Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
Gymnast / Parmigiano
Olympian Giorgia Villa has a cheese sponsorship and many publicity shots
2024-07-31 funny • photos • sports • olympics • cheese • marketing
Pink Floyd 1970 KQED
Extraordinary recording of the band playing live at a radio station at the height of their best psychedelic era
2024-07-31 music • pinkfloyd • kqed • sanfrancisco • video
VCs for Kamala
A very long list of some influential tech investors
2024-07-31 vcs • politics • uspol • kamalaharris • president • tech
1Password CLI
A way to use 1Password to store secrets in various dev tools using a CLI
2024-07-31 1password • secrets • security • devops • programming
Silver Crest closes
Weird San Francisco 24 hour diner has closed
2024-07-30 sanfrancisco • diner • restaurant • 24hour
Healthchecks business
Report of a small one person tech operation. It's a great service!
2024-07-30 via:hackernews • ping • healthcheck • uptime • devops • lifestylebusiness • sass
Steamlytics
Sentiment analysis of Steam community reviews
2024-07-29 games • steam • reviews • ai • analysis • metrics • sentiment
Baked Data
Simon Willison's description of building websites with static data
2024-07-29 internet • architecture • website • static • simplicity
Nastaliq vs. Naskh
A comparison of two writing systems for Urdu and how computerization is favoring a more utilitarian writing system
2024-07-29 writing • urdu • arabic • calligraphy • typesetting • computers • culture • language
Policy vs Covid deaths
Analysis finds that US states with public health policies restricting transmission saved a lot of lives. Behavioral changes worked.
2024-07-29 covid • politics • publicpolicy • health • medicine • statistics • usa • america
Texas oil methane pollution
Permian basin oil producers often flare or release natural gas rather than use it, wasting energy and creating enormous global warming and pollution
2024-07-28 texas • oil • oilandgas • pollution • methane • corruption • globalwarming • climatechange
Scaling one million checkboxes
Nice writeup of the brief hyperpopular realtime multiplayer website
2024-07-27 internet • checkboxes • scaling • via:waxy • golang • hacking • fun
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Interesting survey of mindshare of various technologies for software developers. Go go "Markdown file"!
2024-07-27 programming • survey • culture • tools • software
The New Internet
Interesting vision post from the Tailscale CEO about making small computing easier
2024-07-27 computing • usability • tailscale • internet • hacking • networking
Restic 0.17
Release notes for the excellent Linux backup software
2024-07-26 backup • restic • linux • sysadmin
Secure Boot fiasco
Another failure of this incredibly complicated and brittle system that turns out to provide no actual security
2024-07-26 badtech • security • bios • uefi
Z-Library clone
Popular site for downloading unlicensed books was cloned with someone collecting financial data
2024-07-25 zlibrary • piracy • books • scam • fraud
Reddit vs. search engines
Monopoly deal struck with Reddit. Terrible precedent and should be illegal.
2024-07-24 reddit • google • monopoly • antitrust • search • competition • bing
Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys
Lovely grace note from the animator
2024-07-24 miyazaki • via:kottke • movies • animation • sprites • warawara • kodama
NYT renewal class action
Interesting application of California's special laws about online renewal of subscriptions. A $2.375M settlement of a class action lawsuit.
2024-07-22 nytimes • california • privacy • righttocancel • subscription • politics
American Violence
A brief historical review the odd embrace of political violence in American discourse
2024-07-20 uspol • politics • guns • fascism • america • trump
Late 70s NYC photos
Willy Spiller's photos from the subway (ignore the stupid text)
2024-07-18 newyork • nyc • photos • streetphotography • 70s • subway • transit
The Commercial and Political Atlas
William Playfair's 1786 book in which he invents a bunch of now-common infographic techniques like time series charts
2024-07-18 infographics • playfair • visualization • history • books
Right-to-left time series
A few examples where time moves to the left. Uncommon but not entirely unknown
2024-07-18 visualization • arabic • rtl • timeseries
Why Hatch?
Yet another Python packaging implementation, hatchling is the replacement for setuptools
2024-07-17 python • setuptools • pip • pypa • packaging • software
Defrag 98
Revisit the sights and sounds of DOS filesystem maintenance
2024-07-17 windows • win98 • retro • defrag
"jerry-rigged"
"jury-rigged" and "jerry-built" are two English expressions that mean similar things but have different etymologies. "jerry-rigged" seems to be a malapropism.
2024-07-16 language • english • slang • juryrigged • etymology
Mozilla CTO on ad tracking
Explanation for the new ad surveillance feature in Firefox: they claim it's more privacy-protecting than other ad surveillance.
