As the blog of record in computational complexity, we like to bring attention to those in the community who have left us. When we learn of someone in our field who has died, Bill and I will talk to…

I don't watch a lot of YouTube anymore, and I'm trying to bring my TV watching down by a lot and read more. But one of my guilty pleasures is Retro Badger Gaming. This guy uses variants of the Bridge…

(and Dealing With LLM Religion) I am opening an LLM coding contest, and I want you to enter it. Four days ago NetHack 5.0 was released, the newest major version of a 46-year-old open-source roguelike…

I’ve been lucky. Lucky to be building during four major technology shifts: the internet, SaaS/web services, mobile/social, and now AI, and to have learned something useful from each one. Not…

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I've been thinking through some stuff while on vacation and just generally not being online as much, and I think for me one of the next big steps is going to be removing myself from text based…

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He knows it's a cliche, but he feels like he had a REAL connection with a dancer at the strip club. Is it possible that she genuinely likes him? via Paging Dr. NerdLove.

The Ekubo automated market maker infrastructure project experienced a $1.4 million theft after attackers were able to take advantage of a smart contract that improperly verified permissions. They…

While most new applications use the GPU for rendering to achieve better performance and battery life, there are some new applications and a lot of older applications that still use CPU rendering.…

A new three-part documentary was released on Netflix last week as part of a new series called, ‘Should I Marry a Murderer?’ At first sight, this is perhaps not what you’d expect to…

How Many Earths? Let’s start with a couple of thought experiments.[1] Suppose there is a certain planet that has been around for a billion years; call it Janet. Not much has changed in it during this…

Something very interesting has been happening for the past several weeks: while stock traders and investors’ sentiment is beyond euphoric, bond traders and investors are freaking out. Please take a…

A smile is the prettiest thing a person could ever wear. When you smile you are sharing positive energy, Love, and it’s infectious. Have you smiled at somebody today? Nothing is more precious…

# Shinny Shapeshifter *2026-05-04*

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I had 40 screenshots saved, three false starts, and 20 years of content with no coherent structure. I used Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Code to rebuild the whole thing. Here's how each…

For those who aren’t aware, Terry Godier launched Sourcefeed recently. The idea is intriguing; an RSS feed for sharing your writing that just exists in RSS. No website or newsletter. I’ve…

Recently, I stumbled on an old blog post featuring Singapore Math problems, and it brought back memories. Back when my children were young, the original Primary Math series from Singapore was one of…

Hey friends, Chase here Let’s talk about one of the most important questions every creator eventually asks: How do I find my creative voice? Or maybe you’ve heard it framed another way: How do I…

In Spring 2026, editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson donated her drawings to the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives. Wilkinson is best known for her work with the Philadelphia Daily…

In…2019 My Texas weekend wrapped up with a stop at the Military Working Dog Teams NM. This is on an active Army base, so I wasn’t sure how difficult it was going to be to see. As it turned out, not…

One of the most common comments I receive whenever I post about solar is: “You haven’t factored in the opportunity cost.” And it’s a fair point. If you spend £20,000 on a solar and battery system,…

I really did not expect there to be a need to write this in 2026, but here we are: please do not be seduced by the claim that drinking raw milk is a health upgrade. I understand why the argument…

Stop. Look Around. Go again. 53 years old. It's the second mountain. I can't do it like the first. I don't want to do it like the first. I don't want the worry or the anxiety. I don't want to be…

Over the last few years, Langley City Council has approved the renewal of the City’s aging fire truck fleet (the technical term is "apparatus") for Langley City Fire Rescue Service. This included an…

Short on time today and yet I feel it's important to try and get across the idea that even in a weak hurricane season, your home town can be rocked and set back in time while it's being put back…

When most people think about solar power in the UK, they picture a huge installation project involving scaffolding, installers, roof surveys, and a bill running into the thousands of pounds. But…

A Cameroonian village, a London gallery, and an economist walk into the same argument: that value is something we make together at every scale — or it isn't value at all. Observatory on fractal…

Hi. I have a new website update. Something very unfortunate happened last week. For now, I am distracting myself by working on my projects more. And so...here's something that's been in the works for…

I arose bright and early on the morning of August 9, 2014 to continue photographing Manitoba's grain elevators.

By Joshua Fields Millburn Whatever you’re clinging to is already gone. The post Nothing Ends appeared first on The Minimalists.

AI is inflicting a proliferation of tools, in the utensils’ sense. Folks are conjuring all sorts of programs out of thin air, unrestrained. Someone confessed on Hacker News to having created a…

peace will never prevail. it lurks between fists of brothers, sisters cursing sisters, spouses sleeping in separate rooms as contempt sulks in air. we are a jealous people. we want. we desire. we…

Today is an overcast day, and it is slightly sticky outside. However, there is a distinct sweetness to this humidity that I find relatively pleasant. I suppose because it reminds me of childhood…

what I've understood from my reading of Speculum of the other woman thus far: only men have access to identification, to recognizing sameness in the other and the laws that organize this sameness, to…

We are delighted to welcome Dr Heather Lynn, author of Anunnaki Revelation: Hidden History, Altered States, and the Mystery of Humanity, as our featured author this month. Dr Heather Lynn is a…

Unlike most members of OPIG, I don’t work on small molecules, antibodies, or protein structure; I use hypergraph representations of protein complexes to predict gene essentiality and drug targets. I…

Like many cities, Barcelona started with a horse-drawn tram network, which then grew and was electrified before being decommissioned in favour of buses, private vehicles and the metro. Having not…

Some great news: I’m pleased to announce that both Dell and Lenovo have agreed to be premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as part of our new sustainability effort. Over 145…

Russell Brandom reports: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming that one of the company’s chatbots masqueraded as a psychiatrist in violation of the…

The platforms that were supposed to keep us connected to the people we care about have spent the last fifteen years getting worse at exactly that job.I don't mean this in the abstract,…

It has been one of those weeks where the diff is bigger than the headline. The headline is short — Codename One now ships modern native themes: an iOS "liquid glass" look and an Android Material 3…

Some ratios matter more than others. In finance investors tend to prefer things like Price to Sales or Price to Earnings ratios. Here is something more valuable to apply. It’s called the Work…

A poster promoting 'America' (1924) and highlighting the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, which is depicted in the film. This weekend, I'll be at the keyboard to accompany a screening of D.W. Griffith's…

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were designed as universal constraints for any thinking machine powerful enough to harm us: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human…

Dawn is a new open-source project for building embedded data acquisition and control devices on top of Apache NuttX. It started from a common problem: many embedded projects need the same kind of…

Lately I’ve been putting more effort into trusting and verifying my instincts. When I recognize they’re trying to get me do something, I give them my full attention. Then I pry and rip (aka writing)…