Super interesting: a historical, technological, and scientific explanation of PFAS chemicals.

“Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way — He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.”

Node, Deno or Bun?

I've been lazy and sticking with the tried and true. But wow, Bun is easily 1000x faster than NPM.

Dyson design and engineering is just just amazing and largely underappreciated... At 140,000 rpm, the fastest electric motor ever made... for a handheld vacuum. youtube.com/watch?v=ve6JuJ…

Every DSL eventually gets so bloated, you may as well just use an actual programming language.

Now that X has demonetized sending links, are there any social apps design around sharing links with each other? I want to see what people are reading and what podcasts they're listening to...

It's kind of unbelievable how laggy and janky Apple Pay is on Desktop Safari. How have they not fixed that yet?

It's kind of crazy how we all accept the 7 day week as a given. We've been doing it for thousands of years (Genesis 1:1 – 2:3). But why not a 5 day week or a 10 day week?

I'm surprised bigger LLM models don't support structured sampling. It seems really powerful parthsareen.com/blog.html#samp…

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This feels so gross. You can't just buy tickets to the FIFA World Cup Final. You have to place a $999 bet on a team and only if they're in the final do you get to go... Not cool IMO

Anyone here use Telegram Channels? I like the idea of social media without endless feed.

New post 🎉 Going back to my roots on writing about the inner workings of things, a breakdown of key-value databases and how you might make one from scratch: nan.fyi/database

After months of hard work, we’re proud to unveil the statue we’ll build to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States. The Guardian of Liberty. What you see here is just the scale model. The real one will be gigantic, the tallest statue in the West. So many people have

Casey Handmer (Casey Handmer) on Cheeky Pint discusses his solar-maximalist worldview, Henry Kaiser, hard tech, why Hyperloop was doomed by physics from the start, and his plan to refill the Salton Sea. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:28 Henry Kaiser 08:49 Introducing Terraform 13:08