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The Fall of Roam

I don’t use Roam anymore. Why?

2022-02-12T00:00:00-0800 every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words

Rated 2025-05-18T18:06:35-0700 - sethherr

Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values

2025-05-09T06:00:00-0700 Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-20T08:42:44-0700 - sethherr

How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?

Answer by ‎Alon Amit (אלון עמית)‎, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler.

Quora 4,000 words

Rated 2025-05-20T10:11:21-0700 - sethherr

Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea

kottke.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-20T10:21:15-0700 - sethherr

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

Signal Messenger 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-21T15:17:43-0700 - sethherr

how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice

izbicki.me 3,000 words

Rated 2025-05-22T12:21:54-0700 - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr

After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Board

danvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T07:28:41-0700 - sethherr

GitHub issues for notes

GitHub issues is *almost* the best notebook in the world. Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes. Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus …

Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 500 words

Rated 2025-05-26T07:29:51-0700 - sethherr

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

2025-05-25T23:27:27-0700 TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T08:27:41-0700 - sethherr

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

2025-05-26T13:30:21-0700 Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T20:39:01-0700 - sethherr

Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike Cake

During the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor.

2020-04-23T16:18:29-0700 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-27T17:23:39-0700 - sethherr

The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700 - sethherr

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology

2025-05-28T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words

Rated 2025-05-29T08:05:51-0700 - sethherr

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way.

2025-05-05T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words

Rated 2025-05-30T21:44:30-0700 - sethherr

Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments

Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.

2025-05-22T17:00:00-0700 DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-05-31T06:07:23-0700 - sethherr

Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster

Some highlights and lowlights.

Allen Pike 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-01T07:10:32-0700 - sethherr

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Slate Star Codex

Rated 2025-06-01T11:03:14-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

2025-06-02T02:01:30-0700 The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:02:01-0700 - sethherr

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr

No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM

A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.

2025-05-29T06:00:06-0700 404 Media Emanuel Maiberg 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T18:52:38-0700 - sethherr