If you’ve spent any time on econ Twitter or econ Bluesky since 2022, you’ve almost certainly come across the idea of the “vibecession.” For the uninitiated, the vibecession essentially says that…

They may be good for no-stink, but perhaps not really the best choice for high sweat. Some excerpts from here:…

Someone on Reddit asked how you can maintain your own version of application while also being able to upgrade packages without getting conflicts between your changes and Debians changes. Answer This…

Stephanie K. Baer at The San Francisco Standard : Glasses and dishes had been removed from kitchen cabinets and left elsewhere. The dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine were scratched.…

selectTWFE looks interesting: “Estimates both a vanilla two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model and an extended TWFE (ETWFE) model, then selects between them using Cochran’s Q test for…

Is it time to pull back for the endless stream of content?

That's the 1999 San Antonio Spurs, flying home from the NBA Finals. They're pictured returning from their Game 5, 78-77 victory over the New York Knicks, where they clinched their first NBA…

Attentive readers of this newsletter (hello, you two!) will remember that I’ve been asking the ACMA, the Australian media regulator, for an FOI request of ARN’s thoughts regarding the…

When the AI hype bubble bursts, a lot of people (myself included via my superannuation fund) are going to get burnt. I find using an LLM useful at the margins; I’m glad I’m not working in…

Ann Seyfried totes her little brother (Lewis Pullman of a Salem’s Lot remake) as she discovers a Christian sect called the Shakers, marries Chris Abbott but can’t have kids, gets arrested…

In the past months I have been analyzing Grand Prix Circuit , a Formula 1 racing game developed by DSI in 1988. It started with a simple patch to make the game assets browsable through a Stunts…

Lovable announced this week that every new project on its platform now builds on TanStack Start. That's 100,000 new apps a day riding on open-source infrastructure Lovable doesn't fund.

A receiver for Navtex maritime navigational and meteo warnings.

In case of the mileage of a car or a bike - we calculate the distance travelled in a litre of gas.

A call for original thinking, substance, and empathy when using AI to write. Against the slop that erodes trust in professional communication.

Every morning since May 9th I've established a routine of waking up by 5:30am, feeding the dog, having a snack of skyr and homemade granola, and then sitting down to translate Aristotle for at least…

A tiny macOS menu-bar app I built around the 20-20-20 rule — every 20 minutes, look ~20 feet away for 20 seconds. Horizon gently takes over your screen for a 20-second break so your eyes can ease off…

An open-source Claude Code plugin that turns Claude into a personal Reddit content engine. Reddit punishes self-promotion, so instead of spamming product blurbs, it researches what your target…

The company that led the consumer AI race might be losing the naming one.

AI is writing more and more of your code. You don't even need to be precise, the AI will figure out the details for you. Well, too much of this, and you stop learning. This is how I am preventing…

Time for some geeking out. I’m one of those fools who like to run their own local server with not cloud shenanigans. I’ve been running an Ubuntu server for a while with a bunch of…

The alerts started coming in mid-afternoon. Intermittent 503s. Not a flat outage, not a clean failure. Just enough errors to be alarming and inconsistent enough to be confusing. The kind of thing…

Not the best film ever, but in today's Hollywood landscape it’s a rare breath of fresh air.

What happened during May? Let’s see!

I was trying to add my website to the Internet Phone Book, as one does, when I encountered the following option in the registration form: (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada) Absolutely the fuck…

So. Here's what happened. I wrote the whole dang thing explaining what happened in session 6 where the party tracked down a mech and kicked its ass. It was really cool. Then my browser refreshed and…

What's New After almost two months of development, The Crown Foundation is proud to present Crown 0.63 to the gamedev community! This…

« Your password must contain 8 characters, an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a special character. » We all know this rule. And yet, in cybersecurity, this is what we call…

Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, operate on one function at a time. It is a natural code unit size, especially for a dynamic language JIT: at a given point in time, what more…

I noticed today while using JuiceSSH on my phone that certain features that I’d been using fine for the past couple of months suddenly disappeared. The standard free vs. pro dialog showed up, so I…

Natural language will make AI accessible. Expert language will make it powerful.

Ten Minute Focus, Branding, Design, Motion and more.

For a freelancer, "trusted by the NHS" is the kind of line that makes people look twice. And honestly, it should. Public sector and health work comes with a level of scrutiny that most commercial…

Where’s the kaboom? Boston, that’s where!

This is a transcript of a mentorship conversation I had with an AI Safety founder. It has only been lightly edited.

Some rules & recommendations for creating or adding new posts using AstroPaper theme.

New feature in AstroPaper v1.4.0, introducing dynamic OG image generation for blog posts.

Bricolage When I was in university, I wandered the stacks of the university library, flipping through volumes at random , building up a mental map of human knowledge via bricolage . This essay, too,…

Ok, so I recently landed this: damn das a patch I did this because I saw this and I then wanted to add arm64 support to it. But Puranjay added it so fast that my dumb head had no time at all to add…

this is 209 featuring jan jelinek, marihiko hara, facil, slowdive, datasette, gescom, ae, ulrich schnauss... enjoy

The Gang of Four book and Working Effectively With Legacy Code are more valuable after agents than before. Legacy Code because of the proliferation of massive codebases of questionable quality.…

OIDC kills long-lived cloud keys, and everyone treats that like the end of the conversation. It's the start. The supply-chain attacks landing in 2026 are self-propagating worms that never touch your…

Announcing TOWNSQUEER, a games bundle and zine from the members of Gamedev.lgbt! Plus some general housekeeping for Indie Tsushin!

I don’t expect Siri to be the magic bullet. I don’t expect another chat interface. The history of Apple is one of enabling its customers, its users, to ultimately make computing and…

iPhones by default store photos in the High Efficiency Image File format (HEIF), a lossy format that often uses the .heic extension 1 . While this file format works well enough within the Apple…

Now that we have are setup to draw SVG on a page with Bolero , we can go back to our main quest: drawing mountains in a style similar to topographic maps , using shading to hint at the relief. In…

"You are not your user" is fundamentally good advice. It's also occasionally wrong, but in a very useful way.

What it was like, learnings and goals assessment

A quick look at new rate-limiter features in the upcoming Rails version.

The Podcast Consultant acquired Sundial Media. Here's how the deal came together, why Sundial was a good fit, and what I'm learning from acquiring another founder-led service business.