Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

A sourced index of nonfiction book awards, publishers, imprints, subjects, and prize records.

Buz This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar project had already been posted on Ziggit, so I am posting mine to…

How Kickoff Report predicts football matches: Elo-anchored expected goals, a Poisson and Dixon-Coles scoreline model, and honest backtested accuracy (RPS 0.203 vs 0.198 for the bookies).

In the age of smart devices and instant entertainment, can a medium as old as MUDs survive? Driven entirely by text, these Multi-User Dimensions ― or Dungeons,

In the early 1980s, the personal computer market was a raucous bazaar, teeming with variety. Each distinct type of personal computer—from Atari, Radio Shack, Apple, Commodore, Texas Instruments, an…

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It’s been one year since I launched the premium newsletter, and I’ve decided to extend the discount on annual subscriptions.…

Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.

For 'cockroach' protesters, reels and memes became a way of documenting fear, making sense of violence and refusing to let it have the last word.

Why does this article even exist?

May you cross the tar pit and still find joy in creation.

My wife and I have been looking for an app to track things like habits, hobbies, and when we last did certain chores.

LLMs still can't do math, hallucinate facts, and turn toxic. None of it got fixed in the model. Here's the engineering that made them useful anyway.

An ode to a punctuation mark

i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird

Hi Creators, I’m making a painful announcement today at Patreon. We’re reducing the size of our team by 20%, or 93 teammates. It’s going to

It's been two years since I revamped my homelab, this time I'm overhauling it.

Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.