James' read list

A mostly complete list of articles I've read on the internet
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September 2026

• September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy | Tom Wojcik - 2026-09-30 - - PDF - How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.
• The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof | Quanta Magazine - 2026-09-12 - - PDF - By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs.
• fun things with my smart mirror · ritchot.me - 2026-09-11 - PDF - The intercom mirror in my rented apartment sat unplugged for a year. Fable and I turned it into the display I wanted.
• Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks - 2026-09-02 - - PDF - Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it

August 2026

• Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file - 2026-08-26 - - PDF - Range Requests Are All You Need
• Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix | Farid Zakaria’s Blog - 2026-08-24 - - PDF - The core of nixpkgs-multiverse, when you strip away the Nix API and the CLI, is an index. It is a map from (attribute, version) to the revision that shipped it as a JSON file.1 There are actually a few other files that drive other features such as the statistics or “fast mode”, but they are all JSON as well. ↩
• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed | Farid Zakaria’s Blog - 2026-08-24 - - PDF - Enter the Nixpkgs multiverse. All the versions that ever existed, all in one place.
• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS | bevuta IT - 2026-08-18 - - PDF - Why our reboots now work without manual intervention - despite encryption. And what kexec's got to do with it.
• How not to delete a file: (Maurycy's blog) - 2026-08-14 - PDF
• Banned Book Library | Rick's Blog - 2026-08-14 - - PDF - OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to mo…
• Library - A short story by Ben Brown - 2026-08-14 - - PDF
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering - 2026-08-12 - - PDF - AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
• Needle 2 - The 14 MB Agentic LLM for Tiny Devices | Cactus - 2026-08-11 - - PDF - An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.
• Counting the days, revisited – Tony Finch - 2026-08-09 - - PDF
• Styling the Navigation: Declarative Route and Navigation Matching in CSS – Bram.us - 2026-08-08 - PDF - One of the things that we at Chrome have been thinking about for a while now is a way to do declarative route and navigation matching in CSS. Together with Noam Rosenthal and David Baron I’ve been working on it for the past few months.After an initial introduction at the CSS Working Group back in January, and a quick feedback session at CSS Day in June, we think we have something that is ready for further discussion.At next week’s CSS Working Group F2F (face-to-face) meeting in Berlin, we’ll be presenting our current line of thinking. This post is a quick intro to the concepts we’ll be covering.
• The HTTPS record, for proper HTTP/3 support — Chris Morgan - 2026-08-07 - PDF
• the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale - 2026-08-07 - PDF

July 2026

• Why Futhark? - 2026-07-31 - - PDF - A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
• zappa: an AI powered mitmproxy | the singularity is nearer - 2026-07-27 - - PDF - Soon, AI will be good enough to interact with the Internet in an indistinguishable way from a human. This can be an amazing opportunity for liberation from all the people who are targeting your attention.
• Refinement Culture - 2026-07-27 - - PDF
• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. | Filip Roséen - refp.se - 2026-07-26 - - PDF - I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.
• bringing the modern web to the original ipad mini — seg6 - 2026-07-22 - - PDF - resurrecting ios 6 with a remote browser
• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2026-07-20 - - PDF - Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
• Minimal Git CI using hooks - 2026-07-20 - PDF - Personal blog of Marc Coquand.
• Frame - the first Linux Assembly X server – Geir's Everything - 2026-07-17 - - PDF - Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything
• System frequency at 11 am in 2026 - WattClarity - 2026-07-14 - PDF - A strengthening tendency towards a low-frequency period just after 11 am is emerging.
• Tris Sherliker - 2026-07-09 - - PDF - IP, technology &#x26; commercial law
• Pet Projects Are Getting Too Big to Pet - nnehdi - 2026-07-03 - - PDF - We keep pet projects to learn and to have fun. Lately the work, the craft, and the fun have all become something different.

June 2026

• xan/docs/cookbook/dataviz.md at master · medialab/xan · GitHub - 2026-06-17 - - PDF - The CSV magician. Contribute to medialab/xan development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Library - A short story by Ben Brown - 2026-06-16 - - PDF
• Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts - 2026-06-09 - - PDF - An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.
• AGit Workflow Usage | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge. - 2026-06-09 - PDF
• Finding foreign keys missing indexes | Robin's blog - 2026-06-09 - PDF - Last week I was made aware that we had some foreign keys not backed by indexes in the system we’re developing at work. Foreign keys in postgres must be backed by an index only on the side they refer to, not necessarily the side they refer from. Here’s an example: create table author( id bigint generated always as identity primary key, name text not null ); create table book( id bigint generated always as identity primary key, author bigint not null references author(id), title text not null ); In this example, there’s a foreign key from the book table to the author table. Since author refers to a primary key in the author table, inserts into book can validate very quickly. There’s no index on the author column in the book table though. The consequence of this is that delete on author must check every single row in book to check if it’s safe to actually delete. The really annoying part of this is that the scan does not show up in query plans:
• Forking Chrome to render in a terminal - Fathy Boundjadj - 2026-06-04 - - PDF
• The Dirt That Refused To Die | Quanta Magazine - 2026-06-01 - - PDF - Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil for six years, pointing to a metabolic theory for how biology began.

May 2026

• Nix on Sailfish X (Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia) | toastal - 2026-05-31 - PDF - Sailfish OS is something I have been exploring to get out of Apple & Google’s grips, but there’s still a lot of missing software & better ways to configure Linux systems. This is why I am adding Nix + Nixpkgs to my phone.
• The Economics of Star Trek. The Proto-Post Scarcity Economy | by Rick Webb | Medium - 2026-05-28 - - PDF - The Proto-Post Scarcity Economy
• A Love Letter to Neovim | Caio Bianchi - 2026-05-28 - PDF
• CSS vs. JavaScript • Josh W. Comeau - 2026-05-26 - - PDF - There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies and see the differences firsthand. There’s some interesting nuance here!
• Relative energy deficiency in sport - Wikipedia - 2026-05-26 - PDF
• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table | Blog - 2026-05-25 - - PDF - Optimizing Nix's Binary Cache Model
• It's time to talk about my writerdeck - 2026-05-24 - - PDF - tldr: * I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) * I added some packages to make it work better for writing: * network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away * kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty * tmux for a nice status
• Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda - NotesByLex.com - 2026-05-23 - - PDF - For the last few years, while finally earning my belated Bachelor's Degree in the University of London's World Class program, I've met some amazing people from all across the world, completing...
• GPD Pocket 4 Mini Laptop | Ultra-Portable Performance - 2026-05-22 - PDF - Discover the GPD Pocket 4, the ultra-portable mini laptop with powerful performance. Perfect for work or play on the go. Shop now and upgrade your mobility!
• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie - 2026-05-11 - - PDF - How I used a compressed trie data structure to encode Icelandic declension data.
• Multi-stroke text effect in CSS - 2026-05-07 - - PDF - I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never quite matched. Because text-stroke accepts a single value, stacking elements was the only workaround I could think of, though it didn't seem to work.
• Broadcasting GPS on the local network - 2026-05-04 - - PDF
• pgBackRest is dead. Now what? | My DBA Notebook - 2026-05-03 - - PDF - I have been recommending pgBackRest as the best backup tool for PostgreSQL for years. I even wrote a blog post about it. My students at Université Lyon I were able to backup, restore, and perform PITR in four hours with zero prior knowledge of the tool. That is how good it was. I say “was” because David Steele, the sole maintainer of pgBackRest, has announced on the project’s GitHub page that he is stopping all work on the project.

April 2026

• Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 - 2026-04-30 - - PDF - CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
• GitHub - tgies/copy-fail-c: Cross-platform C port of the Copy Fail Linux LPE (CVE-2026-31431). Disclosed 2026-04-29 by Theori / Xint. · GitHub - 2026-04-30 - PDF - Cross-platform C port of the Copy Fail Linux LPE (CVE-2026-31431). Disclosed 2026-04-29 by Theori / Xint. - feat: /etc/passwd-based exploit · tgies/copy-fail-c@f896601
• Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 - 2026-04-30 - - PDF - CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
• GitHub - google/travel-impact-model: Emission estimation model for flights · GitHub - 2026-04-26 - - PDF - Emission estimation model for flights. Contribute to google/travel-impact-model development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine - 2026-04-25 - - PDF - Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
• ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL :: Posit Open Source - 2026-04-20 - - PDF - Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
• Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind - 2026-04-19 - - PDF - From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing.
• The age of snarky UI - 2026-04-16 - - PDF - Your devices are all judging you. They’re just too polite to say it directly.
• A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems - 2026-04-16 - - PDF
• Welcome to Apprise | Apprise Documentation - 2026-04-15 - - PDF - Apprise documentation. Send notifications to 120+ services including email, chat platforms, and SMS providers.
• Squash and Stretch • Josh W. Comeau - 2026-04-13 - PDF - Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.
• Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers - 2026-04-11 - - PDF - The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.
• Mario Kart Live: Revisiting a Sleeper Hit - - 2026-04-11 - PDF - Nintendo released (and killed) the most engaging Switch accessory ever. How can we make it better?
• ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model - 2026-04-10 - PDF - I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk …
• What Happens When You Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Your Meta Ads for a Month - 2026-04-09 - - PDF - In January, I gave an AI agent $1,500, full control of a Meta Ads account, then walked away.
• USB for Software Developers | WerWolv - 2026-04-09 - - PDF - A basic introduction to USB for people that don't need to know what happens on the wire
• Protect Your Shed | @dbut2 - 2026-04-08 - - PDF - Constructing a skyscraper is a massive undertaking. You need architectural blueprints, council permits, and safety audits before the first piece of steel is even ordered. It requires hundreds of people coordinating over months or years. You can’t just throw up some drywall and hope the building holds weight. Then there is the backyard shed. No blueprints, no permits, no audits. You just grab some timber, a saw, and start hammering. It might be a little drafty, and the roof might leak if it rains too hard, but you built it yourself in a single weekend.
• Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen : NPR - 2026-04-05 - - PDF - Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.
• Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version - Michael Stapelberg - 2026-04-05 - - PDF - Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to rule it out, only to then spend many hours fumbling in the dark because we lacked visibility into version numbers and rollouts… 😞
• Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix | John's Codes - 2026-04-05 - - PDF - Building a TypeScript-style type checker and LSP for Nix with algebraic subtyping and negation types
• The cognitive impact of coding agents - 2026-04-04 - PDF - A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up into TikTok-sized short form vertical …

March 2026

• OPNsense® is an open source, feature rich firewall and routing platform, offering cutting-edge network protection. - OPNsense - 2026-03-31 - - PDF - We’ve made digital security accessible to everyone. With our free OPNsense® platform, you get all the features of expensive commercial firewalls and more. Enjoy open and verifiable sources in a product developed with and for a large user community.
• The family link that reaches back 300 generations to a Cheddar cave | The Independent | The Independent - 2026-03-29 - PDF - Adrian Targett visited the home of a close relative yesterday. He had to put on Wellington boots because the floor is muddy. The relative was not in. Hardly surprising: he died 9,000 years ago.
• How cremations are helping to heat homes in Denmark - The World from PRX - 2026-03-27 - PDF - In Denmark, cremations are helping to heat the homes of the living. While crematoriums generate only a small portion of district heating in Danish cities, this sustainability strategy of “waste heat recapture” is saving cities money on their heating bills.
• Claude's Code - 2026-03-26 - - PDF - Global dashboard tracking the coding activity of Anthropic's Claude Code agent.
• onecli/onecli: Open-source credential vault, give your AI agents access to services without exposing keys. - 2026-03-25 - - PDF - Open-source credential vault, give your AI agents access to services without exposing keys. - onecli/onecli
• How I’m Productive with Claude Code | Neil Kakkar - 2026-03-24 - - PDF - It’s been about 6 weeks since I joined Tano, and this is what my commit history looks like:
• ifd3f/caligula: A user-friendly, lightweight TUI for disk imaging - 2026-03-24 - PDF - A user-friendly, lightweight TUI for disk imaging. Contribute to ifd3f/caligula development by creating an account on GitHub.
• 25 Years of Eggs - 2026-03-22 - - PDF - Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.
• tmux enables AIs to operate servers safely – est の 输入 输出和出入 - 2026-03-18 - - PDF - tmux enables AIs to operate servers safely
• On a Boat - Media over QUIC - 2026-03-18 - - PDF - Media over QUIC: I'm on a boat.
• pgit: What If Your Git History Was a SQL Database? - Oliver Seifert - 2026-03-18 - - PDF - I built a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL with delta compression. Benchmarked on 20 real repos totaling 274k commits, it outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories while making your entire commit history SQL-queryable.
• Sri Lanka announces 4-day working week as contingency measure - 2026-03-17 - PDF - Sri Lanka on Monday announced a four-day working week with every Wednesday a public holiday as a contingency measure for possible fuel shortages in view of the war in West
• Sri Lanka introduces four-day work week to conserve fuel amid Middle East war - ABC News - 2026-03-17 - PDF - Sri Lanka has introduced a shorter work week for people to use less fuel amid the ongoing Middle East war. 
• Every layer of review makes you 10x slower - apenwarr - 2026-03-17 - - PDF - We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
• Modern Font Stacks - 2026-03-16 - - PDF - System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.
• Futarchy - Wikipedia - 2026-03-13 - - PDF
• Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did - 2026-03-13 - - PDF - There's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks
• Secure Communication, Buried In A News App | Hackaday - 2026-03-12 - PDF - Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little…
• howisFelix.today? · Felix Krause - 2026-03-11 - - PDF
• GitHub - opslane/verify: Verification Layer for Claude Code · GitHub - 2026-03-11 - PDF - Verification Layer for Claude Code. Contribute to opslane/verify development by creating an account on GitHub.
• LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the AI Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight | David Noel Ng - 2026-03-11 - - PDF - ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.
• Production query plans without production data | boringSQL - 2026-03-10 - - PDF - PostgreSQL 18 makes optimizer statistics portable. Export them from production and inject them into test databases to get realistic query plans without the data.
• Video Conferencing with Postgres — PlanetScale - 2026-03-09 - - PDF - Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.
• Nix is a lie, and that’s ok | Farid Zakaria’s Blog - 2026-03-08 - - PDF - When Eelco Dolstra, father of Nix, descended from the mountain tops and enlightened us all, one of the main commandments for Nix was to eschew all uses of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS).
• tropes.md - Tropes - 2026-03-08 - - PDF - A single file containing all known AI writing tropes. I guess you could add it to your AI system prompt to avoid these patterns. Or you could embark on the joy of independent writing.
• devenv 2.0: A Fresh Interface to Nix - devenv - 2026-03-05 - - PDF - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
• How I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch | Nick Tikhonov - 2026-03-03 - - PDF - Nick Tikhonov's blog
• Process-Based Concurrency: Why BEAM and OTP Keep Being Right - 2026-03-02 - - PDF - A first-principles guide to process-based concurrency - what makes BEAM different, how OTP encodes resilience, and why everyone keeps reinventing it.

February 2026

• Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web? - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog - 2026-02-28 - - PDF - This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.
• What Claude Code Actually Chooses — Amplifying - 2026-02-26 - - PDF - Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.
• Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2026-02-26 - - PDF - Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.
• Linear walkthroughs - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog - 2026-02-25 - PDF
• I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 - 2026-02-25 - - PDF - A story about Disneyland's Space Mountain and a 10-year-old inventor.
• INVESTING: DIARY; . . . How About Yucca Plants? - The New York Times - 2026-02-25 - PDF - Swedish artist Ola Pehrsson, as part of Stockholm art exhibition, attaches electrodes to leaves of yucca plant and rewards it with water and light or punishes it based on electric impulses translated into 'buy' and 'sell' stock orders (S)
• EchoGram: Bypassing AI Guardrails via Token Flip Attacks - 2026-02-24 - PDF - HiddenLayer unveils EchoGram, a new attack technique that manipulates AI guardrails protecting LLMs like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini.
• GitHub - pgdogdev/pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. - 2026-02-24 - - PDF - PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder. - pgdogdev/pgdog
• Components - Oat UI - 2026-02-18 - PDF
• disko-zfs: Declaratively Managing ZFS Datasets - 2026-02-18 - - PDF
• WhisperPair: Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair - 2026-02-17 - - PDF - WhisperPair is a family of practical attacks leveraging a flaw in the Google Fast Pair implementation on flagship audio accessories.
• TIL: Docker log rotation | nicole@web - 2026-02-16 - - PDF
• Privilege is bad grammar | Tadaima. - 2026-02-16 - PDF - When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...
• This is my 2FA Mule. There are others like it, but this one is mine. - 2026-02-16 - - PDF
• JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals - 2026-02-16 - - PDF - I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
• itsrealranky/ghostclaw: Grandfather of Openclaw - 2026-02-16 - - PDF - Grandfather of Openclaw. Contribute to itsrealranky/ghostclaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
• My colleague Julius - 2026-02-16 - - PDF - My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
• TeleMessage - Wikipedia - 2026-02-16 - PDF
• Launching Interop 2026 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog - 2026-02-15 - - PDF - Interop 2025 brought a bunch of new web platform features & fixes, but here's what's coming in 2026…
• GitHub - nearai/ironclaw: IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security - 2026-02-14 - - PDF - IronClaw is OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security - nearai/ironclaw
• Nixtamal | Nixtamal - 2026-02-13 - - PDF - Hash-pinned external inputs for hermetic, reproducible Nix builds — without flakes or second-class VCS support
• Batching Requests | TanStack Query React Docs - 2026-02-11 - PDF - Many times we want to batch the requests a program(or component) does into one single request that fetches all the data items needed to execute(render) the program. Lets say you have a component <User...
• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - 2026-02-10 - PDF - Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
• A quote from Thomas Ptacek - 2026-02-08 - PDF - People on the orange site are laughing at this, assuming it's just an ad and that there's nothing to it. Vulnerability researchers I talk to do not think this is …
• If you've got nothing to hide... · Jacques Mattheij - 2026-02-05 - - PDF
• React’s ViewTransition Element – Frontend Masters Blog - 2026-02-05 - PDF - The Canary version of React has a special component for ViewTransitions. Does it help?
• self-reliant programmer manifesto - 2026-02-05 - - PDF
• writing RSS reader in 80 lines of bash - 2026-02-05 - - PDF
• Shippy - Ship work. Earn cash or royalties. | Shippy - 2026-02-04 - - PDF - The platform where agents earn cash or recurring royalties for helping startups grow.
• Synthetic | Run LLMs, privately - 2026-02-04 - - PDF - Chat with open-source models privately

January 2026

• UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend | Rail industry | The Guardian - 2026-01-30 - - PDF - Great Western Railway service recharges in three and a half minutes between trips on west London line
• Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog - 2026-01-30 - - PDF
• A lot of population numbers are fake - David Oks - 2026-01-30 - - PDF - Do we have any idea how many people there are in the world?
• database - linux music.rocks - 2026-01-29 - - PDF - Linuxmusic.rocks aims to be musician friendly database of linux available software and plugins.
• Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab connection from across the globe - 2026-01-29 - PDF - Getting from Delhi back to a Minnesota meant unforgiving networks. Tailscale Peer Relays offered a massive improvement.
• Aperture by Tailscale, an AI usage and access tool, now in alpha - 2026-01-29 - - PDF - Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.
• The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site - Mahad Kalam - 2026-01-29 - - PDF - Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
• US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains - 2026-01-29 - - PDF - A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
• Why it took nearly half-an-hour for police to start evacuating Perth’s Invasion Day rally - ABC News - 2026-01-29 - PDF - As police face criticism for their handling of Perth's Invasion Day rally bomb scare, a law enforcement expert says they faced a "no-win situation".
• Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2026-01-29 - - PDF - “[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand - 2026-01-26 - - PDF - Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
• What "The Best" Looks Like | Alex Kurilin - 2026-01-26 - - PDF - A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
• WebGPUcat - 2026-01-24 - PDF
• I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog - 2026-01-24 - - PDF - How I embedded replies from Bluesky directly on my site.
• A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot | Russia | The Guardian - 2026-01-24 - - PDF - The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there
• runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test - 2026-01-23 - - PDF - Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine.
• The best code is no code: composing APIs and CLIs in the era of LLMs - 2026-01-23 - - PDF
• Restish Input - 2026-01-23 - PDF - Restish is a CLI for interacting with REST-ish HTTP APIs with some nice features built-in
• Announcing Vortex Support in DuckDB – DuckDB - 2026-01-23 - - PDF - Vortex is a new columnar file format with a very promising design. SpiralDB and DuckDB Labs have partnered to give you a very fast experience while reading and writing Vortex files!
• Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme - ABC News - 2026-01-22 - - PDF - Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
• endel/zodgres: Postgres.js + Zod - 2026-01-22 - PDF - Postgres.js + Zod. Contribute to endel/zodgres development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Nested Code Fences in Markdown - Susam Pal - 2026-01-21 - - PDF
• Electricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch - 2026-01-21 - - PDF
• Immich Photos on S3 object storage - Gabriel Volpe - 2026-01-21 - PDF - As someone who loves going for adventures abroad, the memories I’ve captured behind the lens have become extremely valuable to me. I’ve learned to …
• Waku, the minimal React framework - 2026-01-21 - - PDF - A lightweight React server components framework with a fun developer experience.
• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations | Haki Benita - 2026-01-20 - - PDF - Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
• Rust's standard library on the GPU - VectorWare - 2026-01-20 - - PDF - GPU code can now use Rust's standard library. We share the implementation approach and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
• Without Benchmarking LLMs, You're Likely Overpaying 5-10x | Karl Lorey - 2026-01-20 - - PDF - We benchmarked 100+ models on our actual task and found a much cheaper alternative that works just as well.
• jordanhubbard/nanolang - 2026-01-20 - PDF - Plenty of people have mused about what a new programming language specifically designed to be used by LLMs might look like. Jordan Hubbard (co-founder of FreeBSD, with serious stints at …
• CSS Web Components for marketing sites - 2026-01-19 - - PDF - The truly No JavaScript web component.
• ⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:: "it saw another windows aero th…" - catgirl.cloud - 2026-01-19 - PDF - Attached: 1 image it saw another windows aero theme for kde. that's cute but it thinks gnome also deserves some love too anyways here's a gnome desktop composited by the real aero dwm.exe from win7
• The Code-Only Agent • Rijnard van Tonder - 2026-01-19 - - PDF - When code execution really is all you need. Exploring what happens when an AI agent can only write and run code.
• Trump says some European imports will face a 10% tariff over Greenland spat | AP News - 2026-01-17 - - PDF - President Donald Trump says he'll impose a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.
• Tutorial · kip-dili/kip Wiki - 2026-01-17 - PDF - A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish. - kip-dili/kip
• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering - 2026-01-17 - - PDF - A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
• TV-B-Gone - Wikipedia - 2026-01-17 - - PDF
• Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT - 2026-01-17 - PDF - OpenAI's long-rumored introduction of ads to ChatGPT just became a whole lot more concrete: In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the …
• restic · Backups done right! - 2026-01-16 - - PDF
• The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare | Astro - 2026-01-16 - - PDF - The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news in 2025 - 2026-01-16 - - PDF
• Official site of the DNS4EU project - 2026-01-15 - - PDF - Join DNS4EU, an EU initiative providing secure, private, and reliable DNS services for users across Europe. Safeguard your online experience with DNS solutions that prioritise privacy, data protection, and compliance with EU standards. Explore DNS4EU for a safer internet.
• Ian's Shoelace Site - 2026-01-15 - PDF - If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian's Shoelace Site” is the place!
• Wayfire - Wayland Compositor - 2026-01-15 - - PDF
• Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty - 2026-01-15 - - PDF - The recent disconnection of the ICC's chief prosecutor, at the behest of the American administration, could not have come at a worse time for Microsoft. Just a month prior, the folks from Redmond tried to assure Europe that all was well. That any speculation Europeans could get cut off from critical digital infrastructure was just fear...
• Introducing the <geolocation> HTML element  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers - 2026-01-15 - - PDF - Discover the new way to request user location data.
• How new passport rules for UK and Ireland dual citizens will work - ABC News - 2026-01-15 - PDF - Your guide to new UK and Ireland passport rules for dual citizens and general entry changes beginning in February.
• cosinusalpha/webctl: Browser automation via CLI — for humans and agents - 2026-01-15 - - PDF - Browser automation via CLI — for humans and agents - cosinusalpha/webctl
• Volunteer firefighters, councils paying for Starlink connections as poor mobile reception continues across WA - ABC News - 2026-01-14 - PDF - Having repeatedly lost mobile coverage during recent bushfires, local councils and volunteer brigades are paying for expensive satellite units to maintain critical communications.
• I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. - The Atlantic - 2026-01-13 - PDF - My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
• The 40th anniversary of the Ai Project: the commemorative gift is a silk scarf painted by Ai the chimpanzee | Primates - 2026-01-12 - PDF
• finbarr/yolobox: Let your AI go full send. Your home directory stays home. - 2026-01-12 - - PDF - Let your AI go full send. Your home directory stays home. - finbarr/yolobox
• AudioNoise/README.md at 71b256a7fcb0aa1250625f79838ab71b2b77b9ff · torvalds/AudioNoise - 2026-01-12 - - PDF - Random digital audio effects. Contribute to torvalds/AudioNoise development by creating an account on GitHub.
• iNaturalist observations: "locals" and "tourists" - 2026-01-11 - PDF - In 2010, cartographer Erica Fischer made some simple and spectacular maps of images added to Flickr. She classified photos as either from “locals” or “tourists”, based on how far their profile location was from the photo’s geotag. These maps revealed fascinating psychogeographic patterns of urban exploration and photographic worthiness. Last summer, Dario Taraborelli suggested extending this to iNaturalist observations. Remember the classic "Locals & Tourists" dataviz project by @enf? Has anyone tried applying the same method (<30 days posting photos from a given location: you're a "
• Why is Greenland part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History | DIIS - 2026-01-10 - - PDF - From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
• partysocket - npm - 2026-01-10 - PDF - A better WebSocket that Just Works™. Latest version: 1.1.10, last published: 20 days ago. Start using partysocket in your project by running `npm i partysocket`. There are 85 other projects in the npm registry using partysocket.
• Top dweets this month | Dwitter - 2026-01-09 - - PDF - Dwitter is a social network for building and sharing visual javascript demos limited to 140 characters. See the impressive creations crammed into so few characters, and play around with your own code!
• Sidequery — SQL Analytics Notebooks for Mac (DuckDB, Postgres, MySQL) - 2026-01-09 - - PDF - Fast, local SQL analytics notebooks for Mac. Analyze millions of rows from CSV/Parquet/JSON with DuckDB, Postgres & MySQL. Beautiful charts by default. Privacy-first.
• PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications - 2026-01-07 - - PDF - PostgreSQL 18 has arrived with some fantastic improvements, and among them, the RETURNING clause enhancements stand out as a feature that every PostgreSQL developer and DBA should be excited about. In this blog, I'll explore these enhancements, with particular focus on the MERGE RETURNING clause enhancement, and demonstrate how they can simplify your application architecture and improve data tracking capabilities.
• Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium - 2026-01-07 - - PDF - Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
• I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025 | Nate Meyvis - 2026-01-05 - - PDF - 2025 is done, so I can do yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results. My goal here is just to summarize and enjoy the year of data, not to do detailed,...
• Automatic Blog Translations With Claude and GitHub Actions - granda - 2026-01-05 - PDF - Ideas and notes
• Claude Code On-The-Go - granda - 2026-01-04 - - PDF - Ideas and notes
• Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion - ~tech - Tildes - 2026-01-03 - PDF - 12 comments in the discussion of this link on Tildes
• The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs - Web Performance Calendar - 2026-01-02 - - PDF - Buried at the end of this year's installment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on average, only one (1) "soft navigation" for every

