS Data Exchange and AWS Marketplace. I also added some unit tests to a project that I am onboarding into.
• Dec 22: Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail | Fastmail - 2024-12-22 - - Why we use our own hardware and what the tradeoffs and costs look like
• Krissy Retires | Whatever - 2024-12-21 - Today is a big day in the Scalzi household: After 22 years, Krissy is retiring from her job as claims adjuster at the Buckeye Insurance Group. This had been a move that was some time in coming; Kri…
• wow it’s really been 40 years – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-12-21 - I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, in the 70s and 80s. I remember when this kid — who nobody thought could even make the final, much less win — in the All Valley Karate Championship.
• Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right – POLITICO - 2024-12-21 - “Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally.
• Ghostty Is Native—So What? | g.p. anders - 2024-12-21 - - Ghostty is a new terminal emulator by Mitchell Hashimoto. While a lot has been said about Ghostty’s performance, less discussed is its native platform1 integration which is, in my opinion, its most distinctive and underrated feature. Despite being listed as a key motivating factor in Mitchell’s original introduction, online discussions about Ghostty rarely mention its native integration, and when they do many commenters remain skeptical over its importance or don’t understand what that means.
• Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up • The Register - 2024-12-21 - - Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source
• Optimize your shell experience - 2024-12-21 - - Make your shell workflow as smooth as possible by creating helpers designed just for you.
• We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time - Ars Technica - 2024-12-20 - - “Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind.”…
• Daring Fireball: 'Silo' Renewed for Two Additional Seasons - 2024-12-19 - Link to: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/silo-renewed-season-3-ending-season-4-1236249072/
• Ghostty: The Next-Level Terminal That’s Spooking Its Competitors - 2024-12-19 - Finally, a terminal for the modern age. Ghostty combines blazing-fast performance with stunning visuals and features you didn't know you needed. Created by HashiCorp's Mitchell Hashimoto, it's rethinking what a terminal can be.
• The Honda Prelude will be back as a hybrid in 2025 - 2024-12-19 - This morning, the Japanese automaker confirmed that the new Prelude will go on sale here in the US, late in 2025.
• Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study - Ars Technica - 2024-12-19 - - Despite the risks, firms and Trump are eager to get people back into offices.
• Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates - Ars Technica - 2024-12-19 - - Amazon lacks space to accommodate its entire workforce.
• Christmas with Grubbs – an animated holiday special I worked on that you and your kids will love. – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-12-19 - I am part of an animated holiday special and you can watch it on YouTube for free! Christmas With Grubbs is an animated holiday special based on Max Weaver’s comic. It’s about a little …
• Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer - 2024-12-19 -
• Configure Zed to Use the Project’s rust-analyzer — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-12-19 - Upsides and downsides of configuring your editor to always use the version of rust-analyzer which came with the version of Rust you are using.
• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust - 2024-12-18 - - A smart and user-friendly command line shell
• rustunit - 2024-12-17 - - Rustunit offers software development consulting with a focus on rust, game-development and large scale distributed backend services.
• having exhausted my ability to solve a simple problem, i turn to the internet for assistance. help me, mysterious internet; you’re my only hope. – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-12-17 - this post is an ask for technical support. Just a basic, straightforward, “Hey, Internet, can someone help me out here?” And before you ask, yes, I have turned it off and back on again.
• Matthew Garrett - Wikipedia - 2024-12-17
• Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Series 'Silo' Renewed for Third and Fourth Seasons - MacRumors - 2024-12-17 - Apple today announced it has renewed the award-winning sci-fi series "Silo" for third and fourth seasons, allowing for the "complete...
• it’s an older meme sir, but it checks out – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-12-16 - Back in the old days, I would just blog about whatever was on my mind, without worrying about The Audience or The Algorithm. This is an effort to return to the old ways, and is largely about NHL 25…
• Starting a Business at 60: My Father's Story - 2024-12-15 - - My father has started a business venture after his retirement. He is 62, and spends most of the day in his new shop or on road.
• The 81 Best Sci-Fi Crime Novels - 2024-12-15 - Definitive rankings of the best sci-fi crime novels ever written based on curated lists and suggestions from readers and authors.
• How I manage my dotfiles using GNU Stow - 2024-12-14 - I have a lot of dotfiles. I have dotfiles for my: * terminal (kitty), * zsh, * amethyst, * tmux, * And let's not forget my Neovim configurations. I also like to keep things consistent across my different machines. So, I make sure to store all my dotfiles and configurations on GitHub. But in the
• OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment - 2024-12-13 - A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
• The devil and Luigi Mangione - 2024-12-13 - Luigi Mangione appeared to try everything for chronic pain from a back injury that hampered his physical livelihood and dating life, and struggled to receive support even as he tried to provide it for others.
• Spamalanche - 2024-12-13 - Today, someone tried to pull a scam on me, and it had some notable approaches I haven't seen or heard about before so I figure I'll write it up in case someone else someday is searching for a strange bunch of behaviors that hit their credit cards and their inboxes
• I'm daily driving Jujutsu, and maybe you should too - 2024-12-12 -
• A Look at Apple Intelligence's Image Creation Tools — 512 Pixels - 2024-12-12 - iOS 18.2 is rolling out today, bringing the next wave of Apple Intelligence features with it.1 The splashiest feature is Image Playgrounds, which allows users to create images based on photos in their image libraries: (Don’t look too closely at my hand in the image on the right.) Apple’s system will not create realistic images, […]
• Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for ‘state of emergency’ | New Jersey | The Guardian - 2024-12-11 - - Lawmaker called for a ‘limited state of emergency’, while 21 mayors asked governor to enact statewide action
• Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust - The New York Times - 2024-12-11 - A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.
• Beyond Being There: Making Remote Work Better - 2024-12-09 - What if instead of trying to recreate being in person, we embraced what remote work gives us?
• Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel | The Observation Deck - 2024-12-09 -
• my second year without a job | shilin typing... - 2024-12-08 - - Reflecting on two years of unemployment: personal growth, financial lessons, and creative pursuits like music and startups. Here's how I navigated year two without a job.
• HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death - Ars Technica - 2024-12-08 - - Popular tech educator died in his office within hours of claiming retaliation for filing NCSU ethics reports.
• Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 - Ars Technica - 2024-12-08 - Unsurprisingly, he and his family were doxed by angry traders.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Remembering Bonnie - 2024-12-08 -
• This Is What The Internet’s For - 2024-12-08 - I wonder if, when Bobby Internet invented the internet, he imagined it would be used for videos like this. There’s somethi
• xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients - 2024-12-08 -
• Notre-Dame Reopens in Paris After a Fire. It’s Astonishing. - The New York Times - 2024-12-08 - Five years after a fire nearly felled the cathedral that has dazzled visitors for almost 900 years, the heart of Paris beats anew.
• New clues emerge as hunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooter enters third day | AP News - 2024-12-08 - The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer likely left New York City on a bus soon after, police officials said Friday. But he left something behind: a backpack that was discovered in Central Park.
• Wild birds dying off across KS, experts suspect bird flu - 2024-12-07 - Some reservoirs estimate more than 1 in 100 birds have died this season.
• Daring Fireball: Owner Patrick Soon-Shiong Is Tanking the LA Times's Credibility - 2024-12-07 - Link to: https://www.status.news/p/los-angeles-times-patrick-soon-shiong
• Apple’s Passwords app now has a Firefox extension for Mac - 9to5Mac - 2024-12-05 - Apple Passwords now offers an official Firefox extension for Mac users, making Apple’s solution work more seamlessly when browsing the web.
• USC Student Rocket Group Shatters International Amateur Space Record - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering - 2024-12-03 - - Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet.
• Apple Sued for 'All-Seeing Eye' Employee Device Monitoring Policy - MacRumors - 2024-12-03 - California Apple employee Amar Bhakta has filed a lawsuit against Apple for alleged labor violations, accusing the Cupertino company of suppressing...

November 2024

• Best Bluesky apps, projects, tools I've found - 2024-11-30 - A collection of cool apps and projects built on the AT Protocol: analytics tools, dashboards, and custom feed builders.
• Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business - 2024-11-30 - - The Netscapes of AI
• Daring Fireball: 'Building LLMs Is Probably Not Going Be a Brilliant Business' - 2024-11-30 - Link to: https://calpaterson.com/porter.html
• Kitchener hacker’s unmasked after he threatened woman - 2024-11-29 - - Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221B, a U.S. cybersecurity firm.
• Continue & Persist Letter - 2024-11-29 - - Continue & Persist Letter
• Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US) :: Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog - 2024-11-28 - - Hetzner raises prices This morning I received an email from Hetzner stating that they are raising prices in the US while significantly reducing bandwidth. The largest price percentage increase is 27.52% for CPX21 servers, and the smallest is 4.17% for CX3+ servers. Bandwidth allotments are decreasing on average, across all products, 88.19% from previous allotments. I’ve been a big fan of Hetzner. Unfortunately they’ve made a feeble attempt to dress this change up in the name of “fairness”.
• The SS United States Heads Into Unknown Waters - Atlas Obscura - 2024-11-28 - After decades in a Philadelphia shipyard, the last great American ocean liner may be destined for the seafloor.
• 'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet | Space - 2024-11-28 - - "We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century. We didn't know what it was at first."
• Hetzner - New tariff structure for Cloud servers and Load balancers in the USA | Hacker News - 2024-11-28
• ongoing by Tim Bray · TV In 2024 - 2024-11-28
• RFC 2119 - Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels - 2024-11-28 - - In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
• TrunkVer - 2024-11-28 - - TrunkVer is a SemVer-compatible versioning scheme for continuously-delivered, trunk-based applications and systems that don't follow a release scheme.
• Daring Fireball: The End of the Line for Delicious Library - 2024-11-27 - Link to: https://mastodon.social/@wjs/113539330521476328
• Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark - 2024-11-26 - - Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
• Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024 - 2024-11-26 - - A month and a bit ago, I wondered if I could cope with a terminal-only computer.
• Mystery uncovered of photographer and forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied France : NPR - 2024-11-26 - - The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.
• The Search for the Mystery Man Who Took These Forbidden Photos of Nazi-Occupied Paris - 2024-11-26 - In 2020, Stéphanie Colaux discovered an album of photos of Nazi-occupied Paris at a French flea market. “As I flipped t
• Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies - 2024-11-26 - - Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
• Astronauts of the underworld: The scientists venturing into the deep, dark Earth - 2024-11-26 - - Blind spiders and whip scorpions, the future of climate change, photosynthesis in the dark – here's what the deepest places on Earth can reveal about life and the universe.
• Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has suffered a serious stroke, a post on his X account says - 2024-11-26 - - Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur fighting deportation from New Zealand to the United States on charges relating to his file-sharing website Megaupload, has suffered a “serious stroke,” a post on his X account said Monday. Dotcom’s U.S.-based lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed to The Associated Press that the contents of the statement were accurate. Rothken would not say whether Dotcom or someone else wrote the post and did not provide further details.
• Next-Generation CarPlay Images With Audi Logo Appear in EU Database - MacRumors - 2024-11-25 - Apple this month filed next-generation CarPlay images with the EU's Intellectual Property Office, as it seeks to protect the design of the...
• The Anti-Woke Culture Police Have Some Weird New Obsessions. - 2024-11-25 - Apparently we’re in a vibe shift.
• Wireguard: Beyond the most basic configuration | sloonz's blog - 2024-11-25 - - Last week I wanted to replace my OpenVPN setup with WireGuard. The basics were well-documented, going beyond the basics was a bit trickier. Let me teach you want I learned. The basics But first, let’s summarize the basics. I have a server with a hosting provider that I want to use as a VPN server. I won’t delve into details here, since there are so many great explanations on the web already (here, here, here or here), let’s just make a quick summary of a simple setup, as a base for discussing the (slightly) more advanced usages I had to configure myself:
• Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide | Euronews - 2024-11-25 - - The tech giant said it is investigating the incident.
• The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 | WBUR News - 2024-11-25 - - The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfleet on Thursday
• Self Hosting is an Unhelpful Term – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2024-11-24 -
• iPhone Mirroring is Very Good – 512 Pixels - 2024-11-23 - The addition of iPhone Mirroring in macOS Sequoia is my favorite addition to the Apple ecosystem in years.1 Here's how Apple describes the feature: With iPhone Mirroring, you can wirelessly interact with your iPhone and its apps and notifications from your Mac. Your iPhone stays locked, so no one else can access it or use [...]
• nothing but bluesky is such a predictable title for this post – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-11-23 - I am still on a break from public life, but I understand some number of people were concerned that someone was building a foundation to impersonate me, and I wanted to verify that those accounts ar…
• Secret Weblog • Don't Look Down on Print Debugging - 2024-11-23 - - Print good, not bad!
• Apple TV+ Releasing Next Week's 'Silo' Episode Early - MacRumors - 2024-11-23 - The next episode of Apple TV+'s award-winning sci-fi series "Silo" will be released early. Apple previously announced that new...
• The bizarre true story behind the “this is a work of fiction” disclaimer. - 2024-11-23 - - Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons,...
• Horrifying medical device malfunction: Abdominal implant erupts from leg - Ars Technica - 2024-11-22 - - Suspicious deaths, perforated sheep veins went unreported before device hit market.
• Satechi Previews Mac Mini Hub With SD Card Slot, Three USB-A Ports, and Up to 4TB Storage Slot - MacRumors - 2024-11-22 - Well-known Apple accessory maker Satechi today previewed a hub for the new Mac mini that will enhance the computer in a variety of ways. First, the...
• Where You Don't Need A Permit To Buy A Gun - Brilliant Maps - 2024-11-22 - Map created by reddit user Borysk5
• Palo Alto Networks warns hackers are breaking into its customers' firewalls — again | TechCrunch - 2024-11-22 - Hackers have compromised potentially thousands of Palo Alto customers by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities
• Solene'% : Why one would use Qubes OS? - 2024-11-21 - - In this article, I'm sharing my feelings about Qubes OS, what it is and why I like it
• On not using copilot - macwright.com - 2024-11-21
• The Mac is the Model – 512 Pixels - 2024-11-21 - Jason Snell, in an incredible piece for Macworld: To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices [...]
• One Foot Tsunami: Where We Go From Here (2024) - 2024-11-21 - Visit One Foot Tsunami to read more.
• diziet | The Rust Foundation's 2nd bad draft trademark policy - 2024-11-20 -
• Rope Optimizations, Part 1 - 2024-11-20 - - From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations
• Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash - 2024-11-20 - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
• An Unreachable Hidden XKCD Easter Egg inside CPython - 2024-11-19 - - No, I'm not talking about import antigravity
• Keyboard Rabbit Hole | Ash Furrow - 2024-11-19 - Content warning: this post contains medical discussions. Quickly after I began my career as a full-time software developer, I developed pain in my left wrist. At first, it was only occasional. But it became consistent. Then it started showing up in my right wrist. I wish that I had done something about my wrist pain…
• Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain - 2024-11-19 - - Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
• Against best practices - 2024-11-18 -
• Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot - 2024-11-18 - - Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
• Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - 2024-11-18 -
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Why Not Bluesky - 2024-11-18
• New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm | TechCrunch - 2024-11-17 - “Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's secure enclave chip.
• A French Masterpiece in 9 Photos: Patrick Commecy’s Mural in Montpellier | STREET ART UTOPIA - 2024-11-17 - At 33 rue Balard in Parc Clémenceau, Montpellier, France, you’ll find Juliette et les Esprits, a captivating mural by renowned artist Patrick Commecy.This mural, visible on Google Maps, i
• James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief - 2024-11-17 - - New discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope offer unexpected support for an alternate theory of gravity first proposed in 1998.
• CSS Gets a New Logo: And It Uses the Color `rebeccapurple` | MichaelCharl.es/Aubrey (Michael Charles Aubrey) - 2024-11-17 - - A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebec...
• On My Current Writing Output — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-11-17 - I have lately only managed to publish my “Read the Manual” posts. Why: job searching, working on The Rust Programming Language Book, and more!
• Tesla Has Highest Fatal Accident Rate Among Auto Brands, Study Finds - 2024-11-16 - - Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report.
• Hide iPhone Find My Location Without Raising Suspicion - MacRumors - 2024-11-15 - Ever need a moment of privacy without raising suspicion? If you're secretly shopping for a holiday gift or planning a surprise party, you might...
• In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 - CHM - 2024-11-15 - - CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Privacy, Why? - 2024-11-15
• I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. | Nieman Journalism Lab - 2024-11-15 - - Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.
• The Violin - 2024-11-15 - A stack of hundred-year-old photos led to the discovery of a family treasure hiding in plain sight.
• Six inane arguments about EVs and how to handle them at the dinner table - Ars Technica - 2024-11-15 - Need to bust anti-EV myths at the Thanksgiving dinner table? Here’s how.
• 100,000 Miles | Whatever - 2024-11-15 - I have had my MINI Countryman since April of 2011 (here’s the post where we went to pick it up, you can tell it was a long time ago because Athena is shorter than I am), but it was only last …
• Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle | David Lattimore - 2024-11-14 -
• My Simple Knowledge Management and Time Tracking System | Henrik Warne's blog - 2024-11-14 - - I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what I work on. I have two plain text files called notes.txt and worktime.txt. In the notes file, I write d…
• O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - Virgin Media O2 - 2024-11-14 - - O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people, while highlighting the need for consumers to stay vigilant as the UK faces a fraud epidemic.
• Search and Sync Your Shell History With Atuin - 2024-11-14 - - Atuin is a tool and labor of love built by Ellie Huxtable that runs in the background to capture commands you’ve entered. It stores these locally in a SQLite database and provides a great CLI tool...
• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia - 2024-11-14 - - Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
• Why am I creating a new code editor? — Raphael Amorim - 2024-11-14 - - I have a passion for web development and love to create.
• Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky | by Aidan Raymond | Nov, 2024 | Medium - 2024-11-14 - By Aidan Raymond
• Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code - 2024-11-14
• A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton's Endurance | Open Culture - 2024-11-14 - Photos on this page courtesy of the Falklands Maritime Heritage  Few who hear the story of the Endurance could avoid reflecting on the aptness of the ship's name. A year after setting out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, it got stuck in a mass of drifting ice off Antarctica.
