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On Being Blocked From Contributing to lodash

My Github account was blocked from contributing security improvements to the project. This was my first open source work in a while, and unfortunately, it a...

crtns 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-06T20:35:58-0700

Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

2025-09-28T22:00:31-0700 The Guardian Nesrine Malik 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-05T17:30:17-0700

How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer

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seangoedecke.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

Israel’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

Increasing your practice surface area

The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.

2025-10-01T09:21:19-0700 Indie Hackers Channing Allen 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-02T18:55:58-0700

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with programmable firmware. Your fingers will thank you.

Mastering Emacs Mickey Petersen 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T16:36:05-0700

What is "good taste" in software engineering?

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seangoedecke.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T07:49:40-0700

The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop

Clogged 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

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community

I’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

That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

It's just normal crime

2025-09-23T15:02:58-0700 Cybersect Robert Graham 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-24T07:48:17-0700

Work on what you use and share the rest (DHH)

dhh.dk

Rated 2025-09-23T20:13:15-0700

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby 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

In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice

Forty-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

The awe keeps dropping

A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe-Dropping event.

2025-09-15T11:35:06-0700 Riccardo Mori 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-15T21:33:07-0700

Opinion | Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover

Democrats 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

The Asshole Filter –

The

2024-04-01T02:41:00-0700 Mr. Steinberg jamespsteinberg 5,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T22:21:05-0700

Giving people money helped less than I thought it would

Ending 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

Opinion | How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a Supporter

It’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions. #College #Mathematics #US Politics

2025-09-05T02:01:04-0700 The New York Times Eugenia Cheng ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-09-05T14:23:35-0700

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

How 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

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% 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

You can try to like stuff

it offers lessons on your nature

2025-08-27T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-02T21:01:28-0700

Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped

Chicago 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

dw_news | Mississippi legal challenge: beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

dw-news.dreamwidth.org 4,000 words

Rated 2025-08-27T21:23:50-0700

Safe Is What We Call Things Later - by Scott Werner

worksonmymachine.ai

Rated 2025-08-26T17:27:19-0700

U.S. Intel

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

2025-08-26T03:00:00-0700 Stratechery by Ben Thompson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-08-26T08:00:03-0700

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

Opinion | How ChatGPT Surprised Me

The New York Times

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

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

Contra A Review Of Dating Men In The Bay Area

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Substack promotes a Nazi

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com 500 words

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

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

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

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

fast | catherine jue

#San Francisco

catherinejue.com catherine jue 1,000 words

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

‘The Interview’: Robert Reich Thinks the Baby Boomers Blew It

The former U.S. Labor Secretary on how complacency and corporate ties created a “bully in chief.” #Barack Obama #Bill Clinton #College #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-07-26T02:15:06-0700 The New York Times David Marchese ($) 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-27T14:04:06-0700

When We Get Komooted

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities... #Travel

2025-07-25T04:20:02-0700 BIKEPACKING.com Josh Meissner 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-27T11:14:31-0700

Developing our position on AI - Blog

This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC. #New York City #programming

Recurse Center 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-26T08:32:19-0700

Do not download the app, use the website

The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. "Mobile-first" was the buzzword, much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest social media giants to your local pizza parlor, seemed

Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-25T21:14:58-0700

Revisiting Moneyball

The 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

How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck

Yoni 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