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2026-02-08 22:20:33 UTC

Tool - Pnuema time signature explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX656XCml9Q

2026-01-30 20:54:48 UTC

Fil-C - compiler adding memory safety to C programs https://fil-c.org/

2026-01-24 11:15:30 UTC

The man who killed Google search https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2026-01-17 21:56:26 UTC

Zoe Keating - Optimist
Alludes to Three Blind Mice: obvious in hindsight. Reminds me of how Joni Mitchell's River alludes to Jingle Bells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xVOhVX8T4

2026-01-06 18:31:37 UTC

p2p video calls - I've not validated it https://neverrain.net/

2026-01-01 01:34:17 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

2025-12-29 08:11:29 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKV93pK8qo

2025-12-29 08:08:52 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

2025-12-24 17:01:01 UTC

Damn hackers copying and pasting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

2025-12-21 00:50:10 UTC

Good summary of the consequences of europe seizing russian assets https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZnPfOh3y8

2025-12-18 18:54:56 UTC

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Can't find the source, but it might be by Rob Pike:
https://image.nostr.build/de06ce5baa86a81b4a9f634a2e24be98bea995b6351b55231f93b486e71193e5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/de06ce5baa86a81b4a9f634a2e24be98bea995b6351b55231f93b486e71193e5.jpg

2025-12-11 07:44:48 UTC

Vivaldi on accordion: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SE222v1eyM

2025-11-29 17:21:56 UTC

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More card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzMqIQLiXE

2025-11-28 21:48:15 UTC

Card magic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJX-z0O9TOE

2025-11-25 12:50:47 UTC

You see articles like by both left and right commentstors. The other side is always shown as ridiculous and ridiculed.
I'd say the purpose of this article isn't to point out the idiocy, but to encourage a polemic political world view, engage people's tribal instincts, and attribute specific beliefs to each. That's how the propaganda works, in my opinion - it's divide and conquer. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/a60eba2479acc5ec

2025-11-24 08:38:57 UTC

US living wage analysis https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

2025-11-23 19:06:37 UTC

Holocaust survivor story: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/you-have-a-mother

2025-11-21 19:16:51 UTC

Great podcast on AI psychosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CllJPWmm9So

2025-11-16 11:08:19 UTC

UK house prices haven't changed since 1950s when measured in gold
https://image.nostr.build/69dc25d8ada7c5a2b6ac70d59f41e17cf1cace7455c118a0bb0a9a8f47dadee2.jpg

2025-11-15 09:18:11 UTC

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Also good utf8 explainer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpSkBV5vydg

2025-11-11 12:21:38 UTC

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for music: https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/
random similar visuslisation software: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

2025-11-11 07:10:25 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

2025-11-11 07:10:12 UTC

Live coding trance musichttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M

2025-11-11 07:03:04 UTC

Funny how much of this kind of elitism touches. Rob Pike on Go:
"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

2025-11-09 09:57:46 UTC

More going on with immutable linux distros than I realised https://jnsgr.uk/2025/09/immutable-linux-paradox

2025-11-04 12:00:12 UTC

https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

2025-10-24 06:32:51 UTC

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I'd guess it's people ethically aligned with what nostr aims to be that will stick around. That's who to approach, in my opinion

2025-10-22 19:01:34 UTC

Expensive bed requires an internet connection (and online AWS servers...) https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

2025-10-22 06:16:19 UTC

Prediction time.
Those who believe in bitcoin tend to believe other things will also be world-changing technology. Specifically, they tend to overestimate the speed of adoption and impact of AI. In my opinion, they incorrectly think a change that will take multiple decades (if not longer) will happen in a decade.
Believing you're a philosopher king due to being enriched via bitcoin compounds the issue. Surprising how often this bias seems to hit.
I think LLMs are one trick, and it can only cut so deep. Unless they pull another rabbit out of the hat, I expect little to no improvement in AI over the next decade.

