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Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price | Jeff Geerlingjeffgeerling.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-7-12 8:03am
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United States of AmericaThis is Earth.Org's profile of the climate change vulnerabilities, updated emissions pledges and environmental policies by sector of the United States. Earth.Org 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-4 11:27pm
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Unexpected Things that are Peoplepanlegal expressions of personhood 2025-11-7 6:05pm Gold Takes Ben Goldhaber 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-10 4:51pm
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Understanding Solar EnergyThe biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels. 2025-3-20 5:03am Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated 2025-3-20 4:01pm
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Ukraine’s M-1A1 Tanks Have A Special Power: The Ability To Pinpoint Targets 8,000 Meters AwayRated 2023-3-23 7:36am
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UI DensityI speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math. matthewstrom.com 3,000 words Rated 2024-6-14 5:17pm
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U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USANow U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes! 2025-3-11 9:00pm usa.streetsblog.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-3-13 10:32am
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Twitter, Elon and the Indigo BlobThe line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-7-31 7:51am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20 2:58pm
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Fox News Is Bigger Than Any HostRated 2023-4-24 10:16pm
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Truth, power, and honest journalismGarry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response. 2026-5-15 5:23am The Watch Radley Balko 3,000 words Rated 2026-5-18 7:50pm
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Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinleyThe U.S. changed its name to the Athabascan "Denali" in 2015. 2024-12-22 11:21am Reuters Kanishka Singh ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-8 12:21pm
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A Decade of Have I Been PwnedA decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have I been pwned?" by @troyhunt is now up and running. Search for your account across multiple breaches http://t.co/U0QyHZxP6k — Have I Been Pwned... 2023-12-3 11:05pm Troy Hunt 4,000 words Rated 2023-12-5 3:54am
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Trellix automates tackling open source vulnerabilities at scale | The Daily SwigRated 2023-3-19 11:12am
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hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMshydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It... 2025-3-14 5:18pm nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words Rated 2025-7-3 8:58pm
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-7-1 8:56pm
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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington PostRated 2025-7-29 5:53am
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Toronto's underground labyrinthHow Canada's largest city developed a 30 kilometer network of pedestrian tunnels 2025-8-29 4:03am The Works in Progress Newsletter Samuel Hughes 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-2 1:36pm
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TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied and deceived the Committee. The Tech Oversight Project has compiled some of the most damning evidence against Meta on our Big Tech on Trial microsite, which will be updated throug 2026-2-17 8:44pm The Dispatch The Tech Oversight Project 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-18 7:25am
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. 2025-7-3 12:00am Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated 2025-7-3 4:56pm
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Together: The Merb StoryI'll never forget the day that I became a member of the Rails core team. For all of 2008 (and the better part of 2007), I was working on a competitor to Ruby on Rails called Merb. I loved Merb, and was excited to share it with anyone who'd listen, so when I attended RailsConf in 2008, I signed up to give a nighttime Birds of a Feather session about Merb. To be honest, I expected only a handful of people to show up, but I was too excited to let that stop me. When the time for the... 2020-2-19 11:29am Katz Got Your Tongue Yehuda Katz 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-23 8:15pm
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar with Waltz, he's most well known for inviting The... 2025-5-2 2:34pm micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated 2025-5-6 6:59am
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TinyLetter had a big momentOn February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s. 2024-2-29 6:00am The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words Rated 2024-3-19 10:27pm
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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFICan we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. 2025-2-11 4:00pm Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words Rated 2025-2-12 3:26pm
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Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of AppleRated 2023-4-17 1:26pm
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Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Diseaseby Jared Hecht (blog, linkedin, twitter) Ticker: Don’t Die of Heart Disease 9,000 words Rated 2025-11-16 2:38pm
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Thousands of climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfallsNew footage provides rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish 2025-8-14 12:55pm Science Advances Mark DeGraff 500 words Rated 2025-8-26 8:08am
