Rabbit Holes
Random sample of the internet firehose, ready for you to explore.
I am publishing this from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, technology is incredible, etc. etc.
I caved and spent the $32 fucking dollars to have ...
Why you should run for the DSF Board, and my goals for the DSF in 2025
Applications are open for the 2025 Django Software...
How We Will Be Measured (abridged)
This is a version of How We Will Be Measured, abri...
Introducing My New Linux Distro: Casuarina Linux
Over the past few months I’ve been working on a Li...
I would search my feelings this morning, but...
I would search my feelings this morning, but Siri ...
I prefer Djot over Markdown
I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is ...
Linkblog on linkding
A small update to my linkblog that you probably wo...
Web Review, Week 2026-24
Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-24. T...
Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a rea...
Notes for US Performers in Montreal
Maj and I went to see a world-famous comedian perf...
World Cup, Sci-Fi movies, Birthday! - W24
Hey hey! Good news, this was my birthday week! And...
Mongoose: Preauth RCE and mTLS Bypass on Millions of Devices
So, Mongoose. If you’ve never heard of it, you’ve ...
An average new Dad's approach to training with kettlebells (and other tools) to develop General Physical Preparedness (GPP) at home
This is a mirror of the post on /r/kettlebell: htt...
A decade of data sharing: Celebrating the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre’s 10-year anniversary
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the found...
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment
Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tou...
Minimal yet Productive Travel Desk Setup
A deep-dive into some thoughtfully chosen equipmen...
Wizards, Metadata, and Memory
Stage design of the Enchanted Garden by Hermann Bu...
On Countercomputing
I recently read MOS8502's countercomputing manifes...
Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?
There’s never been just one way to buy software. I...
Why are cached input tokens cheaper with AI services?
TL;DR: the GPU doesn't have to math as hard
Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary
I did a fireside chat at Sequoia Ascent 2026. The ...
On Michael Levin's research and approach
April 16, 2026 · 28 Min Read On Michael Levin's re...
My Enjoyment From Engagement With Media Deepens As I Grow Older
I am not yet done thinking about nostalgia. In Nos...
soot, solar, sedimentation, sin, & 'centers
Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosel...
There’s No Minimum Angel Check Size
I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wan...
Recently in May '26
May was an incredibly packed month, which sort of ...
Reviewing Mildliner Smells
I got my hands on the Fragrance Mildliner pack for...
View from Lake Seminole at River Junction campground near Chattahoochee, Florida
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Certificate Transparency in Firefox
.Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate T...
Choosing a new bookmarking/read later service
I used the Mozilla Pocket service until recently. ...
Home-cooked software
Software can be a home-cooked meal. I experienced ...
Recent reads: June 2026
It's been a while and this year has turned out to ...
Summary of changes for May 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes ...
Looking Back on Twenty Years of Intel Macs
Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica: What’s striking a...
Gmail Thinks I'm Stupid, So I Left
Let me tell you a story I go to check my email in ...
The 26 Things on Our Home Network
We switched our home Internet to Purple Cow (refer...
Diffs, by Pierre
<p>Although I’m generally allergic to dependencies as...</p>
Des Moines: Welcome to Your New Transit Network
The post Des Moines: Welcome to Your New Transit N...
Weeknote (03-01-2025)
It's been a much more joyful week. On Friday my wi...
Is there a tension between creativity and accuracy?
On Twitter, I’ve been chatting with my friend Juli...
📝 2026-06-16 08:11: Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to the office... ☀️
Sun's out, so there's only one way to travel to th...
AeMug Chat #2 / Experience.Computer Interview
Scientific or Manifest or...?
How to Swim with Manatees—without a Tour!
Swimming with manatees had been a long-time dream ...
Perfect Sentences, 181
Build a house from sticks and mud / listen to the ...
PSA on Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), UPDATED
This is a short PSA (Public Service Announcement) ...
Video Streaming from Linux
As part of a set-top video project, I looked into ...
Vibe Check №42
Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my...
I wrote a book about computing, out soon.
First, we're starting a publishing company. Second...
Who needs a flying car when you have display: grid
A friend asked me if I could build him a simple we...
Reading List 06/13/2026
Homes being built on top of libraries, Patriot mis...