2025-10-21 21:21:47 UTC

Straightforward explanation of US bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCVrLPTUHQ

2025-10-21 16:19:42 UTC

It says something about western society's psyche that something so fundamental to navigating the human condition needs to be written down.
Or maybe not. We, the great unwashed, seem to struggle with the basics.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/167631424

2025-10-19 06:29:53 UTC

50 cent - Many men AI cover https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GrSKMzQg0

2025-10-15 20:36:51 UTC

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Comments are great
https://image.nostr.build/6d4e2c6df80456e113900d5310a0e02e28a2a2d1f43ec540f062eb36257a58f9.jpg

2025-10-15 20:31:13 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

2025-10-15 20:30:29 UTC

Time to rewatch it, again...
https://image.nostr.build/5667ea5a4c610e154a213bccea9bd380bd2fd1423271a76563eb5164b9b53491.jpg

2025-10-15 10:47:18 UTC

"Every physician carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray." - René Lerich

2025-10-12 12:38:13 UTC

Detailed recursion + alternatives explainer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuaJ8x_NcLw

2025-10-12 07:46:03 UTC

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Text rendering hates you https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

2025-10-12 07:26:22 UTC

Want to try programming my own UI now... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFBOIr6n_s

2025-10-11 16:27:54 UTC

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"At first, I was going to go through a bunch of Michael Novati’s claims and debunk them.
Then I realized I was missing the entire point.
This isn’t a normal debate where there are two sides of the truth and we need to sort through it to get to the real answer.
It’s about one side torching the truth with a firehose of chaos and distortion."

2025-10-11 16:18:11 UTC

How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/

2025-10-10 06:47:12 UTC

Multi-core by default code - very good article https://www.rfleury.com/p/multi-core-by-default

2025-10-10 06:32:14 UTC

https://x.com/ForrestTheWoods/status/1976432433634607548
https://image.nostr.build/d5a8216f0afb364d37c31c6c5fdec8e0343cef126aa1b1d6af28a80c97bd6933.jpg

2025-10-08 08:01:04 UTC

"A crooked tree lives its own life, but a straight tree is turned into wood."

2025-10-08 07:33:28 UTC

James Mickens on the security community: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

2025-10-06 17:14:06 UTC

Now that's how cookie notices should be done https://image.nostr.build/d63564b495a75d21c2b822376d39e7cc68a469e73e48f19cd88977e19cec7cc9.jpg

2025-10-06 06:23:32 UTC

https://x.com/xwanyex/status/1974546739819651112 https://image.nostr.build/91b9c577ad3672f221091ec89ebabd0d318d29699cb7893dcd7fa0a561e1f5e9.jpg

2025-10-04 15:13:25 UTC

Quake3 netcode https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8J7fidxC8s

2025-10-04 07:46:30 UTC

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Several spiritual traditions mention telepathy as something that happens at higher attainment.
I don't believe in telepathy, but I do believe people may unwittlingly reveal their thoughts through subtle body movements. And assuming this works as advertised, this is a sign that technology may be able to decode these subtle movements/gestures.

2025-10-03 19:06:42 UTC

https://suno.com/embed/5964aa78-d010-4775-b83f-b75a4a0f84c3

2025-09-29 11:02:57 UTC

Dumb code is clever code; clever code is dumb code

2025-09-27 04:31:46 UTC

https://x.com/ErikSTownsend/status/1971699511140798942
https://image.nostr.build/bb93e25bf40d06863bf68e4c4a65fbea12f4d736f45c6ee26b13cf203f689476.jpg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LTsrSQXQ4A

2025-09-26 06:51:10 UTC

Article from 2024 about how the west is failing: https://ednews.net/en/news/world/641606-emmanuel-todd-are-witnessing-the

2025-09-25 21:27:20 UTC

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"

2025-09-25 21:02:52 UTC

https://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/what-we-are-so-you-shall-be-preparation-for-death-in-the-late-middle-ages/

2025-09-24 05:38:03 UTC

LinkedIn profile prompt injection https://image.nostr.build/6238332a7f319b2af86827bc55569aa7bc484829037ca331ac54430c1348996b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e2a38cfdb28ce4272e37f6f362260622472bc5b576351d0ead0495d9b51aaad8.jpg

2025-09-22 11:09:47 UTC

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions." W.B. Yeats

2025-09-17 11:16:19 UTC

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein

2025-09-14 09:07:13 UTC

Free cisco training materials: https://www.netacad.com/

2025-09-13 05:34:15 UTC

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

2025-09-11 05:13:40 UTC

If correct, surprising that such a big incident scores the hackers so little. https://decrypt.co/338864/crypto-exploit-creates-panic-steals-1k

2025-09-08 06:29:22 UTC

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With the xz utils / jia tan exploit pressure was put on the maintainer until they got their person in charge.