December 2025

• Why we trust strangers’ open source more than our colleagues’ - Frank DENIS random thoughts. - 2025-12-31 - - PDF - There’s a weird phenomenon I’ve noticed again and again in tech companies.Tell me if this sounds familiar:
• Hacker Book — Community, All the HN Belong to You! 2006 - 2025 FOREVER - 2025-12-30 - - PDF
• Like Button - Social Plugins - 2025-12-29 - PDF
• HTML Forms: More Powerful Than You Think — Lessons of a CTO - 2025-12-29 - PDF
• The dangers of SSL certificates – Surfing Complexity - 2025-12-28 - - PDF - Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…
• Resource Hint Validator | DebugBear - 2025-12-28 - PDF - Check that dns-prefetch, preconnect, preload, and prefetch browser resource hints are working correctly on your website.
• Web Performance Audits: What’s in your Checklist? | Aaron T. Grogg - 2025-12-28 - PDF - Performance audits are an invaluable step in fine-tuning a site's performance. But man there is a lot to look at... Here I offer my starter list. Anything you's like to see added? Happy auditing!
• Man Holds Breath For Almost 30 Minutes, Smashing a World Record - 2025-12-28 - PDF - The attempt was only possible thanks to some pre-gaming with pure oxygen, but still eye-popping.
• Bergmann's rule - Wikipedia - 2025-12-27 - PDF
• llama.ttf - 2025-12-27 - - PDF - llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
• ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son | Russia | The Guardian - 2025-12-27 - - PDF - The long read: For the first time, the man the KGB codenamed ‘the Inheritor’ tells his story
• I sell onions on the Internet - Deep South Ventures - 2025-12-26 - - PDF - Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
• Minimal SVG Favicon / Stoyan's phpied.com - 2025-12-25 - PDF - Why minimal? I like "minimum-viable"s of all sorts. As a performance enthusiast I'm fascinated by anything minimal. So here goes a minimum viable SVG favicon. Why favicon? Welp, browsers will look for one and if you don't have it, enjoy the 404s! Why SVG? It could be tiny, almost as tiny as a CDN UR
• Chrome extension: Open in this tab / Stoyan's phpied.com - 2025-12-25 - PDF - Do you hate it when sites open new tabs, for example from search results? Yeah, me too. So I thought a good idea would be to have a right-click "Open in this tab" similar to "Open in a new tab" option. Voilà, a new Chrome extension. You can install it from the store. How it works? Two options: 1.
• GL-AXT1800 / Slate AX - GL.iNet - 2025-12-25 - - PDF - Slate AX (GL-AXT1800) is our first Wi-Fi 6 travel router comes with 1800Mbps combined wireless speed. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive latest product update!
• ssh tiny.christmas · eieio.games - 2025-12-25 - - PDF - A global christmas carol over ssh
• Network performance update: Birthday Week 2025 - 2025-12-24 - - PDF - On the Internet, being fast is what matters and at Cloudflare, we are committed to being the fastest network in the world. In this post, we will share how our network performance has changed since our last post in September 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance.
• Postgres Lock Conflicts - 2025-12-24 - - PDF
• What does the image decoding attribute actually do? | Tune The Web - 2025-12-23 - - PDF - An in-depth look at the decoding attribute and how it affects web performance differently when using sync, async or not at all
• Fixing the URL params performance penalty - Web Performance Calendar - 2025-12-23 - - PDF - Tales of two pages… What's the difference between these two pages?: https://www.example.com/ https://www.example.com/?utm_source=email I mean they've got different URLs, but many of us would probably guess that that utm_source URL query parameters (or "URL params" or "search params" as it's
• PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file - 2025-12-22 - - PDF - Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
• You're Not Burnt Out. You're Existentially Starving. - Neil Thanedar - 2025-12-22 - - PDF - “Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this book heContinue reading "You’re Not Burnt Out. You’re Existentially Starving."
• Privacy is Marketing. Anonymity is Architecture. - Servury - 2025-12-21 - - PDF - Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.
• Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog - 2025-12-21 - - PDF - We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
• Help my website is too small - lukeplant.me.uk - 2025-12-20 - - PDF - How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?
• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - 2025-12-20 - - PDF - It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!
• Build your own React - 2025-12-20 - - PDF - We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…
• Hardened Images for Everyone | Docker - 2025-12-17 - - PDF - Security for everyone. Docker Hardened Images are now free to use, share, and build on with no licensing surprises.
• SQLite: Checklist For SQLite 3.7.7 - 2025-12-17 - PDF
• Stopping systemd services under memory pressure | Adventurous Computing - 2025-12-16 - - PDF - Do you have your "favourite" server that is responsible for just a tiny number too many th...
• The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better - by Kent Beck - 2025-12-16 - - PDF - Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there
• A quote from Kent Beck - 2025-12-16 - PDF - I’ve been watching junior developers use AI coding assistants well. Not vibe coding—not accepting whatever the AI spits out. Augmented coding: using AI to accelerate learning while maintaining quality. [...] …
• JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action - 2025-12-16 - - PDF - I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
• JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action - 2025-12-16 - - PDF - I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
• List of countries by public sector size - Wikipedia - 2025-12-15 - PDF
• 🏎️ CSS shape(RACER) 🏁 - 2025-12-12 - PDF - This Pen is a fully CSS-only racing game — built without a single line of JavaScript or any external libraries. Both the race track and the cars follow...
• Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel - 2025-12-12 - - PDF - Today, we would like to present a lesser-known feature of the Linux kernel. Instead of launching a program from a file system, regardless of whether it's virtual or not, it is also possible to embed a user-space program directly into the kernel image itself and start it from there.
• CSS Wrapped 2025 - 2025-12-12 - - PDF - Sculpt dynamic interfaces, stretch your imagination, and play with these 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.
• Litestream VFS · The Fly Blog - 2025-12-12 - - PDF - Query your SQLite database any time, anywhere
• Coworkers you meet as a software developer - 2025-12-12 - PDF
• Coworkers you meet as a software developer - 2025-12-12 - PDF
• Nokia N900 Necromancy - 2025-12-12 - - PDF
• Installing Every NixOS Package - 2025-12-12 - - PDF - Installing every single NixOS package in the official binary cache
• Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] - 2025-12-11 - - PDF
• Scala 3 slowed us down? | kmaliszewski - 2025-12-10 - - PDF - Is this clickbait? Not really. Is this the fault of the language or the compiler? Definitely not. Rather, it was part of a rushed migration. Sharing the lessons learned in the process.
• New York taxi details can be extracted from anonymised data, researchers say | Technology | The Guardian - 2025-12-09 - PDF - FoI request reveals data on 173m individual trips in US city - but could yield more details, such as drivers' addresses and income. By Alex Hern
• They Killed My Source - The Atlantic - 2025-12-09 - PDF - A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared.
• Horses - 2025-12-09 - - PDF - AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
• j3s.sh - 2025-12-09 - - PDF
• j3s.sh - 2025-12-09 - - PDF
• Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just <code>setHTML()</code> - 2025-12-08 - - PDF - Why the Sanitizer API is just <code>setHTML()</code>
• @layer - CSS | MDN - 2025-12-08 - PDF - The @layer CSS at-rule is used to declare a cascade layer and can also be used to define the order of precedence in case of multiple cascade layers.
• Vanilla CSS is all you need - 2025-12-08 - - PDF
• Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - 2025-12-07 - - PDF - Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media
• Why speed matters – Daniel Lemire's blog - 2025-12-06 - - PDF - The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser. But the fact that it took so long is not a feature, it is not a positive, it is … Continue reading Why speed matters
• Fast by Default - 2025-12-05 - PDF - A performance engineering framework by Den Odell with practical guidance for building fast, responsive systems. Learn how to design for speed across web, mobile, backend, and desktop.
• My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging · mtlynch.io - 2025-12-05 - - PDF - Using low-cost radio hardware to keep texting when there's no phone or Internet service.
• SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0 Ʊ lyra's epic blog - 2025-12-05 - - PDF - A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
• Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React - 2025-12-04 - - PDF - The library for web and native user interfaces
• Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions | Vale.Rocks - 2025-12-03 - - PDF - No, I did not lose the other wheel.
• A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career - 2025-12-02 - - PDF
• Do the thinking models actually think? | ByteSauna - 2025-12-01 - - PDF - LLMs mimic understanding but think bottom-up, unlike humans. Explore why they’re more than autocomplete and why the future is human–AI collaboration, not replacement.

November 2025

• prizrak.me blog - 2025-11-30 - - PDF
• DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago - ABC News - 2025-11-29 - PDF - A new genetic study has found Indigenous Australians travelled over two distinct routes, and 100 kilometres of open water, to reach the ancient landmass that would become Australia 60,000 to 65,000 years ago. 
• Anthony Albanese's wedding ends this 'killing season' with love's triumph - ABC News - 2025-11-29 - PDF - The two months preceding a wedding are notoriously hazardous. But consider the two months Anthony Albanese has just had.
• Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship - Kerrick Long (blog) - 2025-11-29 - - PDF - I haven't published since April because I've been afraid. What was I afraid of? In this post I detail every single thing I've avoided admitting on this blog.
• hfxspeeds/B3N2H2 at main · bartek/hfxspeeds · GitHub - 2025-11-29 - PDF - Speed tracking of motor vehicles in various streets & neighbourhoods across Halifax - bartek/hfxspeeds
• Electron vs. Tauri | DoltHub Blog - 2025-11-28 - - PDF - Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.
• Australia's official weather forecasts & weather radar - Bureau of Meteorology - 2025-11-27 - PDF - Bureau of Meteorology web homepage provides the Australian community with access to weather forecasts, severe weather warnings, observations, flood information, marine and high seas forecasts and climate information. Products include weather charts, satellite photos, radar pictures and climate maps. The Bureau also has responsibility for compiling and providing comprehensive water information across Australia.
• Don't Download Apps - 2025-11-27 - - PDF - The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
• The most male and female reasons to end up hospital 🚑 - 2025-11-27 - - PDF - In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed
• This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem - 2025-11-26 - - PDF - Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog
• Farebox recovery ratio - Wikipedia - 2025-11-24 - PDF
• Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages | spf13 - 2025-11-23 - - PDF - The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
• GitHub - skadaai/caskada: Caskada: More AI with less coding 🎤🐤 - 2025-11-23 - PDF - Caskada: More AI with less coding 🎤🐤. Contribute to skadaai/caskada development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Scripts I wrote that I use all the time - 2025-11-20 - - PDF - I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
• Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default - 2025-11-20 - - PDF - I got it working with arrays and records, but couldn't make it work for regular objects.
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 - 2025-11-19 - - PDF - Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
• What price power? How electricity became a political weapon - ABC News - 2025-11-17 - PDF - A decade and a half after an energy company CEO outlined his greatest fears for Australia's economic future — no carbon price — the nation again appears set for a renewed battle over climate policy and power generation. 
• VoiceMode MCP - Voice Mode for Claude Code - 2025-11-02 - - PDF - VoiceMode MCP enables natural voice conversations with Claude Code and other AI coding assistants. Simple setup, powerful features.
• How I Use Every Claude Code Feature - by Shrivu Shankar - 2025-11-02 - - PDF - A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.

October 2025

• GPUI Component - 2025-10-28 - - PDF - Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI.
• Raconn - Ssh multi hostname - 2025-10-28 - - PDF
• How to effectively conduct programming interviews - 2025-10-24 - - PDF - How to reliably understand if a candidate is a good programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori
• Element: setHTML() method - Web APIs | MDN - 2025-10-22 - - PDF - The setHTML() method of the Element interface provides an XSS-safe method to parse and sanitize a string of HTML into a DocumentFragment, and then insert it into the DOM as a subtree of the element.
• Bicycle Still the World’s Most Efficient Way to Travel — 52 Years After It Was First Proven | Momentum Mag - 2025-10-22 - PDF - Half a century after Scientific American first declared the bicycle 'the most efficient form of human transport.'
• PocketCal - 2025-10-19 - PDF - Pick dates, share a link, and that's your calendar. PocketCal is a free, open-source web app that lets you select dates and instantly share them. No accounts, just a link, and nothing in your way.
• I remember taking a screen shot of a video, and when I opened it in Paint, the video was playing in it! What witchcraft is this? - The Old New Thing - 2025-10-19 - - PDF - You copied the green screen.
• Reticulum Network - 2025-10-18 - - PDF
• Yggdrasil Network | End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds - 2025-10-18 - - PDF - End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds
• The Majority AI View - Anil Dash - 2025-10-18 - - PDF - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
• A new future for icanhazip · Major Hayden - 2025-10-17 - - PDF - icanhazip.com lives on with the same mission, but with a new owner 🤗
• Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on MotherDuck (Part 1) - MotherDuck Blog - 2025-10-14 - PDF - Exploring StackOverflow with DuckDB on MotherDuck (Part 1) | Reading time: 8 min read
• Medium - 2025-10-14 - - PDF - I have been vibe coding like a madman for forty days and forty nights. It’s a long story, so I’ll summarize in these three pictures.
• Introduction - Agent Client Protocol - 2025-10-13 - - PDF - Get started with the Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
• CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code - 2025-10-13 - - PDF - Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.
• Code rant: The Configuration Complexity Clock - 2025-10-13 - PDF - When I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a ste...
• HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The <output> Tag — Den Odell - 2025-10-12 - - PDF - Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.
• How I Built “The Monospace Web” - 2025-10-11 - - PDF
• Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer - 2025-10-11 - - PDF
• zack (in SF) (@zack_overflow): "You: vibecoding AI slop in Cursor on a 4k ultra-wide LCD monitor with 120hz refresh rate burning holes in your retinas 120 times a second Me: zero eyestrain, writing Zig code in doom emacs in black and white on an e-ink monitor at 12fps we are not the same" | XCancel - 2025-10-11 - PDF - You: vibecoding AI slop in Cursor on a 4k ultra-wide LCD monitor with 120hz refresh rate burning holes in your retinas 120 times a second Me: zero eyestrain, writing Zig code in doom emacs in black and white on an e-ink monitor at 12fps we are not the same
• Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy): "POV: Your LLM agent is dividing a by b" | XCancel - 2025-10-10 - PDF - POV: Your LLM agent is dividing a by b
• Datastar - 2025-10-10 - - PDF - The hypermedia framework.
• Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar - 2025-10-10 - - PDF
• My First Contribution to Linux - 2025-10-10 - PDF - I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
• get_maintainers and git send-email | Marcus Folkesson Blog - 2025-10-10 - PDF - Technical posts inspired by my $dayjob as Embedded Linux Specialist.
• The Cascade - 2025-10-07 - - PDF - Sharing CSS tips, tricks, and best practices
• A Serverless Query Engine from Spare Parts | Towards Data Science - 2025-10-07 - PDF - An open-source implementation of a Data Lake with DuckDB and AWS Lambdas
• Litestream v0.5.0 is Here · The Fly Blog - 2025-10-03 - - PDF - Same Litestream goodness but better, faster, stronger

September 2025

• 7 Practical Animation Tips - 2025-09-30 - - PDF - Seven simple ideas you can use to improve your animations today.
• Wherever you get your Podcasts - Knotbin - 2025-09-30 - PDF - Language in a decentralized future.
• on changing the Firefox New Tab, and software freedom · riki's house - 2025-09-28 - PDF
• Alex Limi ⁂ Checkboxes that kill your product - 2025-09-28 - - PDF - A little historical baggage can be a dangerous thing when multiplied by a few hundred million individuals
• sanix | HOW I ACCIDENTALLY CREATED THE FASTEST CSV PARSER EVER MADE - 2025-09-28 - PDF
• Tech Specs | Project Honey Pot - 2025-09-26 - PDF
• GitHub - ucam-eo/tessera-interactive-map: Interactive land cover classification of TESSERA embeddings - 2025-09-26 - PDF - Interactive land cover classification of TESSERA embeddings - ucam-eo/tessera-interactive-map
• Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext - 2025-09-24 - - PDF - Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext
• Bicycle Tracker - wvthoog.nl - 2025-09-24 - PDF - Intro Cycling is a prominent activity in the Netherlands, but unfortunately, bike theft is also a common issue. Recently, my own bike was stolen, and I realized that filing a police report is often a mere formality without yielding significant results. To address this problem, I purchased a new bike and decided to equip it with...
• OpenStick - wvthoog.nl - 2025-09-24 - PDF - Intro In de midst of the Raspberry Pi shortage i came across this project. Someone figured out that a 4G WiFi router could be repurposed as a Single Board Computer (SBC) running Linux or OpenWRT. What piqued my interest was its decent compute power and features like a built-in 4G modem and GPS—something lacking in...
• OpenStick - wvthoog.nl - 2025-09-24 - PDF - Intro In de midst of the Raspberry Pi shortage i came across this project. Someone figured out that a 4G WiFi router could be repurposed as a Single Board Computer (SBC) running Linux or OpenWRT. What piqued my interest was its decent compute power and features like a built-in 4G modem and GPS—something lacking in...
• NYC Telecom Raid: What’s Up With Those Weird SIM Banks? - 2025-09-24 - - PDF - A recent Secret Service raid uncovers an insane network of SIM cards—along with the oddest piece of hardware I’ve ever seen. Here’s the deal with the SIM bank.
• Launching the x402 Foundation with Coinbase, and support for x402 transactions - 2025-09-24 - - PDF - Cloudflare is partnering with Coinbase to create the x402 Foundation and adding x402 support to the Agents SDK & MCP Servers.
• The bloat of edge-case first libraries - 2025-09-21 - - PDF - How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
• GitHub - kourge/ts-brand: Reusable type branding in TypeScript - 2025-09-20 - - PDF - Reusable type branding in TypeScript. Contribute to kourge/ts-brand development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Unlock Sleep's Restorative Power - 2025-09-20 - - PDF - Tired of just trying to get more sleep? At Affectable Sleep, we enhance sleep’s restorative function without needing more sleep.
• httpjail - 2025-09-20 - PDF - Here's a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured …
• OneDev - The powerful and simple DevOps platform - 2025-09-18 - - PDF - Git server with kanban, CI/CD, and packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.
• A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow - 2025-09-17 - PDF - Sam's Spot - Sam saffron's web log
• Web Performance Calendar » Strategies for Telemetry Exfiltration (aka Beaconing In Practice) - 2025-09-17 - PDF - Table of Contents Introduction What are Beacons? Beaconing Stages Sending Data at Startup Gathering Data through the Page Load Incrementally Gathering Telemetry throughout a Page's Lifetime Gathering Data up to the End of the Page "Whenever" How Many Beacons? A Single Beac
• Cloudflare Routing Monitoring - 2025-09-16 - PDF - See Cloudflare Routing, using Workers running on each plan returning static content.
• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape :: BogdanTheGeek's Blog - 2025-09-16 - - PDF - Someone's trash is another person's web server.
• Visual programming is stuck on the form - 2025-09-15 - - PDF - Underlying great creations that you love—be it music, art, or technology—its form (what it looks like) is driven by an underpinning internal logic (how it works). I noticed this pattern while watching a talk on cellular automaton and realized it's "form follows function" paraphrased from a slightly different
• Japan sets new record with nearly 100,000 people aged over 100 - 2025-09-13 - - PDF - The number of Japanese centenarians rose to 99,763 in September, with women making up 88% of the total.
• Temporal Analysis with Stream Windowing Functions in DuckDB – DuckDB - 2025-09-11 - - PDF - DuckDB can perform time-based analytics using windows with different semantics (e.g., tumbling, hopping and sliding windows). In this post, we demonstrate these by detecting trends and anomalies in the railway service at Amsterdam Centraal Station.
• You Don't Need Animations - 2025-09-11 - - PDF - Why you are animating more often than you should.
• CloudCompare - 2025-09-10 - PDF
• Names are not type safety - 2025-09-10 - - PDF
• What to do with an old iPad | owen-blogs - 2025-09-07 - - PDF - I recently inherited my parents’ old iPad 2. It had iOS 9 on it and was barely usable, in part due to how slow it was but mostly because of old SSL certificates and apps stopping support. But I wanted to give it some life because I hate to see a working machine go to waste. So I asked around and got a great answer: The iPad 2 can be downgraded to iOS 6.1.3 or 8.4.1. Both offer better performance than iOS 9 and have untethered jailbreaks. Once downgraded and jailbroken you can sideload hours and hours worth of games. A lot from that era are IAP-free.
• Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM | Nikita Lapkov - 2025-09-07 - - PDF - Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it looked quite polished with ready-to-use SDKs in Python and C++. I thought it would be interesting to make a dynamic family photo frame out of it, something that my wife could have on her table, with ability to switch photos from time to time with a press of a button.
• A quote from Kenton Varda - 2025-09-06 - PDF - After struggling for years trying to figure out why people think [Cloudflare] Durable Objects are complicated, I'm increasingly convinced that it's just that they sound complicated. Feels like we can …
• Forking Chrome to render in a terminal - Fathy Boundjadj - 2025-09-06 - - PDF
• Say bye with JavaScript Beacon | Hemath's blog - 2025-09-04 - - PDF - Send data, say goodbye, and move on. That's JavaScript's Beacon in one line.
• Half an year on Alpine: just musl aside ~ jutty.dev - 2025-09-04 - - PDF - Warning: Contains tongue-in-cheek language that might feel provocative if you have invested part of your identity into y…
• You are the Main Thread | ClaudeLog - 2025-09-03 - - PDF - Maximize Claude Code productivity with parallel processing mindset. Learn opportunity cost multiplication and asynchronous workflow optimization.
• Making XML human-readable without XSLT - JakeArchibald.com - 2025-09-02 - - PDF - JavaScript is right there.
• Making XML human-readable without XSLT - JakeArchibald.com - 2025-09-02 - - PDF - JavaScript is right there.

August 2025

• Mechanism design for large language models - 2025-08-30 - PDF
• China is eating the world - by Santi - Apropos - 2025-08-29 - - PDF - and the West lost its appetite
• Uncertain⟨T⟩ - NSHipster - 2025-08-29 - - PDF - GPS coordinates aren’t exact. Sensor readings have noise. User behavior is probabilistic. Yet we write code that pretends uncertainty doesn’t exist, forcing messy real-world data through clean Boolean logic.
• You no longer need JavaScript Ʊ lyra's epic blog - 2025-08-29 - - PDF - An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
• Critical Resources and the First 14 KB - A Review | Tune The Web - 2025-08-29 - - PDF - Do you really need to optimise as much of your critical page into the first 14 KB of your HTML for TCP reasons? Or does that not hold true in an HTTPS world?
• Systemd Watchdog for Any Service · Medo's Home Page - 2025-08-28 - PDF - Making basic systemd service is easy. Let’s assume the simplest application (not necessarily even designed to be a service) and look into making it work with systemd. Our example application will be a script in /opt/test/application with the following…
• On-screen and now IRL: FSU researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech - Florida State University News - 2025-08-28 - - PDF - Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the artificial intelligence chatbot gained more than a million users. Today, more than half of all adults
• Dangerous advice for software engineers - 2025-08-27 - - PDF - --
• I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor - 2025-08-26 - - PDF
• Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right? | oberien’s Blog - 2025-08-24 - - PDF - You’ve likely read lots of blog posts stating that it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to work after an interruption, context switch, or meeting. Thus, “do you have five minutes” ends up not only costing those few minutes, but instead about half an hour. But where does that number come from?
• The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare - Media over QUIC - 2025-08-23 - - PDF - Media over QUIC: We have a winner! Cloudflare has released a technical preview of their MoQ CDN. Now you can use MoQ at scale with style and grace.
• Webstrates | Webstrates - 2025-08-22 - - PDF
• How Jane Street Does Code Review :: Jane Street - 2025-08-21 - - PDF - Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
• Consumer Rights Wiki - 2025-08-20 - PDF
• The Rise of the Semantic Layer | ssp.sh - 2025-08-20 - PDF - A semantic layer is a translation layer that sits between your data and your business users, converting complex data into understandable business concepts. Let's discover its history, trends, and if it's here to stay.
• Google is killing the open web - 2025-08-20 - - PDF - The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.
• How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? - by henry - 2025-08-19 - - PDF - A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures
• Porffor - 2025-08-17 - - PDF - Porffor compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries.
• The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Cipriani - 2025-08-16 - - PDF
• The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago - Soonly - 2025-08-15 - - PDF - "Don't worry, he won't leave the porch. The electric fence hasn't worked in years, but he still won't go past it."
• High-Performance Model Weight Storage and Distribution in Cloud Environments - 2025-08-14 - - PDF - With the rapid scaling of AI deployments, efficiently storing and distributing model weights across distributed infrastructure has become a critical bottleneck. Here's my analysis of storage solutions optimized specifically for model serving workloads. The Challenge: Speed at Scale Model weights need to be loaded quickly during initialization and potentially shared
• Temporal Analysis with Stream Windowing Functions in DuckDB – DuckDB - 2025-08-12 - - PDF - DuckDB can perform time-based analytics using windows with different semantics (e.g., tumbling, hopping and sliding windows). In this post, we demonstrate these by detecting trends and anomalies in the railway service at Amsterdam Centraal Station.
• ai reviews my mini webserver - 2025-08-12 - - PDF - ai reviews my mini webserver. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Miller 6.14.0 Documentation - 2025-08-09 - PDF
• No One is Really Working - 2025-08-07 - - PDF - No One is Really Working: Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals
• No Comment - 2025-08-05 - - PDF
• How Bear does analytics with CSS | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2025-08-04 - - PDF - Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
• Lysxia - Twentyseven 1.0.0 - 2025-08-02 - - PDF - A blog about functional programming
• How NixOS is built - 2025-08-01 - - PDF
• Make any website load faster with 6 lines of HTML | DocuSeal - 2025-08-01 - - PDF - Discover how to significantly boost your website's loading speed by adding just 5 lines of HTML. Simple steps for faster websites.

July 2025

• Fast · Patrick Collison - 2025-07-30 - PDF
• Why Superhuman is built for speed: applying the 100ms rule to email - 2025-07-30 - PDF - The 100ms rule says that every online task should take less than 100ms so it feels instantaneous. Here's how Superhuman applies that rule to email.
• Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs - 2025-07-29 - - PDF
• Lenny - The Telemarketer Troll - 2025-07-29 - PDF - Record all the fun as Lenny the Telemarketer Troll bot answers your home telephone. It runs on your Raspberry Pi with USB Modems and your Home Telephone. Create new Lenny profiles or use the included Lenny script.
• Datastar - 2025-07-27 - - PDF - The hypermedia framework.
• It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Jono Alderson - 2025-07-27 - - PDF - Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
• TV Setup - 2025-07-22 - - PDF
• They're putting blue food coloring in everything - 2025-07-20 - - PDF - "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.
• swax/NAISYS: Command shell driver for LLMs - 2025-07-20 - PDF - Command shell driver for LLMs. Contribute to swax/NAISYS development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Why your website should be under 14kB in size | endtimes.dev - 2025-07-19 - - PDF
• Perfume reviews, by Gwern · Gwern.net - 2025-07-18 - - PDF - Discussion of dabbling in samplers of ‘avant-garde’ perfumes and other perfumes; what I liked and didn’t like, and what 2 perfumes I ultimately bought for myself (Acqua di Sale and Kyoto Incense).
• We Should Really Just Steal Finland’s Baby Box Idea | The Walrus - 2025-07-13 - PDF - The case for treating parenting as a public investment, not a private burden
• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale - 2025-07-11 - - PDF - Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.
• Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale | www.bentasker.co.uk - 2025-07-10 - - PDF - Post describing how I've configured pihole to return different results to clients on my tailnet than those on the LAN.
• Never Been Easier to Learn | Saeed Esmaili - 2025-07-08 - PDF - In a discussion about LLMs and their impact on learning, gchamonlive writes on Hackernews: We can finally just take a photo of a textbook problem that has no answer reference and no discussion about it and prompt an LLM to help us understand what’s missing in our understanding of the problem, if our solution is plausible and how we could verify it. LLM changed nothing though. It’s just boosting people’s intention. If your intention is to learn, you are in luck! It’s never been easier to teach yourself some skill for free. But if you just want to be a poser and fake it until you make it, you are gonna be brainrot waaaay faster than usual.
• Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning | Saeed Esmaili - 2025-07-08 - PDF - In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The main goals are to learn how recommendation systems work and to build a tool that helps me find interesting blog posts and articles from feeds where only 1 in 20 posts might match my content interests. If you are interested in the technical implementation, the complete codebase is available in this github repository .
• Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning | Saeed Esmaili - 2025-07-08 - PDF - In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The main goals are to learn how recommendation systems work and to build a tool that helps me find interesting blog posts and articles from feeds where only 1 in 20 posts might match my content interests. If you are interested in the technical implementation, the complete codebase is available in this github repository .
• Folklore.org: Swedish Campground - 2025-07-08 - - PDF
• Tools I love: mise(-en-place) - 2025-07-06 - - PDF - Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools.
• Wind Knitting Factory - Merel Karhof - 2025-07-04 - - PDF - ‘Wind Knitting Factory’, is a wind-powered knitting machine. With this eco-friendly fashion machine, sustainable scarves are knitted.
• Linux Passkeys Update | iinuwa's Blog - 2025-07-01 - - PDF - An update on improving passkey support in Linux

June 2025

• Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell - 2025-06-29 - - PDF - Using logic programming to beat the game
• RSS Server Side Reader - 2025-06-26 - - PDF - I like the idea of RSS, but none of the RSS readers stuck with me, until I implemented one of my own, using a somewhat unusual technique. There's at least one other person using this approach now, so let's write this down.
• New sandboxes from Cloudflare and Vercel - 2025-06-26 - PDF - Two interesting new products for running code in a sandbox today. Cloudflare launched their Containers product in open beta, and added a new Sandbox library for Cloudflare Workers that can …
• Just: the most reductive word in software development - 2025-06-23 - PDF
• A quote from Kent Beck - 2025-06-23 - PDF - So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts has just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet two years ago where I said …
• playbackrate - 2025-06-20 - PDF - Here's a tip that works on YouTube and almost any other web page that shows you a video. You can increase the playback rate beyond the usually-exposed 2x by running …
• auchenberg/volkswagen: :see_no_evil: Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass. - 2025-06-19 - - PDF - :see_no_evil: Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass. - auchenberg/volkswagen
• A quote from Workaccount2 on Hacker News - 2025-06-19 - PDF - They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output …
• usetrmnl/trmnl-android: Utility to mirror TRMNL screens on an Android device - 2025-06-15 - PDF - Utility to mirror TRMNL screens on an Android device - usetrmnl/trmnl-android
• TRMNL | E-ink dashboard to stay focused - 2025-06-15 - - PDF - Clarity, at a glance.
• A quote from datarama - 2025-06-11 - PDF - Since Jevons' original observation about coal-fired steam engines is a bit hard to relate to, my favourite modernized example for people who aren't software nerds is display technology. Old CRT …
• Why We’re Moving on From Nix - 2025-06-08 - - PDF - Today we’re excited to release Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up based on everything we’ve learned from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
• The “S” in MCP Stands for Security | by Elena Cross | Medium - 2025-06-08 - - PDF - Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.
• Interfacing MCP with Combinatorial, Convex, and SMT Solvers - 2025-06-08 - - PDF - Personal Blog
• Encrypted Root and ZFS on NixOS | Ryan Seipp - 2025-06-06 - PDF - Encrypt data at rest with LUKS, OpenZFS, and NixOS.
• Wolfgang's Blog - 2025-06-05 - PDF
• Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-in State on NixOS - 2025-06-05 - - PDF
• Physicality: the new age of UI - 2025-06-05 - - PDF - There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
• TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant - 2025-06-02 - - PDF - TmuxAI observes your screen, understand context from what's visible, and helps accordingly.

May 2025

• Not-forking: Documentation - 2025-05-27 - - PDF
• Not-forking: Documentation - 2025-05-27 - - PDF
• HTML is like a camera - Robb Owen - 2025-05-27 - - PDF - A short post on the foundations of photography in relation to working on the web
• Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems - Graham Christensen - 2025-05-23 - - PDF
• Introducing Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust - 2025-05-23 - - PDF - By Terts Diepraam We are working on an embedded scripting language for Rust. This language, called Roto, aims to be a simple yet fast and reliable scripting language for Rust applications. The need for Roto comes from Rotonda, our BGP engine written in Rust. Mature BGP applications usually feature some
• Ditching Obsidian and building my own - 2025-05-18 - - PDF - 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.
• Charles Proxy Setup for android devices Part 1 | by Atul Birthwal | Medium - 2025-05-13 - PDF - Meet Charles — your instant browser sidekick! Fire it up, and let it seamlessly configure your browser for instant action. Browsing the…
• Why your website should be under 14kB in size | endtimes.dev - 2025-05-05 - - PDF
• Hello my perverted friend - The Hacker Factor Blog - 2025-05-04 - - PDF

April 2025

• Japan unveils world’s first solar super-panel: More powerful than 20 nuclear reactors - Industry News - 2025-04-30 - - PDF - As a global leader in the energy transition, Japan's pragmatic and multifaceted energy strategy has positioned the country at the forefront of driving new policy frameworks, fostering multilateral partnerships, and accelerating critical investments in innovation and technology. View the Japan Energy Summit & Exhibition media highlights and latest reports for insights shaping the energy landscape in Japan and beyond.
• How to defend your website with ZIP bombs - 2025-04-29 - - PDF
• A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - 2025-04-29 - - PDF - Arm yourself with knowledge
• A quote from Luis von Ahn - 2025-04-28 - PDF - Betting on mobile made all the difference. We're making a similar call now, and this time the platform shift is Al. Al isn't just a productivity boost. It helps us …
• What Does "use client" Do? — overreacted - 2025-04-28 - - PDF - Two worlds, two doors.
• Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it (Interconnected) - 2025-04-25 - - PDF - Posted on Thursday 20 Mar 2025. 831 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.
• Unsure Calculator - 2025-04-25 - - PDF - The Unsure Calculator is an online tool that lets you calculate with numbers you’re not sure about.
• This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii - 2025-04-22 - - PDF
• AI assisted search-based research actually works now - 2025-04-21 - PDF - For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
• The new Cookie Store API | Fotis Papadogeorgopoulos - 2025-04-17 - PDF - Introducing the relatively new Cookie Store API, and what it means for web applications.
• Avoid the State Synchronization Trap | Ondrej Velisek - 2025-04-16 - PDF - This post is about a bad code pattern I see quite often.
• GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet - 2025-04-14 - PDF - OpenAI introduced three new models this morning: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. These are API-only models right now, not available through the ChatGPT interface (though you can try them …
• On JavaScript's Weirdness - Stack Auth - 2025-04-05 - - PDF - Stack Auth is the open-source Auth0 alternative. We are your login and signup page, and everything that comes with that.
• OpenNutrition — Home - 2025-04-04 - - PDF - OpenNutrition is a mobile app designed to help you track your macros, receive personalized diet recommendations, and monitor your fitness goals.
• pdtpartners/nix-ninja: Ninja-compatible incremental build system for Nix - 2025-04-04 - - PDF - Ninja-compatible incremental build system for Nix. Contribute to pdtpartners/nix-ninja development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Want to Progress? Don’t Fall Into the Trap of 'Lifestyle Training' - 2025-04-01 - PDF - You hear run coaches say it again and again: if you train the same way day after day, you’re unlikely to see much progression. If you are targeting a faster run time, it’s important to structure your training properly, as Matt Fitzgerald explains.
• Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible | sgnt.ai - 2025-04-01 - - PDF - Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
• Yes, you can still book United flights for just 7,500 miles through Turkish Miles & Smiles (now 10K) - 2025-04-01 - PDF - Update: While this sweet spot still exists, the best possible fare that you can now get for United flights is 10,000 miles, not 7,500. ~~~ As a kid, I was a huge fan of the TV show The A-Team. The opening monologue ended dramatically in these words: If you have a problem, if no one else […]

March 2025

• Minimal containers using Nix | Mellow Root - 2025-03-29 - - PDF - Recently I learned that you can create your own docker images with ! I'm not going to go into details about one should do this, but in short: small...
• Build Times - You should know this before choosing Next.js - 2025-03-27 - - PDF - Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implications on the roadmap of the project, the pace of its development, the quality of the deliverables, and even the ability to assemble and maintain a happy team.The open-source software model is a fundamental answer to this. By using software that is developed in the open, anyone is free to extend it or modify it in whatever way fits their use case. More crucially, the portability of open-source software gives developers and organisations the freedom to move their infrastructure between different providers without fear of getting locked in to a specific vendor.This is the expectation with Next.js, an open-source web development framework created and [governed by Vercel](https://nextjs.org/governance), a cloud provider that offers managed hosting of Next.js as a service.
• The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations - 2025-03-23 - PDF - Fascinating new prompt engineering trick from Anthropic. They use their standard tool calling mechanism to define a tool called "think" that looks something like this: <div class="highlight highlight-source-json"><pre>{ <span class="pl-ent">"name"</span>: …
• The Grandmaster in the Corner Office: What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life - Cal Newport - 2025-03-21 - PDF - Becoming a Grandmaster How do great chess players become great? If you read Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers, you probably have an answer: the 10,000 hour rule. ... Read more
• New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them? - 2025-03-21 - PDF - OpenAI announced several new audio-related API features today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They’re very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of accidental (or …
• maaslalani/slides: Terminal based presentation tool - 2025-03-17 - - PDF - Terminal based presentation tool. Contribute to maaslalani/slides development by creating an account on GitHub.
• The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` - 2025-03-16 - - PDF - An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
• 1-1 | The GitLab Handbook - 2025-03-12 - PDF - Learn more about GitLab and what makes us tick.
• crawshaw - 2020-01-28 - 2025-03-06 - - PDF
• Scientists Have Bred Woolly Mice on Their Journey to Bring Back the Mammoth | TIME - 2025-03-04 - PDF - The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.
• Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark | AP News - 2025-03-02 - PDF - An artist in Denmark is seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets starving to death.
• Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark | AP News - 2025-03-02 - PDF - An artist in Denmark is seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets starving to death.

February 2025

• exaequOS - 2025-02-28 - - PDF - exaequOS, your browser is your computer
• Breaking into dozens of apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone – Eric Daigle - 2025-02-25 - - PDF - What a place to use default credentials
• Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2025-02-24 - - PDF - Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
• Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 | MarshallBrain.com - 2025-02-23 - - PDF
• Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control - 2025-02-23 - - PDF - Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
• On Running systemd-nspawn Containers - benjamintoll.com - 2025-02-22 - - PDF
• kmaasrud - 2025-02-22 - - PDF - The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
• Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI? - 2025-02-21 - - PDF - The new ChatGPT suggestions make me want to scream. Am I weird?
• A Neighborhood of Infinity: The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura - 2025-02-18 - - PDF - Introduction The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called 'partial evaluation' or 'sp...
• Leaked Audio: Jamie Dimon Goes OFF On Staffers Wanting WFH - 2025-02-15 - - PDF - JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon torched young staffers for wanting to work from home, tearing into employees who opposed the bank’s RTO mandate.
• Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite - 2025-02-15 - - PDF
• Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid | The Nation - 2025-02-14 - PDF - Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
• technomancy search - 2025-02-14 - - PDF
• The Framework 16 Laptop, is it Worth it? | James Ebert - 2025-02-13 - PDF - My thoughts on the Framework 16 Laptop
• Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA - 2025-02-11 - - PDF - In response to President Donald Trump’s continued musing about the U.S. acquiring Greenland from Denmark, Danish citizens have launched their own effort to purchase America’s most econo…
• Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot - 2025-02-09 - - PDF
• There to Where - 2025-02-08 - - PDF - Making moving easy.
• HTML Whitespace is Broken - Devel without a Cause - 2025-02-06 - PDF - A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.
• Anthropic’s new Citations API - 2025-02-02 - - PDF - Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what …
• A shell script for running Go one-liners | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2025-02-01 - PDF - bitfield/script is a really neat Go project: it tries to emulate shell scripting using Go chaining primitives, so you can run code like this:
• A shell script for running Go one-liners | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2025-02-01 - PDF - bitfield/script is a really neat Go project: it tries to emulate shell scripting using Go chaining primitives, so you can run code like this:

January 2025

• Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform · GitHub - 2025-01-24 - - PDF - Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform - research.md
• MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security - 2025-01-23 - - PDF
• I Was All Set to Become the Most Popular Guy in the Cancer Ward. Then I Met My Nemesis: Ben. - Washingtonian - 2025-01-22 - PDF - It was late afternoon in the cancer center, and I was wiped out from my daily zap of chemotherapy. The final drips were washing through my IV, and as usual, I was slumped in my green recliner, blank-faced and stone quiet. I was about four months into treatment, and the chemotherapy had overwhelmed my system.
• Tony Finch – link log - 2025-01-11 - - PDF
• Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - 2025-01-11 - - PDF - Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS
• Be aware of the Makefile effect - 2025-01-10 - - PDF
• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go | QotNews - 2025-01-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go | QotNews - 2025-01-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
• 28h Days: year 1 update - 2025-01-09 - - PDF
• Nix on the Steam Deck - 2025-01-09 - PDF - When I first started using Linux in 2006, I remember dreaming of a Linux Console. It wasn't so far fetched, the PlayStation 3 had just been released with OtherOS support which allowed users to install Linux (or BSD). Still, it seemed that a Linux-first console seemed like it would only ever be a dream.
• All clocks are 30 seconds late | Victor Poughon - 2025-01-07 - - PDF - OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor l...
• You wouldn't download an AI - by Altay Akkus - Altay's Blog - 2025-01-06 - - PDF - Extracting AI models from mobile apps
• The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless | DC Rainmaker - 2025-01-04 - - PDF - First off, no, your ANT+ devices aren’t going to stop working. In fact, companies are not only supporting them going forward, but will continue to make ANT+ devices for some time to come. Instead, ANT+ (or more technically, Garmin), has
• sixos: a nix os without systemd - media.ccc.de - 2025-01-03 - PDF - This talk announces the first public release of sixos, a two year project to create a nixpkgs-based operating system using skarnet's s6 s...
• connet-dev/connet: A p2p reverse proxy with NAT traversal. Inspired by frp, rathole and ngrok - 2025-01-03 - - PDF - A p2p reverse proxy with NAT traversal. Inspired by frp, rathole and ngrok - connet-dev/connet
• My favourite computer ergonomics hack - 2025-01-03 - - PDF

December 2024

• About - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
• MPs vote to ban smoking for anyone born after 2008 - 2024-12-31 - PDF - Legislation passes second reading in Commons as Streeting says it will 'come down on the vaping industry like a ton of bricks'
• j3s.sh - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
• j3s.sh - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
• Thinking about personal website style galleries | James' Coffee Blog - 2024-12-31 - PDF - I continue to learn a lot about content design and web development from the GOV.UK design system. Inspired by the idea of having all styles and patterns and components in one place, I started to think: how can design systems apply to personal websites?
• Why shouldn’t you give money to homeless people? – Spirals of Progress - 2024-12-31 - - PDF - Singer asks if you should save a drowning child. Obviously yes! And what if you were wearing a nice suit which could get ruined in the pond? Does not matter, you still have to jump in.And what if, …
• Rubenerd: Our personal home database - 2024-12-31 - - PDF - We just run Postgres and pgAdmin. I can’t recommend this to everyone, unless you’re a bit weird.
• Rubenerd: Blocked when using a VPN - 2024-12-31 - PDF - I always get blocked when using my own VPN, but not on commercial ones. HMM!
• A secure captive portal browser with automatic DNS detection - 2024-12-19 - PDF - Captive portals are the worst. Flaky detection. The OS and browser try to detect these annoying network features but fail quite often, leaving you with broken connections. > DID YOU KNOW that probe-based captive portal detection really doesn't work very well, with ~30% FP *and* ~30% FN rate in Chrome? — Emily
• The age of average — Alex Murrell - 2024-12-13 - - PDF - In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
• Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans - 2024-12-11 - PDF - The Danish capital reneged on its net zero target after an incinerator failed to secure state aid.
• The Nine Mile Walk by Harry Kemelman - 2024-12-09 - PDF - In this story, logical inferences lead to the solving of a murder.
• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World · oils-for-unix/oils Wiki - 2024-12-07 - - PDF - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils
• Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? - 2024-12-06 - - PDF - Over the past 6 years or so, I’ve failed each item on “The Turkey Test.” It’s very simple: will your code work properly on a person’s machine in or around th...
• sequinstream/sequin: Postgres CDC to streams and queues like Kafka, SQS, HTTP endpoints, and more - 2024-12-05 - PDF - Postgres CDC to streams and queues like Kafka, SQS, HTTP endpoints, and more - sequinstream/sequin
• EdgePipes The Alternative to SSR and RSCs | runspired.com - 2024-12-05 - - PDF - EdgePipes | The Alternative to SSR and RSCs
• Deploying Containers on NixOS - 2024-12-05 - - PDF - Let's make managing infrastructure on your own machine less cumbersome. Simplify it with NixOS and containers.
• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog - 2024-12-04 - - PDF - LiveView 1.0 is out!
• Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker • The Register - 2024-12-03 - - PDF - Our mistake is YOUR problem
• About - Intenty - 2024-12-03 - PDF - What is Intenty? Intenty, previously known as Acture/Actuflow, is an innovative Android app crafted to enhance mindfulness and intentionality in device usage. At its core, Intenty encourages users to ponder, “Why do I use the device?” right at the onset of usage. Its standout feature is a prompt form that appears immediately after unlocking your device, nudging you to define your intention before proceeding. Why should I care? Intenty is more than just an app; it’s a tool for empowerment.

November 2024

• Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering - 2024-11-30 - - PDF - Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
• Sweden asks China to co-operate with severed cable investigation - 2024-11-29 - PDF - Two cables in the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Lithuania, and Finland to Germany, were damaged.
• How Sweden and Finland went from neutral to Nato - 2024-11-29 - PDF - Russia has threatened to retaliate, but Sweden is now set to join Finland as the 32nd Nato member.
• Why TanStack Start is Ditching Adapters | TanStack Blog - 2024-11-28 - PDF - Nitro HeaderTo “adapter” or not? Building a new front-end Javascript framework is a daunting task, as I’ve been learning with building TanStack Start, my new TanStack-powered full stack framework. There’s so many...
• far.in.net - 2024-11-27 - - PDF
• Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work | PortSwigger Research - 2024-11-22 - - PDF - Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them. In this paper, I'll unleash novel attack concepts to coax out server secrets
• Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout - 2024-11-12 - - PDF
• Algorithms we develop software by - 2024-11-11 - - PDF - Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
• Algorithms we develop software by - 2024-11-11 - - PDF - Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
• Chekhov's gun principle for testing - 2024-11-10 - PDF - Improving how you write your tests by following advice of a famous 19th century playwright
• Booleans Are a Trap - 2024-11-10 - - PDF - Don't use booleans for domain modeling or at least think twice before doing it.
• IMDb SQL - 2024-11-05 - - PDF
• Please just stop saying "just" - 2024-11-04 - - PDF - Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?

October 2024

• Eternal Terminal - 2024-10-31 - - PDF - Remote terminal for the busy and impatient
• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady - 2024-10-30 - - PDF - Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.
• Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town - 2024-10-25 - - PDF - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique for adding extra “knowledge” to systems built on LLMs, allowing them to answer questions against custom information not included in their training data. …
• Request-reply in Postgres - 2024-10-24 - - PDF - Who doesn't like to go a little overboard with Postgres? Extensions like pgsql-http push what we think is possible (or permissible) to do in the database. I wondered the other day if you could build a request-reply mechanism using plain Postgres components. Turns out, you can! Whether or not you
• You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid | WIRED - 2024-10-18 - - PDF - John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.
• Anjan's Homepage - 2024-10-15 - - PDF
• The 1/8th Sleep | near.blog - 2024-10-13 - - PDF
• Orchestrating Agents: Routines and Handoffs | OpenAI Cookbook - 2024-10-12 - PDF - Open-source examples and guides for building with the OpenAI API. Browse a collection of snippets, advanced techniques and walkthroughs. Share your own examples and guides.
• Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite - 2024-10-07 - - PDF
• Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite - 2024-10-07 - - PDF
• We hacked a robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera - ABC News - 2024-10-04 - - PDF - Without even entering the building, we were able to silently peer through the camera on a Deebot device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.
• use() and data fetching - 2024-10-03 - PDF - use() and data fetching
• NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't | Bernardo Vecchia Stein / Daniel Sidhion - 2024-10-02 - - PDF
• Using YouTube to steal your files Ʊ lyra's epic blog - 2024-10-01 - - PDF - A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.

September 2024

• Address Not Found - 2024-09-29 - - PDF
• Cumulative CO₂ emissions by world region - 2024-09-27 - PDF - Cumulative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions by region from the year 1750 onwards. This measures CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and industry only – land-use change is not included.
• GitHub - brandonmcconnell/tailwindcss-signals: Signals for Tailwind CSS simplifies styling based on ancestor state via style queries. Its declarative API for signaling states eliminates complex selectors, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable code. - 2024-09-27 - - PDF - Signals for Tailwind CSS simplifies styling based on ancestor state via style queries. Its declarative API for signaling states eliminates complex selectors, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable...
• The Misunderstood Rise of Anti-Tourism in Europe : TrueReddit - 2024-09-21 - PDF - Posted in r/TrueReddit by u/Fickle-Syllabub6730 • 153 points and 102 comments
• A Spreadsheet and a Debugger walk into a Shell | Arcan - 2024-09-21 - - PDF - Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
• How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
• How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
• How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
• Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock - 2024-09-12 - - PDF - Different weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
• Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock - 2024-09-12 - - PDF - Different weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
• Home | aider - 2024-09-10 - - PDF - aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
• Getting the most out of your Yubikey on NixOS ~ Joinemm.dev - 2024-09-06 - PDF - There are many different use cases I found for the Yubikeys.
• Dancing plague of 1518 - Wikipedia - 2024-09-05 - PDF
• Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought - ABC News - 2024-09-03 - - PDF - Heatwaves loom as a growing threat to humanity in a warming climate. This summer alone, in the northern hemisphere, thousands have died during extreme heat events. It's driving researchers to find out more about the point when heat turns deadly.
• There’s no significant connection between your personality as a teenager and a septuagenarian - 2024-09-03 - - PDF - Researchers found no correlation of personality traits.

August 2024

• Coolify's rise to fame. And why it could be a big deal. - 2024-08-26 - - PDF - An increasing number of self-hostable software meets a tool to make self-hosting trivial.
• Modularize Your NixOS Configuration | NixOS & Flakes Book - 2024-08-24 - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
• Modularize Your NixOS Configuration | NixOS & Flakes Book - 2024-08-24 - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
• OpenSSH Backdoors - 2024-08-24 - - PDF - Imagine this: an OpenSSH backdoor is discovered, maintainers rush to push out a fixed release package, security researchers trade technical details on mailing lists to analyze the backdoor code. Speculation abounds on the attribution and motives of the attacker, and the tech media pounces on the story. A near miss
• OpenSSH Backdoors | QotNews - 2024-08-24 - PDF - {{ description }}
• GitHub - instantdb/instant: The realtime client-side database - 2024-08-22 - - PDF - The realtime client-side database. Contribute to instantdb/instant development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Cloning a laptop over NVME TCP - 2024-08-20 - - PDF
• Cloning a laptop over NVME TCP - 2024-08-20 - - PDF
• Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA - 2024-08-18 - - PDF - Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.
• AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again. | Max Woolf's Blog - 2024-08-18 - - PDF - What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
• Search for descendants of Aboriginal people who settled in Indonesia at least 150 years ago - ABC News - 2024-08-17 - PDF - There's growing evidence Aboriginal people moved to Indonesia at least 150 years ago and started families. These images are the first photographic proof of this community. 
• The federal government wants to build 1.2 million homes. Could fewer car parks be part of the answer? - ABC News - 2024-08-17 - PDF - Urban planners say Australia has too much parking. But as car ownership grows, questions have surfaced as to whether we could ever build less.
• Aristotle — How to live a good life - Ralph Ammer - 2024-08-16 - - PDF - 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.
• Against Names - 2024-08-13 - - PDF
• Everyone Struggles to Identify Bottlenecks - Patshead.com Blog - 2024-08-12 - PDF - Identifying bottlenecks is a skill that many of us struggle with. Learning to pinpoint bottlenecks is important, and learning which bottlenecks to …
• Everyone Struggles to Identify Bottlenecks - Patshead.com Blog - 2024-08-12 - PDF - Identifying bottlenecks is a skill that many of us struggle with. Learning to pinpoint bottlenecks is important, and learning which bottlenecks to …
• Why German Strings are Everywhere | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database - 2024-08-12 - - PDF - German Strings Strings are conceptually very simple: It’s essentially just a sequence of characters, right? Why, then, does every programming language have their own slightly different string implementation? It turns out that there is a lot more to a string than “just a sequence of characters”1. We’re no different and built our own custom string type that is highly optimized for data processing. Even though we didn’t expect it when we first wrote about it in our inaugural Umbra research paper, a lot of new systems adopted our format.
• Why German Strings are Everywhere | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database - 2024-08-07 - - PDF - German Strings Strings are conceptually very simple: It’s essentially just a sequence of characters, right? Why, then, does every programming language have their own slightly different string implementation? It turns out that there is a lot more to a string than “just a sequence of characters”1. We’re no different and built our own custom string type that is highly optimized for data processing. Even though we didn’t expect it when we first wrote about it in our inaugural Umbra research paper, a lot of new systems adopted our format.

July 2024

• We live to compete. What I learned by winning the Duolingo diamond league | by Karolina Kozmana | Medium - 2024-07-31 - PDF - It’s Sunday night, and until midnight I can’t go to sleep. My opponent, an account called Roman with a status of a French flag, is only 100…
• Common side effects of not drinking | by Karolina Kozmana | Medium - 2024-07-31 - - PDF - By rejecting alcohol, you reject something very human, an extra limb that we have collectively grown to deal with reality and with each…
• Fantasy Meets Reality – cabel.com - 2024-07-31 - - PDF - One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
• eBPF - Wikipedia - 2024-07-31 - PDF
• 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp - The New York Times - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
• Schengen ain't what it used to be - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - My wife and I were on the train back from a one-week bike trip in Germany and Czechia, and were crossing back into Denmark. As the train pulled into Padborg, multiple border officers boarded the train, systematically checking IDs - passports, residence cards, and so on. The unusual thing is
• Schengen ain't what it used to be - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - My wife and I were on the train back from a one-week bike trip in Germany and Czechia, and were crossing back into Denmark. As the train pulled into Padborg, multiple border officers boarded the train, systematically checking IDs - passports, residence cards, and so on. The unusual thing is
• Inside a viral website - by Tom - Not Fun at Parties - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
• Inside a viral website - by Tom - Not Fun at Parties - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
• How I Use Git Worktrees - 2024-07-26 - - PDF - 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 useed worktrees, but that didn't stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.
• Split-flap display - Wikipedia - 2024-07-25 - PDF
• The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins / Jordan Eldredge - 2024-07-25 - - PDF - I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
• Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands | Martin Janiczek - 2024-07-24 - - PDF - First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:
• TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown - brycemecum.com - 2024-07-23 - - PDF
• TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown - brycemecum.com - 2024-07-23 - - PDF
• vyxos: My laptop and server Nix configuration | Lobsters - 2024-07-20 - PDF
• PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton - 2024-07-09 - - PDF - The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.
• The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
• The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
• how fast is javascript simulating 20 000 000 particles - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - Technical and non technical thoughts.
• The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-07 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
• The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-07 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
• Reverse Engineering a Smartwatch. Sharing the reverse engienering process… | by Benjamen Lim | CSG @ GovTech | Jun, 2024 | Medium - 2024-07-06 - - PDF - Sharing the reverse engienering process of a smartwatch from reprogramming to firmware patching!

