Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Primer, an introduction to oscilloscope music
"what you see is what you hear!" the left and right audio channels control the beam on the X and Y axis, respectively #
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Press Watch · Dan Froomkin
Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk
Stenography, in this case, badly misleads the public The post Mainstream media falls for Trump’s insane ‘reciprocal’ tariff talk appeared first on Press Watch.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Economist on Trump’s Mindless Tariffs
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History’
Justin's Linklog · Links
Inside an Amazon CoE
Inside an Amazon CoE This is a decent write-up of what Amazon’s “Correction of Error” documents look like. CoEs are the standard format for writing up post-mortems of significant outages or customer-impacting incidents in Amazon and AWS; I’ve had the unpleasant duty of writing a couple myself — thankfully for nothing…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Styscraper
Matt Round's latest game for Vole.wtf is an addictive physics-based tower builder; don't miss his long thread on its development from start to finish #
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
It's a Fine Line Between Stupid and Uh...
Yet more on AI, which everybody wants to hear about. It's not getting talked about anywhere else. Great stuff.
A Whole Lotta Nothing · Matthew Haughey
Links for February 27, 2025
Make yourself less valuable to tech companies is a great, step-by-step guide to removing personal details from all your accounts so tech companies can't profile, analyze, or sell your information to others. A recent John Oliver episode of Last Week Tonight covered this subject, but it's
Today in Tabs · Rusty Foster
Tabs Hiatus 2: Hike Harder
Ok this time I’ll finish the Appalachian Trail for sure.
Blog - Ethan Zuckerman · Ethan
Focus on the player, not the puck: Finnish approaches to combatting electoral interference
(Ongoing coverage of Attention: Freedom, Interrupted at McGill University in Montreal. Liveblog – I will get things wrong – feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented you.) How does a nation become resilient to foreign election interference? Atte Jääskeläinen, director of Finnish foundation Sitra, argues that…
Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson
February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
Justin's Linklog · Links
Yahoo Mail hallucinates subject lines
Yahoo Mail hallucinates subject lines OMG, this is hilarious. What a disaster from Yahoo Mail: A quick Google search revealed that a few months ago Yahoo jumped on the AI craze with the launch of ”AI-generated, one-line email summaries”. At this point, the penny dropped. Just like Apple AI generating fake news…
Hicks.design Journal: Latest articles
The start of the process is blank
In the beginning there was nothing You're probably familiar with Brendan Dawes' drawing The Process, a succinct, sketched representation of the creative process. It resonates with a lot of people, and I'm definitely of the 'keep refining until I'm happy with it' frame of mind. I'm in danger of taking it too…
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens “Critical ignoring” as a strategy to control and immunize one’s information environment (Kozyreva et al., 2023): Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain…
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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture This is a great story; bonus that it’s a notable improvement for the humble hash-table data structure: Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture,”…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
Little Sisyphus
clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author's own programming language for NES development #
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Apple Support: ‘About Migrating Apple Account Purchases Between Accounts’
Building Slack · Johnny Rodgers
Values
We did many things fairly well at Slack. One thing we never did well, however, was figuring out how much office space we’d need. We outgrew our Clementina Street office in July of 2014, just five months after launch. Our new office in a freshly renovated building on
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Artsy’s Technology Choices evaluation process
Artsy’s Technology Choices evaluation process This is a nice way to evaluate new technology options, from Artsy: We want to accomplish a lot with a lean team, which means we must choose stable technologies. However, we also want to adopt best-of-breed technologies or best-suited tools, which may need work or still be…
The Technium · Kevin Kelly
Weekly Links, 12/27/2024
Interesting shift that seems to be happening in the US as “crunchy” organic, home-made vibe shifts from lefty to righty. I embrace this widening. How the Right Claimed ‘Crunchy’ The principles outlined here are basically the ones we use for … Continue reading →