2024-07-15 facebook • mozilla • ads • surveillance • privacy
Snowflake and AT&T
Major security breaches seem to be the fallout of hackers exploiting the cloud provider's lack of multi-factor authentication.
2024-07-15 security • badtech • snowflake • att • authentication • 2fa • mfa
OKLCH in CSS
Perceptual color space support in browsers
2024-07-13 color • colorspace • lch • oklch • css • javascript • design
Fedipact
A list of Mastodon servers and their policy towards Threads. Many are in the Fedipact, declaring their intent to block Facebook's entry to the fediverse
2024-07-12 fediverse • meta • facebook • policy • banning • mastodon • techlgbt
Firefox 128 ad settings
New version of Firefox opted everyone in to a new form of surveillance
2024-07-12 ads • firefox • mozilla • surveillance • privacy • internet • web • browser
Follow the Crypto
Tracks crypto industry expenditures on US political races
2024-07-12 crypto • politics • election • corruption
Just Use Postgres
List of various advanced database features like spatial queries and fulltext
2024-07-11 database • architecture • postgres • webapp • infrastructure
Sneaked references
Science fraud: authors embed hidden references in papers so people don't see them but the impact measurement robots do
2024-07-11 science • scam • fraud • steganography • references
Delphy
Baysean phylogenetics running in a browser with a live visualization. Just a crazy-powerful webapp.
2024-07-10 webapp • genetics • visualization • benfry • wasm
SignPath Foundation
Free code signing for open source projects
2024-07-09 security • codesigning • microsoft • windows • apple • opensource
Russia v. children's hospital
Russia hits Kyiv's biggest children's hospital with a guided cruise missile
2024-07-09 politics • war • russia • ukraine • warcrime • atrocity • hospital • children
Fascist froth
An argument that reporting on Trump is being skewed by journalists' fears of a coming attack on them
2024-07-08 uspol • trump • politics • journalism • fascism
Python whenever
A new date and time library accelerated by Rust native code. Thoughtful about why it's better than Pendulum
2024-07-08 python • datetime • pendulum • arrow • rust
tty text input
Details of all the various ways shells and terminals read lines of input from the user and let them edit what they're typing
2024-07-08 readline • linux • tty • shell • tui • ui
1994 web pages
A remarkably good roundup of screenshots and discussion
2024-07-06 web • internet • history • websites • culture • 1994 • oldwebtoday
accession-numbers
A library for extracting museum object ID numbers from larger text
2024-07-05 museum • archive • extract
Starfish Prime
In 1962 the US set off a hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere causing an EMP that damaged a lot of stuff on the ground and in orbit
2024-07-05 space • warfare • nuclear • history • america • hawaii • emp • fusion
“Some folks need killing"
North Carolina governor candidate leans in on the fascism.
2024-07-05 uspol • politics • fascism • northcarolina • maga • republicans • gop
EV sound design
Short video on the artificial noises electric cars make
2024-07-05 avas • evs • safety • noise • cars • sound • sounddesign
Google Gemini Nano
New LLM you can install in your browser, a Chrome experimental thing
2024-07-05 chrome • ai • llm • google
Alternate screen buffer
xterm's tty has a second buffer you can swap to: programs like vi use this to preserve the old screen. maybe dates to a DEC terminal feature?
2024-07-05 tty • xterm • console • terminal
The ArQuives
Canadian archive of LGBTQ2+ content
2024-07-05 lgbt • gay • video • archive • history • canada
Eliza Custis Law
George Washington's step-granddaughter who married a man twice her age. Including some children partially of South Asian descent
2024-07-04 history • georgewashington • mixedrace • washington • america
Common Locale Data Repository
A Unicode publication of localization strings in many languages for concepts like month names, country names, numbers.
2024-07-04 localization • unicode • i18n • l10n • translation • cldr
Regional indicator symbol
Details of how Unicode encodes a bunch of country and region flags with digraphs
2024-07-04 unicode • flags • localization • nations • regions • emoji • text
Kenyan protests
A backgrounder that explains what's going on in Kenya's unstable and deadly politics.
2024-07-04 kenya • politics • protest • middleclass • violence
Heritage Foundation threat
Head of the conservative group talks about a "second American revolution" and implies bloodshed if they aren't allowed to succeed
2024-07-04 uspol • fascism • politics • trump • revolution • accelerationism • civilwar
Winnie the Pooh fetish
Funny, cute, also intense sex fetish described by the woman's husband.
2024-07-03 winniethepooh • fetish • nsfw • sex • reddit
EAD3 tag library
Readable web pages about the metadata standard for library archives
2024-07-02 metadata • library • archive • ead • ead3