NixOS is making me less afraid
On the go? Listen to an ai-narrated version of this article.| entropicthoughts.com
Rendering untrusted HTML email, safely | The Making of Close
One of the earliest core features we built in Close was our| making.close.com
Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them? | Read the Tea Leaves
With my previous post on “using the platform”, I was surprised that the comments on Hacker News and Lobsters tended to veer toward web components. This…| Read the Tea Leaves
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman | Computing | The Guardian
Richard Stallman says web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time| the Guardian
Nothing is Boring in America - by Henry Oliver
Chocolate gravy, Civil War, Piggly Wiggly. My newfound love of the Mid-South.| www.commonreader.co.uk
i am so afraid of starting small... – a small corner of the internet where i can think out loud and try to make sense of things
in hindsight, a lot of the losses i've had in life in the past year is from trying to make huge leaps. about a year and a half ago, i got a windfall large en...| a small corner of the internet where i can think out loud and try to make sen...
Rivian CEO: Robotics Is Progressing Much Faster Than You Think
On a ride through Manhattan, the Rivian CEO says the world is unprepared for just how fast robotics will advance.| www.bigtechnology.com
书评：My Brilliant Friend
本书作者叫 Elena Ferrante, 这是笔名，作者很低调，谁也不知道她真名是什么。有趣的是书的第一人称叙述者也叫 Elena，这让书读起来有自传的味道。原著是意大利语，我读的是英文版。中文版名字似乎叫《我的天才女友》，不喜欢读书的朋友也可以看 HBO 拍的同名电视剧。这本书讲的是在二战刚结束不久的那不勒斯，两个女孩的成长故事。| 一言堂
Passkeys Are Not a Trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for| Scott Helme
On Vulgar Materialism
Or, sufficiently advanced cynicism is indistinguishable from naïveté.| Fernando Borretti
Bitcoin Is Gold, Stablecoins Are Silver - by Tomas Pueyo
This week's premium article: Why Did Japan Rise So Much, but Then Stagnated?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. - by The Hack
Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web| nonfunctional.substack.com
'AI' is Not a Tool
(I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, f| www.linkedin.com
Lobbying | the singularity is nearer
Have you tried to explain lobbying to a non American unfamiliar with the concept?| the singularity is nearer
Ken Arneson : The Value of Not Getting to the Point
I read somewhere recently, I forget where, that the purpose of people getting together for a conversation over a beer or coffee or lunch or dinner is that it the food and drink spare us from the burden of needing to have something to say throughout the whole conversation.| ken.arneson.name
"Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot - Robot Girl Gang
The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"| Robot Girl Gang
My Husband Is a Good Man – Diary Asma
Read in BM I really want to share with the people closest to me just how amazing he is and how lucky I am to have him. But I can't tell anyone. I can't...| Diary Asma
Laptop Stickers: Yay Or Nay? | Brain Baking
Here’s an interesting dilemma for you: do you place stickers onto the back of your laptop? Are …| Brain Baking
Why were Victorian elites so effective? - Works in Progress Magazine
The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.| worksinprogress.co
We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.| www.anildash.com
Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.| James Ross
Changing How We Develop Ladybird - Ladybird
Ladybird is changing how code enters the project as we prepare to ship a browser to real users.| ladybird.org
You're Leaving Compute on the Table · Nishant Joshi
Six computers on one desk, a 2001 supercomputer's worth of compute, spending most of the day displaying spinners.| Nishant Joshi
On Social Reality in China — LessWrong
Recently, several posts and projects (Thoughts Memo, Babel Translation, Please Give Them a Chance) have taken important steps towards raising AI safe…| www.lesswrong.com
Hardly Promethean | Jared Norman
On bottlenecks, low standards, and calculators.| jardo.dev
Make tmux the OS
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd gladly listen to for 3+| matduggan.com
Touching Grass Isn’t Enough: The Furry Fandom’s Issues Are Structural - Dhole Moments
The problems with the furry fandom today are not as simple as,”Furries need to touch grass!” Unfortunately, whatever you’re seeing that makes you want to say such a thing is proba…| Dhole Moments
Music Spending Is Smaller Share Of A Bigger Pie – Economist Writing Every Day
We noted that “People Are Paying For Music Again” in 2024, showing that streaming was partly making up for the drop in sales of physical recordings, while live music sales were setting …| Economist Writing Every Day
怀念小林子
近日惊闻你去世的噩耗，觉得有必要写一些文字来纪念。年初我们见过一面，聊了孩子的教育，和老人家怎么沟通，中年人的身体健康，创业艰难等琐事，回来后我觉得我们可以重新做朋友，但这段时间太懒，没有再联系，结果就是永别了。| 一言堂
Thoughts on Flash
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death expe...| web.archive.org
Daniel Gultsch | Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating with my friends. However, when it came to releasing the app to the public on March 24, 2014—exactly twelve and a half years ago today—it was immediately clear to me that I wo...| Daniel Gultsch
Double-entry bookkeeping and paper and tokens | Honza Pokorný
The invention of double-entry bookkeeping has had profound implications on our world. All modern commerce owes a debt (hi!) to it. I have heard it compared to the invention of numbers. In turn, this accounting mechanism was made possible by the sudden availability of cheap paper. In The notebook: a history of thinking on paper, Roland Allen writes: Before paper became easily available in the years after 1244, Italian merchants had used parchment books to record their transactions, but they re...| Honza Pokorný
The New Kingmakers | The book about how developers took over the world
The book about how developers took over the world| The New Kingmakers
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow