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Moving on from 18F.

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-18T14:37:50-0800 - sethherr

Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3D

Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. …

stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800 - sethherr

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition.

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words

Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800 - sethherr

Introducing: Barbecue Running Gel

It's time to smoke the competition.

2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800 - sethherr

Against Kathleen Stock On Neil Gaiman

Anti-kink feminism is surprisingly blase about rape

2025-02-07T08:01:56-0800 Thing of Things Ozy Brennan ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:30:20-0800 - sethherr

My stupid noise journey

A tale of bad choices

2023-06-26T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:49:53-0800 - sethherr

Car trouble

And how not to fix it

2025-02-06T09:02:19-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:45:42-0800 - sethherr

minimum effective dose

I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time...

2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800 - sethherr

n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs

n0rdy personal blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T13:57:15-0800 - sethherr

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

More 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

Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism

Patrick 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

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal 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

The Gravitational Force of Tech Money

The 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

Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025

I 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

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’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

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

Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned

Only 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

NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days

People 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

No calls

Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.

Keygen 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-17T09:19:31-0800 - sethherr

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.

joeyehand.com 200 words

Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr

Nobody Cares

A rant about caring

grantslatton.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T07:39:42-0800 - sethherr

Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don't make them the only option

Subscription 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

Software is eating the world, … all right

I 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

Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learn

coding2learn.org Marc Scott 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T20:27:27-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This

The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions don’t remain in the atmosphere. #Climate Change #Global Warming

2024-12-28T04:00:05-0800 The New York Times Mark Miodownik ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-30T17:51:58-0800 - sethherr

The torture of an unphilosophical life

#Culture

2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr

Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas

2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

minds.md 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-26T06:52:23-0800 - sethherr

Berkeley's Evolution On Housing

To understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines.

2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr

On blankfaces

For years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid…

2021-08-02T13:30:48-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T20:52:01-0800 - sethherr

Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of Dreams

The scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan

2024-12-11T12:00:02-0800 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T19:40:14-0800 - sethherr

Telraam Traffic Monitoring & Bike Match Network Shutting Down

Reflecting on 4 years of Bike Match and 2 years of Bay Area Traffic Monitoring

2024-12-17T12:30:34-0800 Transpo Maps Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T16:54:29-0800 - sethherr

Always Go To The Funeral

As a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures.

2005-08-07T21:00:00-0700 NPR Deirdre Sullivan 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T06:56:56-0800 - sethherr

Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills

As with kids' test scores, a crucial question is the role of knowledge

2024-12-15T15:42:57-0800 Minding the Gap Natalie Wexler 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-15T20:40:46-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | The Trouble Began Where #MeToo Became #ChurchToo

Yes, people want justice — as long as justice costs them nothing or very little. #Child Abuse #Christianity #Donald Trump #Harvey Weinstein #Rape

2024-12-15T03:00:16-0800 The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-15T17:22:50-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing Arctic

I had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it. #Climate Change #Global Warming #Weather #Wildfire

2024-12-15T06:00:13-0800 The New York Times Jon Waterman ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-15T07:06:43-0800 - sethherr

my second year without a job

Reflecting on two years of unemployment: personal growth, financial lessons, and creative pursuits like music and startups. Here's how I navigated year two without a job.

shilin typing... 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-07T07:54:42-0800 - sethherr

I trained myself to run farther using the Strava API and an IOT dog food bowl full of M&Ms

mayer.cool

mayer.cool Dan Mayer 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-05T08:04:03-0800 - sethherr

Save The Valencia Center Bike Lane. It's Better Than You Think.

Already agree with me? Save the San Francisco Valencia center bike lane with this email in one tap! (and join me for public comment at the Nov 19th City Hall meeting! (The SFBC will also be there advocating for better biking & rolling in general) More info below. The moment I turn onto Valencia Street ...

2024-10-31T13:17:27-0700 Bike to Everything Dylan Harris 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-01T18:27:16-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | Prop. K was a battle between urban and suburban SF. The right side won

Proposition K wasn’t just about the future of a road: It was a clash between two ideologies battling to shape the city.

2024-11-19T15:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Jane Natoli 1,000 words

Rated 2024-11-19T17:50:01-0800 - sethherr

The Early Christian Strategy

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2024-11-14T05:57:42-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2024-11-18T17:49:06-0800 - sethherr

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network.

2024-11-15T11:36:51-0800 Gavin Anderegg 2,000 words

Rated 2024-11-15T19:38:56-0800 - sethherr

Meta’s Broken Promises

The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government...

2023-12-21T18:30:08-0800 Human Rights Watch 15,000 words

Rated 2024-11-13T08:17:50-0800 - sethherr

Where Harris’ campaign went wrong

It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad – a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president’s campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base.

2024-11-06T03:10:46-0800 lite.cnn.com Edward-Isaac Dovere ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-11-06T15:03:51-0800 - sethherr

The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College Sorority

How are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports.

2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words

Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800 - sethherr

What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over a Hospital

New analysis shows alarming increase in patient complications

2023-12-26T00:00:00-0800 hms.harvard.edu 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-31T15:57:50-0700 - sethherr

Hi Google, please stop 💩 the bed: a desperate plea from the independent web.

Served with humor, as I cry into my goldfish bowl of boxed Chardonnay.

2024-10-28T09:51:44-0700 Building Shepherd.com Ben Fox 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-30T16:44:07-0700 - sethherr

Notes From The Progress Studies Conference

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2024-10-24T05:16:15-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 55,000 words

Rated 2024-10-28T08:16:23-0700 - sethherr

Regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice

Early on a cool September morning, farmer Josh Payne tends to his flock in Concordia, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. As Payne opens the gate, about a thousand sheep round the corner and bound into fresh grass. The pasture the flock grazes was once corn and soybeans, along with the rest of the Payne ...

2024-10-11T08:31:57-0700 Investigate Midwest Lauren Cross 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-26T06:19:38-0700 - sethherr

A Radical Approach to Flooding in the UK: Give Land Back to the Sea

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative. #Agriculture #Birds #Britain #Climate Change #England #Environment #Global Warming

2024-10-21T21:01:25-0700 The New York Times Rory Smith, Andrew Testa ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-10-22T07:50:25-0700 - sethherr