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gRPC vs REST Is the Wrong Question

The traditional advice is REST for public APIs and gRPC for microservices. But is this a false dichotomy?

Do you use :visited on links?

I've always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven't been visited, and it seems that it's the default behaviour across the web. I've never really given it much...

A Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Has Been Emitting a Radio Signal for Two Decades — and Nobody Can Explain Why

An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in the VLASS survey (Very Large Array Sky Survey) that doesn’t resemble anything else...

The Tinder Swindler

United Kingdom · 2018–2019 · Scam — Shimon Hayut posed as a diamond billionaire's son on Tinder, running a transnational Ponzi scheme that drained victims' loans to fund lavish displays for new tar...

2026W37

the senior engineer death spiral — The pattern he names is one I’ve watched happen, you take on the ambitious thing, go quiet for two or three weeks convinced that working harder will close the gap...

At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Kits Outperform Office-Based Approach in Under-Resourced Settings

New research from MD Anderson finds mailed HPV screening kits more effective than clinic-based exams, offering a game-changing solution to reduce cervical cancer disparities in underserved and glob...

Foolish Mortals, Thoughtful Adventure

Somewhere off the coast of Louisiana lies the island of Devil’s Rock. Originally a cemetery island, by the late 19th Century it had become the base of operations for the brilliant Bellemore Brother...

Stargazing 5

Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ?

Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le minimalisme numérique ne vient pas du fait que le numérique soit mauvais en soi...

Refactoring English: Month 21

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...

But It Displays All Of The Original Emojis!

Read But It Displays All Of The Original Emojis! I'm giving a tour of our ancient Egypt exhibit. I'm describing a large statue, representing a figure reading hieroglyphics from a stone tablet. Tour...

Reviving TEMPEST Attacks with an Injected Signal

TEMPEST attacks are often the most effective way to break air-gapped security: rather than directly accessing a computer, the attacker records the system’s unintended radio emissions and uses them ...

Weekly Robotics #377

Weekly Robotics 377: Robot policies vs safety (a must read!), how to win a DARPA heavy lift challenge, streamlining a SpaceX Raptor engine, a robot hand that crawls, and more!

Biglaw Move That Everyone Seems Happy About — See Generally

Weil See You Later!: Weil, Gotshal & Manges lost rainmaker Michael Aiello, another big departure for them. But... partners spent the week explaining how they're actually not all that sad to see him...

More from Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech

A short excerpt from Prof. Mchangama's Sept. 3 post (though the whole thing is much worth reading): Frederick Douglass was… The post More from Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free ...

Grist is an open source self-hosted spreadsheet with a database hiding underneath

“Grist is a relational spreadsheet-database app that I can host on my own server. When I first tried it, it felt familiar because the basic idea is still the same: I get rows, columns, cells, and t...

Daily News Stuff 20 September 2026

Whatever Happened To B Cells Edition Top Story AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch) They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories. "Did...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26

I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...

Only two Yoshinoya branches in all of Japan are on a train platform, and this is one of them

Gyudon on the go in Kyobashi Station. When you spot a restaurant on a train platform in Japan, the odds are extremely high that it’s going to be a noodle joint, and specifically a soba/udon one. Si...

Tankrabatt 3.0

Wieso führen wir hier in Deutschland einen Tankrabatt ein, der doch nichts bringt?