• What Will You Do? - The American Prospect - 2024-11-14 - Life-changing choices we may be forced to make if Donald Trump wins
• Daring Fireball: Bill Atkinson Has Pancreatic Cancer - 2024-11-14 - Link to: https://www.facebook.com/bill.atkinson.9862/posts/pfbid02qwih6yMYUTsx3VmVXM8zbE1Ss6hoGsJkqowAdmeUqupBDG6RRXBndJyrJfyLSRSJl
• jwz: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar. - 2024-11-13 - It's Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky. "Now that Dorsey has bailed as a board member and principal funder, Bluesky's DNA is basically [TESCREAL / Effective Altruist] people. It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady ...
• Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla | Hunting the Shmoo - 2024-11-13 - - One of the pleasures of working at Mozilla, has been learning and using the Mercurial version control system. Over the past decade, I’ve spent countless hours tinkering my worfklow to be just so. Reading docs and articles, meticulously tweaking settings and even writing an extension. I used to be very passionate about Mercurial. But as time went on, the culture at Mozilla started changing. More and more repos were created in Github, and more and more developers started using git-cinnabar to work on mozilla-central. Then my role changed and I found that 90% of my work was happening outside of mozilla-central and the Mercurial garden I had created for myself. So it was with a sense of resigned inevitability that I took the news that Mozilla would be migrating mozilla-central to Git. The fire in me was all but extinguished, I was resigned to my fate. And what’s more, I had to agree. The time had come for Mozilla to officially make the switch. Glandium wrote an excellent post outlining some of the history of the decisions made around version control, putting them into the context of the time. In that post, he offers some compelling wisdom to Mercurial holdouts like myself: I’ll swim against the current here, and say this: the earlier you can switch to git, the earlier you’ll find out what works and what doesn’t work for you, whether you already know Git or not. When I read that, I had to agree. But, I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. No, if I was going to have to give up my revsets and changeset obsolesence and my carefully curated workflows, then so be it. But damnit! I was going to continue using them for as long as possible. And I’m glad I didn’t switch because then I stumbled upon Jujutsu.
• Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X | Social media | The Guardian - 2024-11-13 - - We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
• This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower - Ars Technica - 2024-11-13 - A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow.
• Daring Fireball: Also Now In Public Beta: Find My Enables Sharing Location of Lost Items With Third Parties, Including Airlines - 2024-11-13 - Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apples-find-my-enables-sharing-location-of-lost-items-with-third-parties/
• All the Big Tech leaders congratulating Donald Trump - The Verge - 2024-11-13 - Tech leaders are cozying up to Trump.
• Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house | Spain | The Guardian - 2024-11-12 - - Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering
• M4 Mac mini's efficiency is incredible | Jeff Geerling - 2024-11-12 -
• There are some things the Crew-8 astronauts aren’t ready to talk about - Ars Technica - 2024-11-12 - “I did not say I was uncomfortable talking about it. I said we’re not going to talk about it.”…
• Jamcorder | Automatic Piano Recorder - 2024-11-11 -
• QNX becomes free for non-commercial use, releases Raspberry Pi 4 image – OSnews - 2024-11-10
• Unused keys | Vim Tips Wiki | Fandom - 2024-11-10 - - This page lists single unused keys in Vim. As such, it is an inverted version of :help index. In addition, the page lists synonyms that can safely be mapped. Many more mappings are possible by combining keys. See the article "Follow my leader" in § External links below for hints on combining keys. In the following table, the type "Free" means a key is not used in Vim by default, whereas the type "Synonym" means a key is used in Vim by default but is a synonym for some other key that is also used
• jwz: We are so fucked - 2024-11-09 - "Try not to stress out about the big picture", they said. "Focus on your community", they said. Great idea! Here are just two topics that kept me from sleeping last night: These asinine tariffs mean the price of all of our products are going to go up by 20% to 60%, from napkins to flour to whiskey. How much will we have to raise our prices just to break even? How many customers will that ...
• Why I moved from Google Analytics to Simple Analytics - 2024-11-09 - How I ditched Google Analytics bloat for a privacy-focused analytics tool that bypasses ad blockers
• Making Money in the Next Four Years, and Why You Need to Plan Now to Support Your Favorite Creators | Whatever - 2024-11-09 - This starts out about me, and then becomes about others, too, so stick with it, it’s going places. Over on the former Twitter and elsewhere, at least a few awful people have been publicly cel…
• My Post-Election Post, Different Than I Had Originally Intended It to Be | Whatever - 2024-11-09 - Why is it different? Because the version I was initially thinking to write would mostly have been yell-y, and while I certainly do yell-y well, at the moment I’m not feeling it. Maybe that&#8…
• New microblog with TILs - 2024-11-09 - New microblog with TILs
• Daring Fireball: How It Went - 2024-11-09 - Election day, 2024.
• jwz: On blocking, and the coinsplaining cryptobros - 2024-11-09 - - In the last week, I have been referred to as "Daddy" more times than ever before in my life. And apparently I'm a "boomer" now. I've also been told that my blog is a psyop to protect the dollar. Since the twit-shitshow (twitshow) began, it looks like I got 1.7M "impressions", around 30K likes, 7K RTs, 700 replies, and my number of followers went from 15K to 24K. (But then I immediately ...
• "Mac mini Pro" enclosure for M4 Mac mini by Jerrod H - MakerWorld - 2024-11-09 - --&nbsp;Do you remember the adorable miniature PowerMac G5 model on Steve&#39;s desk at his Palo Alto home? With the new 5-inch square M4 Mac mini, now you can have your very own functional “Mac Pro mini” or “Mac mini Pro” with just a bit of 3D printing.&nbsp;The M4 Mac mini  slides into the rear of the 3D-printed shell of the Mac Pro case, and is held in securely. All ports remain functional, and the power button is prominently and readily accessible via a push-through button in the case. Be aware I will be revising the power button pass-through in the next iteration.&nbsp;The top handles, feet, and optional wheel hubs print separately and can be glued into the case. The optional wheels themselves are actually 6800-2RS Ball Bearings, available inexpensively on Amazon. Alternatively, I provide tires and rims you can print in lieu of using the bearings.&nbsp;Please stay tuned for more tweaks, and let me know what you think! You can follow my progress updates on Mastodon.&nbsp;--11/08/2024 UPDATESAdded printable tire option for wheel hubs – use tire and rims in addition to “hub, spacer, and axle” used with the 6800 bearings.Added option for fixed-foot with integral baseplate for extra stabilityAdded Apple Logo to case wallCleanup of main case and rear fairing. Removed material from thick wallAided bridging of the ceilingDeepened holes for main handles and feet – fit is snug enough that glue should be optional now.Fit checks done! Tiny tweaks to come soon.Please see the “Boost Me” link below to support my design work and iterative improvements as I work on them!Boost MePlease leave a boost to support me as I continue to make refinements:- Fit adjustments after release [PENDING]- Assembly documentation&nbsp;
• Research monkeys still having a ball days after busting out of lab, police say - Ars Technica - 2024-11-09 - They pose no risk to human health, and they’re living their best lives.
• My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
• My Fifth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Five years ago today, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
• My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Four years ago today, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my fourth year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
• My Third Year as a Solo Developer · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Today is the third anniversary of me quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I posted updates at the end of my first and second years, so it's time for another update.
• My Second Year as a Solo Developer · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second full year, so it's time for another update.
• My First Year as a Solo Developer · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - Exactly one year ago, I quit my job at Google, so it's time to reflect on how the decision has affected my finances, lifestyle, and happiness.
• Daring Fireball: It Doesn’t End - 2024-11-09 - Progress hasn’t stopped, but it’s never easy, and never without backlash.
• How to Fix iPhone Notes Disappearing After Accepting New iCloud Terms - MacRumors - 2024-11-08 - Apple in September updated its iCloud terms and conditions with some minor changes, and this week it has been notifying iPhone users that they must...
• Cops Suspect iOS 18 iPhones Are Communicating to Force Reboots, Making Unlocking Harder - MacRumors - 2024-11-08 - Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for...
• How to Fix iPhone Notes Disappearing After Accepting New iCloud Terms - MacRumors - 2024-11-08 - Apple in September updated its iCloud terms and conditions with some minor changes, and this week it has been notifying iPhone users that they must...
• Daring Fireball: I Wonder - 2024-11-08 - - Singsong congratulations from the leaders of America’s biggest companies.
• An Opinionated Guide to Keyboard Thumb Keys | John Lindquist - 2024-11-08 - - I've used a lot of keyboards over the years. All of my favorite keyboards include thumb clusters: keyboardio kinesis advantage 2 ultimate hacking keyboard ergodox I'm constantly tweaking my keyboard layouts using their…
• Daring Fireball: The Brutal Clarity of This Result - 2024-11-07 - Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/06/the-election-provided-some-clarity/
• Configuring SSH Keys for Multiple GitHub Accounts | Steven Harman — Maker & Breaker of Things - 2024-11-06 - - Managing different SSH Keys for different Hosts is well-understood. But different keys for the same host (e.g., github.com), based on which Organization we'r...
• Daring Fireball: 'Trump Has Won, but Democracy Is Not Over' - 2024-11-06 - Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/trump-victory-democracy/680549/
• Daring Fireball: 'Trump Has Won, but Democracy Is Not Over' - 2024-11-06 - Link to: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/11/trump-victory-democracy/680549/
• What have you done, America? – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-11-06 - I am anguished, I am heartbroken, I am afraid of what’s coming for people I love. I am shocked that my country just gave 247 years of Democracy away over one night. We live in a different cou…
• Daring Fireball: 'In Defeat: Defiance' - 2024-11-06 - Link to: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-will-trumps-win-mean
• Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities - 2024-11-06 - - macOS comes with a lot of built-in utilities. Here's a list of some that I find interesting.
• How to watch Disney Plus on iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple TV - 9to5Mac - 2024-11-06 - Want to watch Disney Plus on iPhone or other Apple devices? Here's what you need to know about getting your slice of the Disney content pie.
• Daring Fireball: Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing - 2024-11-06 - Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.
• GM Again Attempts to Explain Its Decision to Drop CarPlay in New EVs - MacRumors - 2024-11-05 - American automaker General Motors (GM) last year announced it would be phasing out support for CarPlay and Android Auto in its new electric vehicles,...
• Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies | nicole@web - 2024-11-05 -
• Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest - The Verge - 2024-11-05 - - It’s about time.
• Configuring SSH Keys for Multiple GitHub Accounts | Steven Harman — Maker & Breaker of Things - 2024-11-05 - - Managing different SSH Keys for different Hosts is well-understood. But different keys for the same host (e.g., github.com), based on which Organization we'r...
• Programmer in Berlin: Culture - 2024-11-05 - - This is part 4 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details cultural differences and things I wasn’t aware of until I stumbled on them. Politics One thing about Germany, and Europe in general, is that it’s relatively left-wing when compared to the US. This is a place where universal healthcare is so commonly accepted that no party – not even the super-racist party! – is talking about removing it. The aforementioned super-racist party has effectively the same political platform as the mainstream Republican party in the US (minus the healthcare thing). Politics in Europe certainly has its own problems, but at least in Germany there is a flourishing multi-party system that allows for people to have some kind of choice when voting. There is even a fun website called the “Wahl-o-Mat” (“Vote-o-Matic”) that tells you which party to vote for after answering a series of questions. There’s also none of the Electoral College silliness, which I won’t get into here.
• Programmer in Berlin: Finances - 2024-11-05 - This is part 3 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details some awfulness with respect to finances and taxes while being abroad. Salary I think for a lot of American programmers, especially ones coming out of FAANGs, this is a huge consideration. The salaries in Europe just aren’t the same as they are in the US, or especially in the Bay Area.
• Programmer in Berlin: Moving In - 2024-11-05 - This is part 2 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page details some practicalities of actually moving to a different country, from getting a work visa to making sure your electronics work. Work visa Once you’ve decided to make the move, one of the first things you need to do is secure a work visa. This will go a little differently depending on your situation:
• Programmer in Berlin: Motivation / Before the move - 2024-11-05 - This is part 1 of a 5-part series detailing what I wish I had known as an American programmer moving to Berlin. This page explores the motivation to move to a different country, some ways to guide your decision making, and what you might want to establish before moving to make your future life easier. Motivation Why you should do it You’re probably not going to do something just because someone online tells you to do it, but I might as well give you some motivation on why moving is a good idea. There are the more abstract reasons, like “living abroad expands how you think about the world,” lifestyle/political reasons like experiencing life in a place with universal healthcare, and more prosaic reasons like enjoying techno music. Personally, I just really liked Berlin and was at a point in my life and career where making such a move was possible – things aligned, and I knew that such an opportunity wouldn’t happen again soon. In any case it’s fun and cool!
• What I wish I had known as a programmer moving to Berlin - 2024-11-05 - - Intro I’ve passed my seven year mark living in Berlin, Germany, and I thought it would be worthwhile to reflect on it and write down some of the things I wished I had known before moving from the US. Building a new life in a different country is a tremendous amount of work but can also be extremely rewarding. My goal isn’t to persuade you to move or not to move here, only to give you some more information to help you make a decision for yourself or better prepare for a move if you’ve already decided on it.
• A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles - The Verge - 2024-11-05 - Trump doesn’t care about any of this.
• Daring Fireball: Nilay Patel: 'A Vote for Donald Trump Is a Vote for School Shootings and Measles' - 2024-11-05 - Link to: https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024
• A ‘Crazy’ Idea for Treating Autoimmune Diseases Might Actually Work - The Atlantic - 2024-11-05 - Lupus has long been considered incurable—but a series of breakthroughs are fueling hope.
• blog.davep.org – Markdown all the things - 2024-11-05 - Recently I've been on a bit of a "turn stuff into Markdown files and slap them in an Obsidian Vault" trip. This kicked off a couple of months back when I made a decision unrelated to coding. On and off, since my teenage years, I've kept journals. Since those teenage years it's been more off than on, but a couple of times in my adult life it's been really helpful to actually write one. The last time this happened was early 2019. It was pretty vital I did that at the time and it was a really sensible and helpful decision, and an approach to the situation I was in that I'd recommend to anyone (and have done on occasion to anyone going through the same thing). The actual motivation for starting that particular journal is long behind me, but I'd got into the habit of writing it and so, until a couple or so months back, I kept jotting something down every day. But I came to the realisation that I didn't need to and that it had become something of a chore. I'd been using an application called Journey. It's a great app, does the job well, but was also suffering from the creep of "AI" (I've had a few apps ion my arsenal that don't need it, acquire a useless "AI" feature). This privacy-problematic change of direction, combined with the realisation that I didn't need to write about my day, every day, any more, made me decide it was time to stop and cancel the subscription. Thankfully Journey has a pretty comprehensive export option so I used it and didn't think too much more about it for a while. Meanwhile I also had a subscription to Evernote that I didn't really use any more. Within it I had held a handful of years of journal entries from a decade or so ago, along with other "remember this for some point in the future" stuff. For the longest time I was on some really cheap tier that didn't exist any more, one that was low enough that I didn't really notice the cost go out each month so I kept putting off exporting things and closing it all down until "next month". Then I got an email from them to say they were forcing me onto some new tier that was more expensive. So that was the final straw there. I made an export of what I had in Evernote and closed that account down too. A wee while went past and then I got to thinking that it might be interesting to try and combine both these sources into one archived journal. I had stuff from around 2010 to 2015, and I also had stuff from 2019 until 2024; the former in the Evernote archive and the latter in the Journey archive. Surely I could write a couple of tools to turn that data into one consolidated Obsidian Vault? Over the course of a couple of weekends journey2md and evernote2md were born. While both of those tools work differently, they're both designed to populate the same Obsidian Vault. Once I was happy with this I did the mass conversion and I was happy with the result. Now I have years of journal entries, all converted to Markdown files and made available for reading via an application that lets me rummage through history using dates and tags and all sorts of other searching. So I was happy with that and didn't give it much more though. Then last week I got to thinking... Twitter has turned into the worst place possible and I can't for the life of me think why any right-thinking person who has an ounce of humanity or has anything approaching a humanistic outlook on life would remain an active user. Honestly I stuck it out longer than was sensible, but in June 2023 I finally quit for good. Back when the new owner was confirmed I, like a lot of people, extracted my archive. It's since been sat in storage doing nothing, yet there's a lot of data in there that could be interesting to work with, or just to go back and look through. So last week's thought was "why don't I also turn this into an Obsidian Vault?". So I did... The tool I built to do this is bird2glass. As you'll see in the README it makes a few assumptions about the state of Twitter archive dumps and also what a user wants from this. Personally I'm pleased with the result. The main aim of the tool is to break the tweets down into a hierarchy of year, month and day... ...and also to connect them with any account that was being replied to or mentioned in some way... This user view is handy when viewing backlinks, as it gives you a list of all the tweets that mention that user (and, of course, if you're into Obsidian's graph it will make for some interesting connections within there). I sense there's more I can do with this, and I imagine I will continue to tinker with it. Meanwhile though, if that sounds like something you'd benefit from do feel free to grab it and play with it and hack on it. Keep in mind the notes and assumptions that are in the README, and really be prepared for a lot of files to be created if you did a lot of tweeting like I did (I do think that over 50,000 individual files for an Obsidian Vault is a bit silly, if I'm honest). Meanwhile... I might need to look at other applications and think about how I can turn the data into useful Markdown collections!
• New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright - Ars Technica - 2024-11-05 - Time-hopping film Here used AI trained on every Tom Hanks movie to make him appear young again.
• Daring Fireball: Iowa Poll From 'Best Pollster In Politics': Kamala Harris Ahead 47-44 - 2024-11-05 - Link to: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/
• Fatih Arslan - 2024-11-05 - - Engineer with a passion for Design, Dieter Rams, Watches, Coffee and Bauhaus
• I’ve Arrived at Saint Peter’s Gate | Whatever - 2024-11-05 - No, not that one (I’m not dead yet!), but the one in Nantes, more formerly called Porte Saint-Pierre, which used to be part of the gates of the city of Nantes. The oldest part of the structure date…
• NASA says that warp drive is getting closer to reality - The Brighter Side of News - 2024-11-05 - Warp drive is said to possess the capability of having a propulsion system that can travel faster than light speed travel.
