4 October 2025

18 links · Saturday

one day at a time

"one day at a time" has been a very powerful tool for me. most nights, we go to bed carrying the regrets of the day. most mornings, we wake up already bur...

Why Data is the New Gold

$CRIPT the hidden property of code and why data has become the new gold driving power markets and value in the digital age.

Supaplex – first time I cheated in a computer game

Supaplex. It was somewhere in the mid 90’s, maybe around 1995. My friend Yuval had the game on his 286, running Windows 3.11. I don’t remember how exactly we got to it, but at some poin…

Fun With HyperLogLog and SIMD

Introduction Perhaps the most fundamental property of a set is its cardinality - the number of distinct elements. Computing this measure for an arbitrary list of items seems awfully simple: you read each item (not much wiggle room there), keep track of every d…

Why the Hell Does Android Even Exist Anymore? — fireborn

Google has finally crossed the line. Starting in 2026, sideloading on a certified Android phone will no longer mean freedom — it will mean paperwork. If a developer doesn’t submit their government ID, register their package names and signing keys, and agree to…

AspiriFridays - Excalidraw

Maddy, Fowler, and Damian are back to picking random apps off the internet, and today they're going to see if they can add Aspire to a tool they use all the time - Excalidraw! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw Source from today's episode: https://gith…

Zig Builds Are Getting Faster

Andrew Kelley famously (or infamously, depending on your views) said "the compiler is too damn slow, that's why we have bugs."1