Content warning: Linux GUI

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”

On June 8, 2023 Invidious received an e-mail from Google/YouTube to ask the project to be stopped.
Even though this e-mail is invalid from the start (since Invidious doesn’t use any part of the YouTube API and doesn’t do anything illegal), some people people…

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

Unique illustrations of combined emoji, cooked up in Google's Emoji Kitchen, and comprehensively available on the web

I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server.
But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.

Tyler’s two-thirds utilitarian, and Peter’s full on. Do either of them have the proportions right?

Large language models seem just like humans, but some of this is in our heads.

Scheme to be extended across the country after trial in nine departments led to extra €10m in tax receipts

Men in ancient Greek art exercise, fight battles, pursue lovers and mourn lost friends, all without their pants on. Why?

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HFT trading fintech Matt Hurd

The owner of Little Star Pizza on Divisadero Street worries that he may have to close his...

It is a "magical day", says the president, as the four siblings are found after 40 days missing.

You may not realize it, but the majority of us developers have been living a sheltered professional life. Sure, we’ve got that living disaster of a C++ application and that ridiculous interface between PHP and COBOL written by the boss, but I can assure you…