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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington PostRated 2025-07-29T05:53:20-0700 - sethherr |
The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier ReefInside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. #Environment #Geoengineering 2025-07-25T02:01:32-0700 The New York Times Ferris Jabr ($) 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-29T20:06:02-0700 - sethherr |
fast | catherine juecatherinejue.com catherine jue 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-30T16:14:52-0700 - sethherr |
DHH on AI, Vibe Coding and the Future of ProgrammingThe Ruby on Rails creator embraces AI for tasks like drafting and API lookups but emphasizes hands-on coding to retain skill and joy. 2025-07-27T06:00:14-0700 The New Stack David Cassel 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-31T20:25:43-0700 - sethherr |
Cory Doctorow Reveals How He'd Fix Big Tech's DominationAt PyCon US 2025, Cory Doctorow defined his term "enshittification," explaining how digital platforms degrade by first attracting users, then exploiting them for business customers, and finally exploiting both for the company's own profit. 2025-07-04T06:00:13-0700 The New Stack David Cassel 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-01T04:17:06-0700 - sethherr |
6 Weeks of Claude CodeIt is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of... 2025-07-29T16:53:23-0700 blog.puzzmo.com Puzzmo Blog 5,000 words Rated 2025-08-03T21:19:44-0700 - sethherr |
If you're remote, rambleA lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams. Steph Ango 500 words Rated 2025-08-03T22:02:32-0700 - sethherr |
Full-breadth DevelopersThe software industry is at an inflection point unlike anything in its brief history. Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It has rendered entire product… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-04T06:49:20-0700 - sethherr |
I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel displayThe world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it Ben Holmen 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-04T19:16:30-0700 - sethherr |
What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer. 2025-08-02T02:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-05T16:30:08-0700 - sethherr |
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English ClassroomMy students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t… 2025-07-28T04:59:18-0700 Literary Hub 6,000 words Rated 2025-08-07T21:49:48-0700 - sethherr |
Substack promotes a Nazinewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 500 words Rated 2025-08-08T21:09:43-0700 - sethherr |
Is everyone ok at the gembaisland94.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-10T10:56:23-0700 - sethherr |
Claude Code Is All You NeedRated 2025-08-11T07:57:29-0700 - sethherr |
GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationMicrosoft is bringing GitHub into its AI engineering team. It’s part of an AI shakeup, following the GitHub CEO resigning. #Microsoft 2025-08-11T08:43:09-0700 The Verge Tom Warren 500 words Rated 2025-08-11T15:23:41-0700 - sethherr |
Should Strong Gods Bet On GDP?Slightly contra Fukuyama on liberal communities 2025-08-05T06:59:30-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 50,000 words Rated 2025-08-13T06:51:30-0700 - sethherr |
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban BillIn a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries. 2025-08-14T05:23:48-0700 BOOK RIOT Kelly Jensen 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-14T18:18:19-0700 - sethherr |
Opinion | America’s New SegregationTo be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change. #College #Donald Trump 2025-08-14T14:00:06-0700 The New York Times David Brooks ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-14T18:32:18-0700 - sethherr |
Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. #Congress #Donald Trump #Elections 2025-08-14T02:02:17-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Raina Raskin ($) 20,000 words Rated 2025-08-14T19:51:54-0700 - sethherr |
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracyAs subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way 2025-08-14T00:00:28-0700 The Guardian Guardian staff reporter 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-15T07:05:21-0700 - sethherr |
How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developerTired of fumbling with the PureGym app for 47 seconds every morning, I reverse-engineered their API to build an Apple Wallet pass that gets me in with a quick wrist scan. Along the way, I discovered their bizarre security theatre: QR codes that expire every minute while my ancient 8-digit PIN lives forever. 2025-08-14T00:00:00-0700 Drobinin Limited Vadim Drobinin 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-15T19:01:08-0700 - sethherr |
The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Ciprianitylercipriani.com Tyler Cipriani 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-15T19:07:58-0700 - sethherr |
AI is different - <antirez>Rated 2025-08-16T07:14:16-0700 - sethherr |
Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on PlasticsYale E360 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T08:36:43-0700 - sethherr |
ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trialsObjective To examine the effects of drug treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality. Design Emulation of target trials. Setting Linkage of national registers in Sweden, 2007-20. Participants People aged 6-64 years with a new diagnosis of ADHD, who either started or did not start drug treatment for ADHD within three months of diagnosis. Main outcome measures First and... 2025-08-13T00:00:00-0700 The BMJ 8,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T08:38:40-0700 - sethherr |
Opinion | A Cloud Forest in Ecuador Is Crying for HelpEcuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa. #Ecuador #Environment #Mining #Politics 2025-08-14T22:00:05-0700 The New York Times César Rodríguez-Garavito, Robert Macfarlane ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T14:51:58-0700 - sethherr |
