On 29-30 August, I attended the State of the Map (SotM) conference, in particular the scientific part. It’s been 15 years since the last time that I attended the SotM conference (last time 20…

The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But America’s soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away — people who don’t even know they’re owners at all.

Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience.

If I now have to check the provenance of my produce, I should probably do the same for my hosting bill.

Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the co...

Snapchat's AI flagged a private message sent to 3 people and alerted the FBI in under an hour, leading to a student teacher's arrest.

Update on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKEDWowc0o

Try the prototype: https://ko-fi.com/s/e1e0f91951

I wanted to build a city that feels alive, but is made entirely from ASCII characters.

This is a small custom engine built with JavaScript…

What we are really arguing about

A measured comparison of Apple’s 1982, 1987, 1992, 2008, and current Human Interface Guidelines: what held, expanded, changed shape, arrived, and disappeared.

Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.

Read this Tcl/Tk hands-up/primer to find out how the open-source Command Tool Language toolkit can help you develop cross-plaform tools for Windows, Linux, macOS and even Android.

Darling — macOS translation layer for Linux

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point.

I still see the Scratch “visual programming” environment positioned as an introductory path to programming for kids, but unlike game modding, I have never heard a “success story”, where someone cr…

In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5 kilobytes per second. It worked. Let’s follow a single…

Duane "Keffe D" Davis was convicted over the drive-by shooting of the rap superstar 30 years ago.

Use the /boost slash command in Google Antigravity to solve complex coding tasks, tricky bugs, and algorithmic problems through deep multi-agent reasoning loops.

A fast, native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows, written in Rust.

Tailcat connects clients and servers using Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP data plane, with no Tailscale control plane or accounts.

A portable, battery-powered cellular conversion for classic rotary telephones—fully reversible, with no modification to the original phone. - fregacmols/RotaryCell