popular bookmarks generated Mon Dec  8 23:30:05 2025 UTC
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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | Sinclair Target
[https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/]
A nice comparison of all three and why you might use one over the other.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{zig golang rust gooddesign}


Resonant Computing Manifesto
[https://resonantcomputing.org/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Perl's decline was cultural
[https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{unix-philosophy perl-culture perl-philosophy wall}


576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
[https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Self-hosting my photos with Immich - Michael Stapelberg
[https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail
[https://www.makeuseof.com/wasted-money-over-aa-battery-code-meaning/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{electricity electronics power battery}


Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto`
[https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/]
Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
[https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{programming engineering staff article career}


Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
[https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{technical-debt}


Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
[https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay]
[heavily illustrated with images][via:"San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.phphttps://archive.ph/WhVT7 ]"Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.I say some because destination displays aren’t consistently used across the city’s transit system. In fact, SF has an unusually high number of independent public transit agencies. Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen. Each agency, with its own models of buses and trains, use different destination displays, creating an eclectic patchwork of typography across the city.Among them, one display in particular has always stood out to me: the LCD panel displays inside Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles. I remember first noticing them on a Saturday in October on the N-Judah, heading to the Outer Sunset for a shrimp hoagie. This context is important, as anyone who’s spent an October weekend in SF knows this is the optimal vibe to really take in the beauty of the city. What caught my eye was how the displays look mechanical and yet distinctly personal. Constructed on a 3×5 grid, the characters are made up of geometric modules: squares, quarter-circles, and angled forms. Combined, these modules create imperfect, almost primitive letterforms, revealing a utility and charm that feels distinctly like the San Francisco I’ve come to know.This balance of utility and charm seems to show up everywhere in San Francisco and its history. The Golden Gate’s “International Orange” started as nothing more than a rust-proof primer, yet is now the city’s defining colour. The Painted Ladies became multicoloured icons after the 1960s Colourist movement covered decades of grey paint. Even the steepness of the streets was once an oversight in city planning but has since been romanticised in films and on postcards. So perhaps it is unsurprising that I would find this same utility and charm in a place as small and functional as a train sign.To learn more about these displays, I visited the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Electronics Shop at Balboa Park. There, technician Armando Lumbad had set up one of the signs. They each feature one large LCD panel which displays the line name, and twenty-four smaller ones to display the destination. The loose spacing of the letters and fluorescent backlighting gives the sign a raw, analogue quality. Modern LED dot-matrix displays are far more efficient and flexible, but to me, they lack the awkwardness that makes these Breda signs so delightful.Armando showed me how the signs work. He handed me a printed matrix table listing every line and destination, each paired with a three-digit code. On route, train operators punch the code into a control panel at the back of the display, and the LCD blocks light on specific segments of the grid to build each letter. I picked code 119, and Armando entered it for me. A few seconds later the panels revealed my own stop: the N-Judah at Church & Duboce. There in the workshop, devoid of the context of the trains and the commute, the display looked almost monolithic, or sculptural, and I have since fantasised whether it would be possible to ship one of these home to Australia.Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Lite, Inc., a company based in Milford, Connecticut that specialised in transport signage from 1959 until its acquisition by the Nordic firm Teknoware in 2012. After lots of amateur detective work, and with the help from an anonymous Reddit user in a Connecticut community group, I was connected with Gary Wallberg, Senior Engineer at Trans-Lite and the person responsible for the design of these very signs back in 1999.Learning that the alphabet came from an engineer really explains its temperament and why I was drawn to it in the first place. The signs were designed for sufficiency: fixed segments, fixed grid, and no extras. Characters were created only as destinations required them, while other characters, like the Q, X, and much of the punctuation, were never programmed into the signs. In reducing everything to its bare