Your Review: Dating Men In The Bay AreaFinalist #8 in the Review Contest 2025-08-15T05:48:36-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 105,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T20:34:28-0700 - sethherr |
Advice for time management as a managerhave accurate expectations of yourself • prioritize ruthlessly • unemploy your future self • a five-step “help, I’m overwhelmed” checklist • carve out focused time benkuhn.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-18T22:13:39-0700 - sethherr |
States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travelRoad safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel. This is due to the 85% rule, which ties speed limits to the speed of the 15th-fastest vehicle out of every 100 traveling a road in ideal conditions. Critics say this approach encourages speeding. Ohio is among the states considering new guidelines that focus more on safety. But supporters of the rule say it provides... #Activism #Business #California #North Dakota #Ohio #Politics #Texas #Washington #Wisconsin 2025-08-16T21:00:54-0700 AP News https://apnews.com/author/jeff-mcmurray 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-19T16:57:43-0700 - sethherr |
The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. KuangThe author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell. 2025-08-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Hua Hsu 5,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T10:36:02-0700 - sethherr |
DC Rainmaker: The Tech Reviewer on What’s Coming in 2025 and the Secret to Tech SuccessWhy are Ray Maker's tech reviews so popular? 2025-06-30T11:42:26-0700 Slowtwitch News 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T18:19:07-0700 - sethherr |
Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical AnalysisCan Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted? 2025-08-20T06:16:00-0700 Stat Significant Daniel Parris 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:10:12-0700 - sethherr |
Anubis.lock.cmpxchg8b.com Tavis Ormandy 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:18:04-0700 - sethherr |
Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding - Zed BlogFrom the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE. 2025-08-20T00:00:00-0700 zed.dev Nathan Sobo 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T06:09:39-0700 - sethherr |
Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike batteryTiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes. 2025-05-22T13:12:13-0700 Ars Technica Kevin Purdy 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T14:44:17-0700 - sethherr |
Executive Excess 2025Executive Excess 2025 - CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations. 2025-08-21T04:00:00-0700 Institute for Policy Studies averyr 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T22:44:25-0700 - sethherr |
Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNNEarlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its investigation on the failures that led to this mid-air collision, local investigators in Virginia were somehow far more concerned about identifying who had leaked… 2025-08-22T13:30:09-0700 Techdirt 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-22T18:52:09-0700 - sethherr |
Contra A Review Of Dating Men In The Bay Areanewsletters.feedbinusercontent.com Rated 2025-08-22T18:58:21-0700 - sethherr |
What happened to Egghead Software - The Silicon UndergroundRated 2025-08-23T06:39:25-0700 - sethherr |
Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climatesSince moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the h Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T07:41:35-0700 - sethherr |
Being Taught to ThinkOne of the biggest tragedies of the American education system is that it teaches memorization rather than critical thinking . “Critical thinking” as a phrase is almost a cliche. It gets repeated all the time in the popular lexicon, sometimes by people who don’t really seem to understand what it m Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T07:55:04-0700 - sethherr |
What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?An open source Chrome extension that adds AI data agents to your Metabase. Get reliable answers to all your business questions with our AI-powered data analyst. 2025-08-21T00:00:00-0700 MinusX vivek 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T13:36:45-0700 - sethherr |
BicyclopediaRated 2025-08-24T08:25:14-0700 - sethherr |
Europe Is Losing - WSJRated 2025-08-24T11:13:15-0700 - sethherr |
Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised MeRated 2025-08-24T13:58:42-0700 - sethherr |
The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoonThere is a flaw at the heart of the term Minimum Viable Product: it’s not a product. It’s a way of testing whether you’ve found a problem worth solving. A way to reduce risk and quickly test your biggest assumption. Instead of building an MVP identify your Riskiest Assumption and Test it. Replacing your MVP with a RAT will save you a lot of pain. 2016-09-27T00:00:00-0700 hackernoon.com Rik Higham 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T19:30:39-0700 - sethherr |
How to check if your Apple silicon Mac is booting securelyHow to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process. 2025-08-20T23:30:00-0700 The Eclectic Light Company 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T19:39:53-0700 - sethherr |
I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated TechnologyThe antiquated technology we use hinders our ability to work with our lawyers and file appeals. #New Jersey 2025-08-19T03:00:00-0700 Prison Journalism Project Jorge Luis Alvarado 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-24T20:28:49-0700 - sethherr |
What are OKLCH colors?Article about the OKLCH color model. jakub.kr 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T07:31:52-0700 - sethherr |
Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025Datacenter-Scale Heat Management 2025-08-24T11:47:51-0700 Chips and Cheese Chester Lam 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T21:01:57-0700 - sethherr |