2025-09-08 06:19:23 UTC

Sounds like nostr but not json: https://devmesh.platformos.com/projects/unravel - and by a very capable programmer

2025-09-07 06:54:46 UTC

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/163/

2025-09-01 15:23:20 UTC

Me working with a midsized typescript node_modules madness codebase - just substitute "crown" for "reasonable code" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOy1aOxoEc

2025-08-31 06:46:43 UTC

Interesting takes on C https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5_IWG8rcw

2025-08-27 04:17:07 UTC

Penn and Teller burn a flag https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSNL-3Ru7M

2025-08-25 07:08:15 UTC

Solid debugging advice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrnU3-EpPI

2025-08-23 08:32:03 UTC

Learning from dirty jobs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc

2025-08-22 06:32:58 UTC

The terrifying power of conformity https://jonathanshedler.substack.com/p/when-pressure-to-conform-overrides

2025-08-19 20:02:08 UTC

https://x.com/Wassimulator/status/1957805300716622213
https://image.nostr.build/12a76b976bfa63023177a5bb25dff5d22b2df71caa860e3104d2aa912232d8f1.jpg

2025-08-19 06:08:33 UTC

https://drpippa.substack.com/p/american-glasnost-stockholm-syndrome

2025-08-14 05:59:38 UTC

Fading audo can be CPU intensive: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-NOz94ZEOA

2025-08-13 05:16:43 UTC

How to do science https://substack.com/inbox/post/166679358

2025-08-11 12:31:11 UTC

Sneaking changed into a git merge commit: https://tavianator.com/2025/sneaky.html

2025-08-06 13:50:16 UTC

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*mind

2025-08-06 13:48:40 UTC

"If you cannot take on the suffering of the Great Universe, you will not attain the happiness of the Great Universe either. To attain the joy of this timeless indestructibility, this great peace of mine, one has to see through every obstacle and put all of one's life into this one breath" Rev. Kanko Ishimoto

2025-07-27 21:12:11 UTC

Hunger macht frei

2025-07-24 18:26:53 UTC

Under the heavens, till the end, end, end of all fields,
Long-awaited fresh breeze of the Dharma.

2025-07-24 14:29:11 UTC

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More optimizations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19ae5Mq2lJE

2025-07-24 14:03:53 UTC

RPCS3 PS3 emulator optimizations https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWOmEjlpMs

2025-07-20 04:26:43 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/bd2b120a83bc208ad641651a93af6e171d883a967c5233f6754a9d93d875556f.jpg
https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

2025-07-19 09:48:06 UTC

The Personality Syndromes by Jonathan Shedler https://jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Shedler-2021-The-personality-syndromes-R.pdf

2025-07-09 14:14:00 UTC

Jai demo and design by Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ

2025-07-06 16:12:51 UTC

Posting this with the caveat that different projects have different requirements, but I've seen plenty of programmers who consider cutting corners universally unacceptable. There are no absolutes. The correct answer is always "it depends". https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-programmer/

2025-07-05 17:49:12 UTC

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https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

2025-07-05 16:45:44 UTC

Wolfram's theory of everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Cu0_A_rfg

2025-07-03 18:50:18 UTC

XOR trick https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/

2025-07-02 19:15:31 UTC

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"Who shall I say is calling?" for me implies that the person is intending to lie about who is calling. Not seen anyone else suggest this interpretation

2025-07-02 18:03:43 UTC

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https://www.ou.org/holidays/full_text_of_unetaneh_tokef/
On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted.

2025-07-02 17:43:29 UTC

Who by fire - Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilGahIwQEQ0

2025-06-22 10:53:34 UTC

The rule of idiots https://substack.com/@chrishedges/p-165340048

2025-06-20 16:48:56 UTC

Good talk explaining strength and weaknesses of AI and what we can realistically expect from AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ

2025-06-18 22:37:14 UTC

I'd like to hear him explain what a "peaceful bombing" is. A bombing that avoidee casualties I could understand, but peaceful?
https://x.com/RepFine/status/1933540737519362300
https://image.nostr.build/b92e6634cda8c8ea909500c2b8807bb4349ee19adaad1c7ce8a078c06a882989.jpg

2025-06-12 20:58:26 UTC

https://glsl-captcha.vercel.app/

2025-06-11 21:37:21 UTC

Bob Dylan's Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgWklREPWI

2025-06-08 11:45:01 UTC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango

2025-06-02 06:48:39 UTC

Schizoid personality style: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CanNb-VweD8

2025-05-31 19:53:13 UTC

Debussy - Clair de lune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bxpm0EmOMU

2025-05-29 19:50:31 UTC

Depressive Personality Style with John Puder and Jonathan Shedler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2TiCHMsOls