Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA | Quanta Magazine
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.
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A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page
Replacing JS with just HTML - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
A simple application to monitor your applications/microservices.
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
DHH is immortal, and costs $200/m
With this technique, as a 3-decades-experience developer, I am writing better code with AI's help than I could by myself.
On Tangled's existence and direction
Reading has nothing to do with paper
Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming: ADTs, Safety, and Critical Infrastructure
> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you push …
About two years ago, I bought my first N100 Mini PC for little more than £100. At the time, the N100 was a brand-new chip - quad-core, all “E” (efficiency) cores borrowed from Intel’s Alder Lake architecture, with a mere 6W TDP. It competed with Raspberry Pis …
Why I Write (And You Should Too!)
Publicly writing is one of the most valuable things you can do. It improves your thinking, ability to communicate, and connects you to interesting people.
We Lost the Thread on the Data Lake
In 2014, my last startup was acquired. We joined a fast growing organization with a top-notch data team. They had invested heavily in data infrastructure. Data was strategic. They had "the hub," a Hadoop cluster built on HDFS. I thought: here's a company doing…
Verdichtung is German word that loosely means "densification". It represents an alternative to urban sprawl⁰ that is prevalent in US cities and has been the dominant strategy for Zurich's expansion.
Bevy, Rust, Graphics, etc
Not Everything Should Be Easy
I think it’s great that we’re in the age of AI, but I also feel we’re leaving something behind. These tools let someone with technical skill produce more in many scenarios (they clear out repetitive and even boring tasks), yet maybe that piece we are removing …
My personal website
1Password Dependency Breaks Syntax Highlighting
Why does a password manager need a syntax highlighter?
"in the hurry of leaving i forgot the sites src at home, sorry, had to rewrite the whole thing. expect a nicer site by tomorrow. im patching as we speak." - crackticker (<- to blame)
Dave adds virtual networking to the Ubibone project, enabling a 1980s PDP-11/44 to connect to the Internet for the first time in 40 years!
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate a…