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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.govMore than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time. 2025-01-30T11:36:15-0800 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:56-0800 - sethherr
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Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov)NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content] 2025-02-01T12:37:06-0800 Bluesky Social 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:25-0800 - sethherr
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Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticismPatrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL 2025-01-30T02:00:43-0800 The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-01T07:47:15-0800 - sethherr
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The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. LynnLiberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court 2024-08-20T14:23:10-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2025-01-30T21:50:20-0800 - sethherr
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The Gravitational Force of Tech MoneyThe main story of the post-techlash years has been too few people with too much capital 2024-03-13T13:12:55-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 3,000 words Rated 2025-01-30T06:33:26-0800 - sethherr
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Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors OhDoyleRules james2doyle@gmail.com James Doyle 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-29T18:13:52-0800 - sethherr
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of MythmakingI’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If… 2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800 - sethherr
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Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder"Founder Mode" is such garbage. 2024-09-13T11:10:00-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-28T21:47:12-0800 - sethherr
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The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us AstrayA wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power 2025-01-27T09:47:31-0800 The Impossible Path Anthony David Adams 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-28T07:25:14-0800 - sethherr
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails AppWhen the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general? 2025-01-23T02:17:51-0800 byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-26T06:42:15-0800 - sethherr
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Algorithmic ranking is unfairly malignedOnly some kinds are bad 2025-01-23T09:01:59-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-23T21:03:51-0800 - sethherr
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rubycdp/ferrum: Headless Chrome Ruby APIHeadless Chrome Ruby API. Contribute to rubycdp/ferrum development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-23T20:13:49-0800 - sethherr
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How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fastSilicon Valley Disposition, an auction site specializing in Bay Area tech companies, helps shutdown and surviving firms offload rare, pricey, high-tech gear. #Arizona #Google #Montana #San Francisco 2025-01-21T04:00:00-0800 SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-23T06:46:35-0800 - sethherr
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Creation | anyon_eCreating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands. byran.ee 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-23T06:40:39-0800 - sethherr
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Gem::SafeMarshal escapenastystereo.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-22T07:11:01-0800 - sethherr
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I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup AttemptsA while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ... blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words Rated 2025-01-20T19:06:16-0800 - sethherr
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Bike Link LockersAbout using the Bike Link Lockers with a clipper card 2025-01-19T21:01:58-0800 blog.carfree.city 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-20T15:55:56-0800 - sethherr
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in. 2025-01-13T05:09:15-0800 GitButler Scott Chacon 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-20T06:21:26-0800 - sethherr
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early DaysPeople have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. 2025-01-14T05:53:11-0800 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words Rated 2025-01-19T14:13:47-0800 - sethherr
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Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the SignalsNow we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike. mikecoats.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-19T08:04:52-0800 - sethherr
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Opinion | Neil Gaiman, ‘Babygirl’ and the Ethics of Social LiberalismRated 2025-01-17T17:03:54-0800 - sethherr
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No callsEnterprise sales don't have to be crazy. Keygen 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-17T09:19:31-0800 - sethherr
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of StuffJoey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog. joeyehand.com 200 words Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr
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‘It’s got everything you want, plus dragons’: Brandon Sanderson on the joy of writing fantasyThe hugely popular author reveals his excitement at the release of his latest Stormlight saga, how he extracted himself from Amazon and why JK Rowling should have stuck to novels 2024-12-06T08:32:34-0800 The Guardian James Smart 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T14:03:18-0800 - sethherr
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How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates... 2025-01-15T05:11:02-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T13:59:04-0800 - sethherr
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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Julia Evans 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T13:48:46-0800 - sethherr
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What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4 2025-01-10T12:40:50-0800 Kevin Murphy 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T13:15:06-0800 - sethherr
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Nobody CaresA rant about caring grantslatton.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T07:39:42-0800 - sethherr
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Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling?I have my suspicions 2025-01-14T07:50:56-0800 Good Tech Things Forrest Brazeal 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-15T15:30:53-0800 - sethherr
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The Origins of WokenessRated 2025-01-15T09:03:31-0800 - sethherr
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It's Charisma, StupidRated 2025-01-14T22:35:46-0800 - sethherr
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Take the pedals off the bikeApparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again. 2025-01-06T08:39:13-0800 Fortress of Doors Lars Doucet 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-14T19:22:08-0800 - sethherr
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacleSpeaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products. 2025-01-13T07:55:38-0800 Reuters ($) 500 words Rated 2025-01-13T21:35:41-0800 - sethherr
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Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups 2025-01-11T06:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-11T17:18:32-0800 - sethherr
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How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to KarafkaHoneybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned. 2025-01-07T16:00:00-0800 Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-11T07:48:57-0800 - sethherr
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What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrongFunding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce… 2024-12-22T04:37:20-0800 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-09T20:45:16-0800 - sethherr
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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood FactoryHow a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories. 2025-01-05T10:01:47-0800 Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words Rated 2025-01-08T16:10:07-0800 - sethherr
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Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinleyThe U.S. changed its name to the Athabascan "Denali" in 2015. 2024-12-22T11:21:06-0800 Reuters Kanishka Singh ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-08T12:21:45-0800 - sethherr
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Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don't make them the only optionSubscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying. 2025-01-06T16:00:00-0800 Recyclebin.zip 500 words Rated 2025-01-08T07:30:06-0800 - sethherr
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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 2025-01-06T13:57:30-0800 - sethherr
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Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your JobIn Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say "Ship the Roadmap." What new information are they communicating in that case? And if the OKRs say anything else, they're in conflict the roadmap! An example (that I made up): In Marketing, quarterly OKRs express our… 2025-01-05T18:09:24-0800 Jessitron 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-06T13:31:39-0800 - sethherr |
Software is eating the world, … all rightI retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real world where I run two “brick-and-mortar” small businesses. I… 2024-05-18T13:41:38-0700 Medium Jean-Jacques Dubray 3,000 words Rated 2025-01-06T13:28:02-0800 - sethherr
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. 2025-01-04T02:00:00-0800 ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words Rated 2025-01-05T08:08:32-0800 - sethherr
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Judge Rejects New Jersey’s Bid to Halt Congestion PricingStarting Sunday, most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak travel times will be charged a $9 fee. #New Jersey 2025-01-03T17:57:43-0800 The New York Times Tracey Tully, Ana Ley ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-03T20:35:52-0800 - sethherr
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Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learncoding2learn.org Marc Scott 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-03T20:27:27-0800 - sethherr
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‘Are we the first generation that won’t die?’: Bryan Johnson on his controversial lifestyleThe 47-year-old multimillionaire spends $2m a year on staying youthful and, in a new documentary, he explains why we should be following his lead 2025-01-02T07:23:41-0800 The Guardian Radheyan Simonpillai 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-03T16:54:09-0800 - sethherr
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Lake Tahoe’s Bear BoomRated 2025-01-03T16:04:53-0800 - sethherr
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn’t competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn’t change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further. 2024-12-29T10:21:51-0800 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-03T09:11:08-0800 - sethherr
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Ruby 3.4 highlightsblog.sinjakli.co.uk 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-01T10:49:52-0800 - sethherr
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Improve Your Heart Rate Training Zones With The Karvonen FormulaHow to use the Karvonen heart rate formula to improve training zones. A comparison with the percent maximum HR method. 2021-01-27T01:16:14-0800 Training 4 Endurance training4endurance 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-30T18:31:23-0800 - sethherr
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