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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
The Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud is a startup self-incubator. Six successful applicants will receive a modest amount of funding and as much publicity as I can provide for their sustainable and useful business idea.
Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just have to walk away from an issue or request and let it die from lack of attention. But I do my best, and I take the time to provide meaningful answers whenever…
Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days
Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation's annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% ...
Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows
Take a sneak peek at some of the new workflows coming to the Alfred v2 Powerpack soon.
EFF: Stop Congress from Reauthorizing the Warrantless Spying Bill
We could be celebrating the New Year by ripping out the fiber optic cables that are sending copies of all our emails to the National Security Agency. But instead, Congress is planning on ringing in 2013 by re-authorizing parts of the FISA Amendments Act, the controversial 2008 bill that allows...
Why we still love board games
In a sprawling convention centre in Essen, western Germany, the busiest day in the German board games calendar – Saturday at “Spiel” – is about to begin. Hall after hall of stands are piled high wi…
The Web We Lost
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
Ever since learning about the Rubber Room and Blast Room deep below launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center I had been hopeful that I would one day get to photograph this mysterious remnant of the A…
The Mathematical Hacker
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (2008)
This weekend I decided to play around a bit with genetic programming and put evolution to the test, the test of fine art 🙂
The Minimum Wage Machine
Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) (2008-2010) Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies. (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.00 seconds, for $9.00 an hour, or NY…
Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible.
Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
Folks, I’ve said I’m not a fan of Wikipedia for nearly ten years now. I used to mention it in presentations until I found that eighteen-year-olds would confront me at the end, like I sp…
Show HN: Designing Web Applications
It's not that you set out to create a poorly designed product, but lots of mistakes—big or small—along the way left you with an interface that does its job, but is painful to use.
Component · Decoupling Patterns
Allow a single entity to span multiple domains without coupling the domains to each other.