essentials, somehow character emerged, and it’s what inspired me to design Fran Sans.I shared some initial drawings with Dave Foster of Foster Type who encouraged me to get the font software Glyphs and turn it into my first working font. From there, I broke down the anatomy of the letters into modules, then used them like Lego to build out a full set: uppercase A–Z, numerals, core punctuation. Some glyphs remain unsolved in this first version, for example the standard @ symbol refuses to squeeze politely into the 3×5 logic. Lowercase remains a question for the future, and would likely mean reconsidering the grid. But, as with the displays themselves, I am judging Fran Sans as sufficient for now.Getting up close to these signs, you’ll notice Fran Sans’ gridlines are simplified even from its real‑life muse, but my hope is that its character remains. Specifically: the N and the zero, where the unusually thick diagonals close in on the counters; and the Z and 7, whose diagonals can feel uncomfortably thin. I’ve also noticed the centre of the M can scale strangely and read like an H at small sizes, but in fairness, this type was never designed for the kind of technical detail so many monospaced fonts aim for. Throughout the process I tried to protect these unorthodox moments, because to me, they determined the success of this interpretation.Fran Sans comes in three styles: Solid, Tile, and Panel, each building in visual complexity. The decision to include variations, particularly the Solid style, was inspired by my time working at Christopher Doyle & Co. There, we worked with Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national theatre company dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. The equity of the Bell Shakespeare brand lies in its typography, which is a beautiful custom typeface called Hotspur, designed and produced by none other than Dave Foster.Often, brand fonts are chosen or designed to convey a single feeling. Maybe it’s warmth and friendliness, or a sense of tech and innovation. But what I’ve always loved about the Bell typeface is how one weight could serve both Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, simply by shifting scale, spacing, or alignment. Hotspur has the gravity to carry the darkness of Titus Andronicus and the roundness to convey the humour of Much Ado About Nothing. And while Fran Sans Solid is technically no Hotspur, I wanted it to share that same versatility.Further inspiration for Fran Sans came from the Letterform Archive, the world’s leading typography archive, based in San Francisco. Librarian and archivist Kate Long Stellar thoughtfully curated a research visit filled with modular typography spanning most of the past century. On the table were two pieces that had a significant impact on Fran Sans and are now personal must-sees at the archive. First, Joan Trochut’s Tipo Veloz “Fast Type” (1942) was created during the Second World War when resources were scarce. Tipo Veloz gave printers the ability to draw with type, rearranging modular pieces to form letters, ornaments and even illustrations.Second, Zuzana Licko’s process work for Lo-Res (1985), an Emigre typeface, opened new ways of thinking about how ideas move between the physical and the digital and then back again. Seeing how Lo-Res was documented through iterations and variations gave the typeface a depth and richness that changed my understanding of how fonts are built. At some point I want to explore physical applications for Fran Sans out of respect for its origins, since it is impossible to fully capture the display’s charm on screen.Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more efficient and easier to maintain. By the end of 2025 the signs that inspired Fran Sans will disappear from the city, taking with them a small but distinctive part of the city’s voice. That feels like a real loss. San Francisco is always reinventing itself, yet its charm lies in how much of its history still shows through. My hope is that Fran Sans can inspire a deeper appreciation for the imperfections that give our lives and our cities character. Life is so rich when ease and efficiency are not the measure.For commercial and non-commercial use of FRAN SANS, please get in touch: emily@emilysneddon.comWITH THANKSDave Foster, for being my go-to at every stage of this project.Maria Doreuli, for thoughtfully reviewing Fran Sans.Maddy Carrucan, for the words that always keep me dreamy.Jeremy Menzies, for the photography of the Breda vehicles.Kate Long Stellar, for curating a research visit on modular typography.Angie Wang, for suggesting it and helping to make it happen.Vasiliy Tsurkan, for inviting me into to the SFMTA workshop.Armando Lumbad, for maintaining the signs that I love so much.Rick Laubscher, for putting me in touch with the SFMTA.William Maley Jr, for opening up the TRANS-LITE, INC. archives.Gary Wallberg, for designing and engineering the original signs.Gregory Wallberg, for responding to a very suspicious facebook post.Reddit u/steve31086, for sleuthing the details of William Maley Jr."..."OUTSIDE MY LIFE,INSIDE THE DREAM.FALLING UP THE STAIRS,INTO THE STREET.LET THE CABLE CARCARRY ME.STRAIGHT OUT OF TOWN,INTO THE SEA.PAST THE DAHLIAS ANDTHE SELF-DRIVING CARS.THE CHURCH OF 8 WHEELS.THE LOWER HAIGHT BARS.THE PEAK HOUR SPRAWL.THE KIDS IN THE PARK.THE SLANTING HOUSES.THE BAY AFTER DARK.MY WINDOW, MY OWNSILVER SCREEN.I FOLLOW WHERE THEFOG TAKES ME.By MADDY CARRUCAN"
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{sanfrancisco emilysneddon muni breda sfmta typography fonts trains segmenteddisplays segmentdisplays 2025 graphicdesign design maddycarrucan}


The Anatomy of a macOS App – The Eclectic Light Company
[https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
[https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal]
So what happened?  Well, it all comes down to three perfectly synergistic events:OpenAI executed two unprecedented RAM deals that took everyone by surprise.The secrecy and size of the deals triggered full-scale panic buying from everyone else.The market had almost zero safety stock left due to tariffs, worry about decreasing RAM prices over the summer, and stalled equipment transfers.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{RAM business opinion openai}


In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/in-1995-a-netscape-employee-wrote-a-hack-in-10-days-that-now-runs-the-internet/]
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all ... That name has been a source of confusion for three decades. It was a marketing decision meant to capitalize on the buzz around Java at the time. The 1995 press release prominently positioned JavaScript as a complement to Java, with the former handling small client-side tasks while Java powered larger enterprise applications. Bill Joy ... said at the time: “JavaScript will be the most effective method to connect HTML-based content to Java applets.” ... Confusion about its relationship to Java continues: The two languages share a name, some syntax conventions, and virtually nothing else. Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems using static typing and class-based objects. JavaScript uses dynamic typing and prototype-based inheritance ... Perhaps the biggest irony of all is that Java applets largely vanished from browsers years ago, but JavaScript dominates.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{web_dev}


tunnl.gg | The easiest way to expose localhost to the internet
[https://tunnl.gg/]
Nice, free, no install, ngrok alternative
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{libraries cool}


Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
[https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{culture management}


Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{AI writing}


Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
[https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{GenAI google hardware}


They have to be able to talk about us without us - Anil Dash
[https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/05/talk-about-us-without-us/]
They have to be able to talk about us without us. What this phrase means, in its simplest form, is that you have to tell a story so clear, so concise, so memorable and evocative that people can repeat it for you even after you’ve left the room. And the people who hear it need to be able to do this the first time they hear the story. Whether it’s the idea behind a new product, the core promise of a political campaign, or the basic takeaway from a persuasive essay (guess what the point of this one is!) — not only do you have to explain your idea and make your case, you have to be teaching your listener how to do the same thing for themselves.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{communication ideas}


Tides are weirder than you think – Signore Galilei
[https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/]
"Moon’s gravity causes tides from science class. Those Greek philosophers realized this because high tide gets later by about 50 minutes each day, just as the Moon rises 50 minutes later each day."
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{science}


The Best Films of 2025 | The New Yorker
[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-films-of-2025]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{film cinema movies thenewyorker lists bestof 2025}


Touching the Elephant – TPUs | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172797]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ml}


» Typewriter Plotters
[https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143]
Did you know there were typewriters that used ball point pens to draw not just text but also graphics? I’ve collected several of these over the years. Read on to discover a world that you didn’t know existed.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


sinelaw/fresh: Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast
[https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{tui terminal editor text ide rust}


SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0 Ʊ lyra's epic blog
[https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{svg clickjacking security headache}


Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/gen-x-generation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.veAo.0waY9JV81xJE]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Flow Control: a progammer's text editor
[https://flow-control.dev/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{editor cli}


Fizzy
[https://www.fizzy.do/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{project-management proprietary software}


pglite
[https://pglite.dev/]
"a complete wasm build of postgres that's under 3mb gzipped."
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{postgresql wasm db}


Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud
[https://uncloud.run/]
Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{docker self-hosting}


We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
[https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{llm tuning awesome programming}


Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog
[https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Frinkiac
[https://frinkiac.com/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{simpsons}


Formalization of Erdős problems | Xena
[https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/formalization-of-erdos-problems/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{maths ai}


State of AI | OpenRouter
[https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{GenAI stats}


The Deep Card Conundrum – Frontend Masters Blog
[https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-deep-card-conundrum/]
In the world of web design, we often talk about “cards”. Those neat little rectangles that group information together are the bread and butter of modern UI. But usually, these cards are as flat as the screens they live on. Maybe they have a subtle drop shadow to hint at elevation, but that’s where the illusion ends.

But what if a card wasn’t just a surface? What if it was a window?

