Being Useful is More Attractive Than Being Rich
I recently saw this Reddit post about a man who retired early (FIRE) only to be called a "loser" by his wife go viral. In the man's own words: 41m, $2mm liquid, $650k retirement and I get a $75k/yr…
Unprecedented with Precedent
I drew this week’s cartoon on a paradox I keep seeing in innovation. Henry Ford famously said: “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were…
#1: Race for the Galaxy (Mark's Top 100 - 2026)
Race for the Galaxy BoardGameGeek rank: 94 rating: 7.7
“Spider-Noir” is a love letter to early cinema
I’m heavily biased, seeing as Spider-Man is my favourite superhero 1 , but Spider-Noir is doing everything right. The cinematography, the soundtrack, the fight choreography, the smoking-hot femme…
Deleted my Insta account
I just exported my Instagram information... my 2014 Instagram account was pressed into a 1.07 GB file. The app that once connected me with my classmates outside of school is now a burden on me. I no…
Vibe-coding WebRTC
Well, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German…
Tuesday poem #687 : Melanie Power : learner’s permits
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My thoughts on the Ironsworn Legacies (Ironsworn 2e) Alpha Test
On Sunday, Shawn Tomkin has released a first, VERY early draft of the second Edition of Ironsworn, just around 25 pages and only the barebones of the mechanics. Shawn has also written down a number…
Inside my skin there is an itch
Has this ever happened to you? You’re suddenly aware of an itch you can’t scratch and you’re not even sure you’re actually itchy or if it’s all in your head? There's a feeling there, something,…
📝 Am I All Farmed Out?
I was looking at my list of The Long Play games, a list I've "curated" from my actual backlog, and noticed that none of the farming games I own made the cut. How interesting...Not Fields of Mistria…
Patient-first, America-first: The Case For Global Collaboration
The rise of China in the global biopharma ecosystem has led to fear and hysteria in some corners of our ecosystem. Apparently there have been too many deals with Chinese players by both venture…
Ironsworn Legacies (Ironsworn 2e) Alpha Test
[On Sunday, Shawn Tomkin has released a first, VERY early draft of the second Edition of Ironsworn, just around 25 pages and only the barebones of the mechanics. Now, being the Ironsworn fanboy that…
Did Israel Present a Video of Fast16 in Action?
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Walkthrough for Bellingcat's 'Shattered Glass' challenge
A write-up walkthrough on how to solve Bellingcat's After the Blast Shattered Glass open source challenge with answers.
Best Five Star Bangkok Hotels with Bars
Get Drunk, Crawl to Your Room Every time my friends visit me in Bangkok, they’re looking for bars to chill out and have drinks. And I know these people very well. They can’t hold their…
The Bubble Wrap Conundrum; or, The Balkanization Of Social Media Didn't Solve Social Media
Before I jump into the main focus of this post, I want to make it very clear that I try my best to be reasonable on my blog. This is where I can place my thoughts in a more precise manner than I can…
Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Review; Our Family Experience
Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Review; Our Family Experience I recently spent 8 days across both Sun Siyam Iru Fushi and Siyam World in the Maldives. After four nights of waterslides, go-karts, floating water…
Haven’t seen this style of ad for a while. Love it (even though I don’t recognise anyone)
Haven’t seen this style of ad for a while. Love it (even though I don’t recognise anyone)
Silencing a cloud storage echo chamber
A routine backup that should have finished in minutes was instead dragging on for hours. The culprit turned out to be a tiny menu bar clock app that had quietly sprouted a million empty folders.…
Completing my own Ruby community triathlon
Completing my own Ruby community triathlon I just returned from a wonderful weekend in Vienna, where the initial edition of RubyConf Austria took place. I got back physically exhausted and a bit…
MacBook Pro M5 Max - Fast runs in me
During my Bengaluru trip last month, I came across a significant disadvantaged with my then Macbook setup. It’s a 14” M1-Pro top of the line with 32GB of RAM. For my day-to-day work, it did a fine…
Clickhouse table per tenant in production
At work, we made a decision to go with a table per tenant approach and we have been running that setup for a couple of years now. I thought this would be the right time to share what we have learned…
Getting Started: How to Evangelize Effectively
By Greg Laurie When I was younger, I had the privilege to get to know the great evangelist, Billy Graham. And when he asked me to help him with illustrations in his sermons, I felt like I’d been…
You’re Being Seen. But Are You Being Understood?
Welcome to One Thing Better. Each week, the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine (that’s me) shares one way to achieve a breakthrough at work — and build a career or company you love. Please…
Migrate Group Policy to Intune using Group Policy Analytics [Step-by-Step]
If you are moving your devices to Intune, then at some point you will want to migrate your Group Policies as well. Group Policy Objects work great in an on-premises Active Directory environment, but…
Critique: AI Can’t Care
One of the best frames for thinking about AI.