Svelte state sharing? Just use classes. They're fine.
Who here remembers Stores from Svelte 4? // counte...
Nobody asked me - Why I believe men dislike their birthday
Inspired by Dr. Amy Marschall’s Nobody Asked Me po...
The most important thing when working with LLMs
<p>Okay, so you’ve got the basics of working with Cla...</p>
Open Community License v1
an unusual non-commercial hardware-software combo ...
Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud
Well-regarded non-profit runs domestic intelligenc...
Do We Need Billionaires?
A significant portion of the population in the USA...
Emergence Saved Our Tofu
I think I know what emergence means now: concretel...
After Virtue
A book by Alasdair MacIntyre. Source: en.wikipedia...
Wizards, Metadata, and Memory
Stage design of the Enchanted Garden by Hermann Bu...
Updates from the Digital World: Baby's first locals
I've been threatening to play Digimon in person wi...
Leaving Mastodon and all social media for good
Howdy y’all. I thought about sharing this on just ...
Playboy, kittens, and deep learning
It was nearing midnight and it had been a long day...
The Worlds Left To Conquer
Pre-script: I've got a podcast episode out with Ed...
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2026
This year I decided to participate in the Spring L...
Structural diffing in Emacs; deterministic agent harnesses
Difftron Last newsletter I wished for structural d...
The Price of Software
When Zork I was originally released in the early 8...
science in an anarchist society
I've always been fascinated by anarchist societies...
What and Why, willow leaf revisit. It happened, but it’s in the past
Here’s a tree. Willow leaf fig. Yeah, the one ever...
Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly
“Our test facilities can’t reach the combination o...
Flock Cameras Are Being Used for Stalking
There are over a dozen cases around the country wh...
How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, ...
Single Page Plaintext Caddy Sites
Single Page Plaintext Caddy Sites June 15, 2026 I ...
Attensity! by The Friends of Attention (⭐️⭐️⭐️)
_Attensity!_ is a perfectly fine book, a call to a...
21 down, 23 more to go
It’s 11.35am, 27°, clear sky with only a few tiny ...
I'm switching to a dumbphone this summer
Yes. Really. A dumbphone. All summer.
Life lessons from reinforcement learning
Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinki...
Daily steps to building our resistance into a General Strike
Daily steps to building our resistance into a Gene...
A frontier AI company should shut down
Prior discussion: niplav’s shortform (2025); Plann...
Categorize Your Dependencies
<p>When building a project, it's very likely that we ...</p>
Wet thoughts
Wet lab. “Wet lab” was a new term to me, I had to ...
Cloud Four (minus one)
It’s been 13 years, 2 months and 12 days since I j...
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (xpost)
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted se...
The Age of the Holy Spirit
"An age so fragmented that there’s a weird emergen...
1099 contractors can earn ~7% more by reporting their expenses.
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[notes] Trying a New Approach to Note-Taking on Books
Taking a page (no pun intended!) from Eleanor Koni...
Tip: creating a recurring 5th Sunday event in Google Calendar
I occasionally have the need to create a recurring...
Small Treasures
Remember that story I wrote in March about making ...
Generators with UnpinCell
In July, I described a way to make pinning more er...
A solid tradition // Week 23 — 2026
A week in which some things happen and some things...
You should try contra dancing
A popular icebreaker in San Francisco these days i...
Second Circuit rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal
The Second Circuit upholds Bankman-Fried’s convict...
Comprehension is the job
I’ve already referenced Addy’s Comprehension Debt ...
Winesburg, Ohio
The preface to The Martian Chronicles says I shoul...
ambivalence and authority
I have plenty of disagreement with George Scialabb...
The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Social Security
In the world of very early retirement, we tend to ...
A novel approach to multi-line strings in Rust
Writing multi-line strings in Rust is quite awkwar...
Multiple parties in government: A gadget toward accountability and action
In the previous post, we discussed why status quo ...
Gardenlog: April Showers Bring May Showers
Okie-Dokie artichokey, let me share what’s goin’ o...
LinkedIn fanfiction
I was on the bus on my way to an important busines...
banning all Anthropic employees
Per my policies, I need to ban every employee and ...