Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
• Ernie Smith
Admit it, you were wondering where the hell the gas-station staples Combos came from just as much as I was. Anyway, I figured it out. At one point a drill was involved.
Terence Eden’s Blog
• Terence Eden
Ahhh! PSB's RFS! A delightfully indulgent soundscape of melodic wonder, performed here on its 10th (ish) anniversary. Is it really nostalgia if an album is only a decade old? It feels like it has been in the air forever. For something which is seemingly made up of samples, it would have been easy for them to half-arse it and basically just play the CD. Instead we got a full band, guest…
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
Meanwhile, the US government appears to be paralyzed
Eli Bendersky's website
• Eli Bendersky
Like many programmers, I find Alexis King's Parse, don't validate article fascinating, because it gives a name to an idiom that seems familiar and important - one I've observed and used in the past without naming it explicitly. This post is a review of the "Parse, don't validate" pattern applied to …
Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Releases, advisories, and articles from across the package management world
Terence Eden’s Blog
• Terence Eden
"The problem with defending the purity of the HyperText Markup Language is that HTML is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. The standard doesn't just borrow concepts from better languages; on occasion, HTML has pursued other programming languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new syntax." Englitch is an pretty goode langwidge. even you no grok all the…
Construction Physics
• Brian Potter
Permitting reform prediction markets, ASML’s lack of European sales, a California distributed power plant, Starlink as a planetary barometer, and more.
The Digital Antiquarian
• Jimmy Maher
The Tudor Queens Also, a little programming note: there will go one extra week between this article on The Analog Antiquarian and the next one on The Digital Antiquarian. Just the usual excuses: a holiday and a five-Friday month.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
Trying to figure out what the interloper was trying to.
The post Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to victims.
Marcus on AI
• Gary Marcus
OpenAI’s software didn’t just attack HuggingFace.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
lcamtuf’s thing
• lcamtuf
Roll a D6.