• I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics - 2024-11-04 -
• Daring Fireball: Trump, His Remaining Shreds of Both Dignity and Sanity Slipping Away in the Face of Impending Loss, Tells Rally He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ White House in 2020 - 2024-11-04 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/us/politics/trump-pa-rally-election.html?smid=url-share
• Daring Fireball: No Minced Words From Senator John Fetterman - 2024-11-04 - Link to: https://x.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1853081045962194977
• bird2glass · PyPI - 2024-11-03 - A tool for converting Twitter exports to an Obsidian Vault.
• Nevaeh Crain Died During a Miscarriage After Trying to Get Care in Texas Hospitals — ProPublica - 2024-11-03 - It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.
• Adding to your lexicon: tenuto – Emily Wright dot net - 2024-11-03
• Colophon (Interconnected) - 2024-11-02 - Posted on Monday 28 Oct 2024. 1,340 words, 21 links. By Matt Webb.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · LLMM - 2024-11-02 -
• Friday night feed reader score report - 2024-11-02 -
• What Tattoo Would You Get? | Cup of Jo - 2024-11-02 - My friend Alison just got a surprising tattoo...
• New Mac mini – Power (on the) bottom – Blankbaby - 2024-11-02 - This week, Apple announced lots of new Mac stuff, which is always fun. The new Mac minis look great, and are just cute as a button. I mean, look at that darn thing! Don’t you just want to pin…
• Why Zellij? :: poor.dev - 2024-11-02 - - The story of Zellij and its creation.
• If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow - The New York Times - 2024-11-02 - The brainy birds carry big chips on their shoulders, scientists say. And some people who become subjects of their ire may be victims of mistaken identity.
• What is the point of an online conference? - 2024-11-01 -
• Kamala Harris for President « John Moltz's Very Nice Web Site - 2024-11-01 - John Moltz's Very Nice Website

October 2024

• SSH Remoting is Here! - 2024-10-31 - - From the Zed Blog: Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.
• One Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here’s What They Found. - 2024-10-31 - Since the pandemic, executives have had to rethink their work-from-home policies to better support their companies’ bottom line. Recent research conducted in a real company showed that employees who worked from home three days a week experienced higher satisfaction and lower attrition rates compared with their colleagues who worked from the office. This reduction in turnover saved millions of dollars in recruiting and training costs, thereby increasing profits for the company. Business leaders can learn valuable lessons from this study to implement a successful hybrid work model: establishing rigorous performance management systems, coordinating team or company-level hybrid schedules, and securing support from firm leadership. Additionally, executives should A/B test their own management practices to find what works best for them.
• Lessons learned from a successful Rust rewrite - 2024-10-30 -
• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady - 2024-10-30 - - Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.
• 15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence - 2024-10-30 - - NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter. Engineers at JPL are investigating the incident, facing the challenge of managing commands and data over a 15 billion-mile distance. The team aims to stabilize communications and add
• Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident - 2024-10-29 - - The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.
• How we shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size by 94% - 2024-10-29 - - We really did this! We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS. Using some new changes to the git client it went from 178GB to 5GB.
• Bemyak's blog - Am I Secure? - 2024-10-29 - - I often see how people make security decisions based on pure intuition. Can I store TOTP in my password manager? Should I use a local password manager or is a remote one OK? Is it OK to configure multiple second factors? Since I have a degree in Information Security 🤓, I think I’ll try to clarify these questions by describing the underlying theory, so you’ll have a decision framework to make educated choices.
• NimConf 2024 - Online Nim conference - 2024-10-27 - - NimConf 2024 will take place on October 26th at 10am UTC. Streamed live and for free from YouTube.
• Robots.txt pitfalls: what I learned the hard way | Lobsters - 2024-10-27
• An Ode To Vim - 2024-10-27 -
• I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent” - 2024-10-27 - - Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.
• The Scalzi Endorsement: Kamala Harris for President | Whatever - 2024-10-26 - (Photo adapted from an official White House photo by Lawrence Jackson) This last week the billionaire owners of both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times prevented their newspaper editoria…
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Joyful Life | The Government of Japan - JapanGov - - 2024-10-26 - - The Japanese word ikigai, which has recently gained attention worldwide and enjoys widespread use, refers to a passion that gives value and joy to life. The author who prompted its craze speaks about the word’s appeal and the effects it has on mental and physical health.
• The Basics - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill - 2024-10-26 - - Here’s what I consider to be the basics.
• Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer - 2024-10-26 - - In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name.
• What to Expect From Apple's 'Exciting Week of Announcements' - MacRumors - 2024-10-25 - Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak today teased that the company has an "exciting week of announcements" planned next week. Joswiak...
• Scientists reveal test you can do at home that is ‘tell tale’ measure of ageing | The Independent - 2024-10-25 - Ability to stand on nondominant leg shows highest rate of decline with age
• The Lion of St. Mark’s Square in Venice is Chinese: Isotopic Analyses Confirm It | Archaeology News - 2024-10-24 - - The Famous Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice is Chinese: Isotopic Analyses Confirm its Origins, Possibly Brought by Marco Polo's Family.
• You've been throwing a frisbee all wrong, new study finds | BBC Science Focus Magazine - 2024-10-24 - Science has answered the question on all our brains... what is the best way to throw a frisbee?
• Apple Responds After Being Fined Alongside Goldman Sachs for 'Apple Card Failures' - MacRumors - 2024-10-24 - Following an investigation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced it has fined Apple and Goldman Sachs nearly $90...
• Daring Fireball: Intuit's PR Team Has Seemingly Never Heard of the Streisand Effect - 2024-10-24 - Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/21/24273820/intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi-turbotax-irs-quickbooks-ai-software-decoder-interview
• Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery - Ars Technica - 2024-10-23 - “That movie sucks,” Elon Musk said in response to the lawsuit.
• Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers: CFPB - 2024-10-23 - - The CFPB fined Goldman and Apple $89.8 million for mishandling transaction disputes and banned Goldman from launching a new credit card unless it demonstrates "it can actually follow the law."
• Rust Prism | Lobsters - 2024-10-23
• Reconsidering practice, part 2: Quality – Emily Wright dot net - 2024-10-22
• against /tmp – Tony Finch - 2024-10-22 -
• Learning to learn | K/L - 2024-10-22 - - The fastest way to get better at something is to start slow.
• Scaffolding your shifts – Emily Wright dot net - 2024-10-22
• Lonely Cello voice inbox! – Emily Wright dot net - 2024-10-22
• Janky remote backups without root on the far end - 2024-10-22
• T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users - Ars Technica - 2024-10-21 - - Carriers fight plan to require unlocking of phones 60 days after activation.
• Naming Conventions That Need to Die | Will Crichton - 2024-10-21 - - Names are an important tool of thought. They provide a loose, lightweight way to manage and structure knowledge. However, bad names inhibit learning and impede progress. We should root out and destroy the processes that lead to bad names.
• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1) - 2024-10-21 - - 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
• AWS and Azure are At Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner - 2024-10-21 - - Why We Recommend Hetzner to Try Out the UMH: it is at least 4x–10x less expensive than AWS and Azure for similar VM instances.
• MilesCranmer/rip2: A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm - 2024-10-21 - - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm. Contribute to MilesCranmer/rip2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Reconsidering practice, part 2: Quality – Emily Wright dot net - 2024-10-21
• Turning an iMac G4 into an external monitor with the DockLite G4 mod - The Verge - 2024-10-20 - It’s not the best display, but it’s definitely my favorite.
• Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible VCS - Tony Finn - 2024-10-20 - - Experimenting with using a new version control system
• Rust vs Go in 2024 — Bitfield Consulting - 2024-10-20 - - Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
• Take Our Word For It, page four, Sez You... - 2024-10-20 -
• Phucking with Phishers - Niklas Oberhuber - 2024-10-20 - - Phishers tried to steal my Instagram credentials. They also forget to properly secure their database…
• Your Writing – Rands in Repose - 2024-10-19 - Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. 3% will be trivial to write. 4% will strongly resonate with others in a way you didn't expect. 5% will be quite good. 15% probably should've never been published. 26% will illicit a reaction you did not expect. Positive or negative. 28% will be
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - PrimeNet - 2024-10-19 - - Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - Finding world record primes since 1996. GIMPS is an organized search for Mersenne prime numbers using provided free software.
• NASA Freezes Starliner Missions After Boeing Leaves Astronauts Stranded - 2024-10-19 - - NASA is once again turning to its more trusted commercial partner SpaceX for crew flights in 2025.
• Study Confirms a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat : ScienceAlert - 2024-10-19 - Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and flooffiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't bonding, maybe you're just not speaking their language.
• Read the Manual: du — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-10-19 - Disk utility. Not that Mac app you might be thinking of, the older one.
• Amazon exec tells employees to work elsewhere if they dislike RTO policy - Ars Technica - 2024-10-19 - - Using RTO to push quitting could result in an “array of legal consequences.”…
• Daring Fireball: Things Are Not Going Well at Automattic - 2024-10-19 - Link to: https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/
• Daring Fireball: DHH Argues Against Passkeys - 2024-10-19 - Link to: https://world.hey.com/dhh/passwords-have-problems-but-passkeys-have-more-95285df9
• Snook.ca is dead, long live Snook.ca! - Snook.ca - 2024-10-19 - After a couple years of not putting any revenue into the business, I realized that it was time to say goodbye. I have officially dissolved my corporation, Snook.ca Web Development, Inc. My persona...
• WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources - The Verge - 2024-10-19 - The WordPress fight is heating up.
• The FCC will soon require all hearing aids and phones to work together - 2024-10-19 - The FCC approved new regulations requiring all phone manufacturers to make their handsets compatible with hearing aids.The rules ensure those with hearing loss can easily use compatible phones.
• Another burnout post | Blog | Gus Hogg-Blake - 2024-10-18 -
• She’s One of Florida’s Most Lethal Python Hunters—but the Invasive Creatures Still Have a Hold on Her – Garden & Gun - 2024-10-18 - - Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win
• Making mailing lists nicer: Writing a mail extension for macOS with MailKit - the sporks space - 2024-10-18 - - As a developer, I need to work with mailing lists a lot. Developer-focused mailing lists tend to have certain conventions most usage of email has moved on from, as have the clients. While some people who trawl mailing lists configure… Continue reading →
• Announcing Rust 1.82.0 | Rust Blog - 2024-10-18 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Rhinos Get In the Halloween Spirit by Adorably Goring Pumpkins | PetaPixel - 2024-10-18 - Black rhinos get a cute close-up.
• Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them - 2024-10-18 - - The Redbox operating system has been dumped, and people are repurposing the massive DVD kiosks they've saved from the scrap heap.
• Neal Stephenson's 'Polostan' Is a Compact Epic - 2024-10-17 - Critics sometimes gripe that Neal Stephenson's sprawling, discursive, episodic, prop-up-your-laptop-sized novels may be smart, but they need focus and
• The Strad - Why I rotate between seven bows: cellist David Finckel | The Strad - 2024-10-17 - From 19th century French bows to modern carbon fibre, David Finckel outlines why each of his seven bows has a time and place in his music making
• The Strad News - ‘They just didn’t want to listen’: cellist Maja Bogdanović denied boarding by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | The Strad - 2024-10-17 - The cellist was travelling with her family to perform at the Belgrade Music Festival
• The Strad News - TwoSet Violin ‘ends chapter’ after eleven years | The Strad - 2024-10-17 - - The violin comedy duo made the announcement on social media on Monday afternoon
• How we Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger - Mo Beigi - 2024-10-17 - - Learn how IdentityLogger used fingerprinting to combat ban evasion, protecting our CSGO community from relentless cheaters.
• Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users - Open RSS - 2024-10-17 - - Cloudflare's security features could be blocking RSS feed users from accessing your website
• Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators - Ars Technica - 2024-10-17 - - Parents claim there was no rule banning AI, but school cites multiple policies.
• Best Headsets for Sailing - 2024-10-17 - Headsets come in handy for calm communications while mooring, docking, going up the mast, putting up sails, working in an engine bay...
• Adding to My Mac's Swiss Army Knife: A Raycast Extension Roundup - MacStories - 2024-10-17 - If you have ever heard or seen me talk about my macOS setup, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of Raycast. A few years ago, Raycast took off on the Mac as an incredible alternative to Spotlight and the long-time Mac power user favorite, Alfred. Today, it has cemented itself as an essential piece
• Apple Will Let Verified Businesses Display Logos in Apps Like Mail, Phone, and Wallet - MacRumors - 2024-10-17 - Apple today announced an update to its Apple Business Connect feature, designed to allow any verified business to create a consistent branding and...
• When should I use String vs &str? - 2024-10-16 -
• Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite - Ars Technica - 2024-10-16 - - Amazon’s new monochrome e-readers focus on the usual quality-of-life upgrades.
• Can't trust any VPN these days - Orhun's Blog - 2024-10-16 - - FOSS • Linux • Programming
• A Tailscale Example — Liss is More - 2024-10-16 - Here's a concrete example of why I love Tailscale so darned much.
• Daring Fireball: Apple Announces New iPad Mini, With A17 Pro and Pencil Pro Support - 2024-10-16 - Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-powerful-new-ipad-mini-built-for-apple-intelligence/
• New passkey specifications will let users import and export them - 2024-10-15 - - Passkeys were introduced two years ago, and they replace traditional passwords with more secure authentication using a security key or...
• Meet the team breaking into top-secret HQ's - 2024-10-15 - - Hear from the team who test security by breaking into secure facilities.
• Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong - Ars Technica - 2024-10-15 - - 54 million US adults may be misdiagnosed with high BP based on bad readings.
• Two comets will be visible in the night skies this month - Ars Technica - 2024-10-15 - Halloween visitors from the distant Oort Cloud.
• Trek CarBack bike radar lets you know when cars are approaching - Ars Technica - 2024-10-14 - - Trek takes on the Garmin Varia with its new CarBack bike radar.
• The shady origins of the climate haven myth | Vox - 2024-10-13 - How the media, city mayors, and the real estate industry filled us with false hope.
• jwz: Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today - 2024-10-13 - According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the "What's Cool" button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim ...
• WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin - The Verge - 2024-10-13 - - WordPress.org flexes its control of open-source plugins.
• Washington’s 'Forgotten Giant' Volcano Stirs: Surge in Quakes Prompts Increased Monitoring - 2024-10-13 - - Six unusual earthquakes shook Mount Adams in September, but it's too soon to speculate about a potential eruption
• Lessons from Plain Text | rugu - 2024-10-13 -
• Germany’s 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from road to rail - 2024-10-13 - - MCC analysis for the Ariadne energy transition project shows 30 percent more rail journeys. The announced increase in price to 58 euros per month undoes half of this.
• The Complete Howard Stern Interview with Kamala Harris | Open Culture - 2024-10-13 - It's hard to know where to start. This election comes down to whether we want to reward someone who tried to subvert our democracy four years ago. Whether we want to preserve the alliances that have kept the peace since World War II. Whether women want to resist losing rights they long thought secure.
• Programming Language Learning: A Rant — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-10-13 - What makes programming language learning materials so hard to do really well, the state of the art, and where we should go from here.
• Read the Manual: cd — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-10-13 - One of the few Unix tools that actually follows the Unix philosophy! Mostly, anyway.
• Remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine found on Everest - Ars Technica - 2024-10-12 - - A longstanding mystery is finally solved 100 years after mountaineer’s disappearance.
• The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than that - The Verge - 2024-10-12 - The same, tired promises.
• Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' | PC Gamer - 2024-10-12 - - The concept of a "digital license" isn't new, but there's no pretending you didn't know about it anymore.
• Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX • The Register - 2024-10-12 - - But what does that mean?
• The phone ban has had a big impact on school work - Iceland Monitor - 2024-10-12 - - A phone ban has been in place at Öldutún School since the beginning of 2019, and according to the principal, it has worked well. The school's atmosphere and culture have changed for the better, and there is more peace in the classroom.
• LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem - 2024-10-12 - - Important new study from Apple
• FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users? • gyptazy.com - The DevOps geek - 2024-10-12 - - For nearly 15 years, FreeBSD has been at the core of my personal infrastructure, and my passion for it has only grown over time. As a die-hard fan, I've stuck with BSD-based systems because they continue to deliver exactly what I need—storage, networking, and security—without missing a beat. The features I initially fell in love
• Wayland on NixOS, or: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph - 2024-10-12 - Flakes are a recent addition to NixOS. This article explains how to convert stock NixOS installation into a flaked-out one, and explains why you should do it.
• Apple Has No Plans For a Smart Ring - MacRumors - 2024-10-11 - Though smart rings with health capabilities have been growing in popularity, Apple has no plans to join the smart ring market, according to...
• China detained four Taiwanese employees at huge iPhone plant - 2024-10-11 - China has detained four Taiwanese employees at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant, the largest iPhone production facility in the world, responsible for...
• Get Me Out Of Data Hell — Ludicity - 2024-10-11
• I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars — Ludicity - 2024-10-11 -
• Three Kinds Of Unwrap | zk - 2024-10-11 - Can we make .unwrap() clearer?
• Daring Fireball: Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars - 2024-10-11 - The question to ask is, “Is this what users want and expect?” Sometimes it really is that simple. I’m not sure it’s ever worth asking “Is this what growth-hacking VC-backed social-media app makers want?”
• Efficient scaleups in 2024 vs 2021: Sourcegraph (with CEO & Co-founder Quinn Slack) - 2024-10-10 - On today’s episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a leading code search and intelligence platform.
• jwz: Wealth distribution in the United States - 2024-10-10 - Ken Shirriff: It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans. The histogram above shows the wealth distribution in red. Note that the visible red line is one pixel wide ...
• ‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In - 2024-10-09 - - WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not "affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" before registering a new account or logging in.
• The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes - 2024-10-09 - WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
• Ricky Mondello » Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format - 2024-10-09 -
• Modern PATH environment variable - 2024-10-09 -
• WP Engine / WordPress, Briefly – Rands in Repose - 2024-10-09 - - In the early days of this weblog, I was on MediaTemple using MoveableType for a good long time. Three things happened during these many years: MoveableType was mostly abandoned during this time. I'm sure well-intentioned folks were working on it (and it appears they still are), but the vibrancy of
• jwz: Today in TLD shenanigans: dot io is being killed off - 2024-10-09 - Wishing a very pleasant rebranding to all techbros who squatted their web site in an unrelated nation because it made a good pun. On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. The islands would be handed over to the neighboring island country of Mauritius, about 1,100 miles off the ...
• The Three Restaurant Red Flags that Make Me Reconsider Patronizing | Patreon - 2024-10-09 - Get more from James Kenji Lopez-Alt on Patreon
• My Experience With Operation Airdrop - 2024-10-08
• An Enormous Photo of the Moon Zooms in on the Cratered Lunar Topography in Incredible Detail — Colossal - 2024-10-08 - - Each shot zooms in on both individual craters and bruise-colored spots, allowing for an up-close study of the orb illuminating our night sky.
• Apple Tweaks Screen Recording App Permissions to Decrease Popup Frequency in macOS Sequoia 15.1 - MacRumors - 2024-10-08 - With macOS Sequoia, Apple is requiring users to regularly reauthorize permissions for screen recording apps, but you may not have to do it quite as...
• We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20 - 2024-10-08 - - When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found friendship and even romance in a gaming community
• The Atlantic Did Me Dirty - Carrie M. Santo-Thomas - 2024-10-07 - Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the reading load. She explained that she was working on
• LEGO IDEAS - Working Turing Machine - 2024-10-06 - - What is a Turing machine?Depending on who you ask, it's either an abstract model of an algorithmic machine or an esoteric programming language. It's ...
• On leaving my last job - 2024-10-06 - - Notes on why I left the Swift team at Apple, with some reflections for job seekers and junior people.
• NZ Navy ship runs aground off Samoa, catches fire and sinks | RNZ News - 2024-10-06 - 'He shouldn't have been that close to the reef', a Samoan witness says after NZ Navy ship sinks off south coast.
• When a She-Bear Swims Ashore | Hakai Magazine - 2024-10-05 - - One pioneering grizzly—and her two cubs—appear on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
• President Obama on the Passing of Steve Jobs: "He changed the way each of us sees the world." | whitehouse.gov - 2024-10-05 - President Obama remembers one of "the greatest American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it."
• Here's to the crazy ones: a farewell to Steve Jobs - 2024-10-05 - We knew. We may not have wished to know, and perhaps it was easier to push away that sense of impending sadness, the awareness that time was short, but we knew what was coming. After August, after the resignation, we knew. And yet, it's still shocking. It still hurts. Steve Jobs was a father and a husband, and the loss for his family -- having suffered with him through the acute, chronic and finally terminal phases of his illness -- is simply unfathomable. For those of us who have seen a family member or loved one taken away decades too soon by this loathsome disease, who know intimately the costs of cancer and its consequences, this is far too familiar. We feel the bereft emptiness they feel now as an echo of our own pain, a sharp pull on the cord of sorrow that connects us to our own absences of the heart. As for the rest of us: perhaps we had briefly encountered Steve at Macworld Expo in years past, or been privileged to see him deliver one of his legendary keynote addresses in person. Perhaps we got a terse reply to an email about a problem, or heard from an Apple support team member that Steve had personally escalated an issue on our behalf. Perhaps the connection was entirely one-way, and our perception of Steve was delivered at a distance. It does not matter. For all of us who were touched by his life's work, we feel a sense of loss that is surprising in its intensity. Part of that feeling is anger. Fifty-six. Fifty-six years young and you imagine, you try and simply fail to imagine what could have emerged from a full lifespan, from that kind of creative force. The world is poorer for the lack of another twenty years of Steve Jobs's brain, his energy, his judgement, his almost uncanny power to force reality to conform to his expectations rather than the other way around. Selfishly and callously we are angry, for what was taken from us, but that is part of grief too; part of knowing that you had something wonderful that you never properly appreciated until, suddenly, it was gone. Imagine how difficult it was for Tim Cook to introduce the iPhone 4S on Tuesday when he certainly knew that his own iPhone would be ringing soon with such horrible news. We are glad Tim is there, but we are still very, very angry Steve is gone. Another part is awe. How many second acts in business lead to the kind of success that Apple has found over the past decade? One, really; what Steve did in returning to Apple is unique. After wandering in the wilderness, fired from the company he created with Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak in that legendary garage, Steve did astonishing things again and again. Pixar, created from the unsuccessful Lucasfilm computer animation group, set free the remarkable creativity of John Lasseter and his band of perfectionist maniacs as they became the heir to Walt Disney's legacy -- and eventually, the artistic core of Disney's animation division, in the process making Jobs the entertainment megacorp's largest individual shareholder. Jobs's longstanding admiration of Walt Disney found its natural conclusion as Steve was effectively granted the keys to the Magic Kingdom. NeXT, built around the idea of a desktop computing experience without compromises in performance or ease of use, may not have taken over the world with hardware sales: the machines themselves were perhaps too good for the market, too expensive for business or home users. But they gained popularity in academic and scientific settings like CERN (where a NeXT workstation responded to the first http:// prompt) and Wolfram Research (where the flagship product, Mathematica, named by Steve himself, was bundled with the NeXT computer). The NeXTStep OS, in the end, built atop Avie Tevanian's Mach microkernel and with a GUI powered by Adobe's Display PostScript, begat the modern Mac OS X and the now-ubiquitous iOS. Lots of 'failed technology companies' would be thrilled with that kind of legacy. Finally, there is appreciation, there is gratitude. For all his notable faults, his temper, his intolerance for half-baked efforts, for all the people who both loved and hated working with and for Steve, we still cannot cherish and thank him enough. How many of us owe our livelihoods to the ecosystems and industries he helped create? How many of us spend our days intimately connected with the products he envisioned and shepherded to the market? Today you can walk into hundreds of Apple stores and thousands of other outlets around the world and walk out with a chunk of the future that fits in your pocket. The teams that build the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad are legion, their numbers in the tens of thousands. If not for the vision of one man -- one man who simply refused to accept that good enough was good enough, and who made whole industries over to be right by his exacting standards -- where would we be now? It is perhaps not all that remarkable that America's president delivered a statement on the passing of Steve Jobs, as the former CEO of the country's (and the world's) most valuable business. It is remarkable, however, to note that the emotional impact of Jobs's death is the same for Barack Obama as it is for all of us. The two men shared eerily parallel origins; both children of foreign fathers and young American mothers, both raised outside their birth families (Obama by his grandparents, Jobs by his adoptive family), both somehow marked by heritage and circumstance to be destined for the history books and to do things that had never been done before. Now one of them is gone, but just as the world cannot be the same after the election of America's first biracial president, the world cannot be the same as it was before Steve Jobs. Namaste, Steve. We remember you with fondness and delight. We wish for your colleagues and for Tim Cook the wisdom and energy to lead Apple the way you would have continued to lead it for many years, if not for the harsh unfairness of cancer and the inevitable tick of life's clock. And we hope and pray that your wife and children may find a tiny seed of solace in the knowledge that their beloved was our beloved too. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
• WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg goes 'nuclear' on Silver Lake, WP Engine - 2024-10-05 - Matt Mullenweg, who founded WordPress more than two decades ago, finds himself in a legal battle against Silver Lake over the firm's ownership of WP Engine.
• Daring Fireball: CNBC: 'WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg Goes "Nuclear" on Silver Lake, WP Engine' - 2024-10-05 - Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/05/wordpress-ceo-matt-mullenweg-goes-nuclear-on-silver-lake-wp-engine-.html
• Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’ - The Verge - 2024-10-05 - - WordPress’s WP Engine battle is dividing the community.
• Daring Fireball: The Verge Summarizes the Nasty WordPress/Automattic/WP Engine Feud - 2024-10-05 - Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-org-wp-engine
• No, really: YAGNI - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill - 2024-10-05 - - Friday evening I had dinner with Felix. Among other things, we talked about good code. Good code, we both agreed, is simple. It's code boiled down to its essence.
• 12 Months of Mandarin - 2024-10-05 - - Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.[1] 1. There is a lot of disagreement on language proficiency estimates. They
• Apple Defeats Patent Lawsuit in Texas Related to Face ID and Touch ID - MacRumors - 2024-10-05 - A jury for the U.S. District Court for Western Texas on Friday found that the Secure Enclave built into modern Apple devices does not infringe four...
• Daring Fireball: Why Is Jack Smith's Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump's Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story? - 2024-10-05 - Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/03/why-is-this-not-the-top-story/
• Daring Fireball: Why Is Jack Smith's Unsealed Motion, Outlining Trump's Criminal Actions to Overturn the 2020 Election, Not the Top Story? - 2024-10-05 - Link to: https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/03/why-is-this-not-the-top-story/
• Idaho senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from at forum • Idaho Capital Sun - 2024-10-05 - Idaho state Sen. Dan Foreman, a Republican from Moscow, told a Native American candidate at a forum to go back to where she came from.
• 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO's fight with WP Engine escalates | TechCrunch - 2024-10-04 - - The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg's direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.
• Chord Chart Memo | Alex Tiniuc - 2024-10-04 -
• jwz: Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now - 2024-10-04 - tl;dr: "LOL get fucked" They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way. "Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure." We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. Gee, ya think? In parallel to our existing consumer ...
• “Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action | by Kellie Peterson | Oct, 2024 | Medium - 2024-10-04 - - TL;DR: Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, co-founder of WordPress, and single point of failure for WordPress.org is trying to bully me…
• How to Use VPN Without App on iPhone: A Simple Guide - 2024-10-04 - Learn how to use VPN without app on iPhone. Secure your data easily with our step-by-step guide for a seamless experience.
• Daring Fireball: Setting Up a VPN Without an App on iPhone - 2024-10-04 - Link to: https://forestvpn.com/blog/technology/internet-security-en/how-to-use-vpn-without-app-on-iphone/
• Terminal colours are tricky - 2024-10-03 - - Terminal colours are tricky
• Discovering direnv | Redowan's Reflections - 2024-10-03 - I’m not really a fan of shims—code that automatically performs actions as a side effect or intercepts commands when you use the shell or when a prompt runs. That’s mainly why I’ve stayed away from tools like asdf or pyenv, and instead stick to apt or brew for managing my binary installs, depending on the OS. Recently, though, I’ve started seeing many people I admire praising direnv: If you’re old-school like me, my .envrc looks like this:
• Sabbatical – 512 Pixels - 2024-10-03 - It's been a wild year. Relay turned 10 and 512 Pixels turned 16. Later this week, are winding down our 6th-annual fundraiser for St. Jude. In January, I joined forces with David Smith and survived my first major iOS release, helping get Widgetsmith 7 out the door just a few weeks ago. On the home [...]
• App Permissions on macOS Sequoia :: TrozWare - 2024-10-03 - How to open unsigned apps in macOS Sequoia
• American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway | CNN - 2024-10-02 - - An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no injuries, Japanese officials said.
• We need more zero config tools - 2024-10-02 - - Recently, I’ve become fond of tools that just work, out of the box. This blogpost is an ode to them.
• linuxserver/docker-bookstack: A Docker container for the BookStack documentation wiki - 2024-10-02 - A Docker container for the BookStack documentation wiki - linuxserver/docker-bookstack
• Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors | Ars Technica - 2024-10-02 - - Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
• What’s the Fastest Way to Alphabetize Your Bookshelf? - 2024-10-02 - Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of books that need to be sorted alphabetically by author. What’s the fastest way
• Photos: The Aftermath of Hurricane Helene - The Atlantic - 2024-10-02 - Millions of people across six states are still impacted by the devastation left in Hurricane Helene's wake. See images via @TheAtlPhoto:
• How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards - 2024-10-01 - A couple months ago I was hanging out with my aunt, and she mentioned her cable+internet bill was around $250 per month. I thought that was insane and that I should do something about it. She's a 75 year old retiree that watches baseball and the hallmark channel, and
• Home Depot Launches Smart Glass Doors That Turn From Clear to Opaque - MacRumors - 2024-10-01 - Home Depot today launched new Smart Glass Door options that are able to transform from clear glass to opaque glass with a smartphone app, providing...
• Bop Spotter - 2024-10-01 -
• The $1,000 Wheelchair - New Mobility - 2024-10-01 - - What do you get when you add YouTube seed money, state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques and a consumer-first sales model? A wheelchair that could upend the mobility equipment industry.
• Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers | nicole@web - 2024-10-01 -
• Migrating from AWS to Self-Hosting ⚡ Zig Programming Language - 2024-10-01 -
• Making my Nvim Feel More Like Helix with Mini.nvim - 2024-10-01 - - I've been rewriting my nvim config to align with the features I am enjoying in Helix: simple TS-aware movements and uniform LSP-actions. I haven't messed with my nvim config for quite a while… the last time I wrote about a plugin change was five years...
• Daring Fireball: Pete Rose, MLB Hits Leader, Dies at 83 - 2024-10-01 - Link to: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2024/09/30/pete-rose-mlb-hits-leader-obituary/2808469001/
• We’re only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene’s flooding | Ars Technica - 2024-10-01 - - How does a region that is nearly 500 miles from the Gulf become devastated by flooding?
• Relay for St. Jude 2024 Passes $1 Million Raised – 512 Pixels - 2024-10-01 - As of this writing, Relay's annual campaign for St. Jude just tipped over the $1 million mark. Myke and I hopped on his Twitch channel to watch it happen: If you haven't given yet, and you can, there's still time! The campaign will run through the end of the week. If you have already given, [...]
• Making my Nvim Feel More Like Helix with Mini.nvim - 2024-10-01 - - I've been rewriting my nvim config to align with the features I am enjoying in Helix: simple TS-aware movements and uniform LSP-actions. I haven't messed with my nvim config for quite a while… the last time I wrote about a plugin change was five years...

September 2024

• The best browser bookmarking system is already built-in - 2024-09-30 - - Along the years I have tested various browser bookmarking systems. And for 10 years, I've realised...
• Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture - 2024-09-30 - - I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
• Kris Kristofferson, country music icon and actor, dies at 88 | AP News - 2024-09-29 - Kristofferson, a songwriter and A-list Hollywood actor is known for classics like “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” and for starring in films like “A Star Is Born" with Barbra Streisand.
• The 10 'Rules' All Cyclists Should Live By - 2024-09-28 - Over the years, cyclists have adopted different interpretations of the 'rules' that they should live by. However, if you want to be a better, happier cyclist there are 10 simple rules that you can follow.
• Watch extremely rare footage of a bigfin squid 'walking' on long, spindly arms deep in the South Pacific | Live Science - 2024-09-28 - While exploring the Tonga Trench in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, researchers captured extremely rare footage of a Magnapinna squid with arms several times the length of its body.
• If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed - Josh Collinsworth blog - 2024-09-28 - - I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
• Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits, new research finds - 2024-09-28 - - Scientists have discovered that ocean waves may become far more extreme and complex than previously imagined.
• 'Lazy and Mediocre' HR Team Fired After Manager's Own CV Gets Auto-Rejected in Seconds, Exposing System Failure | IBTimes UK - 2024-09-28 - - An HR team was fired after their manager discovered their ATS system was auto-rejecting all candidates, including his own resume.
• Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? - The Atlantic - 2024-09-28 - - The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.
• Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite - 2024-09-28 - - After seven years of trying, we need to change course on our adventure in the Android galaxy.
• Preventing app removal on iOS - tiny coder - 2024-09-28 - - These days, I am developing an alarm app called ‘SuperAlarm’. To ensure a user is awake, SuperAlarm can be turned off only after a user completes a mission(e.g., taking a picture...
• Tesla workers in Germany complain about home visits from their bosses | Ars Technica - 2024-09-28 - The rate of sick leave reached 17 percent in August, far above industry average.
• Why “Run Your Own Mail Server” is not in Amazon’s Kindle store – Michael W Lucas - 2024-09-28 -
• Fraud, So Much Fraud | Science | AAAS - 2024-09-27 -
• BookStack - 2024-09-27 - - BookStack is a simple, open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
• I am tired of AI | On Test Automation - 2024-09-27 - - Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in general.
• TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion | Tom's Hardware - 2024-09-27 - - Scale of Sam Altman’s proposed investment plans considered ‘absurd’
• Liss is More - 2024-09-27 - - Read more on Liss is More
• Tiny dancer: Ana de Armas is a fierce assassin in Ballerina trailer | Ars Technica - 2024-09-27 - "To stop the assassin, you must become the assassin."
• Disney+ Account Sharing Crackdown Goes Global With Paid Sharing Plan - MacRumors - 2024-09-27 - Disney+ has announced a new "Paid Sharing" program across multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe, as...
• GitHub won't let me turn off 2FA · Skylar MacDonald - 2024-09-27 - - Supply chain security rules assume that I ever wanted to be part of your supply chain
• Octopuses seen hunting with fish and punching fish that don't cooperate - 2024-09-26 - - Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives.
• 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return to office • The Register - 2024-09-26 - - 'Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don’t want kids'
• Halide rejected from the App Store for the most bizarre reason - 2024-09-26 - Update: Halide’s Sebastiaan de Wish says the company received a call from Apple informing them that this was a mistake....
• One more thing… Goodbye from iMore | iMore - 2024-09-26 - Time to power down for good.
• Jessie Sheehan's Spaghetti Pie | Cup of Jo - 2024-09-26 - The other day, Joanna told me about the coolest thing...
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Unbackslash - 2024-09-26
• Got an iPhone with an Action button? Here's how to make it smarter | Macworld - 2024-09-26 - The Shortcuts app is the way to make the Action Button do more. Here's how.
