Much like the famous picture of where surviving planes had received bullet damage, it took some thought about what was happening to realize how effective they were. After helmets were introduced, head injuries increased. The story is well known but here's an actual source archive.org/details/inte...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

explaining vim as "what if the Backrooms was a text editor"

Unexpected but makes sense in hindsight: for some systems, putting some CPUs in idle states won’t decrease global power consumption but allow the other CPUs to increase their frequencies because the whole system is power-constrained youtu.be/0oE9TXescUc

I typed my code into my bank's auth device and it just said "button"

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use

Asking for help: I’m used to buy tough phone cases from society 6 because they are nice and really solid but we bought an iPhone 16 e and they don’t sell cases for this models, anybody know a good enough alternative? 🙏

Surprised that nowadays so few accordion widgets triggers an accordion sound when you use them.

The Cure were really onto something when they thought of JavaScript in 1979

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImN... Tool assisted speedrun of Fatctorio 1.0 in 57:21 I'm happy the used tool is not compatible with Factorio 2 and requires Windows because I'm so tempted to toy with the thing.

New links: Package registries, ROM updating, democratising software development, Microsoft mess, threat intelligence publications, error handling & concurrency archiloque.net/weekly/26-05...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

After PATCH, the next HTTP verb should be CURSE

Pro tip: if your job use a tool that measure vulnerabilities by scanning dependencies versions against a list of known bad versions, vendoring a dependency without updating it will reduce the number of reported vulnerabilities

You can’t write about modern logging libraries without mentioning Twin Peaks’ log lady

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

Wow, a photo swiping update. Y'know, on mobile, whenever you swipe left, it's fine. But whenever you want to swipe back to the right, to, say, swipe back to the 1st picture, it swipes out the main menu. Meaning this update makes it harder to view photos on mobile.

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

I’m surprised there is not more discourse about LLM token marketplaces, where people that steal tokens could resell them

Thinking back about something heard at an ServiceNow AI event two weeks ago « Our clients are asked to improve their financial results and have no idea how to do it, so they embrace IA because it’s their only hope ». I did not expect such a bleak thing to be told like this.

We neee to invent a cat that makes the Teams calling jingle when they purr

Forgot that I had a pay what you want ttrpg called BABY? so this email caught me off guard

societies typically talk about human cognition as working similarly to whatever is seen as the latest and greatest technology. that’s why we currently describe the brain as a roguelike deckbuilding game about characters making their way up a spire

I do think it's fucked up and irresponsible that we're putting Microsoft Outlook in space though. What if we get a Contact (1997) situation where the aliens assume that as a culture we endorse and approve of the idea of email because it's what they saw us do first

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

apparently the network card runs ubuntu

Reminder: each time you complain about Bluesky, you increase the odds of SalesForce buying them

the very rare these days jcoglan blog post: uses for nested promises blog.jcoglan.com/2026/03/23/u...

New city, new article! This one's about some of the tech industry's more interesting epistemic foibles: deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech_em...

Imagining Debian maintainers having to argue with LLMs to have their upstream patchs accepted

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

A cool tech conference swag would be Winrar licences, just saying

When the village’s elders decide it’s time to start looking for the chosen one, except the chosen one’s role is not to repeal an evil god but to be the village’s Jira administrator

It would be the perfect moment for IPv7

Pythagoras invented triangles as an abstraction while writing his own 3D game engine

There's a Samsung phone ad where people take a photo of themselves at a night party, then add their dog and make the night into day. Why even take that photo? What is the point of recording your fake life?

The main reason Lisp had all this parenthesis is because at the time computers couldn’t support footnotes

New links: CSS CPU, software is political, calendar bug, Wasm restrospective, fullsource NixOS bootstrap, phantom obligation, time tracking, Git in Postgres, optimal Caverna gameplay, window positioning protocol for Wayland archiloque.net/weekly/26-03...

window positioning coming to Wayland, you love to see it this is a blocker for WINE being really usable on Wayland without using XWayland (and it's a hard blocker for loss32 because the taskbar needs to be at the bottom of the screen!) gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayl...

I wonder if the LLM prompts used by Pete Hegseth to decide to start the war today will ever be published

www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli... "But nobody ever felt guilty about unplayed albums." I'm old enough to remember the mp3 era, and I think the guilt about unplayed albums was a real thing at the time. Also series, so many downloaded but unwatched series. (The article is very good)

Thinking of all the time spent to give various tools the ability to snapshot webpages, then thanks to LLMs more and more of these snapshots are an anime girl trying to be sure you're not a bot

FOSS Nerds: We are announcing today an exciting project, the Hurtsume Nexus, an AGPL fork of the closed source Torment Nexus

Thinking back about how Factorio fried some software people brain because they want teams to work like the game. They should try one of the mods where every building has a % of random products and the game is about dealing with these, because managing a team is much more like this.