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Updated May 30, 2025

🧭 April, May 2025 Friday, May 30, 2025

How to Make Kimchi

Lactic acid fermentation

How to Ferment Vegetables (Lacto-Fermentation)

The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California

Bushido

Project Zero: Blasting Past Webp

A Shell for the Container Age: Introducing Dagger Shell

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read

Laws of rugby union

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

2024’s hottest topics in databases

Benchmarking a distribution (and some O3 results)

Atom vs. RSS

Pile of Eternal Rejections: The Cost of Garbage Collection for State Machine Replication

Retirement Saving: Private Equity Comes for America’s 401(k)

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack

TecharoHQ/anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

13 Animals Made From 13 Circles

Bored of it

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

You Don’t Have Time Not to Test

America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us (2003)

What’s Trading on Capitol Hill?

xkcd: Tariffs

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

Strict Serializability and External Consistency in Spanner

ZIGSAM - THE AUSTRIAN CIGARETTE COLLECTION

It’s the T-bills wot dun it

p2panda

Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing

$70 Million in 60 Seconds: How Insider Information Helped Someone 28x Their Money

New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents

Enough With All The Raft

OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

I Know What You Did Last Summer - An Investigation of How Developers Spend Their Time

How to make people feel stupid

Ötzi

ViciousSquid/Dosidicus: Tamagotchi-style digital pet with a neural network and Hebbian learning

dimonomid/nerdlog: Nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server

curl/trurl: a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.

How Much Does Ice From Greenland Cost? $100 for Six Cubes

The 12-bit rainbow palette

Raft Consensus | nats-io/nats-server | DeepWiki

Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience

Are LLMs random?

AirBorne: Wormable Zero-Click RCE in Apple AirPlay Puts Billions of Devices at Risk

InnoVint: Winery Management Software

Center Pieces and Lunch Sets In Crochet Work

When Flat Rate Movers Won’t Answer Your Calls

What I learned during the license switch

TCP puzzlers

TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials

Forwarding streams over Magic Wormhole

testcode.ai - AI-Powered Software Quality Assurance

An Appeal to Apple from Anukari

heroiclabs/nakama: Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.

OSS: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

High tariffs become real with our first $36K bill

From: Steve Jobs. “Great idea, thank you.”

Rethinking Connectivity in Agriculture

How to win an argument with a toddler

ApelegHQ/ts-cms-ep-sfx: Securely encrypt and decrypt files locally from a web browser

Internet Roadtrip

Be the node you want to see in the network

FileKey

Napkin Math Tool

Cartken delivery robots

Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up On macOS?

pirxthepilot/wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots

Common Weakness Enumeration

There is an argument to be made that the market buys bug-filled, inefficient …

git-bug/git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git

The non-dom is dead. Long live the foreign resident

How to Build an Agent

Ground control to Major Trial

veltman/ca-license-plates: Vanity license plate applications from the California DMV.

The Debt Scolds are Back. For Now

bntre/CurvedSpaceShader: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection)

That fractal that’s been up on my wall for 12 years

My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane

Fix the new things first!

Electric Power Monthly

You’re a little company, now act like one

The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem

CIA 2010 covert communication websites

Monkey-Patched PyPI Packages Use Transitive Dependencies to …

stalwartlabs/stalwart: All-in-one Mail & Collaboration server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV)

AI: Accelerated Incompetence - Doug Slater

mcthomas/awesome-terminal-art: Scripts or programs that produce static or dynamic terminal emulator visuals

bdavidzhang/flower-garden-cli


Podcast

Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong

Javier Blas on China’s Rare Earths Dominance - Odd Lots

Rob Kaplan on How the Fed Will Think about the Tariffs - Odd Lots

Grifter – Darknet Diaries

The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do - Freakonomics

Movies & TV

The Rehearsal

The Dead Don’t Die

Culinary Class Wars

Mickey 17

Books

Anathem

Microserfs

Misc.

Behind the Scenes of iOS Security | Black Hat 2016

Terrible Ideas in Kubernetes