• Thoughts on working inside a data center suite - 2024-09-26 -
• Daring Fireball: Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee - 2024-09-25 - - It’s entirely plausible for a premium wallpaper app to justify a price of $50/year. But Panels isn’t a premium app.
• Substack Still Sucks - 2024-09-25 - From Casey Newton’s post looking back on Platformer’s fourth year, your periodic reminder that Substack still sucks:
• Substack Still Sucks - 2024-09-25 - From Casey Newton’s post looking back on Platformer’s fourth year, your periodic reminder that Substack still sucks:
• A Single Sloping Roof Covers This Home That Hovers Above The Land - 2024-09-25 - A modern tiny house in Mexico, that's been designed with a sloped roof and a large covered terrace.
• Jonas Hietala: Why I still blog after 15 years - 2024-09-25 -
• Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses | Meta - 2024-09-25 - - Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
• Thoughts on Debugging - 2024-09-25 - - I was recently asked to help resolve an escalation at work. It had already bounced around between a few people, and was very muddied with conflicting reports not to mention frustration that the issue existed in the first place. Apparently I am insane, because I like situations like this.
• `mkfs.fat` on Linux vs. OS/2 2.1 - 2024-09-25 -
• Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops - The Verge - 2024-09-25 - Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
• Git push unexpectedly freezes my system · ThangQT - 2024-09-24 - - $Personal site of Quang Thang
• Satellite images suggest test of Russian “super weapon” failed spectacularly | Ars Technica - 2024-09-24 - - All that's left of the Russian missile silo is a big hole in the ground.
• More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting - 2024-09-24
• A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff - 2024-09-24 -
• It is hard to recommend Google Cloud | ashishb.net - 2024-09-23 - - Google Domains A year back, I had to migrate my domain after Google decided to shut down Google Domains. I had to, not only, painfully setup multiple side-projects sub-domain mappings again on a new domain registrar but also re-verify my domain and re-create those mappings on Google Cloud Run. Google Container Registry Google Container Registry is shutting down in 2025. It has been replaced with a new project called Artifact Registry.
• How I batch apply and save one-liners - 2024-09-23 -
• Senate panel votes 20–0 for holding CEO of “health care terrorists” in contempt | Ars Technica - 2024-09-22 - After he rejected subpoena, contempt charges against de la Torre go before Senate.
• Daring Fireball: European Commission Opens 'Specification Proceedings', Ostensibly to Tell Apple Exactly What to Do - 2024-09-22 - Link to: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_4761
• While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain • The Register - 2024-09-21 - - Chatbots, generative models 'in many ways the next step in the surveillance economy'
• Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | The Guardian - 2024-09-21 - - Piece dating from 1760s, probably composed when Mozart was in his early teens, uncovered by researchers in Leipzig
• Always use an enum for your status field · Applied Cartography - 2024-09-20 -
• Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files - Stanislav Khromov - 2024-09-20 - - For the past two years, I’ve been on the receiving end of a passive aggressive win-back campaign from Dropbox. The feud originally started when I migrated away from Dropbox and hence stopped paying for my subscription while leaving them saddled with over a terabyte of my data to carry forever, like a camel in the digital desert. After all, why wouldn’t I? I was assured by their help forums that my files would not be deleted, no matter what: However, this hasn’t prevented Dropbox from trying to get me back. It all started innocently enough: Thanks Dropbox, for letting me […]
• macOS Sequoia change breaks networking for VPN, antivirus software - 2024-09-20 - Users of macOS 15 'Sequoia' are reporting network connection errors when using certain endpoint detection and response (EDR) or virtual private network (VPN) solutions, and web browsers.
• Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding - ITTAVERN.COM - 2024-09-20 - - SysAdmin Stuff | Linux | Network | Security
• ReMarkable Paper Pro review: The best tablet for writers, now in color | Tom's Guide - 2024-09-20 - Color adds a new dimension to this premium e-paper slate
• A Logo on a Prosthesis Is Like a Tattoo You Didn’t Ask For - 2024-09-20 - Companies love to plaster their logos everywhere. In many ways, the degree to which companies prioritize their logo visibility on products speaks volumes...
• Behold, the black Apple Watch Ultra 2 - The Verge - 2024-09-20 - Corporate goth girl approved.
• Read the Manual: open  — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-09-20 - - open files and directories on macOS!
• 50 New macOS Sequoia Features and Changes Worth Checking Out - MacRumors - 2024-09-20 - Apple on September 16 released macOS Sequoia, the latest version of the company's Mac operating system. ‌macOS Sequoia introduces interactive...
• Comic Mono | comic-mono-font - 2024-09-19 - - A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
• The Longest Drivable Distance in the World: Discover the Ultimate Road Trip | Open Culture - 2024-09-19 - No matter what country we live in, we've all fantasized about taking our own great American road trip, considering a variety of the infinitely many possible routes.
• Backlash over Amazon’s return to office comes as workers demand higher wages | Ars Technica - 2024-09-19 - - Pressure increases for Amazon to raise wages amid return-to-office turmoil.
• Voyager 1 survives clogged thruster issue billions of miles away | CNN - 2024-09-18 - - Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.
• Voyager 1 survives clogged thruster issue billions of miles away | CNN - 2024-09-18 - - Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers on Earth and send back unique data.
• Daring Fireball: Voyager 1 Just Fired Up Thrusters It Hasn’t Used in Decades - 2024-09-18 - Link to: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/science/voyager-1-thruster-issue/index.html
• GNOME Release Notes - 2024-09-18 - - Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
• [tor-relays] [Important] Update on an upcoming German broadcasting story about Tor/Onion Services - 2024-09-18 -
• Objective Development Blog - 2024-09-18 - - UPDATE: Spoke too soon… The problem discussed here turned out to be specific to Little Snitch 6.1 and not a general issue in macOS. It has already been fixed in Little Snitch 6.1.1. See the end of the article for details. DNS Encryption 101 When…
• Wonderful vi - 2024-09-18 - - The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same. Like vi! vi is a programming text editor that was created by...
• Winners of the 2024 Natural Landscape Photography Awards - The Atlantic - 2024-09-18 - Winners and runners-up from this year’s landscape-photography competition
• How to Monetize a Blog - 2024-09-18 - - A guide on turning your diary into dollars.
• A16 chips now being made in the U.S.A. – Six Colors - 2024-09-18 - Independent journalist Tim Culpan reports that TSMC, Apple’s Taiwan-based chipmaking partner, is now producing A16 chips at its new fab in Arizona: TSMC’s first Arizona chips are now in produ…
• I Finally Climbed Flyboys - 2024-09-17
• 26 Years of Whatever | Whatever - 2024-09-17 - I was in the sky the actual day of, and busy doing author things here in Brazil between then and now, so today is the day when I say: Hey! Whatever is 26 years old! It celebrated the actual anniver…
• forScore | App Review Is Broken - 2024-09-17
• Daring Fireball: The Things They Carried - 2024-09-17 - - Keynotes as a proxy for reflecting on Apple as a whole.
• 272 Miles in Less Than 4 Days: William Peterson Sets New Long Trail FKT - The Trek - 2024-09-17 - n the morning of September 1, William “Sisyphus” Peterson reached the Vermont-Massachsetts border and set a new Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Long Trail. Peterson completed the route in 3 days, 21 hours, and 10 minutes, breaking John Kelly’s previous record of 4 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes, 50 seconds. Stretching 272 miles (437.74 km) through the state of Vermont, the Long Trail climbs 67,000 feet (20,421 m). Peterson ran a supported FKT, meaning that he had outside assistance along the way. ...
• Singles in Spain Look for Love in the Grocery Store, With Pineapples as Prop - The New York Times - 2024-09-17 - How the Spanish grocery chain Mercadona got a reputation as an unlikely dating hub, with its upside-down pineapples as props.
• Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval | TechCrunch - 2024-09-16 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The
• macOS Sequoia is available today - Apple - 2024-09-16 - - macOS Sequoia, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is available today as a free software update for Mac.
• Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week - 2024-09-16 - - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is instructing corporate staffers to work out of the office five days a week.
• A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Piccalilli - 2024-09-16 - - I wrote “A Modern CSS Reset” almost 4 years ago and, yeh, it’s not aged overly well. I spotted it being linked up again a few days ago and thought it’s probably a good idea to publish an updated version.
• 18 Months with a Framework 13 – Project Gus - 2024-09-16 -
• USPS debuts long-awaited new mail truck | AP News - 2024-09-16 - - The Postal Service’s new delivery vehicles aren’t going to win a beauty contest. They're tall and ungainly, with outsize windshields, thick bumpers and duck-bill hoods.
• Relaunch imminent! – Emily Wright - 2024-09-15
• Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready | Ars Technica - 2024-09-15 - - Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.
• These Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Huge Dork - 2024-09-15 - - Sometime in the future, the ViXion01 glasses could make bifocals completely obsolete.
• DNA Lounge: 14-Sep-2024 (Sat): Wherein the techbros are here to "disrupt" ordering drinks at a bar - 2024-09-15 - Another group of smirking techbros have decided that rich people shouldn't have to follow the same rules as the poors. There's an app for that. LineLeap, backed by Y Combinator, lets people pay to skip lines at bars. LineLeap makes money by charging Ticketmaster-style convenience fees for certain passes. The company also imposes fees for "newfound revenue" on venues -- that is, revenue that ...
• My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures - 2024-09-15 -
• Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? I tested for 36 hours to find out. - 2024-09-14 - - Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to
• Temper, Temper - That Time the USS Wisconsin Wasn't Messing Around - - 2024-09-14 - The USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is one of the iconic Iowa-class battleships, the last battleship class built by the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1944
• Why I Use Kagi over Google For Searching the Web - Make Tech Easier - 2024-09-14 - Experience a new way to search with Kagi. Learn why I prefer Kagi over Google Search and how it redefines traditional search engine providers.
• The Best Magazine Articles Ever – Cool Tools - 2024-09-14
• How to sync Mac and Linux /home | Derek Sivers - 2024-09-14
• 6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts - 2024-09-14 - - 6 Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Shell Scripts
• Gordon's Notes: The End Times have come for the Pinboard.in bookmarking service - 2024-09-14 - - A personal blog of diverse opinions.
• Stolen iPhones Will Be Even More Useless From iOS 18 Onwards - The Mac Observer - 2024-09-14 - - iOS 18 extends Activation Lock to iPhone parts, making stolen devices and components useless. A major blow to iPhone theft and black markets.
• The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned - The Verge - 2024-09-13 - - They wanted to spin out the game division.
• Better-performing “25519” elliptic-curve cryptography - Amazon Science - 2024-09-13 - - Automated reasoning and optimizations specific to CPU microarchitectures improve both performance and assurance of correct implementation.
• Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector - 2024-09-13 - - Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan […]
• The First HTML LSP That Reports Syntax Errors | Loris Cro's Blog - 2024-09-12 - - The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow.
• Reminder: This Is As Good As It Gets With Trump | Whatever - 2024-09-12 - I’m not here to go into detail about last night’s presidential debate, since the results of that are already well known: A massive humiliation for Trump, who was easily batted about by …
• My Homelab Setup - 2024-09-11 - - I replaced my existing Homelab setup from the ground up with Unifi's latest Gateways, Switches APs, and Cameras. Here is what I did and how it ended up.
• How Sleep Apnea Detection Works for Apple Watch Series 10, Series 9, and Apple Watch Ultra - MacRumors - 2024-09-11 - Apple is adding sleep apnea detection to the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and the Apple Watch Series 9. Given that sleep apnea is a...
• The US finally takes aim at truck bloat - The Verge - 2024-09-10 - - The government is taking aim at big SUVs and trucks.
• Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads - 2024-09-10 - - A Ford Motoer Company patent application filed in February and published last month proposes software that would monitor in-car conversations and other data to help serve up advertisements.
• FTC Pushed To Crack Down On Companies That Ruin Hardware Via Software Updates Or Annoying Paywalls | Techdirt - 2024-09-10 - - We’ve noted for years how you no longer really own the things you buy. Whether it’s smart home hardware that becomes useless paperweights when the manufacturer implodes, or post-purchase …
• Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, other updates on September 16 | Ars Technica - 2024-09-10 - Apple Intelligence won’t be part of the initial launch.
• James Earl Jones Dead: Darth Vader Voice, Lion King Star Was 93 - 2024-09-10 - - James Earl Jones, the distinguished and prolific actor in films, TV and theater known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars," has died.
• Nobody Cares About Security - AdatoSystems - 2024-09-09 - - Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before
• Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts - 2024-09-09 - - Via testing with a skin stand-in, a trio of physicists at Technical University of Denmark has ranked the types of paper that are the most likely to cause a paper cut. In an article published in Physical Review E, Sif Fink Arnbjerg-Nielsen, Matthew Biviano and Kaare Jensen tested the cutting ability and circumstances involved in paper cuts to compile their rankings.
• Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus - Apple - 2024-09-09 - - The Apple Hearing Study is sharing new insights on tinnitus in one of the largest surveys to date.
• Daring Fireball: The iOS Continental Drift Fun Gap - 2024-09-09 - - As it stands, fun side is not the EU. But hope springs eternal.
• Write you fool: Congo Bongo – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-09-09 - This is about Congo Bongo, except for the parts that aren’t.
• 'Astonishing' study shows infant deaths rise in U.S. when bat populations fall - Raw Story - 2024-09-09 - Bat die-offs in the U.S. led to increased use of insecticides, which in turn led to greater infant mortality, according to a "seminal" study published Thursday that shows the effects of biodiversity loss on human beings.Eyal Frank, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago, authored th...
• Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus - 2024-09-08 - - “Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store? We have no idea what they do with them”
• Muscular imagination - 2024-09-08 - - A future you might actually want to live in.
• macOS Sequoia Release Likely to Be the Earliest in Years - MacRumors - 2024-09-08 - macOS Sequoia will be one of the earliest new macOS launches in over a decade, likely releasing within as little as just a week. Internal Apple...
• Rubenerd - 2024-09-08 - - By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻
• MCMC addresses misinformation on DNS redirection & internet access restrictions - 2024-09-07 - - KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect Domain Name S...
• Resurfacing the past - 2024-09-07 - - More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all — and is uncovering untold stories along the way.
• 2M users but no money in the bank. Tough times 😔 - 2024-09-07 - - 2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...
• Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills | Time management | The Guardian - 2024-09-07 - Ever feel like you’re lurching from crisis to crisis, or chore to chore? Here’s how to knock at least some of them on the head – and lay the foundations for a less stressful, more organised existence
• NASA wants Starliner to make a quick getaway from the space station | Ars Technica - 2024-09-07 - Starliner is set to land at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico shortly after midnight.
• After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship | Ars Technica - 2024-09-07 - - To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.
• Apple Denies Evidence of Hidden Browser Settings to UK Regulator [Updated] - MacRumors - 2024-09-07 - Update: Apple told MacRumors that Open Web Advocacy's allegation that Apple is misleading the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is...
• New iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Colors Revealed Ahead of Apple Event - MacRumors - 2024-09-07 - Apple is "shaking up its color palette" for its iPhone 16 lineup this year, according to well-connected Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. ...
• Better Dotfiles | I Am Dan - 2024-09-06 - - I am Dan, full stack software engineer.
• Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux - the sporks space - 2024-09-06 - - Recently, one of the developers of the Rust for Linux project, Wedson Almeida Filho, resigned from the project. In his parting message, he linked a video of a filesystem maintainer shouting at him. Afterward, Asahi Lina, developer of the Apple… Continue reading →
• Daring Fireball: Spotify Wants to Use iPhone Volume Buttons to Control Connected Devices, But Refuses to Support AirPlay, Which Would Solve the Problem - 2024-09-06 - Link to: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/spotify-points-finger-at-apple-over-an-unwelcome-change-to-volume-control-technology/
• I added a ratgdo to my garage door, and I don’t know why I waited so long | Ars Technica - 2024-09-05 - - Dumping proprietary garbage for a FOSS solution that just works.
• Daring Fireball: Liz Cheney: 'Not Only Am I Not Voting for Donald Trump, but I Will Be Voting for Kamala Harris' - 2024-09-05 - Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/politics/liz-cheney-kamala-harris-vote.html
• "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more - 2024-09-05 -
• The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time - 2024-09-05 - Standout installments of 'Friends,' 'Veep,' 'Succession,' 'The Sopranos,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Black-ish,' 'Twilight Zone,' and more.
• The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time - 2024-09-05 - From the staff at Rolling Stone, a list of the all-time best 100 episodes of TV. The rules: 1 episode per show, no reality (or tal
• reMarkable's Paper Pro adds color, light and more but keeps the focus on 'focus' | TechCrunch - 2024-09-05 - The $499 Paper Pro — a new naming convention to indicate it is a higher-end alternative to the now-$379 reMarkable 2, not a direct successor — is momentous for its addition of both color and a "frontlight," though both features are what you might call muted.
• Daring Fireball: Oprah Winfrey Is Hosting a Prime-Time TV Special on AI - 2024-09-05 - Link to: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/oprahs-upcoming-ai-television-special-sparks-outrage-among-tech-critics/
• BREAKING! Small asteroid to hit Earth’s atmosphere TODAY - 2024-09-04 -
• One Week Later… | Patreon - 2024-09-04 - Get more from Catherynne M. Valente on Patreon
• Moom 4: Mac Window Management, Upgraded - MacStories - 2024-09-04 - This summer, my all-time favorite window management utility Moom received a major 4.0 upgrade more than 12 years after the initial release of Moom 3. Ever since I went back to the Mac as my main computer, Moom has allowed me to create automations to arrange my windows and easily save and restore specific window
• Daring Fireball: 1Password and Charging for SSO - 2024-09-04 - Link to: https://1password.com/daringfireball
• Titanic research dive reveals discovery, decay and new photos : NPR - 2024-09-04 - This summer, RMS Titanic, Inc. — the salvor-in-possession of the wreck — made its first unmanned dive to the wreck in 14 years. The team uncovered some rare finds — and losses.
• Yubikey is the Digital Seat Belt We Need Today - 2024-09-03 -
• A conservation photographer captures the rarely seen relationships between the animal life and trees in old growth forests : The Picture Show : NPR - 2024-09-03 - - From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.