Enter the Deep Card.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{css 3d layers properties}


Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington]
To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of ever-more-outlandish bubbles to stay alive; the fact that workers and the public they serve are on one side of this fight, and bosses and their investors are on the other side
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ArtificialIntelligence review critique author:CoryDoctorow Pluralistic 2025}


Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor
[https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{development terminal editor}


The Land of Giants Transmission Towers
[https://choishine.com/Giants.html]
This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{electricity engineering sculpture}


OpenAI in difficoltà: spese gigantesche e Google in rimonta
[https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-suddenly-in-major-trouble]
OpenAI sta affrontando una svolta critica: dopo il vantaggio iniziale di ChatGPT, l’azienda sta bruciando miliardi con perdite previste enormi e ricavi insufficienti. La crescita degli utenti rallenta mentre Google e soluzioni open‑source guadagnano terreno, spingendo Sam Altman a dichiarare un "code red" e sollevando dubbi di analisti e investitori sulla sostenibilità finanziaria e il futuro competitivo dell’azienda.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{N8N #AI AI TW2025-49}


Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ai}


Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/designing-for-stress-emergency/]
via Smashing Magazine https://bit.ly/3gZh8S2
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{.commentsenseTwitter}


Most technical problems are people problems | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160773]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/masonry-things-you-wont-need-library-anymore/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{UI UX code javascript IA CSS design HTML designOps}


Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust | corrode Rust Consulting
[https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


[ untitled ]
[http://]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
[https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway?
[https://creatoreconomy.so/p/so-whats-going-to-happen-to-product-management-anyway]
Explores the evolving role of Product Management, offering insights into future challenges and necessary skill shifts. Return for a strategic roadmap to adapt your PM career.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{product management future ai-automation saas-tools creator-economy}


Code execution with MCP: building more efficient AI agents Anthropic
[https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{claude programming tips}


AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone | WIRED
[https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{articles AI wired reddit}


IDREFs: What they are and how to use them - HTMHell
[https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/5/]
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{html debugging accessibility}


GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image ⚡️- Image An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer
[https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image]
Z-Image is a powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters. Currently there are three variants:    🚀 Z-Image-Turbo – A distilled version of Z-Image that matches or exceeds leading competitors with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations). It offers ⚡️sub-second inference latency⚡️ on enterprise-grade H800 GPUs and fits comfortably within 16G VRAM consumer devices. It excels in photorealistic image generation, bilingual text rendering (English & Chinese), and robust instruction adherence.    🧱 Z-Image-Base – The non-distilled foundation model. By releasing this checkpoint, we aim to unlock the full potential for community-driven fine-tuning and custom development.    ✍️ Z-Image-Edit – A variant fine-tuned on Z-Image specifically for image editing tasks. It supports creative image-to-image generation with impressive instruction-following capabilities, allowing for precise edits based on natural language prompts.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{XDN AI-Art-Research}


Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
[https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/]
Tune in to Cloudflare TV, a 24x7 live stream video channel focused on general and technical topics related to building a better Internet.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide | GBH
[https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-12-05/immigrants-kept-from-faneuil-hall-citizenship-ceremony-as-feds-crackdown-nationwide]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{us immigration trump}


EU fines X $140 million for violating landmark digital service rules | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/645154/eu-fines-x-dsa-violations-xai-elon-musk]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/waeEcgQ
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Alan.app
[https://tyler.io/2025/11/alan/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{macOS}


Touching the Elephant - TPUs | Consider the Bulldog
[https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/]
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ai tensor processing unit}


ken on X: "I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto" / X
[https://x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


“The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house - The GitHub Blog
[https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/the-local-first-rebellion-how-home-assistant-became-the-most-important-project-in-your-house/]
Explore Home Assistant's rise as the essential local-first smart home hub. Learn key insights into its community-driven success and why it's crucial for modern home automation.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{homeassistant localfirst smarthome automation-guide open-source-framework decentralized-technology}


To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
[https://www.doc.cc/articles/we-must-forget]
conversational AI is an “echo chamber to end all echo chambers.” Gibbs points out how even harmless-seeming positive reinforcement can quietly reshape user perceptions and restrict creative or critical thinking.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ai llm teaching learning university postsecondary students Education}


52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium
[https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8]
Sharp, actionable insights from a former consultant's year of learning. Return for distilled wisdom on work, life, and technology to apply immediately.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{consulting learning technology product-management business-strategy future-predictions}


Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
[https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{SiliconValley USA politics authoritarianism LonsdaleJin execution masculinity machismo violence}


Estimates – a necessary evil? - Erik Thorsell
[https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html]
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take?    Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{programming softwareengineering maintenance estimates estimation agile scheduling}


This new video player feels exactly like what VLC should’ve become
[https://www.makeuseof.com/this-new-video-player-feels-exactly-like-what-vlc-shouldve-become/]
This is the perfect middle ground between the native Media Player and VLC.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{tech audio-video app}


