Nobody actually talks anymore? | Nick Hayes
Someone sends a TikTok. A reel. A screenshot of an Instagram post. We react to the thing, maybe exchange a few lines about it, and then the conversation ...| Nick Hayes
It Only Snows Like This for Children - by Erik Hoel
The Lore of the World: Snow| www.theintrinsicperspective.com
The Value of Things – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
The Value of Things| journal.stuffwithstuff.com
Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" initiative - Email Expiration Date
This project is based on the idea of reducing the carbon footprint of the email marketing industry. While the simplest and most effective methods are to reduce the volume of emails sent and to lighten their weight, it is interesting to note that billions of commercial emails are stored indefinitely in data centers around the […]| Email Expiration Date
No Freedom Without the Second Amendment - The Atlantic
The federal killing of a Minnesota ICU nurse should worry every American.| The Atlantic
The coming war on Car Ownership | the singularity is nearer
But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on?| the singularity is nearer
How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire — And Why America, the Second Rome, Is Walking the Same Path
Empires rarely fall in dramatic moments of realization.| nitishastra.substack.com
The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not The Internet
The Internet Doesn't Suck| riverseeber.net
Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 - Mark McBride
Reduce noise from bad clients by disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 while making exceptions for legitimate clients relying on those protocols.| markmcb.com
Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes” | Blog
In 2000, Douglas Adams made an interesting observation that I keep returning to. A user on Slashdot named “FascDot Killed My Pr” had asked the following question (where HGttG = Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy): Comedy….or Tragedy? First, a big thank-you. You’ve made a lasting contribution to “our” culture (or should that be “culture”?) I first read HGttG in my early teens. I doubled over laughing the whole time. I read and reread the entire series, bought both Dirk Gently b...| shreevatsa.net
America’s Crimea - The Atlantic
Moscow lets it be known how it feels about Trump’s threats against Denmark.| The Atlantic
Build your own programming language | thesephist.com
Of all the projects I’ve made, I receive the most questions about the Ink programming language. Most questions fall into three categories:| thesephist.com
The Negro Is Your Brother - The Atlantic
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The End of the Underdog in College Football - The Atlantic
In 2026, the best teams are no miracle.| The Atlantic
Dead Internet Theory - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
The other day I was browsing my one-and-only social network -- which is not a social network, but I'm tired of arguing with people online about it -- HackerNews...| Dmitry Kudryavtsev
Asimov - Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
George watched him. Damn it, he thought, yell scream; you can do that | www.abelard.org
Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts
Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead| www.afterbabel.com
Building Better Buttons - Simple Thread
Buttons are the workhorse of the web, but are yours accessible? Discover how to improve the experience for screen reader and keyboard users by mastering button states, icon labels, and proper HTML semantics.| Simple Thread
"Write short sentences" is bad advice | thesephist.com
A common writing advice is to keep your sentences short and simple. The argument goes that writing is better when it is concise, because you’re more efficiently communicating your ideas. Long sentences take more energy for the reader to process, and you shouldn’t require that of the reader if it’s not necessary. That seems to be the logic.| thesephist.com
Talent Without Visibility Is Useless | Zevv Daily Thoughts
“You could be the best in the world at what you do. Doesn't matter. If nobody knows you exist, you're invisible. And invisible people don't get opportunities...| Zevv Daily Thoughts
The Cooperative Corridor – Economist Writing Every Day
The confluence of politics, recent interest in agent-based computational modeling, and Pluribus have convinced me now is the time to write about the “Cooperative Corridor”. At one point…| Economist Writing Every Day
OLED… Not for me.
When I switched from an iMac to a Mac mini in late 2024 I choose an ASUS ProArt 5K PA27JCV (24″, 60 Hz) for the monitor and while it looked great, it died after 14 months, seemingly with a backlight or power supply problem. ASUS’ warranty support requires shipping the monitor back, potentially waiting 3-4 weeks, and then getting a replacement. And worse, the replacement could have dead pixels, as the ASUS warranty doesn’t consider ≤5 dark pixels a problem.| nuxx.net
Why the French Don’t Obsess Over Purpose - by Pamela Clapp
A softer kind of ambition, where work is not your worth and satisfaction counts more than success.| theparisialite.substack.com
Stop Putting “Ikigai” in Corporate PowerPoints | Field Notes
I work for a Japanese company. I’ve studied Japanese arts for years. My wife lived in Tokyo for nearly a decade and speaks the language, and through her I ha...| Field Notes
The Friend-Group Fallacy - The Atlantic
Many people yearn for a crew, but having one is not actually the norm.| The Atlantic
jwz: Today in "Google broke email"
I have just learned that, beginning in 3 days, my employees will no longer be able to receive their work email. Apparently Google is dropping support for Gmail accounts being able to fetch mail from outside accounts. At all. And they announced this change less than 60 days ago. (The announcement was in the basement, stairs, leopard, etc.) What I want to accomplish is simple: When email ...| www.jwz.org
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 - Dhole Moments
If you think about emails as if they’re anything but the digital equivalent of a postcard–that is to say, they provide zero confidentiality–then someone lied to you and I’m …| Dhole Moments
The ‘America First’ President Takes On the World - The Atlantic
Nicolás Maduro was plucked out of Caracas, but the more shocking news was that the White House plans to run Venezuela.| The Atlantic
Tariffs Are Not Smart Industrial Policy – Economist Writing Every Day
This is where the political scientists, who often don’t understand the model in the first place, say ‘Ah ha!. Silly economists…’ They proceed to argue for tariffs on the grounds of national securit…| Economist Writing Every Day
Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill
n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup Package managers (for programming languages) are evil1. To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers mix up: A package Package Repositories Build Systems Package Managers These are all separate and can have no relation to one another. I have nothing wrong with packages, in fact Odin has packages built into the language. I have nothing wrong with...| www.gingerbill.org
toidiu
I have 15+ years of software engineering experience across different parts of the tech stack including networking libraries, congestion control, performance improvements, Backend, and Android development.| toidiu.com
Growing up in “404 Not Found” (Part II): The Vanishing Nuclear City
Previously: Growing up in “404 Not Found”: Life in a Secret Chinese Nuclear City That Was Never on the Map| vincent404.substack.com