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Make Boring Plans
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
Alex Danco's Newsletter, Season 3, Episode 2
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Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
Link to: https://oblador.github.io/hush/
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Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
A new study suggests that a lot of people might be going through life with symptoms that resemble concussion – a finding supporting researchers’ argument that athletes recovering from a brain injury should be assessed and treated on a highly individualized basis.In the national study, between 11% and 27% of healthy…
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude. Dave Amirault…
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Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
At some point, I realized I would've argued the exact opposite position on a lot of topics just a few years ago.
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DrScheme in Space
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Internet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests
Network data observed by the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate network disruptions in Russia on Saturday 23 January 2021. The outages come amid protests against the detention of prominent opposition activist ...
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Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
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How you can get banned from Facebook permanently
Contact Facebook customer service for your customer service needs. Reach out via phone, email, or social media.
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Replicating GPT-2 at Home
How I (almost) replicated OpenAI’s GPT-2 (124M version)
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How Homogeneous Is Japan?
It depends on what you mean by homogeneity.
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No one knows how much the government can borrow
Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.
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Command Path Security in Go
How to decide if your programs are vulnerable to PATH problems, and what to do about it.
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Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
Facebook unfriended me. Why? So far as I can tell, it’s because I’ve been using Facebook to advocate for decentralization of social media. And apparently th ...
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Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization
Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
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Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
Control over important internet services has shifted from open source to proprietary services operated by big tech. As a result, people got access to technology, but that shift also created serious problems.
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Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014)
There was an argument on Tumblr which, like so many arguments on Tumblr, was terrible. I will rephrase it just a little to make a point.
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Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020)
Recently, Juliana has gotten into Stardew Valley. Hard. Since I’m a huge fan myself, I'm doing a Game Design Perspective on the game to celebrate. I'll be looking at the game mechanics and how the interlocking layers make the game tick. In Stardew Valley, you play as a disillusioned city slicker wh
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PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances
With the second gen of Graviton2 instances announced, we decided to take a look at the price/performance from the standpoint of running PostgreSQL.
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Access Control for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now gives you the option to limit access, making the site visible only to users with access to the repository that published the Page. With access control, you…
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Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
Crystal close up. Capturing the Moment of Emergence of Crystal Nucleus from Disorder. © 2021 The University of Tokyo by T. Nakamuro, M. Sakakibara, H. Nada, K. Harano, and E. Nakamura
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part II
Less than a month ago, I began investigating the Apple M1 GPU in hopes of developing a free and open-source driver. This week, I’ve reached a second milestone: drawing a triangle with my own open-source code. The vertex and fragment shaders are handwritten in machine code, and I interface with the hardware via the…
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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
Windows 3.1 allowed you to change all system colors to your liking. Linux been fully themeable since the 90s. OSX came along with a draconian “all blue aqua, and maybe a hint of gray”.
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A story about pivots
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…