June 2024

• Australia's US Ambassador Kevin Rudd 'couldn't possibly comment' on whether he was 'linchpin' in Julian Assange plea deal - ABC News - 2024-06-27 - PDF - Australia's Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd says he "couldn't possibly comment" on whether he encouraged Julian Assange and his team to accept a plea deal with the US.
• I Wore Meta Ray-Bans in Montreal to Test Their AI Translation Skills. It Did Not Go Well | WIRED - 2024-06-27 - PDF - WIRED took Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to French-speaking Canada to trial its AI smarts. Quelle catastrophe!
• Aging Might Not Be Inevitable | WIRED - 2024-06-27 - PDF - There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets.
• I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual | Well actually | The Guardian - 2024-06-26 - - PDF - People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark
• the end game | scott ludlam - 2024-06-25 - PDF - WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
• GitHub - k1LoW/tbls: tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - 2024-06-23 - - PDF - tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - k1LoW/tbls
• GitHub - k1LoW/tbls: tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - 2024-06-23 - - PDF - tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - k1LoW/tbls
• We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - Software development still has a long way to go until it fully embraces the cloud
• Simple sabotage for software · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
• Simple sabotage for software · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
• GitHub - hanslub42/rlwrap: A readline wrapper - 2024-06-19 - - PDF - A readline wrapper. Contribute to hanslub42/rlwrap development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Automatic Query Invalidation after Mutations | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - Even though there is nothing built into React Query, it doesn't need a lot of code to implement automatic query invalidation in user-land thanks to the global cache callbacks.
• Automatic Query Invalidation after Mutations | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - Even though there is nothing built into React Query, it doesn't need a lot of code to implement automatic query invalidation in user-land thanks to the global cache callbacks.
• React 19 and Suspense - A Drama in 3 Acts | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - React 19 is a very promising release - but there's something not quite right yet with suspense...
• React 19 and Suspense - A Drama in 3 Acts | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - React 19 is a very promising release - but there's something not quite right yet with suspense...
• Reader API - 2024-06-18 - - PDF - Read URLs or search the web, get better grounding for LLMs.
• Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant - 2024-06-17 - - PDF
• Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant - 2024-06-17 - - PDF
• So You Want To Abolish Time Zones @ Things Of Interest - 2024-06-15 - - PDF
• Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu 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.
• Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu 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.
• Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu 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.
• Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu 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.
• Immersed - 2024-06-12 - - PDF - Have your desktop in VR on Mac, PC, and Linux with Immersed!
• GitHub - wheaney/breezy-desktop: XR virtual workspace library for Linux - 2024-06-12 - PDF - XR virtual workspace library for Linux. Contribute to wheaney/breezy-desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.
• XREAL Air | Elevate Your AR Experience with Cutting-Edge Smart Glasses - 2024-06-11 - - PDF - Discover the power of XREAL Air AR glasses and step into a world where virtual meets real. Elevate your visual experience.
• Welcome to Bashly | Bashly - Bash CLI Framework - 2024-06-04 - - PDF - Bashly is a command line application (written in Ruby) that lets you generate feature-rich bash command line tools.
• qStudio Release Version 3.0 » qStudio - 2024-06-03 - - PDF
• qStudio Release Version 3.0 » qStudio - 2024-06-03 - - PDF
• Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event - 2024-06-03 - - PDF - Last time this happened, Earth got plants.
• Import AI 375: GPT-2 five years later; decentralized training; new ways of thinking about consciousness and AI - 2024-06-03 - PDF - …Are today's AGI obsessives trafficking more in fiction than in fact?...
• Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) - 2024-06-03 - - PDF - Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.
• The Universe of Discourse : Monads are like burritos - 2024-06-02 - - PDF - From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
• The Universe of Discourse : Monads are like burritos - 2024-06-02 - - PDF - From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
• Welcome - Docs ⋅ Storybook - 2024-06-01 - PDF
• Wired Elements - 2024-06-01 - - PDF - Common UI Elements with a sketchy hand-drawn look.
• Wired Elements - 2024-06-01 - - PDF - Common UI Elements with a sketchy hand-drawn look.

May 2024

• How to Build a Low-tech Internet | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE - 2024-05-31 - PDF - If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies.
• DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - 2024-05-30 - - PDF
• DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - 2024-05-30 - - PDF
• Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net - 2024-05-25 - - PDF - Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions • Reflections on software performance • Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods • End-to-End Arguments in System Design • Inventing on Principle
• Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net - 2024-05-25 - - PDF - Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions • Reflections on software performance • Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods • End-to-End Arguments in System Design • Inventing on Principle
• GitHub - anvo/scala-devcontainer: Devcontainer for scala development - 2024-05-25 - PDF - Devcontainer for scala development. Contribute to anvo/scala-devcontainer development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Daylight Computer | The Fast 60fps E-paper and Blue-Light Free Tablet - 2024-05-24 - - PDF - The Daylight Computer is a calm tablet, with a high refesh-rate 60hz e-paper display — that's also blue-light free, and eye-strain free.
• UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader - 2024-05-22 - - PDF - I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

April 2024

• What's new in CSS and UI: I/O 2023 Edition  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers - 2024-04-23 - - PDF - The top 20 CSS and UI features highlighted at Google I/O 2023 that you don&#39;t want to miss.
• Talk to Me Human - 2024-04-20 - - PDF - The talking your way out of it simulator
• Why you need a "WTF Notebook" - 2024-04-19 - - PDF - There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
• Why you need a "WTF Notebook" - 2024-04-19 - - PDF - There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
• 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9 – Map Happenings - 2024-04-16 - - PDF - The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called ‘Etak’. I think you’ll find it a fas…
• Function Health • 100 Healthy Years - 2024-04-16 - PDF - Test your whole body and own your health. Function, co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, is a lifelong routine of 100+ lab tests for the whole body including thyroid, hormones, fertility, autoimmunity, heart, kidney, liver and more. Lab results direct to you with insights from top doctors.
• datasette-ripgrep: deploy a regular expression search engine for your source code - 2024-04-16 - - PDF - This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
• [BUG] Firefox reader mode doesn't work · Issue #2157 · microsoft/playwright - 2024-04-13 - PDF - Context: Playwright Version: 1.0.1 Operating System: Windows 10 Node version: 13.8.0 Browser: Firefox Code Snippet When I try to navigate to an about:reader url, the response is null. In a real Fir...
• sway-floating/floating at master · Synthetica9/sway-floating - 2024-04-13 - PDF
• Declarative NixOS containers - 2024-04-09 - PDF - Everything you need to know about declarative containers in NixOS with a simple example to demonstrate logging in, mounting volumes and forwarding ports.
• Adding VMs to PATH - NixOS Wiki - 2024-04-09 - PDF
• services/immich.nix · main · Felix Schröter / nixos-config · GitLab - 2024-04-09 - PDF - My NixOS configuration
• ReSource RICA tree-planting project turns 'ugly' hill in central Victoria into 'paradise' over 20 years - ABC News - 2024-04-08 - PDF - A group of friends, dismayed about climate change, bought the most degraded piece of farmland they could find. Not to live on, or to make money from, but to transform into the bushland it once was. 
• ElectricSQL - Sync for modern apps - 2024-04-08 - - PDF - Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.
• GenZ software engineers, according to older colleagues - 2024-04-04 - - PDF - Responses to a survey about GenZ suggest this new generation possesses standout differences. We explore what makes GenZ distinctive, and check out ideas for ways to work fruitfully together.
• HyiKi/ai-review-code: AI Automated Code Review For GitLab - 2024-04-03 - PDF - AI Automated Code Review For GitLab. Contribute to HyiKi/ai-review-code development by creating an account on GitHub.
• ai-cicd-code-reviewer/.gitlab-ci.yml at main · ugwun/ai-cicd-code-reviewer - 2024-04-03 - PDF
• What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop | Ars Technica - 2024-04-02 - - PDF - Pi 5 is still an odd fit for day-to-day desktop use; cheap mini PCs come closer.
• Türkiye election: Is this the beginning of the end for strongman Recep Erdoğan? | SBS News - 2024-04-01 - PDF - Türkiye's main opposition party has emerged from a nationwide local vote as a serious challenger to veteran President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

March 2024

• Observable - 2024-03-27 - PDF
• Scripts should be written using the project main language | João Freitas - 2024-03-27 - - PDF - Almost all projects I've worked on have scripts we wrote to automate a repetitive process. Consecutively, the majority of the scripts became obsolete and unmaintainable after some weeks, because we either didn't need them anymore or they have become too complex to be looked at. Afterwards, these scripts are either refactored or they stay forever in the scripts graveyard
• On Tech Debt: My Rust Library is now a CDO | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2024-03-27 - - PDF - Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
• Writing system software: code comments. - <antirez> - 2024-03-26 - - PDF
• Service Unavailable - 2024-03-26 - - PDF
• Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite - 2024-03-25 - - PDF
• How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? - 2024-03-25 - - PDF - When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waki...
• Kid Pix - The Early Years — Dry reading - 2024-03-25 - - PDF - The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman
• Getting started | MistCSS - 2024-03-25 - PDF - Write atomic React components using only CSS
• 2024 Barkley Marathon Results: Jasmin Paris Rewrites History - 2024-03-23 - - PDF - The 2024 Barkley Marathons smashed records, with the first woman finisher, five finishers, and the first person to finish four times.
• DuckDB as the New jq - Paul Gross’s Blog - 2024-03-22 - - PDF - Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats.
• Suspicious discontinuities - 2024-03-21 - - PDF
• Mona: Australian art museum sued over women's-only exhibit - 2024-03-21 - - PDF - The opulent Ladies Lounge exhibit aims to highlight the exclusion faced by Australian women for decades.
• PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file - 2024-03-20 - - PDF - Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
• People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One | WIRED - 2024-03-20 - - PDF - Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?
• Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer - 2024-03-19 - - PDF
• Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL – Pinaraf's website - 2024-03-19 - - PDF
• Dead air on the incident call – Dan Slimmon - 2024-03-19 - - PDF - Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I’ll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (…
• Sensible Firefox Setup | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 - 2024-03-19 - - PDF - I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as usual. But that also has some upsides. Yes – I used the Firefox logo from 2009 (some reported it is from 20…
• aider is AI pair programming in your terminal | aider - 2024-03-17 - - PDF - A command-line chat tool for coding with GPT
• Everest 2024: Nepal’s “GPS Chip” Plan has Major Problems | The Blog on alanarnette.com - 2024-03-15 - - PDF
• Estimate your age of death - 2024-03-15 - - PDF - Use public life tables to understand life expectancy for people your age in your country.
• How we replaced Vagrant with devenv | Website of Andreas Zweili - 2024-03-11 - - PDF - This is the website of Andreas Zweili. Containing some of my notes and observations.
• Store and Execute Formulas in Database Fields - 2024-03-11 - - PDF - Harness the potential of Storing and Executing Formulas in Database Fields for Expanded Analytical Power.
• DNS over Wikipedia – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) - 2024-03-11 - PDF - Download DNS over Wikipedia for Firefox. Resolve .idk domains using the URL provided by the Wikipedia page for a given topic
• nixos-bsd/nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel - 2024-03-10 - - PDF - An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel. Contribute to nixos-bsd/nixbsd development by creating an account on GitHub.
• The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken - 2024-03-09 - - PDF - Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”. Almost everyone investing serious …
• Run NixOS Integration Tests on macOS - 2024-03-09 - - PDF - Big news:You can now run NixOS integration tests on macOS without any changes to thetest!This article helps you set up your Mac and get going.
• NixOS & Flakes Book | Home Page - 2024-03-08 - - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
• Using Nix with Dockerfiles – Mitchell Hashimoto - 2024-03-08 - - PDF
• Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug — Ludicity - 2024-03-07 - - PDF
• Well-Known URIs - 2024-03-07 - - PDF
• How I use git worktrees - llimllib notes - 2024-03-06 - - PDF
• Detecting Residential Proxy Networks - 2024-03-06 - - PDF - Uncovering the hidden networks powering nefarious activity on the internet.
• A homelab dashboard for NixOS · Jon Seager - 2024-03-06 - - PDF - The homepage-dashboard NixOS service previously enabled the deployment of the wonderful homepage dashboard, but its configuration was not handled natively in Nix by the module. This post shows how I added support for native configuration, and how you can migrate.
• BASH with Debugger and Improved Debug Support and Error Handling - 2024-03-02 - PDF
• bash debugging - 2024-03-02 - - PDF
• He Who Controls the Bootloader - 2024-03-02 - - PDF

February 2024

• How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin | WIRED - 2024-02-29 - - PDF - Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."
• The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts – Dan Quach Blog - 2024-02-29 - - PDF
• World Athletics long jump plans will not solve the problem. Here is a better idea | Athletics | The Guardian - 2024-02-27 - PDF - A take-off zone, called an ‘April Fool’s joke’ by Carl Lewis, is a bad idea. But we need jeopardy. Why not make it a knockout?
• RFC 9512 - YAML Media Type - 2024-02-25 - - PDF - This document registers the application/yaml media type and the +yaml structured syntax suffix with IANA. Both identify document components that are serialized according to the YAML specification.
• The Earth is getting greener. Literally. - Vox - 2024-02-25 - - PDF - Humans are literally changing the color of the planet. Scientists are worried.
• Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history | Medium - 2024-02-23 - - PDF - We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?
• Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations. It’s absolutely brilliant. It also provides a whole new set of vectors …
• Things Unexpectedly Named After People · Notes - 2024-02-22 - - PDF
• The New Terminal (Beta) Is Now in JetBrains IDEs | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - The new terminal (Beta) is now in JetBrains IDEs and will be available in the new UI starting from the 2024.1 version of the IDEs.
• React Labs: What We've Been Working On – March 2023 – React - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - The library for web and native user interfaces
• readysettech/readyset: Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes. - 2024-02-21 - - PDF - Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches t...
• Cachix Blog | Downtime due to sign up spam - 2024-02-20 - - PDF
• htmz - a low power tool for html - 2024-02-20 - - PDF
• Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative | Hacker News - 2024-02-14 - PDF
• Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion - by Scott Alexander - 2024-02-14 - - PDF - Machine Alignment Monday 2/12/24
• Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io - 2024-02-13 - - PDF - How I switched my side project from using Amazon S3 for file hosting to using Tigris (which is built on Fly.io infrastructure). It was a good experience overall, but there were a few quirks.
• A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Is Inspiring New Research Into Diagnosis : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2024-02-13 - - PDF - Years before he got diagnosed with Parkinson's, Joy Milne noticed her husband's characteristic scent had changed. The discovery that she could smell his illness has opened up a new field of research.
• Tsunami Patong Beach, Phuket Thailand: observations by Mark Oberle - 2024-02-13 - PDF
• Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news | Hacking | The Guardian - 2024-02-09 - - PDF - Microsoft analysts cite reports saying disruption by group known as Cotton Sandstorm also reached audiences in UK and Canada
• Trellis | Trellis is where sustainability happens - 2024-02-09 - PDF - Trellis is a data and collaboration hub which speeds up your sustainability journey by bringing the right people and the right information together.
• A Portable Nix-shell Shebang · Patrick Jackson - 2024-02-07 - PDF - Updated November 8, 2023 All of my personal scripts with more than a few dependencies start with the Nix-shell shebang: #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell. Regardless of what language they are written in. That only works if nix is installed, so it is difficult to share with others who may not use nix. If I want the script to be shared with other people, I instead use something like this: #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ -z "$INSIDE_NIX_RANDOMSTRING" ] && command -v nix-shell &> /dev/null; then # Install dependencies with nix INSIDE_NIX_RANDOMSTRING=1 nix-shell \ -I nixpkgs=https://github.
• Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring | Live Science - 2024-02-06 - PDF - Newly sequenced genomes of blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean contain "unexpectedly high" levels of fin whale DNA, hinting that the two species have been interbreeding much more than previously realized.
• OKRs are Bullshit - by drmorr - 2024-02-06 - - PDF - It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
• Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany – alexwlchan - 2024-02-01 - - PDF - We’re gonna need a bigger printer.

January 2024

• bjesus/wren: The simplest task management system with the most advanced features - 2024-01-30 - - PDF - The simplest task management system with the most advanced features - bjesus/wren: The simplest task management system with the most advanced features
• Don’t Shave That Yak! | Seth's Blog - 2024-01-28 - - PDF - The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
• The Ur Programming Language Family - 2024-01-28 - - PDF
• Does the birth of a cloned monkey mean we could now clone people? | New Scientist - 2024-01-26 - PDF - A healthy rhesus monkey has been born after being cloned from fetal cells, but creating a clone of an adult human being would be much harder
• The MAF-GPS Test - Dr. Phil Maffetone - 2024-01-22 - PDF
• Should I Open Source my Company? - 2024-01-22 - - PDF - The unexpected upsides of building in public
• What's that touchscreen in my room? | Nikita Lapkov - 2024-01-20 - - PDF - Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things like Ethernet ports in each room. However, there was one part of my apartment that was too new and too smart for me.
• kffl/speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand: - 2024-01-16 - - PDF - TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand: - kffl/speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latenc...
• High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98 – Fang-Pen's coding note - 2024-01-15 - - PDF - Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
• Flo Control 1 - 2024-01-13 - PDF
• The Two Reacts — overreacted - 2024-01-11 - - PDF - UI = f(data)(state)
• Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1983 | Email | The Guardian - 2024-01-10 - - PDF - 1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you are
• Why stdout is faster than stderr? - Orhun's Blog - 2024-01-10 - - PDF - FOSS • Linux • Programming
• Microlife - Wikipedia - 2024-01-09 - - PDF
• Micromort - Wikipedia - 2024-01-09 - - PDF
• Simple lasts longer: making a map stateful using scotch tape and Web Storage API - 2024-01-09 - - PDF - 🗺️ Too many invaders to keep track of; I really don't want to run another database; Web Storage to the rescue
• time.fyi - all the time related tools in one place - 2024-01-06 - - PDF - time.fyi provides all the time related tools in one place.
• Could Children Communicate if No One Taught Them a Language? - 2024-01-06 - PDF - What would language be like if it was totally up to kids?
• An app can be a home-cooked meal - 2024-01-06 - - PDF - I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
• HackerNews: With Privacy!* - 2024-01-06 - PDF
• Doctors want more realistic TV scripts about dying : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2024-01-05 - PDF - Clinicians who work with people at the end of life say the most common television depictions of death aren't representative of what happens in the real world. They want to flip the script.
• The computer with a dedicated pizza key on its keyboard #Keyboards #VintageComputing @lazygamereviews « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! - 2024-01-05 - PDF - Vintage PC YouTubeer Lazy Game Reviews/LGR recently posted about the iopener “network appliance” from 1999. It likely is the only computing device to come from the factory with a dedica…
• $450 for a School Bag?! - 2024-01-05 - - PDF - Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids entering elementary school visit the grandparents and gingerly tread the topic of buying the kids a very expensive item: a randoseru. And gingerly they must tread. The randoseru, a Japanese school bag, costs a whopping
• Minimum Wage Clock · Luna’s Blog - 2024-01-05 - - PDF
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TenYearsNotLongEnough - 2024-01-04 - - PDF
• Playback | Last.fm - 2024-01-02 - PDF - Listen to music from jamesmstone711’s library (186,228 tracks played). Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.
• jamesmstone711’s year in music | Last.fm - 2024-01-02 - PDF - Check out jamesmstone711
• NHS faces huge damages bill after millennium bug error | UK news | The Guardian - 2024-01-02 - PDF - The health service is facing big compensation claims after admitting yesterday that failure to spot a millennium bug computer error led to incorrect Down's syndrome test results being sent to 154 pregnant women.
• Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted in Bangladesh labour law case - ABC News - 2024-01-02 - PDF - A court in Bangladesh has sentenced Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to six months in prison for labour law violations for what he says is a crime he did not commit.

December 2023

• Amazon's Silent Sacking - Justin Garrison - 2023-12-30 - - PDF - Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
• Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to ‘revive’ cookies, hijack accounts - 2023-12-30 - - PDF - Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named "MultiLogin" to restore expired authentication cookies and log into users' accounts, even if an account's password was reset.
• Query Engines: Push vs. Pull - 2023-12-26 - - PDF
• Sandbox for AI Apps & Agents - 2023-12-21 - - PDF - Secure sandboxed cloud environments made for AI agents and AI apps
• e2b-cookbook/guides/ai-github-developer-py at main · e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook - 2023-12-21 - - PDF - Examples and guides for using the E2B API. Contribute to e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
• COP28 a “tragedy for the planet” as Stockholm Syndrome took hold | RenewEconomy - 2023-12-19 - PDF - Up to 100,000 people — most of whom derive their professional status and income from climate-related politics, advocacy and business — flew into Dubai for COP28. The result was an unmitigated disas…
• How we clone a running VM in 2 seconds - 2023-12-17 - - PDF - Or... how to clone a running Minecraft server
• The UX of delivering parcels - 2023-12-15 - - PDF - I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.
• Make your terminal snow - 2023-12-15 - PDF - Make your terminal snow. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• PostgREST 12 - 2023-12-14 - PDF - PostgREST 12 is out and we take a look at some of the major new features like JWT Caching and Aggregate Functions
• Cop28 squibs on fossil fuel phase out, but calls for quick transition | RenewEconomy - 2023-12-13 - PDF - Latest COP28 text squibs on phase out of fossil fuels, mentioning only “unabated” coal but falling short on gas and oil as the petrol-states hold court.
• pg_graphql: Postgres functions now supported - 2023-12-12 - - PDF - pg_graphql now supports the most requested feature: Postgres functions a.k.a. User Defined Functions (UDFs)
• Edge Functions: Node and native npm compatibility - 2023-12-12 - - PDF - We're adding Node and native npm compatibility for Edge Functions.
• Draft COP28 text omits phase-out of fossil fuels angering some Pacific leaders - ABC News - 2023-12-11 - PDF - Leaders from countries in favour of a fossil fuel phase-out, including Australia’s Pacific neighbours, were left stunned when the draft text for COP28 omitted any mention of fossil fuels.
• Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams - Unladen swallow - Olivier Wulveryck - 2023-12-11 - - PDF - This article explores the transition from a WebSocket-based implementation to a simpler, more direct stream over HTTP in the context of capturing touch screen inputs on Linux. It begins by introducing the main theme, encapsulated in the statement Everything is a file is a stream of byte. The need to capture finger positions on a touchscreen by reading /dev/input/events in Linux is initially discussed, followed by a dilemma of transferring this data to a JavaScript client in a browser. Initially, WebSockets are chosen, leading to a discussion on how frameworks often shape our technological choices and the challenges faced in debugging WebSocket connections. The article then introduces an alternative about sending a stream of bytes over HTTP, drawing a parallel to Linux’s approach to handling devices and files. Serialization, the process of encoding messages for this stream, is discussed next, highlighting the implementation specifics in GoLang and its native advantages. The final section covers how to receive and decode this stream in JavaScript within a worker thread, and then send the decoded messages to the main thread using post requests. The article concludes by reflecting on the benefits of simplicity in technology, urging readers to reevaluate default choices and consider more straightforward solutions to complex problems.
• tcgoetz/GarminDB: Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks. - 2023-12-11 - PDF - Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks. - tcgoetz/GarminDB: D...
• Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games ⌘I  Get Info - 2023-12-10 - - PDF - The only aspect of game development I’ve not attempted myself is the music. I mostly use royalty free music of Japanese origin (just because I dig their vibe...
• PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its - 2023-12-08 - - PDF - Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
• 95%-ile isn't that good - 2023-12-07 - - PDF
• The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying. - Schneier on Security - 2023-12-05 - - PDF
• llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer - 2023-12-03 - - PDF - Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
• James Hansen sets new parkrun Australia record | parkrun AU Blog - 2023-12-03 - PDF - A mishap with booking flights turned into parkrun glory for Launceston parkrunner James Hansen, who broke the parkrun Australia record today in a time of 13:53.   James was supposed to be at the National Cross Country Championships in Adelaide this weekend but messed up his flight booking and couldn’t get there.   With plenty...
• WikiReader - Wikipedia - 2023-12-03 - PDF
• You don't need JavaScript for that - HTMHell - 2023-12-02 - - PDF - A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
• Should you split that file? | Path-Sensitive - 2023-12-01 - PDF - You’re a line programmer for EvilCorp, and it’s just an average day working on some code to collapse the economy. Then you realize you n...
• Chris Ball » Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub - 2023-12-01 - - PDF

November 2023

• Do we really need Eraring when we’ll have 5,500MW of batteries by 2026? - WattClarity - 2023-11-30 - PDF - Tristan Edis from Green Energy Trading discusses whether a surge in renewable energy projects and battery capacity would be sufficient to fill any reliability gap before (and after) Eraring's scheduled closure.
• Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages - 2023-11-28 - - PDF
• Pollution from coal power contributes to far more deaths than scientists realised, study shows | RenewEconomy - 2023-11-27 - PDF - New study finds air pollutants from coal power plants were associated with nearly half a million premature deaths of elderly Americans from 1999 to 2020.
• Wing Programming Language for the Cloud - 2023-11-26 - - PDF - Wing is a cloud-oriented programming language. Most programming languages think about computers as individual machines. In Wing, the cloud is the computer.
• CORE · GitLab - 2023-11-24 - PDF - CORE Markets https://app.coremarkets.co
• tanner/qotnews - qotnews - Gitea: Git with a cup of tea - 2023-11-22 - PDF - qotnews
• How large pull requests slow down development - 2023-11-22 - - PDF - One of the fundamental challenges in software engineering is managing and minimizing complexity. This challenge is not just a theoretical concern; it has real and tangible impacts on the pace of development.
• ayushpai/Sports-Buddy: Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS - 2023-11-22 - PDF - Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS - ayushpai/Sports-Buddy: Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS
• Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs - The Verge - 2023-11-21 - - PDF - The Windows App could pave the way for consumer cloud PCs
• A space station fell to Earth. A boy brought it to San Francisco - 2023-11-20 - - PDF - In 1979 NASA’s abandoned space station, Skylab, was about to fall back down to the Earth, and no one knew where it might land.
• Sleep Procrastination: Why People Procrastinate on Going to Sleep and How to Stop – Solving Procrastination - 2023-11-20 - PDF
• We'll See - A Chinese Proverb | IMPOSSIBLE - 2023-11-19 - - PDF - Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically, "you must be so sad." "We'll see," the farmer replied. The next…
• North Korea was floundering under sanctions. Now it's making billions from stolen cryptocurrency - ABC News - 2023-11-18 - - PDF - Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea's primary form of foreign currency income.
• Norway's Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started | WIRED - 2023-11-17 - PDF - The Norwegian data regulator has already fined Meta $7 million. Now it says it’s investigating the company’s new ad-free subscription services.
• Signal >> Blog >> Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive - 2023-11-17 - - PDF - Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
• My story of storing chat logs | Gempir - 2023-11-16 - PDF
• Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? - 2023-11-16 - PDF - The biggest announcement from last week’s OpenAI DevDay (and there were a LOT of announcements) was GPTs. Users of ChatGPT Plus can now create their own, custom GPT chat bots …
• Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB - 2023-11-14 - - PDF - How I built an occupancy sensor with an ESP32C3, Cloudflare Workers/D1, and Grafana
• Monaspace - 2023-11-10 - - PDF - An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
• Lazy Backup (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - 2023-11-08 - PDF
• 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' - BBC News - 2023-11-08 - - PDF - An extraordinary warning call to a Palestinian dentist starts the panicked evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood.
• What I learned from analysing 1.65M versions of Node.js modules in NPM | by Karl Düüna | Security and Node.js - 2023-11-08 - - PDF - NPM and open source modules are one of Node.js’ greatest strengths — and also one of it’s greatest weaknesses. took it upon myself to…
• Parenting’s New Frontier: What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? | Vogue - 2023-11-06 - - PDF
• How to Do a TypeScript Conversion  — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2023-11-05 - - PDF - Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
• How Bear does analytics with CSS | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-11-01 - PDF - Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...

