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May 25, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week — It's Mostly Wynncraft

This Week — It's Mostly Wynncraft TL;DR:I went on a work trip. Mostly, though, I played Wynncraft This blog post has approximately 250 words and may take 2 minutes to read. Hello, and welcome back!...

May 25, 2025 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

All Delta Force Land Warrior + Task Force Dagger OSTs

All Delta Force Land Warrior + Task Force Dagger OSTs extracted from the SBF assets

May 23, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #35: Diasimocracy, Four Loko Collectors, and What It's Like To Survive A Grizzly Attack

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next “Linkfest”, in which I sift through the entirety of known cyberspace to find the finest nuggets of science, technology and cultu...

May 23, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Amazon Web Services - Three Years In

Today is my third anniversary with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If I had to describe this last year with one word it would be “change”. Unlike a lot of people I know who really don’t care for change,...

May 22, 2025 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Question Driven Development

A reflection on the importance of asking the right questions in software development.

May 20, 2025 from Heitor's log

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.

May 20, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Litestream: Revamped

Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about ...

May 19, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

Axolotls, Genies, and Kaiju; a Quick TTRPG Zine Roundup #2

Another great round-up of tabletop RPG zines; Axolotl with a Gun, Game Genie Apocalypse/Reading the Apocalypse, and Home; a MECH X KAIJU RPG. The post Axolotls, Genies, and Kaiju; a Quick TTRPG Zin...

May 19, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

This post was cross-published from the SIGARCH blog. The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled paym...

May 19, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week (and Previous Week) — The Sick Edition, No. 2

This Week (and Previous Week) — The Sick Edition, No. 2 TL;DR:omg.lol hosts a charity event with a twist, two magazines launch, Archive of Our Own goes through two controversies, and I get addicted...

May 19, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Launching MCP Servers on Fly.io

This is a blog post. Part showing off. Part opinion. Plan accordingly. The Model Context Protocol is days away from turning six months old. You read that right, six months old. MCP Servers have bot...

May 16, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🆕 Sandboxels OUT ON STEAM + New Update ♨️

Sandboxels has officially been released on Steam! To celebrate, we also have a new update (v1.11.2) with some small but neat features!

May 16, 2025 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Writing your own OS in 100 lines of YAML

The BlueBuild project is an easy and fun way to customize your own operating system.

May 14, 2025 from kmcd.dev

I made a daily word game

Taking a peek under the covers of making a daily puzzle game

May 13, 2025 from Steve Blank

How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and econ...

May 12, 2025 from Jordi Villar

Query Booster: How Tinybird optimizes table schemas for you

Original article: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/query-booster-how-tinybird-optimizes-table-schemas-for-you A customer recently reached out to us with an interesting observation: their query la...

May 10, 2025 from Volution Notes

Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web

About how another instance of "the scientific progress justifies the means", or perhaps "how a corporation milks profits from other people's work", triggers an arms race that piece by piece dismant...

May 09, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

The Dark Forest Hypothesis

A few years ago I read Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End) and I recently revisited it in audiobook format. The Dark Forest is...

May 09, 2025 from unixdigest.com

Evilness is when profit is the sole concern

When a company is small it's easy to care about the good and the evil it does, but when a company gets big, typically profit becomes the sole concern and that is when evilness takes root and starts...

May 08, 2025 from Changelog

Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!

It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new episodes there. It’s been more than six months since we invited Zulip’s Alya Abbott on the pod...