10 Usability Heuristics & AI Principles based on Jakob Nielsen's research
[https://emesstyle.com/usability/]
By Matt Soriano - Dec 2025
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{articles usability principles UI}


An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
[https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948082
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635075
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nhk9c3/an_interactive_guide_to_the_fourier_transform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652794
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{math tutorial programming algorithms interactive visualization}


LEVEL DEVIL - Play Online for Free! | Poki
[https://poki.com/en/g/level-devil]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{gaming platformer adventure action puzzle online multiplayer HTML5 skill funny}


ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/chatgpt-hyped-up-violent-stalker-who-believed-he-was-gods-assassin-doj-says/]
"He claimed the chatbot encouraged him to post about the women he’s accused of harassing in order to generate haters to better monetize his content"

"Sometimes he posted images he filmed of women at gyms or photos of the women he’s accused of doxxing."
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ai safety}


Daring Fireball: 2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail
[https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/2025_app_store_award_winners]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/65hiV1Y
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
[https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming]
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{transgender fascism oppression surveillance FBI}


Python Data Science Handbook | Python Data Science Handbook
[https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{a409 python jupyter tutorial vanderplas}


The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164419]
<blockquote>cmiles8 36 minutes ago | prev | next [–]Tech customers are massively AI hype fatigued at this point.The tech isn’t going away, but a hard reset is overdue to bring things back down for a cold hard reality check. Article yesterday about MSFT slashing quotas on AI sales as customers aren’t buying is in line with this broader theme.Morgan Stanley also quietly trying to offload its exposure to data center financing in a move that smells very summer of 2008-ish. CNBC now talks about...
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


TYPOGRAPHY & DYSLEXIA (Bigelow & Holmes)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200621202901/https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/11/typography-dyslexia.html]
via @dahukanna@mastodon.social boost of https://typo.social/@drj/115679398456608515
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{typography}


Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private - Ars Technica
[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/despite-accessing-user-data-kohler-still-says-its-smart-toilet-cameras-use-e2ee/]
When the product in question is an Internet-connected camera that lives inside your toilet bowl, it’s important to ask whether any technology could ever make it private enough. For many, no proper terminology could rationalize such a device // to be honest, if it did have end to end encryption that would be more disturbing rather than less
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{toilet camera surveillance encryption}


Paged Out!
[https://pagedout.institute/]
Gynvael Coldwind's initiative
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{programming magazine}


Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer
[https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{css webdesign}


APOD: 2025 December 5 - The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae
[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251205.html]
via APOD https://apod.nasa.gov/
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{IFTTT Feedly}


Database esposto di startup AI: oltre 1 milione di immagini nude, possibili abusi su minori
[https://www.wired.com/story/huge-trove-of-nude-images-leaked-by-ai-image-generator-startups-exposed-database/]
Un ricercatore ha scoperto una banca dati esposta con 1.099.985 immagini e video creati da generatori d'immagini AI (usati da servizi come MagicEdit e DreamPal), la maggior parte a contenuto pornografico: alcuni sembrano raffigurare minorenni o volti di bambini sovrapposti a corpi nudi. Il leak, che aggiungeva ~10.000 immagini al giorno, evidenzia fallimenti di moderazione, rischi di abusi non consensuali, CSAM e problemi di sicurezza e responsabilità delle startup.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{z N8N #AI AI TW2025-49}


sinclairtarget/git-who: Git blame for file trees
[https://github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who]
Git blame for file trees
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{metroia git metrics}


Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
[https://www.wired.com/story/hearing-aid-startup-ai-fortell/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{mydocs+health}


Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update | Microsoft 365 Blog
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/12/04/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update/]
price increase
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{microsoft CSP}


How gifted is your 3-year-old? IQ tests for preschoolers become the norm in Silicon Valley
[https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/07/bay-area-preschooler-iq-test-admission/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Grid Paper
[https://grid-paper.daverupert.com/]
grid papaer pattern generator
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{grid tools}


Home
[https://kindlemodding.org/]
Documentation on the Kindle and Mesquito
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{kindle ereader drm books jailbreak e-reader}


magiblot/tvision: A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
[https://github.com/magiblot/tvision]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{cli programming}


Taming YouTube (Without Missing the Good Stuff) - MacSparky
[https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/12/taming-youtube-without-missing-the-good-stuff/]
via MacSparky https://ift.tt/0a5pWFr
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


onlyrecipe
[https://onlyrecipeapp.com/]
<blockquote>Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards. Your personal recipe collection in the cloud.</blockquote>
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{recipe tools}