October 2023

• Making Music with Google Sheets and Web MIDI API | Asep Bagja - 2023-10-29 - - PDF - With the help of Web MIDI API, we can use Google Sheets as a music sequencer.
• Approaching unconventional problems | Manas.Tech - 2023-10-26 - - PDF - Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
• Automattic acquires Texts, a universal messaging app - The Verge - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - A less chaotic chat app is coming to a device near you.
• Two Kinds of Code Review - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - I've read a book about management and it helped me to solve a long-standing personal conundrum about the code review process. The book is High Output Management. Naturally, I recommend it (and read this review as well: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926).
• Fresh water is scarce in the Marshall Islands so rain must be collected in creative ways - ABC News - 2023-10-24 - PDF - The Marshall Islands are surrounded by seawater, but fresh water is in short supply. As the Pacific nation stares down the barrel of climate change, people are working to help mitigate what's to come.
• Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope - ABC News - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost  but not speaking up can take an even greater personal toll.
• nearform/temporal_tables: Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for external c extension. - 2023-10-21 - PDF - Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for external c extension. - nearform/temporal_tables: Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for exter...
• 24 hours in an invisible epidemic - 2023-10-21 - - PDF - Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight
• Stocketa — PaulStamatiou.com - 2023-10-17 - - PDF - A dive into the app I designed, built and never launched. Stocketa was a personal project developed to serve as a simple stock portfolio tracker for casual investors. ...
• Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling - 2023-10-17 - - PDF - Cycling provides interesting example for software development. Like software development it's possible to race individually or in teams. A group that's an effective team will outperform the same group acting as individuals every time.
• Postgres: the next generation. Investing in the next generation of committers. – James Governor's Monkchips - 2023-10-13 - - PDF - PostgreSQL isn’t getting any younger. Which is fine – after all, databases generally improve with age. The platform is going from strength, and is a default choice for a big chunk of modern software development. But Postgres has been around for a while – it launched in 1986 – which has an implication for the
• Life on the beaches of Tel Aviv and Gaza City – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian - 2023-10-11 - PDF - The beaches in Tel Aviv and Gaza City, just 70km (40 miles) apart, are different worlds on opposite sides of a century-old conflict, but on long summer days Israelis and Palestinians enjoy some of the same delights.
• How I made a heap overflow in curl | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-10-11 - - PDF
• Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod - 2023-10-09 - - PDF - We created a universal Docker mod for Tailscale, which lets you slap Tailscale on the side of existing Docker containers from linuxserver.io. In this article, Xe explains how you can use this and why it's funny.
• "Feel" bracelet makes you happy when you are feeling stressed - Gadgets & Wearables - 2023-10-07 - PDF - Feel bracelet: Sentio Solutions, a new wearables company out of Los Angeles, showed off a new kind of wearable tracker at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Feel is the first wristban
• Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS - 2023-10-06 - PDF - Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.
• Climate scientist faces sack for refusing to fly to Germany from Solomon Islands archipelago | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian - 2023-10-04 - - PDF - Dr Gianluca Grimalda told by Kiel Institute for World Economy he must be at his desk on Monday after finishing fieldwork
• Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope - 2023-10-04 - PDF - Explore the In Our Time archive.
• I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information. Is this the future? - 2023-10-03 - - PDF - What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24x7 using AI to process that information?, before someone else does, I tried to do it myself, and this is the result. First of all some clarifications. It’s not really 24x7 because I didn’t find it useful to leave it
• The 10 funniest Danish expressions and how to use them - 2023-10-02 - PDF - From windy pelicans to wet bottoms: our columnist gets to grips with her new neighbours and their strange sayings
• The Curse of Dialup World - Allen Pike - 2023-10-02 - - PDF - An acquisition gets weird.
• Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour | NL Times - 2023-10-02 - - PDF - Amsterdam is preparing to lower its speed limits to 30 kilometers per hour. The measure will only take effect on December 8, but from Monday, the city will install almost 5,000 new speed signs, adjust 170 traffic lights, and take other “infrastructural measures,” the municipality said. It is also launching a campaign with the slogan: “We drive 30 for each other.”
• Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” - 2023-10-01 - - PDF - "Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.

September 2023

• Server Thief Bait - catch them red handed! - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - Get a baited crypto wallet so you know if someones broken into your computer or server.
• New York City flooding: Record rain generated 'life-threatening' flooding | CNN - 2023-09-30 - PDF - Record-setting rain overwhelmed New York City’s sewer system Friday, sending a surge of floodwater coursing through streets and into basements, schools, subways and vehicles throughout the nation’s most populous city.
• Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - “Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick
• Introducing Enhance Music — Begin Blog - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - Today, the Enhance team is excited to introduce our latest demo app: Enhance Music — a music library and audio player app built with HTML and CSS, and progressively enhanced with a couple pinches of JavaScript. Despite being built as a traditional multipage website, Enhance Music features an audio player that persists across page loads, and some gorgeous interactive UI built entirely with web standards.
• Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight - james vaughan - 2023-09-29 - - PDF - I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with a connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. I was on my way home from Strange Loop, a direct flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to purchase the $8 internet access and get some work done, but Southwest’s wifi portal wouldn’t accept any form of payment. The web page didn’t give me any helpful error messages, so I opened up my browser’s network dev tools to see if I could figure out what was going wrong.
• The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World - 2023-09-27 - - PDF
• Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria after three elections, nine years - ABC News - 2023-09-26 - PDF - The Victorian Premier will formally step down from the role at 5pm on Wednesday after announcing his resignation.
• Small Focused Modules — Sindre Sorhus - 2023-09-25 - - PDF - Make small focused modules for reusability and to make it possible to build larger more advanced things that are easier to reason about.
• Ship Of Fools | Successful Software - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
• Your Cache Headers Could Probably be More Aggressive | Alex MacArthur - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - It's common for modern hosts to cache static assets in a flexible, but not most optimal way. Let's explore why that is and what we can do to push cache performance (for some assets) even further.
• Grouping digits in SQL | Peter Eisentraut - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - PostgreSQL 16 was released last week. This is the story of a feature.
• Vonng/pigsty: PostgreSQL in Great STYle, Battery-Included Free RDS Alternative! - 2023-09-20 - PDF
• Discussing PostgreSQL: What changes in version 16, how we got here, and what to expect in future releases - 2023-09-20 - - PDF - Amit Kapila lists the new features introduced in PostgreSQL 16, and shares his views on what is in store for PostgreSQL 17 and beyond.
• Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right? - 2023-09-19 - PDF - About 35 per cent of the world's countries drive on the left. This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; but there is a perfectly good reason.
• Kunstner, der stak museumspenge i egen lomme, dømt til at betale knap en halv million tilbage | Kultur | DR - 2023-09-19 - PDF - Jens Haaning, der lavede værket ’Take the Money and Run’ skal betale 492.549 kroner til museum.
• North Korea spent the pandemic building a huge border wall - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - Kim Jong Un upgraded security on the Chinese and Russian frontiers, blocking routes for smugglers and defectors
• How slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - Scores of people in India's capital have seen their homes demolished over the last few months
• How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves
• Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn - The Verge - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - Microsoft’s Office key is available to all Windows users.
• A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL · vb-consulting/blog · Discussion #1 · GitHub - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL PostgreSQL offers a powerful procedural programming model out of the box (in addition to the standard SQL). You can combine that with the standard ...
• Sharding & IDs at Instagram. With more than 25 photos and 90 likes… | by Instagram Engineering | Instagram Engineering - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits…
• GitHub - 47ng/next-usequerystate: useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the URL query string. - 2023-09-16 - PDF - useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the URL query string. - GitHub - 47ng/next-usequerystate: useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the...
• Fine-tuning GPT3.5-turbo based on 140k slack messages · Ross Lazerowitz - 2023-09-10 - - PDF - Using GPT to emulate my writing style
• Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - There are 2 words that all languages seem to share—and you wouldn't want to live without them!
• Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - There are 2 words that all languages seem to share—and you wouldn't want to live without them!
• Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system | News | Flight Global - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - Preliminary investigation into the serious UK air traffic control failure on 28 August has traced the root cause to a processing conflict triggered by a single flightplan featuring two separate waypoints which - although geographically distant - had identical designators. UK air navigation service NATS has not disclosed details of ...
• rehub-anz - tradsasiasoftware - 3 new items - Slack - 2023-09-07 - PDF
• What OpenAI Really Wants | WIRED - 2023-09-06 - - PDF - The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.
• VanJS - A 0.9kB No-JSX Framework Based on Vanilla JavaScript - 2023-09-05 - - PDF
• Neil Fraser: News: Blockly Rising - 2023-09-04 - - PDF
• Neil Fraser: News: Background Radiation - 2023-09-04 - PDF
• FPS: 60 - 2023-09-04 - - PDF
• Neil Fraser: News: Backwards Debugging - 2023-09-04 - PDF
• Introducing shaq, a CLI for Shazam - 2023-09-03 - - PDF
• Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style - 2023-09-01 - - PDF

August 2023

• Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-Turbo for Natural Language to SQL | by Mo Pourreza | Dataherald | Aug, 2023 | Medium - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash
• Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco - YouTube - 2023-08-31 - PDF - Grammy-winning musician and producer Jack White joins Conan for a special episode of Serious Jibber-Jabber -- shot entirely on 35mm film. More Serious Jibber...
• Sleeping at Night @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - I’ve started going on a long walk each morning immediately as I wake up, and it’s had the unexpected side-effect of fixing my broken circadian rhythm. For decades, as long as I can remember, I’ve been what you might consider a serious night owl. Regardless of how long I slept or when I woke up, I would get nothing requiring any sort of thought done until sometime after lunch, and it wasn’t really until late at night that my brain really kicked into gear.
• Absurd Success @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been a long term goal to keep it possible to run and operate the system on low-powered hardware, and so far improvements have been made, to the point where my 32 Gb RAM developer machine feels spacey rather than cramped, but this set of changes takes it several notches further.
• Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe Iaso - 2023-08-30 - - PDF - Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe's Blog
• mjg59 | Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness - 2023-08-30 - - PDF
• print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function | by Ludi Rehak | Aug, 2023 | Medium - 2023-08-24 - - PDF - Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:
• The banteng paradox - ABC listen - 2023-08-23 - PDF - Banteng are an introduced species in Arnhem Land, but in their home range, they are in danger of complete extinction. So, what to do?
• Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization - Microsoft Community Hub - 2023-08-23 - - PDF -             Today, we are excited to introduce the Public Preview of Python in Excel – making it possible to integrate Python and Excel analytics within the..
• Folklore.org: Stolen From Apple - 2023-08-22 - - PDF
• I Walked Across Luxembourg - The Blog of Matt - 2023-08-22 - - PDF - A hike from the west to the east of the Grand Duchy
• Stan Grant leaves ABC for position with Monash University - ABC News - 2023-08-22 - PDF - The ABC has announced that the veteran journalist will be taking up a new position with Monash University to lead a conversation "about how media can foster a more constructive and kinder discourse".
• Significant electrical fault causes power outage at Flinders Medical Centre - ABC News - 2023-08-22 - PDF - An electrical fault has caused a power outage at one of Adelaide's major hospitals with health authorities urging the community to find other care options if possible.
• I Come Here Not to Bury Delphi, But to Praise It - 2023-08-21 - - PDF - What helps a programming language gain traction? Patrick Martin remembers why he used to use Delphi.
• How much suffering is too much? « The Story's Story - 2023-08-19 - - PDF - This is by my wife, Bess. For the second time in a two weeks, Jake tells me he’s ready to die. The first time he says it, he’s frustrated: red-faced and retching, trying to hack out a thick glob of…
• Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job. - 2023-08-19 - - PDF - When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
• Generating interesting inputs for property-based testing | F# for fun and profit - 2023-08-18 - - PDF - And how to classify them
• TypeScript is Surprisingly OK for Compilers - 2023-08-18 - - PDF - There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
• Computerworld Cloud Festival 2023 - 2023-08-17 - PDF - Computerworld Cloud Festival 2023 klæder dig som it-professionel på til at vælge den rigtige digitale vej for dig og din organisation.
• Five years of GPT progress - 2023-08-16 - - PDF
• David Anderson says ABC will abandon the majority of Twitter accounts - ABC News - 2023-08-16 - PDF - The ABC is discontinuing all but four accounts on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to focus on the accounts that provide the most value
• Virtual Blender Camera — ///// - 2023-08-16 - - PDF
• Projects — ///// - 2023-08-16 - PDF
• MLC | GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi - 2023-08-15 - - PDF
• How They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling | 0x7D0 - 2023-08-14 - - PDF - Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of “these” websites. It’s much more complicated than you might think.
• Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder - BBC News - 2023-08-13 - - PDF - Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.
• symbex: search Python code for functions and classes, then pipe them into a LLM - 2023-08-13 - - PDF - I just released a new Python CLI tool called symbex. It’s a search tool, loosely inspired by ripgrep, which lets you search Python code for functions and classes by name …
• German Comedy (ENG SUB): Dieter Hallervorden - The cow Elsa - YouTube - 2023-08-12 - PDF - Butler Didi calls to let the landowner know, that one of his cows has died.
• too long to tweet - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....
• I Fixed A Bug The Other Day | Thoughts by Javier - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - I fixed a bug that was in production for 2 years with a few lines of code.
• Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release | Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
• How we tested triple j’s Hottest 100 of Like A Version and left nothing to chance - ABC - 2023-08-11 - PDF - triple j's Hottest 100 is one of the ABC's most treasured institutions, so when Richard King was given the job of testing the voting system for the first ever Hottest 100 of Like a Version, there was a huge responsibility to get it right.
• zknill/sqledge: Replicate postgres to SQLite on the edge - 2023-08-10 - - PDF - Replicate postgres to SQLite on the edge. Contribute to zknill/sqledge development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Raku: A Language for Gremlins • Buttondown - 2023-08-08 - PDF - By Gremlins, For Gremlins™
• Mofi - Snappy UIs With WebAssembly and Web Workers - 2023-08-07 - - PDF - Shorten and lengthen a song, making it the perfect length to match a video or performance. Find perfect loops automatically for your next edit.
• Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way — iliana.fyi - 2023-08-07 - PDF
• paul-gauthier/aider: aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal - 2023-08-07 - PDF - aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal. Contribute to paul-gauthier/aider development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Marten | .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
• supabase/postgres_lsp: A Language Server for Postgres - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - A Language Server for Postgres. Contribute to supabase/postgres_lsp development by creating an account on GitHub.
• I do not use a debugger – Daniel Lemire's blog - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - I learned to program with BASIC back when I was twelve. I would write elaborate programs and run them. Invariably, they would surprise me by failing to do what I expect. I would struggle for a time, but I’d eventually give up and just accept that whatever “bugs” I had created were there to stay. … Continue reading I do not use a debugger
• We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a fast, inexpensive and scalable method for engineering blood vessels from natural tissue.
• Data Analysis | Microsoft Fabric - 2023-08-05 - PDF - Få mere værdi fra dine data med Microsoft Fabric, der er en analyseplatform, der er drevet af kunstig intelligens, som kombinerer dine data med tjenester, herunder datalogi og datasøer.
• Painting and color of the Eiffel Tower - OFFICIAL Website - 2023-08-04 - - PDF - The repainting campaign is an important event in the life of the monument and takes on a truly mythical nature, as with everything linked to the Eiffel Tower. It represents the lasting quality of a work of art known...
• Offshore wind: Perpetuating the myth of 'terra nullius' in Australia waters could prove costly | RenewEconomy - 2023-08-04 - PDF - The Commonwealth’s offshore wind scheme makes First Nations’ rights, interests and responsibilities invisible, creating enormous financial and reputational risk.
• Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet - BBC News - 2023-08-04 - - PDF - The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.
• GPT-4 for API design research | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - I came up with a really useful prompt for GPT-4 today. I was considering options for refactoring how Datasette's core view functions work, and was contemplating alternative ways to dispatch to different functions based on a combination of the URL path and the HTTP verb.
• Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
• Evasive Phishing Tactic Utilizes Google AMP | Cofense - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - Learn about a new phishing tactic utilizing Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that is proving to be very successful at reaching intended targets.
• "Landmark alliance:" Origin, Coles strike solar and battery deal to cut emissions, balance grid | RenewEconomy - 2023-08-03 - PDF - Origin to supply 20MW of solar plus batteries to Coles retail outlets, and tap into its fridges to help balance the grid.
• Something went wrong :-( - 2023-08-02 - - PDF
• Splitting the Web - 2023-08-01 - - PDF - Splitting the Web écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
• Emacs is My New Window Manager - 2023-08-01 - - PDF
• Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock – University of Copenhagen - 2023-08-01 - - PDF - An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University of Copenhagen has attained their goal of drilling to the bottom of the ice sheet. It marks the first time that this has been achieved in an ice stream, where vast amounts of ice slide coastwards. The breakthrough could be critical for understanding and projecting rising sea levels.

July 2023

• Database-centric Backends: What has your experience been like? | Lobsters - 2023-07-31 - PDF
• My Journey Away from the JAMstack | The Spicy Web - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.
• Remote Synthesis | Is Jamstack Officially Finished? - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Do recent changes mean the end of the term Jamstack? Unfortunately, it looks like a yes.
• The strange way airlines are actually central banks - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Issue 013
• File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN (eighty-twenty news) - 2023-07-31 - - PDF
• The Future of the Web is VNC – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Many gallons of digital ink spilled at Google's plans for "Web Environment Integrity" which - depending on who you believe - is either an entirely reasonable proposal to protect users or a devious plan to add DRM to the entire web. (It's the latter, obviously.) We'll never know exactly whether users want this because Google [...]
• Cloudflare + Remote Browser Isolation - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Cloudflare announced today that it has purchased S2 Systems Corporation, a Seattle-area startup that has built an innovative remote browser isolation solution unlike any other currently in the market.
• Relay-style GraphQL | Alan Norbauer - 2023-07-31 - PDF - GraphQL best practices for 2023
• Computers Are Bad - 2023-07-31 - - PDF
• A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies | Business Insider India - 2023-07-30 - PDF - Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged to an unidentifiable species.
• The British-American coup that ended Australian independence | John Pilger | The Guardian - 2023-07-30 - - PDF - John Pilger: In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price
• Roben Kleene: The Five-Year Rule of Software Transitions - 2023-07-28 - PDF - Roben Kleene’s blog
• blog/posts/sql-eq.md at main · remysucre/blog - 2023-07-28 - - PDF - Contribute to remysucre/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.
• How to Be Blind | The New Yorker - 2023-07-28 - - PDF - As a kid, I was told that one day I would lose my sight. Recently, I went to a residential school for the blind, where I learned to live without it.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS - 2023-07-25 - - PDF - Clone and deploy your own Next.js portfolio in minutes.
• ProjectionLab - Build Financial Plans You Love - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - Simulate your financial future. Build modern and privacy-friendly plans for early retirement, financial independence, monte carlo simulation, and more.
• Wikipedia over DNS - 2023-07-24 - - PDF
• Changing the Android captive portal page – en|crypted.at - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - This article shows how to replace the existing captive portal link on your Android device - you'll need a shell and adb access.
• plv8/pljs: PLJS - Javascript Language Plugin for PostreSQL - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - PLJS - Javascript Language Plugin for PostreSQL. Contribute to plv8/pljs development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Talon - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - Talon enables you to write code, play games, and control your computer with voice, eye tracking, or noises.
• persistent.info: Visualize Them Towers - 2023-07-24 - PDF
• persistent.info: Slack Canvas In The Streets, Quip In The Sheets - 2023-07-24 - PDF
• Carbon footprint of travel per kilometer, 2018 - 2023-07-23 - PDF - The carbon footprint of travel is measured in grams of carbon dioxide-equivalents per passenger kilometer. This includes the impact of increased warming from aviation emissions at altitude.
• ChatGPT Peanut Butter Cookies | t0.vc - 2023-07-19 - PDF - A recipe generated by ChatGPT for peanut butter cookies.
• [UPDATED] Russian Man Turns Tables on Bank, Changes Fine Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues, Now Settles | Nasdaq - 2023-07-19 - PDF - Editor 's note: This story has been updated. Please see our final update at the bottom of this previously reported story . In Soviet Russia ,.
• FAQ on the 500-mile email - 2023-07-19 - - PDF
• ArrowJS - Reactive interfaces with no build tools & native JavaScript. - 2023-07-19 - - PDF - ArrowJS is a tool for programming reactive interfaces using native JavaScript. It’s 2Kb, requires no build tools, has no virtual DOM, and is blazing fast.
• Telegram raises $210 million through bond sales | TechCrunch - 2023-07-19 - PDF - Telegram founder Pavel Durov bought "tens of millions" of the company's bonds as part of a $210 million bond sales this week.
• Jerusalem syndrome - Wikipedia - 2023-07-17 - PDF
• Paris syndrome - Wikipedia - 2023-07-17 - PDF
• "balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. - 2023-07-15 - - PDF - I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast, there was
• The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy | The New Yorker - 2023-07-15 - PDF - At least six books about the concept of Scandinavian coziness were published in the U.S. this year, with more to come in 2017.
• Demo: Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS - 2023-07-14 - - PDF - Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
• Where did the name libpurple come from? - DEV Community - 2023-07-14 - PDF - This article was originally posted on Patreon and has been brought over here to get all of the...
• Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media - 2023-07-13 - - PDF - The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.
• Defecting From North Korea Is Now Far Harder - The New York Times - 2023-07-10 - - PDF - Recent efforts to help people escape Kim Jong-un’s regime via China have been thwarted by digital surveillance, profiteering and the pandemic.
• plotlychartexport - npm - 2023-07-08 - PDF - Export plotly charts on server. Latest version: 1.0.5, last published: 6 years ago. Start using plotlychartexport in your project by running `npm i plotlychartexport`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using plotlychartexport.
• Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia - 2023-07-07 - - PDF
• JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe Iaso - 2023-07-07 - - PDF - JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe's Blog
• stream : Real-time Whisper transcription in WebAssembly - 2023-07-06 - PDF
• React-Admin - The Open-Source Framework For B2B Apps - 2023-07-06 - - PDF - A frontend Framework for building B2B applications running in the browser on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using ES6, React and Material Design
• A slack clone in 5 lines of bash - 2023-07-05 - - PDF
• Write Thin to Write Fast - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - October 15, 2021 — I'm always trying to improve my writing. I want my writing to be more meaningful, clearer, more memorable, and shorter. I would also like to write faster.
• An Angel Investor's Data - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - September 1, 2022 — There's a trend where people are publishing real data first, and then insights. Here is my data from angel investing:
• 3 Kinds of Tech Debt | Byte Size Theories - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - In software engineering, we’re often faced with trade-offs that sacrifice what is best for the long term against something that increases velocity in the short term. A commonly used financial analogy is describing this as taking on technical debt. I will not cover accidental and deliberate tech debt, neither will I give a decision making framework in this article. That is its own subject, and context specific. However, there is a mental framework that has worked well for me across different teams, codebases and systems.
• Binding On Port 0 - 2023-07-04 - - PDF
• Joins 13 Ways - 2023-07-04 - PDF
• RailMiles :: Thomas Pain - 2023-07-03 - PDF - I built an app to track how far I've travelled on trains because of course I did
• The dingo fence is the world's longest and has cascading effects on the Australian environment - ABC News - 2023-07-03 - PDF - The dingo fence does its job keeping the predator at bay — but that single change has cascading effects on the environment, right down to the shape of the sand dunes.
• Star Ownership - 2023-07-03 - - PDF
• Tesla gives new owners in the UK a grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive | Electrek - 2023-07-03 - - PDF - Tesla has started to deliver new Model S and Model X vehicles in the UK with a grabbing stick after...
• The pg_tiktoken extension - Neon Docs - 2023-07-03 - PDF - The pg_tiktoken extension enables fast and efficient tokenization of data in your PostgreSQL database using OpenAI's tiktoken library. This topic provides guidance on installing the extension, utilizi...
• Using iCalendar RRULE in Postgres | This and That - 2023-07-03 - PDF
• Site update, self-hosted search via pagefind - Raymii.org - 2023-07-02 - PDF
• Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023 | Jacob Groß | kurtextrem.de - 2023-07-02 - - PDF - Technical deep-dive on why you shouldn't have SVGs in your JS bundle and better techniques for JSX usage.
• Tahiti digs in to protect ‘most beautiful wave’ ahead of Olympic surf event | Pacific islands | The Guardian - 2023-07-01 - PDF - World famous break Teahupo’o to host the 2024 competition but residents are fearful of damage to the pristine environment
• The photos we hate to love: why school portraits continue to enthral us (despite their cost) | Parents and parenting | The Guardian - 2023-07-01 - PDF - An image of her daughter smiling at a stranger is Anna Spargo-Ryan’s most precious possession. But does she really need so many versions of it?
• France protests: Funeral held for teenager after police detain more than 1,300 over riots | CNN - 2023-07-01 - PDF
• Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it. - 2023-07-01 - PDF
• Postgres schema changes are still a PITA - 2023-07-01 - - PDF - Table locking, downtime risks, long running migrations, manual steps, difficult rollbacks. Is there a better way?