• One Foot Tsunami: Someone to Look Up To - 2024-09-03 - This, too, is America.
• Why I've Gone All In on Fedora Silverblue - 2024-09-02 - There's more to like here than just those two (admitedly awesome) colors.
• George Clooney and Brad Pitt Are Hollywood’s BFFs | GQ - 2024-09-02 - They’ve spent three decades living intertwined lives at the inconceivably glamorous height of Hollywood. Now, having crossed the threshold of 60, they’re more comfortable than ever throwing bombs, dispensing hard-won wisdom, and, yes, arguing about who had the better mullet in the ’80s
• Daring Fireball: 'In the South of France With George and Brad' - 2024-09-02 - Link to: https://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-george-clooney-gq-cover-story
• In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention - 2024-09-02 - - One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
• The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises | Ars Technica - 2024-09-01 - - "I don't know what's making it."
• jwz: Elderly fascist golfer calls violent moron who attacked press 'beautiful' and 'on our side' - 2024-09-01 - At every one of Donny Convict's hate-rallies, during the part devoted to the Airing of Grievances, there's a lovely moment where Donny turns his attention to the press. he'll gesture towards the area where reporters are barricaded for their own protection, and he'll start yammering about the fake news media is the enemy of the people so unfair the things they say about me so unfair. Donny's ...
• Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled | Tom's Hardware - 2024-09-01 - - Recyclable trash is just being dumped in a private open lot.
• What Not to Expect at Apple Event on September 9: 'It's Glowtime' - MacRumors - 2024-09-01 - Apple's annual fall event takes place on Monday, September 9, when it is expected to unveil the new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro lineup, and some...
• A month in Munich - 2024-09-01 - We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.

August 2024

• Apple Watch Series 9 vs. Series 10 Buyer's Guide: 10 Rumored Upgrades Compared - MacRumors - 2024-08-31 - After over a year of rumors, the Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 are set to launch in just a matter of weeks. There are now 10 changes...
• City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack | Ars Technica - 2024-08-31 - - Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.
• Daring Fireball: AnandTech Is Closing Down - 2024-08-31 - Link to: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell
• Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar’s Head inspections are horrifying | Ars Technica - 2024-08-31 - - The USDA recorded 69 violations in a year. So far, 9 people have died in the outbreak.
• My Software Bookshelf | olano.dev - 2024-08-30 - - The easiest way to make a to-read pile grow is to read a book from it.
• Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa - 2024-08-30 - - I recently learned an interesting fact about Fibonacci numbers while watching a random number theory video on YouTube. Fibonacci numbers can be used to approximately convert from miles to kilometers and back. Here is how. Take two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, for example 5 and 8. And you're done converting. No...
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games - 2024-08-30 - - Teens wrote secret binary messages in One Million Checkboxes. I found them.
• End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell - 2024-08-30 -
• Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live: "I regretfully completely under…" - VT Social - 2024-08-30 - - I regretfully completely understand Wedson's frustrations. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@gmail.com/ A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don't see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away. When I tried to upstream the DRM abstractions last year, that all was blocked on basic support for the concept of a "Device" in Rust. Even just a stub wrapper for struct device would be enough. That simple concept only recently finally got merged, over one year later. When I wrote the DRM scheduler abstractions, I ran into many memory safety issues caused by bad design of the underlying C code. The lifetime requirements were undocumented and boiled down to "design your driver like amdgpu to make it work, or else". My driver is not like amdgpu, it fundamentally can't work the same way. When I tried to upstream minor fixes to the C code to make the behavior more robust and the lifetime requirements sensible, the maintainer blocked it and said I should just do "what other drivers do". Even when I pointed out that other C drivers also triggered the same bugs because the API is just bad and unintuitive and there are many secret hidden lifetime requirements, he wouldn't budge. One C driver works, so Rust drivers must work the same way.
• Man on office retreat is rescued from Colorado mountain after getting left behind : NPR - 2024-08-29 - The insurance workers were on an office retreat in the Rocky Mountains when they met at dawn to begin a hike to the summit of Mount Shavano. But one man didn't make it back down until the next day.
• Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits - 2024-08-29 - - Thousands of children and adults were automatically terminated from Medicaid and disability benefits programs by a computer system that was supposed to make applying for and receiving health coverage easier.
• Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch - 2024-08-29 - - Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable, I have no idea… But I do know that it annoyed me enough to make me want to fix it myself. While I understand that what I do next is beyond a large number of Advantage Air customers, in my investigation I found that there seems to be only software choices preventing modern tablets from working with older control systems.
• Getting started with security keys | Paul Stamatiou - 2024-08-29 - - How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys. A look into YubiKeys, TOTP authenticator apps, passwordless and more.
• Massive nationwide meat-linked outbreak kills 5 more, now largest since 2011 | Ars Technica - 2024-08-29 - CDC implores consumers to check their fridges for the recalled meats.
• iPhone Driver's Licenses in Wallet App Rolling Out in Seventh U.S. State - MacRumors - 2024-08-29 - As noted by 9to5Mac, Apple recently started rolling out the ability for Hawaii residents to add a digital version of their driver's license or...
• Hiker left behind by coworkers on Mount Shavano in Colorado amid severe storms - 2024-08-29 - “In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their party was left to complete his final summit push alone,” search and rescue o…
• Apple Repaired My iPhone Screen, but Now My Social Media Account Is Banned - 2024-08-29 -
• Testing the YouTube videos that promise to get water out of your phone - The Verge - 2024-08-28 - Here’s one for the shower scrollers.
• ‘Optimists have happier lives’: Laurie Anderson on Bowie, Lou Reed and ‘romantic, inspiring’ JFK | Laurie Anderson | The Guardian - 2024-08-28 - Releasing a new album inspired by Amelia Earhart, the US musician answers your questions about her letters to Kennedy, wrestling Andy Kaufman and ​performing for thousands of dogs at Sydney Opera House
• The Startup Designer | Paul Stamatiou - 2024-08-28 - - There's nothing glamorous about being a designer at a startup. It's a role that frequently values speed and pragmatism over going deep in the craft. It's not all big launches, viral tweets, building for happy paths, and clear-cut product requirements. However, it can be incredibly rewarding. The fu
• Firewalling Your Code - 2024-08-27 - - When writing code, you can call any function as long as it’s public, and similarly, you can access any object’s public properties or methods. Usually, access to code is all or none – a piece of code can be either public or private. Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to implement more fine-grained access controls and have looked to the networking world for inspiration…
• How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep - 2024-08-27 - - Startup Deep Fission has come up with a new way to deal with the economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that's under 30 inches (76 cm) wide and stick it down a mile-deep (1.6-km) drill shaft.
• Wrap your dependencies - 2024-08-27 - - It will make your code more flexible and easier to maintain.
• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress - 2024-08-27 - - Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
• The End of Finale - Finale - 2024-08-27 - - The end of Finale 35 years ago, Coda Music Technologies, now MakeMusic, released the first version of Finale, a groundbreaking […]
• Slop is Good • furbo.org - 2024-08-27 - I’ve been thinking about all the generative AI slop that’s appearing, especially with tools like “Reimagine”, and I think it’s going to be a great thing for the open web. Why? Because Google is unwittingly shooting itself in the foot in a way that will change the character of the web. How? The web has […]
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Blueskid Demo - 2024-08-27
• (1) Merge Sort using Rust || Rust DSA - YouTube - 2024-08-27
• 2025 VW ID. Buzz: The Electric Bus | Volkswagen - 2024-08-27 - Experience the electric revolution with the 2025 VW ID. Buzz, the ultimate electric bus. In every ride, futuristic design meets zero direct emissions.
• Linux: We need Tiling Desktop Environments - 2024-08-27 - - The Linux ecosystem is renowned for its diversity and flexibility, boasting a wide array of distributions (distros) catering to various user needs.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Mozart Requiem - 2024-08-27
• Starliner to Return Home Empty – 512 Pixels - 2024-08-27 - Eric Berger, writing at Ars: Following weeks of speculation, NASA finally made it official on Saturday: Two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June will not return home on that vehicle. Instead, the agency has asked SpaceX to use its Crew Dragon spacecraft to fly astronauts Butch Wilmore [...]
• Political Thoughts, 8/23/24 | Whatever - 2024-08-26 - Various and sundry political musings I’ve been having, now that the party conventions are over and we’re in the thick of the 2024 election: 1. After one of the most effective party conv…
• How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS - 2024-08-25 - - If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
• Programming With ChatGPT | Henrik Warne's blog - 2024-08-25 - - Using ChatGPT when I code has been a real productivity boost for me. Instead of reading an example on Stack Overflow and figuring out how to adapt it to my particular case, I immediately get code t…
• Therapists are leaving health insurance networks. Here's why : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2024-08-25 - - Getting mental health care covered by insurance can be really tough. Reporters spoke to hundreds of therapists who left their insurance networks to find out why.
• Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything. - 2024-08-25 - - Facebook’s behavior isn’t just anti-competitive; it’s anti-consumer.
• Generating Mazes — Andrew Healey - 2024-08-25 - - Visualizations and techniques for different maze generation algorithms.
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Postgres Style | Crunchy Data Blog - 2024-08-25 - - Paul Ramsey has some great examples of Postgres network analysis and graph theory in this sample code for playing the Kevin Bacon game. Both pgRouting and recursive CTE are used to solve graphing relationships.
• NASA’s Starliner decision was the right one, but it’s a crushing blow for Boeing | Ars Technica - 2024-08-25 - - It's unlikely Boeing can fly all six of its Starliner missions before retirement of the ISS in 2030.
• Lobsters - 2024-08-25 -
• You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites - 2024-08-25 - - I always thought I was too dumb to understand math. During my school years, it was evident to me that for some kids math was easy, and for others like myself: painfully difficult.
• Groundbreaking Mission Will Attempt the First Private Astronaut Spacewalk Next Week | Smithsonian - 2024-08-24 - Polaris Dawn is set to be the farthest humans have traveled from Earth since the Apollo program and will test new technology in a "radiation belt" surrounding our planet
• Ghost in the Terminal - 2024-08-24 - The best terminal you aren't using, but should be
• I sped up serde_json strings by 20% | purplesyringa's blog - 2024-08-24 - - I have recently done some performance work and realized that reading about my experience could be entertaining. Teaching to think is just as important as teaching to code, but this is seldom done; I think something I’ve done last month is a great opportunity to draw the curtain a bit. serde is the Rust framework for serialization and deserialization. Everyone uses it, and it’s the default among the ecosystem. serde_json is the official serde “mixin” for JSON, so when people need to parse stuff, that’s what they use instinctively. There are other libraries for JSON parsing, like simd-json, but serde_json is overwhelmingly used: it has 26916 dependents at the time of this post, compared to only 66 for simd-json. This makes serde_json a good target (not in a Jia Tan way) for optimization. Chances are, many of those 26916 users would profit from switching to simd-json, but as long as they aren’t doing that, smaller optimizations are better than nothing, and such improvements are reapt across the ecosystem.
• ircpipe - netcat for IRC - 2024-08-24 -
• fediverse symbol ⁂ - 2024-08-24 - - We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse.
• That time Reddit banned me for developing an app - 2024-08-24 - - kaangiray26's blog about software development, technology, qualities in life and more
• 9 Readers Share Their Beautiful Tattoos | Cup of Jo - 2024-08-24 - My friend Alison lost her dad a couple years ago, and she…
• My IRC client runs on Kubernetes - Xe Iaso - 2024-08-24 - - Trust me, there's a reason for this
• BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales For First Time - 2024-08-24 -
• Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks · Jon Seager - 2024-08-23 - - A deep dive into my home grown cocktail recipe app which speaks Tailscale natively using tsnet, and serves up delicious drinks direct to your tailnet. Libations is built with Go, Nix and Vanilla Framework.
• BOFH: Videoconferencing for dummies • The Register - 2024-08-23 - Can't question the documentation if there is no documentation
• Thoughts on Advent of Code + Rust | Noodles’ Emptiness - 2024-08-23 - - Diego wrote about his dislike for Advent of Code and that reminded me I hadn’t written up my experience from 2023. Mostly because, spoiler, I never actually completed it and always intended to do so and then write it up. I think it’s time to accept I’m not going to do that, and write down some thoughts before I forget all of them. These are somewhat vague, given the time that’s elapsed, but I think still relevant. You might also find Roger’s problem write up interesting.
• Aerc: a Well-Crafted Tui for Email - 2024-08-23 - - Aerc is a TUI email client. It had its first release ~4 years ago. This makes it a “baby” compared to most of its “competitors” (Pine was released in 1992, Mutt in 1995). I heard about this program shortly after its first release but ignored it at the time, because I was still reasonably happy with Thunderbird and it seemed quite bare-bones in comparison. I recently decided to revisit this piece of software.
• Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse | Ars Technica - 2024-08-23 - - Former bank CEO ignored warnings that he was being scammed while tanking bank.
• Hacker News - 2024-08-23 -
• How Deep Can Humans Really Go? | Office for Science and Society - McGill University - 2024-08-23 - - Up until the late 1960s, physiologists believed that the maximum depth a person could descend to was determined by the depth at which their total lung capacity (TLC) was compressed to the same volume as their residual volume (RV) which is the smallest lung volume a person can breathe to. The TLC was predicted to be reduced to RV at around 30 meters; below this depth, it was believed that total lung collapse would occur. However, in 1968, French FD Jacques Mayol proved the physiologist wrong when he dove to 70.4 meters. Then, on June 9, 2007, Herbert Nitsch set the current world record for the deepest free dive at 214 meters. This astonishing feat challenged everything physiologists thought they knew about the limits of the human body. Freediving is an extreme sport in which the freediver (FD) descends and returns using a single breath. There are five main subcategories of free diving. Of these, the no-limits category presents FDs with the greatest challenge as they descend using a loaded sleigh and ascend using an air balloon. This allows FD’s to reach extreme depths and pressures. But how extreme is extreme? The normal pressure exerted on a person at sea level is 1 atmosphere absolute (ATA). Every 10 meters a diver descends, they experience a 1ATA increase in pressure. This means that by the time freedivers reach 30 meters, they are already experiencing 4 ATA of pressure. This is around double the pressure in your car tires! At 214 meters, Nitsch experienced 22.3 ATA at which point his lungs were compressed to 0.45 liters in size – that’s just under 2 glasses of water. In addition to the challenges posed by these high pressures, FDs have no access to oxygen (O2) as they are underwater in a hypoxic (no O2) environment. These harsh conditions make FDs a fascinating case study for a better understanding of the endurance of the human body. How is it that organisms made to live on dry land are able to descend 214 meters with one breath? There are several critical physiological responses that are theorized to permit FDs to reach these impressive depths. The first is the mammalian diving reflex. This is an autonomic reflex found in diving mammals that activates a series of responses that reduce O2 consumption following the cessation of breathing, known as apnea. Another critical mechanism is a centralized shift of blood known as the thoracic blood shift (TBS) in which there is movement of blood from the extremities of the body toward the central thoracic cavity. This increase in central blood volume allows for the reduction of TLC past the RV and prevents lung squeeze as the blood occupies the space of the shrunken lungs. Finally, the frog breathing technique permits FD to breathe past their TLC. During frog-breathing, the diver takes gulps air into their lungs after having already filled them. This is thought to increase the oxygen content in their lungs and prolong their time underwater. But as impressive as the physical adaptations of the human body are under these conditions, the mental adaptation might be even more astonishing. FDs have to learn to go against one of the most basic human urges, the urge to breathe. However, there can be serious consequences if this signal is ignored for too long. The drive to breathe arises from high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our blood. After we inhale, our cells use up the O2 in our blood and produce CO2. As the CO2 builds up, sensors detect the heightened levels and send a signal to the brain to let it know that it is time to exhale the CO2. However, since FDs often hyperventilate, they reduce the CO2 levels in their blood below the normal level. This causes a delay in the signal to breathe. During this delay, O2 is still being consumed and therefore, a FDs oxygen saturation continues to decrease; if FDs wait too long to breathe, they can lose consciousness. This is known as hypoxic loss of consciousness, or more commonly as shallow water blackout. Anyone who hyperventilates before swimming can be at risk of this! The most serious consequence of a diver losing consciousness is drowning. This is why several safety divers are present during a free dive and ready to pull the FD to the surface if necessary. Every time physiologists believe they have found the absolute limit of free diving, they are disproved by the newest world record. This begs the question – can we find the limit to freediving? Currently, it is believed that maximal diving depth is not restricted by breath-hold time, but rather by the degree of hypoxemia, that is lowest blood oxygen saturation, that can be withstood upon ascent. There is also a distinction to be made between the maximal diving depth without injury determined by the RV/TLC depth and the absolute maximal diving depth using advanced techniques. The latter predicts a maximum depth of 320 meters; however, whether the FD would survive the hypoxemia on ascent is yet to be determined. @DanielaPadres Daniela is a recent B.Sc. graduate from the program of Physiology at McGill. She is very passionate about understanding the human body and how we can all individually adapt our daily lifestyles to improve its functioning. Part of the OSS mandate is to foster science communication and critical thinking in our students and the public. We hope you enjoy these pieces from our Student Contributors and welcome any feedback you may have!
• For years she was Vice President Harris. Now she's Kamala. - POLITICO - 2024-08-23 - It’s part of her long-held strategy.
• No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and no Meetings Without an Agenda - 2024-08-22 - - When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.
• PSA: There's a New Character Bug That Can Cause iPhones to Crash - MacRumors - 2024-08-22 - There is a new character bug that can result in a respring on the iPhone or iPad, reports TechCrunch. Typing "":: in the search field after...
• Apple's September Event: New Products to Expect Beyond the iPhone 16 - MacRumors - 2024-08-22 - Apple will hold its annual iPhone event next month, with some signs pointing to September 10 as the date that the company will announce its new...
• Libations: Tailscale on the Rocks · Jon Seager - 2024-08-22 - - A deep dive into my home grown cocktail recipe app which speaks Tailscale natively using tsnet, and serves up delicious drinks direct to your tailnet. Libations is built with Go, Nix and Vanilla Framework.
