• A day in the life of Americans

    2025-05-20
  • Dance Marathons of the 1920s and 1930s

    hahaha what the fuck

    2025-05-16
  • The average college student today

    maybe it's time to be just a little more alarmist?

    2025-05-16
  • MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin

    2025-05-14
  • Flattening Rust's Learning Curve

    good advice on learning any language in general

    2025-05-14
  • I'd rather read the prompt

    A typical belief among students is that classes are a series of hurdles to be overcome; at the end of this obstacle course, they shall receive a degree as testament to their completion of these assignments.

    2025-05-05
  • My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

    2025-04-16
  • webgl gradients

    an amazingly in depth explanation on shader writing

    2025-04-15
  • Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude

    bloom's taxonomy and the offloading of critical thinking

    2025-04-09
  • bikes in the age of tariffs

    2025-04-03
  • I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

    the US is a police state at its borders

    2025-03-19
  • car trouble

    2025-03-13
  • A mini data center

    Hosting web apps on a Mac Mini

    2025-02-23
  • Why we're leaving the cloud

    This is not what DARPA designed!

    2025-02-23
  • A 16 HP Dragon

    a compelling example of a compelling combat in the dungeon world ttrpg

    2025-02-16
  • Defense Against Dishonest Charts

    This article would make a fantastic high school statistics lesson, especially if each kid had to make their own dishonest chart and their peers had to debug them

    2025-02-14
  • Where the Wild Things Aren't

    i am a lover-of-this-essay

    2025-01-28
  • It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy

    another W for bikes

    2025-01-24
  • Why do bees sting?

    A satisfying delve into biology's various layers of abstraction

    2025-01-19
  • The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language

    a whole realm of consciousness exists in the sphere of Japanese speakers that's perhaps truly unique in the world

    2025-01-17
  • how to write complex software

    2025-01-16
  • So you want to escape the algorithm

    see also https://www.are.na/elan-kiderman-ullendorff/write-the-algorithm

    2025-01-16
  • The Palace of Alhambra and the Crystallographic Groups

    An exploration of tesselation in the Palace of Alhambra

    2025-01-06
  • Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

    you gon jump if molly white made it

    2025-01-03
  • How to like everything more

    how to move past like/dislike/idk

    2024-12-31
  • moon

    lunar expert? i prefer 'the man on the moon'

    2024-12-17
  • You Must Read At Least One Book To Ride

    'I have spoken to high-performers in all sorts if fields at this point, and every single one has said that their profession is plagued by people that are essentially not even trying'

    2024-11-30
  • Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

    I love these data heavy, skeptical deep dives that scott alexander does

    2024-11-30
  • Repeal the Jones Act of 1920

    blowing the jones act out of the water

    2024-11-30
  • proof

    a charming story about manufacturing FM radios in mason jars at a small and then medium scale

    2024-11-29
  • Mechanics of Touching Your Toes

    matthew smith the flexible goat

    2024-11-21
  • Don't call it a Substack

    Hear, hear!

    2024-11-20
  • Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives—But Why?

    2024-11-15
  • Reinforcement Learning - My Algorithm vs State of the Art

    A video about Isaac Lab and using ML to balance double pendulums

    2024-11-12
  • IMG_0416

    find random old videos from 2015 with this one weird trick

    2024-11-10
  • passport photos

    2024-11-07
  • my modern css reset

    i feel like we could all do with a little reset right now

    2024-11-06
  • oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing

    an expertly written explanation of the Oklab color space (aka you don't know how little you know about colour)

    2024-11-06
  • ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

    In avatar therapy, a clinician gives voice to their patients’ inner demons. For some of the participants in a new trial, the results have been astounding

    2024-10-29
  • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference

    Scott Alexander's techno-optimist roundup

    2024-10-28
  • Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places

    How Warhammer 40,000 abandoned anti-authoritarianism for comfortable cowardice

    2024-10-24
  • Is Sleep Training Harmful?

    a scrolly telling lesson in narrative and the way social media misuses scientific literature by The Pudding

    2024-10-24
  • Learning Rust in 2024

    same as BELOW

    2024-10-23
  • Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance

    more of a bookmark than a reblog but WHATEVER

    2024-10-23
  • Democracy Needs the Loser

    The observance of defeat, especially in an election, is often all that keeps a state from tipping into violence

    2024-10-22
  • Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

    Molly White's article on the war against the internet archive boils my blood

    2024-10-22
  • Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

    2024-10-13
  • Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom

    maybe this time will be different

    2024-10-10
  • Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information

    a big forum roundup

    2024-10-10
  • The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman

    2024-10-08
  • Horny Robot Baby Voice

    2024-10-03
  • “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness”—Except for at the Bathhouse

    a fun LitHub piece on the history of bathing

    2024-10-03
  • Seven Years of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom

    An idea I've often wondered about, challenged

    2024-10-02
  • At a Loss for Word: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

    a stunning examination of the reading pedagogy dogma that has dominated american schools for the last 2 decades

    2024-09-18
  • Reasons to avoid Javascript CDNs

    facts, facts

    2024-09-15
  • How does Shazam work? Music Recognition Algorithms, Fingerprinting, and Processing

    so technical, so cool

    2024-09-13
  • Lab-grown diamonds

    another fun works in progress read

    2024-09-10
  • CSS @property and the New Style

    What? CSS is evolving!

    2024-09-04
  • HouseFresh has virtually disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?

    An earnest and labour intensive documentation of the consequences of AI slop and SEO fraud

    2024-09-04
  • Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.

    i read this a while ago but it's an idea that's stuck with me since

    2024-09-02
  • An Age of Hyperabundance

    'I wasn’t sure how wise it was to solicit health advice from a meta­human whose creators hadn’t mastered human anatomy, but she was, after all, wearing a stethoscope.'

    2024-09-02
  • Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

    Chiang does it again

    2024-09-02
  • Seven basic rules for causal inference

    2024-08-19
  • The Strange Undeath of Middlebrow

    Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which no one has felt guilty in decades, and to apologize for them with an enthusiasm that looks a lot like pride.

    2024-08-13
  • Against Subtlety

    An essay that has stuck with me for years, and returns to mind whenever I hear someone praising art for its subtlety. Subtlety is simply another quality that art may have, like humour, or beauty. Its absence doesn't mean the art isn't good!

    2024-08-05
  • A primer on the current state of longevity research

    2024-08-04
  • How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly

    Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect.

    2024-08-04
  • HTML video with subtitles

    neat!

    2024-08-03
  • Artificial Wombs When?

    2024-07-30
  • paper boxes

    an aesthetically satisfying youtube channel of a person who folds up complex cardboard boxes

    2024-07-26
  • copying (is the way design works)

    2024-07-22
  • Parse, don’t validate

    A good little article on typed function design

    2024-07-22
  • take the paranoid reading pill

    how to write about conspiracy theories and the process of revising an essay

    2024-07-16
  • Feelings Over Facts: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet Novel

    2024-07-16
  • Where's the Synthetic Blood?

    2024-07-16
  • Burdens

    2024-07-15
  • Details That You Should Include In Your Article On How We Should Do Something About Mentally Ill Homeless People

    “Nobody thinks the current system is perfect. I respect people who want to change it. But you’ve got to propose a specific change! Don’t just write yet another article saying “the damn liberals are soft on the mentally ill” The damn liberals are soft because some of them are the people who have to develop an alternative plan, and they can’t think of a good one. If you’re going to write yet another article like this, and you want to change minds, you should skip the one hundred paragraphs about the damn liberals, and go straight to the part where you explain how you plan to do better.”

    2024-07-15
  • Design@Large talk by Andy Matuschak: How Might We Learn?

    One of the eminent learning tech thinkers presenting the thesis he's been cooking since LLMs took off

    2024-07-15
  • What to do with gas grids?

    2024-07-12
  • Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb

    the most forceful argument for anything i've ever read. normally this makes me feel reflexively distrusting of the position but here i think it's just an honest salvo of really, really good arguments

    2024-07-11
  • Entering text in the terminal is complicated

    2024-07-08
  • Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)

    please can ticketmaster die already

    2024-07-08
  • Notes on Scaling Social Media Data Collection

    2024-06-30
  • What if you could have a panic attack, but for joy?

    more jhānas vulgarization. i am part of the problem

    2024-06-27
  • Everything I knew about stretching was wrong

    specifically in the context of having developed Thoracic Outlet Syndrome from power lifting

    2024-06-27
  • How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It

    2024-06-27
  • Fighting bots

    Not the robot wars kind

    2024-06-25
  • Should I remove this blog from Google Search?

    2024-06-25
  • exercise for aging people

    peter attia discusses the most impactful ways people can increase their healthspan

    2024-06-25
  • Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

    A disappointing read, but good to know, to push back against anyone who's deferring changing their diet until this technology exists

    2024-06-24
  • how to do the jhanas

    2024-06-24
  • Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

    2024-06-23
  • 100 things i know

    an even bigger list of life wisdom from mari andrew

    2024-06-22
  • 50 things I know

    good seeming life wisdom from sasha chapin

    2024-06-22