NASA Network Probed Chris Horlacher’s Honeypot Within Hours – Rigorous Testing Confirmed Targeted Interest
If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. In December 2020, shortly after beginning to document what he believed was coordinated…
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey is a collection of personal naturalist story-essays from the 1940s and 1950s. It's hard to classify, but I would describe it as a highly imaginative intersection…
Lemons
This meme has been around for a while. On September 19th, 2019, Twitter user @PetrichorCrown posted artwork of a cat tasting a lemon, causing their face to retract, with the caption “Am I a…
Making The Daily Sprout
I set out the idea for my Daily Prefab Sprout in this post. Here is the process for making it. Step 1: Curating the Lyrics As good a lyricist as McAloon is, you still don’t want everything. I…
How OSPOs can Measure the Impact of OSS Funding
So much of the critical infrastructure that we all rely on contains open source projects that are under-resourced and struggling. One (of many) ways to help these projects is by funding development…
Oat milk and some annoying supply chain issues
Boy, that last one was heavy, huh? Here's something light and silly! Oat milk! I've never been much of a cow milk drinker. I just never really cared for the stuff. I quit drinking it at a certain…
Speculative Decoding
Trading cheap guesses for expensive forward passes
Embrace The Remount
Inspired by the first downwind surf session of... The post Embrace The Remount appeared first on Joe Jacobi.
Why populist nationalism won’t stop immigration
On TVNA’s flagship show Q+A, Dr. Parag Khanna joined Jack Tame to discuss immigration, populist nationalism, and the demographic forces shaping New Zealand’s future. As migration becomes the…
No, Your Mobile Phone Is Not as Good as a Professional Camera – Even If You Have the Latest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy
Professional camera vs phone camera Every time a new smartphone launches, we hear the same claims: “This camera is now as good as a professional DSLR.” “You no longer …
Croquet’s Popularity Rose And Fell In Cincinnati But Its Dangers Lurked Ominously
Throughout our city’s long history, interest in croquet has ebbed and surged, sometimes in cycles briefer than a decade. One year, the Enquirer [19 September 1895] dismissed croquet as horridly…
Interview with Micah Zarin
I’m not completely happy with this interview with Micah Zarin. It was nothing he did, it was me. I forgot to say that current-day AI wastes a lot of energy, and companies hope to use it to lay…
Pico 2 USB Data Streaming Reference Implementation (5.1 Mbps)
This post is the product page for a Raspberry Pico 2 5.1 Mbps Streaming Reference Implementation using TinyUSB. A Python Application is offered for throughput measurements on a Windows Host.
The more an AI can break, the less you let it do.
Notes from a production incident.
How Lazy Container Loading Works
A few weeks ago I read Modal’s post on truly serverless GPUs . They describe getting GPU container starts from many minutes down to a few seconds, even on multi-gigabyte images. A few tricks make…
Doing Nothing Is The Hardest Thing To Do
An interview about being friendzoned, the two-week no-contact wall, and the quiet strength of not sending the message. Letting go, in real time.
Nhận Định Mỹ – Paraguay Vào Lúc 08:00 Ngày 13/06 Chi Tiết
Nhận định Mỹ – Paraguay vào lúc 08:00 ngày 13/06 là lượt trận mở màn Bảng D World Cup 2026 với nhiều thông tin đáng mong đợi. Yanks với lợi thế sân nhà SoFi Stadium cùng dàn cầu thủ chất lượng…
Introducing the Mandarin Blog Toggle
A small feature for switching select posts into Mandarin.
Semiconductor research in Taiwan and Vietnam
Happy to share that my article is live: enjoy some #semiconductor industry dynamics in #Vietnam and #Taiwan. I draw on ethnographic fieldwork at industry fairs in Taipei and Hanoi to make sense of a…
Speed
The US edition of Speed: How it Explains the World was published in New York by Penguin.
Rewilding the Web, Maria’s Version
On those who think differently, and those who never change.
Double-chocolate lava cake with raspberry bourbon frosting
Some desserts are designed to behave themselves. Clean layers. Delicate sweetness. Restrained presentation. This is not one of them. This cake is dense, dark, warm, and unapologetically excessive.…
Attention is where life happens
Lately I've been noticing how often I reach for my phone without thinking. Not because I need something. Just because there is a small gap in the day — waiting for the kettle, standing in a queue,…
Kastle 2
Patchable, pocketable and open platforrm view in DIY synths database