• 10 Essential Terminal Commands Every Developer Should Know | Trevor Indrek Lasn - 2024-08-21 - - List of useful Unix terminal commands to boost your productivity. Here are some of my favorites.
• New Phishing Technique Bypasses Security on iOS and Android to Steal Bank Credentials - SecurityWeek - 2024-08-21 - - New phishing attacks target iOS and Android users with Progressive Web Applications and WebAPKs to steal banking information.
• I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It - 2024-08-21 - - How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
• Suing Apple To Force It To Scan iCloud For CSAM Is A Catastrophically Bad Idea | Techdirt - 2024-08-21 - There’s a new lawsuit in Northern California federal court that seeks to improve child safety online but could end up backfiring badly if it gets the remedy it seeks. While the plaintiff’s attorney…
• Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. | Ars Technica - 2024-08-20 - - TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.
• Daring Fireball: GM, CarPlay, and iPhones - 2024-08-20 - In many ways our phones are our new digital hubs, and CarPlay exemplifies that role.
• Daring Fireball: GM Lays Off More Than 1,000 Salaried Software and Services Employees - 2024-08-20 - Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/19/gm-lays-off-more-than-1000-salaried-software-and-services-employees.html
• The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other - 2024-08-20 - - The US Department of Transportation has laid out a plan to deploy vehicle-to-everything tech across the country. The aim is to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on America's roadways.
• Why Are Texas Interchanges Texas So Tall? — Practical Engineering - 2024-08-20 - - [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five, one of the tallest highway interchanges in the world. It gets its name from the fact that there are five different levels of roadways crossing each other in this one spot. In some ways, it’s kind of
• Unbundling Profile: MIT Libraries - SPARC - 2024-08-20 -
• Using Tailscale with captive portals · Tailscale Docs - 2024-08-20 - Learn how Tailscale handles captive portals when you connect to a public network.
• My Home Computer Naming Scheme | Leon Mika - 2024-08-20 - I enjoyed Manton’s post about the naming scheme he …
• Late Again – Rands in Repose - 2024-08-19 - Awkward. Seven of us now. Sitting around the table. Five minutes since the start of the meeting. We've used up our chit-chat allowance and wonder if you will show. In the scheme of things relevant to a company's success, showing up late to a meeting is not the end of the world. When it happens a l
• Monopoly Round-Up: Price Gouging vs Price Fixing vs Price Controls - 2024-08-19 - Kamala Harris proposed a slew of proposals arguing that pricing in America has gone haywire. Economists got mad. Trump called her a Communist. What does it all mean?
• Mike Lynch among those missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily | AP News - 2024-08-19 - British tech giant Mike Lynch, his lawyer and four other people are among those missing, Italian authorities said.
• Leaving Neovim for Zed • Steve Simkins - 2024-08-19 - - A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim
• A common bug in a bunch of feed readers - 2024-08-19 -
• Micro-libraries need to die already | Ben Visness - 2024-08-18 - - Somehow people are still putting tiny libraries on npm, and it really needs to stop.
• You might be overusing Vim visual mode | Max Shen Dev - 2024-08-18 - - Learn why you might be overusing Vim's visual mode and how adopting a different mindset can help you use Vim more efficiently. Discover alternative commands and techniques that can save you keystrokes and boost your productivity in this insightful post.
• Just use Postgres - 2024-08-17 -
• 508 - Whither CockroachDB? / RFD / Oxide - 2024-08-17 -
• Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company’s True Culture - 2024-08-17 - - Uncover the true culture of a tech company by asking the right questions during your interview. Learn how to assess company values, employee support, and growth opportunities to ensure the perfect fit.
• NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues | Ars Technica - 2024-08-16 - - "We don’t have enough insight and data to make some sort of simple black-and-white calculation."
• Keith Moon, Drummer of The Who, Passes Out at 1973 Concert; 19-Year-Old Fan Takes Over | Open Culture - 2024-08-16 - In November 1973, Scot Halpin, a 19-year-old kid, scalped tickets to The Who concert in San Francisco, California. Little did he know that he'd wind up playing drums for the band that night -- that his name would end up etched in the annals of rock 'n' roll.
• frances farmer will have her revenge – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-08-16 - I haven’t actually listened to a full album in a really, really long time. Like, other than Pink Floyd records, which must be listened to in their entirety, always (I will not be taking quest…
• Elon Musk went judge shopping in ad lawsuit and didn’t get the judge he wanted | Ars Technica - 2024-08-16 - Judge who had stock in Tesla and Unilever drops X case over alleged ad boycott.
• My Mom Taught Me – SimpleBits® - 2024-08-16 - A tiny design studio founded by Dan Cederholm.
• Political Media’s Faux-Wonk Heel Turn - TPM – Talking Points Memo - 2024-08-16 - They probably would have gotten to it on their own. But I think TPM Reader NR is right about the trajectory here. There's an added component to your piece today on the media's call for Harris to do…
• Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really) | Whatever - 2024-08-16 - - In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…
• It works on my machine. Why? - 2024-08-16 - - A list of things to check when something works on your computer but not on someone else’s.
• Kim Dotcom's Extradition to the U.S. Given Green Light By New Zealand * TorrentFreak - 2024-08-16 - - After years of legal proceedings, New Zealand's Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has approved Kim Dotcom's extradition to the United States.
• Neatnik Notes · Passkeys are not passwords - 2024-08-15 - - Neatnik Notes
• Uncharted waters... | Patreon - 2024-08-14 - Get more from Sampson Boat Co on Patreon
• Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum | Ars Technica - 2024-08-14 - Elon Musk’s 24-hour email ultimatum unfairly dismissed Twitter staff, court says.
• Tom Cruise rides LiveWire electric motorcycle out of Paris Olympics - 2024-08-14 - Eagle-eyed viewers of yesterday’s Olympics closing ceremony might have noticed something different about the motorcycle Tom Cruise rode out of...
• All of Earth's water in a single sphere! | U.S. Geological Survey - 2024-08-13 -
• Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged | US policing | The Guardian - 2024-08-13 - - Gideon Cody, former Marion police chief, is also accused of persuading a potential witness to withhold information
• A Flexible Minimalist Neovim for 2024 - 2024-08-13
• You should make a new programming language | nicole@web - 2024-08-13 -
• NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation | Ars Technica - 2024-08-13 - - Three Starliner mission managers had key roles on Columbia's ill-fated final flight.
• @vivllainous • Let’s talk about the Walter Isaacson book. For those of you unaware, he wrote a biography about... • Threads - 2024-08-13 - Let’s talk about the Walter Isaacson book. For those of you unaware, he wrote a biography about Elon in which I am featured. This is what I have to say on the matter. It’s a bit heavy, so bear with me.
• NASA Investigation Finds Boeing Hindering Americans’ Return to Moon - FLYING Magazine - 2024-08-12 - - Boeing is once again under fire for its quality control practices, which a new report finds may delay a NASA lunar landing.
• Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon - 2024-08-12 - - Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.
• 7 Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework - 2024-08-12 -
• Daring Fireball: The Mac Is a Power Tool - 2024-08-12 - - The Mac is a platform where you need to be able to shoot yourself in the foot.
• Fox News hosts mocked for outrage over Kamala Harris' cooking videos - Raw Story - 2024-08-11
• Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56 | TechCrunch - 2024-08-10 - Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki just passed away, according to social media posts by her
• "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase - 2024-08-10
• Advice to the young - 2024-08-10 - I notice I haven't written any advice posts recently. Here is a collection of my advice posts pre 2020. I've been feeling all this elderly w...
• Hybrid Teams are the Worst - 2024-08-10 - - The dynamics of a hybrid team are the worst, compared to fully in-office or fully remote. Throw this article at whomever tries to defend RTO and hybrid setup to you.
• My intro to game (engine) dev - 2024-08-09 - - How I discovered the joy of game development, despite staunchly avoiding it for years.
• zanshin's reading list - 2024-08-09
• Reddit considers search ads, paywalled content for the future | Ars Technica - 2024-08-09 - - Current ad load is relatively "light," COO says.
• Don't write Rust like it's Java - 2024-08-09 - - I didn't discover the joy of writing Rust code until I stopped trying to make the language something it isn't.
• Daring Fireball: MacOS 15 Sequoia Adds Weekly -- That's Right, Weekly -- Nagging Permission Prompts for Screenshot and Screen Recording Apps - 2024-08-08 - Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-sequoia-screen-recording-privacy-prompt/
• 55 Things to Know About Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ Pick for VP - POLITICO - 2024-08-08 - The governor of Minnesota had a career in the National Guard and as a high school teacher before he got into politics in the early 2000s.
• Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu | Ars Technica - 2024-08-08 - "Delta, unlike its competitors... has not modernized its IT infrastructure."
• Linux for UX Designers - What I learned after a year of doing design work on Linux - 2024-08-08 - - My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.
• An Alerting Vista of Sonoma • furbo.org - 2024-08-08 - - There’s a new “feature” in Sonoma, and no one besides Apple is quite sure what it is. Alerts for deprecated APIs are now appearing frequently. Sometimes when you launch an app, and sometimes at random. Here are three I got the other day after waking a MacBook from sleep: From a UI point-of-view, these alerts […]
• It Always Gets Dumber: Elon Sues The Ad Coalition He Just Rejoined Because He Thinks It’s Illegal To Not Advertise On ExTwitter | Techdirt - 2024-08-08 - Remember when Elon told advertisers not to advertise on ExTwitter? Remember how he told them to “go fuck” themselves? Well, now he’s suing those companies for the serious crime (he claims it might …
• This MacBook app generated $100,000 in seven days, now Stripe won't pay up | iMore - 2024-08-08 - - Stripe owes NotchNook hundreds of thousands.
• Return-to-office mandates hurt employee retention, productivity, survey says | Ars Technica - 2024-08-07 - Survey of 4,400 US employees who are at least 18 years old.
• Former geography teacher Tim Walz is really into maps • Minnesota Reformer - 2024-08-07 - - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz really, really likes maps.  The former Mankato geography teacher, now a vice presidential candidate, identifies as a “GIS nerd” and proclaimed November 15, 2023 as Geographic Information Systems day, writing that an understanding of maps and data “helps community leaders and government officials make data-driven decisions” governing important policy issues like […]
• macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps - 9to5Mac - 2024-08-06 - With macOS Sequoia this fall, using apps that need access to screen recording permissions will become a little bit more...
• Revolutionary Submarine Discovers Ice Shelf Mysteries, Then Disappears Without a Trace - 2024-08-06 - - Using the unmanned submarine Ran, researchers mapped the underside of West Antarctica's Dotson Ice Shelf, uncovering complex ice formations and significant melt areas driven by underwater currents, crucial for enhancing sea level rise predictions. An international research team from the Universit
• The Saucer - A DIY trackpad attachment for the Voyager - 2024-08-06 - - Transform your board with a simple 3D print
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• My favorite device is a Chromebook — kokada - 2024-08-06 -
• SLUBStick Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Full System Control - 2024-08-06 - Security researchers have discovered a severe vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could allow attackers to gain full control over affected systems. Dubbed "SLUBStick," the exploit technique uses memory allocation flaws to achieve arbitrary read and write access to kernel memory.
• Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don't Know What To Do About It - View from the Wing - 2024-08-06 - - Airlines use up to four digits for flight numbers. That means they can have up to 9,999 flights (since there’s no flight zero), and no one comes close. American Airlines operates around 6,700 daily flights including its American Eagle regional services. So they should have plenty of room to grow! Except they don’t. American Airlines, Delta, and United are running out of flight numbers, and nobody knows what to do about it.
• Writing in the Dark: Dealing with Problematic Authors - 2024-08-06 -   I wrote the following mini-essay for the latest edition of my newsletter. I try to avoid repeating content between my blog, newsletter, an...
• Online trading platforms down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows | Reuters - 2024-08-05 - - Online brokerages including Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments were down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
• Don't Use Preludes And Globs | corrode Rust Consulting - 2024-08-05 - - Have you ever wondered why you don't have to import std::result::Result before you can use it? The reason is Rust's prelude, which re-exports a bunch of types that …
• Git the stupid password store - Tyler Cipriani - 2024-08-04 -
• Buttigieg: Justice Department lawsuit necessary to get freight trains out of Amtrak’s way - Trains - 2024-08-04 - MILWAUKEE — The Justice Department needed to file a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern for its poor handling of Amtrak’s Crescent because Class I railroads routinely ignore the law that gives passenger trains preference over freight traffic, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Trains on Wednesday. The suit, filed Tuesday, July 30, in the U.S. District Court [...]Read More...
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• AnarSec | Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident - 2024-08-03 -
• crates.io: development update | Rust Blog - 2024-08-03 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• count-md: a New Rust Tool and Library  — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-08-03 - Counting words in a Markdown files in a way that actually makes sense.
• WaterField Designs “Shinjuku” Messenger Bag — Tools and Toys - 2024-08-03 - This slim iPad messenger bag nimbly navigates crowds and sports abundant organization for easy access to tech and necessities.
• This Reader's Husband and Friend Built Her an Introvert Nook | Cup of Jo - 2024-08-03 - "It's my dream come true."
• Synology BeeStation review: A great way to start getting real about backups | Ars Technica - 2024-08-03 - If you're not ready for full-on NAS gear, consider this clever little drive.
• Unsafe at Any Speed: Tradeoffs and values in the Rust ecosystem - 2024-08-03 - - Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
• A Cozy Family Home in Copenhagen | Cup of Jo - 2024-08-03 - Interior designer Kate Imogen Wood on home swaps, indoor picnics, and the key to making a home feel cozy.
• Unread for Mac - MacSparky - 2024-08-03 - I’ve always considered Unread one of the most attractive RSS reader apps. However, there has never been a Mac version. Today marks the release of Unread for Mac. It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.
• Two months of feed reader behavior analysis - 2024-08-03
• The State of Async Rust: Runtimes | corrode Rust Consulting - 2024-08-03 - - Recently, I found myself returning to a compelling series of blog posts titled Zero-cost futures in Rust by Aaron Turon about what would become the foundation of Rust's async ecosyste…
• 37 - Marcos Oliveira - by Adib Hanna - .dotfiles - 2024-08-03 - I’m a software engineer with 10 years of experience from Brazil and a self-taught developer.
• Daring Fireball: Bloomberg Broke an Embargo and Put Evan Gershkovich's Release at Risk Just to Claim a Scoop - 2024-08-03 - Link to: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bloombergs-risky-embargo-breaking-evan-gershkovich-scoop.html
• Not Even Anthony Edwards Can Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player - The New York Times - 2024-08-03 - An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point.
• Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers Explain Why They Don’t Advertise On MAGA Media Sites | Techdirt - 2024-08-03 - Remember last month when ExTwitter excitedly “rejoined GARM” (the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, an advertising consortium focused on brand safety)? And then, a week later, after Rep. Jim J…
• Mexico’s Smoking Laws - Sonia Diaz Mexico - 2024-08-02 - Effective January 16, 2023, the two main provisions are the total ban on all forms of advertising and promotion of tobacco products, including its' display at points of sale and the extension of protection against smoke and the emissions of any tobacco and nicotine product. Mexico has also established 100% smoke-free environments in all enclosed
• Buying, Taxes, Heating / Cooling, Propane - Sonia Diaz Mexico - 2024-08-02 - It may be better to rent first prior to buying. My husband has been a Realtor and Broker in Ontario, Canada and in New Mexico, USA. If seeking a professional realtor to sell or buy property in San Miguel, please email me. And, we have renovated and built homes. For these seeking a professional and honest architect
• A Unique Guide to Living in San Miguel de Allende- Cost of Living Included! - Mexico Relocation Guide - 2024-08-02 - Want to know if living or retiring in San Miguel de Allende is for you? Check out this quick guide with cost of living included.
• Best Neighborhoods to Retire in San Miguel de Allende: Mexico Retirement - 2024-08-02 - Find the perfect neighborhood in San Miguel de Allende to live your Mexico retirement journey to the fullest. At Top Mexico Real Estate we make it happen!
• What You Need to Know About Retiring in Mexico - 2024-08-02 - A vibrant, low-cost lifestyle south of the border may be easier than you think
• Grocery Shopping in Mexico Like A Local Would - Mexico Relocation Guide - 2024-08-02 - Learn all about grocery shopping in Mexico! Discover how the locals save money, find local markets, and navigate supermarkets.
• Why We Recommend THESE Neighborhoods in San Miguel de Allende - Mexico Relocation Guide - 2024-08-02 - Interested in living in San Miguel de Allende? These are the top 5 neighborhoods we recommend. Including rental examples!
• Family and Fulfilment on $2,500 a Month in San Miguel de Allende - 2024-08-01 - I have always rented in San Miguel. I never wanted to own here. In my earlier years, I rented different places, but now I live in a hotel...
• Why does Vermont keep flooding? It's complicated, but experts warn it could become the norm | AP News - 2024-08-01 - Vermont is flooding and experts say the state could see catastrophic events for the foreseeable future.
• "A Story About Jessica" by SwiftOnSecurity | Cogito, Ergo Sumana - 2024-08-01 - - The cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity, a decade ago, wrote a parable called &quot;A Story About Jessica&quot; and posted it to their (now-deleted) Tumblr blog. I found it moving and insightful. The consultancy Superbloom pointed to it … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
• A Beautifully Introspective Short Film About Being Fitted for a Prosthetic Leg - 2024-08-01 - "Fitting" by Caitlin McMullan is a beautiful introspective film about being fitted for a custom made prosthetic leg.
• Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard - 2024-08-01 - - Regulation-induced monocultures meet unfortunate but explicable engineering decisions.
• Driving PSA… - 2024-08-01 - From XKCD, a public safety announcement about driving: random drivers can’t grant you the right of way as a gift. Yes, ye
• Apple CarPlay Contributes to Higher Vehicle Satisfaction in Latest Survey - MacRumors - 2024-08-01 - A new survey released last week by J.D. Power shows that U.S. consumers continue to prefer vehicles with support for Apple CarPlay. The market...
