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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fighting bots
Not the robot wars kind
2024-06-25 - Should I remove this blog from Google Search? 2024-06-25
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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
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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