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Apr 20, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

💧 Sandboxels on STEAM + New Trailer 🔥

Good news: Sandboxels is coming to Steam! We need your help.

Apr 18, 2025 from Ryan Bagley

Would China Target Taiwan’s Submarine Internet Cables During Invasion?

Map of major international submarine internet cables near Taiwan. Source: TeleGeography. The seemingly ever present threat of China invading Taiwan stands as one of the most critical and closely wa...

Apr 18, 2025 from Isaac Clayton

We need an LLVM project for browser engines

N.B. I’m publishing some gems from writing I did over the course of two years while living in Brazil. Read the first post for more context. 2023-09-13 · Isaac Clayton You’re reading this in Chrome....

Apr 17, 2025 from Isaac Clayton

The Piano-Sleep Effect

An old note. I’m publishing a backlog of writing I’ve done. Read the first post for more context. 2024-03-26 · Isaac Clayton I noticed something while playing the piano a while back that I thought ...

Apr 16, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

The promise of Rust

The part that makes Rust scary is the part that makes it unique. And it’s also what I miss in other programming languages — let me explain! Rust syntax starts simple. This function prints a number:...

Apr 16, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Released a new tool: llm-url-markdown

Recently I started using Simon Willison ’s CLI tool which is conveniently called llm . He introduced a particularly useful fragments feature in a recent version of the tool, that allows the user to...

Apr 16, 2025 from Isaac Clayton

Replication > REST

I’m publishing a backlog of writing I’ve done. Read the first post for more context. On today’s menu: I have been thinking about CRDTs and synchronization for a few years (e.g. this old post about ...

Apr 15, 2025 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Shore

A brief reflection on why I write and the intention behind my words.

Apr 15, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

Victor Perez and Ryan Gainer should still be here.

This Autism Acceptance/Awareness Month, please remember our neurokin who lost their lives to systemic racism and ableism. Rest in peace Victor Perez. And I still haven’t forgotten Ryan Gainer, who ...

Apr 15, 2025 from Steve Blank

How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower

Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happ...

Apr 15, 2025 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

How to block and confuse AI crawlers with nepenthes and fail2ban

A quick guide on combining an anti-AI tarpit with automatic blocking

Apr 14, 2025 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

The outdoor socket and the monster that is the Skoda Mode 2 cable

We got a new (to us) car because a truck liberated us from the one we bought a year ago. Since this one is a plug-in hybrid, I wanted to charge it from an outdoor socket using the official 3 pin ca...

Apr 14, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week — Peace and Quiet

This Week — Peace and Quiet TL;DR:I watched two cool donghuas, played the latest Vampire Survivors update, participated in CSS Naked Day, and finally got this blog listed on Ye Olde Blogroll. This ...

Apr 13, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W14

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? — The idea of making advertising illegal may sound silly but couldn’t agree more. I’ve been unlucky enough to work for the industry and can’t imagine a better s...

Apr 13, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Is Generative Artificial Intelligence Useful? And Moral?

There are a ton of difficult questions to answer around generative AI. Is it useful and how useful is it? And is it moral both in the way it is built and the way it is used? Let's dig in.

Apr 13, 2025 from Caffeinspiration

How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

Look at this orange: Now look at this orange: It’s the same orange. But, look how much more orange it looks with the red mesh on top of it: If you buy bags of oranges (at least at many places in th...

Apr 12, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Migrating from Fauna to Supabase

The announcement that Fauna made the decision to sunset their service hit me by surprise. The main reason for this decision seems to be money - as they’ve put it: “it is not possible to raise the c...

Apr 12, 2025 from Caffeinspiration

Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts

Sometimes I just love a good visualization, and there’s something about radar charts that makes them so approachable. Maybe it’s the asymmetry or the mapping to 2D space, but they give an immediate...

Apr 11, 2025 from Nicolas Bouliane's blog posts

The Greater Bad-ass

My motorcycle slips on a patch of mud, the front wheel goes from under me, I hit the ground hard, parts go flying, I get the wind knocked out of me. I catch my breath then prop the bike back up. I ...

Apr 11, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério

Django: Overriding translations from dependencies

This week, I’ll continue on the same theme of my previous “Django Friday Tips” post. Essentially, we will keep addressing small annoyances that can surface while developing your multilingual projec...