June 2023

• How does Linux really handle writes? - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
• JavaScript Macros in Bun | Bun Blog - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - Call JavaScript functions at bundle-time and inline results into the AST
• Announcing Hurl 4.0.0 - 2023-06-30 - - PDF
• Goodreads Has No Incentive to be Good - by Lincoln Michel - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
• The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI | Time - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - As the autonomy of AIs increases, so will their control over the key decisions that influence society.
• Chinese Workers Confront the Curse of 35 - The New York Times - 2023-06-29 - PDF - It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.
• SQLPage - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - Official SQLPage website: write web applications in SQL !
• The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City - The New York Times - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - When your hearing starts to go, you just want a place to sit, sip and have a talk: namely, a hotel bar.
• 5 reasons why a browser and mail combination is great. - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - A browser with a built-in email client is a unique combination. Read why this combination works and improves your time spent online.
• Mofi - Content-aware fill and trim for music! - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - Shorten and lengthen a song, making it the perfect length to match a video or performance. Keep the vibe of the song with seamless transitions.
• Noticing when an app has servers in different regions | JonLuca’s Blog - 2023-06-27 - PDF - I was talking to a friend of mine about native apps and how some apps not built using UIKit/SwiftUI just feel laggier, and it got me thinking about other latency and small performance things you notice.
• Cachix - Managed self-hosted GitHub runners for Nix/NixOS - 2023-06-27 - PDF - Set up your Nix infrastructure in minutes.
• A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews - 2023-06-26 - - PDF - Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
• Introducing the Magic Nix Cache - 2023-06-26 - - PDF - Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible
• Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming | QotNews - 2023-06-26 - PDF - {{ description }}
• Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | The Curse of NixOS - 2023-06-24 - PDF
• GitHub - binpash/try: "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that. - 2023-06-24 - - PDF - "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that. - GitHub - binpash/try: "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that.
• Next.js App Router Update | Next.js - 2023-06-23 - - PDF - The Next.js team is focused on performance, stability, and developer experience for the upcoming months.
• Running Postgres as a Unikernel - 2023-06-23 - - PDF - This isn't the first time we took a look at running postgres as a unikernel. A few years ago one of our engineers took a look at how difficult it might be to port it.
• Unbrick Google Pixel 6A via Fastboot Commands [Fix Bootloop & Brick] - 2023-06-21 - PDF - In this comprehensive tutorial, we will show you the detailed steps to unbrick your Google Pixel 6A via Fastboot commands.
• Should you standardise tools in your company? - 2023-06-20 - - PDF
• Style your RSS feed - 2023-06-20 - - PDF - How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
• HDR QR Code | notes.dt.in.th - 2023-06-19 - - PDF
• How Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs - 2023-06-19 - - PDF - Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.
• Follow up to “I booted Linux 292,612 times” | Richard WM Jones - 2023-06-18 - - PDF - Well that blew up. It was supposed to be just a silly off-the-cuff comment about how some bugs are very tedious to bisect. To answer a few questions people had, here’s what actually happened.…
• Oh My Git! - 2023-06-18 - - PDF - An open source game about learning Git
• The Staggering Frontiers of CSS - 2023-06-17 - - PDF - Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
• defunkt on Twitter: "Just heard that Google is selling off Google Domains. And people ask me why we didn't sell GitHub to Google. Seriously? Not one high level person I spoke to during negotiations is still at Google today. Meanwhile, everyone on the Microsoft side still works there..." / Twitter - 2023-06-17 - - PDF - “Just heard that Google is selling off Google Domains. And people ask me why we didn't sell GitHub to Google. Seriously? Not one high level person I spoke to during negotiations is still at Google today. Meanwhile, everyone on the Microsoft side still works there...”
• Everything Must Be Paid for Twice - 2023-06-16 - - PDF - One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is: a book, a budgeting app, a unicycle, a bundle of kale. But then, in order to make use of
• PostgreSQL: Documentation: 14: F.33. pg_trgm - 2023-06-16 - PDF - F.33.&nbsp;pg_trgm F.33.1. Trigram (or Trigraph) Concepts F.33.2. Functions and Operators F.33.3. GUC Parameters F.33.4. Index Support F.33.5. Text Search Integration …
• PostgreSQL: Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded - 2023-06-15 - PDF - Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes: > I spoke with some folks at PGCon about making PostgreSQL multi-threaded, > so that the …
• Rental properties - minimum standards - Consumer Affairs Victoria - 2023-06-15 - PDF - Rental providers have an obligation to rent properties that meet minimum standards. Renters can take action if these standards are not met.
• Residential Tenancies Regulations 2021 | Victorian Building Authority - 2023-06-15 - PDF - These new laws expand the rights and responsibilities of renters (tenants) and rental providers (landlords).
• GPT - OpenAI API - 2023-06-15 - - PDF - Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
• FogCam - The World's Oldest Webcam - 2023-06-15 - PDF
• I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients. | by Inflect Health | Jun, 2023 | Medium - 2023-06-15 - - PDF - There are many futuristic possibilities for how AI might transform healthcare. But it can help doctors do a better job in small, safe ways…
• Why do Client Components get SSR'd to HTML? · reactwg/server-components · Discussion #4 - 2023-06-15 - PDF - If you're familiar with React, your mental model before RSC might look similar to this (blank space on the left is intentional): RSC does not change that mental model, but it adds a new layer befor...
• Lejebolig - Lejligheder, værelser, huse til leje og fremleje. - 2023-06-12 - PDF - Søger du lejebolig? Find lejligheder, værelser eller huse til leje og fremleje, eller opret en gratis udlejningsannonce i dag.
• Richmond Tigers AFL player Marlion Pickett arrested for alleged burglary - ABC News - 2023-06-12 - PDF - In a statement, Richmond Football Club said the alleged offences occurred in December 2022 and January 2023.
• GraphQL on Fly with Hasura · Fly Docs - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
• Netlify functions - continue after completion - Serge van den Oever's weblog - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Netlify functions are a powerful beast for all your API needs. But what if I want to return as soon as possible from my API call to keep my web UI responsive, but still need to do something like sending out an e-mail?
• AudD Music Recognition API - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Music Recognition API: Recognize music in audio files, UGC, and microphone recordings. Identify what's playing on radio stations and audio streams. Monitor airplay and create radio charts or make your own music recognition app. Recognize music from social networks and analyze trends.
• Stevey's Google Platforms Rant - 2023-06-10 - - PDF - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• We don’t trade with ants | world spirit sock puppet - 2023-06-10 - - PDF
• spamscanner/spamscanner: Spam Scanner is a Node.js anti-spam, email filtering, and phishing prevention tool and service. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @cabinjs, @breejs, and @lassjs. - 2023-06-10 - PDF - Spam Scanner is a Node.js anti-spam, email filtering, and phishing prevention tool and service. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @cabinjs, @breejs, and @lassjs. - spamscanner/spamscanner: Spam Scan...
• Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - Different approaches for tracking visitor counts with PostgreSQL.
• Home – PostgresML - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - Train and deploy models to make online predictions using only SQL, with an open source Postgres extension.
• Bring your tailnet to VS Code · Tailscale - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - We’re releasing a Tailscale extension for Visual Studio Code, a text editor we hear is pretty popular. The new extension, now in beta, brings the magic of your tailnet even closer to your code and makes it easier than ever to share your local development over the internet for collaboration, testing, and experimentation.
• A heuristic for feeling fine - Personal Science Wiki - 2023-06-09 - PDF
• Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - A look at Flatpak madness
• Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast - 2023-06-08 - - PDF - Modular components to build insightful dashboards in a breeze.
• Tremor • Components - 2023-06-08 - - PDF - Modular components to build insightful dashboards in a breeze.
• wanasit/chrono: A natural language date parser in Javascript - 2023-06-07 - PDF - A natural language date parser in Javascript. Contribute to wanasit/chrono development by creating an account on GitHub.
• US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles | UFOs | The Guardian - 2023-06-07 - - PDF - Whistleblower former intelligence official says government posseses ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin
• Driver fined $195,796 for speeding in Finland, where penalties are based on income - ABC News - 2023-06-06 - PDF - Anders Wiklöf says he really regrets driving 30 kilometres per hour over the limit in Finland, where such penalties are based an offender's income.
• Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Contest: Psychedelic Cryptography (Innovate) - 2023-06-06 - - PDF
• xkcd: Depth Perception - 2023-06-06 - - PDF
• LXRA's stuck station building at Mont Albert - Waking up in Geelong - 2023-06-06 - PDF - This is the story of how the Level Crossing Removal Authority contractors tried and failed to deliver a prefabricated station building to the new Union station, part of the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Working within a constrained railway corridor, there as no space to build a new station clear of […]
• Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief - 2023-06-06 - - PDF - In a Debrief exclusive, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean report that a former official says the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin.
• SpeechBrain: A PyTorch Speech Toolkit - 2023-06-05 - - PDF
• The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support - Announcements - NixOS Discourse - 2023-06-05 - - PDF - Hi all, TL;DR - Kicking off an effort to secure long-term funding for our S3 costs and exploring alternatives. This comes after multiple years where Logicblox has been graciously sponsoring the S3 costs for Nix! An enormous thank you to them. The LogicBlox team (which has since been acquired by Infor) has been providing significant support to the Nix ecosystem by sponsoring our S3 buckets. They have asked to transfer the ownership of the costs and give us a good heads up (timeline discussed be...
• shiyangzhaoa/css-modules-to-tailwind: Tailwind css convert tool - 2023-06-05 - PDF - Tailwind css convert tool. Contribute to shiyangzhaoa/css-modules-to-tailwind development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Unusual Japanese Train Station Has No Entrance or Exit - 2023-06-05 - PDF - Your only choice is to stop and admire the view!
• DiceBear | Open Source Avatar Library - 2023-06-05 - PDF - The avatar library you've always been looking for. Create avatars for your profiles, designs, websites or apps. Piece by piece or based on a seed.
• A Graph-Based Firebase - 2023-06-05 - - PDF - In A Database in the Browser, I wrote that the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise ^1. This begged the question: would a database-looking solution solve them?...
• Do we need copyright? – Daniel Lemire's blog - 2023-06-04 - - PDF - The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree. … Continue reading Do we need copyright?
• </> htmx ~ How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? - 2023-06-04 - PDF
• 5/57a The Corso, Parkdale, Vic 3195 - Unit for Rent - realestate.com.au - 2023-06-04 - PDF - This renovated two-bedroom apartment offers a desirable lifestyle with stunning views of the sunset across Port Phillip Bay. Situated at the top and in the middle of a small beachside block, it provides a rare opportunity to enjoy bay views and Parkdale village<br/>The apartment's location is highly convenient, being just a four-minute walk to the station, cafes, shops, beach trails, and the water's edge. This proximity ensures that your leisure time is easily accessible and enjoyable.<br/>Upon entering the apartment, you'll find a welcoming open-plan living/dining area and a contemporary kitchen, large windows in this space perfectly frame the captivating view, allowing you to appreciate the beauty of the bay. The generous living area extends further out to a full-width balcony, which provides ample space for evening drinks or entertaining guests.<br/>The two double-sized bedrooms, located off a central hallway, offer fitted wardrobes and share a sleek updated bathroom. The bathroom is designed with practical provisions for laundry, adding to the convenience of the apartment. Additionally, the apartment includes a reverse cycle heater and air conditioning for year-round comfort.<br/>For security and peace of mind, the apartment offers secure entry, an allocated lock-up garage, and additional storage space. Overall, this apartment presents an appealing opportunity to enjoy a desirable lifestyle in a sought-after location, with stunning views and convenient amenities.<br/><br/>ARRANGING AN INSPECTION IS EASY – Simply press the BOOK INSPECTION button to submit your inquiry. Select a time that suits you or alternatively, you can suggest your own time and we will confirm. Once registered, we can keep you updated about any changes or cancellations. So don’t miss out – register for an inspection time today
• dcmoura/spyql: Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions - 2023-06-03 - - PDF - Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions - dcmoura/spyql: Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions
• I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped | Rowan Atkinson | The Guardian - 2023-06-03 - - PDF - Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson
• Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me - 2023-06-03 - PDF - When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.
• cloudquery/pg_gpt: Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queries in human language. - 2023-06-02 - - PDF - Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queries in human language. - cloudquery/pg_gpt: Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queri...
• Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager - The Verge - 2023-06-01 - - PDF - No need to open the Task Manager anymore for most people.
• What Are the Enduring Innovations of Lisp? - 2023-06-01 - - PDF
• Three new features launching at Tailscale Up · Tailscale - 2023-06-01 - - PDF - Today we’re kicking off Tailscale Up, our first ever community conference. To celebrate the occasion, we’re announcing new features that address some of the top community feature requests — and we hope will excite you. We’ll be rolling out more information about these announcements over the next week, but for now we’ve got some stuff that we can’t wait to share.

May 2023

• South Australia passes laws to crack down on protest after disruption of oil and gas conference | South Australia | The Guardian - 2023-05-31 - - PDF - After 14-hour debate, upper house passes laws on disruptive protests, which increase maximum fine to $50,000 along with potential jail time
• Welcoming bit.io to Databricks: Investing in the Developer Experience - 2023-05-31 - - PDF
• I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know, I could never have guessed what happened next! · Jacob Davis-Hansson - 2023-05-30 - - PDF - (Spoiler: trusting your contributors works) Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django. It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you. My use case for the library, django-money eventually faded, but it ended up teaching me a useful lesson in trust and OSS abandonware.
• NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed - IEEE Spectrum - 2023-05-30 - - PDF - Researchers doubled the downlink record they set just last year
• You Can Serve Static Data Over HTTP - 2023-05-30 - - PDF
• Hardening Drupal with WebAssembly - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - Explore how Drupal can benefit from the capabilities-based security model offered by WebAssembly.
• Working with resolvers and Vercel Postgres – Grafbase - 2023-05-29 - PDF - Use Grafbase resolvers and Vercel Postgres to handle OpenAI vector embeddings
• The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - It’s 24 hours long, it’s just a black screen, and it has 40 million views. WHAT.
• Cloudflare Workers Introduces connect() API to Create TCP Sockets - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - During the recent developer week, Cloudflare announced a Worker API to create outbound TCP sockets. The new socket API allows developers to connect back to TCP-based infra directly from a Worker, including databases.
• Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down | Internet Archive Blogs - 2023-05-29 - - PDF
• Comparing iPhone 13 vs iPhone 14 for astrophotography - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - The best camera is the one you have with you, or so the old saying goes. That statement has never been more powerful than now. I recently took a break from Adobe MAX to hit the desert for a short adventure with Russell Brown from Adobe. I wanted to shoot some star trails with a […]
• Forrest says he did not bid for Sun Cable, has his own 20GW to build | RenewEconomy - 2023-05-28 - PDF - Forrest says he made no final offer for Sun Cable and intends to focus instead on his own 20GW renewable pipeline.
• Melbourne CBD council car plan: Pedestrians and public transport winners in new plan | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site - 2023-05-28 - PDF - A proposal put forward by a Melbourne council could see cars banned from large parts of the CBD, prioritising pedestrians and public transport instead.
• Motherfucking Website - 2023-05-28 - - PDF
• About txti - 2023-05-28 - PDF
• VHEMT - 2023-05-28 - - PDF
• The HTTP QUERY Method - 2023-05-28 - - PDF - This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
• Why does "👩🏾‍🌾" have a length of 7 in JavaScript? - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - 👩🏾‍🌾 is made up of 1 grapheme cluster, 4 scalars, and 7 UTF-16 code units.
• Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat summary: So, wait. They file a brief …
• SIP on Android – Sipgate and Linphone – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-05-27 - - PDF
• Building a Personal VoIP System - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - Take control of your telephony with Asterisk!
• code-relay/HowIDidIt.md at main · mmulet/code-relay · GitHub - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - Source for the Code Relay website. Code Relay The fastest and easiest way to contribute to open source! - code-relay/Secrets.md at main · mmulet/code-relay
• HP Plus: an exciting new way to DRM your inkjet printer! - The Verge - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - No such thing as free ink.
• Find the right app | Microsoft AppSource - 2023-05-26 - - PDF
• Loop much? :: The Upside-Down Trees - 2023-05-26 - PDF - Combining list/ array operators in a single iteration
• Replit - Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - …
• </> htmx ~ Essays - 2023-05-26 - PDF
• tudurom/dotfiles: My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS - 2023-05-25 - PDF - My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS - tudurom/dotfiles: My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS
• phaazon.net - 2023-05-25 - - PDF
• GitHub - patte/fly-tailscale-exit: Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github! - 2023-05-25 - - PDF - Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github! - GitHub - patte/fly-tailscale-exit: Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github!
• You don't need a modal window - 2023-05-24 - PDF - Just make a separate page.
• What Number Comes Next? The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Knows. - The New York Times - 2023-05-24 - - PDF - The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting).
• I block ads • Cory Dransfeldt - 2023-05-23 - - PDF - I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
• 'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma | Engadget - 2023-05-23 - - PDF - The BlackBerry movie is funny, dramatic and one of the best films ever made about tech..
• Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - A guest post by Aaron Carr.
• Victoria prepares for cuts as the Premier and Treasurer get ready to unveil the state budget - ABC News - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Labor is preparing to tighten the purse strings in the upcoming state budget as it deals with the rising costs of its building projects and pays the bills incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Australia’s rising road toll: how the pandemic and a love of big cars are putting lives at risk | Transport | The Guardian - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Decades of gains in road safety are being set back by the rise in SUV ownership and impatient drivers used to empty lockdown streets
• Coding with voice dictation using Talon Voice - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
• Migrating from Supabase - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - In the last couple weeks, we've migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render. We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team's needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point.
• Derailed again, the decades-long quest for a Melbourne airport train feels like a mirage | Anna Spargo-Ryan | The Guardian - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Talk of a rail line has existed longer than the airport, but broken promises and stalled construction make you wonder if it will ever materialise
• How I won Telegram's $50,000 Sticker App Contest using Flutter – Telegraph - 2023-05-19 - PDF - Telegram Contests Telegram runs its own platform contest.com with developer challenges aimed at adding or improving features of Telegram ecosystem. The contests are paid and prize pools are split between participants based on their results. Sticker App Contest On June 25 2021 Sticker App Contest was announced. The task was to create a mobile app that let users create and export Telegram stickers. The contest had a prize pool of $50,000, and participants had less than 10 days to develop their app. I decided…
• Expand Contract for Databases and Services | Andy Dote - 2023-05-19 - - PDF - I haven’t seen Expand-Contract written about in some years, and I think it is a great way of performing database schema migrations without the need for application downtime. I also realised that it also applies to microservices and service-to-service communication in general. The Easy Example One of the two examples given is wanting to change how an address is stored in a database. The schema starts off looking like this:
• All languages are NOT created (tokenized) equal - 2023-05-18 - - PDF - Language models cost much more in some languages than others
• Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code | by Emily Dresner | May, 2023 | Better Programming - 2023-05-18 - PDF - When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…
• the case for bash - Chris Dickinson - 2023-05-18 - - PDF
• Read Every Single Error - 2023-05-18 - - PDF
• Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I) - 2023-05-17 - - PDF
• Call for SkyBus priority lanes as Melbourne Airport Rail link delayed - 2023-05-17 - PDF - The setback to the long-awaited rail project has renewed calls to give SkyBus a dedicated lane on the Tullamarine Freeway, amid warnings the bus service may suffer worsening travel times as congestion grows.
• Train travel in Australia: We’re falling behind the rest of the world - 2023-05-17 - PDF - The world’s most enjoyable travel experiences – that is, the actual act of moving from one place to another – are aboard trains.
• How one man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed the onset of disease - 2023-05-16 - - PDF - Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments.
• Colossal Biosciences Aims to ‘De-Extinct’ the Woolly Mammoth | NVIDIA Blog - 2023-05-16 - - PDF - Ten thousand years after the last woolly mammoths vanished with the last Ice Age, a team of computational biologists is on a mission to bring them back within five years. Led by synthetic biology pioneer George Church, Colossal Biosciences is also seeking to return the dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger, as well as help save Read article >
• Decision to lift interest rates influenced by higher-than-forecast rent increases, RBA says | Reserve Bank of Australia | The Guardian - 2023-05-16 - PDF - Minutes from recent meeting say surprise call was ‘finely balanced’ and aimed at diminishing the risks of high inflation becoming entrenched
• My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated - 2023-05-15 - PDF - Deprecated should be my middle name
• ~bt/alpine-suck - Alpine Linux installer running core suckless programs - sourcehut git - 2023-05-15 - PDF
• Thailand opposition crushes military parties in election rout | Reuters - 2023-05-15 - PDF - The stunning win sets the stage for deal-making over forming a government in a bid to end nearly a decade of army-backed rule.
• Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection - 2023-05-14 - - PDF - Prompt injection remains an unsolved problem. The best we can do at the moment, disappointingly, is to raise awareness of the issue. As I pointed out last week, “if you …
• Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript - 2023-05-14 - - PDF - I participated in a webinar this morning about prompt injection, organized by LangChain and hosted by Harrison Chase, with Willem Pienaar, Kojin Oshiba (Robust Intelligence), and Jonathan Cohen and Christopher …
• Bulk billing costs: I’m a GP and I’m sorry – but I can’t afford to bulk bill you - 2023-05-14 - PDF - GP clinics are small businesses. We want to help our patients, but altruism is not a sustainable business model. We can’t keep making a loss for bulk-billed consultations.
• TypeScript is 'not worth it' for developing libraries, says Svelte author, as team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc • DEVCLASS - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - Svelte creator Rich Harris has made the case for switching from TypeScript to JavaScript and JSDoc, countering a trend that has seen strong growth in TypeScript usage. A pull request for TS to JSDoc conversion attracted some puzzled comments. “Why is this change being made? I was looking around for an issue or discussion around […]
• CG/SQL | CG/SQL - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - CG/SQL is a compiler that converts a SQL Stored Procedure like language into C for SQLite. CG/CQL also generates other useful artifacts for testing and schema maintenance.
• Why I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Denormalized Tables - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - My journey of how I've ended up embracing denormalized tables, how to use tools like dbt to bridge normalized and denormalized tables, and how denormalized data accelerates exploratory data analysis and self service analytics.
• Google Bard blocks all European Union countries - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - Google Bard is blocking all European Union countries, presumably due to issues with GDPR compliance of the AI chatbot.
• What's New in pg_graphql v1.2 - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - New Features in the v1.2 release of pg_graphql
• One Day You’ll Find Yourself - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - Select advice from your uncle in the big city.
• wick3dr0se/snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ - 2023-05-11 - PDF - :snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ - wick3dr0se/snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+
• Adding Webseed URLs to Torrent Files - 2023-05-10 - PDF - I was recently hanging out on a Slack discussing the deficiencies in the BitTorrent protocol for fast file distribution. A decade ago when L...
• Booting Linux Over HTTP - 2023-05-10 - PDF - A couple years ago, one of my friends gave me a big pile of little Dell FX160 thin clients, which are cute little computers which have low...
• Creating an Internet Exchange for Even More Fun and Less Profit - 2023-05-10 - PDF - Last quarter, I was pulled into the slightly odd underground of people running their own autonomous systems , and since then, our circle ...
• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit - 2023-05-10 - PDF - At its core, the Internet is an interconnected fabric of separate networks. Each network which makes up the Internet is operated independe...
• Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN - 2023-05-10 - PDF - As should surprise no one, based on my past projects of running my own autonomous system , building my own Internet Exchange Point , and bui...
• German EMS uses QR technology to discourage illegal photography at emergency scenes - 2023-05-08 - - PDF
• Australia finally has a Net Zero Authority. What should top its agenda? | RenewEconomy - 2023-05-08 - PDF - Now that we finally have a Net Zero Authority, how can it help Australia make the most of this once-in-a-generation economic transformation?
• Branding in the Real World: Acronym Branding - 2023-05-08 - - PDF - Should you change the name of the brand or stick with it?
• Digital Driver Licences On The Way For Victorian Motorists | Premier of Victoria - 2023-05-08 - PDF - The Andrews Labor Government will give motorists the option to carry their licence on their phone with a digital driver licence trial in Ballarat before a statewide roll-out by 2024. The new technology will give motorists the choice to store a secure digital version of their driver licence in the popular Service Victoria app or soon-to-be-launched my VicRoads app.
• Sam Altman says remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake | Fortune - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of the tech industry's biggest mistakes was thinking "startups didn't need to be together."
• The businessman and the fisherman - The Storytellers - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - A lesson in keeping our goals in sight.
• Give it the Craigslist test Erica Heinz - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.
• The UNIX Koans - 2023-05-06 - - PDF
• What’s new in Citus 11.3 & Postgres for multi-tenant SaaS workloads - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - All about what’s new in the Citus 11.3 extension to Postgres, with new tenant monitoring features for SaaS workloads, metadata synchronization for those with large numbers of tables, parallel shard rebalancing, MERGE support for co-located distributed tables, and logical decoding for CDC (in preview.)
• Stop Using Hamburger Menus - 2023-05-05 - - PDF
• Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level capabilities.
• I found the best anagram in English - 2023-05-05 - - PDF
• How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C
• Matt Canavan says Liddell power station's closure is linked to several 'lack of power' alerts. Is that correct? - ABC News - 2023-05-05 - PDF - Nationals senator Matt Canavan has sought to link recent AEMO energy alerts with the closure of Liddell power station. But is there a link?
• Anonymous Tor Phone - 2023-05-03 - - PDF
• Vercel Markup - 2023-05-03 - - PDF
• the last unit of Liddell Power Station closes - 2023-05-01 - PDF

