Punk is the way.
If you find yourself wishing there was cake at the pity party, then might I suggest taking a cue from punk rock.
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The Hacker News tarpit
If software is a thing you build, then vibe coding changes everything. Anyone can build. We have democratized building. Congratulations to building.
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be disappointed to hear them say, as does Luigi Serafini, author and illustrator of the Codex Seraphinianus, “At the end of the day…
Software Engineering is back
I’ve been building a product from the ground up. [...] And I’ve been doing it using frontier models and coding agents [...] I can be the architect without the wearing act of laying every single brick and spreading the mortar. [...] In my opinion Software engineering, the true one, is back again.
We mourn our craft
If you would like to grieve, I invite you to grieve with me. We are the last of our kind, and those who follow us won’t understand our sorrow.
The Coherence Premium
I do believe in […] something that borrows from the second brain concept without the hoarding, and from AI tooling without the context-free prompting: I believe in coherence as a system.
Your data model is your destiny
Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list.
When the cycle stops
period loss is the body's response to an energy crisis
It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
A story with legal drama, a mystery, snow leopards, and, uh, naughty bits.
Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
I was not as much insterested in replaying it, but much more how it worked under the hood.
How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
Behind every great console is a great legal fight.
Why Is the World Losing Color?
Studies of everything from car paint to consumer objects show that we’re in the midst of a vast aesthetic shift.
The Surprisingly Difficult Mathematical Proof That Anime Fans Helped Solve
When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years
The Art and Science of Doing Nothing
Idleness is a lost art.
A History of Cryptography From the Spartans to the FBI
This cat-and-mouse game has defined cryptography for centuries. A cryptographic method is invented and considered secure, only for an attack to later break it. After some time, a better method is invented that is considered invulnerable to known attacks. And the cycle continues.
Someone Has To Save The Film And TV That Studios Won’t
The special exists online in smudgy/greasy form, but it has never been released in a proper format. [...] Fortunately there are people who are obsessive about archiving media.
Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN
The last line of security for much of your digital life probably isn’t as secure as you think.
Cozy Comfort
New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety.
The Most Mario Colors
Most Mario games with polygonal logos have a different color per letter, but the sequence of colors in Mario’s name is rarely the same sequence across games.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Hurray? No hurray. Email is now an oligopoly.