a collab between three other bloggers and me about why we publish what we write. why is a private diary not enough?| ava's blog
Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers| Stack Overflow
This is the the unabridged version of the script for my Camp Digital talk in Manchester on 03/07/2025 – including all the stuff I had to cut to keep to time! The slides are here. The Power, P…| Digital by Default
The other day I watched a moving video of a woman recounting some verbal harassment and stalking she recently experienced in a store from another customer, simply because she was wearing a mask. She was understandably emotional about it because she masks to protect a family member who has cancer. Thankfully it ended well enough; the store took it seriously and removed the harasser.| gregorlove.com
In January 2009, while just a baby first-year PhD student, I wrote a| byorgey.github.io
Plus: paragliding into the Death Zone.| everythingisamazing.substack.com
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.| blog.glyph.im
Internet discussions about end-to-end encryption are plagued by misunderstandings, misinformation, and some people totally missing the point. Of course, people being wrong on the Internet isn’…| Dhole Moments
I wrote about the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs five years ago during the early days of this blog. The conquistadors have since remained a fascination of mine, but I haven’t had a chance to go bac…| Matt Lakeman
There are a few different mechanisms underpinning commonly used stablecoins. Some of them may not perish in a fire.| Bits about Money
Da que pensar que una parte no pequeña de la izquierda ni siquiera sea capaz de compartir una red social con quien piensa diferente, la verdad.| Libertad Digital
A while ago I saw a post on LinkedIn that piqued my interest, not because it was any good, but because it was impressively wrong. It claimed that, to quote, “if every email user deleted just 10 emails, it would save enough electricity to power millions of households each year”. This is not only wrong, it is obviously wrong. In this post, I’d like to dive into why it’s wrong, how one might come to think it’s right, and perhaps what better message you could put out there to save the p...| bertptrs.nl
It seems like everyone's trying to be happy. Happiness is constantly marketed to us as a goal that we need to reach. Are you happy? Are you happy right now? No? Well that's a problem! Buy this product and you'll be happy. Drink this. Eat that. Join this club. Live this lifestyle. Buy this book with a special, one-of-a-kind lesson taught from uber-spiritual Lamas. The problem is that happiness is kind of like The Force. You do... or you do not. There is no try. In fact, trying to be happy...| Paging Dr. NerdLove
Many data processing systems have adapted our custom string format. Find out what makes it so special and why it is so relevant to them.| CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database
Most programming language ecosystems provide assert functions in their testing libraries but not Go's. Go's standard testing package follows a more direct and to-the-point approach.| henvic.dev
Plus: Losing the biggest poker pot I’ll ever play – and some thoughts on the recent controversy about Substack.| www.natesilver.net
This is outside of my usual software-oriented beat, but sometimes people are wrong on the Internet. Most recently, people have been wrong about payment for order flow, an esoteric topic in the investing industry which seems vaguely unsavory to Hacker News commenters, Michael Lewis [0], etc.| www.kalzumeus.com
Previously: security engineer at Square, co-author of HackLang, put the 's' in https at Facebook. Maker of CTFs.| www.quaxio.com
If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have taken a hit lately. Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own work, circumventing peer review at five high-profile publishers.| FiveThirtyEight
I was recently reading Down the Golang nil Rabbit Hole| utcc.utoronto.ca
Embarking on a branch prediction odyssey| xania.org
Econ blogger/Substack royalty Noah Smith tried his best to defend Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto last week, with a 4,000+ word post titled “Thoughts on techno-optimism.” It’s a thorough post, in which Smith offers a more intellectually defensible version of| davekarpf.substack.com
How this blog came to be is a minor miracle. Long story short, I conned myself into believing nobody will find /and/ read it. But you're here, aren't you? And you're reading this. Aren't You? Confucamus. Well, here's how you got here.| www.evalapply.org
State partisanship and COVID vaccination rates are strongly predictive of COVID death rates even once you account for age.| www.natesilver.net
Some tactics for writing in public| Julia Evans
The replication crisis in psychology started with a bang with Daryl Bem’s 2011 paper Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect. In…| Justin Domke
Internal energy is tricky. On the one hand, energy is more reliable than happiness. I liked this reflection by Jocko Willink in the Huberman podacast. Everyone experiences joy and sadness as part of their daily lives: keeping a certain energy level is more feasible than a certain level of happiness. On the other hand, as with anything ...| world.hey.com
Some blogging myths| Julia Evans
Last time we talked about encodings, we went in with a C++-like design where we proved that| The Pasture
When I couldn’t fall asleep last night 1 my sleep-deprived brain suddenly went “I bet you can’t write a Makefile for FizzBuzz.” While I obviously should have responded with Homer Simpson’s classic “Shut up, brain, or I’ll stab you with a Q-tip.”, it was too late, I had already nerd sniped myself. I fully expected to waste way too much time on this but it only (?) took a little over an hour to come up with a solution.| citizen428.net
The common definition of a 'valid hostname' is often reduced to a simple regular expression, but as the saying goes: 'Now you have two problems.' Because hostnames are DNS labels and those... well, it's the DNS. All bets are off.| www.netmeister.org
