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A quick look at the French AI sloperator Mistral AI

I'm addicted to my phone. We're all a little addicted. What can be done?

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

A quick look at the French AI sloperator Mistral AI

I'm addicted to my phone. We're all a little addicted. What can be done?

A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

Vernal Intro Welcome to the 272nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially ...

Welcome to the 271st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 270th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

It all started with a post on Lobste.rs, someone asking how others manage their SSH keys. It was a question that I ha...

Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day...

Here we are at the end of another year, so I will share again the two books I enjoyed the most. Before starting, here...

It’s been another hectic week, but towards the end, it was a bit relaxing because of Ugadhi and Id breaks. Wish you a...

One thing you should know is that I love bags, and I have quite a few of them, in different kinds. In my head, there ...

It’s been a hectic week. Most of the things I had planned have been done, but there are always things left to do! Vis...

4x 30TB Seagate Hard Drives Over the course of my life, hard drives have continued to get denser as far as their data...

In today’s world of content generated by the Weighted Random Word Generators (also known as Large Language Models (LL...

Last year, I thought 2025 would be the year of psychological operations. It’s not a risky prediction to make since fa...

In 2024 we server-rendered Lit web components in Drupal using a Node.js sidecar container. Now we can do it with a si...

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Everything you need to know about ICS files — what they are, how to open them, how they work with email invitations, ...

Everything you need to know about EML files — what they are, how to open them, how they differ from MBOX and MSG file...

Learn the best practices for sharing emails within your team. From privacy considerations to workflow optimization, s...

Subsea internet cables carry 99 percent of transoceanic digital traffic.1 Financial transactions, diplomatic communic...

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Rad...

Western mob wife appears to have been the overarching clothing aesthetic at the last Sundance Film Festival in the st...

The Apple Magic Keyboard is an outrageously expensive wireless Mac keyboard with just one redeeming feature.

I know you have Betteridge’s law of headlines in mind, but the answer to this question isn’t as simple as “yes” or “no”.

I tried donating to OSS creators via GitHub Sponsors and learned some *mildly* interesting things.

Society has lost our sense of greatness and the reasons it is worth pursuing. This is especially relevant to those wi...

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon U...

An alliance of German artists and industrialists forged the visual order of contemporary life, from skyscrapers to sm...

You can succeed, but you can't fail — because you aren't officially trying

First it makes you slow, then it makes you fast (maybe)

Some fundamentals about how it works, and what to do when it doesn't

Two passages from the architect and writer on the fourth anniversary of his passing.

0038: 5 ways to approach goal-setting0:00/632.0641×Episode details: A reading and discussion of this, from 2022 ↓5 wa...

0037: The wooden chair0:00/387.98933333333331×Episode details: Readings of two passages on the subject of wooden chai...

Currently I’m between jobs. Nothing special, a lot of people go between jobs. After working for several years on a fa...

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50...

Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona — A potential acquisition dies because a vegan exec unknowingly eats mayo ...

Why agentic coding changes everything for the open-source craft and maintainership. It has been two months since I’ve...

It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex ...

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article. It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-bas...

A couple of years back I was discussing the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP). It includes a table expressing as a sum...

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that peopl...

A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to ma...

Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of y...

What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in P...

When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. L...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my pow...

I quite liked this metaphoric view of the morning ritual from Herbert Lui: A good morning ritual needs to be flexible...

I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...

Welcome to the Netherlands! If you’re a newcomer like me and love tennis, or even if you’re looking to pick up a rack...