AV1 — Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming | by Netflix Technology Blog | Dec, 2025 | Netflix TechBlog
[https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{netflix av1 video}


Chamberlain’s new technology blocks aftermarket controllers from working with its garage door openers | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/tech/839294/chamberlain-myq-garage-door-opener-update-blocks-aftermarket-controllers]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/waeEcgQ
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


What is a Package Manager?
[https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/02/what-is-a-package-manager.html]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{packaging 2025 AndrewNesbitt read architecture security software}


A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code | WIRED
[https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/]
- Phreeli, the phone carrier startup Merrill launched today, designed to be the most privacy-focused cellular provider available to Americans. Phreeli, as in, “speak freely,” aims to give its user a different sort of privacy from the kind that can be had with end-to-end encrypted texting and calling tools like Signal or WhatsApp. Those apps hide the content of conversations, or even, in Signal’s case, metadata like the identities of who is talking to whom. Phreeli instead wants to offer actual anonymity. It can’t help government agencies or data brokers obtain users’ identifying information because it has almost none to share. The only piece of information the company records about its users when they sign up for a Phreeli phone number is, in fact, a mere ZIP code. That’s the minimum personal data Merrill has determined his company is legally required to keep about its customers for tax purposes.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{wireless us privacy}


Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs.
[https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/]
You can think of the language network as a set of pointers,” Fedorenko said. “It’s like a map, and it tells you where in the brain you can find different kinds of meaning. It’s basically a glorified parser that helps us put the pieces together — and then all the thinking and interesting stuff happens outside of [its] boundaries.”

Fedorenko has been gathering biological evidence of this language network for the past 15 years in her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unlike a large language model, the human language network doesn’t string words into plausible-sounding patterns with nobody home; instead, it acts as a translator between external perceptions (such as speech, writing and sign language) and representations of meaning encoded in other parts of the brain (including episodic memory and social cognition, which LLMs don’t possess). Nor is the human language network particularly large: If all of its tissue were clumped together, it would be about the size of a strawberry(opens a new tab). But when it is damaged, the effect is profound. An injured language network can result in forms of aphasia(opens a new tab) in which sophisticated cognition remains intact but trapped within a brain unable to express it or distinguish incoming words from others.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ai llm language thought brain}


GitHub - W4G1/multithreading: ⚡ Multithreading functions in JavaScript to speedup heavy workloads, designed to feel like writing vanilla functions.
[https://github.com/W4G1/multithreading]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{javascript}


The Best Releases of 2025 · Feature ⟋ RA
[https://ra.co/features/4350]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{music}


How to get through cold, wet, dreary days • Buttondown
[https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-get-through-cold-wet-dreary-days/]
There is a reason fascists ban books and not guns. Guns are a tool for one thing, books are tools for everything.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Most Precious Person(s) by Prim_the_Amazing
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/74947231]
Shen Qingqiu wakes up from death like a man groggily emerging from deep sleep, not immediately remembering where he is or what has happened. He opens his eyes half expecting to see the Bamboo House’s ceiling, and is instead met with the tall, arching ceiling of a palace. He’s lying on his back on the floor, his hands neatly folded on his stomach, dressed simply as if for sleep. He pushes himself up enough to look around him, and sees that he’s in the middle of a very elaborate array drawn in blood. 

Oh, this cannot be good. 

“The resurrection ritual worked!” Shang Qinghua says, his voice high and tense. Shen Qingqiu’s disoriented gaze finds him standing outside the array, a wobbly, manic smile on his face. He shoots Shen Qingqiu a wordless sorry bro look, which immediately lets him know that whatever the situation is, this hack author has completely thrown him underneath the bus once again. “S-- see, Junshang? This lowly servant wasn’t lying!” 

… Wait. 

-

Shen Qingqiu is ressurected from death against his will, except someone else comes along for the ride too.
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{fanfic SVSSS gen words:&lt;5.000 ao3}


Welcome to Effect – Effect
[https://effect.website/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{typescript library}


102 Lessons from the 102 Books I Read This Year - Scott H Young
[https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/10/06/102-lessons-from-102-books/]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 


Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{science data measurement soil open-source computers mobile phone farming environment pollution climatechange money charity process collaboration university uk}


Ireland - The Cosseted Child of Europe
[https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/ireland-neutrality]
2025-12-08T05:47:01Z 
{ireland defense}