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Jul 11, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Interview with John Bridges (PCPaint, GRASP, GL Pro)

John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting programs and helped spur the use of mice within the IBM PC market. He supported...

Jul 11, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #36: Moon Rice, Mountaineering in High Heels, and Why Birds Never Debate Economic Policy

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I scavenge through the thrift shops of the aer’y internet, looking for neglected finds in science, culture, a...

Jul 11, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 7

Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam ...

Jul 10, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Flox Box

Back in March I was at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) in Pasadena and I had to go directly from there to Bangkok to get to FOSSAsia. Now I’m not a very vain person, but on long flights ...

Jul 08, 2025 from Palladium

Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains?

The practice of archaeology is almost unique to our contemporary Western civilization rather than universal, and it is unlikely to be continued by future civilizations. The post Will Future Civiliz...

Jul 08, 2025 from Steve Blank

Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. Thi...

Jul 08, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

Learning to scream like my rock idols

After writing about the childhood trauma that caused my selective mutism and my horrific experience with a job training programme for Autistic people, I’m left with this deep rage about everything ...

Jul 08, 2025 from Home on A blog

My 2025 Setup

This is my 2025 setup. Software & Productivity brew as package manager asdf as language & tools management VS Code as code editor with Copilot integration Bear as notes keeping Arc as browser Kagi ...

Jul 07, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Waarom Informatiekunde eigenlijk net Friesland is

En andere domme vergelijkingen. Uit de oude doos. Omdat ik weer geen tijd heb om iets nieuws te schrijven.

Jul 06, 2025 from catonmat.net

Online Browser Coupon Code (30% OFF)

TLDR: You can grab a discount for Browserling (a super handy online browser) by using the coupon code ONLINEBROWSER at browserling.com. It gives you 30% off premium plans. Works for developers, hac...

Jul 05, 2025 from catonmat.net

Try a Browser In Browser! (For Free!)

TLDR: Need to test a website in a different browser or see how it looks on another system? Try a browser inside your browser at browserling.com/browse. We created tech that runs real browsers (like...

Jul 04, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

statistic tools - 去海边整点统计工具

§ Mann-Kendall test for monotonic trend https://vsp.pnnl.gov/help/vsample/design_trend_mann_kendall.htm § Petri Nets Petri Nets fundamentals https://teaching.model.in.tum.de/2021ss/petri/material/p...

Jul 04, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog

Agentic checkout in ~100 lines of Python

A few months ago Stripe announced their upcoming Order Intents API at Stripe Sessions. There’s a lot to like about this API, and if Stripe can maintain their usual quality bar it’ll be a big unlock...

Jul 03, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming - Notiz

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming - Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit Took a lecture that used this as the textbook … I think I should review it..

Jul 03, 2025 from catonmat.net

Announcing Wget Cookbook!

I and my team at Browserling just created the Wget Cookbook. It contains over a dozen organic, nutritious, and completely irresistible recipes for quickly getting the everyday wget tasks done. Here...

Jul 02, 2025 from catonmat.net

6.65 Million Google Clicks! 💸

Yesterday Online PNG Tools smashed through 6.64M Google clicks and today it's smashed through 6.65M Google clicks! That's 10,000 new clicks in a single day – the smash train keeps on rollin'! What ...

Jul 02, 2025 from Jasco's Website

A few weeks into a new car

I talk about my new car: a 2007 Mazda 3 hatch

Jul 02, 2025 from Michael Lynch

goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers

I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about t...

Jul 01, 2025 from Jasco's Website

The Myth of Deindustrialization

I talk about the issues with offshoring all our manufacturing

Jul 01, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

July 2025’s RPG Blog Carnival: Improv, Roleplay, and Warmups

This month, I'm hosting the RPG Blog Carnival! We'll be talking about improvisation, roleplaying, and warmups. Jump in and share your posts! The post July 2025’s RPG Blog Carnival: Improv, Roleplay...