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Nov 12, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #41: The "Chthulucene", Doom on a Satellite, and The Ethics of Selling a Haunted House

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next Linkfest, in which I offer up the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I could pan from the glittering, unceasing cr...

Nov 11, 2025 from Steve Blank

The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa...

Nov 11, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

Synchronisationbegriffe - WIP

Entschuldigung für mein kaputtes Deutsch. :) Die Hauptfrage ist, was die Anforderungen für eine korrekte Synchronisationsimplementierung (z.B. eines Locks) sind? Es gilt die Regel, dass zwei Dinge ...

Nov 11, 2025 from Suffix

Assembling a 3D Printer

Building an advanced LEGO kit with the kids.

Nov 11, 2025 from Jasco's Website

The rewrite

I talk about an old program I wrote, Feedie, and the process of rewriting it

Nov 10, 2025 from The Jaxson

Smaller Than Jax, But I Have Rail: Lessons from Tucson

As JTA's Ultimate Urban Circulator faces growing scrutiny from the Duval DOGE committee, it’s worth turning our gaze westward to a smaller, less dense city that’s managed to do what Jacksonville ha...

Nov 10, 2025 from JoeHx Blog

October 2025 Book Reading List

It must be the end of an era. For the first time in over seven years, I read no books to either my son or my daughter.

Nov 09, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Call Off Your Dogs

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

Nov 09, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Call Off Your Dogs

This post discusses recent laws banning social media for adolescents

Nov 09, 2025 from Caffeinspiration

On having heart surgery at 32

Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or anything I’ve written about before; it’s my personal experience going through heart...

Nov 08, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIII 〜 NewsELEC

Welcome to the 253rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Nov 08, 2025 from Personal Log at usebox.net

alttab is fantastic

I use Linux, Debian to be exact, and moved from XFCE to use i3wm over two years ago. I’m very happy with my setup and I don’t see me making any changes –unless is moving to Sway when I have to use ...

Nov 07, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

The Generati

A post about students using generative AI in class

Nov 07, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

The Generati

A post about students using generative AI in class

Nov 07, 2025 from Palladium

The Medici Method

Florence’s leading medieval family turned a banking career into political power and paradigm shifts in art and science. Their methods hold lessons for philanthropy today. The post The Medici Method...

Nov 07, 2025 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 11

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

Nov 06, 2025 from Rock and Null

The rewrite dilemma in software engineering

Rewriting software can be tempting, but understanding the hidden value of accumulated fixes and system stability is key to making the right decision.

Nov 06, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

Re: Chiseling: The Art of Polishing Vibe Code

Re: https://patrickerichsen.com/chiseling Hi Pat! Oh so thrilled to see you got your personal site up and running plus a freshly minted blog post. For the reader: I know Pat from when we both worke...

Nov 06, 2025 from The Fly Blog

You Should Write An Agent

Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...

Nov 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Zürich and Vaduz

I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...