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21 Lessons From 14 Years at GoogleLessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. addyosmani.com Addy Osmani 2,000 words Rated 2026-01-04T19:57:30-0800 - sethherr
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Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your EnemyI’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway. 2025-10-08T22:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-25T06:15:32-0800 - sethherr
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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIt used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland, Rivka Galchen writes. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. 2025-11-17T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:30-0800 - sethherr
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Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30T10:13:40-0800 Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T17:00:17-0800 - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:56-0800 - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13T16:58:07-0800 - sethherr
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I Want You to Understand ChicagoRated 2025-11-10T19:51:09-0800 - sethherr
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The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety ActA follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom's strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, together with my co-counsel Ron Coleman. The suit seeks to defend 4chan from the UK’s attempts to censor that… 2025-11-06T16:20:45-0800 Preston Byrne 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:38:03-0800 - sethherr
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What Hallucinogens Will Make You See8 ways psychedelics distort our vision. 2023-06-01T17:56:18-0700 Nautilus Kristen French 1,000 words Rated 2025-11-08T16:21:52-0800 - sethherr
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in AfricaOr: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past 2025-11-04T08:06:02-0800 Climate Drift Skander Garroum 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T13:42:08-0800 - sethherr
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Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk – Noel Rappin Writes HereI just write here noelrappin.com Noel Rappin 3,000 words Rated 2025-11-05T12:18:31-0800 - sethherr
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Scrolling ThroughJack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road 2025-09-18T21:01:04-0700 The American Scholar Gerald Howard 6,000 words Rated 2025-10-31T22:18:25-0700 - sethherr
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Ruby BlocksHow to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks. #ruby 2025-10-14T05:47:51-0700 Stonecharioteer on Tech 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-18T08:41:32-0700 - sethherr
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You did no fact checking, and I must screamI'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true. There are brilliant tools like reverse Image Search which give you a good indicator of when an image first appeared on the web, and… 2025-10-05T04:34:23-0700 Terence Eden’s Blog Terence Eden 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-17T07:39:34-0700 - sethherr
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What really happened at BasecampBasecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy. #Labor 2021-04-27T17:00:00-0700 The Verge Casey Newton ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-09T21:06:49-0700 - sethherr
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California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharingThe California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use. The Record 500 words Rated 2025-10-08T21:27:09-0700 - sethherr
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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualizedIsrael’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how. 2025-10-01T23:11:26-0700 CNN Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson ... ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-02T19:05:03-0700 - sethherr
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The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshopClogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters #Culture 2025-07-25T23:00:59-0700 The Londoner Andrew Kersley 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-27T18:39:33-0700 - sethherr
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Bundler belongs to the Ruby communityI’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3. 2025-09-24T22:16:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-25T07:32:38-0700 - sethherr
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeoverRuby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent. joel.drapper.me 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-23T17:13:38-0700 - sethherr
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In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking noticeForty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections. 2025-08-29T10:12:00-0700 WMEH Susan Sharon 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T18:02:49-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s TakeoverDemocrats aren’t powerless, and they don’t have to enable autocracy. #Corruption #Donald Trump #US Politics 2025-09-06T22:02:19-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 4,000 words Rated 2025-09-07T14:12:19-0700 - sethherr
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it wouldEnding the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers 2025-08-19T03:00:58-0700 The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:32:51-0700 - sethherr
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can surviveHow the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI. #Politics 2025-09-04T05:30:04-0700 The Verge Josh Dzieza ($) 10,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T13:22:15-0700 - sethherr
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit. 2025-09-03T08:01:15-0700 Mike Judge 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-03T16:28:09-0700 - sethherr
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Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mappedChicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all. 2025-08-28T03:30:00-0700 Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T20:47:52-0700 - sethherr
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Executive Excess 2025Executive Excess 2025 - CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations. 2025-08-21T04:00:00-0700 Institute for Policy Studies averyr 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T22:44:25-0700 - sethherr
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Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical AnalysisCan Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted? 2025-08-20T06:16:00-0700 Stat Significant Daniel Parris 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:10:12-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | A Cloud Forest in Ecuador Is Crying for HelpEcuador’s ecological progress is threatened by a series of reforms steamrolled by its young populist president, Daniel Noboa. #Ecuador #Environment #Mining #Politics 2025-08-14T22:00:05-0700 The New York Times César Rodríguez-Garavito, Robert Macfarlane ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T14:51:58-0700 - sethherr
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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
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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
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Revisiting MoneyballThe book was published in 2003, and the movie was released in 2011. It feels silly to rehash, except the whole thing fascinates fans two decades later. Why? On the one hand, it is loved because it… 2025-07-24T01:24:34-0700 djpardis.medium.com Pardis Noorzad 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-24T20:54:02-0700 - sethherr
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How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuckYoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems 2025-07-09T09:30:24-0700 Riskgaming by Lux Capital Danny Crichton 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-21T17:13:51-0700 - sethherr
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My 9-week unprocessed food self-experimentWhat I really want to know is: What benefit would I get from making my diet better? 2025-07-10T09:03:03-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-19T12:14:34-0700 - sethherr
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it existsRated 2025-07-07T14:34:47-0700 - sethherr
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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... 2025-03-14T17:18:08-0700 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words Rated 2025-07-03T20:58:47-0700 - sethherr
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Tools: Code Is All You NeedThe solution to agentic flows was code all along. 2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700 - sethherr
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700 - sethherr
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700 - sethherr
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Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather datatext.npr.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700 - sethherr
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Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS" 2025-06-25T06:57:24-0700 The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-25T21:14:13-0700 - sethherr
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The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much WorseA bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to... 2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700 - sethherr
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New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodonSummary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ... 2025-06-17T15:40:04-0700 GitHub mcclure 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-18T21:39:09-0700 - sethherr
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How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani 2025-06-16T10:19:50-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words Rated 2025-06-16T19:42:36-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel LiberalismRated 2025-06-16T19:39:41-0700 - sethherr
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of ThisHow the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else 2025-06-07T04:55:12-0700 My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:57:05-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics 2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700 - sethherr
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All NutsMy smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding. Fly 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t KillPutin 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
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