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icanhazip history
A useful microsite that tells you your IP address got to 1 billion requests a day, mostly malware
2023-07-31 history • icanhazip • internet • networking • scaling
Causes of Stack Overflow's decline
Interesting analysis of what contributes to a 50% drop in traffic for the major programming website.
2023-07-31 google • internet • seo • stackoverflow • traffic
BBC joins Mastodon
This feels like a moment to me: BBC is innovative but also a large mainstream news agency
2023-07-31 bbc • journalism • fediverse • mastodon • socialmedia • news
Python no GIL plan
Steering Council adopts a plan for enabling concurrency in Python processes
2023-07-31 nogil • gil • python • programing • concurrency • parallelism
genart.social
A Mastodon instance for generative artists
2023-07-31 art • generative • mastodon • fediverse
990 backlog cleared
IRS was years late to publish data about non-profits, now fixed
2023-07-30 irs • taxes • nonprofits • 990 • 501c3 • propublica
Bumming a charge
Funny story of someone plugging their Tesla into a light pole in a small town and getting caught
2023-07-30 charging • ev • electric • tesla • montana • funny
Starlink geopolitics
Global Internet access, more than half the satellites orbiting earth, all in the control of one untrustworthy man
2023-07-29 starlink • politics • internet • ukraine • elonmusk
Why is DNS hard to learn?
An excellent analysis of the various ways a piece of Internet and Unix infrastructure is so hard to understand
2023-07-28 computers • internet • unix • dig • nslookup • dns • learning • teaching
18th century demons (NSFW)
Remarkable illustrations of demons from a book.
2023-07-28 demons • 18th • art • satanism • books • watercolors
About The Wok Shop
Small SF store recommended in a couple of high visibility books and websites can't keep up, but is charming
2023-07-28 cooking • food • wok • sanfrancisco
Elon Musk Today
Various empty promises
2023-07-27 elonmusk • tesla • hyperloop • scam • fraud • twitter
June 2023 Temperature Update
A nice collection of climate data and graphs
2023-07-27 globalwarming • climatechange • science • weather • climate
Neeva postmortem
Serious search engine competitor never quite succeeded
2023-07-27 google • neeva • sridhar • search • internet
Tesla range lies
Musk directed engineers to have the car mislead drivers on remaining range. Now they cancel service appointments from owners trying to figure out what's wrong.
2023-07-27 tesla • fraud • musk • elonmusk • electricvehicles • cars
Sinead obituary
An excellent retrospective on her career
2023-07-27 sinead • music • obituary
bird.makeup
A bridge to see Tweets inside Mastodon
2023-07-26 mastodon • twitter • activitypub • socialmedia
press.coop
A bunch of journalism accounts mirrored from Twitter to Mastodon
2023-07-26 journalism • mastodon • news • twitter • socialmedia
Crossing the Rubicon
Matt's jeep trip on an off-road adventure over the Sierra to Tahoe
2023-07-25 mountains • travel • jeep • offroading • rubicon • tahoe
Kustom Widgets
Create Android widgets using a scripting language
2023-07-24 android • widget • customization • programming
Sex & Obscenity In the Bible
A guide to the dirty bits
2023-07-24 bible • sex • doublestandard • religion
Google Pixel Fold review
Thoughtful comments from a particularly insightful device guy
2023-07-24 google • pixel • googlefold • phone • mobile • hardware • review
Peasy font
A new modern sans serif font from an old grad school friend
2023-07-24 design • fonts • sans • sansserif • petercho • typography
Tailscale auth support
What a modern smart Internet company is doing for logins: Passkeys, OpenID, various proprietary SSOs
2023-07-22 tailscale • security • login • password • passkey
Pride terrorists convicted
Narrowly thwarted attack by white supremacist terrorists in Coeur d'Alene leads to conviction
2023-07-21 pride • lgbt • politics • accelerationism • patriotfront • idaho
microG Project
An effort to build a Google-free Android phone, mostly by replicating Google Play Services and other non-open-source APIs
2023-07-21 google • android • opensource • freedom • hacking • sisyphus
OpenWeatherMap
Weather graphics and forecasts with somewhat generous licensing. A lot of mobile apps use this, as do hacker projects.
2023-07-20 weather • api • mobile • forecast • maps
Microsoft cloud hack
Ugly attack by a Chinese group, lots of questions left unanswered
2023-07-20 hack • china • apt • security • microsoft • signatures
SVG paths
A really well presented tutorial for the vector graphics format
2023-07-20 svg • graphics • vector • web • spline
RIP Coffee People
Pioneer of drive through coffee and coffee milkshakes passes away
2023-07-19 obituary • coffee • coffeepeople • portland
Chinese Hershey font
SVG font for drawing Chinese characters
2023-07-18 chinese • writing • plotting • computerart • plotterart
Texas immigrant abuses
Horrific attacks on migrant children by Texas state paramilitary
2023-07-18 texas • border • politics • children • immigration • razorwire
Brave scraping sleaze
Dodgy browser company crawls the web and makes data available to others without appropriate measure
2023-07-15 via:hackernews • brave • web • ai • crawling • scraping
My linkblog architecture
How this site itself works, my system documented
2023-07-15 linkblog • blog • software • pinboard
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Obituary for the pioneering Black mathematician
2023-07-15 history • math • obituary • texas • tyler
Florida State Guard horror
Desantis is building his own private militia with abusive techniques
2023-07-15 politics • fascism • florida • desantis • extremism • military • militia
There I Ruined It
AI generated mashups of classic singers singing modern songs
2023-07-14 funny • music • parody • ai • elvis • johnnycash
Parable of the Sower opera
Did not expect this!
