The Starlink Mini terminal is designed as a compact, all-in-one solution with an integrated Wi-Fi router. While this design is ideal for typical consumer use, certain applications—such as custom networking setups, embedded installations, or power-constrained environments—may benefit from removing the internal router…
Google's research reveals how expressive design improves UX, usability, and evokes positive emotions in users
Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
Security for everyone. Docker Hardened Images are now free to use, share, and build on with no licensing surprises.
Most improvements to cities are hard — they take millions of dollars and years of planning.
IOCCC Year 2024
Brands like Rolex and Omega will often tout their deepsea capabilities with the Rolex Deepsea Challenge rated to 11,000 meters (36,090 feet) and the Omega Ultra Deep coming in at a lesser but still ridiculous 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) of theoretical water resistance. But what about a cheap Casio often associated with…
Bjork is currently promoting a new concert film being released called Cornucopia. She's been releasing new photoshoots and interviews almost every day for th...
After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game.
A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.
Loneliness increases death risk by 32% but we know how to fix it. Real solutions that cut loneliness in half, from mindfulness to community…
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really…
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containing recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
The search engine has recently gained the ability to index the PDF file format. The change will deploy over a few months. Extracting text information from PDFs is a significantly bigger challenge than it might seem. The crux of the problem is that the file format isn’t a text format at all, but a graphical format. It…
describing my wsc adventure
How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset
How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.
Claude Code joins the AI pricing bait-and-switch
I have an incredibly boring summer hobby: looking at the changelog for the WebKit Github repo. Why? Because I spend a chunk of my professional life working with webviews inside mobile apps and I like to get an early peek into what's coming in the next version of iOS. Since
flow2 | Blog post: 'On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads' in Personal
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a…
The Eye Security Research team has uncovered a new critical misconfiguration that exposed sensitive data at internal Microsoft applications.