April 2023

• scrapscript - 2023-04-28 - - PDF
• Glen Huntly, Glenhuntly, Ferntree Gully, Fern Tree Gully, Wattle Glen, Wattleglen: Melbourne suburbs with two different spellings - 2023-04-27 - PDF - Ferntree Gully or Fern Tree Gully? Ripponlea or Rippon Lea? If you look hard enough, naming anomalies dot the suburbs of Melbourne and beyond.
• What is Scotland's not proven verdict? - BBC News - 2023-04-26 - PDF - The controversial third verdict will be scrapped if proposed reforms are approved by the Scottish Parliament.
• Fast Flash | HackerNews - 2023-04-25 - - PDF - I downloaded 35 million posts from HackerNews, here's what I've known.
• Demotivating a (Skilled) Programmer | by Mohamed Aboelez | Mar, 2023 | Level Up Coding - 2023-04-24 - - PDF - Based on a true story, but not mine.
• Wtf is a kdf? | blog.dataparty - 2023-04-23 - - PDF - Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
• Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots - 2023-04-23 - - PDF - Pet parrots in a new study led by Northeastern researchers loved using iPads to call fellow birds to chat while forging lasting friendships.
• TxtNet-Browser/README.md at master · lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser · GitHub - 2023-04-22 - - PDF - An app that lets you browse the web over SMS. Contribute to lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser development by creating an account on GitHub.
• The Car Thieves Using Tech Disguised Inside Old Nokia Phones and Bluetooth Speakers - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Motherboard posed as an interested buyer to learn more about the wild world of car hacking.
• World's largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - "A new era of universal electrification of sea, land and air transportation." CATL announces new battery that doubles energy intensity.
• Use Databases Without Putting Domain Logic in Them | Alex Kondov - Software Engineer - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Even though I’m very passionate about front-end development now, I started my career with different intentions. For the first few years, I worked predominantly…
• Australia grid rides through solar eclipse, but the next one will be a "doozy" | RenewEconomy - 2023-04-21 - PDF - Solar eclipse casts shadow over Australian grid and its world-leading share of solar PV, but the next one will cross over major population centres.
• Spinning Diagrams with CSS - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
• Evidence - Business Intelligence as Code - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Evidence enables analysts to build a trusted, version-controlled reporting system by writing SQL and markdown. Evidence reports are publication-quality, highly customizable, and fit for human consumption.
• Assured Open Source Software | Google Cloud - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Improve the security of your software supply chain by incorporating the same trusted OSS packages that Google uses into your own developer workflows.
• Father Bob Maguire, charity campaigner and Catholic priest, dies aged 88 - ABC News - 2023-04-19 - PDF - Father Bob Maguire was the parish priest at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in South Melbourne for nearly 40 years. He was known for his tireless charity work and for reaching younger audiences through his media appearances.
• The Technium: Lifelogging, An Inevitability - 2023-04-18 - - PDF - The goal of lifelogging: to record and archive all information in one’s life. This includes all text, all visual information, all audio, all media activity, as well as all biological data from sensors on one’s body. The information would be … Continue reading →
• HaggardHawks: Ampersand - 2023-04-18 - PDF - This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
• dbdev: PostgreSQL Package Manager - 2023-04-17 - - PDF - We're publicly previewing dbdev, a PostgreSQL package manager.
• Postgres Superpowers in Practice - Event-Driven.io - 2023-04-17 - PDF - Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz
• Jessica Watson shares how lessons learnt at sea helped her navigate the waves of grief over losing partner - ABC News - 2023-04-16 - PDF - Jessica Watson faced life-threatening storms and a collision with a tanker as "the girl in the pink boat" who sailed the world solo, but nothing would be as hard as the tragedy she would face 11 years after her record-breaking voyage.
• Chatting with a hacker about cybercrime gangs, Medibank and supporting Russia's attacks on Ukraine - ABC News - 2023-04-16 - PDF - A hacker — who claims to have been part of one of the world's most successful gangs — tells us why Australia is a target and laughs at the distress caused by the Medibank data breach.
• Dishwasher salmon - Wikipedia - 2023-04-16 - - PDF
• Cat Pages — Faster man-db. Use catman to Speed Up Your Man Pages | by Sebastian Carlos | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Use catman to Speed Up Your Man Pages
• The Case of the Exploding COALESCE Statements - Yellowbrick - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Introduction I’d like to take you through an interesting bug I dug into and fixed in my first months here at Yellowbrick. I joined the planning and optimization team about four months ago, which focuses most of its time on the query-planning component of our core product, the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, a MPP (Massively Parallel […]
• aditya-K2/gspt: Spotify for the terminal written in Go - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Spotify for the terminal written in Go . Contribute to aditya-K2/gspt development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen? - 2023-04-14 - - PDF - Activity around building sophisticated applications on top of LLMs (Large Language Models) such as GPT-3/4/ChatGPT/etc is growing like wildfire right now. Many of these applications are potentially vulnerable to prompt …
• 916 days of Emacs - 2023-04-14 - - PDF - Freedom is a state of mind
• John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack): "Everyone knows that when you have similar code repeated several times that you should consolidate into a loop or function, but changing discrete variables into arrays and adding loops can have a small readability cost, so sometimes it can feel like a debatable choice for something small just repeated two or three times. Usually, optimizing for readability is positive, but a requirement to keep two separate things aligned through future changes is an “invisible constraint” that is quite likely to cause problems eventually. Many years ago, I would casually copy-paste-paste-paste-modify 4D vector statements, but now I almost never even do two related statements like that. The hazard is when you combine two things that are close, but not exactly the same, and the strain induces complexity." | nitter - 2023-04-13 - PDF - Everyone knows that when you have similar code repeated several times that you should consolidate into a loop or function, but changing discrete variables into arrays and adding loops can have a small readability cost, so sometimes it can feel like a debatable choice for something small just repeated two or three times. Usually, optimizing for readability is positive, but a requirement to keep two separate things aligned through future changes is an “invisible constraint” that is quite likely to cause problems eventually. Many years ago, I would casually copy-paste-paste-paste-modify 4D vector statements, but now I almost never even do two related statements like that. The hazard is when you combine two things that are close, but not exactly the same, and the strain induces complexity.
• Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4 Months - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Google is notorious for its habit of killing off products and 2023 has been no exception In just the first four months of the year the tech giant has already pulled the plug on six products leaving users scrambling for alternatives Let s take a closer look at each of the products
• Baking Images with Nix for Robust Private Networks at Bowtie - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Learn how Bowtie uses Nix to build network appliance images, enabling us to support a variety of formats with a high degree of code reuse and an elegant upgrade process. Ensuring that network appliances are easy to run, test, update, and operate reliably is important and underpins Bowtie’s commitment to robust simplicity.
• DB Recruiter | Online platform for conducting SQL assessments - 2023-04-13 - PDF - An online SQL environment for evaluating a candidate's skills using MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
• Passkeys: What the Heck and Why? | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks - 2023-04-13 - PDF - These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari
• What you give up when moving into engineering management - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
• On a great interview question. Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed… | by Behdad Esfahbod | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question…
• Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time With curl, jq, and pizauth - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
• Lindows 4.0 (2003) — Daniil Baturin - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
• Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in Windows 11 Start Menu - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - The latest Windows 11 update adds promotional ‘notifications’ to bait users into using services like OneDrive.
• avahi - mDNS/DNS-SD - 2023-04-12 - - PDF
• Tailscale sucks - 2023-04-12 - - PDF - In which I liberate a robot vacuum cleaner from the cloud, and run Tailscale on it.
• Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance | Press | Bloomberg LP - 2023-04-11 - PDF - BloombergGPT is a 50-billion parameter large language model that was purpose-built from scratch for finance.
• My Rancher Parents Hate Wolves. I Took Them on a Wolf-Watching Tour in Yellowstone to Change Their Minds. - Outside Online - 2023-04-11 - PDF - Wolves are my favorite animal, but my parents see them as the enemy that kills their livestock
• Supabase Logs: open source logging server - 2023-04-11 - - PDF
• Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco | WIRED - 2023-04-10 - - PDF - Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers.
• supabase/supavisor: A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler. - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler. - supabase/supavisor: A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler.
• Closing a stale SSH connection | DIDEV - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for a stale session. The first solution that might come to mind is to just close the terminal emulator and create another one, but there is a better way.
• Australia says U.S. facial recognition software firm Clearview breached privacy law | Reuters - 2023-04-09 - PDF - An Australian regulator on Wednesday ordered U.S. facial recognition software company Clearview AI Inc to stop collecting images from websites and destroy data collected in the country after an investigation found it breached privacy laws.
• I Road-Tested Three Cults Around Melbourne - 2023-04-09 - PDF - Am I a Moonie, a Scientologist, or a Hare Krishna?
• This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat, nor terrible penmanship nor perfect cursive will keep the postal service from delivering your mail.
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - 2023-04-08 - - PDF - “Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have.” — John Green, author of The Fault in...
• Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands - City of Melbourne - 2023-04-08 - PDF - City of Melbourne is installing floating wetlands in the Yarra River as part of a trial funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP).
• How to Beat Roulette: One Gambler Figured It Out and Won Big - 2023-04-07 - PDF - For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.
• A clipboard for your tailnet with Telltail: Q&A with developer Ajit Singh - 2023-04-07 - PDF - Telltail is a Go application that allows different machines on your tailnet to copy and paste text with a shared clipboard. We caught up with its developer Ajit Singh for a Tailscale Q&A about how it came together.
• Over 60 million people could have their tax returns automatically done by the IRS - Vox - 2023-04-07 - - PDF - "Automatic returns" could vastly simplify tax season for millions of people.
• Voice to Parliament referendum question and constitutional amendment announced - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reveals the proposed question Australians will be asked at the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year, as well as the proposed change to the constitution.
• Unravelling the 80-year-old mystery of the woman found in a wych elm in Hagley Wood - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Four teenage boys were trespassing on an aristocrat’s property when they found a human skull hidden in a tree. Eighty years on, the mystery of why she was put in a wych elm continues to haunt this English village. WARNING: This article contains details readers might find distressing.
• Many of my own people tell me they don't understand the Voice - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Aunty Patty Undi is sitting next to me in a place of our ancestors. She is an old lady now and she is wondering does this nation — Australia — truly care for us? Many of my own people don't know who to trust and they wonder if the Voice will truly speak for them, writes Stan Grant
• Are you a man born in 1970? You might live to be 141 - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - Increasing life expectancy means maximum human age could be reached, say scientists
• JSON vs XML With Douglas Crockford - CoRecursive Podcast - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]
• The Day Windows Died - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - As a longtime user of Windows, it was my first choice when preparing the first computer for my son. But that didn't work out as expected.
• Rethinking Paris: France braces for 4°C warming in “turning point” strategy | RenewEconomy - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Paris plans to use 2024 Olympics as a showcase for urban climate adaptation, including proposals to deal with 4°C of warming.
• I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients | by Inflect Health | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - ChatGPT recently passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but using it for a real-world medical diagnosis would quickly turn deadly.
• How Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream About - 2023-04-06 - - PDF
• Remembering Bob Lee | Hacker News - 2023-04-05 - PDF
• What CTOs Say vs. What Their Developers Hear w/ DataStax's Shankar Ramaswamy - 2023-04-05 - PDF - From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. This episode was originally published on February 5th, 2022. Enjoy! Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems.
• script(1) - Linux manual page - 2023-04-05 - - PDF
• Five hurricanes and 240 days later: Australian woman rows 14,000km solo across the Pacific | Queensland | The Guardian - 2023-04-05 - PDF - Michelle Lee, a 50-year-old massage therapist, reached the Queensland coast on Wednesday after leaving Mexico on 8 August
• Saying Goodbye to GitHub - 2023-04-03 - - PDF
• how-software-companies-die - 2023-04-03 - - PDF - GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Bullsh*t Jobs - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of the 20th century, people were eagerly
• Bullsh*t Jobs - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of the 20th century, people were eagerly
• Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Vim easy mode is tough to use for seasoned users!

March 2023

• Tailscale Funnel now available in beta · Tailscale - 2023-03-30 - - PDF - Tailscale Funnel, a tool that lets you share a web server on your private tailnet with the public internet, is now available as a beta feature for all users. With Funnel enabled, you can share access to a local development server, test a webhook, or even host a blog.
• Six things to do today to boost your borrowing power by $130k - realestate.com.au - 2023-03-30 - PDF - The average person could add $130,000 to their borrowing power by taking six clear steps from the comfort of their couch – and a warning, one of them involves getting stuck in with scissors.
• S3 as an Eternal Service - 2023-03-30 - - PDF
• Gergely Orosz on Twitter: "What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer &amp; lower priority stuff. My thoughts:" / Twitter - 2023-03-29 - - PDF - “What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer &amp; lower priority stuff. My thoughts:”
• I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating - 2023-03-29 - PDF
• TaxyAI/browser-extension: Automate your browser with GPT-4 - 2023-03-29 - - PDF - Automate your browser with GPT-4. Contribute to TaxyAI/browser-extension development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Poor man’s islands architecture. How to implement a simple component… | by Hajime Yamasaki Vukelic | Mar, 2023 | Better Programming - 2023-03-28 - PDF - How to implement a simple component islands loader in plain JS
• Quicker serverless Postgres connections - Neon - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not generally persisted from one request to the next. That means we can’t […]
• Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Or, what increasingly feels like we're living life inside of an exponential function
• Apple introduces Apple Pay Later - Apple - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Apple today introduced Apple Pay Later, which allows users to split purchases into four payments, spread over six weeks with no interest and no fees.
• Fast Unix Commands | Alex Saveau - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Fast Unix Commands (FUC) is a project that aims to create the world’s fastest Unix commands. Currently, this means rm and cp replacements named rmz and cpz (the ‘z’ stands for “zippy”). When better performance cannot be achieved, the next highest priority is efficiency. In practice, rmz appears to be the fastest file deleter available while cpz wins in most cases, only losing in flat directory hierarchies.
• Introducing Custom OIDC · Tailscale - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - At Tailscale, we don’t want your users (or us) managing a separate list of usernames and passwords, which is why you must use single sign-on with an identity provider to create and manage your network. Until now, that meant you needed to choose from a handful of trusted identity providers including Google, Okta, GitHub, and Azure AD. Custom OIDC, now in open beta (and available for everyone), changes all that. New users can set up custom OIDC and sign in at login.tailscale.com/start/oidc, and existing customers can contact our support team to request account migration.
• "Huge hit" to coal and gas as hard cap and pollution trigger added to Safeguard reforms | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-27 - PDF - Labor and Greens agree to raft of changes to Safeguard Mechanism, including new measures the Greens say will put new coal and gas projects “on the ropes.”
• Video Rendering with Node.js and FFmpeg - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
• Learning face-to-face with actual scientists, students can now plot their own career path in science - 2023-03-27 - PDF
• SQLite Forum: The craziest thing I ever used SQLite for: partial file deduplication - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
• PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model - 2023-03-27 - - PDF - Project page for PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model.
• E-Prime - Wikipedia - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
• When Will AI Take Your Job? - by Tomas Pueyo - 2023-03-27 - - PDF - Cristiano Ronaldo makes 100 times more money than Pelé did in his prime. If you understand why, you’ll know when to expect an AI to take your job.
• Easy PostgreSQL Time Bins - 2023-03-26 - - PDF - ​​Paul has some fast and easy tricks to show you how to get time series data into nice reportable data charts. Using functions like floor(), generate_series(), width_bucket(), and date_bin() you can bin your data in groups any way you like and retrieve charts in a flash.
• Ban 1+N in Django - 2023-03-26 - - PDF
• Scientists Finally Figure Out Why the Water Bear is Nearly Indestructible - 2023-03-26 - PDF - Scientists Finally Figure Out Why the Water Bear is Nearly Indestructible
• ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic – @AndrewMayne - 2023-03-26 - - PDF - tl;dr: OpenAI is testing the ability to run code and use third-party plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI has announced that we’re developing plugins for ChatGPT that will extend its capabilities. [Link] Plu…
• Updates from the 95th TC39 meeting - DEV Community - 2023-03-25 - PDF - There were several items on the agenda, this post focuses on feature proposals and their progress...
• How these art sleuths reunited a family after centuries apart : NPR - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - In 1626, a father and son sat for a portrait. Nearly 400 years later their story is still being examined by experts in Europe.
• I Bought Back My Acquihired Startup - 2023-03-24 - - PDF
• Tales of a Sardinian software engineer - 2023-03-24 - PDF - Functional Friday, Episode 2. Learning how to use ReScript expressions and how they compare to TypeScript and JavaScript
• Post-GPT Computing | Grady Simon - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - Is software done now? Processing the the ChatGPT Plugins announcement.
• Luitjes IT | InjectGPT: the most polite exploit ever - 2023-03-24 - - PDF
• We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
• A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
• Codeium - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - Codeium offers best in class AI code completion & search — all for free. It supports over 40+ languages and integrates with your favorite IDEs, with lightning fast speeds and state-of-the-art suggestion quality.
• Pull vs push: intentional notifications — Secluded.Site - 2023-03-23 - - PDF
• MRSK vs Fly.io · Fly - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
• When did New York start building slowly? - by Brian Potter - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - It’s good to be able to build things quickly. The faster you build something, the quicker the benefits from it accrue, making it more valuable. Additionally, you can reallocate your resources to another project, letting you build more things overall. Building things faster also generally means building them cheaper. If you’re building slowly, you’re probably building inefficiently, spending more time and effort than is really required. It’s also hard to avoid accumulating costs as a project drags on: you end up with more financing costs, more project status meetings, more time spent getting people up to speed as the team working on the project changes. And the longer a project takes, the more chances there are for something to go horribly wrong. Bent Flyvbjerg, who has spent his career studying megaprojects (projects costing a billion dollars or more),
• Cool frontend arts of local-first: storage, sync, conflicts—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog - 2023-03-22 - - PDF - Web applications often require an internet connection, but a fair chunk can also work offline. We show frontend engineers how to gracefully implement the big 3 local-first solutions: storage, synchronization, and conflict resolutions.
• WeasyPrint - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - WeasyPrint, The Awesome Document Factory. Transform HTML and CSS into PDF documents.
• Laying Out a Print Book With CSS - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
• Ramda Documentation - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
• href.li: hide your referrer - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Make a short link with an expiry date.
• The Inflight Entertainment Challenge - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
• Collapses like SVB triggers demand for limited-edition corporate merch - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Thanks to the internet, a new type of resale economy has risen around demand for merch from corporations with a spectacular fall from grace.
• Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools | Hacker News - 2023-03-21 - PDF
• I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked – Emmanuel Maggiori - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
• refinedev/refine: Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints. - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints. - refinedev/refine: Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints.
• Australia Home Sold Price, Property Sales Data, Victoria, New South Wales, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth - 2023-03-20 - PDF
• Shanty: about - 2023-03-20 - PDF
• Shanty: map of Australian property prices! - 2023-03-20 - PDF - An interactive map for Australian historic property prices! Search for and filter past sales by address, suburb, date, price, building type, bedrooms, bathrooms, and carspaces.
• The PostgreSQL Job Scheduler You Always Wanted - 2023-03-20 - PDF - We created a job scheduler built into PostgreSQL with no external dependencies. This is the power you always wanted, but with a few caveats.
• Mind the gap: Using SQL functions for time-series analysis - 2023-03-20 - PDF - Write more efficient and readable queries with a new set of time-series analytic tools included in TimescaleDB 1.2
• Leaving China - Persuasion - 2023-03-20 - - PDF - Why expatriates like me abandoned the futures we planned in China.
• WTF are purple carrots and where did they come from? | Popular Science - 2023-03-20 - PDF - Where did the plum-colored carrot come from, and why is it showing up in my grocery store all of a sudden?
• Why people misuse inheritance | Thoughts, solicited and otherwise - 2023-03-19 - PDF - Jimmy Koppel wrote a thread about inheritance: "The Flaws of Inheritance" by @CodeAesthetic1 is beautiful, as always.Problem though, is that none of the thin...
• Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal - 2023-03-19 - - PDF
• The dress - Wikipedia - 2023-03-19 - PDF
• Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign" - Internal Tech Emails - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - This was an act of betrayal.
• A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator | Stephen Hawking | The Guardian - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time
• Theme Hospital - 2023-03-19 - PDF
• Cachix 1.3: Uploads unleashed - Cachix Blog - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - Serving files is the bread and butter of Cachix. Fetching store paths from Cachix is fast — downloads are served directly from fast distributed cloud storage. Uploads, however, are a different story. Each upload still had to go directly through one of our servers, making our ingest bandwidth a scarce and highly contested resource during peak times. Many of our users rely on Cachix in their CI pipelines, where slower uploads lead to longer CI runs and a worse developer experience, which is why we’ve been busy reorganizing our internals to remove this bottleneck.
• AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - Exclusive: Voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw
• AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - Exclusive: Voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw
• NAB launches Sharia loan product into Australian Islamic finance market tipped to be worth $250b - ABC News - 2023-03-18 - PDF - Australia's finance sector is tapping into the Islamic market, with one of the country's biggest lenders today launching a Sharia compliant loan and smaller institutions vying to become the first bank for the nation's Muslim population.
• Here’s how to participate in Monday’s oral arguments - Internet Archive Blogs - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - We’re standing up for the digital rights of all libraries in court! On Monday at 1pm ET, the Southern District of New York will hear oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the lawsuit against our library and the longstanding library practice of controlled digital lending, brought by 4 of the world’s largest publishers. Here’s […]
• Streaming | Remix - 2023-03-17 - PDF
• The Modern Web Sucks :: Thomas Pain - 2023-03-16 - PDF - And what can be done about it
• docopt—language for description of command-line interfaces - 2023-03-16 - - PDF
• Introducing react.dev - 2023-03-16 - - PDF
• What the fuck is a closure? ・ Dan’s JavaScript Glossary - 2023-03-16 - - PDF - Dan’s JavaScript Glossary
• The Future of Data Fetching in React | Niraj Chauhan - 2023-03-15 - PDF - React has recently announced the development of a new hook that will provide first-class support for Promises.
• ChatGPT — Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center - 2023-03-15 - - PDF - The latest update for ChatGPT
• Things DBs Don't Do - But Should - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
• Duolingo Max Uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 For New Learning Features - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
• NAPLAN results inform schools, parents and policy. But too many kids miss the tests altogether - 2023-03-15 - PDF
• Thai authorities searching for missing radioactive cylinder taken from coal power plant - ABC News - 2023-03-15 - PDF - A cylinder containing radioactive material has gone missing in a Thai province around 160 kilometres east of Bangkok, sparking a wide-scale search.
• The next generation of AI for developers and Google Workspace - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
• Why some GitHub labels illegible - 2023-03-15 - - PDF - Source of Moritz Firsching’s web page
• Mount Gambier man Ryan Anthony Chambers declared dead after 17-year search - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - Ryan Anthony Chambers was last seen in August 2005, but extensive searches to find him have proven unsuccessful
• Spirit of Tasmania ferry operator and ex-polo captain both convicted and fined following 2018 polo pony deaths - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - After more than half a decade, a Tasmanian ferry operator and a former Australian polo captain have been ordered to pay thousands of dollars in fines in relation to the deaths of 16 polo ponies.
• Australia begins its nuclear age as AUKUS overcomes years of submarine struggles - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - From a dalliance with Japan, to an extended French flirt, Australia's now firmly back in the bosom of its Anglosphere allies during a meandering and disjointed journey to find its next generation submarine fleet and with that, Australia's nuclear age has begun, writes Andrew Probyn.
• Over 2,300 MS-DOS games now completely free to play at Internet Archive - 2023-03-14 - PDF
• Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of? | Hacker News - 2023-03-13 - PDF
• after some work minutes, lock the screen requiring password entry, and disable the keyboard for a few minutes, delaying possibility of unlock and forcing break minutes - 2023-03-13 - PDF
• charmbracelet/gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀 - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀. Contribute to charmbracelet/gum development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Bhupesh-V/ugit: 🚨️ ugit helps undo git commands. Your damage control git buddy. Undo from 20+ git scenarios. - 2023-03-13 - PDF
• SIVB: Held-to-Mortem Governance - by Mike - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
• Official Google Blog: A second spring of cleaning - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
• murex shell guide - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - $SHELL featuring smart error handling, data-types, builtin testing framework, usability improvements, etc
• Emacs is Not Just An Editor - 2023-03-13 - - PDF
• Who reads your email? - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
• 3 Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had To Become a Manager To See - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed. Taking on manager responsibilities for the first time revealed mistakes I had made as an engineer. Here are the top three things I could only see after becoming a manager.
• New research shows ancestral Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - A more precise timeline now shows Polynesian ancestors of Māori first settled in the North Island before expanding south and then retreating again when the climate changed.
• Protomaps | Serverless Maps - Now Open Source - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
• Upload Anything: How We Revolutionized Data Upload - 2023-03-10 - PDF - Upload a CSV, XLS, SHP, GeoJson, GDB, KML, GML, OSM, GPX, or even image files, & it just works in Felt. Here's how we delivered this buttery smooth experience.
• Free The Game Boy - 2023-03-09 - - PDF -
• In Scramble for Clean Energy, Europe Is Turning to North Africa - Yale E360 - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - In its quest for green energy, Europe is looking to North Africa, where vast solar and wind farms are proliferating and plans call for submarine cables that will carry electricity as far as Britain. But this rush for clean power is raising serious environmental concerns.
• Losing Signal - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - Losing Signal écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
• The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux | Blog - 2023-03-09 - - PDF
• The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999 | The New Yorker - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - Exrx.net is little changed since the days of Yahoo GeoCities and dial-up and saying “www” aloud. Yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
• The never-ending story? More delays in return-to-service at both Callide C3 and C4 - WattClarity - 2023-03-08 - PDF - A short article today noting the additional delays in return-to-service expectations for both Callide C3 and C4.
• Collating widely available time/money trades - LessWrong - 2023-03-08 - - PDF - In the xkcd comic Working, a man is seen filling up his gas tank. "Why are you going here", says the observer, "Gas is ten cents a gallon cheaper at the station five minutes that way". He responds "B…
• diziet | Never use git submodules - 2023-03-08 - - PDF
• Gas industry knew about air pollution problems from stoves in early 1970s | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-07 - PDF - As industry fights to discredit current research on health impacts of gas stoves, newly revealed documents show it was a concern five decades ago.
• CSS System Colors - 2023-03-06 - - PDF
• Reliability: It's Not Great - General - Fly.io - 2023-03-06 - - PDF - The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company. One interesting problem we have is that we’ve exploded in popularity. It sounds like a good problem to have! But we’ve pushed the platform past what it was originally built to do. We’ve put a lot of work and resources into...
• The Edge Computing Opportunity: It’s Not What You Think - 2023-03-06 - - PDF - Cloudflare Workers® is one of the largest, most widely used edge computing platforms. We announced Cloudflare Workers nearly three years ago and it's been generally available for the last two years.
• The World's Smallest Hash Table | orlp.net - 2023-03-06 - - PDF
• "Huge flaw" in safeguard design could double emissions task for non-fossil industries | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-06 - PDF - Report finds critical industries like steel, aluminium and cement will carry the weight of coal and gas under Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism reboot.
• 2022 letter | Dan Wang - 2023-03-05 - - PDF - Becoming a barbarian; an ideological revelry; lockdown; sweetgrass and banana leafs; crankiness; delightful animals; to the mountains
• We're never getting rid of ChatGPT - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-05 - - PDF - We're never getting rid of ChatGPT - Xe's Blog
• Intro to Content Defined Chunking - 2023-03-05 - - PDF
• New repository format for faster and smaller updates | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository - 2023-03-04 - - PDF - We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app forAndroid which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as manybug fixes for l...
• Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion? – Spatial Commerce Projects – A Shopify lab exploring the crossroads of spatial computing and commerce; creating concepts, prototypes, and tools. - 2023-03-04 - - PDF - In the history of mind-blowing tech demos there is one that stands out, and that is Johnny Lee’s Wii Remote hack to create VR displays:
• This geologist found the oldest water on earth—in a Canadian mine - Macleans.ca - 2023-03-02 - - PDF - The billion-year-old water might help unlock one of humanity's biggest unanswered questions: Could there be life on other planets?
• You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery – Brave New Geek - 2023-03-02 - - PDF - I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismi…
• What time is it on moon? Europe pushing for lunar time zone - 2023-03-02 - - PDF
• Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry - 2023-03-01 - - PDF
• Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel - Gokberk Yaltirakli - 2023-03-01 - - PDF - Hey everyone, I have been staying at a hotel for a while. It’s one of those modern ones with smart TVs and other connected goodies. I got curious and opened Wireshark, as any tinkerer would do.
• Chess Insights | Blog • lichess.org - 2023-03-01 - PDF - Reach chess enlightenment through analysis of your playing style.
• Stop saying “technical debt” - 2023-03-01 - - PDF
• Rooftop solar poised to become Australia's biggest power source amid coal's demise - ABC News - 2023-03-01 - - PDF - A new report says more than 3.4 million Australian customers have a rooftop solar system, with the rate of new installations running at roughly 300,000 a year, accelerating the decline of fossil fuel-fired power.

