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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 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 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 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...

Sep 12, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution

The previous article on Bazel remote caching concluded that using just a remote cache for Bazel builds was suboptimal due to limitations in what can and cannot be cached for security reasons. The r...

Sep 12, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

crates.io phishing attempt

Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: Andrew Gallant on BlueSky And it ...

Sep 12, 2025 from Virtuwise

Nvidia's Pivot: From Cloud Competitor to Chip Supplier

Nvidia steps back from cloud computing, rethinking its strategy to compete with AWS and other cloud giants.

Sep 11, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

Special interest infodump: a history of my celebrity crushes

Content Warning: childhood trauma, domestic abuse, sexual misconduct In a previous post about the connection between my selective mutism and childhood trauma, I wrote: I used to love singing at a v...

Sep 10, 2025 from Steve Blank

How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory

Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department o...

Sep 09, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

The Reserve Reviewer Policy

The Reserve Reviewer Policy is an experimental policy to help conferences scale to increased workloads. We outline its design and first implementation.