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Mullvad Browser
We have partnered with Mullvad VPN to develop the Mullvad Browser - a Tor Browser without Tor
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant
I'm organizing a boycott of Apple's Feedback Assistant , starting immediately, and I encourage all Apple developers to join me. Here's how I propose that each of us can effectively participate in the boycott and let Apple know that we're boycotting Feedback Assistant:
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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
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Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Job postings data suggest so
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
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Why do people still use VBA?
Introduction Recently, I watched a video by YouTuber ThePrimeTime which details a dev’s frustrations with business culture. Prime is an ex-entrepreneur who currently works in software development at Netflix. His views in this video have been criticised for being jaded by FAANG business cultures he has worked in. I…
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Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)
Metallica’s song “Master of Puppets” has extremely powerful and driving momentum, which is especially impressive given that it is riddled with meter changes and thrashes on for al…
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The Failed Commodification of Technical Work
The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with…
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Modern CSV version 2
And I think you’ll love it. I focused on several areas: Improved UI and user experience Faster performance Useful features Updated documentation For Mac users, Native Apple Silicon (ARM – M1, M2) compatibility If that’s all you need to know, you can buy a license here. Or if you already have a version 1 license, you…
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A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops
Eric Meyer says his paper had been investigating the police chief prior to the raids on his office and home.
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Gaussian splatting is pretty cool
SIGGRAPH 2023 just had a paper “ 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering ” by Kerbl, Kopanas, Leimkühler, Drettakis, and it looks pretty cool! Check out their website, source code repository, data sets and so on (I should note that it is really, really good to see full source and full data sets…
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One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here
Update (July 17, 2026): It’s three years since I wrote this article. It went viral and has been reshared and discussed. And curiously, AI…
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What Reddit Got Wrong
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
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Advancements in machine learning for machine learning
Posted by Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Bryan Perozzi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Re...
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SymPy makes math fun again
An introduction into symbolic computations in Python. Don't worry, it's much simpler than it sounds. It's about making Python do your math for you with very little investment in the technology.
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Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems (2021)
Accessible Palette is an app for building color systems with consistent lightness and predictable contrast ratios across color levels.
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My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it
My dad built something cool but didn't boast about it
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Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians
Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.
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Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig
Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. However, they can incur a lot of memory fragmentation that's not trivial to avoid without good support for metaprogramming. This post goes into Zig's powerful comptime feature, and how it allows some radical…
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FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms
Editor’s note: this version was updated at 6:00 pm pacific to include a couple of paragraphs that were omitted from the original post. Also–HI to all the thousands of regular people coming to visit today. I get it–we ALL hate unwanted calls and texts. But destroying the infrastructure of connecting consumers with…
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The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
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RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
“When will there be a Rust IDE?” Update: RustRover is now generally available, with free non-commercial use and commercial licensing options. Learn more about the RustRover release. We get this