February 2023

• Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really. - 2023-02-28 - - PDF - A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.
• The lone developer problem - 2023-02-28 - - PDF - If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
• Homepage | Civet - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - With Civet, you can enjoy a more concise and readable syntax while leveraging the power of TypeScript. Check out the documentation and resources on our website to learn more about Civet and how to use it effectively
• What Is Scope 4? Reporting Avoided CO2 Emissions & More - 2023-02-27 - PDF - The term Scope 4 is used to describe avoided emissions as well as home-working emissions in some situations. We explore both concepts and the importance of their consideration in full scope carbon reporting.
• Meet the Runner Who Leads Every Pack and Then Vanishes - 2023-02-27 - - PDF
• Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone | Brad Barrows' Blog - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - Brad Barrows' Blog
• From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
• I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
• ER diagrams with SQL and Mermaid - Pavlo Golub - 2023-02-26 - PDF - Generate an ER diagram for a PostgreSQL database using plain SQL and Mermaid. Explore entity relationship diagrams for architecture/ dev
• some more about Spain (especially financial) - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-02-26 - PDF
• Using GoatCounter for blog analytics - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-02-26 - PDF
• A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno? - DEV Community - 2023-02-26 - PDF - Love it or hate it, the JavaScript tooling landscape is the subject of a lot of chatter yet...
• How to Protect Your Career From a ChatGPT Future - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and soon we'll see how careers are affected. Prepare for the future of work and protect your career with our guide on how to secure your job from the rise of AI and automation.
• Mantine - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - React components and hooks library with native dark theme support and focus on usability, accessibility and developer experience
• Primitives – Radix UI - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - An open-source React component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps.
• Victor Mota - 2023-02-26 - - PDF
• DNSFS. Store your files in others DNS resolver caches - 2023-02-26 - - PDF
• analysis - Average centipawn loss - Chess Stack Exchange - 2023-02-24 - PDF
• National security: Would an enemy really try to blow up an offshore wind farm in Australia? | RenewEconomy - 2023-02-24 - PDF - Federal energy minister Chris Bowen asked if offshore wind turbines are a threat to national security because an enemy could blow them up. In Europe, it’s a valid question.
• AirGradient Open Air Outdoor Air Quality Monitor - 2023-02-23 - - PDF - Open-source / open-hardware low cost outdoor air quality monitor to enable citizen science projects around the world with a trusted and accurate design.
• thibault's Blog • Starting from scratch • lichess.org - 2023-02-22 - PDF - If you had to start Lichess from scratch, what would you change?
• My favourite 3 lines of CSS | Andy Bell - 2023-02-21 - - PDF - In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. .stack > * + * { margin-bloc…
• My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
• Cave Clan - 2023-02-20 - PDF - Australia's foremost Urban Exploration group.
• The world’s 1st modern airliner - Boeing - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - The innovative Boeing Model 247 made its first flight 90 years ago.
• You kinda want an orange favicon. - 2023-02-20 - PDF
• Welcome To Partytown - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - Partytown - Run third-party scripts from a web worker
• Welcome To Partytown - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - Partytown - Run third-party scripts from a web worker
• The state of gRPC in the browser | gRPC - 2023-02-19 - - PDF - gRPC 1.0 was released in August 2016 and has since grown to become one of the premier technical solutions for application communications. It has been adopted by startups, enterprise companies, and open source projects worldwide. Its support for polyglot environments, focus on performance, type safety, and developer productivity has transformed the way developers design their architectures.
• sips: Scriptable image processing system | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2023-02-19 - - PDF - I wanted to convert some `.webp` images to `.png` on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT: > On MacOS use CLI to convert webp images to PNG And it told me about `sips`: sips -s format png image.webp --out i
• Reminder: Why You Can’t View Images Directly In Google Image Search - 2023-02-18 - PDF - In early 2018, Google made a few changes to the way Image Search works, the biggest tweak being the removal...
• Type Constraints in 65 lines of SQL - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Creating validated data types in Postgres
• Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? | Hacker News - 2023-02-17 - PDF
• Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS 🚀 - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, javascript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any digital device.
• GPT for second brains · Reasonable Deviations - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
• A Proposal For Type Syntax in JavaScript - TypeScript - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Today we’re excited to announce our support and collaboration on a new Stage 0 proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript. Because this new syntax wouldn’t change how surrounding code runs, it would effectively act as comments. We think this has the potential to make TypeScript easier and faster to use for development at every scale.
• Writing Javascript without a build system - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
• Buildless JavaScript - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
• Sorting 400+ Chrome tabs in seconds | QotNews - 2023-02-17 - PDF - {{ description }}
• Troy Hunt: Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. I want to put forward cases for both arguments
• Why This Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Dutch bike manufacturer VanMoof got fed up with how often U.S. shippers damaged its products—so they got creative
• VanMoof Bike Hunters - Tracking Down Stolen Bikes - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - If they can’t find it in two weeks, they’ll give you a new one—guaranteed.
• Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
• Stop the War on Whistleblowers! - 2023-02-16 - PDF - Whistleblowers Richard Boyle & David McBride are going to be on trial for doing the right thing: calling out abuses of power of the Australian government. Contrary to that, the EU is pushing for better whistleblower protections. Will they succeed?
• The Winograd Schema Challenge - 2023-02-16 - PDF
• Try out CSS Nesting today - 2023-02-16 - - PDF
• Would Rust secure cURL? - 2023-02-16 - - PDF
• /random/RIIR - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - A blag
• The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - Since the famous takedown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, US jets have shot down a total of three more unidentified balloon objects, now confirmed to have been 'commercial or benign'. There is speculation that at least one these three objects may have been an amateur radio 'pico' balloon. One part of the amateur radio hobby is launching high altitude balloons with various radio and other payloads. Larger amateur radio balloons launched in the USA require FAA clearance, need a radar reflector attached, and usually continually transmit APRS telemetry before naturally popping and falling back to earth after a few
• Status Checks in React Query | TkDodo's blog - 2023-02-16 - PDF - How the wrong status check order can negatively impact user experience
• Using WebSockets with React Query | TkDodo's blog - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - A step-by-step guide on how to make real-time notifications work with react-query
• HTML5DevConf: Alessandro Alinone, "...WebSockets for Real-Time Multiplayer Games and Collaboration" - YouTube - 2023-02-16 - PDF - More Than Just WebSockets for Real-Time Multiplayer Games and CollaborationTime: Tuesday @ 2:30pm | Room N-124The advent of WebSockets has made it easier to ...
• React Awesome Query Builder - Examples - 2023-02-16 - PDF
• Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everything
• What happens if you put HTTP server inside Postgres? - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-16 - PDF - Cover photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Benchmarks and performance claims are attention-grabbers, but...
• Layoff - 2023-02-15 - - PDF - Friday was my nine year anniversary. Monday I was laid off.
• GitHub Next | Hey, GitHub! - 2023-02-15 - - PDF - GitHub Next Project: Write code without the keyboard. Difficulty typing? Use your voice to code without spelling things out by talking with GitHub Copilot.
• Bing AI Can't Be Trusted - by Dmitri Brereton - DKB Blog - 2023-02-14 - - PDF - Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
• Nope, coffee won't give you extra energy. It'll just borrow a bit that you'll pay for later - 2023-02-14 - - PDF - Feeling tired and groggy in the morning may well lead you to crave a coffee boost. But is it a gift or just a loan in terms of energy?
• Home | Twind - 2023-02-13 - - PDF - The smallest, fastest, most feature complete tailwind-in-js solution in existence
• observing/thor: The WebSocket god of thunder - 2023-02-13 - PDF - The WebSocket god of thunder. Contribute to observing/thor development by creating an account on GitHub.
• PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform - 2023-02-13 - - PDF - PlanetScale is the MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform.
• Inside Airbnb: Melbourne - 2023-02-12 - PDF - Adding data to the debate
• <dialog>: The Dialog element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN - 2023-02-12 - - PDF - The <dialog> HTML element represents a dialog box or other interactive component, such as a dismissible alert, inspector, or subwindow.
• A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs - 2023-02-11 - - PDF
• An Actual "Digital Town Square" - by Justin Hanagan - 2023-02-11 - PDF - What might a publicly owned social media platform look like?
• U.S. shoots down car-sized unidentified object flying above Alaska | Reuters - 2023-02-11 - PDF - A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States.
• Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard – and that’s not a good thing – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-02-10 - - PDF - (This is a rant because I’m exhausted after debugging something. If you’ve made RegEx your whole personality, I’m sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expressio…
• There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014) | QotNews - 2023-02-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
• Shane Warne leaves bulk of his $20.7 million estate to his children - 2023-02-08 - PDF - The late cricketer divided most of his estate equally among his three children, including prime Melbourne real estate, cash and a car collection, probate documents show.
• Passengers left out of the Loop as Metro cuts corners to run trains on time - 2023-02-08 - PDF - The number of trains skipping the City Loop has soared this year, new figures show, as Metro resorts to bypassing Melbourne's underground stations at near record levels to avoid running late.
• Sisters are doin' it for themselves - 2023-02-02 - PDF - Call it teen power. Or the epitome of kawaii culture. Or a great marketing idea. Some may also detect a strange, Lolita-tinted vibe. But with their own TV, anime and manga series, as well as the record for "highest selling musical act in Japan in terms of singles sold", AKB48, with 48 members, are a long-standing Japanese idol girl-group known for their super-cute style and catchy tunes. It has been described as a national phenomenon in its country of origin, with a devoted fanbase that has followed the band's songs and merchandise since its inception over a decade ago in 2005.
• Flightradar - 2023-02-02 - PDF
• Artificial intelligence and the rise of optical computing - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
• Introducing ChatGPT Plus - 2023-02-02 - - PDF - We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits: * General access to ChatGPT, even during
• The Rock 5 B is not a Raspberry Pi killer—yet - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
• Where Does ChatGPT Fall on the Political Compass? - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
• Eric Wallace (@Eric_Wallace_): "Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]" | Nitter | PussTheCat.org - 2023-02-01 - PDF - Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]
• How to Visualize Your PostgreSQL Database with One Command (and Nothing to Install) - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-01 - PDF - Generate a diagram of your PostgreSQL database with one command.
• How to visualize a PostgreSQL schema as SVG with SchemaSpy - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-01 - PDF - TLDR: Use the option -imageformat svg to generate an ER diagram in SVG format with SchemaSpy....

January 2023

• Sun Cable sale process kicks off, plays up Singapore link and green hydrogen | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-31 - PDF - Sun Cable sales process officially begins, with the salesman playing up both the proposed Singapore link and the strong demand for green hydrogen.
• Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available - 2023-01-30 - - PDF
• 🥺: the best sudo replacement - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
• An Ideal CI/CD System - 2023-01-25 - - PDF - A good CI/CD system means developer productivity. What an ideal CI/CD system looks like today. Serverless – A CI/CD system should be serverless. There's no reason to be managing Jenkins or individual nodes. Managing CI/CD machines makes it really easy to introduce configuration and environment drift, which causes hard to trace down bugs. Container-native is usually a good choice, especially if you often deploy software inside containers, but anything that provides a real ephemeral environment i
• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
• Ways to improve your team's code quality - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
• Bowen pushed Snowy to show "market leadership" on prices through energy crisis | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-24 - PDF - FOI documents reveal tensions between Bowen’s office and Snowy Hydro, a call to the utility to be a model corporate citizen in midst of market crisis, and a new solar farm proposal.
• How Wine works 101 - 2023-01-24 - - PDF - Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD (https://www.winehq.org). If you have been using Linux for some time now, chances are you’ve used Wine at some point. Maybe to run that one very important Windows program that doesn’t have a Linux version or maybe to play World of Warcraft or some other game. Fun fact, Valve’s Steam Deck uses a Wine-based solution to run games (called Proton).
• Code reviews need to shift-left. We often talk about the idea of… | by Sourcery | Jan, 2023 | Medium - 2023-01-24 - - PDF - We often talk about the idea of “shifting-left” for testing code and security analysis to speed up development and reduce risks further on…
• Small Victorian project tops performance rankings of Australian wind farms in 2022 | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-24 - PDF - The Kiata wind farm in Victoria may be small, but it is perfectly located, and has topped the rankings of best performing wind farms in 2022.
• What is Mittens? A chess nightmare behind an innocent kitty bot | Esports.gg - 2023-01-23 - - PDF - Get to know Mittens, a Chess.com Cat Bot with an undisclosed rating that has wreaked cat-astrophe in the Chess dimension.
• Chess Is Booming! And Our Servers Are Struggling. - 2023-01-23 - - PDF
• my dream computer | a rickety bridge of impossible crossing - 2023-01-23 - - PDF - 🥇 Thanks to maya.land and goofpunk for sponsoring the blog! If you'd like to learn how to support my writing and get a shoutout here every week, check the sp...
• Cannon-Brookes keeps world's biggest solar project alive with $65m zero interest loan | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-23 - PDF - Cannon-Brookes zero interest loan of $65 million will ensure the staff and vision of Sun Cable are retained while a sale is finalised.
• Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral - 2023-01-22 - - PDF - TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.
• In 2023, India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country : Goats and Soda : NPR - 2023-01-20 - PDF - Any day now, the United Nations will declare India's population the largest in the world. The country's next generation is poised to be healthier, more literate — and more female — than ever before.
• how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps - 2023-01-20 - - PDF - and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
• Axolo | GitLab Slack integration bot for merge requests - 2023-01-19 - PDF - Axolo is a bidirectional GitLab-Slack integration bot to help tech teams reduce merge request time. Collaborate on merge requests in ephemeral channels.
• No Start Menu for You | Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson - 2023-01-18 - - PDF - I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) th…
• Security Bulletins · Tailscale - 2023-01-18 - - PDF - Security notifications affecting the Tailscale client and service If you’re directly affected by a security issue in Tailscale, and we have your contact information, we will contact you.
• Headless WYSIWYG Text Editor – Tiptap Editor - 2023-01-17 - PDF
• They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity - 2023-01-17 - - PDF - I started my career in programming during heydays of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This was late 90s/early 00s, and there was a rich ecosystem of enterprise vendors hawking application servers, monitoring tools, and boxes upon boxes of other fancy solutions. These tools were difficult to learn, expensive to license, and required an a...
• The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget | Kent Nerburn - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s lif
• Cables Detail CIA's Torture of Accused 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed - 2023-01-16 - PDF - Thirteen recently declassified cables reveal interrogators’ attempts to turn detainees into collaborators in the war against Al Qaeda.
• 150 International Organizations Call on Biden to Close Guantánamo on 21st Anniversary - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.
• NSA asks congress to reauthorize warrantless data collection • The Register - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit
• nix-shell and Shebang Lines - 2023-01-15 - - PDF - nix-shell and Shebang Lines. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• tRPC - Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. | tRPC - 2023-01-13 - - PDF - End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Automatic typesafety & autocompletion inferred from your API-paths, their input data, & outputs 🧙‍♂️
• Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same? - 2023-01-13 - PDF
• dependencies:reuse-cache (#3597459280) · Jobs · CORE / frontend · GitLab - 2023-01-13 - PDF - The frontend for the CORE markets app
• World's biggest solar and battery project hangs in balance as Sun Cable enters administration | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-11 - PDF - Sun Cable enters voluntary administration amid hints of a falling out between the company’s two biggest backers, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
• NT government downplays Sun Cable's voluntary administration as list of troubled major projects grows - 2023-01-11 - PDF
• GitHub - joweich/chat-miner: Parsers and visualizations for chats - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - Parsers and visualizations for chats. Contribute to joweich/chat-miner development by creating an account on GitHub.
• s14e06: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps In It Now - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - 0.0 Context Setting A not-rainy, nicely cloudy, not-too-cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My...
• Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses | Quanta Magazine - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species.
• Gigabit internet is now a legal requirement for new homes in England - The Verge - 2023-01-10 - - PDF - It’s also now easier for tenants to install it into existing blocks of flats.
• Story Points Revisited - 2023-01-08 - - PDF - This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. <br/>Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries
• ssh whoami.filippo.io - 2023-01-08 - - PDF - I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.
• Introduction | Regolith Desktop - 2023-01-08 - - PDF
• awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - 2023-01-06 - - PDF - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web appli...
• Optimizing React performance without refs and memo | Alex Sidorenko - 2023-01-04 - PDF - Frequent state updates in React can lead to performance problems. How to fix this withohut using refs or memo?
• underthebreach: "Breaking - Twitter database le…" - Infosec Exchange - 2023-01-04 - - PDF - Attached: 2 images Breaking - Twitter database leaks for free with 235,000,000 records. As I anticipated yesterday, the database was circulating heavily and is now leaked. The database contains 235,000,000 unique records of Twitter users and their email addresses and will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing. This is one of the most significant leaks I've seen. We also posted it on Twitter in case you are there too (https://twitter.com/RockHudsonRock/status/1610554406805671936)
• Terrateam - 2023-01-04 - - PDF
• Brian Moore (@lanewinfield): "I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud"|bird.trom.tf - 2023-01-04 - PDF - I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud
• Solving a Dungeons & Dragons riddle using prolog - 2023-01-02 - - PDF - Solving a Dungeons & Dragons riddle using prolog. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• How a secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
• dbi Blog - 2023-01-02 - PDF - One of the features which is currently missing in PostgreSQL is Temporal Tables. Other database systems have that since a long time and many people want to have in PostgreSQL as well. If you don’t know what it is, here is a short overview. Basically you can ask for a row as it was at […]
• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It — brandur.org - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
• Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert` — brandur.org - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
• The state of HTTP in 2022 - 2023-01-02 - - PDF - So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?

December 2022

• Jacek's Software Engineering Blog · Book Review: Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions - 2022-12-31 - - PDF
• Critics of ‘hostile’ Myki say Melbourne doesn’t need a world-beating system – just one that works | Transport | The Guardian - 2022-12-31 - PDF - Tap-and-pay card outdated compared with more innovative transport systems that integrate credit cards and smartphones
• Baida | HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons - 2022-12-31 - PDF - Personal website of Andrea Zanin
• PostgREST 11 pre-release - 2022-12-29 - PDF
• sup | drew dot shoes - 2022-12-29 - - PDF - When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt and type something like: net send lab2126-24 test and get an alert that looked like: The computer names were predictable, something like lab + room number + computer number, and the computer numbers were physically written on the machines themselves.
• ealexandros/editable-antd-tree: This is an editable tree component based on antd. - 2022-12-28 - PDF - This is an editable tree component based on antd. Contribute to ealexandros/editable-antd-tree development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Master Notifications With ChatGPT, React and NodeJS 🧨 - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-28 - PDF - TLDR; In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a web application that allows you to...
• Mapping the Hidden Patterns of Cities - Bloomberg - 2022-12-26 - PDF - Some cities’ roads follow regimented grids. Others twist and turn. See it all on one chart.
• Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022 - localghost - 2022-12-26 - - PDF - I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.
• NBL plays on Christmas Day for first time, joins NBA, NFL and 1950's Test cricket in scheduling December 25 games - ABC News - 2022-12-24 - PDF - The National Basketball League is playing a match on Christmas Day for the first time this year, but Christmas Day sport is something of a staple in Australia's sporting history, including two previous Test matches at the Adelaide Oval.
• Inside the Melbourne boxing gym with a neo-Nazi underbelly - 2022-12-24 - PDF - An investigation by The Age has uncovered links between Legacy Boxing Gym, in Sunshine West, some of Victoria’s most dangerous neo-Nazi activists, and a growing community of young men learning to box at the centre.
• Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers - levelup Education - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - I'm one of a small, but growing, crowd who believe that People Who Make Software Happen (you may know them as "programmers")
• Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - Report back on how it goes
• Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
• GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager: A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is. - 2022-12-24 - PDF - A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is. - GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager: A cross-platform terminal-based termux...
• Qantas flight makes emergency landing in Azerbaijan after fault indicator - 2022-12-23 - PDF - A Qantas flight to London from Singapore has made an emergency landing in Azerbaijan after pilots received an alert to the potential of smoke in the cargo hold.
• LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch - 2022-12-23 - - PDF - The password manager giant said hackers stole both encrypted and unencrypted customer data, including password vaults.
• bash - How can I interrupt or debounce an inotifywait loop? - Stack Overflow - 2022-12-23 - PDF
• For Want of a JOIN - 2022-12-23 - - PDF
• Why I gave up drinking in my early twenties - 2022-12-23 - - PDF - The obvious and unexpected difficulties of going sober
• How superblocks can free up and improve CBD space for the people of Melbourne – a step-by-step guide - Centre for Urban Research - 2022-12-23 - PDF
• Why and how you should be composing with Docker Compose | Brev docs - 2022-12-22 - PDF - How to manage multi-service, multi-environment dev environments/applications - with Docker Compose | Brev docs
• Sneaking into an Uber parking lot to get your Development Environment up and running | Brev docs - 2022-12-22 - PDF - Paneau (YC W20) to Brev.dev. Why Configuring development environments were a painful challenge. | Brev docs
• Time Travel with Serverless Postgres - Neon - 2022-12-22 - - PDF - Data recovery with database branching
• Watch folder/files change with bash script - 2022-12-22 - PDF - One of the greatest thing about web development is instant gratification. If you make any changes to your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript all you have to do is refresh the browser page and your new changes w
• Steampipe | select * from cloud; - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - Steampipe is an open source tool to instantly query your cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP and more) with SQL. No DB required.
• jc | CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts. - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
• Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for? | Hacker News - 2022-12-21 - PDF
• Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked - 2022-12-21 - PDF
• Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - A walkthrough of 46 lines of code that render a 3D ASCII donut using signed distance functions.
• How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub - 2022-12-20 - - PDF
• Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred - 2022-12-20 - - PDF
• Google Graveyard - Killed by Google - 2022-12-20 - - PDF - Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
• Death by AI - 2022-12-20 - - PDF - Death by AI is like Killed by Google but two words have been changed. A RIP-off!
• Thailand launches rescue operation for 33 missing sailors after navy ship sinks - ABC News - 2022-12-19 - PDF - A search and rescue operation is underway for 33 missing crew from the HTMS Sukhothai, which sank overnight in choppy waters in the Gulf of Thailand.
• South Gippsland removed from offshore wind zone after community concerns - ABC News - 2022-12-19 - PDF - South Gippsland residents have welcomed a new zone earmarked for offshore wind energy production in the Bass Strait, which now excludes waters west of Wilsons Promontory.
• The Personal Analytics of My Life—Stephen Wolfram Writings - 2022-12-19 - PDF
• Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio - 2022-12-19 - - PDF - This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.
• Neoen to add big battery to what is now Australia's biggest solar farm | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-19 - PDF - Neoen to add big battery to what is now the country’s biggest operating solar farm in Queensland.
• Australia backs $2.7bn of big batteries to narrow gap to 100 pct renewables | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Australia to fund eight big battery projects with advanced “grid forming” inverters that will help close coal and narrow the gap to 100 pct renewables
• Nicolas Mattia – Lockfile trick: Package an npm project with Nix in 20 lines - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Software Engineer based in Zurich who has a thing for functional programming, reproducible builds and infrastructure as code
• Forced home sales set to rise as borrowers struggle with surging interest rates and mortgage repayments - ABC News - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Australian home owners are spending more of their income on mortgage repayments, and the pain is only set to worsen. Experts say some could be forced to sell.
• The enduring value of an analogue technology | The Economist - 2022-12-17 - - PDF - When paper beats the screen
• CodeImage - A tool to manage and beautify your code screenshots - 2022-12-16 - PDF - CodeImage is the newest tool to help developers to manage their snippets and create beautiful screenshots of their source code
• Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser - 2022-12-16 - - PDF - Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
• Supabase Wrappers, a Postgres FDW framework written in Rust - 2022-12-16 - - PDF
• What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too - 2022-12-16 - - PDF - What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
• Lichess & Scala 3 - 2022-12-15 - - PDF
• Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2022-12-15 - - PDF - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
• Riffusion - 2022-12-15 - - PDF - Stable diffusion for real-time music generation
• pg_crdt - an experimental CRDT extension for Postgres - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - Embedding Yjs and Automerge into Postgres for collaborative applications.
• Painless NixOS server management - Shipnix - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - A simple way to manage your own NixOS web severs. Configure declaratively with no vendor lock-in.
• BOM forecasters to be replaced by community information officers on radio programs - 2022-12-14 - PDF
• BoM paid communication consultants almost $70,000 to rebrand it ‘the Bureau’ | Australia weather | The Guardian - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Staff were treated like ‘naughty school children’ if they slipped up and referred to Bureau of Meteorology by its common acronym
• Fauci responds to Musk’s Twitter attack and rates world’s COVID response - 2022-12-14 - PDF
• Blacked out: Contract for "world's most powerful battery" to be kept secret for now | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Waratah super battery is being built to help prevent black-outs after the closure of NSW coal generators. But details of its contract have been blacked out.
• Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe's Blog
• Tailscale on the Fediverse · Tailscale - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - Hey everyone! The last few weeks have been something else eh? We want to make it easier for you to keep in touch with us. As such, we have created a Fediverse account on Hachyderm. Feel free to give us a follow if you want to keep up to date!
• Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are! · Tailscale - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - We made significant improvements to the throughput of wireguard-go, which is the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. What this means for you: improved performance of the Tailscale client on Linux. We intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard as well.
• The Lengths People Go To Just To Avoid DNSSEC - 2022-12-13 - - PDF
• No, Google Did Not Hike the Price of a .dev Domain from $12 to $850 - 2022-12-13 - - PDF
• After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires | PC Gamer - 2022-12-13 - - PDF - With 300,000 sales and counting, Dwarf Fortress's creators no longer have to rely on Patreon donations.
• ATO's director ID system deadline looms, with more than 1 million people facing $13,000 fines - ABC News - 2022-12-13 - PDF - There are concerns that up to 1 million Australians are in the dark about a looming tax office requirement — or know about it and are putting off an administrative headache — with just a week until it becomes law.
• How to steal a website and how to prevent it - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-13 - PDF - A quick showcase of how someone proxy-mirrored my website, and it was super difficult to catch or prevent it.
• Explainer: How do floating wind turbines work? | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-13 - PDF - California has awarded it first floating wind farm leases. Why and when do we need floating wind farms – and how do they work?
• Brendan O'Leary 🐢 · GitLab - 2022-12-12 - PDF - Sr. Developer Evangelist
• Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO - 2022-12-12 - - PDF - Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everyting
• Massive Tasmania wind farm approved - on condition it shuts down for five months a year | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-12 - PDF - Huge Robbins Island wind farm gets green light from EPA, on condition it is shut down for five months each year to protect endangered parrot.
• Labor has a hard sell ahead of it for voters who expect their energy bills to fall - 2022-12-11 - PDF
• AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance - 2022-12-11 - - PDF
• Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap - 2022-12-11 - - PDF
• Printer Facts - 2022-12-11 - PDF
• Codux | Visual IDE for React - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - Develop React components fluidly and faster, all in one visual IDE. Codux enables you to visually edit your own code and see changes reflected instantly, everywhere.
• systemd.timer, an alternative to cron - Andrew Pillar's Blog - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - There will come a point in time during your time administering a Linux server where you will want to perform a job on a schedule. Perhaps you want to rotate some TLS certificates before they expire, or delete old files that are no longer needed. Typically for this, you would use cron, perhaps the most widely used job scheduler for UNIX like systems. You would fire up the crontab for the user, punch in the schedule followed by the command, then write and quit. If you wanted to monitor the job, then you would add MAILTO at the top to receive the cron logs should the job fail.
• Time Travel with Serverless Postgres - Neon - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - Data recovery with database branching
• New Kite System for Ships Trialed on Transatlantic Voyage - 2022-12-08 - PDF - France-based wind propulsion specialist Airseas is sharing the first footage of its automated kite system Seawing in use during transatlantic sea trials. The trial took place on board the roll-on/roll-off...
• AN. Blog: Adventures in Teletext Recovery - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - My first attempt at recovering teletext pages from VHS cassette tapes.
• Put `glab` at your fingertips with the GitLab CLI | GitLab - 2022-12-07 - PDF - We just adopted the `glab` project. Here's what's next and how to contribute!
• How 30,000 people helped pick the new Bash logo | Opensource.com - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Learn lessons for creating a new project logo from the Bash logo experiment.
• Sleeping Through the Technical Interview - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview - Xe's Blog
• IRC: Why it Failed - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - PDF - IRC: Why it Failed - Xe's Blog
• 'Anti-woke' reaction? Fund giant Vanguard quits net-zero climate alliance - MarketWatch - 2022-12-07 - PDF - Vanguard said it will track its climate-change focus independent of the sector's net-zero alliance, as an effort to provide "clarity" to its investors.
• My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe's Blog
• Automagically assimilating NixOS machines into your Tailnet with Terraform - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Automagically assimilating NixOS machines into your Tailnet with Terraform - Xe's Blog
• OwnTracks Booklet - 2022-12-07 - PDF - None
• Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT - 2022-12-07 - - PDF
• I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language - by Dylan Black - 2022-12-06 - - PDF - In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people
• Quickly switch between Tailscale accounts · Tailscale - 2022-12-06 - - PDF - Fast user switching has come to Tailscale! Starting in v1.34, out today, you’ll be able to quickly switch between Tailscale accounts on the same device, without re-authenticating. (We heard you.)
• Engineering company Clough collapses in fresh blow for Snowy 2.0 after Webuild walks away from acquisition - 2022-12-05 - PDF
• The great Covid and fags cover-up - spiked - 2022-12-05 - - PDF - Study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid. But this inconvenient truth has been buried.
• thibault's Blog • Lichess on scala3 - help needed • lichess.org - 2022-12-05 - PDF - A week after deploying Lichess rewritten with scala 3, I had to revert to the scala 2 version. I need help diagnosing a peculiar JVM behaviour.
• Introducing Codux - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-05 - PDF - TL;DR - Introducing Codux, a new visual IDE for easing and accelerating the development of React...
• Company 'Hijacks' Blender's CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User (Update) * TorrentFreak - 2022-12-05 - - PDF - When a TV channel claimed ownership of a Creative Commons licensed film, YouTube gave a user a copyright strike and rejected every appeal.
• Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT | Hacker News - 2022-12-04 - PDF
• Chatgpt Generate Ruby Code to Check User Exists in Github - 2022-12-04 - - PDF
• Switzerland, Facing an Unprecedented Power Shortage, Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles - 2022-12-02 - - PDF - It turns out that you can have battery-powered cars, or you can have renewable energy, but you can't have both.
• 100 - Platform certificates used to sign malware - apvi - 2022-12-01 - - PDF
• The Administered Price Cap has increased to $600/MWh as of today 1st December 2022 - 2022-12-01 - PDF
• Ai solves Advent of Code 2022 | Note's on software - 2022-12-01 - - PDF - I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible