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Sep 20, 2025 from catonmat.net

Try RBI – Remote Browser Isolation! (For Free!)

TLDR: Want your team to browse the web safely without risking company devices or networks? Try free Remote Browser Isolation at browserling.com/browse. It runs right in your browser. No installs, n...

Sep 19, 2025 from Galaxy Garden

Happy 1st Anniversary to My omg.lol Membership

19 September 2025 marks the first anniversary of my membership of omg.lol, a web platform consists of various services. Happy omg.lol Birthday to me! 🥳 On this day in 2024, I joined omg.lol after s...

Sep 19, 2025 from Rock and Null

Navigate back with results in Jetpack Compose Navigation

Learn how to pass data back to the previous screen in Jetpack Compose Navigation without shared ViewModels or custom contracts. This lifecycle-aware approach works with basic types and serializable...

Sep 19, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Bazel and glibc versions

Imagine this scenario: your team uses Bazel for fast, distributed C++ builds. A developer builds a change on their workstation, all tests pass, and the change is merged. The CI system picks it up, ...

Sep 18, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from EMISARI

On August 15th, 1971, President Nixon declared a 90-day freeze on wages, rents, and prices. The next day, the Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) was charged with implementing the Freeze. OEP la...

Sep 18, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

The Anatomy of an SSH Config

A few years ago I published a post about aliases, one of which I set up to allow me to SSH into a shared web server. Someone shared that post to Hacker News, so naturally the gaping flaws in my und...

Sep 18, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Moving out of AWS

For years, I hosted this blog and several other services on AWS. AWS is powerful, but it is also expensive and deeply entropic. It often feels like every problem on AWS has three different services...

Sep 17, 2025 from Steve Blank

When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis

Great founders shine in a crisis. Ordinary ones watch their companies burn down. I just had coffee with two co-founders of an e-bike company who were mentoring one of our student teams. In short or...

Sep 17, 2025 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Optimal Ask

Let’s say that you are selling N widgets and you need to determine a price for your widgets. There are N customers, each of whom will buy at most one widget if your price is lower than the maximum ...

Sep 16, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

Think Globally, Discuss PL Locally

In-person meetings are hugely beneficial for academic research; they provide a venue to collaborate and connect, making our community more connected and facilitating the exchange of ideas. In addit...

Sep 15, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

Making our own spectrogram

A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot mor...

Sep 15, 2025 from Silence Calling

The Breath of Fire

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

Sep 15, 2025 from Virtuwise

Why Jack Dorsey bets on stories over strategy

Jack Dorsey unpacks why storytelling—not code—shapes tech, culture, and the platforms we live on.

Sep 15, 2025 from unixdigest.com

How I manage my bookmarks

Bookmarks are great, but just as much as I need them, I also find them dismal.

Sep 15, 2025 from BattlePenguin

Transgender Shooters, Flags and Troop Deployments

Last month, a shooter opened fire in a Catholic church. The immediate backstory of the shooter being transgender fit the current social fears of ideological conservatives. Almost immediately, news ...

Sep 15, 2025 from Michael Lynch

I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing

I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog. No, he didn’t ...

Sep 14, 2025 from Virtuwise

Food for Thought: How Our Diets Are Making Us Fat

New study reveals diet, not lack of exercise, is primary cause of obesity, challenging conventional wisdom on health and wellness.

Sep 14, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk

I WILL NOT ATTEMPT to eulogize the martyr. Others have done this already—and done so with such skill that anything I write would not measure up. I will do something else here: explain, in sober and...

Sep 13, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

It's Always a Physical Layer Problem

When I moved a few years ago I needed to re-think my networking architecture. At the old place I ran a lot of Cat6 cable to various access points and that provided a decent amount of coverage. The ...

Sep 12, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #39: "Xenoparity", Navajo Microchips, and In Defense of the Em-Dash

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my next Linkfest, for which I rifle through the infinite stoop-sale vinyl-crates of the Internet, hunting for the finest singles in scienc...