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Thoughts on seed oilDon't get distracted. 2024-4-18 9:01am Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 5,000 words Rated 2024-4-18 2:45pm
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this week in security — march 5 editionRated 2023-3-11 8:59am
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This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill GatesA company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words Rated 2025-9-6 2:43pm
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This is a teenagerRated 2024-4-16 9:01pm
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This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy TheoriesIn a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot. #Artificial Intelligence #Conspiracy Theory #Psychology 2024-9-12 11:30am The New York Times Teddy Rosenbluth ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-11 3:22pm
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This Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten program. Test scores fell even furtherThis Bay Area school district spent $250,000 on Woke Kindergarten. Test scores fell even further #LGBTQ+ #Maryland #San Francisco 2024-2-3 4:00am San Francisco Chronicle Jill Tucker 1,000 words Rated 2024-4-17 11:08pm
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Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrongHOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. … 2022-1-7 1:15pm lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words Rated 2024-5-20 10:25am
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Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP (DHH)Rated 2024-5-14 11:15am
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Things I Won't Work With: HexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitaneScience Advances 1,000 words Rated 2023-6-4 7:19am
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They squandered the holy grailWhy Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect xeiaso.net 5,000 words Rated 2025-1-6 1:57pm
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From prison companies to Tesla: These stocks are soaring off the Trump victoryFormer President Donald Trump’s projected return to the White House is making many shareholders of publicly traded companies richer by the second. 2024-11-6 12:34pm lite.cnn.com Elisabeth Buchwald ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-6 3:06pm
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These Intimate Photos Capture a Family Farm’s Bittersweet Final YearsPhotographer Ellen Harasimowicz has chronicled New England’s Willard Farm in its final harvests #Agriculture #Arts & Culture #Farming #Photography 2023-5-9 5:00am Smithsonian Magazine Jeff Campagna 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-9 10:27pm
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These bats use their penis as an 'arm' during sex but not for penetrationMammals usually mate via penetrative sex, but researchers report Nov. 20 in the journal Current Biology that a species of bat, the serotine bat, (Eptesicus serotinus) mates without penetration. This is the first time non-penetrative sex has been documented in a mammal. 2023-11-20 8:00am Phys.org Science X 1,000 words Rated 2023-11-21 7:35am
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There is no such thing as a global method (in Ruby)What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced. zverok.space 2,000 words Rated 2024-10-31 8:07pm
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The ‘Georgists’ Are Out There, and They Want to Tax Your LandAmid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency. #Detroit #Housing #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-12 12:00am The New York Times Conor Dougherty ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-14 7:52am
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government TakeoverEngineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Government #Politics 2025-2-2 11:02am WIRED Vittoria Elliott 1,000 words Rated 2025-2-3 7:19pm
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The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat BoundariesEvery Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion 2017-10-16 3:07pm Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words Rated 2025-6-8 7:55pm
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The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated ItThe sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black" outside when 2022-3-15 12:20pm Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/abeaujon/#author ... 1,000 words Rated 2024-4-8 1:15pm
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The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research planRated 2023-4-4 11:26pm
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The unions are (finally) coming for big techAfter decades of taking a back seat, the rise of AI, layoffs, and industry-wide burnout has led to a call for more prominent tech unions. 2025-6-5 2:16am LeadDev Kelli Korducki 1,000 words Rated 2025-6-15 6:36pm
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The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog ComputingRated 2023-4-26 7:28am
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The Ultra-Viral Rise of Prime, the Internet’s Favorite Sports DrinkStunts, meme marketing, and promotion from social media celebrities Logan Paul and KSI have catapulted the drink past the competition. #Marketing #Sports #Youtube 2023-7-13 6:00am WIRED Nicole Gull McElroy 2,000 words Rated 2023-8-6 9:13pm
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The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet, explainedThe UK’s long-delayed Online Safety Bill is expected to become law this year, representing a massive change for how the internet is regulated in the country. 2023-5-4 12:00am The Verge Jon Porter 3,000 words Rated 2023-5-4 7:12pm
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The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”Rated 2023-5-11 10:16pm
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