2023-07-14 scifi • opera • octaviabutler • books
Supreme Court smell
Federal judge Michael Posner on the Supreme Court corruption
2023-07-14 corruption • politics • supremecourt • posner
Bierstadt / Aptos
Microsoft picks a new default font from the 5 candidates. Not my favorite but it's a fine font.
2023-07-14 fonts • microsoft • tenorite • bierstadt
Minecraft in Minecraft
Virtual machine created in-game runs a small Minecraft-like game. (running at 20000x speed in an emulator)
2023-07-14 games • minecraft • turtles • emulation • recursion • via:hackernews
D-PLACE
Anthropology database indexing ethnographic information we know about various groups of people
2023-07-13 anthropology • ethnography • database • science • data
Smart Tabs
Code formatting: tabs for structural indentation, spaces for visual alignment. (Sadly won't work with a proportional font.)
2023-07-13 programming • formatting • tabs • editing • emacs • code
Wavefunction Collapse
Algorithm for reproducing locally-similar pixel patterns
2023-07-12 graphics • algorithms • cellularautomata • relax
Windows Terminal shell integration
Clever tricks where the terminal is aware of the structure of shell commands, etc
2023-07-11 terminal • bash • commandline • cli • windows • wsl • ui
Let's Encrypt cert change
Last time they changed the signing setup a bunch of stuff broke
2023-07-11 letsencrypt • crypto • software • android • ssl • x509
Starlink RF leaking
New concern for astronomers; Starlink satellites (and others?) are emitting more radio waves at more frequencies than they are supposed to
2023-07-10 starlink • spacex • astronomy • radio • rf
doxy-PEP
New sexually transmitted disease prevention; take an antibiotic after unprotected sex, prevent gonorrhea and other bacterial STIs.
2023-07-10 sex • safesex • lgbt • medicine • prevention • pep
Using pyproject.toml
Notes on yet another new packaging option for Python, this one more sane and simple than previous ones
2023-07-09 python • packaging • distribution • software • setuptools • venv
Women in street art
Comments from various artists and experts on gender and street art
2023-07-08 streetart • gender • sexism • art
Red, White, & Royal Blue trailer
Fun gay romance novel being made into a movie
2023-07-07 movies • gay • lgbt • romance
Jill Scott National Anthem
Powerful protest version from 2023 Essencefest
2023-07-06 protest • jillscott • america • nationalanthem • politics
Generative Art history
Casey Reas interview
2023-07-05 art • reas • generative • history
College Mobility
2017 study on economics of students at US colleges
2023-07-05 education • class • diversity • college • america
Misskey
Social media from Japan, A Fediverse/ActivityPub network that's not Mastodon.
2023-07-05 mastodon • japan • fediverse • activitypub • socialmedia
Roughtime
Another Internet time service focussed on providing secure time. Less concerned about accuracy; 10 seconds is considered sufficient
2023-07-05 ntp • time • servers • google • cloudflare • roughtime
Tuna Mayo Rice Bowl
A very simple recipe, makes a nice quick lunch
2023-07-05 food • cooking • tuna • lunch • rice
Enshittification
Cory's summary of the business forces that cause tech products to get worse over time
2023-07-04 startups • tech • business • consumer • capitalism
Samuel Delany profile
Career retrospective and also current update, focusing more on his queer writing than the early scifi
2023-07-04 scifi • lgbt • gay • delany • chipdelany • writing
NSFW: Goofus & Gallant slash
A very wrong porn story starring Goofus and Gallant
2023-07-03 funny • porn • gay • goofusandgallant • comics • highlights
Pagefind
Simple search for small static websites, runs in Javascript / no server needed.
2023-07-03 javascript • blogs • static • hugo • search
New Texas barbeque
Roundup of new BBQ joints, many with interesting inflections and changes from other cultures
2023-07-03 food • texas • bbq • barbecue • barbeque • restaurants
Goofus and Gallant considered
Deep read on the insipid morality tale comic
2023-07-03 via:metafilter • goofus • gallant • morality • children • america • comics
Religious zealot in gay case
More on the lies that underpin the recent decision against LGBT rights in the Supreme Court. The plaintiff never made wedding websites; she filed the case because "God is calling her"
2023-07-03 politics • lgbt • supremecourt • justice • civilrights
US energy prices
A simple chart of what we pay for electricity and natural gas
2023-07-03 electricity • energy • pge • power • gas • naturalgas
Factorio in 3D
Hack to import a Factorio map and look at it in a 3d renderer. Not playable, but looks neat.
2023-07-02 factorio • games • via:hackernews • unreal
Goodreads purgatory
The sad state of the vital book review site after Amazon bought and neglected it
2023-07-01 amazon • goodreads • socialmedia • tech • acquisition