• @agdayton • I want to talk about the "weird" thing because a lot of people seem kinda confused about why it's... • Threads - 2024-08-01 - I want to talk about the "weird" thing because a lot of people seem kinda confused about why it's effective and I think this betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the far right movement in this country is. 🧵 (This is long, sorry)

July 2024

• A Massive New Cycling Route Linking Eight European Countries Launches This Week - 2024-07-31 - The route takes in national parks, forests, inland villages and miles of coastline
• The New Internet - 2024-07-31 - - We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
• After 10 Years, Yelp Gave My App 4 Days ~ Observational Hazard - 2024-07-31 - - David Kopec's blog.
• crates.io: development update | Rust Blog - 2024-07-31 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Warwick: Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random spot on X - 2024-07-30 - - A historian spots the work from the 1590s in the background of a photo shared on the social media site.
• make number jump with a trigger a default one · Issue #762 · weechat/weechat - 2024-07-30 - /trigger add numberjump modifier "2000|input_text_for_buffer" "${tg_string} =~ ^/[0-9]+$" "=/([0-9]+)=/buffer *${re:1}=" "" you can easily jump to a buffer with a short command "/" for example: "/1...
• Taking command of the Context Menu in macOS  ⌘I  Get Info - 2024-07-30 - - Yesterday on Twitter the inimitable Morten Just posted a preview of a tool he’s created that wrap ffmpeg to allow movies, such screen recordings but pretty m...
• Dear Safari, 4 Things I Hate About You – Magic Lasso Adblock - 2024-07-30 - - Dear Safari, I know we’ve been together for a long time, but I’m starting to have second thoughts.
• MastodonForHarris Hashtag and Mutual Aid Awareness Campaign | Hachyderm Community - 2024-07-30 - Blog post is a copy of a longer Hachyderm Moderation Announcment about the Mutual Aid campaign using MastodonForHarris.
• Apple Fixes iCloud Private Relay After Extended Outage - MacRumors - 2024-07-30 - Apple has resolved the iCloud Private Relay service outage, restoring full functionality for users around the world after several days of disruption....
• AI crawlers need to be more respectful - Read the Docs - 2024-07-30 - - We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
• About That (New) Deal | Whatever - 2024-07-30 - (Checks Reactor to see if the news of my new multi-book, multi-year deal with Tor Books is up) (It is) Welp, time to wake up my fictional interlocutor. (Nudges the fictional interlocutor with toe) …
• Tor Publishing Group and Tor UK Announce Major Multi-Book Deal for Bestselling and Award-Winning Author John Scalzi - Reactor - 2024-07-30 - Exciting news from the author of Old Man's War, The Kaiju Preservation Society, Starter Villain, and many more!
• Third-party cookies have got to go | 2024 | Blog | W3C - 2024-07-30 - - The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.
• Phyks' blog – Hilight window in weechat - 2024-07-29 - I recently moved from Irssi+Screen to Weechat+Screen (and I’m planning to look at weechat interfaces in the future, to have a local irc client connecting to my server and avoid any latency while typing on low speed internet connection). My first step was to get almost the …
• The iconic Mirage in Las Vegas is closing today after 34 years | CNN Business - 2024-07-28 - The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is closing Wednesday, ending 34 years in business.
• Spyware turned this Kansas high school into a 'red zone' of dystopian surveillance • Kansas Reflector - 2024-07-28 - What Gaggle is selling is an antidote for fear — for administrators, for parents, for students — in exchange for civil liberties, writes Max McCoy.
• Hit Apple TV+ series Silo returns for season two in November - 9to5Mac - 2024-07-28 - This weekend, Apple officially announced the release date for the return of its sci-fi series Silo, based on the books...
• devrim/cloudflare-noip: free alternative to paid dynamic DNS services like NoIP.com - 2024-07-28 - - free alternative to paid dynamic DNS services like NoIP.com - devrim/cloudflare-noip
• The Ridgeway: Hike the 5,000-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road - 2024-07-28 - - Walk in the footsteps of Celtic druids, Saxon kings and Victorian poets on an 87-mile prehistoric trackway that cuts across the chalk hills of southern England.
• NASA nears decision on what to do with Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft | Ars Technica - 2024-07-28 - - Boeing won't start flying operational crew missions with Starliner until a year from now.
• America’s 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril - 2024-07-27 - - A bruising recession and the disappearance of pensions have left many young boomers financially exposed.
• Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet | Driving - 2024-07-27 - Parking at University of Oklahoma without paying was about to get a lot more expensive before these kids defeated the school's high-tech boot with a low-effort solu…
• Killer whales sink $128K yacht in 2-hour Mediterranean Sea attack - 2024-07-27 - - “I have a feeling that this group are boat sinkers — I think they knew what they were doing, I’m sure of it.”
• How I Use Git Worktrees - 2024-07-26 - - There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories. This is also how I originally had used worktrees, but that didn't stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.
• Announcing Rust 1.80.0 | Rust Blog - 2024-07-26 - - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
• Pin - 2024-07-26 -
• Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts – Righteous IT - 2024-07-26 - - Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Bottom line here is that if you have an evil process you want to hide, use …
• It's Not Nudity, It's Art — SUSANNAH BRESLIN - 2024-07-25 - I was a little surprised to see that this Saint Laurent video on YouTube entitled “ Tan Lines ” featured a topless model. Did that mean it was possible to post boobs on YouTube? To find out, I checked out the site’s Nudity &amp; Sexual Content Policy . “The depiction of clothed or unclothed gen
• Simple Advice for Personal Finance - 2024-07-24 - The Index Card is a new book by Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack about simple advice for personal finance. The idea for the book
• Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice – Krebs on Security - 2024-07-24 -
• CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch - 2024-07-24 - - Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
• Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report | CrowdStrike - 2024-07-24 - - Read the preliminary post incident report regarding the CrowdStrike Falcon content update affecting Windows hosts.
• Named Arguments In Rust, If You Want Them - 2024-07-24 -
• How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us - 2024-07-24 - How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
• Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands | Martin Janiczek - 2024-07-24 - - First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:
• 1Password: You Can't Ignore GDPR Anymore - 2024-07-24
• Haskell for all: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians - 2024-07-23 - - Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians I don’t actually think predictability is a goo...
• rest in peace, bob newhart – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-07-23 - When I worked on Big Bang Theory, each episode involved a few days of rehearsal before we did camera blocking and the actual taping in front of the audience. Most actors go to our dressing rooms du…
• Space colonizers battle ultimate killing machines in Alien: Romulus trailer | Ars Technica - 2024-07-23 - "Whatever comes, we'll face it together."
• Why Did CrowdStrike Update Only Hit Windows? Blame the EU, Microsoft Says | PCMag - 2024-07-23 - Asked why Microsoft allows third-party kernel drivers while Apple does not, a spokesperson points to a 2009 agreement between the European Commission and Microsoft.
• Google No Longer Plans to Eliminate Third-Party Cookies in Chrome - MacRumors - 2024-07-22 - Google no longer plans to deprecate third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, marking a notable change to a prior decision to phase out third-party...
• No More Blue Fridays - 2024-07-22 - - No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes.
• The workers have spoken: They're staying home. – Computerworld - 2024-07-22 - - And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.
• CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor linked to Linux crashes, too • The Register - 2024-07-22 - - Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down
• With honor and decency, Joe Biden exits the race | Editorial - 2024-07-22 - Democrats threw the race into chaos by undermining the president, and the media hounded him from the ticket following his alarming debate performance while breezing past Trump’s lies and instability.
• Daring Fireball: Biden Drops Out of Reelection Bid, Fully Endorses Kamala Harris - 2024-07-22 - Link to: https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320
• Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013 | PC Gamer - 2024-07-21 - - No, I am not revealing my username.
• Concerns about passkeys - 2024-07-20 - - All rituals restricted. All rites reserved.
• Can you opt out of airport face scans? Yes! Here’s how. - Vox - 2024-07-20 - You have the right to opt out of facial recognition tech. Here’s how.
• Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes - 9to5Mac - 2024-07-19 - - Earlier this week, the FBI announced that it had accessed the locked phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who...
• Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach - 2024-07-18 - - Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google. You search for a unique sentence from your…
• Photos: The Webb Space Telescope's Second Anniversary - The Atlantic - 2024-07-18 - A collection of images from the James Webb Space Telescope’s second year in space
• Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation – Marco.org - 2024-07-18 -
• TinyPod Turns Your Apple Watch Into an iPod - MacRumors - 2024-07-18 - If you have an old Apple Watch and you're not sure what to do with it, a new product called TinyPod might be the answer. Priced at $79, the...
• Houston linemen face threats as they repair outages caused by Hurricane Beryl - 2024-07-18 - Houston residents threaten repair workers over prolonged power outages after Hurricane Beryl, prompting police escorts and charges in some cases.
• commit messages are optional · schpet’s notebook - 2024-07-17 -
• How I build simple Mac apps using Go - DEV Community - 2024-07-17 - The latest and largest release of Go bindings to Apple frameworks
• Sofa Launches on Vision Pro and Mac – 512 Pixels - 2024-07-16 - Shawn Hickman's excellent app Sofa has arrived on two more platforms: I’m happy to announce that Sofa is now available on the Mac and Vision Pro! I had originally planned to have Sofa ready for Vision Pro when it launched in February, but I was deep in the middle of working on Sofa 4.0 (which [...]
• look! an old man is talking again! – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2024-07-16 - When I was young, I thought dudes in their 50s were lame and had nothing to offer. Now that I’m one of those dudes, I understand what a gift it is when you ask me to share my experiences.
• Daring Fireball: It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns - 2024-07-15 - Make them all say, as Trump himself did after a school shooting massacre in Iowa this year, that we “have to get over it, we have to move forward.”
• Mozilla's product chief sues the Firefox maker, alleging discrimination after cancer diagnosis – GeekWire - 2024-07-13 - Steve Teixeira, Mozilla chief product officer. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Mozilla.) Steve Teixeira, a former Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter executive in
• "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now - 2024-07-13 - - I’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau. That’s not always a problem; sometimes …
• 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - What Is The Best Science Fiction Book Ever Written? - 2024-07-13 - See if your favorites made our expanded list.
• iMessage needs an 'Optimize Storage' option to delete cache - 2024-07-13 - If you’re an iCloud Photos user, you’re probably already familiar with the “Optimize Storage” option that keeps only the most...
• Daring Fireball - 2024-07-13 -
• LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads - MacStories - 2024-07-12 - As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The
• AT&T data breach: Were you affected? Here's what to do. - 2024-07-12 - AT&T said Friday the call and text message records of nearly all of its cellular customers were exposed in a data breach. Here's what we know.
• Sickening, criminal: Redbox goes out with a bang - 2024-07-12 - A jaw-dropping end to a bonkers story: Redbox's corporate parent allegedly misappropriated employee health care contributions.
• Biden Gives Powerful NATO Speech, Trump Stumbles at Hate Rally - 2024-07-12 - Donald is unfit
• Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO - 2024-07-11 - - Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everything
• Shelley Duvall: The Shining and Annie Hall actress dies at 75 - 2024-07-11 - - The US actress was also known for films including Annie Hall and Nashville.
• Physicists Have Created The World's Most Fiendishly Difficult Maze : ScienceAlert - 2024-07-11 - - Daedalus could have learned a thing or two from a team of physicists in the UK and Switzerland.
• How To Survive 3 Years In North Korea As A Foreigner - 2024-07-11 - - I was contacted by someone asking what life in North Korea was really like followed by questions asking about my 3 years living there
• MacStadium Releases Free Orka Desktop macOS Virtualization Software - MacRumors - 2024-07-11 - Mac cloud services provider MacStadium today unveiled Orka Desktop, a free virtualization tool that allows Mac users to create and manage macOS...
• Daring Fireball: Pennsylvania Is, Finally, Getting Beautiful License Plates - 2024-07-11 - Link to: https://x.com/governorshapiro/status/1810662109073588268
• Breaking: Redbox is shutting down, corporate parent is being liquidated - 2024-07-11 - - Court hearing included allegations of fraud
• A Proclamation on Granting Pardon for Certain Violations of Article 125 Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice | The White House - 2024-07-11 -      Our Nation has made tremendous progress in advancing the cause of equality for LGBTQI+ Americans, including in the military.  Despite their courage and great sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.  Many of these patriotic Americans were subject to a…
• Where Was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Filmed? 2023 Movie Filming Locations - 2024-07-11 - A sequel to the 2018 ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ and the seventh installment in the ‘Mission: Impossible‘ film series, ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is a spy action movie starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, who along with his IMF team, has a new mission at hand, that is, to retrieve a destructive […]
• “Gay furry hackers” attack Heritage Foundation and release sensitive data related to Project 2025 | TechRadar - 2024-07-11 - Hacktivists steal data from conservative think tank
• Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on my Diploma - 2024-07-10 - - When graduating a French school, your diploma contains a QR code which can be scanned with an app to display your grades, as a means of verification for universities or employers. I reverse engineer the app to recreate it’s functionality in Python. Then I try to break their signing method to generate any diploma with any grades.
• Why Redbox has been powering down - The Verge - 2024-07-10 - The bankruptcy of Redbox’s parent company came after months of chaos, cash crunch, and corporate upheaval.
• Escape From the Box - The American Prospect - 2024-07-10 - - New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer secrets.
• Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) - 2024-07-08 - - “Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue
• jwz: Mystery PHP process death - 2024-07-07 - I have a long-running PHP process that occasionally exits prematurely, after having run for many minutes or hours. According to dmesg, it is not the OOM-killer. I have registered a shutdown function and signal handlers and they are not logging anything. And yet sometimes it is just gone, without having logged completion. This test script behaves as I expect. The only way I can kill it without
• What happens if you shoot down a delivery drone? | TechCrunch - 2024-07-07 - As deep-pocketed companies like Amazon, Google and Walmart invest in and experiment with drone delivery, a phenomenon reflective of this modern era has
• Porquerolles Island | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Tourism - 2024-07-07 - Embark for the islands of Porquerolles off Hyères les Palmiers and enjoyits heavenly creeks and its luxuriant nature.
• An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch - 2024-07-06 - A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.
• This election has upended British politics. A strange new landscape is revealed | Rafael Behr | The Guardian - 2024-07-05 - Tribal loyalties and political certainties are falling away, but the Conservatives have been felled by a determined coalition, says the Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
• How random are TOTP codes? – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2024-07-05 -
• Programming languages resources | Max Bernstein - 2024-07-04 -
• ChatGPT Mac App Stored User Chats in Plain Text Prior to Latest Update - MacRumors - 2024-07-04 - OpenAI has issued an update to its ChatGPT app for Mac, after a developer discovered the app was locally storing users' conversations with the...
• Dear Roku, you ruined my TV - The Verge - 2024-07-04 - - What if you could never turn off motion smoothing?
• Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy User Phone Numbers - SecurityWeek - 2024-07-04 - - Twilio has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked 33 million phone numbers associated with the Authy app.
• The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand - Reactor - 2024-07-04 - - It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”
• Shipt’s Pay Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back - IEEE Spectrum - 2024-07-04 - - When their pay suddenly dropped, delivery drivers audited their employer
• How Comanche took more than a day off the transatlantic record - 2024-07-04 - - The supermaxi Comanche broke the transatlantic record for monohulls (west to east) this summer, taking more than a day off the record. Here's how
• Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan - MacRumors - 2024-07-04 - Netflix is proceeding with its plan to discontinue its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, starting with the UK and Canada, with more countries...
• Reasons to use your shell's job control - 2024-07-03 - - Reasons to use your shell's job control
• Why Bridges Don't Sink — Practical Engineering - 2024-07-03 - - [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges present a unique structural challenge. In
• DNA Lounge: 2-Jul-2024 (Tue): Wherein the techbros want to sell your security cameras back to you, again - 2024-07-03 - It's a month ending in "Y", and so another techbro has re-invented a "where the ladies at?" app: 'It's completely invasive': New app lets you spy on SF bars to see if they're poppin' The company has a network of cameras across San Francisco venues that lets app users see how busy events are in real-time so revelers can decide if the vibe is right for them. [...] "Nightlife in San Francisco ...
• Hurricane Beryl strengthens to Category 5 storm | AP News - 2024-07-02 - Hurricane Beryl has ripped off doors, windows and roofs in homes across the southeast Caribbean after making landfall on the island of Carriacou.
• Why Is Chile So Long? - by Tomas Pueyo - 2024-07-02 - - Chile is so long, it's curved. How long is it? Why not longer? Why is no other country as thin? How does that make Chileans incomprehensible?
• Playfool Casts Colorful 'Forest Crayons' from Japan's Surplus Timber — Colossal - 2024-07-02 - From the powder of ground-up timber, a selection of pigments emerged, and Playfool's Forest Crayons were born.
• Weeknote: June 22–29, 2024 — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2024-07-02 - Finishing a lot of first drafts: in music, in writing TRPL, and in talk preparation.
• Daring Fireball: Figma AI Is a Rip-Off Engine - 2024-07-02 - Link to: https://x.com/asallen/status/1807675146020454808
• Liz Cheney fires back at Trump after he calls for ‘televised military tribunals’ for former congresswoman | The Independent - 2024-07-02 - ‘You are not a stable adult and are not fit for office’ said former lawmaker from Wyoming
• Supreme Court Rules That Presidents Have Absolute Immunity for “Core Constitutional Powers” - 2024-07-02 - I don’t even know what to say about this. From Justice Sotomayor’s dissent (starting on page 68): The President of th
• Democrats warn of ‘dangerous precedent’ set by Trump ruling; Republican House speaker calls decision ‘common sense’ – as it happened | US supreme court | The Guardian - 2024-07-02 - Conservative justices decide in favor of absolute immunity for official presidential acts but not private acts
• The Crypto Group That Spent $3 Million On a 'Dune' Book Wants to Offload - 2024-07-01 - - In a dismal crypto climate, the group is looking to sell its 'Dune' bible and cash out its treasury. “Really wish this worked out better," the group co-founder said.