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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington Post

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Rated 2025-07-29T05:53:20-0700 - sethherr

The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

Inside 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 jue

#San Francisco

catherinejue.com catherine jue 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-30T16:14:52-0700 - sethherr

DHH on AI, Vibe Coding and the Future of Programming

The 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 Domination

At 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 Code

It 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, ramble

A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.

Steph Ango 500 words

Rated 2025-08-03T22:02:32-0700 - sethherr

Full-breadth Developers

The 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 display

The 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 Classroom

My 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 Nazi

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 500 words

Rated 2025-08-08T21:09:43-0700 - sethherr

Is everyone ok at the gemba

island94.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-10T10:56:23-0700 - sethherr

Claude Code Is All You Need

dwyer.co.za

Rated 2025-08-11T07:57:29-0700 - sethherr

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Microsoft 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 Bill

In 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 Segregation

To 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 piracy

As 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 developer

Tired 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 Cipriani

tylercipriani.com Tyler Cipriani 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-15T19:07:58-0700 - sethherr

AI is different - <antirez>

antirez.com

Rated 2025-08-16T07:14:16-0700 - sethherr

Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics

Yale 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 trials

Objective 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 Help

Ecuador’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 Area

Finalist #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 manager

have 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 travel

Road 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. Kuang

The 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 Success

Why 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 Analysis

Can 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 Blog

From 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 battery

Tiny 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 2025

Executive 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 CNN

Earlier 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 Area

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com

Rated 2025-08-22T18:58:21-0700 - sethherr

What happened to Egghead Software - The Silicon Underground

dfarq.homeip.net

Rated 2025-08-23T06:39:25-0700 - sethherr

Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates

Since 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 Think

One 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

Bicyclopedia

lemoing.ca

Rated 2025-08-24T08:25:14-0700 - sethherr

Europe Is Losing - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2025-08-24T11:13:15-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me

The New York Times

Rated 2025-08-24T13:58:42-0700 - sethherr

The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. | HackerNoon

There 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 securely

How 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 Technology

The 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 2025

Datacenter-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