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Updated May 30, 2025
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How to Ferment Vegetables (Lacto-Fermentation)
The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California
Project Zero: Blasting Past Webp
A Shell for the Container Age: Introducing Dagger Shell
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read
2024’s hottest topics in databases
Benchmarking a distribution (and some O3 results)
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
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?
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
Strict Serializability and External Consistency in Spanner
ZIGSAM - THE AUSTRIAN CIGARETTE COLLECTION
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
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
ViciousSquid/Dosidicus: Tamagotchi-style digital pet with a neural network and Hebbian learning
curl/trurl: a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.
How Much Does Ice From Greenland Cost? $100 for Six Cubes
Raft Consensus | nats-io/nats-server | DeepWiki
Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience
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
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
Be the node you want to see in the network
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
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
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
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 …
AI: Accelerated Incompetence - Doug Slater
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
The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do - Freakonomics